Recent items from the news feeds of various BOINC projects.
Today we surpassed 70 000 computers (theoretical number) in the iThena Project. Thank you all very much for your involvement, and we encourage you to participate in the sub-projects - especially the latest OONI Probe.
Twitter: https://twitter.com/iThenaProject/status/1441740283109117957
View article · Sat, 25 Sep 2021 12:20:59 +0000
On 6 September 2021, 07:16:28 UTC, PrimeGrid's 321 Search found the Mega Prime: 3*2^17748034-1 The prime is 5,342,692 digits long and enters Chris Caldwell's “The Largest Known Primes Database” ranked 18th overall. The discovery was made by Marc Wiseler (McDaWisel) of Ireland using an AMD Ryzen 9 5900X 12-Core Processor with 16GB RAM, running Microsoft Windows 10 Professional x64 Edition. This computer took about 2 hours, 45 minutes to complete the primality test using LLR2. Marc Wiseler is a member of the Storm team. The prime was verified on 6 September 2021, 11:47 UTC, by an Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-9800X CPU @ 3.80GHz with 32GB of RAM, running CentOS. This computer took 2 hours and 41 minutes to complete the primality test using LLR2. For more details, please see the official announcement.
View article · Thu, 23 Sep 2021 15:24:43 +0000
Hey Everyone,
[email protected] is currently experiencing an outage for the Separation Validator. I brought it back up once, and then it crashed again. I am trying to bring it back up. In the meantime, connections to the download/upload servers may stop and start intermittently as I work on the server.
Thanks for your patience, I will keep you updated as things change.
Tom
View article · Tue, 21 Sep 2021 16:13:00 +0000
Dear SiDockers,
new breakthrough of the project, we will wellcome 4000th user with the credit, very soon.
;-) Crtomir
View article · Tue, 21 Sep 2021 15:17:51 +0000
...314093 times - still no sign of any larger factors
View article · Sun, 19 Sep 2021 10:51:04 +0000
We implemented the OONI Probe application on the iThena platform on a test basis.
There may be errors for this application at this time.
However, please report any bugs or issues to us.
Twitter: https://twitter.com/iThenaProject/status/1439052765850918912
View article · Sat, 18 Sep 2021 02:23:08 +0000
We have a new logo and an updated website launching soon, but our core mission of supporting humanitarian scientific research remains the same.
View article · Fri, 17 Sep 2021 15:25:43 +0000
Whenever [email protected] finds a new neutron star, there is always one workunit in which that discovery "stands out" from the noise with the highest statistical significance. The volunteers whose computers processed that workunit receive framed discovery certificates, signed by myself and by the Principal Investigator of the experiment/collaboration that provided the data. Over the past decade, we have sent out more than a hundred of these, and we are now preparing a new batch. If you are interested, here is
View article · Fri, 17 Sep 2021 14:14:29 +0000
There was a change of the account SRBase from the T5k database admin. The user was changed to a project and I cant report any primes anymore. The CRUS project has now an "Anonymous" user where all the primes will be reported from now. In the description of the CRUS project SRBase is now included.
All other primes from you are not affected and will be reported as usual.
View article · Wed, 15 Sep 2021 19:54:45 +0000
We are updating the operating system on our servers on Thursday, September 16, beginning at 16:00 UTC.
View article · Tue, 14 Sep 2021 17:10:32 +0000
We're thrilled to announce that World Community Grid will now be run and supported by Krembil Research Institute, one of the world's leading basic science and clinical research institutions.
View article · Mon, 13 Sep 2021 17:34:43 +0000
The [email protected] Application has been updated. Added tasks from rule 24.
A total of 12 rules are checked in this Application
1, 6, 22, 24, 28, 57, 58, 59, 60, 61, 66, 67.
The [email protected] Application checks the following rules
2, 16, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 39, 57, 58, 59, 60, 61.
The complete search space contains 67 rules.
View article · Mon, 13 Sep 2021 14:17:49 +0000
Hello All,
I do backups (currently) twice a week, on Mondays and Thursdays generally.
Last night (Sunday 12th), I had a catastrophic server failure, and had to restore to a new machine from the latest backup (Thursday 9th). So if you notice any lost work, that’s why.
The old server (Lappy) was a 2008 MacBook running Mac OSX Leopard, and had been in continual service for about 13 years. He will be missed…
On the plus side, the new server _may_ be a bit faster.
Regards,
James (Wanless) [bearnol]
View article · Mon, 13 Sep 2021 10:16:43 +0000
Thanks to additional support from volunteers, the project has seen a significant increase in work units processed over the summer.
View article · Thu, 9 Sep 2021 17:31:36 +0000
The pace of the Africa Rainfall Project continued to accelerate last month, thanks to increased volunteer computing power.
View article · Tue, 7 Sep 2021 19:51:59 +0000
I got the email from CAMK:
"We need to switch off the whole CAMK computer network on Friday,
3rd September, 16:00 for major maintenance. We will do our best to turn it back
on as soon as possible, but in the worst case scenario the break may last until
Monday, 6th September, 8:00."
So, from about 3pm CET our servers will be switched off until network comes back.
View article · Wed, 1 Sep 2021 19:09:28 +0000
We are updating the operating system on our servers on Thursday, September 2, beginning at 17:00 UTC.
View article · Wed, 1 Sep 2021 16:26:39 +0000
The research team ran a group of high-priority batches on World Community Grid this past month.
View article · Tue, 31 Aug 2021 19:48:12 +0000
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