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• PrimeGrid: The Leap Day Challenge in 7 days
  22.02.2012 18:46 Uhr
  What to do with an EXTRA day in the year??? One could take a nap, read a book, go skiing/walking/hiking/swimming/etc, spend time with family, watch your favorite movie…and the list goes on and on. :) However, what your computer can do with an extra day is easy…come join the Leap Day Challenge, a 24 hour Challenge offered on PrimeGrid’s Cullen/Woodall (Sieve) application. For more information, please see this forum thread.
• RNA World (beta): RNA World at the 2nd Heidelberg Forum for Young Life Scientists
  22.02.2012 10:23 Uhr
  The 2nd Citizen Cyberscience Summit in London is barely over while I am almost on the road again to head for the next RNA World project presentation – this time at the 2nd Heidelberg Forum for Young Life Scientists which takes place from 23rd to 24th of February in Heidelberg/Germany. I think it is worth to note that besides the RNA World presentation, Rechenkraft.net e.V. will additionally show up with their own booth to celebrate its premiere as an official sponsor of a scientific event. Der zweite Citizen Cyberscience Kongress in London ist kaum vorüber, da befinde ich mich auch schon auf dem Weg zur nächsten RNA World Projektpräsentation – diesmal vom 23.-24. Februar in Heidelberg auf dem 2nd Heidelberg Forum for Young Life Scientists. Bei der Gelegenheit wird Rechenkraft.net e.V. übrigens zusätzlich zur RNA World Präsentation mit einem eigenen Stand sein Debüt als offizieller Sponsor einer wissenschaftlichen Veranstaltung feiern. Michael.
• NumberFields@home: Link to Batch Status
  22.02.2012 08:09 Uhr
  A link for “Batch Status” was added to the main page (just under server status). I still need to add some more information to the table, but at least it should give you an idea of progress on the current data set.
• SAT@home: Challenge, new solution
  19.02.2012 16:55 Uhr
  
  • During BOINCStats challenge real performance of SAT@home has reached 3.5 TFlops
  • After problems with overloading server and database were reconfigured
  • In current experiment solution of SAT problem # 5 was found by verstapp from Sicituradastra. and [SG-SPEG] Nullinger from SETI.Germany
• WEP-M+2 Project: 12-digit factor of P2203 has now been found by the project…
  19.02.2012 11:53 Uhr
  …25108 times – still no sign of any larger factors
• PrimeGrid: Tour de Primes 2012 – Mountain Stage
  18.02.2012 13:24 Uhr
  The mountain stage is finally upon us. The coveted polka-doted jersey will go to the participant who finds the most primes between 19 Feb 2012 00:00 UTC and 20 Feb 2012 00:00 UTC. In case of a tie, the combined prime score will determine the winner. For more information about the tour, please see Tour de Primes 2012 UPDATE: Mountain stage extended to 48 hours to accommodate a policy update. Runs between 19 Feb 2012 00:00 UTC and 21 Feb 2012 00:00 UTC. Best of Luck to everyone!
• Mersenne@home: Mersenne@home – Divide & Conquer – team competition.
  16.02.2012 21:12 Uhr
  I am pleased to inform that at the beginning of March there will be a race in Mersenne@home. These will be the team competition realized on the BOINCstas platform. So counts only those workunits which scored during the race period. A few days before the start will prepare more tasks. I wish you all good luck :) Link to the race at BOINCstats site.
• GPUGRID: New TRYP WUs
  16.02.2012 15:53 Uhr
  I am submitting 700 WUs in the long queue as part of a new experiment. You’ll note that they have the TRYP tag that was used for our publication in PNAS 2011: metTRYP ethTRYP proTRYP isoTRYP butTRYP penTRYP hexTRYP We are now extending the study to 7 different ligands to see if we can reconstruct their bindings too. cheers, i
• Radioactive@Home: New Radioactive@Home detector prototype
  16.02.2012 15:50 Uhr
  As we promise few days ago new detector prototype data are published on our main web site. All software used on new micro controller will be published soon as we finish tests. Currently we work on adding new features based on better processor used in new prototype.
• RNA World (beta): RNA World at the 2nd Citizen Cyberscience Summit in London
  16.02.2012 13:04 Uhr
  Tomorrow I will present a talk on the RNA World Project at the 2nd Citizen Cyberscience Summit in London. The focus will be on a novel type of user participation system which I term the ‘RNA World Advanced User Participation Kit’. More details will follow soon. ;-) Morgen werde ich das RNA World Projekt auf dem 2nd Citizen Cyberscience Summit in London präsentieren. Im Fokus wird ein neues System zu erweiterten Beteiligungsmöglichkeiten unserer Unterstützer am RNA World Projekt stehen. Einzelheiten werden bald bekannt gegeben. ;-) Michael.
• yoyo@home: Muon: New Lattices
  15.02.2012 23:00 Uhr
  Since some days Muon runs new lattices. With the retirement of both Linac900Ext10tc2 and Linac900Ext9X we are moving on to Linac900Ext7Xc2 and Linac900Ext9Xc2. Both are development improvements of previous lattices, and attempt to work on phase handling, as well as investigate new designs without being side-tracked by jitter. Read more about it in the recent Muon1 blog.
• MilkyWay@Home: Make Up Double Credits Has Now Ended
  15.02.2012 03:39 Uhr
  The 12 hours of double credits, meant to make up for credits lost due to a database error last year, have finished. We are now back to normal credits. Happy Crunching!
• SETI@home: Project Back Online After Overnight Outage
  14.02.2012 22:10 Uhr
  Update: After reaching a logical (i.e. not physical) limitation in our science database we had to rebuild one table. No data were lost. We resumed normal operations today around noon.
• PrimeGrid: February's PRPNet Challenge Project
  14.02.2012 19:06 Uhr
  The Wieferich Prime Search is PrimeGrid’s PRPNet Challenge project for February…dubbed the “Wild Whacky Whimsical Wednesday” (WWWW) Challenge. This is the 2nd Challenge in the 2012 PRPNet Challenge Series. The 24 hour Challenge will run from 15 February 2012 00:00 UTC to 16 February 2012 00:00 UTC. This is for those users who wish for a bit more variety in their prime search endeavors and don’t mind venturing outside of BOINC to PRPNet. :) It’s a relaxed and informal environment so stop by and see what you think. For more information, please see this thread.
• MilkyWay@Home: Makeup Double Credits Now Running
  14.02.2012 15:24 Uhr
  The 12 remaining hours of make-up double-credit is running until 10pm Eastern Time today. For more info, please see this thread: http://milkyway.cs.rpi.edu/milkyway/forum_thread.php?id=2761#52813 Happy Valentine’s Day!
• PrimeGrid: Generalized Fermat Mega Prime
  13.02.2012 15:23 Uhr
  On 12 Feb 2012, 3:48:23 UTC, PrimeGrid’s Generalized Fermat Prime Search found the mega prime: 676754^262144+1 The prime is 1,528,413 digits long and enters Chris Caldwell’s The Largest Known Primes Database ranked 2nd for Generalized Fermat Primes and 23rd overall. This is the 2nd Top 25 prime in 3 weeks. A nice beginning for the new Generalized Fermat Prime Search. The primes are only going to get bigger. :) The discovery was made by Carlos Loureiro of Portugal using an NVIDIA GeForce GTX 550 Ti in an Intel Core i5-2500K @ 3.30GHz system with 4GB RAM, running Windows 7 Ultimate x64. This GPU took about 1 hour 30 minutes to probable prime (PRP) test with GenefCUDA. Carlos is a member of the Blasfemias team. The PRP was verified on 12 Feb 2012, 8:33:09 UTC, by Peter Verstappen of Australia. For more details, please see the official announcement.
• Rosetta@home: Project News Feb 13, 2012
  13.02.2012 08:00 Uhr
  Rosetta@Home software updated to version 3.22.
• Radioactive@Home: New (alternative) detector model…
  12.02.2012 20:56 Uhr
  One of BOINC@Poland members (ryszard.korczyk) has created new detector, based on another micro controller than used by us. As soon as I get all data from him (diagram, software, pictures) I will publish all information on our main web site (if I get his permission of course).
• Moo! Wrapper: Hard drive failure on our primary database server
  12.02.2012 18:33 Uhr
  Our shiny new primary database server, that’s been responsible for the nice performance lately, decided that things have been way too stable. So this Sunday morning at about 6:38 EET* the server killed it’s primary hard drive bringing everything to a grinding halt. :( I’ve switched to using our replicate DB until data center staff can replace our failed hard drive and/or server. I’m currently bringing the services back online slowly to catch things up. Note that things might be slower until the first onslaught of clients reconnecting is over. Good news is that there shouldn’t be more than few seconds of DB changes lost because our database is replicated to the secondary server. Please, do tell if you see something strange. Bad news is that there’s going to be a maintenance break in the near future when I switch primary DB back to the resurrected server (maybe next weekend, if things run fine with only one DB server). *=That’s 5:38 CET or Sat 20:38 PST and for other timezones, please see http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?iso=20120212T0635&p1=101&sort=1.
• POEM@HOME: Switching to fixed credits
  12.02.2012 10:35 Uhr
  As we discovered an overgranting for our resent workunits, we decided to change our credit system to fixed credits on Monday. All overestimated credit points will be normalized. We apologise for the trouble caused. Da es bei einigen Workunits zu überhöhten Creditvergaben kam, werden wir unser Creditsystem am Montag auf fixed credits umstellen. Alle zu hoch gestuften Workunits werden dann korrigiert werden. Wir entschuldigen uns für die aufgetretenen Unannehmlichkeiten. The credits will be set as follows / Die Credit Werte werden wie folgt gesetzt:
  firstdrug: 80.8275865915366 gpucrystal: 2925.23047140266 rigiddock: 113.608330044946 barrelcompare: 20.6341535290809

• POEM@HOME: Credit overgranting
  11.02.2012 16:03 Uhr
  There has been a change in the runtime estimation algorithm and therefore high credits are granted. This will be only during this week. Throughout the week we will reduce the credits for the high yielding workunits again and again.
• RALPH@home: Project News Feb 9, 2012
  09.02.2012 08:00 Uhr
  The minirosetta_beta application has been updated to version 3.22.
• GPUGRID: AMD GPUs are now usable at Donate@Home, a different project from GPUGrid.
  09.02.2012 00:00 Uhr
  For running AMD gpus please check this thread: http://www.gpugrid.org/forum_thread.php?id=2839
• MilkyWay@Home: Separation updated to 1.00
  08.02.2012 17:36 Uhr
  I’ve updated all of the separation applications to 1.00. For changes people might care about,
  - The old CAL version is gone; it’s replaced with the OpenCL application. On AMD/ATI GPUs (older than 79xx) it is using some hackery to use the same IL kernel as before so it should be as fast. However this also means the Radeon 38xx cards aren’t supported with new stuff. - Radeon 79xx stuff should work - The occasional validate errors from empty / truncated stderr should stop - AVX will be used if available on Linux and Windows (64 bit only for Windows) - I’ve increased the default GPU target frequency so GPU stuff should make things less laggy on average. You can now also configure this with the web preferences now so you don’t need to use app_info stuff if you want to play with that. - Partial workaround with high CPU usage with recent Nvidia drivers.*

  As usual post problems you run into here. * It should cut down on the CPU usage a bit while not sacrificing too much. I would recommend not using it unless you are very unhappy with the CPU usage on Nvidia. There are options to change the polling mode if you want to lower the CPU usage further while not slowing it down. (–gpu-wait-factor (default = 0.75) and –gpu-polling-mode (default = – 2) work similarly to how they did with the old CAL one, but slightly different). With the default of -2 it will use mode -1 unless it is an Nvidia driver newer than the one that introduced the high CPU issue, where it will use mode 0. Mode -1 uses the correct waiting method, mode 0 use the correct waiting method with an initial sleep based on time estimates, and modes > 0 are a polling period in milliseconds. The wait factor is a sort of correction of the time estimate used for the initial wait. The default is 0.75, to wait for 75% of the estimated time before trying to poll.

• DistributedDataMining: Security Update to Drupal 6.24
  08.02.2012 15:07 Uhr
  Due to some reported security vulnerabilities I’ve updated the content management system of our dDM website to Drupal version 6.24. Please, report any problems related to the dDM website in our forum. Best regards Nico
• climateprediction.net: Server problems for EU work units
  08.02.2012 11:37 Uhr
  

  The server that receives completed work units for the EU region of the Weather@home project is suffering intermittent faults, resulting in failed uploads.

  We will let participants know when we have more information on the likely time for completion.

• RALPH@home: Project News Feb 8, 2012
  08.02.2012 08:00 Uhr
  The minirosetta_beta application has been updated to version 3.21.
• orbit@home -: A Missed Opportunity
  08.02.2012 01:23 Uhr
  

  Today we have received news about our proposal to NASA to fund this project.

  read more

• BOINC: Welcome SAT@home
  07.02.2012 18:40 Uhr
  The SAT@home project, from the Institute for Systems Analysis of Russian Academy of Sciences, solves hard and practically important problems (discrete functions inversion problems, discrete optimization, bioinformatics, etc) that can be effectively reduced to the Boolean satisfiability problem.
• GPUGRID: New WUs: GIANNI_FR1
  07.02.2012 14:24 Uhr
  This is a set of 600 WU in the acemdlong queue related to method development. gdf