MilkyWay@home:

Outage

Wed, 03 Feb 2010 04:11:49 GMT

Sorry about the earlier outage. Everything should be up and running smoothly now.

Finally fixed user of the day scripts :P

Fri, 29 Jan 2010 18:32:18 GMT

I really think I fixed them now. Finally!

lowering purge time

Fri, 22 Jan 2010 07:45:04 GMT

I'm lowering the purge time (sorry) to help speed up the database. This should hopefully improve response time for the webpage and downloading new workunits.

new searches testing different validation types

Fri, 22 Jan 2010 04:08:11 GMT

I've implemented optimistic and pessimistic validation for the particle swarm searches now as well (as opposed to just the differential evolution searches that were running before). I've tested them quite a bit so I think it's working correctly, but just warning you the server might crash a few times in the next few days while I get all the bugs sorted out. Let me know if you're having any problems with the ps_s222_opt_1, ps_s222_pes_1 workunits.

Fix for the anonymous app_plan.xml

Tue, 19 Jan 2010 05:22:48 GMT

I updated the server with the fix for people whose app_plan.xml with count set < 1. Let me know if it worked.

Need a sample app_info.xml

Mon, 18 Jan 2010 04:47:00 GMT

Some of our users have said that they're having problems using the ATI application on an anonymous platform; when they have settings that specify no cpu, and no nvidia gpu work, and only ATI gpu work. If anyone is having this problem please post your app_info.xml so I can send it to the boinc_dev mailing list to get it debugged. thanks! --Travis

Patch for GPU application's CPU utilization

Sun, 17 Jan 2010 03:58:14 GMT

I applied a patch which should hopefully fix the CPU utilization of the GPU applications, which was causing some users problems with running the CPU app alongside the GPU app. Let me know how it works.

Database Problem

Thu, 14 Jan 2010 19:13:16 GMT

We had a problem with the database, which caused the outage. I'm trying to get more information about what happened.

User of the Day and other scripts

Wed, 13 Jan 2010 23:04:34 GMT

I think I finally fixed the problem with the user of the day not updating, as well as a few other scripts.

ATI Application

Wed, 13 Jan 2010 22:30:18 GMT

After a few weeks of testing the deployment of the ATI application through BOINC it appears as most of the kinks have been worked out. Milkyway@Home would like to thank Cluster Physik for the development of the application and the many volunteers that assisted in reporting issues. Currently the application is available for Windows 32/64 bit and requires an ATI GPU with double precision capabilities. Milkyway@Home would also like to thank Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) for their generous donation of hardware.

Increased WU Deadline

Wed, 13 Jan 2010 22:17:56 GMT

I've increased the WU deadline to 8 days (up from 5). Let me know if this worked. We've been letting our searches run a bit longer now because we're trying to get more accurate results, and we've also increased the WU size so some CPUs are having problems keeping up. Because of this I think it was a good time to increase the deadline. This might also help our project play a little nicer with other ones. Let me know how it works.

Old News Lost

Mon, 11 Jan 2010 05:07:58 GMT

Well, it looks like our old news couldn't make the transition to the new software. Hopefully it won't be missed too much. I think we've gotten most of the server problems ironed out, so let me know how things are working.

News Updates

Mon, 11 Jan 2010 05:04:40 GMT

Well, I tried to run the script to update the news forum, and it ended up crashing halfway through so we have a lot of REALLY old news :) I'm going to try and fix this. --Travis