Where MilkyWay@home Was The Last Few Days  |
Hello Everyone,
On Friday, May 7th, RPI experienced a cyber-attack that forced RPI to rapidly take down their entire network. This included email, on-campus internet, and connection to the MilkyWay@home server. We were caught by surprise by the network going down, so we were unfortunately not able to warn our volunteers about this problem or shut down the server ahead of time.
We updated our social media a few times during this outage, but please understand that we did not know when service would come back up for MilkyWay@home until connection to the server actually came back up. During this time, RPI IT was working on understanding the extent of the attack, making sure that the attack did not get any worse, and setting up precautions for the future that would prevent this sort of attack. We were not in control of when the server went down or when it would go back up.
Please know that the attack did not impact Linux-based machines (such as the MilkyWay@home server). Additionally, any and all personal information on the website was not accessed or affected by the cyber-attack.
Thank you volunteers for your patience and understanding. If you have any questions I'm happy to do my best to answer them.
Best,
Tom
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| Project notices are now working |
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With a missing file since project start you can see and receive now project news and PMs in BOINCmanager under notices. This requires a v6.12+ BOINC client. The update time is set to 1min.
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| base S138 Megaprime |
whizbang, a member of the team Ars Technica found a megaprime for base S138.
The prime 2636*138^469911+1 has 1.005.557 digits and entered the TOP5000 in Chris Caldwell's The Largest Known Primes Database.
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| Aliquot sequence 2325420 has terminated!!! |
Aliquot sequence 2325420 has terminated!!!
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| Email Fixed |
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The email connectivity has been fixed.
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| Aliquot sequence 2577480 has terminated!!! |
Aliquot sequence 2577480 has terminated!!!
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| Nebula progress report |
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Check out recent data analysis progress: Reobservation and drifting RFI.
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| Half a year, the BOINC Workshop and a move to the new server |
Hello all!
Today we celebrate six months of SiDock@home. Thank you for lots of support! Let us summarize the current state:
Science. We are post-processing the obtained results and simultaneously performing virtual screening for the 5th target. With results obtained for several targets, we focus on viral proteases and are in the phase of getting physical samples of compounds for wet-lab testing. We will present the project at the BOINC Workshop on April 28. The event starts at 09:00 PDT / 12:00 EDT / 18:00 CEST / 19:00 EEST, our talk is at +00:40.
Society. The BOINC Pentathlon team selected SiDock@home as this year's Marathon project. The Marathon discipline is announced on 30 April and runs for two weeks from 05 through 18 May.
Technicals. Before the BOINC Pentathlon, we plan to move to a new physical server. The URL will stay the same. But we stop generating tasks and the project will be unavailable for 1-2 days. Also, we are implementing checkpoints as soon as possible.
Best wishes,
SiDock@home team
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| Formula BOINC project 23.04. 02:00 (UTC) - 26.04. 01:59 (UTC) |
The project was choosen for BOINC Formula.
We have a working 3xxx GPU TF app. For the most 2 common errors on linux pls read the FAQ and how to fix it.
More work will be added soon. Good luck to everyone!
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| RSS feed fixed |
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The not working RSS Feed is fixed now.
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| BoincWorkshop 2 |
From chat in BoincWorksop Day 2
"I'm seeing far fewer people interested in running BOINC and many are giving up due to too few "legitimate" projects continuing their research - too many projects have used volunteers and then stopped."
"So, we need more "interesting" projects so people can crunch them...far more people got involved with SiDock, Rosetta and WCG when they launched Covid-19 research tasks..".
Our community is on the right way ;-)
Crtomir
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| short outage today (done) |
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Need to install some new firewall updates (should take around 10min). The server is not available in this time.
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| 12-digit factor of P2203 has now been found by the project... |
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...291832 times - still no sign of any larger factors
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| Aliquot sequence 2554176 has terminated!!! |
Aliquot sequence 2554176 has terminated!!!
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| Aliquot sequence 1765170 has terminated!!! |
Aliquot sequence 1765170 has terminated!!!
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| Yuri's Night Challenge starts April 11th |
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The third challenge of the 2021 Series will be a 3-day challenge celebrating the 60th anniversary of Yuri Gagarin's history-making venture into outer space. The challenge will be offered on the WW application, beginning 11 April 18:00 UTC and ending 14 April 18:00 UTC.
This is a relatively new subproject here at PrimeGrid, and there are currently no known Wall–Sun–Sun primes! You could be the first to find one!
To participate in the Challenge, please select only the Wieferich and Wall-Sun-Sun Prime Search (WW) project in your PrimeGrid preferences section.
Questions? Queries? Quips? Discuss on the forum thread for this challenge. Best of luck!
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| base S676 proven / Megaprime |
On 02th of March, 3DpNKyXhViXrNkzNVoTcy7VQKmKS, a member of the team Gridcoin found the last prime for base S676.
The prime 607*676^544517+1 has 1.540.957 digits and entered the TOP5000 in Chris Caldwell's The Largest Known Primes Database.
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| Новые результаты проекта ОДЛК: январь – март 2021 |
Опубликованы обработанные результаты за январь – март 2021 г.
https://disk.yandex.ru/d/upLalJ6D1mJwTA
Порция содержит 200007 КФ ОДЛК.
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Processed results for January - March 2021 are published.
https://disk.yandex.ru/d/upLalJ6D1mJwTA
A portion contains 200007 CF ODLK.
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| Upcoming conference: ANTYCOVID-21 (online) |
Dear all,
on June 28-29 2021, there will be a scientific conference "ANTYCOVID-21: Computer science protecting human society against epidemics", in an online format, hosted in Poland. We aim to present a talk about SiDock@home and will be glad to see all of you as listeners. We also encourage you to submit own works if you participate in a covid-related research!
Conference leaflet
Dates:
Paper submission 15 April 30 May (extended)
Notification of paper acceptance: 15 May
Final paper submission and registration: 30 May
Conference 28-29 June 2020
Submissions:
The papers should be submitted via Easychair
The submission may include long papers limited to 12 pages in Springer LaTex llncs format or short papers (up to 4 pages)
All questions about submissions may be emailed to antycovid21 at easychair.org
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| Database issues |
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Our database cluster is heavily loaded today, and LHC@home services time out from time to time. Our DBA is trying to fix this. Sorry for the trouble and happy crunching.
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