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2023-11-22: BOINC, BOINC-related paper published
A paper about public participation in science (including BOINC) was published in PLOS One.
2023-11-13: BOINC, Einstein@home launches Zooniverse project
Einstein@home has launched a Zooniverse project called "Pulsar Seekers" to help classify radio pulsar candidates.
2023-10-31: 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.
2023-10-31: 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.
2023-10-31: 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
2023-10-31: 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
2023-10-30: WEP-M+2 Project, P2203:260000000 wu's (of 10000 trials each equiv.) processed!
Thanks to all the users. Please keep crunching!
2023-10-30: BOINC, BOINC client 7.24.2 released for Mac
This release fixes problems with the BOINC screensaver on MacOS 14.0 Sonoma. We recommend that you install it if you use that version of MacOS.
2023-10-29: 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).
2023-10-28: 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.
2023-10-27: 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.
2023-10-19: WEP-M+2 Project, 12-digit factor of P2203 has now been found by the project...
...432814 times - still no sign of any larger factors
2023-10-16: BOINC, Promo materials from SCI
The Science Commons Initiative has created some images that you can use to make posters and flyers about BOINC, and also videos about installing BOINC on Windows and Mac. See it all here.
2023-10-14: SRBase, A bad day happened
since 3 days now Iam in hospital with a broken arm and a leg, neverless I have access to the intenet here now and trying what I can but I cant do any backups or mananaging work. Lets hope Iam back as fast as I can and no crash in the meantime.
After all Iam still alive...
2023-10-10: SRBase, All apps have been replaced
by the new prst app. There are some issues with similar CPUs and Riesel Bases (-1), Sierpinski Base is fine:
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]
1 (0x1) Unknown error number
The gwnum must have a bug, already reported to the dev.
If you have such errors with these CPUs, disable work for -1 bases until this is fixed.
2023-10-08: BOINC, MacOS 14 Sonoma breaks BOINC screensaver
The screensaver doesn't exit properly. To force it to exit, hold down the command and shift keys while pressing Q to log out of the system, then log back in.
We hope to fix this problem soon. Until then, if you run MacOS 14, disable the BOINC screensaver.
2023-10-03: SRBase, base S684 Megaprime
Ralfy, a member of the team BOINC Confederation found a megaprime for base S684.
The prime 41*684^436354+1 has 1.237.090 digits and entered the TOP5000 in Chris Caldwell's The Largest Known Primes Database.
2023-09-29: LHC@Home, Theory application reaches 6 TRILLION events !!
Bravo to all Theory crunchers !!!
2023-09-25: SRBase, short downtime tomorrow (done)
for some important updates. This shouldnt take more than 20min.
The server is not available at this time.
2023-09-22: Asteroids@home, New asteroid models - corrigendum
After a while, let me announce our paper based on the Asteroids@home project. It was published last year in the Frontiers in Astronomy and Space Sciences: https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/link_gateway/2022FrASS...909771D/PUB_HTML. We used ATLAS photometry and its bootstrap samples to derive rotation periods (no shape) for about 5000 asteroids.
The A@H project is currently processing data from ATLAS and Gaia together - that's what you are computing now.
Thank you all for your contribution!
P.S. Please ignore the previous news about the paper published in Astronomy and Astrophysics - its results were not based on A@H because, at that time, the server was down due to COVID and hardware issues. Sorry for the confusion.
2023-09-19: WEP-M+2 Project, 12-digit factor of P2203 has now been found by the project...
...427159 times
2023-09-17: LHC@Home, Downtime Monday 18th
The LHC@home BOINC servers will be degraded on Monday 18th of September due to a database upgrade. BOINC clients are likely to generate errors when trying to download or upload tomorrow morning.
Thanks for your contributions and happy crunching!
2023-09-16: Asteroids@home, New OpenCL application for AMD GPUs
Hi everyone,
We are proud to announce our new OpenCL applications for AMD GPUs!
Development process took some time but we finally managed to build it.
There are still many rough edges to be polished but thanks to you guys and to your feedback we'll continue to improve the code.
Linux application requires 64 bit OS with GLIBC v2.31 or higher and will run on most AMD Radeon GPU cards and some AMD Integrated Graphics with support of OpenCL 1.1 or higher.
Windows application requres 64bit Windows 10 or 11 and will run on most AMD Radeon cards and some AMD Integrated Graphics with support of OpenCL 1.2 or higher.
Happy crunching and thank you for your support!
Asteroids@home team
2023-09-16: SRBase, Testing new apps started
- Sierpinski Base app
- test_prime1 WUs batch
- PRST v10 for linux and windows only
- 4h deadline
- native app, no wrapper
- 0.5 credits
2023-09-16: RALPH@Home, Rosetta version 4.27 released for testing
The Rosetta application has been updated to include fixes to the GALigandDock protocol. Please report any issues in the discussion thread here: https://ralph.bakerlab.org/forum_thread.php?id=906
2023-09-14: SRBase, New apps plan
We have started testing new applications for SRBase on a BOINC test server, which are already used at PG, i.e. PRST is intended to replace llr2. Since there are still some code changes being made, everything is moving around a bit.
What are the advantages of the application?
- no more restrictions on the speed of the Gerbiczcheck (at the moment there is a performance loss of up to 40%)
- native application, no wrapper needed anymore
The following errors from the wrapper are then history:
- restarts of the BOINC client do not reset the CPU time to 0
- linux wrapper suspend issue
- better progress bar
- other general wrapper issues
Running app_config.xml files that are based on llr2 would then have to be readjusted, otherwise errors will occur in the calculations.
A public test will follow, time uncertain.
2023-09-09: YAFU, Aliquot sequence 2721474 has terminated!!!
Aliquot sequence 2721474 has terminated!!!
2023-09-09: ODLK1, Server problems
Hi,
during the holiday one disk of the server suddenly died, so it gets unavailable.
Unfortunately I come back from holiday a week later, so all workunits and credits were already time out at that time.
Disk died on 20 Aug during the day. The DB is the one of 8:00 as it from a clean backup (all WU and result where not touched from the disk damages, however some WU may be missed into the DB for credits, but not for the results collected).
As the server were using an old SO that soon will go out of update, I go for installing even the new version of the server, for having years of updates.
Now there is still some problems in configuring all the services as there are incompatibility from old to new libraries, so you should considerate to reactivate your ODLK1 calculation for the next week at least.
However, bookmark this page: http://boinc-status.multi-pool.info/
This is in another server, so in case of problems you can see the state of ODLK1 there (unless the internet connection is broken, as both uses the same one).
Thanks
2023-09-07: BOINC, BOINC client 7.24.1 released
The 7.24.1 version of the BOINC client software has been released for Windows, Mac, and Android. Download it here. Release notes are here. Thanks to everyone who contributed to developing and testing this release.
2023-08-31: BOINC, Video and paper from The Ramanujan Machine
Check out a new video and paper from The Ramanujan Machine, which has used BOINC to discover new expressions for fundamental mathematical constants.
2023-08-30: DENIS@Home, University network maintenance // Mantenimiento en la red de la universidad
Dear volunteers,
The IT department has notified us that tomorrow, starting at 3:00 p.m. (CEST), maintenance work will be carried out on the university network. It is possible that from that moment on there will be problems accessing DENIS.
Sorry for any inconvenience this may cause.
Best,
Jes
2023-08-30: LHCathome-dev, Database upgrade
The MySQL database for LHC@home-dev has been upgraded to MySQL8. Normally this should not affect any of the functionality of the BOINC applications.
2023-08-25: SRBase, base R684 Megaprime / proven
A lucky hit after starting the Formula BOINC challenge.
ChrisBigler found a megaprime for base R684.
The prime 39*684^519468-1 has 1.472.723 digits and entered the TOP5000 in Chris Caldwell's The Largest Known Primes Database. With this find it also has proven the base!
2023-08-25: SRBase, Formula BOINC 2023 24.08.2023 23:00 (UTC) - 27.08.2023 22:59 (UTC)
The project was choosen. Pls note that the linux app suspending is still not working.
Welcome to everyone!
2023-08-19: WEP-M+2 Project, 12-digit factor of P2203 has now been found by the project...
...423047 times - still no sign of any larger factors
2023-08-11: ODLK1, Holiday
hi,
from tomorrow I will be on holiday for max 15 days without server access, so be sure to add a backup Boinc project in case of server problem.
2023-08-06: iThena.Measurements, [August 7, 2023] Planned maintenance breaks
We are scheduling project temporary outages on August 7, 2023.
There may be temporary access issues (up to a few hours maximum) in the availability of the project from 8:00 AM to 8:00 PM (Central European Time).
These will be temporary access issues.
Twitter: https://twitter.com/iThenaProject/status/1688292093565800448
2023-08-06: iThena.Computational, [August 7, 2023] Planned maintenance breaks
We are scheduling project temporary outages on August 7, 2023.
There may be temporary access issues (up to a few hours maximum) in the availability of the project from 8:00 AM to 8:00 PM (Central European Time).
These will be temporary access issues.
Twitter: https://twitter.com/iThenaProject/status/1688292093565800448
2023-08-06: BOINC, Italian Masters thesis on BOINC
Check out The democratization of science: Analysis of the voluntary distributed
computing platform BOINC, a Masters thesis by Antonio Cerrato. Also in the original Italian.
