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Well I'm 53, been married for 35 years. I had 2 kids. Unfortunately one was lost in an accident. I have 2 grandkids, one boy and one girl. I target...
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RAC minimum on the Cafe
June 22, 2009
Do to some rather unsavory activity in the Cafe, it now has a minimum RAC of 5 to enable posting messages.
--Travis

Explanation of Milkyway@Home Astronomy Progress
June 15, 2009
John has made the following post in the science section. It's an in depth explanantion of the current astronomy work being done here and quite readable and easy to understand (even I can get it). I recommend it if you'd like to know a bit more about what's going on here on the astronomy end of things.
--Travis

Camping!
June 11, 2009
Travis here. I'm going to be camping until Sunday so don't break anything while I'm gone. Hopefully Matt and John will keep the server running and filled with work for you guys :) I'm still having a few problems with the CUDA application for regular milkyway, so it'll probably be out Monday or Tuesday after I get back.
Cuda Update
June 11, 2009
I noticed a problem in the binaries and code I put on the code download page. I removed them to do some fixes, but they should be available tonight or at the latest tomorrow morning.
Short Workunits
June 11, 2009
Matts searches had the wrong sized integral so they were crunching much faster than expected. We've stopped these so there shouldn't be any new short workunits.
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Search Progress

Milkyway@Home uses evolution-inspired search methods to find the optimal fit of models of the Milky Way galaxy to observed star data. By putting models of multiple stripes together we can create a highly accurate three dimensional model of the Milky Way. For each search, the server keeps track of a population of individuals, each corresponding to a possible model of the Milky Way to a stripe of observed stars. The server generates workunits which are combinations of different parent individuals in the population and you calculate the fitness of these child individuals and return the result. When a result is reported to the server that will improve the population, the population is updated and that child individual now becomes a parent. The following figures describe how each search is performing by showing us the best, average, median and worst fitness of each of these populations. The figures are updated every five minutes with your results. By running these evolutionary searches, we can find the best fit of our Milky Way models to the observed data. There is a thread in our forums discussing this in more detail here.

























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