Hi, I'm new to MilkyWay@home. This is a very intriguing project. However, I notice that there have been essentially no progress reports for about two years! We volunteers might need a little stroking or maybe Seti@home would be a more satisfying place for our cycles!

A real question while I'm ranting: the axes on the plots, are those log-likelihood fit statistics? It seems to me that the convergence to better fits is insignificant. Also, how do you know that you aren't heading slowing into a local minima?

Evolutionary algorithms (EAs) are an approach to performing optimization
of challenging problems in computational science, as they can efficiently find
global minima in challenging search spaces with many local minima. Traditional
methods such as conjugate gradient descent and newton methods quickly get
stuck in local minima and fail in these circumstances. This work examines how
to efficiently perform validation for evolutionary algorithms on volunteer computing
grids, using MilkyWay@Home as a test system.

I haven't received any ATI work in months, is there any problem?

ATI HD6970, lastest drivers.

I've just started up some new runs, with names like "ps_separation_14_2s_..." and "ps_separation_15_2s_...". These runs are designed to study some of the Computer Science that drives Milkyway@home.

As always, let me know if you have any trouble with these work units.

-Matthew N

This thread is outdated... I'm considering unstickying it. The reason the links don't show up is because John Vickers used his student webspace at RPI to host the images; now that he's graduated, that webspace has ceased to exist. I'll try to get in touch with him and get the images back (I don't remember what they all looked like).

I'm trying to find the time to write an updated summary, but it's very difficult right now - I'm in the middle of several projects, and Milkyway@home is just one of those. I'll bump the update up a few notches in my queue.

I have re-written this as an article on the United BOINC website;
MilkyWay@Home Progress in plotting the stars

Thank you John Vickers, you write very well about science. You make it easy to read!

You should install blogging software on this website, maybe MilkywayDomain/blog. Install something like WordPress, its free and it would allow you to blog properly about your project science. It would be way better and easier than trying to post it in forum messages. Wordpress; http://wordpress.org/

John.
Website Admin,
UnitedBoinc.com