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Dear VGTU project@Home users,
We have decided to stop the computations with the current application for grillage optimization. Some results have been obtained. We have prepared and submitted according publication, which is currently under review. However, new ideas are needed to move forward.
Now, we stop the generation of new tasks and wait for all results to return back to the project server.
Next, we will update the server software to support GDPR - the European General Data Protection Regulation.
We thank you for active participation and wish you a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!
With best regards,
The Project Team
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| ALERT: Upcoming QCN Downtime, 27 Nov 2018 |
QCN servers will be going down at around 9 am PST on Tuesday, November 27, 2018. This is necessary to upgrade the entire system and test the new configuration. It is currently impossible to say just how long this downtime will last, though we will, of course, try to make it as brief as is possible.
Expect at least 8 hours of downtime, possibly more. Servers must be moved physically and reconfigured extensively. (This is not minor maintenance.)
We apologize for the inconvenience, and for the short notice. We were not given a scheduled time for this changeover until today.
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| Maintance break #20 |
As you know I started working on ggCPU, but before I will generate first tasks I need to make some maintance brake.
I am going to:
1. goofyxGrid : reoganize disks <- I moved database for another hardware and have to split projects between 4 disks to have more performance. I won't buy new ssd drive as I planned (plextor 1tb) because I want to use what I have right now on the server.
2. goofyxDB : migrate from mysql 5.6 to newest Percona
At this moment it's hard to say how many time this could take, but I will back :)
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| Project News 6 sept 2018 |
| The server will be taken off line before the end of november 2018. |
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| Project News 17 july 2018 |
| This project will be phased out before the end of 2018. The project site will remain available until at least the end of september 2018. |
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| Project News 05 june 2018 |
| As of today the scheduler, file uploader and all other daemons have been stopped. The project web site will stay online for some time still |
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| Official Goodbye from ICRAR |
TheSkyNet was ICRAR’s first ever citizen science project. Since then, we’ve launched (and concluded) Galaxy Explorers, and will soon be launching beta testing for our latest citizen science program, Astro Quest.
Using the distributed computing power of thousands of computers located around the world, theSkyNet’s ‘SourceFinder’ project used a DuChamp algorithm to automatically tell the difference between background noise and real radio sources in observations from a radio telescope. The project proved that distributed computing is a real solution for processing large volumes of radio astronomy data and may help researchers maximise science returns from the next generation radio telescopes like the Square Kilometre Array.
After SourceFinder, we launched another citizen science project on theSkyNet platform. Named ‘POGS’, it combined data from Pan-STARRS1 (a telescope at Haleakala Observatory in Hawaii) with space-based telescopes, GALEX and WISE to generate a multi-wavelength galaxy atlas of the nearby Universe.
The results of this astronomically awesome distributed computing effort has allowed our researchers to measure the physical parameters (such as stellar mass, surface density and star formation rate) of 107, 985 galaxies! The results of this work will be published soon, so keep an eye on the ICRAR website for details.
As well as processing data for our astronomers, theSkyNet has helped us understand how to involve the community in our work through a citizen science project. We’ve had a great time with it and as we wrap this one up, we’d like to thank theSkyNet community for your time, enthusiasm, and commitment to science. We hope to have you on board for Astro Quest—keep an eye out for it!
Thank you from everyone that's worked on theSkyNet at ICRAR.
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| Project News 09 may 2018 |
| This project is reaching end-of-life. Automatic work generation has been stopped. Account creation has been stopped. Before the end of 2018 the server will be taken off-line. |
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| POGS is complete! |
Hey everyone,
As a lot of you noticed, there haven't been any workunits for POGS for about a week.
I've been told by Kevin this morning that POGS has finished processing all the galaxies he needs.
Next up, we'll be looking at reviewing all of the processed galaxy data and preparing it for actual use.
Kevin tells me that the next step is to use the processed galaxy data to train an auto-encoder neural network to classify galaxies based on their features. We'll have a gigantic amount of training data ready for this task, so the prospects of positive results seem high.
Additionally, any research papers that ICRAR publishes using this data will contain an acknowledgement to the work done by everyone who contributed to POGS.
The POGS and theSkyNet websites are going to remain up for the time being, but Kevin is also looking to shut them down once everything has fully wrapped up. This is mainly due to monetary issues - it costs more than $2,000 AUD per month to keep the POGS and theSkyNet services running.
So I'm sorry about how abrupt this is, but we're all done. Thank you everyone for your contributions, great or small. Kevin and I do appreciate everything you've done, and we'll be sure to put all the data to good use.
I'm glad to have been able to help manage this project, even if it's only been one day a week for the most part. The community here has always been a good one.
I can try and answer any questions anyone has in this thread - I'm sure there'll be some.
Thanks again for everything,
Sam
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| Project closes on May 31 |
| SZTAKI Desktop Grid is going to close down officially on May 31. We will try to keep the server open as long as possible afterwards if needed, so all in-progress work units can be finished. Next, the project home page will be replaced by a static site containing the description and results for the applications of the project, and will be updated when we get new results from the scientists. We would like to thank you for your support and dedication for SZDG throughout the years! |
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| CUDA app testing |
As some of you already know, we just started testing of CUDA Gromacs application for Linux and Windows computers.
To use it under Linux you should have Gromacs installed (apt-get install gromacs on Debian based systems).
Under Windows you should have Nvidia GPU with CUDA 2.3 capability and AVX256 capable CPU.
Also, ignore estimated running time reported by Manager as is currently set very high by me for testing purposes.
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| We are near 1^18 ! |
Results:
http://stop.inferia.ru/result/600.zip
http://stop.inferia.ru/result/700.zip
http://stop.inferia.ru/result/800.zip
Thanks for all !
Ps. We will move project to Google Cloud Platform VM at 30 Sep 2017.
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| FTNBK broken |
The 101 letters long FTNBK message was broken.
Please abort all m3_ftnbk* / g3_ftnbk* workunits as they're not needed anymore.
There might be a short break in WU availability as I have to clean up batches that are not needed anymore and prepare new ones.
More info will be posted here: http://www.enigmaathome.net/forum_thread.php?id=1109
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| Additional downtime during Sept 6-8. |
| Maintenance takes logner than expected. There will be additional downtime during the evenings between Sept 6-8. Thank you for your patience and understanding. |
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| Change for GoofyxGrid@Home |
I have first result for my efforts for monkeys and goofyxGrid@home. Because at this moment there is no possibility to have one project with many cpu and many nci apps (this problem is reported on mailing-group and on github) I have to split my GG@H into two separated project:
1. http://cpu.goofyxgridathome.net
2. http://nci.goofyxgridathome.net
ad <- 1
Not only for monkeys ;)
I wolud like to start some virtualBox cpu application with Machine Learning, Neuytral Network (face and object recongnitions) etc.
ad <- 2
Users, teams, credits will be imported from GCC,
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| Planned downtime on Sept 2-3. |
| We are planning a database maintenance for Sept. 2-3. During this period the project will be unavailable for longer periods. |
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| New ATLAS app version released for Linux hosts |
We released a new version of the ATLAS app today, 2.41 for the x86_64-pc-linux-gnu platform.
The new features of this version include:
1. It requires the host OS to be either Scentific Linux 6 or Cent OS 7.
2. It require CVMFS and Singularity instead of Virtualbox to run the ATLAS jobs.
3. It is more efficient, as the avoidance of using Virtualbox.
Currently, this version is set to beta version.
For people who want to try it out,we provide a script to install everything including CVMFS, singularity here,
Try it if you are interested!
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| CMS Weekend problem |
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Warning: The WMAgent which controls CMS jobs appears to have a failed component very recently. Queue seems to be exhausted. Please set No New Tasks or change to a backup app while I try to raise someone at CERN to fix it. This could be a problem given that this is expected to be the heaviest weekend of the year for holiday travel in Europe...
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| Optimising distribution of SixTrack tasks |
Dear Volunteers,
we are trying to improve the distribution of SixTrack tasks. If your host could process more tasks but during the project update you don't receive any, can you let us know and send us your client logging report? Please continue the thread "SixTrack Tasks NOT being distributed" opened by Eric here:
http://lhcathome.cern.ch/sixtrack/forum_thread.php?id=4324
so that we can collect all the issues in only one place. In this way, we could try to better tune parameters controlling the distribution of tasks on the server side.
At the same time, we apologize for the loss of credits following the accidental deletion of lines in the main DB - please see message:
http://lhcathome.cern.ch/sixtrack/forum_thread.php?id=4362&postid=31563#31563
As you can see, task distribution is progressing regularly since the beginning of the week
Thanks in advance for your precious cooperation,
Alessio and Riccardo, for the SixTrack team
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| Aborted Work Units |
After deleting many really old results from 2013 until March 2017 (was meant to
be December 2016) it seems many Tasks have been aborted. A full analysis
and report will be posted. No action required by volunteers. Eric.
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