http://milkyway.cs.rpi.edu/milkyway/ BOINC project MilkyWay@home: Main page News AstroInformatics Group Thu, 19 Nov 2009 23:59:21 GMT en-us http://milkyway.cs.rpi.edu/milkyway/rss_image.gif http://milkyway.cs.rpi.edu/milkyway/ http://milkyway.cs.rpi.edu/milkyway/all_news.php#238 http://milkyway.cs.rpi.edu/milkyway/all_news.php#238 I've also linked to the slides from my PhD defense if anyone would like to see them here: [ppt] [keynote] Thu, 19 Nov 2009 00:00:00 GMT http://milkyway.cs.rpi.edu/milkyway/all_news.php#237 http://milkyway.cs.rpi.edu/milkyway/all_news.php#237 Another update for your reading pleasure. We finished an invited paper for the 2009 Parallel Processing and Applied Mathematics (PPAM) conference about the GPU work here at MilkyWay. We'd like to thank Andreas Przystawik and Dave Anderson for their collaboration on this. Here's a link to the paper: Accelerating the MilkyWay@Home volunteer computing project with GPUs. Thu, 19 Nov 2009 00:00:00 GMT http://milkyway.cs.rpi.edu/milkyway/all_news.php#236 http://milkyway.cs.rpi.edu/milkyway/all_news.php#236 Just wanted everyone to know that I successfulled completed my defense today, so I'll have some time to get the server upgraded and all that other great stuff. Hopefully things should be back up and running in the next couple days.--Travis Thu, 19 Nov 2009 00:00:00 GMT http://milkyway.cs.rpi.edu/milkyway/all_news.php#235 http://milkyway.cs.rpi.edu/milkyway/all_news.php#235 Just letting everyone know we ordered new hard drives for the server last week, and hopefully they will be here soon. We're hoping to have everything back up and running within the week.--Travis Sun, 15 Nov 2009 00:00:00 GMT http://milkyway.cs.rpi.edu/milkyway/all_news.php#234 http://milkyway.cs.rpi.edu/milkyway/all_news.php#234 We also really want to apologize for all the recent server issues and lost credit. Hopefully you'll all still be around when we get the server back up and work flowing again. I'll post more as soon as I know about hardware orders and what's going on.--Travis Tue, 10 Nov 2009 00:00:00 GMT http://milkyway.cs.rpi.edu/milkyway/all_news.php#233 http://milkyway.cs.rpi.edu/milkyway/all_news.php#233 In order to save you guys more lost credits, I don't think we'll be starting up new work until we have replacement hard drives. What I've gotten from labstaff is that the drives are running in degraded modes and hurting really bad. They're telling us the reason for the problems has been the construction around campus at RPI which has caused a lot of vibration in the computer labs which has wrecked quite a few hard drives. It seems we're not the only ones having similar issues. Hopefully we can have new hardrives in a day or two and get things back up and running.--Travis Tue, 10 Nov 2009 00:00:00 GMT http://milkyway.cs.rpi.edu/milkyway/all_news.php#232 http://milkyway.cs.rpi.edu/milkyway/all_news.php#232 We've restored the server from the last backup (which was this morning) so hopefully not too much credit has been lost. I still have to purge the database of all the workunits, unfortunately. We also need to order new hard drives for the server, so I'm not sure how stable things will be for the next week or so until we get them installed. But at least hopefully that explains the issues we've been having lately.--Travis Tue, 10 Nov 2009 00:00:00 GMT http://milkyway.cs.rpi.edu/milkyway/all_news.php#231 http://milkyway.cs.rpi.edu/milkyway/all_news.php#231 It looks like I'm going to have to remove all the workunits and results from the database. So if you have any running, feel free to cancel them. Tue, 10 Nov 2009 00:00:00 GMT http://milkyway.cs.rpi.edu/milkyway/all_news.php#230 http://milkyway.cs.rpi.edu/milkyway/all_news.php#230 We have a backup from this morning, but it may have been taken after all the corruption. We're going to try it out and see if it helps anything.--Travis Tue, 10 Nov 2009 00:00:00 GMT