Recent items from the news feeds of various BOINC projects.
Part 2 of the 1021 search will be finished, for the most part, today. There are still ~2000 unfinished WUs which can take up to a couple of weeks to complete, depending on individual participants processing them.
Part 3 of the search will look for amicable pairs where the smaller member of the pair has its largest prime factor between 1011 and 1014:
m=m1*p, 1011 < p < 1014
View article · Wed, 27 Mar 2024 10:24:42 +0000
BOINC is a finalist for an notable award, and needs your vote (*by Sunday)
The World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) (https://www.itu.int/net4/wsis/forum/2024) is a United Nations-sponsored initiative aimed at harnessing the potential of information and communication technologies to build inclusive and equitable information societies worldwide. BOINC has been nominated for a prize at the 2024 forum (https://www.itu.int/net4/wsis/stocktaking/Prizes/2024), and has passed initial hurdles; the next and last step ("Phase 3") requires public votes. The award would be a very nice boost and validation for BOINC and all our projects; if we can get our communities to vote, we should have a decent shot at this point...
Voting is pretty simple, takes just a few minutes; instructions are here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1x9Xi3tq7Y9dlDD0Xb0Ul0yYCXct5pDqIqssqARxvrXg/edit.
(*The deadline for votes is Sunday: 31 March 2024, 23:00 UTC+02:00)
View article · Tue, 26 Mar 2024 20:30:23 +0000
The World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) is a United Nations-sponsored initiative aimed at harnessing the potential of information and communication technologies to build inclusive and equitable information societies worldwide. BOINC has been nominated for a prize at the 2024 forum, and has passed initial hurdles; the next and last step ("Phase 3") requires public votes. The award would be a very nice boost and validation for BOINC and all our projects; if we can get our communities to vote, we should have a decent shot at this point...
Voting is pretty simple, takes just a few minutes; instructions are here.
(*The deadline for votes is Sunday: 31 March 2024, 23:00 UTC+02:00)
View article · Tue, 26 Mar 2024 15:49:23 +0000
View article · Tue, 26 Mar 2024 11:36:59 +0000
The Computation Moonshot, a competition encouraging high school students to learn about data science and distributed computing, began today.
View article · Mon, 25 Mar 2024 19:49:06 +0000
BOINC is a finalist for an notable award, and needs your vote (*by Sunday):
Context: The World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) is a United Nations-sponsored initiative aimed at harnessing the potential of information and communication technologies to build inclusive and equitable information societies worldwide. BOINC has been nominated for a prize at the 2024 forum, and has passed initial hurdles; the next and last step ("Phase 3") requires public votes. The award would be a very nice boost and validation for BOINC and all our projects; if we can get our communities to vote, we should have a decent shot at this point...
Voting is pretty simple, takes just a few minutes; instructions are here.
(*The deadline for votes is Sunday: 31 March 2024, 23:00 UTC+02:00)
View article · Mon, 25 Mar 2024 14:59:22 +0000
The sequence 21546 has terminated with the amicable pair 1184/1210. It is the smallest discovered terminated sequence since 2012 and the first terminated sequence below 10e5 since 2020. The largest term of this sequence reaches 153 digits which is a new record.
View article · Sun, 24 Mar 2024 07:12:35 +0000
View article · Sat, 23 Mar 2024 19:54:30 +0000
We have a planned network outage in the CAMK building scheduled for Saturday, March 23rd, 2024.
The outgage start on 7pm CET and finish on Monday, 25th, 8am.
View article · Fri, 22 Mar 2024 13:05:15 +0000
The challenge is running. Good luck everyone!
View article · Thu, 21 Mar 2024 13:35:07 +0000
Dear participants, processing of the square # 34 is fully completed! The square:
0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 A B
1 2 3 4 5 0 8 6 A B 9 7
5 0 1 2 3 4 7 B 6 A 8 9
7 6 8 A 9 B 1 0 2 4 3 5
6 8 A 9 B 7 2 1 3 5 4 0
B 7 6 8 A 9 0 5 1 3 2 4
8 A 9 B 7 6 3 2 4 0 5 1
9 B 7 6 8 A 5 4 0 2 1 3
A 9 B 7 6 8 4 3 5 1 0 2
2 3 4 5 0 1 A 8 9 7 B 6
4 5 0 1 2 3 B 9 7 8 6 A
3 4 5 0 1 2 9 A B 6 7 8
has 610170218 orthogonal mates which puts it on the 22th place of the rating which include now 5651 positions.
Now "high part" of spectra of ODLS-12 looks like this (square # 34 marked by red):
Thank you for project attention, support and donation of CPU time!
View article · Thu, 21 Mar 2024 07:22:07 +0000
View article · Thu, 21 Mar 2024 00:37:32 +0000
magic_sam, a member of the team Gridcoin found a megaprime for base R815.
The prime 8*815^559138-1 has 1.627.740 digits and entered the TOP5000 in Chris Caldwell's The Largest Known Primes Database. With this find it also has proven the base!
View article · Sat, 16 Mar 2024 22:07:17 +0000
From March 20th 03:14:00 UTC to March 25th 03:14:00 PrimeGrid will be running a 5 day challenge on the Extended Sierpinsky project (ESP). Note the unusual start and end times! For more information, please see this forum thread.
View article · Fri, 15 Mar 2024 21:54:57 +0000
We continue to characterise lung cancer biomarkers identified in the MCM1 project. This update focuses on HSD17B11, a gene associated with lung cancer survival. HSD17B11 is a protein coding gene, relatively ubiquitously expressed across organs and tissues. It is a short-chain alcohol dehydrogenase that metabolises secondary alcohols and ketones.
View article · Thu, 14 Mar 2024 20:03:19 +0000
Aliquot sequences 2772150 and 2771604 have terminated!!!
View article · Thu, 14 Mar 2024 17:20:46 +0000
Dear volunteers,
This weekend we have broken a new record for computing Teraflops (since we are in this new stage of the project). This is thanks to the pace of sending results that you have been doing in recent days and being more stable in the generation of work packages.
Although we were monitoring it, the coincidence of this peak with the database backup on the weekend has caused the hard drive to become saturated sooner than expected. We have been working since Monday on moving data out of the server and even other processes, but as we gained space it kept filling up with results that were pending upload.
This morning, for the first time in two days, more tasks have been validated than have been received and little by little normality will return. At first, it doesn't seem like anything has been lost and we are already submitting work again.
We have expanded the space to receive results and are working on automating some of the tasks to ensure we can continue to grow.
Thank you all very much, if we have this type of problems it is because of the great support you give us, we will continue working to grow by your side.
Sorry for not answering in the forums, and thank you very much for be aware of the evolution.
All the best,
Jesus.
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Estimados voluntarios:
Este fin de semana hemos batido un nuevo record de Teraflops de computación (desde que estamos en esta nueva etapa del proyecto). Esto es gracias al ritmo de envío de resultados que estáis haciendo en los últimos días y de estar más estables en la generación de paquetes de trabajo.
Aunque ibamos monitorizándolo, la coincidencia de este pico con la copia de seguridad de la base de datos en el fin de semana ha hecho que se saturara el disco duro antes de lo esperado. Hemos estado trabajando desde el lunes en mover datos fuera del servidor e incluso otros procesos, pero según ganábamos espacio se seguía llenando con los resultados que estaban pendientes de subir.
Esta mañana, por primera vez en dos días se han validado más tareas de las que se han recibido y poco a poco se irá retomando la normalidad. En principio, no parece que se haya perdido nada y ya estamos enviando trabajo de nuevo.
Hemos ampliado el espacio para recibir resultados y estamos trabajando en automatizar algunas de las tareas para garantizar que podemos seguir creciendo.
Muchas gracias a todos, si tenemos este tipo de problemas es por el gran apoyo que nos dais, seguiremos trabajando para crecer a vuestro lado.
Disculpad que no haya contestado en los foros, muchas gracias por estar tan pendientes de la evolución.
Un saludo,
Jesús.
View article · Wed, 13 Mar 2024 09:20:04 +0000
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View article · Wed, 6 Mar 2024 11:39:12 +0000
Dear participants, processing of the square # 33 is fully completed! The square:
0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 A B
1 2 0 4 9 7 8 A B 3 5 6
2 0 1 9 3 A B 5 6 4 7 8
5 7 A 6 8 1 4 2 9 B 0 3
7 A 5 8 B 2 9 0 3 6 1 4
6 8 B 5 7 4 1 9 2 A 3 0
4 9 3 1 2 8 7 B A 0 6 5
8 B 6 7 A 9 2 3 0 5 4 1
9 3 4 2 0 B A 6 5 1 8 7
A 5 7 B 6 0 3 1 4 8 2 9
B 6 8 A 5 3 0 4 1 7 9 2
3 4 9 0 1 6 5 8 7 2 B A
has 540911874 orthogonal mates which puts it on the 23th place of the rating which include now 5628 positions.
Now "high part" of spectra of ODLS-12 looks like this (square # 33 marked by red):
Thank you for project attention, support and donation of CPU time!
View article · Fri, 1 Mar 2024 21:19:56 +0000
Aliquot sequence 2930256 has terminated!!!
View article · Mon, 26 Feb 2024 17:30:04 +0000
Dear participants, processing of the square # 32 is fully completed! The square:
0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 A B
1 2 0 4 5 3 8 9 A B 6 7
2 0 1 5 3 4 A B 6 7 8 9
B 7 9 8 A 6 3 2 4 0 5 1
A 6 8 7 9 B 1 3 2 4 0 5
9 B 7 6 8 A 5 1 3 2 4 0
5 3 4 2 0 1 7 8 9 A B 6
4 5 3 1 2 0 B 6 7 8 9 A
3 4 5 0 1 2 9 A B 6 7 8
6 8 A 9 B 7 2 4 0 5 1 3
7 9 B A 6 8 4 0 5 1 3 2
8 A 6 B 7 9 0 5 1 3 2 4
has 618759046 orthogonal mates which puts it on the 20th place of the rating which include now 5608 positions.
Now "high part" of spectra of ODLS-12 looks like this (square # 32 marked by red):
Thank you for project attention, support and donation of CPU time!
View article · Sat, 24 Feb 2024 20:07:57 +0000
We are excited to announce a competition encouraging high school students to learn about data science and distributed computing using BOINC and World Community Grid.
View article · Thu, 22 Feb 2024 20:20:23 +0000
Effective immediately, PrimeGrid reserves the right to ban computers that exhibit problematic behavior. Please see this forum thread for more information.
View article · Thu, 22 Feb 2024 17:04:48 +0000
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