http://milkyway.cs.rpi.edu/milkyway/ BOINC project MilkyWay@home: Main page News AstroInformatics Group Wed, 30 Jul 2008 17:06:31 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#72 http://milkyway.cs.rpi.edu/milkyway/all_news.php#72 Due to the longer WU calculation time we've reduced the WU queue to 8 (from 20). Let us know if this causes any problems. Wed, 30 Jul 2008 00:00:00 GMT http://milkyway.cs.rpi.edu/milkyway/all_news.php#71 http://milkyway.cs.rpi.edu/milkyway/all_news.php#71 I'm taking down the assimilator to let the purge get the database back to running smoothly and to let the validator catch back up as well. After the downtime hopefully there'll be better WU availability and things will be running smoothly, as we'll be running the purge as a daemon. Wed, 18 Jun 2008 00:00:00 GMT http://milkyway.cs.rpi.edu/milkyway/all_news.php#70 http://milkyway.cs.rpi.edu/milkyway/all_news.php#70 The server is overloaded (yet again) so while we're generating new WUs, people are grabbing them faster than they're generated. I'm purging the database -- and going to leave it on as a daemon, so once the database is back to a managable size hopefully it will stay there. We're also going to look into getting new hardware for a faster server to help as well. Wed, 18 Jun 2008 00:00:00 GMT http://milkyway.cs.rpi.edu/milkyway/all_news.php#69 http://milkyway.cs.rpi.edu/milkyway/all_news.php#69 We've started a new search to test and see if the server has been fixed, let us know how things are working. Thu, 12 Jun 2008 00:00:00 GMT http://milkyway.cs.rpi.edu/milkyway/all_news.php#68 http://milkyway.cs.rpi.edu/milkyway/all_news.php#68 Another update on the database -- we've emailed labstaff so hopefully they'll have some answers for us tomorrow (because everything we're trying to do now is either timing out or seg faulting). Hopefully we'll have the mess fixed up soon, and new searches up and running right after that.--Travis Tue, 10 Jun 2008 00:00:00 GMT http://milkyway.cs.rpi.edu/milkyway/all_news.php#67 http://milkyway.cs.rpi.edu/milkyway/all_news.php#67 Hey everyone, it's Dave. We're having a great deal of trouble with the database at this point. We've been trying to create new work for you but the database keeps losing connection. This may affect the forum as well. We're working towards a fix diligently and we apologize to everyone for any time we may have wasted Tue, 10 Jun 2008 00:00:00 GMT http://milkyway.cs.rpi.edu/milkyway/all_news.php#66 http://milkyway.cs.rpi.edu/milkyway/all_news.php#66 There have been some problems with a recent search having WUs that freeze or don't work. Currently i've shut down the server to remove the bad workunits from the database -- I'm hoping to have everything fixed sometime this evening. Thu, 29 May 2008 00:00:00 GMT 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