Recent items from the news feeds of various BOINC projects.

[SRBase] upcoming S79 batch change

To get done the last CRUS goal for S79 in 2023 we will also change the deadline to 12h in the next batch. Keep in mind this is only an exception. Standard deadline will be 3d.

View article · Mon, 4 Dec 2023 20:04:08 +0000

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[Milkyway@home] Commenting on Recent Issues with the server

Hello everyone,

I wanted to apologize for the recent server issues. The migration brought unforeseen challenges, particularly with DNS changes. As a newcomer to server management and BOINC projects, I've been on a steep learning curve to transition this project to a new server.

As mentioned in a previous post, and reiterated here, we have set up a temporary DNS entry for milkyway-new that now points to the server. The changes will take some time to become effective (I don't have a specific timeline, but I'm closely monitoring the process). This update will allow for downloading older work units linked to milkyway-new and uploading completed ones.

I'm immensely grateful to all the volunteers who have suggested fixes and assisted others with client-side issues. Your contributions have significantly accelerated problem-solving during this server migration. I can't thank you enough for your support.

To those who have voiced frustrations, I apologize for any shortcomings in my expertise. I recognize the value of the computing time you generously volunteer and understand your desire for acknowledgment of your contributions. I encourage you to continue sharing your concerns, as long as they are respectful. Destructive or derogatory comments don't contribute constructively to our project. We aim to foster a positive environment at MilkyWay@home for everyone passionate about science and distributed computing, free from unnecessary negativity.

One common concern has been the need for better communication. Despite my efforts to preemptively share updates, it appears more is needed. I would like to improve in this area. I'm considering regular updates (weekly, bi-weekly, or monthly) and would appreciate your thoughts on this. Please share your ideas in the comments on how I could improve communication.

On a related note, we are excited to announce that we're currently developing a new version of the n-body code. This upgrade will allow for the fitting of additional parameters, such as orbit parameters, along with other minor improvements. We anticipate implementing these changes in the coming weeks.
Additionally, we are making plans to reintroduce support for Mac users. More details will be provided as soon as we have further information.

Once again, I apologize for the recent issues with MilkyWay@home and am very thankful for your patience.

Best regards,
Kevin

View article · Wed, 29 Nov 2023 22:02:25 +0000

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[SRBase] base R380 Megaprime

mikey, a member of the team The Final Front Ear found a megaprime for base R380.
The prime 38*380^495986-1 has 1.279.539 digits and entered the TOP5000 in Chris Caldwell's The Largest Known Primes Database.

View article · Wed, 29 Nov 2023 18:30:18 +0000

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[Einstein@home] A new Fermi Gamma Ray Pulsar Catalog has just been published!

The latest catalog of gamma-ray pulsars discovered in data from NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope has just been published in the Astrophysical Journal (the article is linked here).

Einstein@Home and its methods (run on a dedicated computing cluster) have contributed 53 of the 294 confirmed pulsars listed in the catalog.  Even more impressive: about half of all pulsars ever discovered via their gamma-ray pulsations have been found by our project.

read more

View article · Tue, 28 Nov 2023 09:59:05 +0000

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[World Community Grid] Research update from the MCM team (November 2023)

We continue our work on characterizing lung cancer biomarkers identified in the MCM1 project. This update focuses on IL13RA1, a gene associated with lung cancer survival and differentially expressed across multiple cancer types compared to normal tissues.

View article · Mon, 27 Nov 2023 20:37:12 +0000

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[RakeSearch] Processing of the square # 28 completed

Dear participants, processing of the square # 28 is fully completed! The square:

0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 A B
1 2 0 4 5 3 8 6 7 B 9 A
3 4 5 0 1 2 9 A B 6 7 8
6 8 7 9 B A 1 0 2 4 3 5
A 9 B 7 6 8 3 5 4 0 2 1
7 6 8 A 9 B 0 2 1 3 5 4
9 B A 6 8 7 4 3 5 1 0 2
8 7 6 B A 9 2 1 0 5 4 3
B A 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 0
2 0 1 5 3 4 7 8 6 A B 9
5 3 4 2 0 1 A B 9 7 8 6
4 5 3 1 2 0 B 9 A 8 6 7

has 663736524 orthogonal mates which puts it on the 17th place of the rating which include now 5511 positions.

Now "high part" of spectra of ODLS-12 looks like this (square # 28 marked by red):


Thank you for project attention, support and donation of CPU time!

View article · Wed, 22 Nov 2023 20:06:14 +0000

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[WEP-M+2] 12-digit factor of P2203 has now been found by the project...

...438884 times

View article · Sun, 19 Nov 2023 11:51:05 +0000

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[SRBase] upcoming S66 batch change

To get this 2023 CRUS goal in time there is a need to change the deadline in the next batch. Its planned to change the deadline from 3d to 0.5d for faster returns

View article · Wed, 15 Nov 2023 12:19:21 +0000

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[SRBase] testing latest PRST source

This test is only for users with

https://srbase.my-firewall.org/sr5/download/PRST-11-test.zip

It is a recompiled unchanged srbase version with latest code changes and gwnum30.19 for testing the listed CPUs.

Run locally outside BOINC with



Affected known CPUs

GenuineIntel Intel(R) Celeron(R) J4125 CPU @ 2.00GHz [Family 6 Model 122 Stepping 8]
GenuineIntel Intel(R) Celeron(R) CPU N3150 @ 1.60GHz [Family 6 Model 76 Stepping 3]
GenuineIntel Intel(R) Pentium(R) Silver J5005 CPU @ 1.50GHz [Family 6 Model 122 Stepping 1]

If these CPUs are running now it will be the next updated version.

View article · Mon, 13 Nov 2023 14:21:50 +0000

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[SIDock@home] Changes in task scheduling and monitoring mechanism

Dear participants, at the start of current search we set deadline for "CMDock long tasks" to 14 days or 336 hours. But average time required to process an individual task is 40 hours. Also, we see, that many of uncompleted tasks which prevent completion of the set to which they belong, "produced" by computers that catch some tasks and didn't get in touch again. Due this, we plan:
1. To perform a gradual reduction of the deadline;
2. To implement a simple mechanism which finds computers that are lost in computing space (those who did not send requests to the server in last m days), and mark its tasks as lost. For example, m may be 10, 8, 6 or 5.

This should not interfere with computers actually participating in the calculations, but can be greatly enhance "results logistic".

View article · Mon, 6 Nov 2023 10:05:37 +0000

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[SRBase] base R30 2 Megaprimes

Doug, a member of the team Gridcoin found a megaprime for base R30.
The prime 4372*30^706773-1 has 1.043.994 digits and entered the TOP5000 in Chris Caldwell's The Largest Known Primes Database.

grcpool.com, a member of the team Gridcoin found a megaprime for base R30.
The prime 3719*30^956044-1 has 1.412.197 digits and entered the TOP5000 in Chris Caldwell's The Largest Known Primes Database.

In total 7k's are left for this base.

View article · Tue, 31 Oct 2023 16:05:56 +0000

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[SRBase] base R298 Megaprime

SuperCthulhu, a member of the team BOINC@AUSTRALIA found a megaprime for base R298.
The prime 105*298^461505-1 has 1.141.866 digits and entered the TOP5000 in Chris Caldwell's The Largest Known Primes Database.

View article · Tue, 31 Oct 2023 16:00:53 +0000

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[Einstein@home] New Zooniverse project “Pulsar Seekers”

Dear Einstein@Home volunteers,

we've just launched a new Zooniverse project called "Pulsar Seekers" to help classify radio pulsar candidates. Please, use your eyes and your intellect to help us to find new pulsars:

https://www.zooniverse.org/projects/rsengar/pulsar-seekers.

read more

View article · Tue, 31 Oct 2023 15:00:04 +0000

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[LODA] Upcoming Maintenance Period for LODA Project

Dear Contributors,
we would like to inform you about a longer maintenance period of the LODA project starting mid of November 2023, which will affect major parts of our project infrastructure. Program mining using BOINC and access to the web interface including the forum will not be possible during this time. The maintenance period is necessary to reorganize our project infrastructure and to develop new algorithms for program mining.

Thank you all for your contributions! We will post updates at loda-lang.org and major BOINC forums.

--
The LODA Team

View article · Tue, 31 Oct 2023 14:32:02 +0000

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[Milkyway@home] Migrating MilkyWay@home to a New Server

Hello everyone,

We are preparing to migrate MilkyWay@home to a new server on 1 November 2023 at 2 pm UTC. This new server has better hardware (specifically more memory), which we expect will improve the performance of the website and the rate at which you can get new workunits. We are forced to perform this migration at a fast pace due to RPI requiring that we update the server OS to ensure proper security.

We expect that this migration will take one day to complete. If it looks like the downtime will be longer than that, we will update you on our Facebook page. It is possible that the server might experience some unexpected behavior after this migration, but I will be closely monitoring the situation to resolve any issues as they may come up. In particular, I will be watching the message boards closely, and I will make a thread for people to report issues with the new server.

That being said, there were some issues with getting BOINC to recognize the binary up on the new server, so we had to increment the binary version from 1.82 to 1.83. I am not sure what this means for workunits that are awaiting validation after the switch, but I will do what I can to make sure everyone gets as much credit as possible for their work. Unfortunately, it is plausible that you may lose some credit due to the migration, which we apologize for.

I apologize for the short notice and thank you in advance for your patience as I try and make this switch as smooth as possible.

Thank you,
Kevin

View article · Tue, 31 Oct 2023 01:25:46 +0000

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[Milkyway@home] Migrating MilkyWay@home to a New Server

Hello everyone,

We are preparing to migrate MilkyWay@home to a new server on 1 November 2023 at 2 pm UTC. This new server has better hardware (specifically more memory), which we expect will improve the performance of the website and the rate at which you can get new workunits. We are forced to perform this migration at a fast pace due to RPI requiring that we update the server OS to ensure proper security.

We expect that this migration will take one day to complete. If it looks like the downtime will be longer than that, we will update you on our Facebook page. It is possible that the server might experience some unexpected behavior after this migration, but I will be closely monitoring the situation to resolve any issues as they may come up. In particular, I will be watching the message boards closely, and I will make a thread for people to report issues with the new server.

That being said, there were some issues with getting BOINC to recognize the binary up on the new server, so we had to increment the binary version from 1.82 to 1.83. I am not sure what this means for workunits that are awaiting validation after the switch, but I will do what I can to make sure everyone gets as much credit as possible for their work. Unfortunately, it is plausible that you may lose some credit due to the migration, which we apologize for.

I apologize for the short notice and thank you in advance for your patience as I try and make this switch as smooth as possible.

Thank you,
Kevin

View article · Tue, 31 Oct 2023 01:25:46 +0000

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[Gerasim@Home] Gerasim@home:

View article · Mon, 30 Oct 2023 21:19:36 +0000

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[World Community Grid] Research Update from the SCC Team (October 2023)

The Smash Childhood Cancer (SCC) team shared an update as they continue to validate results.

View article · Mon, 30 Oct 2023 19:28:25 +0000

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[WEP-M+2] P2203:260000000 wu's (of 10000 trials each equiv.) processed!

Thanks to all the users. Please keep crunching!

View article · Mon, 30 Oct 2023 09:17:46 +0000

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[Yoyo@home] P78 ECM factor!

User Moor found a 78-digit prime factor of an Cunningham number using ECM. This is the largest ECM factor found this year, and the 4th largest for all times (and the largest found by yoyo@home).

View article · Sun, 29 Oct 2023 23:00:00 +0000

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[SRBase] Formula BOINC 2023 27.10.2023 06:00 (UTC) - 30.10.2023 05:59 (UTC)

The project was choosen. Unfortunately nobody contacted me and nearly all work was sending out. Not a good communication.

View article · Sat, 28 Oct 2023 07:22:28 +0000

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[SRBase] Network / DNS issues

There are some connections issues / slowdowns on uploads / DNS. Local connections without the DNS is just fine. The cable provider need to fix this soon.

View article · Fri, 27 Oct 2023 08:49:04 +0000

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