all depends if nobody trips on the power cord :)

Is, "power cord" some new drug for people to trip on? I do struggle to keep up with the youth of today.

+1 - thanks for the laugh!

+2

Gives better trips with a lead ACID battery power supply.

all depends if nobody trips on the power cord :)

Is, "power cord" some new drug for people to trip on? I do struggle to keep up with the youth of today.

+1 - thanks for the laugh!

My bees were particularly good to me last year so I will bring some mead.

It needs to be installed as a service?

Yes if you want it to start when the computer starts. Otherwise, you have to log in for it to start.

I think the senior citizens woke up after nodding off and finally pressed the button.

Outage is happening.

Time for some refreshments.

It has been down for over 6 hrs now, more hair should be burnt


and some howling at the moon

AFAIK there is nothing else we can do on this end

This may be a dumb question, but when the screen changes color, have you hit ctrl-alt-del to see if you can bring up Task Manager?

i enabled BOINC 7.14.2 to use GPU based on preferences, after ten minuets screen went red and stay red for 15 minuets, not flashing, then i hit ctrl-alt-del, no Task Manager, nothing.
I found a form where i can asks questions about video card quadro-k4200. I registered so that I can post a question but I don't know what thread to put my question in?
https://www.techpowerup.com/forums/
https://www.techpowerup.com/gpu-specs/quadro-k4200.c2602

You mentioned Dell before...is your computer a Dell, or the monitor? The reason I ask, I found this https://forums.tomshardware.com/threads/red-screen-of-death.726403/

This may be a dumb question, but when the screen changes color, have you hit ctrl-alt-del to see if you can bring up Task Manager?

The last few outages have been so short. I'm not sure how to react. Do I get out the pretzels and make extra ice for drinks later? Do I train the cat chorus to howl for moon ceremonies later?? to I put out the scented candles to help with the hair burning, but also cover the smell??

IMO, all are helpful in troubled times like these.

The outrage has begun... How long will it last this week?

howl for moon ceremonies later?? to I put out the scented candles to help with the hair burning, but also cover the smell??

finally I think i got the right one? ... i uninstalled that Lansweeper and installed HWinfo from this web page:

Ok, we're in business now. See "GPU temperature" at the top? I would see how high that value gets before you get BSOD'd.

I don't think anyone has asked this before, but have you had this Quadro working before the problem popped up, or is this the first time you've installed the card and you're having BSOD problems?

fans are spinning on my NVIDIA Quadro K4200 (4095MB) driver: 391.25 --- when I enable GPU in BOINC 7.14.2 still crashes BSOD :(

Ok, that is positive at least. Did you download a program to monitor GPU temperature? I'm a fan of HWinfo. Run one of those types of programs and get your GPU temp reading. I'm curious what it is before running boinc and what temperature it gets up to before you get BSOD.

No it is not. I think you clicked on the orange "free download" button. Why that is wedged in there I'm not sure. Try hovering your mouse immediately below to the green "Download for Free", and then click on one of the blue links when the green button rolls down into a blue window (best way I could describe it).

fans are spinning on my NVIDIA Quadro K4200 (4095MB) driver: 391.25 --- when I enable GPU in BOINC 7.14.2 still crashes BSOD :(

Ok, that is positive at least. Did you download a program to monitor GPU temperature? I'm a fan of HWinfo. Run one of those types of programs and get your GPU temp reading. I'm curious what it is before running boinc and what temperature it gets up to before you get BSOD.

It has been too quiet here so I am posting in hope of bringing life out.

Oh, people. I've turned into such a mess. Reading these messages though, has been like finding a safe warm place in a storm :) Thank you so much for your condolences and kind thoughts, and the hugs and prayers too :) They make such a difference. I've been struggling for nearly two days to find the words to say that, and still they don't convey how much I appreciate them, and all of you too.

Thank you :)

Got to Rob safely yesterday, who immediately took me on a walk to the next door town. Now, some of Stone's houses may lie within spitting distance to the marina, but that doesn't mean that its town center is. So, half an hour later, growling from hunger, I had a tosti with sausage for an eye watering £4.50 at the local M&S. From there to actual town was three minutes. End of the day had me another 12k steps done...

Slept okay, despite me being larger than the bed. Another boat, another adventure, more swaying. And this morning my first HOT shower in a week! What a pleasure!

So, now going to drive around a little, get my bearings. First see if I can get off of this secure parking as the electronic lock is on the other side of where mt steering wheel is.

See? Sabotage!

Mostly sunny so far, only had a bit of rain down that hill into town. Richard has taken me on a long walk, I suspect he wants to dump me somewhere, but too bad for him, I have navigation on my phone. 😁

My name is Long and I’m a Vietnamese. I am twenty-four years old. I live in Ho Chi Minh city in the south of Vietnam.

I have a big family with six people. I have two sisters and a brother. My sisters are older and my brother is younger than me. My father is a teacher at a secondary school. He has worked for 35 years in the field and he is my biggest role model in life. My mother is a housewife. She is nice and she is really good at cooking. I love my family so much.

Ha Byron, good to see you're still in the land of the living communicators. Hope all is (relatively) well. :)
Apart from high summer here with temps 27-32C (80.6-89.6F) - and as well for the next three weeks apparently - all is well here.

Byron threw up a link to FAQ's, all that did was thoroughly confuse me.

No problems here. I was able to successfully log in and get to my account page, forums, etc.

CPDN zip files are starting to successfully upload on my computer as of 11 Apr 2018, 15:29:55 UTC. Home web page still seems to be down.

Unscheduled project downtime: a backend issue has come up that needs to be resolved. It will take some days unfortunately to resolve, there is a backup system that will be brought up in-place next week that will enable to the project to be brought back online again. Our apologies for this unscheduled downtime.

Unscheduled project downtime: a backend issue has come up that needs to be resolved. It will take some days unfortunately to resolve, there is a backup system that will be brought up in-place next week that will enable to the project to be brought back online again. Our apologies for this unscheduled downtime.

Bernie was invited to consider accepting a mod-ship at s@h because he is a thoughtful, rational and kind person. Opinions he holds are nuanced. He makes decisions slowly and carefully. He is able to see issues from multiple vantage points and he thinks before he types.

Stephen Hawking Dead: Famed Scientist Dies At 76

https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/stephen-hawking-dead-obituary_us_55e9fa97e4b03784e275e7c1

It's lovely to see you, Byron :)

Did anyone notice the replacement at CIA ran a torture prison?

By John Paul Stevens April 11, 2014

Following the massacre of grammar-school children in Newtown, Conn., in December 2012, high-powered weapons have been used to kill innocent victims in more senseless public incidents.

Those killings, however, are only a fragment of the total harm caused by the misuse of firearms. Each year, more than 30,000 people die in the United States in firearm-related incidents.

Many of those deaths involve handguns.

The adoption of rules that will lessen the number of those incidents should be a matter of primary concern to both federal and state legislators. Legislatures are in a far better position than judges to assess the wisdom of such rules and to evaluate the costs and benefits that rule changes can be expected to produce.

It is those legislators, rather than federal judges, who should make the decisions that will determine what kinds of firearms should be available to private citizens, and when and how they may be used.

Constitutional provisions that curtail the legislative power to govern in this area unquestionably do more harm than good.

The first 10 amendments to the Constitution placed limits on the powers of the new federal government. Concern that a national standing army might pose a threat to the security of the separate states led to the adoption of the Second Amendment, which provides that:

“a well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.”

For more than 200 years following the adoption of that amendment, federal judges uniformly understood that the right protected by that text was limited in two ways: First, it applied only to keeping and bearing arms for military purposes,

and second, while it limited the power of the federal government, it did not impose any limit whatsoever on the power of states or local governments to regulate the ownership or use of firearms.

Thus, in United States v. Miller, decided in 1939, the court unanimously held that Congress could prohibit the possession of a sawed-off shotgun because that sort of weapon had no reasonable relation to the preservation or efficiency of a “well regulated Militia.”

When I joined the court in 1975, that holding was generally understood as limiting the scope of the Second Amendment to uses of arms that were related to military activities.

During the years when Warren Burger was chief justice, from 1969 to 1986, no judge or justice expressed any doubt about the limited coverage of the amendment, and I cannot recall any judge suggesting that the amendment might place any limit on state authority to do anything.

Organizations such as the National Rifle Association disagreed with that position and mounted a vigorous campaign claiming that federal regulation of the use of firearms severely curtailed Americans’ Second Amendment rights.

Five years after his retirement, during a 1991 appearance on “The MacNeil/Lehrer NewsHour,” Burger himself remarked that the Second Amendment “has been the subject of one of the greatest pieces of fraud, I repeat the word ‘fraud,’ on the American public by special interest groups that I have ever seen in my lifetime.”

In recent years two profoundly important changes in the law have occurred. In 2008, by a vote of 5 to 4, the Supreme Court decided in District of Columbia v. Heller that the Second Amendment protects a civilian’s right to keep a handgun in his home for purposes of self-defense.

And in 2010, by another vote of 5 to 4, the court decided in McDonald v. Chicago that the due process clause of the 14th Amendment limits the power of the city of Chicago to outlaw the possession of handguns by private citizens.

I dissented in both of those cases and remain convinced that both decisions misinterpreted the law and were profoundly unwise.

Public policies concerning gun control should be decided by the voters’ elected representatives, not by federal judges.
In my dissent in the McDonald case, I pointed out that the court’s decision was unique in the extent to which the court had exacted a heavy toll “in terms of state sovereignty

Even apart from the States’ long history of firearms regulation and its location at the core of their police powers, this is a quintessential area in which federalism ought to be allowed to flourish without this Court’s meddling.

Whether or not we can assert a plausible constitutional basis for intervening, there are powerful reasons why we should not do so.”

“Across the Nation, States and localities vary significantly in the patterns and problems of gun violence they face, as well as in the traditions and cultures of lawful gun use. . . . The city of Chicago, for example, faces a pressing challenge in combating criminal street gangs. Most rural areas do not.”

In response to the massacre of grammar-school students at Sandy Hook Elementary School,

some legislators have advocated stringent controls on the sale of assault weapons and more complete background checks on purchasers of firearms. It is important to note that nothing in either the Heller or the McDonald opinion poses any obstacle to the adoption of such preventive measures.

First, the court did not overrule Miller. Instead, it “read Miller to say only that the Second Amendment does not protect those weapons not typically possessed by law-abiding citizens for lawful purposes, such as short-barreled shotguns.” On the preceding page of its opinion,

the court made it clear that even though machine guns were useful in warfare in 1939, they were not among the types of weapons protected by the Second Amendment because that protected class was limited to weapons in common use for lawful purposes such as self-defense.

Even though a sawed-off shotgun or a machine gun might well be kept at home and be useful for self-defense, neither machine guns nor sawed-off shotguns satisfy the “common use” requirement.

Thus, even as generously construed in Heller, the Second Amendment provides no obstacle to regulations prohibiting the ownership or

use of the sorts of weapons used in the tragic multiple killings in Virginia, Colorado and Arizona in recent years. The failure of Congress to take any action to minimize the risk of similar tragedies in the future cannot be blamed on the court’s decision in Heller.

A second virtue of the opinion in Heller is that Justice Antonin Scalia went out of his way to limit the court’s holding not only to a subset of weapons that might be used for self-defense but also to a subset of conduct that is protected.

The specific holding of the case covers only the possession of handguns in the home for purposes of self-defense, while a later part of the opinion adds emphasis to the narrowness of that holding by describing uses that were not protected by the common law or state practice.

Prohibitions on carrying concealed weapons, or on the possession of firearms by felons and the mentally ill, and laws forbidding the carrying of firearms in sensitive places such as schools and government buildings or imposing conditions and qualifications on the commercial sale of arms are specifically identified as permissible regulations.

Thus, Congress’s failure to enact laws that would expand the use of background checks and limit the availability of automatic weapons cannot be justified by reference to the Second Amendment or to anything that the Supreme Court has said about that amendment.

What the members of the five-justice majority said in those opinions is nevertheless profoundly important, because it curtails the government’s power to regulate the use of handguns that contribute to the roughly 88 firearm-related deaths that occur every day.

There is an intriguing similarity between the court’s sovereign immunity jurisprudence, which began with a misinterpretation of the 11th Amendment, and its more recent misinterpretation of the Second Amendment.

The procedural amendment limiting federal courts’ jurisdiction over private actions against states eventually blossomed into a substantive rule that treats the common-law doctrine of sovereign immunity as though it were part of the Constitution itself.

Of course, in England common-law rules fashioned by judges may always be repealed or amended by Parliament.

And when the United States became an independent nation, Congress and every state legislature had the power to accept, to reject or to modify common-law rules that prevailed prior to 1776, except, of course, any rule that might have been included in the Constitution.

The Second Amendment expressly endorsed the substantive common-law rule that protected the citizen’s right (and duty) to keep and bear arms when serving in a state militia.

In its decision in Heller, however, the majority interpreted the amendment as though its draftsmen were primarily motivated by an interest in protecting the common-law right of self-defense.

But that common-law right is a procedural right that has always been available to the defendant in criminal proceedings in every state.

The notion that the states were concerned about possible infringement of that right by the federal government is really quite absurd.

As a result of the rulings in Heller and McDonald, the Second Amendment, which was adopted to protect the states from federal interference with their power to ensure that their militias were “well regulated,” has given federal judges the ultimate power to determine the validity of state regulations

of both civilian and militia-related uses of arms. That anomalous result can be avoided by adding five words to the text of the Second Amendment to make it unambiguously conform to the original intent of its draftsmen. As so amended, it would read:

“A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms when serving in the Militia shall not be infringed.”

Emotional claims that the right to possess deadly weapons is so important that it is protected by the federal Constitution distort intelligent debate about the wisdom of particular aspects of proposed legislation designed to minimize the slaughter caused by the prevalence of guns in private hands.

Those emotional arguments would be nullified by the adoption of my proposed amendment. The amendment certainly would not silence the powerful voice of the gun lobby; it would merely eliminate its ability to advance one mistaken argument.

It is true, of course, that the public’s reaction to the massacre of schoolchildren, such as the Newtown killings, and the 2013 murder of government employees at the Navy Yard in Washington,

may also introduce a strong emotional element into the debate. That aspect of the debate is, however, based entirely on facts rather than fiction. The law should encourage intelligent discussion of possible remedies for what every American can recognize as an ongoing national tragedy.

The five extra words that can fix the Second Amendment

so amended, the Second Amendment would read:

“A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State,
the right of the people to keep and bear Arms when serving in the Militia shall not be infringed.”

as opposed to:

“A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State,
the right of the people to keep and bear Arms shall not be infringed.”

--- By John Paul Stevens associate justice of the Supreme Court from 1975 to 2010.

is there any thing to stop a Congressman, or Senator from introducing such an Amendment, which of course would fail?

Yep they are called the NRA and the weapons industry.

yes, good point.

So the five extra words that might fix the Second Amendment ... when serving in the Militia

so amended, the Second Amendment suggested by --- By John Paul Stevens associate justice of the Supreme Court from 1975 to 2010. would read:

“A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State,
the right of the people to keep and bear Arms when serving in the Militia shall not be infringed.”

as opposed to:

“A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State,
the right of the people to keep and bear Arms shall not be infringed.”

---Washington post

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/the-five-extra-words-that-can-fix-the-second-amendment/2014/04/11/f8a19578-b8fa-11e3-96ae-f2c36d2b1245_story.html?utm_term=.15b2d53b8705

By John Paul Stevens April 11, 2014

John Paul Stevens served as an associate justice of the Supreme Court from 1975 to 2010. This essay is excerpted from his new book, “Six Amendments: How and Why We Should Change the Constitution.”

Following the massacre of grammar-school children in Newtown, Conn., in December 2012, high-powered weapons have been used to kill innocent victims in more senseless public incidents.

Those killings, however, are only a fragment of the total harm caused by the misuse of firearms. Each year, more than 30,000 people die in the United States in firearm-related incidents.

Many of those deaths involve handguns.

The adoption of rules that will lessen the number of those incidents should be a matter of primary concern to both federal and state legislators. Legislatures are in a far better position than judges to assess the wisdom of such rules and to evaluate the costs and benefits that rule changes can be expected to produce.

It is those legislators, rather than federal judges, who should make the decisions that will determine what kinds of firearms should be available to private citizens, and when and how they may be used.

Constitutional provisions that curtail the legislative power to govern in this area unquestionably do more harm than good.

The first 10 amendments to the Constitution placed limits on the powers of the new federal government. Concern that a national standing army might pose a threat to the security of the separate states led to the adoption of the Second Amendment, which provides that:

“a well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.”

For more than 200 years following the adoption of that amendment, federal judges uniformly understood that the right protected by that text was limited in two ways: First, it applied only to keeping and bearing arms for military purposes,

and second, while it limited the power of the federal government, it did not impose any limit whatsoever on the power of states or local governments to regulate the ownership or use of firearms.

Thus, in United States v. Miller, decided in 1939, the court unanimously held that Congress could prohibit the possession of a sawed-off shotgun because that sort of weapon had no reasonable relation to the preservation or efficiency of a “well regulated Militia.”

When I joined the court in 1975, that holding was generally understood as limiting the scope of the Second Amendment to uses of arms that were related to military activities.

During the years when Warren Burger was chief justice, from 1969 to 1986, no judge or justice expressed any doubt about the limited coverage of the amendment, and I cannot recall any judge suggesting that the amendment might place any limit on state authority to do anything.

Organizations such as the National Rifle Association disagreed with that position and mounted a vigorous campaign claiming that federal regulation of the use of firearms severely curtailed Americans’ Second Amendment rights.

Five years after his retirement, during a 1991 appearance on “The MacNeil/Lehrer NewsHour,” Burger himself remarked that the Second Amendment “has been the subject of one of the greatest pieces of fraud, I repeat the word ‘fraud,’ on the American public by special interest groups that I have ever seen in my lifetime.”

In recent years two profoundly important changes in the law have occurred. In 2008, by a vote of 5 to 4, the Supreme Court decided in District of Columbia v. Heller that the Second Amendment protects a civilian’s right to keep a handgun in his home for purposes of self-defense.

And in 2010, by another vote of 5 to 4, the court decided in McDonald v. Chicago that the due process clause of the 14th Amendment limits the power of the city of Chicago to outlaw the possession of handguns by private citizens.

I dissented in both of those cases and remain convinced that both decisions misinterpreted the law and were profoundly unwise.

Public policies concerning gun control should be decided by the voters’ elected representatives, not by federal judges.
In my dissent in the McDonald case, I pointed out that the court’s decision was unique in the extent to which the court had exacted a heavy toll “in terms of state sovereignty

Even apart from the States’ long history of firearms regulation and its location at the core of their police powers, this is a quintessential area in which federalism ought to be allowed to flourish without this Court’s meddling.

Whether or not we can assert a plausible constitutional basis for intervening, there are powerful reasons why we should not do so.”

“Across the Nation, States and localities vary significantly in the patterns and problems of gun violence they face, as well as in the traditions and cultures of lawful gun use. . . . The city of Chicago, for example, faces a pressing challenge in combating criminal street gangs. Most rural areas do not.”

In response to the massacre of grammar-school students at Sandy Hook Elementary School,

some legislators have advocated stringent controls on the sale of assault weapons and more complete background checks on purchasers of firearms. It is important to note that nothing in either the Heller or the McDonald opinion poses any obstacle to the adoption of such preventive measures.

First, the court did not overrule Miller. Instead, it “read Miller to say only that the Second Amendment does not protect those weapons not typically possessed by law-abiding citizens for lawful purposes, such as short-barreled shotguns.” On the preceding page of its opinion,

the court made it clear that even though machine guns were useful in warfare in 1939, they were not among the types of weapons protected by the Second Amendment because that protected class was limited to weapons in common use for lawful purposes such as self-defense.

Even though a sawed-off shotgun or a machine gun might well be kept at home and be useful for self-defense, neither machine guns nor sawed-off shotguns satisfy the “common use” requirement.

Thus, even as generously construed in Heller, the Second Amendment provides no obstacle to regulations prohibiting the ownership or

use of the sorts of weapons used in the tragic multiple killings in Virginia, Colorado and Arizona in recent years. The failure of Congress to take any action to minimize the risk of similar tragedies in the future cannot be blamed on the court’s decision in Heller.

A second virtue of the opinion in Heller is that Justice Antonin Scalia went out of his way to limit the court’s holding not only to a subset of weapons that might be used for self-defense but also to a subset of conduct that is protected.

The specific holding of the case covers only the possession of handguns in the home for purposes of self-defense, while a later part of the opinion adds emphasis to the narrowness of that holding by describing uses that were not protected by the common law or state practice.

Prohibitions on carrying concealed weapons, or on the possession of firearms by felons and the mentally ill, and laws forbidding the carrying of firearms in sensitive places such as schools and government buildings or imposing conditions and qualifications on the commercial sale of arms are specifically identified as permissible regulations.

Thus, Congress’s failure to enact laws that would expand the use of background checks and limit the availability of automatic weapons cannot be justified by reference to the Second Amendment or to anything that the Supreme Court has said about that amendment.

What the members of the five-justice majority said in those opinions is nevertheless profoundly important, because it curtails the government’s power to regulate the use of handguns that contribute to the roughly 88 firearm-related deaths that occur every day.

There is an intriguing similarity between the court’s sovereign immunity jurisprudence, which began with a misinterpretation of the 11th Amendment, and its more recent misinterpretation of the Second Amendment.

The procedural amendment limiting federal courts’ jurisdiction over private actions against states eventually blossomed into a substantive rule that treats the common-law doctrine of sovereign immunity as though it were part of the Constitution itself.

Of course, in England common-law rules fashioned by judges may always be repealed or amended by Parliament.

And when the United States became an independent nation, Congress and every state legislature had the power to accept, to reject or to modify common-law rules that prevailed prior to 1776, except, of course, any rule that might have been included in the Constitution.

The Second Amendment expressly endorsed the substantive common-law rule that protected the citizen’s right (and duty) to keep and bear arms when serving in a state militia.

In its decision in Heller, however, the majority interpreted the amendment as though its draftsmen were primarily motivated by an interest in protecting the common-law right of self-defense.

But that common-law right is a procedural right that has always been available to the defendant in criminal proceedings in every state.

The notion that the states were concerned about possible infringement of that right by the federal government is really quite absurd.

As a result of the rulings in Heller and McDonald, the Second Amendment, which was adopted to protect the states from federal interference with their power to ensure that their militias were “well regulated,” has given federal judges the ultimate power to determine the validity of state regulations

of both civilian and militia-related uses of arms. That anomalous result can be avoided by adding five words to the text of the Second Amendment to make it unambiguously conform to the original intent of its draftsmen. As so amended, it would read:

“A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms when serving in the Militia shall not be infringed.”

Emotional claims that the right to possess deadly weapons is so important that it is protected by the federal Constitution distort intelligent debate about the wisdom of particular aspects of proposed legislation designed to minimize the slaughter caused by the prevalence of guns in private hands.

Those emotional arguments would be nullified by the adoption of my proposed amendment. The amendment certainly would not silence the powerful voice of the gun lobby; it would merely eliminate its ability to advance one mistaken argument.

It is true, of course, that the public’s reaction to the massacre of schoolchildren, such as the Newtown killings, and the 2013 murder of government employees at the Navy Yard in Washington,

may also introduce a strong emotional element into the debate. That aspect of the debate is, however, based entirely on facts rather than fiction. The law should encourage intelligent discussion of possible remedies for what every American can recognize as an ongoing national tragedy.

The five extra words that can fix the Second Amendment

so amended, the Second Amendment would read:

“A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State,
the right of the people to keep and bear Arms when serving in the Militia shall not be infringed.”

as opposed to:

“A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State,
the right of the people to keep and bear Arms shall not be infringed.”

--- By John Paul Stevens associate justice of the Supreme Court from 1975 to 2010.

it's lovely to see you Byron :)

http://thehill.com/homenews/administration/351268-nyt-mueller-warned-manafort-to-expect-an-indictment

Prosecutors on special counsel Robert Mueller's team reportedly told former Trump campaign manager Paul Manafort that they planned to indict him when they picked his lock and raided his Virginia home in July.

The warning, allegedly a shock-and-awe tactic, came as federal agents combed through Manafort's computer files, documents and any other potential pieces of evidence that could help them in their federal investigation, The New York Times reported Monday, citing two people close to the investigation.

The jarring comment is part of the approach Mueller and his team have embraced since May when the Justice Department named them to lead the high-profile investigation earlier, which aims to intimidate witnesses and possible targets of the probe, the newspaper reported.

The right to pick a lock and enter Manafort's home unannounced, even with a warrant in hand, means prosecutors had to convince a federal judge that Manafort would likely try to destroy evidence upon making themselves known.

So will the Grand Jury list an un-indicted co-conspirator?

We're not set up for donations to BOINC.
But if you donate to SETI@home and add a note "for BOINC" it will get used to support BOINC.
-- David

Hi Byron,

It looks like the "If RAC < 1 one cannot edit their profile" solution is in play here. I've reported it to David, thanks.

Byron, is that you?

The book Community, Competition and Citizen Science by Anne Holohan documents the history of volunteer computing.

The CPDN project will be taken offline for a scheduled downtime starting at 1000 UTC on Monday the 2nd November.
This is in order to perform firmware updates to the controllers of the storage array on which the CPDN servers reside. The firmware updates will correct an issue with the controllers that was a cause of the recent unscheduled downtime.
This work should not affect the climateprediction.net pages of the website, however the climateapps2.oerc portion of the website will be taken offline.
Will in OeRC support will be performing this work on the controllers of the storage array. At present we don't have an expected length of time that this firmware update will take, however we will endeavour to restore the project as soon as the updates have completed.

April 21, 2011 marks the one-year anniversary of the Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) First Light press conference, where NASA revealed the first images taken by the spacecraft.

Facts About Earth

all hail the power of Thor.

Thunderstorm Thor, or is it your new power company that you're spamming for? You know what we do with spammers, right? :-)

*waves* Hello Byron! :)

Those links are no longer functional, and the climateprediction.net home page is not even accessible. I would like to get completed results to them somehow, if they are still relevant. Any suggestions appreciated.

CPDN Scheduled downtime: 2- 5 Aug 2013
Jonathan Miller wrote:

Planned downtime: 2 - 5 August 2013

The server room in which CPDN resides is due to be shut down for electrical testing on 2 August 2013. The testing will take place over the weekend, and CPDN servers will be brought back online on 5 August 2013 (assuming everything goes to plan).

There will be NO CPDN service during this time from any Oxford machines:

ClimatePrediction.net
Climateapps2.oerc.ox.ac.uk [this forum]
cpdn-upload2.oerc.ox.ac.uk
charybdis.oerc.ox.ac.uk
cpdntrickle.oerc.ox.ac.uk
uploader.oerc.ox.ac.uk
uploader1.atm.ox.ac.uk
cpdnbeta.oerc.ox.ac.uk
seacourt.oerc.ox.ac.uk

trillionthtonne.org

...and any others that I may have forgotten.

Unfortunately I will be on annual leave on 5 August, so I will have to leave the turning on to Mr Bowery and our diligent IT staff.

Jonathan

I have looked at this, and all I can see is that the new server sent the page with an explicit character set (utf-8) whereas the original page did not.
I have removed this character set from the HTTP header on the new server.
Could you please try again, attaching to the project?
It would be very very helpful to know if you can attach or not, on Linux, Mac OS or Windows (inc Versions), because it seems,
from reading this thread, seems to be a problem with older Windows OS machines.
I look forward to hearing the results of the test.

Jonathan Miller
CPDN-SysAdmin

Hi,
I have just released a new set of workunits, this is the first of two batches.
This is using a new type of ancillary file (supporting file).
The first study that will be performed with the analysis of the results from these two batches
will be on the Autumn rainfall in the UK in 2012, and also potentially a study of the 2012 summer in the US.

Many thanks for running these,

Andy Bowery
Chief software developer

Hi,

Many thanks to all those who have filled in this survey to date.
The comments made are proving very useful.
Could we ask a reminder to those people haven't filled in this survey so far, to please do so.
The survey is for the upcoming Research Assessment Exercise and is completely anonymous:

https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/CPDN_CEDN

Andy Bowery
Chief software developer CPDN

by abowery » Thu Dec 20, 2012 5:48 am
We have just submitted a new batch of HadCM3N workunits. These workunits build off a balanced subset of perturbed model parameter combinations used in the HadCM3N-CHAAOS experiment previously, but include an 80 year ramp up of CO2 forcing at 1% per year. These experiments are the precursor to future geoengineering experiments with HadCM3N investigating the effects of these various forcings on the hydrological cycle. Many thanks once again for volunteering to run these models, your input is invaluable to us!

Andy Bowery
Chief software developer

by abowery » Thu Dec 13, 2012 10:18 am

Message from the ClimatePrediction.net Project Team:
CPDN Unscheduled Downtime - Fire in local electricity substation
Our apologies for the unscheduled downtime of the project over these last few days, unfortunately the facilities hosting the servers of ClimatePrediction.net suffered a number of consecutive power outages over the weekend these were the result of a fire in the electricity substation for the area.
Over the last few days project staff have been working to stagger the restoration of services. The CPDN BOINC back-end service has now been restored and uploads should now be proceeding.
We thank you for your patience over these last few days as the project staff have been dealing with this issue.

abowery
Chief software developer

so I guess the bottom line is that I need
one of the ... Project administrator ... at ... ABC@home
to search their database for my account's - authenticator -
and to send it to me by my account's private e mail

Yeah, that's probably the best way. So why not email Alyssa? (see their project personnel page for addresses.)

• (1) Alyssa Milburn system administrator/programmer - amilburn _at_ abcathome.com
  
  
• (2) Thijs van Dijk - mathematician/programmer - mdijk _amp_ abcathome.com
  
  
• (3) Willem - Jan Palenstijn - mathematician/programmer - wpalenst _at_ abcathome.com
  
  
• (4) Bart de Smit - mathematician - desmit _at_ abcathome.com
  

Yeah, I sent - (4) e mails to the four (4) above on 8 Nov 2012 ... but sadly I only got only one response:

Dear Byron,

Thanks for your message.

I changed the address from noreply@abcathome.com to abcathome@math.leidenuniv.nl.

Will you let me know if this worked ?

Good luck,

Thijs van Dijk

(Note: no longer officially affiliated with the ABC@home project.)

On 8 November 2012 21:19, < [ my email deleted ] > wrote:

Dear Thijs van Dijk,
mathematician/programmer
ABC@home

I am not able to access my account at ABC@home because I forgot my password.

to reset password I have tried the following:

If you know your account's email address, and you can receive email there:
Enter the email address below, and click OK. You will be sent email
instructions for resetting your password

Instructions have been emailed to - [ my email deleted ]
If the email doesn't arrive in a few minutes, your ISP may be blocking it
as spam. In this case please contact your ISP and ask them to not block
email from noreply@abcathome.com.

but my ISP is blocking e mail from: noreply@abcathome.com
I have contacted my ISP but they can not help me.

can you please help me to reset my password at ABC@home ?

regards,
Byron Leigh Hatch

ABC@home my account's email address is: - [ my email deleted ]

my userid=76024
http://abcathome.com/show_user.php?userid=76024
my username is: Byron Leigh Hatch @ team Carl Sagan

I think for that to work I would have had to ... to have had my computers attached to ABC@home no ?

No Byron, cookies are sent to your browser, not to the BOINC client.
A cookie is a small piece of data sent from a website and stored in a user's web browser while a user is browsing a website. (source)

So you'll have to check that under the cookies in your browser's options.
E.g. in Firefox, that's Options->Privacy->Remove individual cookies.
For IE it's in C:\Users\{Your User Name}\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Windows\Cookies

• (1) - Log in with - e mail + password
  
  
• (2) - Log in with - authenticator number
  

I had a similar problem attaching my computers to

my account at malariacontrol.net

and that was solved by ... Jord

and ... the system administrator - of malariacontrol.net. me

sending to me - by Private email - my authenticator number.

Dear Byron,

Jord sent me a mail about your problem re-attaching to malariacontrol.net.
I think you should be able to recover your password
by using the - authenticator - I found in our database for your account:
Hope this helps, otherwise let me know.

Best wishes,
Nick
Volunteer moderator - Project administrator - Project scientist -
malariacontrol.net

I think for that to work I would have had to ... to have had my computers attached to ABC@home no ?

No Byron, cookies are sent to your browser, not to the BOINC client.
A cookie is a small piece of data sent from a website and stored in a user's web browser while a user is browsing a website.

any ideas ? :-)

http://abcathome.com/forum_thread.php?id=891

Yes, but only a small chance though :

Check your browser for a cookie named "auth" for the ABC server - even if you login with mail+password, the browser creates that cookie containing your account ID.

Hi mikey,

mikey wrote the following:
I am NOT an admin anywhere but I THINK he - [ Byron ] - can go to any account on any board
and see his "cross project id" under 'my account' on the webpage
and use that to login with instead of his username and password.

thank you very much for trying to help ... but sadly ... no ... that will did not work __ :-(
apparently there are only two (2) ways ... to log on to one's account.

• (1) - Log in with - e mail + password
  
  
• (2) - Log in with - authenticator number
  

I had a similar problem attaching my computers to my account at malariacontrol.net
and that was solved by Jord and - the system administrator - sending to me - by Private email - my authenticator number.
authenticator number and the "cross project id" ... are two different things.

Dear Byron,

Jord sent me a mail about your problem re-attaching to malariacontrol.net.
I think you should be able to recover your password
by using the - authenticator - I found in our database for your account:
Hope this helps, otherwise let me know.

Best wishes,
Nick
Volunteer moderator - Project administrator - Project scientist -
malariacontrol.net

so I guess the bottom line is that I need - one of the ... Project administrator ... at ... ABC@home
to search their database for my account's - authenticator -
and to send it to me by my account's private e mail ... or by Private message ... here

thanks again, if you have any questions for me - you could contact me here --> http://boinc.berkeley.edu/dev/forum_thread.php?id=7992 --> by Private message

thanks ... everyone in advance for ... any hints, suggestion or help.
yours truly
Byron

Hi mikey,

mikey wrote the following:
I am NOT an admin anywhere but I THINK he - [ Byron ] - can go to any account on any board
and see his "cross project id" under 'my account' on the webpage
and use that to login with instead of his username and password.

thank you very much for trying to help.
I tried your suggestion ... but sadly that did not work __ :-(
apparently there are only two (2) ways ... to log on to one's account.

• (1) - Log in with - e mail + password
  
  
• (2) - Log in with - authenticator number
  

I had a similar problem attaching my computers to my account at malariacontrol.net
and that was solved by Jord and - the system administrator - sending to me - by Private email - my authenticator number.
authenticator number and the "cross project id" ... are two different things.

Dear Byron,

Jord sent me a mail about your problem re-attaching to malariacontrol.net.
I think you should be able to recover your password
by using the - authenticator - I found in our database for your account:
Hope this helps, otherwise let me know.

Best wishes,
Nick
Volunteer moderator - Project administrator - Project scientist -
malariacontrol.net

so I guess the bottom line is that I need - one of the ... Project administrator ... at ... ABC@home
to search their database for my account's - authenticator -
and to send it to me by my account's private e mail ... or by Private message ... here

thanks again, if you have any questions for me - you could contact me here --> http://boinc.berkeley.edu/dev/forum_thread.php?id=7992 --> by Private message

thanks ... everyone in advance for ... any hints, suggestion or help.
yours truly
Byron

Dear Alyssa Milburn
system administrator/programmer
ABC@home

I'm trying to attach my computters to the project: - ABC@home -
I already have an existing account at: ABC@home -
http://abcathome.com/show_user.php?userid=76024
I just need to Re Set my password at: ABC@home

would it be possible for you to look up my authenticator code number in your database - using my account's userid number - 76024 - ?

and email my authenticator code number to me at my account's email address:
- as for my account's email address -
I think ... you should also be able to find my account's email address - in your database - ?
- using my userid=76024
I don't want to post my account's email address on an open fourm.

I could then use the authenticator code number to reset my Pass word at ABC@home
and then: attach my computters to the project: - ABC@home -

my account's userid is:
my userid=76024
http://abcathome.com/show_user.php?userid=76024
my user name is: Byron Leigh Hatch @ team Carl Sagan

if you have any questions for me - could you contact me at: - my account's email address -

or by Private Message -

here --> http://boinc.berkeley.edu/dev/forum_thread.php?id=7992

thanks in advance for any hints, suggestion or help.
yours truly
Byron

I'm posting this message on behalf of Byron Leigh Hatch @ team Carl Sagan,
the original message has been posted on the BOINC Message boards

Email sent

Instructions have been emailed to xyz@xyz.ca.

If the email doesn't arrive in a few minutes,
your ISP may be blocking it as spam.
In this case please contact your ISP and ask
them to not block email from abcathome@math.leidenuniv.nl.

• Go to the BOINC data directory on your computer (on Windows this is usually C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\BOINC or C:\Program Files\BOINC.
  
• Find your account file for this project; it will have a name like account_lhcathome.cern.ch.xml (where the project URL is http://lhcathome.cern.ch).
  
• Open the file in a text editor like Notepad. You'll see something like
  

etc ...

or ......

I have tried the following:

If you know your account's email address, and you can receive email there:
Enter the email address below, and click OK. You will be sent email
instructions for resetting your password

If the email doesn't arrive in a few minutes, your ISP may be blocking it as spam.
In this case please contact your ISP and ask them to not block email from:

abcathome@math.leidenuniv.nl

some how my ISP must be blocking e mail from: abcathome@math.leidenuniv.nl

I have contacted my ISP but they say they are not blocking e mail abcathome@math.leidenuniv.nl

???

can you please help me access my account at ABC@home ?

Thank in advance for any hints, suggestion or help.

Byron

my account's email address is: xyz
my userid=76024
my username is: Byron Leigh Hatch @ team Carl Sagan

is there a way, using my cc_config.xml file, to have BOINC not show the URL's of the 35 projects that I am attached to ?

No. But why do you want to?

<state_debug/>0</state_debug>

Nope, one slash too many. As Jorden wrote, it's:
<state_debug>0</state_debug>

Gruß,
Gundolf

Could you give us a (short!) example of what you mean with "info file" in the event log?

Gruß,
Gundolf

• my one fast computer:
  
  Windows 7
  BOINC 7.0.28 (x86) - running as a single instillation - (not as a service)
  
  
• my three slower computers:
  
  Windows XP
  BOINC 7.0.28 (x86) - running as a single instillation - (not as a service)
  

I'm attached to 35 different projects on all - 4 - (four) - of my computers.

my BOINC 7.0.28 event Log in my Windows XP computers --- does Lists --- the 763 - info - files - (seven hundred and sixty three) - of the 35 different projects.

I don't like this --- because - i have scroll thru over 1000 (one thousand) lines looking for the info i want.

my BOINC 7.0.28 event Log in my Windows 7 - computer --- does not Lists --- (or maybe windows 7 hides them ? ) --- the 763 - info - files - (seven hundred and sixty three) of the 35 different projects.

I like this --- because i do not have to scroll thru over 1000 (one thousand) lines looking for the info i want.

is there any way i can tell BOINC 7.0.28 on my Windows XP computers

do not Lists -- ( or at least hide them ? ) the - 763 - info - files - (seven hundred and sixty three) -- in the event log ?

TIA
Byron

Submission of new Weather At Home batch (HadAM3P_EU workunits)

These new workunits are designed to simulate the period December 2010 to November 2011. They will be forced using a new sea surface temperature data set (Operational Sea Surface Temperature and Sea Ice Analysis [OSTIA]). This data set has a high spatial and temporal resolution, which we hope will improve the simulation of storm tracks. The results from this experiment will be used to investigate the extreme weather events of 2011 and how such events are changing in response to climate change.

The 2 project people are still working on the server problems.
There was another network problem, which seems to be OK now.
There's no time line for when all of this will be fixed.

We suffered a brief network outage today, which prevented connections to or from various CPDN servers.
The fault developed at approximately 2 pm BST and continued for two hours.
The hardware responsible is due to be replaced imminently, but the project is 'at risk' until that has been done (probably for another 12 hours).

Jonathan Miller
CPDN SysAdmin

The hard disk running the operating system on upload server uploader1.atm has failed.
A replacement disk has been ordered and will be installed when it arrives on Monday.
Until that has been completed all uploads to that server (primarily the end of month uploads for most HadAM3P EU tasks) will fail.

The hard disk running the operating system on upload server uploader1.atm has failed.
A replacement disk has been ordered and will be installed when it arrives on Monday.
Until that has been completed all uploads to that server (primarily the end of month uploads for most HadAM3P EU tasks) will fail.

<quote>

Today is the 4th anniversary of the BOINC-based CPDN, and I'd like to congratulate and thank all the people at Oxford who made it happen, and all the volunteers who courageously ran huge climate models on their PCs. CPDN has been a huge success. There's no more worthwhile scientific goal than investigating the fate of Earth, and CPDN has made critical contributions to this investigation.

CPDN inspired BOINC; when I read Myles Allen's original (1999) paper it got me very excited, and I immediately contacted him, wanting to get involved. CPDN's unique requirements had a big impact on BOINC's design.

Carl Christensen, who for several years did the heavy lifting of getting CPDN working and keeping to going, has also contributed greatly to BOINC, and more recently so has Tolu Aina. I'm extremely proud to have worked with these guys and the rest of the CPDN group.

Congratulations all around!!

-- David Anderson
Director, BOINC Project
Univ. of California, Berkeley

</quote>

One of the upload servers has filled up.
They've started to move the data, but from past experience it will take a couple of days to move several hundred gigabytes over the university network.

In the meantime, either:
Turn off the Network connection, or, if you're running multiple projects,

Suspend all climate models and wait it out. In this case, all zips waiting to upload will continue to try doing so at regular intervals.

The CPDN BOINC site has been under a sustained spammer attack for 3 weeks. In response to this Jonathan has added highly targeted protection to shut down the attack route.

The spammers have created 109 accounts by attaching a computer to the project with no intention of running tasks (the web option for creating accounts was disabled a long time ago in response to a previous spammer attack).

Although the spam accounts were created from 97 different IP addresses in Romania we suspect they all originated at a single computer.

Some users might find they can't access the pages which have been protected and we can only offer apologies in advance if you are one of them.

Dear all,
Steven Goldfarb from CERN is interviewed by Rhod Sharp and Dr Karl from BBC Radio 4, answering questions about the search for the Higgs Boson and the LHC@Home platform.
You can download the podcast and listen to it.
We hope you like it!
Best,
The team

CERN and the scientific World are abuzz with speculations about what exactly will be announced in a scientific seminar to take place at CERN, this Wednesday, July 4th, at 9am (CET).

A public web cast will be available: http://cern.ch/webcast.

The speculations concern whether hints of the elusive Higgs particle - key to the origin of mass - have been reconfirmed with this year's data from the Large Hadron Collider (LHC). If so, Wednesday's announcement could kickstart a whole new era of investigations with the LHC.

Not only would it mark the beginning of detailed measurements of the physical properties of the Higgs field, such as its interaction with matter and force, it would also give a huge impetus to searches for so-called "New Physics" - the Higgs field being extremely sensitive to quantum effects, there are indications that something more, beyond the spectrum of known particles, is needed to explain its apparent stability. But first, tune in to CERN on Wednesday, if you want to be among the first to find out whether the Higgs is really fact, or still fiction.

Dear all,

We are really happy to announce that we have finally a set of charts that display how many events you have simulated and the number of jobs that you have processed within the Virtual Machine.

These statistics show the real work that you are doing, so you can see how much you have contributed to the project!

We have created a Learderboard with the best contributors.



The leaderboard uses again the latest available and open standards web technologies such as HTML5, CSS and SVG (you can check the source code of the leaderboard here).

If you don't find yourself in the leaderboard, you can check your contributions directly in your T4T profile page. We have added a new link that says: "Check your contributions". Click in it and you will see a short summary regarding the number of jobs, simulations, events, etc. that you have contributed.

We are really happy about this new feature, and we will improve it and link it to more services pretty soon. As usual any comments and feedback are welcome!

Best regards,

The team!

The problem mentioned in the previous post was due to a program failing. This has been fixed.
But now a server is down, possibly filled up.

The servers are all now running again.
However there's a lot of pushing and shoving from zips waiting in the queues, resulting in messages such as:

Error on file upload: can't open log file '../log_aforgomon/file_upload_handler.log' (errno: 9)
Temporarily failed upload of hadam3p_eu_cv85_2006_1_007960023_0_12.zip: transient upload error

Patience is the only cure.

The project's servers have been having problems of various types for several days now. Some of this requires a physical presence in the server rooms, and, as this requires access permission from the IT people in charge of the various rooms, which are in various buildings across the city which is the University of Oxford, nothing will start to be done until Monday morning UK time.

Some of these 'repairs' may require a server to be taken off line. In the past this has sometimes been for several days.

The Server Status page can be accessed here

23 May 2012 | 11:35:44 UTC

Factors browser.
I am glad to announce the launch of factors browser functionality.
It is available through this URL and also through a link from the main page. Comment

Sebastian M. Bobrecki
Project scientist

20 May 2012 | 11:39:56 UTC

The next milestone in Tdt application has been achieved.
All potential candidates up to 2 * 10 ^ 8 were tested using the Tdt.
Thanks to all the volunteers who contributed to this. Comment

Sebastian M. Bobrecki
Project scientist

Citizen Cyberlab: a new project accepted by the European Union

Dear all,

A few months ago we asked you for opinions on ways to combine projects like T4T with online learning. Your feedback was really useful for preparing a funding proposal on this theme, and it's a pleasure to announce that the proposed project, called Citizen Cyberlab, has been accepted by the European Commission.

The project will involve a number of institutions in London, Paris and Geneva, including CERN – you can read more about it in the first comment of this post. A specific goal for CERN in the project will be to build an educational game based on LHC@home.

The project should start by the end of this year. However, we plan to start improving the links between LHC@home and online education already this summer, in a collaboration between Peer-to-Peer University (P2PU) and the Citizen Cyberscience Centre. I look forward to telling you more about that when the project kicks off in June.

Best Regards,
Daniel Lombraña González
Project scientist

Posted by Andy on the Independent forum:

"abowery" wrote:
Publication of results from BBC climate change experiment

This week the first results from the climateprediction.net BBC climate change experiment were published in Nature Geoscience. The experiment, first launched in 2006, represents the first multi thousand member ensemble of simulations using a complex coupled atmosphere-ocean climate model, and addresses some of the uncertainties that previous forecasts, using simpler models or only a few dozen simulations, may have over-looked. Results from the experiment suggest that a global warming of 3 degrees Celsius by 2050 is as equally plausible as a rise of 1.4 degrees (relative to the 1961-1990 average). This range is derived from the range of simulations in the ensemble that accurately reproduce observed temperature changes over the last 50 years.

The results suggest that the world is very likely to cross the '2 degrees barrier' at some point this century if emissions continue unabated, and that those planning for the impacts of climate change need to consider the possibility of warming of up to 3 degrees (above the 1961-1990 average) by 2050 even on a mid-range emission scenario. This is a faster rate of warming than most other models predict.

We would like to thank all the participants involved in the BBC climate change experiment for their continued support to the project!

Link: http://www.nature.com/ngeo/journal/vaop/ncurrent/full/ngeo1430.html

Dear all,

We have just deployed a new revision of the current Virtual Machine 2.5.1-3-1.1 that should improve the stability of the system and reduce the errors with the floppy device.The queue has right now new WUs with this VM, so you will get it in the next few days.

Best regards,
The team

Henry Markram’s controversial proposal for the Human Brain Project (HBP) — an effort to build a supercomputer simulation that integrates everything known about the human brain, from the structures of ion channels in neural cell membranes up to mechanisms behind conscious decision-making — may soon fulfill his ambition.

The project is one of six finalists vying to win €1 billion (US$1.3 billion) as one of the European Union’s two new decade-long Flagship initiatives.

The HBP would integrate these discoveries, he said, and create models to explore how neural circuits are organized, and how they give rise to behavior and cognition. Ultimately, said Markram, the HBP would even help researchers to grapple with disorders such as Alzheimer’s disease.

He proposed to model everything, “from the genetic level, the molecular level, the neurons and synapses, how microcircuits are formed, macrocircuits, mesocircuits, brain areas — until we get to understand how to link these levels, all the way up to behavior and cognition.”

The computer power required to run such a grand unified theory of the brain: roughly an exaflop, or 1018 operations per second, to be available in exascale computers by the 2020s.

So far, his team at he Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne (EPFL) has simulated 100 interconnected columns.

The Blue Brain Project is the first comprehensive attempt to reverse-engineer the mammalian brain, in order to understand brain function and dysfunction through detailed simulations.

Once you start building a brain in a box you get two things: admission into the Mad Scientists’ Club, and a chance to speak at TED. Henry Markram is the director of the Blue Brain Project, a collaboration between European scientists and IBM that aims to construct a life-like simulation of a brain using a supercomputer. Earlier this year Markram spoke at TED Global discussing how most of human perception is based on decision making within the brain.....

read more here:

http://bluebrain.epfl.ch/
http://bluebrain.epfl.ch/

http://singularityhub.com/2009/11/13/the-brain-according-to-henry-markram-video/
http://singularityhub.com/2009/11/13/the-brain-according-to-henry-markram-video/


Henry Markram's model of a brain is built one neuron at a time

10 Year Documentary To Follow Bluebrain Project (Video) Singularity Hub Feb. 12, 2010

Posted by Andy on our php board:
Submission of new Weather At Home batch covering Europe over the 1970s, 1980s and 1990s
We have just submitted a new batch of Weather At Home workunits. These new workunits form part of the Weather at Home project and are a perturbed physics ensemble of historical (1970s-1990s) climate. We are investigating modelling uncertainty by perturbing important model parameters. The aim is to quantify how these perturbations effect simulated weather in Europe between 1970 and 2000. Once again many thanks for running these models!

Les Bayliss
Forum moderator
ClimatePrediction.Net (AKA CPDN)

Dear all,

We are happy to announce that this week the project Test4Theory will be present in the 2nd Citizen Cyberscience Summit in London.
Dr. Ben Segal will be presenting the project and the status in a panel session about volunteer computing this Friday afternoon (check the details of the program!)
And on Saturday there will be a hackday around citizen cyberscience, with one special challenge for LHC@Home. As many of you know, we have created a study group in the P2P University, and we will be inviting people from the summit to join us to create some courses/challenges for this study group.
The first courses/challenges could be about how a person can join a BOINC project, with special focus for LHC@Home (Sixtrack and Test4Theory), the requirements, how you can check the results, etc. If you are in London and want to participate, just register (there are only 36 tickets left!) and join us to create some courses/challenges for LHC@Home study group.

Best regards,
The team!

Dear valued cosmology@home Members,

The server problems that we have been encountering recently have clearly revealed the degree to which we are in need for a capable system administrator here at C@H. As Professor Wandelt has mentioned in a different post, Scott Kruger has accepted a different position, and he is no longer the system administrator for C@H. Finding someone as competent as Scott has not been easy, and besides his other responsibilities, Professor Wandelt has been dealing with the technical problems of the website himself with occasional technical support from the computing personal here at the University.

To overcome this problem, we have shifted looking for a system administrator to the TOP of our priorities here at C@H. We will PROACTIVELY search for a qualified individual who will be responsible for the daily running of the website. We will WIDELY publicise the position here at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and do every thing we could to recruit someone AS SOON AS POSSIBLE. We will look wider than we have looked so far, using whatever resources we could get our hands on.

As you might have already read in this post, I was recruited by Professor Wandelt "to connect with our users and participants, to bring new content to the website that is useful for the user community and generally to create a much tighter connection between the citizen scientists and the scientist citizens of Cosmology@Home". I hope that the work I have contributed here has contributed to fulfilling this goal in some way. I am certainly open for suggestions and feedback. Please do not hesitate to communicate with me if you have any ideas, questions, or concerns.

We understand your frustration, and we sincerely appreciate your patience. I look forward to coming back with exciting news for all of us soon.

Sincerely,
Faik
Member of the cosmology@home Team!

New Virtual Machine released

Dear all,

We are very happy to announce that we have released today a new virtual machine (cernvm_2.5.1-3-1). This new version has several improvements at the low level that will help to improve the number of returned successful jobs. You will get the new virtual machine when all the jobs with the previous VM version have been processed.

Best regards,
The team.

Web application not working

Dear all,

During this week you are going to experience some minor problems with the web application, as we are deploying it in your VMs. While the deployment is done, you will get the warning message from the web application, saying that your browser does not support HTML5 and Javascript, but giving you access to the figures and logs via two links. This warning message will be removed, once we have finally done the deployment. Sorry for the inconveniences.

Best regards,
The team.

UPDATE:
The new web application has been deployed in our servers. In one hour you should be able to reboot the VM if you want to see the new application or wait until your WU finishes. The next WU will have the updated code.

Posted by Andy on our php board:

Submission of new Weather At Home batch (HadAM3P_EU workunits)

We have just submitted a new batch of Weather At Home workunits. These new workunits form part of the Weather at Home project and are a perturbed physics ensemble of historical (1960-present) climate. The workunits are for the European region. We are investigating modelling uncertainty by perturbing 12 important model parameters. The aim is to quantify how these perturbations effect simulated weather in Europe. Again many thanks for running these models!

Les Bayliss Forum moderator

Dear all,

Today you can test a new feature that we are developing for the web application: an HTML5 video-tutorial that interacts actively with your web application user interface.
For this development, we are using pure HTML5 + CSS3 + Javascript. The video tutorial uses the latest and open source code for video encoding from Google: Webm, so only modern web browsers like Mozilla Firefox or Google Chrome will be able to play it (these browsers are free and open source!).
The result, well, I think it is better if you try it by yourself. Go to
http://www.citizencyberscience.net/t4t-webapp-help/
and leave a comment here if you like it or not ;) We would love your feedback!.

Enjoy!!!

Just posted by Andy on our php board:

Submission of new Weather At Home batch (HadAM3P_PNW workunits)

We have just submitted a new batch of Weather At Home workunits. These new workunits form part of the Weather at Home project and are a perturbed physics ensemble of historical (1999-present) climate. The workunits are for the Western US region and are identical to those released for the EU region at the beginning of January 2012. We are investigating modelling uncertainty by perturbing 12 important model parameters. The aim is to quantify how these perturbations effect simulated weather in the Western US. Many thanks for running these models!

Les Bayliss Forum moderator

Dear all,

Due to all the last problems that we are having with the latest wrapper, we decided to follow your advise and give you the opportunity to choose if you want to run or not multi-core work units.
Right now the multi-core feature is disabled for everyone, so your next work unit will have only one core. If you want to run two core WUs, and you have enabled in your BIOS the virtualization extensions, go to the project preferences, and change the answer to this question from yes to no: Use only one single core?
If you were having problems with the multi-core feature this should fix your problems, as by default now you have to ask the project to give you jobs for two cores. This will help all the users with a multi-core processor but without the VT extensions or those with VT extensions but disabled in the BIOS.
As usual, let us know if this is failing for you.

Best regards,
Daniel Lombraña González
Project scientist

Dear all,

We have been working pretty hard to give you an interesting tool to see what is going on in your virtual machine. Nowadays everything is web based and with the introduction of HTML5, new exciting and high end applications are blooming every day.
In T4T we love these technologies as they are open source and widely spread in modern, free and open source web browsers like Mozilla Firefox or Google Chrome.
For these reasons, we have created a web application that will be installed in the virtual machine BOINC_VM and that will allow you to see the progress of the experiments from the comfort of your web browser.
We have a demo and live site where you can see the web application, and play with it. As you will see the web application will give you direct access to the simulations, and also some information about your BOINC credit and stats. You will have access also to all the LOGs, so sharing feedback about bugs in Co-Pilot, the experiments, etc. it will be easier than ever: you will be able to copy and paste text directly from the VM, no more screenshots!
The application is open source, so feel free to download it, modify it, etc. and give us feedback in the issues repository or this thread.
We hope you like it, as we are really very happy with it.

Best Regards,
The team!

PS: next week you will see this in your next work unit, so stay tuned!!

The first birthday of the Mersenne@home.
Mersenne@home project will be celebrating its first birthday.
On this occasion, a short team race was organized.
I strongly encourage all teams to participate in it :)
You can now noticed shortage of tasks for the Tdt application.
This is a temporary state, due to preparations to the race.
New Tdt applications brought a significant increase in performance and,
therefore, the scoring for these tasks will be corrected

Sebastian M. Bobrecki
Project scientist

Evaluating and stimulating learning and creativity in projects like T4T

Hi!

I'd like your feedback on the following idea.

With colleagues at the Citizen Cyberscience Centre, we are preparing a proposal for an EC project to evaluate and stimulate learning and creativity in citizen cyberscience projects.

Basically, volunteers like you do a lot of great work in projects like T4T. Sometimes what you do is very creative. And by participating, some of you also learn new skills.

So the idea is to find ways to measure and validate your creative contributions and your learning, and improve the software that allows you to do that. For example, this could be by introducing transferable badges or other forms of 'education credit' that could be used more widely – maybe even transferred to University credits or used in CVs in some cases.

What do you think of that idea?

Just so you know, we'd like to include any useful feedback in the proposal, to illustrate that volunteers actually care about this sort of issue and have good ideas and suggestions about how to handle it.

Thanks in advance!

Daniel Lombraña González
Project scientist

3 Jan 2012 | 13:26:28 UTC

Comment

You'll have to tell your file manager to show hidden files.

Imagine the historic moment when the first Earth-like planet -- Kepler-22b: A ‘Super-Earth’ in the Habitable Zone -- is detected deep across interstellar space. Like an inaccessible jewel it will beckon us. Is this a future home for humanity? What forms of life are already there? How do we get there? What happens when we arrive?

Based on today's technology, traveling to the stars is a long-term proposition. While existing space agencies grapple with sending astronauts beyond Earth orbit, and entrepreneurial firms bring the thrill of spaceflight to the people, no one has taken on the challenge of reaching other habitable worlds; until now.

The Tau Zero Foundation is a volunteer group of scientists, engineers, entrepreneurs, and writers who have agreed to work together toward practical interstellar flight and to use this quest to teach you about science, technology, and our place in the universe. By posting the latest developments and unfinished advancements here, we give students the starting materials to begin their own discoveries. By showing both how daunting and incredible this challenge is, we hope to increase attention on protecting the habitability of Earth while planning journeys into the galaxy. By reaching for the stars we will create benefits every step of the way.

Here is how you can help with this ambition. With enough support we can competitively award grants and scholarships. Help us create a future worth striving for, where humanity can survive and thrive into the heavens. Let's make this dream a reality together.

New versions of all applications:
New versions include some minor changes and tweaks and should bring some improvement to performance.
5 Dec 2011 | 15:25:50 UTC · Comment
Sebastian M. Bobrecki
Project scientist

Submission of new Weather At Home batch (HadAM3P_PNW and HadAM3P_SAF workunits)
We have just submitted a new batch/ensemble of Weather At Home workunits. These new workunits are for the Western US and Southern African regions. They are part of the ongoing 1959-present historical simulation we have been running for the last year. Specifically, these workunits focus on the period 2000-2010. They will allow us to test how well the model performs in relation to recent weather events. Thank you all in advance for running these models and contributing to this work.

abowery
Chief software developer

I started to to deploy a highly optimized versions of applications. For supported platforms, they brings a significant increase in performance.

If you see that there is available optimized application for your computer but for some reason you do not get it. Or worse, you get an application that is not compatible with your computer fill out a thread on the Bugs forum or send me a private message.

I also encourage you to share the results of the performance of these applications on the Number crunching forum.

Sebastian M. Bobrecki
Project scientist
28 Nov 2011 | 22:18:33 UTC
Comment

Free software activists have released a peer-to-peer search engine to take on Google, Yahoo, Bing and others.

The free, distributed search engine, YaCy, takes a new approach to search. Rather than using a central server, its search results come from a network of independent "peers," users who have downloaded the YaCy software. The aim is that no single entity gets to decide what gets listed, or in which order results appear.

"Most of what we do on the Internet involves search. It's the vital link between us and the information we're looking for. For such an essential function, we cannot rely on a few large companies and compromise our privacy in the process," said Michael Christen, YaCy's project leader.

The project is supported by the Free Software Foundation Europe (FSFE), which is concerned that dominant search engines have too much control and power over what information Internet users can find online. "That company will also know what you're currently interested in. The search terms used tell others a lot about what you're up to. Targeted advertising is only the most benign use of this data," explained Karsten Gerloff, FSFE president.

"We are moving away from the idea that services need to be centrally controlled. Instead, we are realizing how important it is to be independent, and to create infrastructure that doesn't have a single point of failure," added Gerloff.

The YaCy network currently has around 600 'peers', but project organizers expect this to grow along the lines of other free software projects that aim to replace centrally-run services. For example, identi.ca (status.net) offers a free software alternative to Twitter; diaspora (joindiaspora.com) and many others provide a free, distributed alternative to Facebook.

As is often the case in the early stages of a new technology, results are better on some topics than on others -- mainly computer-related issues.

The YaCy peers create individual search indexes and rankings, so that results better match what users are looking for over time. Each instance of the software contains a peer-to-peer network protocol to exchange search indexes with other YaCy search engines.

Everyone can try out the search engine at http://search.yacy.net/. Users can become part of YaCy's network by installing the software on their own computers. YaCy is free software, so anyone can use, study, share and improve it. It is currently available for GNU/Linux, Windows and MacOS. The project is also looking for developers and other contributors.

The IDG News Service is a Network World affiliate.

Dear all,

Write down the following date in your agenda: the 16th of December of 2011 at 12.00 noon (Geneva time) we will be hanging out with you using Google+ Hangouts.

Google+ Hangouts is a live video where 10 people can video-chat directly from their browsers. In this Google+ Hangout you will have the chance to meet some of the developers and researchers of the project in person and more importantly: to talk with them.

If you want to meet us, ask us questions about the future of the project, complain about why is failing so much (we are still in beta ;D ), etc. you will only need a Google+ account (they are free!) and visit Daniel Lombraña González profile page (he will be the host). Then the 16th of December you will see in your stream (if you have added him to your circles) or in Daniel's public profile that Daniel has started a hangout and that you can join it. Remember only the first 10 persons will be able to join (sorry, maximum capacity set by Google).

Regards,

Daniel Lombraña González
Project scientist

29 Nov 2011 | 15:15:24 UTC

Comment

I started to to deploy a highly optimized versions of applications. For supported platforms, they brings a significant increase in performance. Currently following classes are implemented:

• For Intel CPUs:
  
  
  
  • ppro - for PentiumPro
    
  • p2 - for Pentium II and Celeron based on Pentium II, working in 32 bit environment,
    
  • p3 - for Pentium III, Pentium M, Core, Core2, Core i7 and others based on them, working in 32 bit environment,
    
  • p4 - for Pentium 4 and others based on it, working in both the 32-bit and 64 bit environment,
    
  • core2 - for Core2 and others based on it, working in 64 bit environment,
    
  • corei - for Core i7 and others based on it, working in 64 bit environment.
    

  
  

• For AMD CPUs:
  
  
  • k7 - for Athlon, Duron, Athlon XP, Sempron, Athlon 64, Phenom, APU, based on the Bulldozer core and the others based on them, working in 32 bit environment
    
  • k8 - for Sempron, Athlon 64, Phenom, APU, based on the Bulldozer core and the others based on them, working in 64 bit environment.

  
  

If you see that there is available optimized application for your computer but for some reason you do not get it. Or worse, you get an applications that is not compatibility with your computer fill out a thread on the Bugs forum or send me a private message. I also encourage you to share the results of the performance of these applications on the Number crunching forum. 25 Nov 2011 | 12:38:21 UTC Comment

Server problems solved :)
It seems that most of server problems were solved. In the last days there were no signs of any dysfunction. Still remains a issue related to the "ghost tasks" but this should not be especially inconvenient. 24 Nov 2011 | 14:11:59 UTC · Comment

Quantum theorem shakes foundations:

The wavefunction is a real physical object after all, say researchers.

Mathematical device or physical fact?

The elusive nature of the quantum wavefunction may be pinned down at last

By: Eugenie Samuel Reich

The wavefunction of quantum mechanics is not simply a statistical tool that reflects our ignorance of the particles being measured, but is physically real, according to physicists at Imperial College London

Action at a distance occurs when pairs of quantum particles become entangled. The paper suggests that if a quantum wavefunction were purely a statistical tool, even quantum states that are unconnected across space and time would be able to communicate with each other. As that seems very unlikely, the researchers conclude that the wavefunction must be physically real after all.

Theoretical physicist Antony Valentini believes that this result may be the most important general theorem relating to the foundations of quantum mechanics since Bell’s theorem.

Robert Spekkens, a physicist at the Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics, says he expects the theorem to have broader consequences for physics, as have Bell’s and other fundamental theorems. No one foresaw in 1964 that Bell’s theorem would sow the seeds for quantum information theory and quantum cryptography — both of which rely on phenomena that aren’t possible in classical physics.

Upgrade BOINC client to version >= 6.12.34
In the last days we have upgraded the server to benefit from some of the new features related to virtual machines included in the BOINC server. The BOINC client has been also improved with new features for virtual machines and we want to test them (detection of VirtualBox, installation, etc.), for this reason we want you to upgrade to the latest stable version of the BOINC client. Meanwhile, we will add more WUs for the old BOINC clients, so you can keep working with the project. However, we will be moving forward gradually to the latest stable versions of BOINC as this will help everyone to have a more stable work flow, so if you can, upgrade your BOINC client. You should start getting WU for older BOINC clients right now. I have seen some of them already delivered to some users. In any case, please, upgrade your BOINC client as soon as possible.

Regards,

Daniel Lombraña González
Project scientist

the project will remain down for at least another 24 hours
until 17.00 GMT 15 Nov 2011
This is due to unforeseen conflicts between the network configuration of the new server room and the servers' setups.

Jonathan Miller
CPDN SysAdmin

We have finally reached a point where the system seems to be very stable (thanks to all the volunteers that have collaborated!), so we are opening up Test4Theory again: the invitation code is no longer necessary for joining the project.

Please, remember that this project is still in beta, and we may close the registration if we detect a problem due to a large influx of new volunteers.

Thanks for your understanding!

Daniel Lombraña González
Project scientist

We've recovered from the initial tsunami of volunteer support last month – thanks, everyone, for your enthusiasm and patience! So now Test4Theory is opening gradually to new volunteers using invitation codes.
If you want to test the project, please, sign up for an invite!
If the number of requests remains very high, we won't be able to accommodate everyone, so we'll be picking users randomly each week and sending them invitation codes – an invitation lottery. Thus, if you want to try the project and help debugging it. sign up and good luck!

Regards,

Daniel Lombraña González
Project scientist

Dear all,
We are very happy to announce a new release of the wrapper!
This new version has the following improvements:

• New logic for starting/stopping the VM (it should remove the double read registry problem).
  
• BOINC clients only receive a task if the user has VirtualBox installed, instead of crashing the WU.
  
• Due to this requirement, instead of trying to grab the VirtualBox installation path via Windows Registry, the wrapper checks if the default location: C:\Program Files\Oracle\VirtualBox, exists; else it will try to read the Windows Registry. This method should reduce Windows Registry problems.
  
• New GNU/Linux 64 bits wrapper client. Please, if you want to test it, stop your 32 bit BOINC client, and try the new one.
  

As usual, any comments, failures, suggestions will be welcome!

Regards,

Daniel Lombraña González
Project scientist

Dear all,

The server upgrade has been completed.

With the upgrade, we have included a new navigation bar, so it should be easier to browse the project.
If you think that something is missing, please, let us know!

Regards,

Daniel Lombraña González
Project scientist

by abowery » Chief software developer » Tue Oct 25, 2011 | 4:05 pm

Update to: Security incident

On 18 October 2011 we suffered a hacking attack on the servers of the CPDN project.

As a volunteer driven research project for studying climate change we were very dismayed such action caused to disrupt the project. This attack unfortunately forced us to take the project down whilst the issue was investigated, during this time we conducting a full security analysis, now we are satisfied of the results of the security analysis we have brought the project back online.

Unfortunately some data of our users had been compromised. We have contacted by email all those users that are affected by this, this represents less than 0.5% of participants. If you have not been emailed (to the email address associated with that CPDN account) then you won't be affect by this issue and you need take no action on this.

We can only send this email to the email addresses associated with the accounts concerned, some of these address may now be inactive so please check any old addresses that you may have used when registering with the CPDN project. There also a possibility that your spam filter may have withheld the email.

We offer our apologies for any inconvenience caused by this. This is an exciting time for the project in terms of science, and we deeply value all the continued contribution of participants.

abowery

Chief software developer

Upgrading the BOINC server

The 25th of October (7:00 am UTC) we will start to upgrade the BOINC server to the latest available version of BOINC.
The goal is to fix several errors of the server (i.e. credit cheating), as well as to benefit from new Virtual Machine features included in BOINC.
Therefore, since tomorrow morning 7:00 a.m. UTC the server will be in maintenance mode. Sorry for the inconveniences.

Regards,

Project scientist
Daniel Lombraña González

Google+1 and Twitter buttons for news!!
Dear all,
Since yesterday we have included the Google +1 Button and the Twitter buttons to promote Test4theory
in those social networks. Thus if you like one new, just click the button!

Regards,
The team!

Dear all,
We are very happy to announce that a new version of the wrapper has been released!!
The new version has several major improvements:

• Windows Registry access has been improved.
  
• Graceful error handling: several tries before canceling WU.
  
• CernVM Graphics application support. The graphics application has to be tested a bit more before releasing it.
  

In order to get the new version you can wait until your running WU finishes,
or you cancel it and get the new one if you do not mind the credits.
Please, as usual, let us know any problems with this new version in the forums.

Cheers,
Daniel

Daniel Lombraña González
Project scientist

• Increase Data Quantity: A factor of 2 to 3 increase in navigation and radio science data quantity by allowing coherent tracking to extend over the full view period of Earth stations.
  
  
• improve Data Quality: Up to 10 times more accurate navigation, gravity science, and occultation science at remote solar system bodies by using one-way radiometric links.
  
  
• Enabling New Missions: Shift towards a more flexible and extensible one-way radio navigation architecture enabling development of capable in-situ satellite navigation systems and autonomous deep space radio navigation.
  
  
• reduce Proposed Mission Costs: Reduce mission costs for using the Deep Space Network (DSN) through aperture sharing and one-way downlink only time.
  
  
• Benefits to GPS: Improve clock stability of the next GPS system by 100 times.
  
  

One example use for the DSAC is for a future mission that is a follow-up to the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO). A spacecraft equipped with the DSAC could avoid reliance on two-way communications using NASA’s Deep Space Network to perform orbital determination.

One of the benefits of avoiding said reliance on two-way communications would allow the mission to only require the DSN for one-way communication to transmit scientific data to Earth. Reducing the reliance on two-way communications would provide an additional benefit of cost savings.

In the previous example, the DSAC team estimates an $11 million dollar reduction in network operational costs, as well as a 100% increase in the amount of usable science and navigation data that could be received.

read more ...

http://www.nasa.gov/offices/oct/crosscutting_capability/tech_demo_missions.html
Source: NASA Technology Demonstration Mission Announcements

The permissions problem causing HADAM3P download errors should now have been fixed.
If anyone gets a new occurence of this problem then please report it in this thread.
Iain Inglis
Forum moderator

Some of the latest batch of hadam3p models have a problem with 'permissions' on one of the mirror servers.
This will cause 2 of the ancillary files to have a temporary download failure.
And it's the weekend at Oxford again.
Les Bayliss
Forum moderator

Dear all,

If you have the chance to visit the 2011 Frankfurt Book Fair of 2011 this weekend, you will have the opportunity to visit the CERN stand (with information about LHC@Home) and attend a press conference about the Large Hadron Collider from the Director-General of CERN.

Hey! if you take some photos, share them with us!!!

Cheers,
Daniel

Daniel Lombraña González
Project scientist

Graphics Application preview!!

Dear all,

We are very happy to show you the first working version of the graphics application
that will show the progress of the simulations in the virtual machine.

In this Youtube video the graphics application shows live histograms from the running experiments
within the virtual machine, so you can see the actual progress of the simulated events and how they look like.

We hope to have a stable version soon, so stay tuned!!

Regards,
Daniel Lombraña González
Project scientist

Comment: here

Can you post your Boinc startup messages please.

Claggy

Sorry, silly question, but what is my startup message?

New Virtual Machine released

Dear all,

We are very happy to announce a new version of the virtual machine: 2.4.0.

This new virtual machine comes with the new version of Co-Pilot plus some other enhancements that should improve the stability of the project.

In order to test the new virtual machine, you can cancel your running work unit or wait to its completion. Bear in mind that the queue had some work units with the old version, so you may not get the first time the new virtual machine.

Regards,

Daniel Lombraña González

Project scientist

Comment: here

Reset the virtual machines

Dear all,

We have released a new Co-Pilot that can be tested by rebooting/resetting the virtual machine. This new version should improve the action of requesting an output directory, solving some of the issues reported by you (thanks for your help!!).

You can also help us debugging the new code reporting any error or issue related to the output request folder action on this thread, after rebooting/resetting the VM.

Thanks in advance,

Daniel Lombraña González
Artem Harutyunyan

Project scientists

Comment: here

Server intervention Tue 6 Sept at 13:00 CET
The Boinc server hosting Test4Theory will be unavailable for a short time around 13:00 CET today due to a system update.
You should be able to reconnect again shortly after.
Sorry for the interruption caused by this intervention.

Best regards,

Nils
Nils Høimyr
Project administrator

Their message boards seem to have been wiped out so I can't ask there.

Peter

1) Universities: use BOINC to create a Virtual Campus Supercomputing Center
2) Scientists: use BOINC to create a volunteer computing project giving you the computing power of thousands of CPU's

Posts are starting to appear asking about the next lot of work, so this may be best answered as a news item.

At present there are only 2 groups of researchers, the RAPIT group, and the dual resolution (regional models) group.
The original models for both groups were created and sent out ages ago, and, as they get returned, the next step in the series is automatically created by an 'auto-regen' program.
Only those models that make it all the way to the end will be continued to the next stage. Those that become unstable and fail, and those that are abandoned or aborted won't go any further.

Occasionally, the researchers may ask for more new series to be created, if it looks like there won't be enough making it to form a good sample.

With only a few thousand models, and 35,000+ computers connected, you just need to be patient if you're after work.

Dear all,

Some of you can be running right now the cernvm wrapper 6.04. This version has a bug in it, so we have downgrade it to the previous version (which works well), renaming it to 6.05. Thus, if you are running a task with that version, please, cancel the WU and get the new wrapper.

The bug does not store correctly the data in the Progress File, causing to finish the WU in less than a second in Windows platforms (in GNU/Linux and Mac OS X works well). We are trying to fix this error, in order to give you the new wrapper as soon as possible.

Regards,

The team!

22 Aug 2011 10:52:48 UTC · Comment

We are working hard to understand and fix our job supply problem. We have made some code changes which will be automatically activated if you please REBOOT YOUR VM.

To do this, using the VirtualBoxVM Manager, select the tab "Machine" and do a Reset. This should be done with the BOINC T4T task running (not suspended) so the VM is running, not Saved or Powered Down.

Results may be slow to appear so please be patient once the reboot is done. "Resending 'want_getJob'.." messages may last for a while.

We will continue to give information as we have it. We are very sorry that the extremely fast ramp-up of users under Beta test has over-stressed our system for now.

We are working hard to understand and fix our job supply problem. We have made some code changes which will be automatically activated if you please REBOOT YOUR VM.

To do this, using the VirtualBoxVM Manager, select the tab "Machine" and do a Reset. This should be done with the BOINC T4T task running (not suspended) so the VM is running, not Saved or Powered Down.

Results may be slow to appear so please be patient once the reboot is done. "Resending 'want_getJob'.." messages may last for a while.

We will continue to give information as we have it. We are very sorry that the extremely fast ramp-up of users under Beta test has over-stressed our system for now.

• The Russian Hubble?
  
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• New Evidence for Flowing Water on Mars
  
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• Astronomy Without A Telescope – A Photon’s Point Of View
  
• Recent Active Sun Prompts Stunning Auroras Over England
  

Dear all,

We are very happy to announce a new version of the wrapper. This new version has two new improvements:

• A Windows performance improvement, and
  
• A Separate preference for setting how much CPU should use the VM.
  

The first item fixes a performance issue reported by several volunteers in the Windows platform, and the second one, adds a new preference to the project.

We have included a specific project preference to set up how much CPU time will be used by the VM. This will allow you to choose how much CPU the VM should use in your computer without affecting at all your other BOINC projects (this was the previous behavior).

In order to change this preference, go to your account, and change the Preferences for the project. The item is called: Maximum CPU % for Virtual Machine below Maximum CPU % for graphics.

After changing the value, you have to update the project, and restart BOINC.

As usual any comments, suggestions, bug reports, etc. will be welcome!!

Regards,

The Team

Daniel Lombraña González
Project scientist

I've just finished uploading the last file (zip13), for an eu model,
so the DNS redirect is working.

Les Bayliss
Forum Admin and moderator
ClimatePrediction.Net - (AKA CPDN)

Les Bayliss wrote:
Change the 4 characters in the string uploader.oerc.ox.ac.uk from oerc to oucs

Thyme Lawn wrote:
A DNS redirection is now in place and the final upload for HadAM3P regional models
(the *_13.zip file) should now work without this change.
If you continue to have problems uploading the final upload file please let us know.

Thyme Lawn
Forum Admin and moderator
ClimatePrediction.Net - (AKA CPDN)

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• MeteorWatch is Coming! Look for Perseids With the Rest of the World
  
• Activity Heating Up on the Sun!
  
• Atlantis Final Crew and NASA thank Shuttle Workforce with space flown Tribute Banner
  

The recent 2 batches of regional models, (pnw and then eu), have a problem with trying to return the final file, zip13.
This is the restart file, and is intended to go to climateapps1.oucs. This is one of the servers that was moved from the oerc department to the oucs department. Redirects were put in place for the present, but the one to climateaps1 isn't working.

This is resulting in HTTP errors when attempting to upload zip13 files.

To fix this, an edit of client_state.xml is necessary.
========================

Suspend BOINC in the manager, and then exit from both the manager and the client parts.
With a plain text editor, e.g. Notepad, open client_state.xml.
Locate the uploader section of the pnw/eu model.
Keep "locating" until you reach the one for zip13.

It's in the <file_info> section for each model, just after <upload_when_present/>.

DON'T touch the second one! - It's in a signed (security) section!

Change the 4 characters in the string uploader.oerc.ox.ac.uk from oerc to oucs

Do this for all pnw/eu models THAT ARE RUNNING.

Save the file
Restart BOINC.
The files should now upload. (Been there, done that, as they say. )
========================

Don't bother with pnw models that haven't started yet. They have another problem, and should be aborted. (They're going to be regenerated.)
(The project may use a Killer trickle on these unstarted models.)

Also abort them if they've been started, but you haven't applied the fpops fix to them.

This is getting complicated, so feel free to post. The big problem is the people who don't read either of the boards.

Les Bayliss
Forum Admin and moderator
ClimatePrediction.Net (AKA CPDN)

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• Chasing Rockets, Chasing History: One Journalist’s Video Reflections
  
• New Impact Rate Count Lays Nemesis Theory to Rest
  

• Metamaterial allows for switching light like electronic ircuits
  
• Simple new method of writing magnetic data
  
• Progress hits snag: tiny chips use outsize power
  
• New IEEE standard allows for broadband wireless access 100 km from a transmitter
  
• Are you ready for a robot that learns on the Internet?]
  
• 3-D printing and the replicator economy
  
• Conjuring music, sans instruments
  
• Foxconn to replace workers with one million robots in three years
  
• New high-speed 3-D imaging system holds potential for improved cancer screening
  

• Scientists build battery in a nanowire
  
• Solar cells get a boost from bouncing light
  
• Graphene used to increase storage density and speed of electronic memory devices
  
• Exploring space with chip-sized satellites
  
• Sun-free photovoltaics powered by heat
  
• ‘It’s Alive! It’s Alive!’ Maybe right here on Earth
  
• Researchers develop mouse with ‘off switch’ in serotonin-producing brain cells
  
• How to make solar power available 24/7
  
• GE pushes ahead with 500GB holographic disc storage
  
• 2011 State of the Future
  

• Scientists build battery in a nanowire
  
• Solar cells get a boost from bouncing light
  
• Graphene used to increase storage density and speed of electronic memory devices
  
• Exploring space with chip-sized satellites
  
• Sun-free photovoltaics powered by heat
  
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Everyone ... please feel to post a comment in this thread ... or rant and rave ... or what ever :) - nothing is off the topic ... the more the merry ;)

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I don't see that message or option any where ???

The project server is online and running, having been rehoused in a new datacentre. There are a number of issues relating to trickles and credit allocation, but CPDN staff are looking at these as I write. If you are experiencing any problems with the CPDN project please do let us know by posting on the user support boards.

Jonathan Miller
CPDN SysAdmin
ClimatePrediction.Net - (AKA CPDN)

The BOINC server IP seems to have changed, if you still experience problems connecting to the scheduler, you might need to restart your BOINC client.
Allem Anschein nach hat sich die IP des BOINC-Servers geaendert, wenn weiterhin Probleme beim Schedulerkontakt auftreten, muesst Ihr evtl. Euren BOINC-Client einmal durchstarten.

edit :

This fixes only the "Couldn't connect to server" error, server side errors cannot be fixed that easily.
Das behebt nur den Fehler "Couldn't connect to server", Fehler auf Serverseite kann man leider nicht so leicht beheben.

Hi,

We think that the project is up and running again (with the exception of some credit processing scripts). The problems started with a failure of the hard drive of the main project server. Part way through the repair, the University's Computing Services department decided to enact a policy that meant that CPDN staff were excluded from the machine room in which the server was located. For the previous 7 years CPDN staff have been granted access to the machine room without comment or concern. No explanation has been given by Computing Services for their actions.

I was forced to complete the repair without physical access to the machine, which meant that the repair took hours longer than was required. The server was brought online on the Friday evening.

Unfortunately, after a period of excessive load, the server became unresponsive again on Wednesday evening. Computing Services were unwilling to allow CPDN staff access to the machine, meaning that non-CPDN staff would have been required to repair the server.

It was decided to remove the server from the machine room at Computing Services to rehome her in a server room to which CPDN staff do have access. This move required the reconfiguration of a number of CPDN servers, and because of another hitherto unannounced policy of Computing Services, a change of DNS name for the server.

After formal representations by CPDN managers Computing Services agreed to allow the use of the old DNS name for six months to allow a period of transition. With this agreement in place Computing Services allowed access to the main project server through the University Firewall, granting volunteers access via the web.

I apologise for the delay in returning the project to operational status, and I regret that it may seem that no-one is bothered about the project status. However, CPDN staff do care very strongly about the project, but we sometimes have to deal with bureaucracy that has no clear purpose, but has a detrimental effect on the service we can provide.

CPDN staff and managers are committed to bringing this project back to rude health, and have plans in place that should mean that the service is robust and resilient.

CPDN has come a long way in the years that it has been running, though its budget has always been small. This is thanks entirely to the effort put in by you, the volunteers, without whom the project simply would not exist.

Please bear with us, things are getting better.

Jonathan Miller
CPDN SysAdmin
ClimatePrediction.Net - (AKA CPDN)

Inspired by SeisMac, a program that effectively turns Macintosh computers into seismographs, and BOINC open-source software that allows individuals to remotely donate their computers’ unused processing power to researchers, QCN attaches sensors to personal computers to create a low-cost yet dense seismic network.

We have moved climateapps2.oucs to a new home in a server room to which CPDN staff do actually have access.Over the coming weeks and months we will be carrying out similar transfers of other project servers, and will try to do this with prior notice and a minimum of disruption.In the mean time, climateapps2.oucs should be back on line as soon as the DNS propagation of her new IP address has taken place, this could be up to 24 hours for some participants.

Jonathan Miller
CPDN SysAdmin
ClimatePrediction.Net - (AKA CPDN)

climateapps2.oucs appears to have suffered a serious injury, and is not responding to messages from Jonathan. Unfortunately, it lives in a foreign country, and Jonathan hasn't been able to obtain a visa to visit it, so there's no information on what is wrong, or when it might be OK again.

Les Bayliss
Forum Admin and moderator
ClimatePrediction.Net - (AKA CPDN)

Climateapps2 has been (mostly) restored, with an upgrade to both the OS and the BOINC server software. It was complicated by the server being located in a room of a different department, and needing the IT person from there to do the work.
Hopefully things will be more stable for a while. :)

Les Bayliss
Forum moderator
ClimatePrediction.Net - (AKA CPDN)

We have brought the BOINC server climateapps2.oucs back online this afternoon 15 July 2011 at approximately 16.00 BST
We think she is working correctly, but if you experience problems please check the boards for information from project staff and moderators.
Jonathan Miller
CPDN SysAdmin

BOINC This screensaver takes idle cycles on your PC and uses them to perform processing for a variety of scientific projects. You'll be able to choose and switch among numerous projects, including efforts to control malaria, search for extraterrestrial life, and help with medical research.

SANTA CLARA, Calif. and HAMBURG, Germany, June 20, 2011 – At the International Supercomputing Conference (ISC), Kirk Skaugen, Intel Corporation vice president and general manager of the Data Center Group, outlined the company’s vision to achieve ExaFLOP/s performance by the end of this decade. An ExaFLOP/s is quintillion computer operations per second, hundreds times more than today’s fastest supercomputers.


Reaching exascale levels of performance in the future will not only require the combined efforts of industry and governments, but also approaches being pioneered by the Intel® Many Integrated Core (Intel® MIC1) Architecture, according to Skaugen. Managing the explosive growth in the amount of data shared across the Internet, finding solutions to climate change, managing the growing costs of accessing resources such as oil and gas, and a multitude of other challenges require increased amounts of computing resources that only increasingly high-performing supercomputers can address.

Mac users on CPDN Main and Beta Projects

We have evidence from a number of users that all CPDN applications can start failing immediately after an upgrade to BOINC 6.12.26. This appears to be related to a permissions change which makes it impossible for the controller process to launch the worker. Resetting the project (or detaching and reattaching) should fix the problem.

See here for further details.

Thyme Lawn
Forum moderator

A new batch of regional models were created over the weekend, all of them regens from previously completed work, so they should be OK.
Les Bayliss
Forum moderator

The recently released regional models were of two types:

Some new ones, which are failing for reasons as yet unknown, and
Some auto-regen models, which are apparently running OK. This is confirmed by a few reports.

Les Bayliss
Forum moderator

Lots of regional models (EU at present), now available, with more to come.
Thyme Lawn
Forum moderator

After a number of false starts with faulty greenhouse gas (GHG) forcing parameters the second phase of the RAPIT project has now started in earnest.
HadCM3N tasks have names in the format hadcm3n_{umid}_{start year}_40_* (where 40 is the number of model years the task runs for).
{umid} is a 4 character universal model identity, with the first character being the main indicator of the type of model being run as follows:

• 'o', 'p' and 'q' are control models with no GHG forcing. These should continue through the resubmission processes at 1940 and 1980 (and beyond if the scientists decide that's required) with no problems.
  
  
• at the first resubmission (hadcm3n_{umid}_1940_40_*) each successful control should, in addition, spawn a new series with a range of GHG forcing parameters. This has been the problem area, with the {umid} first character set as follows:
  

'r' - a large batch of workunits which all fail at the end of the first model year before a trickle is generated. Most of these have been completed but if you have a task with the name format hadcm3n_rXXX_1940_40_ it should be aborted.

's' - another large batch, this time failing at the end of the 10th model year, just before the trickle and upload file are generated. If you have a task with the name format hadcm3n_sXXX_1940_40_ it should be aborted. The workunits for these tasks have been cancelled on the server to prevent reissues.

'b' to 'i' - small test batches which will fail at the end of the first or 10th model year. These should be aborted.

'j' - a small test batch with GHG forcing brought forward from 1950 to 1941. These tasks should complete as long as the climate doesn't go wild.

'k' - a small stress test batch with highly variable GHG forcing. These tasks should also complete as long as the climate doesn't go wild.

't' - this is the large batch of work currently being generated. Tasks with the name format hadcm3n_tXXX_1940_40_ should complete as long as the climate doesn't go wild.

A small number of hadcm3n_tXXX_1980_40_ workunits have been generated from 'o' series tasks which have already completed the second phase. This shouldn't have happened (the _tXXX_1980_ batch should be a continuation of the _tXXX_1940_ batch). These have been cancelled on the server to prevent reissues and should be aborted.

NOTE: tasks with the name format hadcm3n_tXXX_1980_40_ will start appearing again in 2 or 3 weeks and will be from genuine resubmission workunits. These should not be aborted.

Thyme Lawn
Forum moderator

After a number of false starts with faulty greenhouse gas (GHG) forcing parameters the second phase of the RAPIT project has now started in earnest.
HadCM3N tasks have names in the format hadcm3n_{umid}_{start year}_40_* (where 40 is the number of model years the task runs for).
{umid} is a 4 character universal model identity, with the first character being the main indicator of the type of model being run as follows:

• 'o', 'p' and 'q' are control models with no GHG forcing. These should continue through the resubmission processes at 1940 and 1980 (and beyond if the scientists decide that's required) with no problems.
  
  
• at the first resubmission (hadcm3n_{umid}_1940_40_*) each successful control should, in addition, spawn a new series with a range of GHG forcing parameters. This has been the problem area, with the {umid} first character set as follows:
  

'r' - a large batch of workunits which all fail at the end of the first model year before a trickle is generated. Most of these have been completed but if you have a task with the name format hadcm3n_rXXX_1940_40_ it should be aborted.

's' - another large batch, this time failing at the end of the 10th model year, just before the trickle and upload file are generated. If you have a task with the name format hadcm3n_sXXX_1940_40_ it should be aborted. The workunits for these tasks have been cancelled on the server to prevent reissues.

'b' to 'i' - small test batches which will fail at the end of the first or 10th model year. These should be aborted.

'j' - a small test batch with GHG forcing brought forward from 1950 to 1941. These tasks should complete as long as the climate doesn't go wild.

'k' - a small stress test batch with highly variable GHG forcing. These tasks should also complete as long as the climate doesn't go wild.

't' - this is the large batch of work currently being generated. Tasks with the name format hadcm3n_tXXX_1940_40_ should complete as long as the climate doesn't go wild.

A small number of hadcm3n_tXXX_1980_40_ workunits have been generated from 'o' series tasks which have already completed the second phase. This shouldn't have happened (the _tXXX_1980_ batch should be a continuation of the _tXXX_1940_ batch). These have been cancelled on the server to prevent reissues and should be aborted.

NOTE: tasks with the name format hadcm3n_tXXX_1980_40_ will start appearing again in 2 or 3 weeks and will be from genuine resubmission workunits. These should not be aborted.

Thyme Lawn
Forum moderator

To make it a bit more "official", I'm re-posting part of one of my posts from another thread:

It must also be kept in mind what was probably posted a long time ago now - There were only about 3,000 models issued for the spinup part of the hadcm3n series. And each subsequent batch will be the next phase, automatically generated from those in the first batch that completed.
Some of them will have been aborted, some abandoned, and some will still be running on computers with low resources for this project.
So the number issued for the 2nd batch will be less than 3,000. And the project's front page says that there are currently 34,812 active computers. Down a fair bit from the 40,000+ of a few weeks ago, but still a less than 1 in 10 chance of getting a hadcm3n.

There'll be a better chance when the next lot of regional models get released, but that won't happen until after the ongoing problems with the RAPIT lot is sorted out.

Basically, there's little to no work from this project at the moment.


Les Bayliss
Forum moderator

The next phase of the RAPIT/RAPID models are now being auto-generated from the completed models from the first phase.

Note 1: They're being grabbed as soon as they appear, and the one hour back off still applies to prevent a few computers from hogging all of the work.
Note 2: Attempts to use the Update button to speed things up will have the opposite effect - the timer will be reset to 1 hour (+/-), and you'll be back to square one.

More of the Regional models will be available Real Soon Now, for people who prefer shorter models.

Les Bayliss
Forum moderator