Recent items from the news feeds of various BOINC projects.

[LHC@home] Theory application reaches 6 TRILLION events !!

Bravo to all Theory crunchers !!!

View article · Fri, 29 Sep 2023 09:38:49 +0000

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[PrimeGrid] PrimeGrid will be offline for server upgrades

We're upgrading to new servers sometime within the next week. With minimal warning, all PrimeGrid servers will be down for several hours. Discord, of course, will remain available. Discussion and more information will be available on Discord as well as on the the forums. The forums will be offline during the upgrade, however, so Discord is where we can be reached during the upgrade. EDIT #1: The plan is for the server upgrades to begin at 15:00 UTC Friday.

View article · Tue, 26 Sep 2023 22:15:06 +0000

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[SRBase] short downtime tomorrow (done)

for some important updates. This shouldnt take more than 20min.
The server is not available at this time.

View article · Mon, 25 Sep 2023 07:59:21 +0000

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[World Community Grid] Research update from the MCM team (September 2023)

The MCM team’s analysis has shown that ovarian cancer results were dishomogeneous. We will begin running additional ovarian work units starting September 25th.

View article · Fri, 22 Sep 2023 21:37:40 +0000

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[World Community Grid] Upcoming System Outage September 26th

On September 26th, due to a firmware update at the data centre where our servers reside, users will be temporarily unable to upload work or get new work.

View article · Fri, 22 Sep 2023 15:13:26 +0000

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[WEP-M+2] 12-digit factor of P2203 has now been found by the project...

...427159 times

View article · Tue, 19 Sep 2023 10:51:03 +0000

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[PrimeGrid] Revised: PPSE gets a reprieve but PPS-MEGA is shutting down

After a lot of discussion, some changes have been made in the projects that are closing. PPS-MEGA is shutting down on October 19th, while PPSE will continue running to its natural end at one million digits. More details can be found on the forum.

View article · Mon, 18 Sep 2023 20:47:07 +0000

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[LHC@home] Downtime Monday 18th

The LHC@home BOINC servers will be degraded on Monday 18th of September due to a database upgrade. BOINC clients are likely to generate errors when trying to download or upload tomorrow morning.

Thanks for your contributions and happy crunching!

View article · Sun, 17 Sep 2023 16:06:00 +0000

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[SRBase] Testing new apps started

- Sierpinski Base app
- test_prime1 WUs batch
- PRST v10 for linux and windows only
- 4h deadline
- native app, no wrapper
- 0.5 credits

View article · Sat, 16 Sep 2023 13:36:19 +0000

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[World Community Grid] MCM team update: ADH6

We continue our work on characterizing lung cancer biomarkers identified in the MCM1 project. This update focuses on ADH6, a gene associated with smoking status and lung cancer prognosis.

View article · Fri, 15 Sep 2023 14:14:13 +0000

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[PrimeGrid] PPS-Sieve, PPSE, GFN-15, SGS, and AP27 are shutting down

We recently took a look at the projects that we are running and decided to make some changes. For more information, and discussion, see this thread: PPS-Sieve, PPSE, GFN-15, SGS, and AP27 are shutting down. (Note that the plan has since changed and PPS-MEGA is shutting down instead of PPSE.)

View article · Thu, 14 Sep 2023 21:28:20 +0000

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[SRBase] New apps plan

We have started testing new applications for SRBase on a BOINC test server, which are already used at PG, i.e. PRST is intended to replace llr2. Since there are still some code changes being made, everything is moving around a bit.

What are the advantages of the application?
- no more restrictions on the speed of the Gerbiczcheck (at the moment there is a performance loss of up to 40%)
- native application, no wrapper needed anymore

The following errors from the wrapper are then history:
- restarts of the BOINC client do not reset the CPU time to 0
- linux wrapper suspend issue
- better progress bar
- other general wrapper issues

Running app_config.xml files that are based on llr2 would then have to be readjusted, otherwise errors will occur in the calculations.

A public test will follow, time uncertain.

View article · Thu, 14 Sep 2023 11:49:33 +0000

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[PrimeGrid] World Peace Day Challenge starts September 13th @ 11:00 UTC!

The seventh challenge of the 2023 Series will be a 10-day challenge celebrating World Peace Day, also known as the International Day of Peace, an annual United Nations holiday observed on September 21st. The challenge will be offered on the SOB-LLR application, beginning 13 September 11:00 UTC and ending 23 September 11:00 UTC. To participate in the Challenge, please select only the Seventeen or Bust (LLR) project in your PrimeGrid preferences section. Thoughts? Theories? Tidbits? Truisms? Trivialities? Read more and join the discussion at https://www.primegrid.com/forum_thread.php?id=10322

View article · Tue, 12 Sep 2023 18:12:46 +0000

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[RakeSearch] Processing of the square # 24 completed

Dear participants, processing of the square # 24 is fully completed! The square:

0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 A B
1 2 0 4 5 3 8 9 A B 6 7
2 0 1 5 3 4 A B 6 7 8 9
8 A 6 B 7 9 2 4 0 5 1 3
A 6 8 7 9 B 0 5 1 3 2 4
9 B 7 6 8 A 4 0 5 1 3 2
5 3 4 2 0 1 7 8 9 A B 6
4 5 3 1 2 0 B 6 7 8 9 A
B 7 9 8 A 6 5 1 3 2 4 0
6 8 A 9 B 7 1 3 2 4 0 5
7 9 B A 6 8 3 2 4 0 5 1
3 4 5 0 1 2 9 A B 6 7 8

has 1024457772 orthogonal mates, like square # 23. Square #24 can be produced from #23 by rows permutation, also!

Thank you for project attention, support and donation of CPU time!

View article · Mon, 11 Sep 2023 12:09:11 +0000

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[YAFU] Aliquot sequence 2721474 has terminated!!!

Aliquot sequence 2721474 has terminated!!!

View article · Sat, 9 Sep 2023 15:37:06 +0000

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[ODLK1] Server problems

Hi,

during the holiday one disk of the server suddenly died, so it gets unavailable.

Unfortunately I come back from holiday a week later, so all workunits and credits were already time out at that time.

Disk died on 20 Aug during the day. The DB is the one of 8:00 as it from a clean backup (all WU and result where not touched from the disk damages, however some WU may be missed into the DB for credits, but not for the results collected).

As the server were using an old SO that soon will go out of update, I go for installing even the new version of the server, for having years of updates.

Now there is still some problems in configuring all the services as there are incompatibility from old to new libraries, so you should considerate to reactivate your ODLK1 calculation for the next week at least.

However, bookmark this page: http://boinc-status.multi-pool.info/

This is in another server, so in case of problems you can see the state of ODLK1 there (unless the internet connection is broken, as both uses the same one).

Thanks

View article · Sat, 9 Sep 2023 11:09:55 +0000

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[Gerasim@Home] Gerasim@home:

View article · Wed, 6 Sep 2023 12:26:25 +0000

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[PrimeGrid] Sieving for Proth Prime Search to be suspended

The PPS Sieve has advanced well beyond the searches that use the sieve, and it will be many years before more sieving is needed. We are therefore suspending the PPS sieve. The CPU apps will be removed 30 days from now, on October 4^th. The GPU apps will be removed, and the sieve fully suspended, somewhat later. More information, and discussion, can be found here.

View article · Mon, 4 Sep 2023 07:21:47 +0000

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[Gerasim@Home] Gerasim@home:

Добрый день, ребятки. Появилась тут проблема:

ОС и загрузчик Герасима оказались на разных дисках. Вылечить - недолго. Долго делается резервное копирование системного диска. (сейчас, загрузчик хоть и кривой, но работает).

Как восстановить загрузчик Windows 7 и Windows 8
Источник: https://nastroisam.ru/kak-vosstanovit-zagruzchik-windows-7-i-windows-8/

При этом, работа Герасима будет приостановлена, а то и вовсе проект будет недоступен. Теоретически, всё займёт не больше 1 часа, а там - кто его знает. Приём посчитанных заданий будет разрешён, а выдача новых заданий запрещена.

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Good afternoon guys. There was a problem here:

The OS and Gerasim's bootloader ended up on different disks. Healing is short. It takes a long time to back up the system disk. (Now, the bootloader, though a curve, but works). How to restore the bootloader of Windows 7 and Windows 8

Source: https://nastroisam.ru/kak-vosstanovit-zagruzchik-windows-7-i-windows-8/

At the same time, the work of Gerasim will be suspended, or even the project will be unavailable. Theoretically, everything will take no more than 1 hour, and there - who knows. Acceptance of computed tasks will be allowed, but the send of new tasks will be prohibited.

View article · Mon, 4 Sep 2023 06:51:12 +0000

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[PrimeGrid] 321 Prime Found!

On 5 July 2023, 17:48:23 UTC, PrimeGrid's 321 Prime Search found the Mega Prime: 3*2^20928756-1 The prime is 6,300,184 digits long and will enter Chris Caldwell's “The Largest Known Primes Database” ranked 19th overall. This is the largest known prime for the 3*2^n-1 form. The discovery was made by Arno Lehmann (Zyfdnug) of Germany using an AMD Ryzen 9 7900X @ 4.7GHz with 64GB RAM, running Debian GNU/Linux 12 (bookworm). This CPU took about 6 hours, 20 minutes to complete the probable prime (PRP) test using LLR2. The PRP was confirmed prime on 5 July 2023 by an AMD Ryzen 9 5950X @ 3.4GHz, running Linux Mint. This computer took about 2 hours, 46 minutes to complete the primality test using LLR2. For more details, please see the official announcement.

View article · Sun, 3 Sep 2023 18:59:29 +0000

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[DENIS@Home] University network maintenance // Mantenimiento en la red de la universidad

Dear volunteers,
The IT department has notified us that tomorrow, starting at 3:00 p.m. (CEST), maintenance work will be carried out on the university network. It is possible that from that moment on there will be problems accessing DENIS.

Sorry for any inconvenience this may cause.

Best,
Jesús.

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Estimados voluntarios:
El departamento de Sistemas de Información nos ha avisado de que mañana, a partir de las 15:00 (CEST), se realizarán trabajos de mantenimiento en la red de la universidad. Es posible que a partir de ese momento haya problemas de acceso a denis.

Disculpad las molestias que pueda genera.

Un saludo,
Jesús.

View article · Wed, 30 Aug 2023 18:15:53 +0000

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[SRBase] base R684 Megaprime / proven

A lucky hit after starting the Formula BOINC challenge.

ChrisBigler found a megaprime for base R684.
The prime 39*684^519468-1 has 1.472.723 digits and entered the TOP5000 in Chris Caldwell's The Largest Known Primes Database. With this find it also has proven the base!

View article · Fri, 25 Aug 2023 10:44:22 +0000

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[SRBase] base R684 Megaprime / proven

A lucky hit after starting the Formula BOINC challenge.

416Ed4Gqcz8tpVzmSFSdVynvgyKP found a megaprime for base R684.
The prime 39*684^519468-1 has 1.472.723 digits and entered the TOP5000 in Chris Caldwell's The Largest Known Primes Database. With this find it also has proven the base!

View article · Fri, 25 Aug 2023 10:44:22 +0000

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