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2023-01-27: SRBase, Extreme Sports Winter X Games challenge (01/27/2023 01:00 (UTC) - 01/29/2023 01:00 (UTC)

BOINC Games has published the sprint project, SRBase was choosen, unfortunately no one got an info at the right time. Nevertheless we have enough work. Preparing more later.

2023-01-24: LHC@Home, Server upgrade

The LHC@home BOINC servers have been upgraded to the latest server release, 1.4.2.

2023-01-17: DENIS@Home, New simulations // Nuevas simulaciones

Dear volunteers:
As we had indicated in previous messages, we had to stop fitting the model because there was an experiment that we could not fit well. After analyzing our results, we believe that one of the limiting factors could be in the number of simulations we do to fit the behavior of the model in the experiment. Therefore, before continuing with the model fit, we are going to do a new test to study this in detail. We just put in new simulations to help us analyze this experiment to see if we can improve the model and its fit.

Thank you for your patience during this break. After analyzing the results of this experiment we hope to be able to resume the simulations.

Best,
Jes

2023-01-17: WEP-M+2 Project, 12-digit factor of P2203 has now been found by the project...

...395219 times

2023-01-10: GPUGRID, ACEMD updated app

As I said. We are currently compiling the Windows version.

GDF

2023-01-10: GPUGRID, ACEMD currently not working. An update is coming soon.

As I said. We are currently compiling the Windows version.

GDF

2023-01-08: yoyo@home, P67 found with ecm

Simone Bonzanini found a 67 digits prime factor for the Cuningham number 22222+1. This saves a lot of NFS effort. The found prime is the first for this years ECMNET record list of Paul Zimmermann.

2023-01-07: RNA World, Best wishes for 2023

We hope you all managed to celebrate a nice christmas season. Happy new year!

Wir hoffen, dass ihr alle ein sch

2023-01-03: BOINC, BOINC Workshop 2023 to be held March 1 and 8

The annual BOINC Workshop aims to stimulate new developments and activities related to volunteer computing, and to guide the future development of BOINC.

Date: March 1 and 8, for 3 hours each day
Time: 09:00 PST / 11:00 CST / 12:00 EST / 17:00 GMT / 18:00 CET / 19:00 EET
Where: Zoom (link available upon registration)
How: Please register here: https://www.boincworkshop.org/register

2023-01-01: NumberFields@home, 2022 Year End Summary

2022 was the year of ?(?-10) (subfield 7), as most of our time was spent on that search. Many new fields were found and we are now entering the final row of the search. In the next 3 to 6 months we should be at the point where we can say with almost certainty that it is complete.

The goals for 2023 are simple:
1. Get subfield 7 to the point where it is essentially complete.
2. Go back and officially complete subfield 3, so we can say with 100% certainty that it is done.
3. Do more on subfield 7 or move on to subfield 6 (the final search).

Thanks everyone for your contributions and have a wonderful New Year!

2023-01-01: iThena.Measurements, New Year 2023!

Best wishes for the New Year 2023!

May this new year 2023 be only better than the old year 2022!

Twitter: https://twitter.com/iThenaProject/status/1609629539449159681

2023-01-01: iThena.Computational, New Year 2023!

Best wishes for the New Year 2023!

May this new year 2023 be only better than the old year 2022!

Twitter: https://twitter.com/iThenaProject/status/1609629539449159681

2023-01-01: Universe@Home, Server room maintenance break

I got email with information that on 3th of January we get short internet access break in server room.
The break is planned between 7:00am and 9:00am CET.

2022-12-31: SRBase, SRBase - 8 years review

The project has passed the eighth year.

Compared with last years the following process was made:

2014-2015 - 1 base solved, 314 bases unstarted
2015-2016 - 5 bases solved, 297 bases unstarted
2016-2017 - 5 bases solved, 282 bases unstarted
2017-2018 - 1 base solved, 264 bases unstarted
2018-2019 - 6 bases solved, 218 bases unstarted
2019-2020 - 4 bases solved, 120 bases unstarted
2020-2021 - 3 bases solved, 101 bases unstarted
2021-2022 - 0 bases solved, 97 bases unstarted
in total - 25 bases solved, 97 bases unstarted

That was the worst year ever. Broken hardware parts, war and also a high inflation after corona which affects the costs.

The llr application has been replaced by the llr2, less work and no unnecessary doublechecks but with less performance. Intel ARC is now supported,
cuda12 apps for 4xxx cards are in progress.

The project has almost completed the 73-74bit lvl at TF, 74-75bit is in progress, which is now taking considerably more time.
The new CRUS goals for 2023 are available and some have already been set up.

I wish you all a healthy new year 2023 and of course healthy hardware!

2022-12-30: YAFU, New Apps, New Badges

The new yafu-64t and yafu-128t apps have now also badges. Thanks to rebirther!

2022-12-29: yoyo@home, M-Queens project end estimation

We estimate, that the project will finish in December 2023.

2022-12-25: YAFU, New app, YAFU-64t

We are now testing a new app, the YAFU-64t, which requires at least 64 threads.

2022-12-25: YAFU, Merry Christmas!

We wish you and your families a merry Christmas and a happy New Year!

2022-12-25: T.Brada Experimental Grid, Projects, projects, projects...

Dear friends!

1. BOINC projects are active
ODLK
https://boinc.progger.info/odlk/
ODLK1
https://boinc.multi-pool.info/latinsquares/

You can support these projects with your participation.

2. The Hugo van der Sanden project is about to be launched.
It will be launched in the Gerasim@home BOINC project.
Follow the topic
https://boinc.ru/forum/forum/proekty-s-kompyuternymi-vychisleniyami/

3. My colleague is preparing to launch the BOINC project "Symmetric Prime Tuples".

4. The "Symmetric Prime Tuples" project is now in manual mode.
See
Manual mode of the "Symmetric Prime Tuples" project
https://boinc.progger.info/odlk/forum_thread.php?id=233
https://boinc.tbrada.eu/forum_thread.php?id=3148

You can take part in this project!

Please write me your questions and suggestions
natalimak1@yandex.ru

2022-12-24: iThena.Computational, Merry Christmas 2022

On the occasion of Christmas, the project team extends best wishes to everyone.

Much health.
Much happiness.
Much success.
Happy Christmas.
Fast computers and lots of credits ;)

2022-12-24: iThena.Measurements, Merry Christmas 2022

On the occasion of Christmas, the project team extends best wishes to everyone.

Much health.
Much happiness.
Much success.
Happy Christmas.
Fast computers and lots of credits ;)

2022-12-24: YAFU, Aliquot sequence 103^62 has terminated!!!

Aliquot sequence 103^62 has terminated!!!

2022-12-24: T.Brada Experimental Grid, Time to say goodbye

Dear Crunchers of this project. Let me wish you merry christmas and happy winter solstice. It weights my hearth to write this message, but things had come to a point where it is better to end things, rather than endlessly drag them out to no end. Since the summer, I have been hopelessly stomped by a stream of activity, both happy and necessary. It turned out to be impossible to care about this project. Even thought it almost runs itself, even thought I'm thinking right now "gosh, it really should be possible to find a hour or two each month".
It is time to announce that this project will no longer provide any compute jobs. I will, of course, keep the site running, but since there is no work, no new users can get enough points to post, the forums will effectively be dead.

Best regards, Veronika.

2022-12-24: SRBase, Intel ARC apps deployed

for Windows and Linux, to enable it in your prefs, choose Intel

This is still in test to tweak the plan_class to get work. Iam hoping to avoid Intel HD Graphics if you have both onboard.

2022-12-23: SRBase, CRUS goals for 2023 released

https://www.mersenneforum.org/showthread.php?t=28328

https://www.mersenneforum.org/showthread.php?t=13196

2022-12-22: SRBase, Intel ARC testers needed

To collect some datas for the devs we need some testers with Intel ARC GPUs.

What todo?

Run mfakto --perftest on windows, linux is a bit different somewhere standalone on your PC and post the output here.

2022-12-21: Asteroids@home, New Raspbian OS aarch64 (armv8) application is here

Hi everyone,

A new, 64bit, version of the Period search application for the Raspberry Pi was released today supporting aarch64 (armv8) architecture!

It will be interesting to get some feedback from you about how it performs as there still could be some issues to be solved.

Happy crunching and don't forget to use active cooling on your boards as the app can be very aggressive to the cores on times.

Cheers!
Georgi

2022-12-21: YAFU, Aliquot sequence 2^563 has terminated!!!

Aliquot sequence 2^563 has terminated!!!

2022-12-21: LHC@Home, Seasons greetings

Many thanks to all our volunteers for your contributions to LHC@home over the last year!

We in the LHC@home team wish you a Merry Christmas and restful holidays.

2022-12-21: SRBase, Trial Factoring 74-75bit range started

The range 73-74bit is nearly done, there will be a cleanup of the rest of open reserved tests. The runtime started from 1h23min at 128-131M (@RX5500 XT) and decreasing for higher ranges.

2022-12-19: WEP-M+2 Project, 12-digit factor of P2203 has now been found by the project...

...391236 times - still no sign of any larger factors

2022-12-17: BOINC, BOINC Census 2022

The year is nearing its end so there is little time left for your to fill out the "BOINC Census 2022" survey.

Please donate five minutes of your time to complete it: BOINC Census 2022

2022-12-14: YAFU, Aliquot sequence 95^40 has terminated!!!

Aliquot sequence 95^40 has terminated!!!

2022-12-10: YAFU, Aliquot sequence 2672516 has terminated!!!

Aliquot sequence 2672516 has terminated!!!

2022-12-07: SRBase, unexpected server crash

A bluescreen crashed the server. The good thing, the database survived, In logfile found system_service_exception ntoskrnl.exe 0x0000003b and ran a chkdsk and sfc /scannow, something was repaired with chkdsk.

The bad thing, I dont know exactly whats causing this problem, driver or SSD.

More infos
ntoskrnl.exe+3f70d0
0x00000000c0000005, 0xfffff8033bc88f39, 0xffff988cd64d5850, 0x0000000000000000

2022-12-06: SRBase, llr2 gwnum 30.x bug

input
175000000000:P:1:51:257
607920 35218

llr2 gwnum 30.9
11920*51^35219+1 is not prime. RES64: 5326FBF23EE99827 Time : 12.728 sec.

llr3.8.21
607920*51^35218+1 is not prime. RES64: 5326FBF23EE99827. OLD64: 8C5E80CE11E6EA41 Time : 26.106 sec.

llr2 gwnum 30.4
11920*51^35219+1 is not prime. RES64: 5326FBF23EE99827 Time : 38.737 sec.

llr2 gwnum 29.8
607920*51^35218+1 is not prime. RES64: 5326FBF23EE99827 Time : 51.552 sec.

The app divides the number 607920 / 51 = 11920. The gwnum lib has a bug somewhere and the dev is informed.

At the moment only S51 is affected.

Base S51 will be stopped for the time being after 35-37k is done, the tests are correct with the divided numbers but primes cant be removed from the sievefile.

All affected tests must be convert to the correct values. This takes time.

2022-12-06: LODA, Project update: 110k programs milestone reached!

Your contributions have pushed us to our new milestone of 110k programs. This is an amazing achievement. Thanks for your continuous support to the LODA project!

We have also made major progress on the tooling side to make our results more accessible and to better support research activities. We have created a new interactive programs website where you can search for programs that your miners submitted. To better support research activities, we have built a new feature for automatic formula and PARI/GP code generation for many LODA programs. In addition, we have improved the tweets on @lodaminer to make them more digestible and include your names.

Our next immediate goals are to make the programs website more mature and powerful, e.g., by supporting new keywords. We also plan to extend the formula generation to cover more complex programs. In terms of new programs, we would like to reach 120k programs by the end of January 2023. This is an ambitious goal but we hope to keep up our current pace, powered by your amazing support!

2022-12-03: iThena.Measurements, Infrastructure problems (LTO)

Within the infrastructure problems are the needs for mass data storage.

We need an LTO drive or LTO library.
Alternatively, LTO tapes themselves may also be useful.

The preferred LTO generation is LTO4 or LTO5.

If anyone has any in their storeroom/basement/garage :) we are happy to accept this type of equipment for our own needs.

Perhaps it is just taking up unnecessary space at someone's place.

If anyone knows anything about this type of equipment, please send us an e-mail:
lswierczewski@cybercomplex.net

Thanks!

Twitter: https://twitter.com/iThenaProject/status/1599012980087488512

2022-12-03: iThena.Computational, Infrastructure problems (LTO)

Within the infrastructure problems are the needs for mass data storage.

We need an LTO drive or LTO library.
Alternatively, LTO tapes themselves may also be useful.

The preferred LTO generation is LTO4 or LTO5.

If anyone has any in their storeroom/basement/garage :) we are happy to accept this type of equipment for our own needs.

Perhaps it is just taking up unnecessary space at someone's place.

If anyone knows anything about this type of equipment, please send us an e-mail:
lswierczewski@cybercomplex.net

Thanks!

Twitter: https://twitter.com/iThenaProject/status/1599012980087488512

2022-12-03: iThena.Measurements, Thena.Computational and GridCoin

Further to an earlier announcement, we are planning to add the iThena.Computational project to GridCoin.

However, the possible final date for adding iThena.Computational to GridCoin is not yet known.

Soon the iThena GRAPH tasks will be finished. Currently, we are not generating new GRAPH tasks - however, we are planning to update the GRAPH application and add Windows support for the HEX application.

The above changes apply to the iThena.Computational subproject.

Twitter: https://twitter.com/iThenaProject/status/1599006778808623104