http://milkyway.cs.rpi.edu/milkyway/ BOINC project MilkyWay@home: Main page News AstroInformatics Group Mon, 24 Mar 2008 22:10:23 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#65 http://milkyway.cs.rpi.edu/milkyway/all_news.php#65 Due to many complaints that the reduction in credit was a bit too severe, we've increased the generated credit a bit. It should be around 4 credit per WU now. Please feel free to keep complaining about credit on the forums and we'll eventually get it right. :) Mon, 24 Mar 2008 00:00:00 GMT http://milkyway.cs.rpi.edu/milkyway/all_news.php#64 http://milkyway.cs.rpi.edu/milkyway/all_news.php#64 Due to the fact that the application has been highly optimized in the last few versions, most people agree that the granted credit is way too high for the project by a factor of 3. We've scaled credit down to keep it in line with other projects, so if you notice reduced credit this is why. Sun, 23 Mar 2008 00:00:00 GMT http://milkyway.cs.rpi.edu/milkyway/all_news.php#63 http://milkyway.cs.rpi.edu/milkyway/all_news.php#63 I've updated the assimilator to deal with some of the performance issues we've been having with it. You should see more work availability and hopefully we wont have results piling up that aren't assimilated. I've started up a bunch of new searches and hopefully the work will keep flowing faster than before. Thu, 20 Mar 2008 00:00:00 GMT http://milkyway.cs.rpi.edu/milkyway/all_news.php#62 http://milkyway.cs.rpi.edu/milkyway/all_news.php#62 I just upgraded the BOINC server software. The database is a little shaky right now as we're trying to upgrade to PHP5 to facilitate it better. Therefore the forums will be down until we can get PHP5 up, hopefully it won't take more than a day. However, the assimilator problem seems to be fixed with this release and hopefully so will the freezeups. Thu, 20 Mar 2008 00:00:00 GMT http://milkyway.cs.rpi.edu/milkyway/all_news.php#61 http://milkyway.cs.rpi.edu/milkyway/all_news.php#61 We're running a purge on the database to try and get things sped up. During this time we wont be generating any new work, but this should be completed sometime tonight and there will be new work after that. Wed, 19 Mar 2008 00:00:00 GMT http://milkyway.cs.rpi.edu/milkyway/all_news.php#60 http://milkyway.cs.rpi.edu/milkyway/all_news.php#60 Good news everyone! The paper we submitted to the GECCO 2008 conference was accepted, this paper is all about results we've gotten using the genetic search/simplex hybrid on BOINC -- so we couldn't have done it without you :) for more information on the conference: GECCO 2008. Here's a link to our paper so you can all read it: An Asynchronous Hybrid Genetic-Simplex Search for Modeling the Milky Way Galaxy using Volunteer Computing. This isn't the camera ready version, so we'll let you know when we have it updated with all our comments -- and of course acknowledgements to all of you who are doing so much to help our research! Sat, 15 Mar 2008 00:00:00 GMT http://milkyway.cs.rpi.edu/milkyway/all_news.php#59 http://milkyway.cs.rpi.edu/milkyway/all_news.php#59 We've updated the windows and 32 bit linux binaries. Hopefully this will fix the problem win2k users were having with the apps crashing. Fri, 07 Mar 2008 00:00:00 GMT http://milkyway.cs.rpi.edu/milkyway/all_news.php#58 http://milkyway.cs.rpi.edu/milkyway/all_news.php#58 We noticed a computational error in the code, so we've updated all the binaries to 1.21. This way everyone has the same version number which makes keeping track of everything better. We've also added some optimization to more platforms so you might notice improved performance. Let us know if you're having any problems with the new binaries. We should have a 32 bit linux version soon (this was the only platform not updated yet). Thu, 06 Mar 2008 00:00:00 GMT http://milkyway.cs.rpi.edu/milkyway/all_news.php#57 http://milkyway.cs.rpi.edu/milkyway/all_news.php#57 Linux binaries for 32 and 64 bit have been updated and optimized, let us know if you have any problems with 1.20 of these. Thu, 06 Mar 2008 00:00:00 GMT