- You must log in to be able to post[BOINCstats] Willy: @caspr: ??????07-13 13:36Once Known As PoorBoy: Must be the Rage now to Screw up the Stats by Posting an Enormous Amount of Credits ...
07-13 11:56[BOINCstats] Willy: I mean: not the credits. The team will be imported with 0 credits.07-13 10:28[BOINCstats] Willy: Been there, done that
. BS will not import that team. Having said that, Murphy will find a way.07-13 10:24Seejay: Put my glasses on: 1.6x10^63 creds & 10^64 RAC - yeah right....07-12 22:17
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| 2009-04-28: Cosmology@Home - Credit and Time Bound issues |
| A total of 5000 credits have been added to profiles of all active Cosmo@home users. This is meant for expired/failed WUs due to project down-time and to compensate for the earlier low credit per WU payment for resource intensive CAMB 2.16 WUs. Also, the time bound for these new WUs has been incresaed from 10 days to 15 days which should be enough to complete crunching them even on machines ~5 years old. |
| 2009-04-18: Cosmology@Home - Apps restored successfully and increase in credits |
| We have restored CAMB 2.16 apps successfully for all platforms so all project specific errors (Signature and/or Checksum) should no longer be present. Also, most WUs for camb 2.16 are more resource heavy than the previous WU's for 2.15 so we have increased the credit for each WU from 140 to 200. If there are any disputes about this we will be happy to address them. If you feel that the credit being given for the 2.16 app, WUs is too little/ too much please start a thread related to this on the Wish List message board. Thank you. |
| 2009-03-27: Cosmology@Home - More hardware maintenance |
| After replacing a damaged RAID drive, the server kept throwing I/O errors and kernel panics, which required us to have the motherboard and RAID controller replaced as well. Hopefully this last round of hardware replacements will solve the problem and we will be back up today. |
| 2009-03-26: Cosmology@Home - Website back up |
| The website is mostly up and running at the moment. We'll have the project daemons up as soon as possible. |
| 2009-03-13: Cosmology@Home - C@H down for server maintanence |
| The Cosmology@home server has been suffering abnormal crashes ever few hours since the campus power outage on March 8, 2009. We will be taking to server offline soon for maintanence and repairs during which time Cosmolosy@home will not run. This website and the forums will also not be accessible at that time. We are working as fast as possible to get the project back up and running to its full potential. |
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| 2009-03-08: Cosmology@Home - Power outage on campus |
| There had been a power outage at the University of Illinois campus today for approximately 12 hours due to strong winds knocking down large power lines in the county. Due to this some of you may have experienced download problems from Cosmo@home over the course of the day but the power has now been restored and everything should be back to normal. If someone still experiences problems please let us know through the forums. Thank you. |
| 2009-03-03: Cosmology@Home - Test parameter file generator fixed |
| A problem which was causing the test parameter file generator to output empty parameter files has been corrected. I just tested a new test WU on my machine and it seems to be working file. I'll be creating another 500 WUs to test the app on other architectures. The credit for these WUs (excluding the 5 that I just made to test whether parameter file generation was working correctly) will be 3 times the normal amount. |
| 2009-03-02: Cosmology@Home - Testing in the future |
| We're in the process of debugging the test app. There will periodically be test WUs released in small batches to test the new app version. The new WUs should require lower accuracy and should complete more quickly than the last batch. Credit will be given out for successfully completed WUs (that is, WUs without errors). However, we'd like to remind everybody that credit is not guaranteed for test WUs. Test WUs help us to release new versions of CAMB and keep C@H going; be aware, however, that these WUs can (and often do) fail, so if you would rather crunch regular WUs and not have to deal with the hassle of failed WUs, then disable test work in your project preferences. Crunching test WUs will never be compulsory. That being said, however, we will make every effort to reward users who donate their CPU time to help us test. |
| 2009-02-24: Cosmology@Home - New test application released |
| A new test application has been released and 500 test WUs created. Please enable test work in your project preferences if you would like to help us test this new version so we can put it into production. |
| 2009-02-17: Cosmology@Home - Cosmo hosts back up on stat sites |
| All Cosmology hosts are now visible in stat sites. The database was curropted due to the server crash last November and has now been fixed. |
| 2009-02-02: Cosmology@Home - Cosmology@Home is hiring! |
| We are hiring - please look at the job posting for more information. |
| 2009-02-02: Cosmology@Home - Cosmology@Home is hiring! |
| We are hiring - please look at the job posting for more information. |
| 2008-12-10: Cosmology@Home - New Validator to go online at midnight |
| Our new validator has completed its testing phase and is finally ready to go live! An important new feature of this validator is that it eliminates the need for homogenous redundancy and sets quorum of all WUs to 1. As with any major update there may be bugs so we request your help in identifying them. Thanks and Merry Christmas! |
| 2008-12-10: Cosmology@Home - New Validator to go online at midnight |
| Our new validator has completed its testing phase and is finally ready to go live! An important new feature of this validator is that it eliminates the need for homogenous redundancy and sets quorum of all WUs to 1. As with any major update there may be bugs so we request your help in identifying them. Thanks and Merry Christmas! |
| 2008-11-29: Cosmology@Home - Server back up after Thanksgiving outage |
| Once again, the ghosts in the machine attacked when everybody was out of town for Thanksgiving, rendering the server non-functional until someone could make it back in town. After replacing the network switch and the NIC, and applying a hefty dose of holy water to ward away any further geist attacks, the server is up again. |
| 2008-11-29: Cosmology@Home - Server back up after Thanksgiving outage |
| Once again, the ghosts in the machine attacked when everybody was out of town for Thanksgiving, rendering the server non-functional until someone could make it back in town. After replacing the network switch and the NIC, and applying a hefty dose of holy water to ward away any further geist attacks, the server is up again. |
| 2008-11-15: Cosmology@Home - New Validator and HTTP error issues |
| We have generated 50 test work units each worth 120 credits to test our new validator. The new validator essentially eliminates the need for homogenous redundancy and will also be used to organize our data more efficiently. Checking to see if these test work units download correctly will also help us narrow down possibilities and help find a solution to the HTTP errors many of you have been experiencing with this project.-Anshul |
| 2008-11-15: Cosmology@Home - New Validator and HTTP error issues |
| We have generated 50 test work units each worth 120 credits to test our new validator. The new validator essentially eliminates the need for homogenous redundancy and will also be used to organize our data more efficiently. Checking to see if these test work units download correctly will also help us narrow down possibilities and help find a solution to the HTTP errors many of you have been experiencing with this project.-Anshul |
| 2008-10-18: Cosmology@Home - Fixed WU Generator Issue |
| Fixed a problem with the work generator and made approximately 10k new WUs. Sorry for the inconvenience.-Scott |
| 2008-10-18: Cosmology@Home - Fixed WU Generator Issue |
| Fixed a problem with the work generator and made approximately 10k new WUs. Sorry for the inconvenience.-Scott |
| 2008-10-15: Cosmology@Home - Old test WUs removed and Work Generator started. |
| The WUs for the test application have been removed and we have started up the work generator. You should see regular WU traffic soon. |
| 2008-10-15: Cosmology@Home - Old test WUs removed and Work Generator started. |
| The WUs for the test application have been removed and we have started up the work generator. You should see regular WU traffic soon. |
| 2008-10-10: Cosmology@Home - Old WUs Re-cancelled |
| The old WUs are still around, since I made a mistake in the script used to cancel them, so I've just manually cancelled all of the old ones again. This shouldn't affect the new WUs at all. |
| 2008-10-10: Cosmology@Home - Work today |
| Making some work today (for the main app) to test the new validation system. If the work starts to come back properly, then we'll start making more. |
| 2008-10-10: Cosmology@Home - Old WUs Re-cancelled |
| The old WUs are still around, since I made a mistake in the script used to cancel them, so I've just manually cancelled all of the old ones again. This shouldn't affect the new WUs at all. |
| 2008-10-10: Cosmology@Home - Work today |
| Making some work today (for the main app) to test the new validation system. If the work starts to come back properly, then we'll start making more. |
| 2008-10-04: Cosmology@Home - Maintenance today |
| Anshul and I are going to spend the day working on the project. The first thing will be to clear out the WU queue and start from scratch. We'll keep you posted. |
| 2008-09-30: Cosmology@Home - New Administrator |
| We've just hired a new administrator for Cosmology@Home, Anshul Kanakia. I will be working with him in the next couple of weeks to get the project up and running. Anshul is an undergraduate at the Univerisity of Illinois, so he will have as much time (or more) than I had in the past to dedicate to the project. Please welcome him and help him out if you can! |
| 2008-09-05: Cosmology@Home - Another note about test work |
| It should also be noted that test work will be validated regardless of whether or not it matches the partner WU. This will insure that nobody is penalized for running test work with the experimental HR. |
| 2008-09-05: Cosmology@Home - Test work |
| After a little more work, we are going to release some work for the test app test_camb, which will be using a different (although not final) version of HR. The credit for these WUs will be higher than that for normal WUs (140 versus 120). If you want to participate in testing, please enable test work in your project preferences.NOTE: This post has been edited to reflect the correct credit values. |
| 2008-09-03: Cosmology@Home - Server back up after hardware problems |
| The RAID array on our server broke down over the weekend, and after an incredibly-long recovery process, the server is back up. |
| 2008-08-29: Cosmology@Home - Project overhaul and application testing |
| The projct will be down while we work on the major problems facing the project right now, including work distribution, HR, and credit. We will be making work for a test application so we can test the new HR model. |
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| 2008-08-09: Cosmology@Home - Old WUs cancalled and feeder code modified |
| Workunits created over two weeks ago have been piling up, so we've made a small change to the feeder code and cancelled the offending WUs. |
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| 2008-07-31: Cosmology@Home - Linux app issue fixed |
| The i686 Linux app issue has been fixed. |
| 2008-07-24: Cosmology@Home - Work generator fixed |
| Due to a typo in the work-generation script and non-aggressive PHP error checking, work generation was down yesterday. It's been fixed now. |
| 2008-07-22: Cosmology@Home - New CAMB, work generation, increased credit, and old WUs. |
| The new CAMB is now up and work generation has commenced; in addition, credit for the new WUs has been increased, since lensing is now re-enabled.Although we let the old WUs drain as much as possible, there may yet still be some in the queue, which may cause some problems with the new CAMB. TTherefore, if you get work that is dated before the 22nd, you may want to play it safe and abort the WU. |
| 2008-07-22: Cosmology@Home - New CAMB version and work generation later on today |
| We are nearly done with the new CAMB app with lensing, so it should be up later on today along with the new parameter generator. |
| 2008-05-05: Cosmology@Home - Maintainence this week |
| On Thursday, May 8, we will be bringing down the server for most of the day to perform the maintainence we previous mentioned. |
| 2008-04-20: Cosmology@Home - Maintainence and downtime in the next couple of weeks |
| Early next month, we plan on performing some major maintainence on our server hardware which will require that we shut down the server for a number of hours. We'll give a more specific date around that time, but we thought you all would appreciate the heads up. |
| 2008-04-20: Cosmology@Home - Maintainence and downtime in the next couple of weeks |
| Early next month, we plan on performing some major maintainence on our server hardware which will require that we shut down the server for a number of hours. We'll give a more specific date around that time, but we thought you all would appreciate the heads up. |
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| 2008-04-07: Cosmology@Home - Scheduler temporarily down |
| The scheduler will be down for a little while while we tool around with the database in order to fix the slow query issue. |
| 2008-04-07: Cosmology@Home - Temporarily lowering credit again |
| Since CAMB sans lensing seems to be much, MUCH faster than CAMB with lensing, we're temporarily lowered the credit again to 50, which still is pretty high, just not ridiculous like it is now. |
| 2008-04-07: Cosmology@Home - Maintainence finished for now |
| We're finished with the database maintainence for now. Some more may be required tomorrow as well, if the database keeps acting up. |
| 2008-04-07: Cosmology@Home - Maintainence finished for now |
| We're finished with the database maintainence for now. Some more may be required tomorrow as well, if the database keeps acting up. |
| 2008-04-07: Cosmology@Home - Temporarily lowering credit again |
| Since CAMB sans lensing seems to be much, MUCH faster than CAMB with lensing, we're temporarily lowered the credit again to 50, which still is pretty high, just not ridiculous like it is now. |
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| 2008-04-07: Cosmology@Home - Scheduler temporarily down |
| The scheduler will be down for a little while while we tool around with the database in order to fix the slow query issue. |
| 2008-04-05: Cosmology@Home - We're Still Here |
| We've been working on the server for the past week every day trying to get the server back to an acceptable state. However, the database has been extremely stubborn in going back to normal. We will continue to work on it *every day* until it's 100% right, so please don't think that we are unaware or or ignoring the problems. |
| 2008-04-05: Cosmology@Home - A message to Cosmology@Home users |
| A message to Cosmology@Home users |
| 2008-04-05: Cosmology@Home - A message to Cosmology@Home users |
| A message to Cosmology@Home users |
| 2008-04-05: Cosmology@Home - We're Still Here |
| We've been working on the server for the past week every day trying to get the server back to an acceptable state. However, the database has been extremely stubborn in going back to normal. We will continue to work on it *every day* until it's 100% right, so please don't think that we are unaware or or ignoring the problems. |
| 2008-04-04: Cosmology@Home - Project Daemons Restarted |
| The database activity has finally gone down to an acceptable level, so we've restarted the project daemons. |
| 2008-04-04: Cosmology@Home - Project Daemons Restarted |
| The database activity has finally gone down to an acceptable level, so we've restarted the project daemons. |
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| 2008-04-02: Cosmology@Home - Letting the validator catch up |
| Due to the flux in workunits that has been taking place recently, there's quite a lot of strain on the database. So, until the validator and the other daemons are caught up on their work, we aren't going to send out any more WUs. We'll restart the scheduler as soon as it's done. Thank you for your patience. |
| 2008-04-02: Cosmology@Home - Letting the validator catch up |
| Due to the flux in workunits that has been taking place recently, there's quite a lot of strain on the database. So, until the validator and the other daemons are caught up on their work, we aren't going to send out any more WUs. We'll restart the scheduler as soon as it's done. Thank you for your patience. |
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| 2008-04-01: Cosmology@Home - Update on the database situation |
| The database appears to be up and working again. To learn more about the issues, read this post. |
| 2008-04-01: Cosmology@Home - Update on the database situation |
| The database appears to be up and working again. To learn more about the issues, read this post. |
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| 2008-03-31: Cosmology@Home - Problems with mysql server |
| We are experiencing some problems with our mysql server which started at some point over the weekend. I am currently working on it and will post as soon as I have it up again. |
| 2008-03-26: Cosmology@Home - Temporarily lowering credit from non-lensing CAMB WUs |
| Until we fix CAMB's lensing component, we will be temporarily lowering credit granted to all WUs from 100 to 80. |
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| 2008-03-26: Cosmology@Home - Keep on Crunching! |
| Despite temporarily disabling the lensing component of CAMB, the results are still very useful to us, so please don't worry that your time here at Cosmology@Home is wasted. |
| 2008-03-20: Cosmology@Home - Canceling Old Workunits |
| It seems that the WUs in the queue right now will not run correctly, so we are going to cancel all of the current WUs and give credit to the WUs which have already been completed. Then, we will enable the new WU generator. Make sure to update your BOINC client so that you don't accidentally crunch WUs that have been canceled. |
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| 2008-03-19: Cosmology@Home - Project daemons back up and running |
| The project is now back up and running. The generator will be down for a bit until we run down the available WUs, but then the new generator will kick in. |
| 2008-03-18: Cosmology@Home - Project Temporarily Suspended |
| We are suspending WU generation until the "Rombint" errors are solved and a new generator is up and running. |
| 2008-03-15: Cosmology@Home - Server is back up |
| The server is back up after cleaning out the old versions of CAMB that are no longer being used. |
| 2008-03-14: Cosmology@Home - Fix for the output file errors released |
| CAMB 2.12 has been released and now correctly resolves the output filenames to prevent "cannot rename output file" errors. |
| 2008-03-11: Cosmology@Home - Upgrade To CAMB 2.11 |
| If you are experiencing problems with CAMB 2.10 and below, abort those WUs and get the newest version of CAMB, 2.11 |
| 2008-01-24: Cosmology@Home - Update on the Server Situation |
| An update about the current server situation is here. |
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| 2008-01-24: Cosmology@Home - Server Issues and Solutions |
| There have been a lot of problems caused by the move across servers, mostly caused by complications with apache and the BOINC client. I've spent most of my day working on a solution, which I will outline here. |
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| 2008-01-24: Cosmology@Home - Permanent URL |
| Note that between today and tomorrow, the site URL might change between "www.cosmologyathome.org" and "cosmologyathome.org", although they are more or less equivalent. Tomorrow night, it should stay permanently at the former one. Sorry for any confusion this may cause. |
| 2008-01-18: Cosmology@Home - Server Maintenence |
| On the coming Wednesday (1/23/2008), we will be performing some server maintenence at 5 PM CST (11 PM UTC). The server may be down for a period of a couple of hours, but I'll try to get it back up and running ASAP. |
| 2008-01-18: Cosmology@Home - Server Maintenence |
| On the coming Wednesday (1/23/2008), we will be performing some server maintenence at 5 PM CST (11 PM UTC). The server may be down for a period of a couple of hours, but I'll try to get it back up and running ASAP. |
| 2007-12-26: Cosmology@Home - New Article in the Chicago Tribune |
| Cosmology@Home, as well as moderator JRenkar and user KSMarksPsych, was mentioned in this Chicago Tribune article, which ran yesterday. Great job to everybody and thanks for making Cosmology@Home a success! |
| 2007-12-26: Cosmology@Home - New Article in the Chicago Tribune |
| Cosmology@Home, as well as moderator JRenkar and user KSMarksPsych, was mentioned in this Chicago Tribune article, which ran yesterday. Great job to everybody and thanks for making Cosmology@Home a success! |
| 2007-12-16: Cosmology@Home - Small Change to the WU Generator |
| We've made a small change to the work generator parameters which may affect the run-time of upcoming workunits. Don't be alarmed if WUs created after the 15th take a bit more or less to complete. |
| 2007-12-16: Cosmology@Home - Small Change to the WU Generator |
| We've made a small change to the work generator parameters which may affect the run-time of upcoming workunits. Don't be alarmed if WUs created after the 15th take a bit more or less to complete. |
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| 2007-12-10: Cosmology@Home - Server handing out work again |
| It looks like the server is handing out work again. The problem was that the feeder was trying to hand out only the oldest work, which wouldn't allow the newer, faster machines to get anything. Now it should be up and running correctly. |
| 2007-12-10: Cosmology@Home - Server handing out work again |
| It looks like the server is handing out work again. The problem was that the feeder was trying to hand out only the oldest work, which wouldn't allow the newer, faster machines to get anything. Now it should be up and running correctly. |
| 2007-12-03: Cosmology@Home - First paper using Cosmology@Home submitted |
| Chad just submitted our first paper using results from Cosmology@Home. It will appear on the online astrophysics archive at astro-ph/0712.0194 and we will also submit it to the Astrophysical Journal. The paper describes Pico, a machine learning tool for cosmology. Pico is speed in a bottle. Pico extracts the essence of the quadrillions of CPU cycles of Cosmology@Home and enables other cosmologists to speed up their calculations by a factor of 250,000. You can have a sneak preview by clicking on papers on the new Pico homepage. You might like to have a look at the acknowledgement section at the end where we mention 5 crunchers from Cosmology@Home as representatives of all our users. |
| 2007-12-03: Cosmology@Home - First paper using Cosmology@Home submitted |
| Chad just submitted our first paper using results from Cosmology@Home. It will appear on the online astrophysics archive at astro-ph/0712.0194 and we will also submit it to the Astrophysical Journal. The paper describes Pico, a machine learning tool for cosmology. Pico is speed in a bottle. Pico extracts the essence of the quadrillions of CPU cycles of Cosmology@Home and enables other cosmologists to speed up their calculations by a factor of 250,000. You can have a sneak preview by clicking on papers on the new Pico homepage. You might like to have a look at the acknowledgement section at the end where we mention 5 crunchers from Cosmology@Home as representatives of all our users. |
| 2007-11-22: Cosmology@Home - New Milestone! |
| Congratulations everyone: we have entered the top 10 most active BOINC projects in the world according to BOINCstats! This is with less than 3000 users world-wide. We are Project of the Month at BOINC Synergy, Free-DC, and L'Alliance Francophone, plus our top team AMDUsers are running a week-long race on Cosmology@Home! |
| 2007-11-22: Cosmology@Home - New Milestone! |
| Congratulations everyone: we have entered the top 10 most active BOINC projects in the world according to BOINCstats! This is with less than 3000 users world-wide. We are Project of the Month at BOINC Synergy, Free-DC, and L'Alliance Francophone, plus our top team AMDUsers are running a week-long race on Cosmology@Home! |
| 2007-11-14: Cosmology@Home - Cosmology@Home is back! |
| We are back! We just recovered from a hardware failure which caused the downtime for the last few days. Cosmology@Home is back online, running on a new server. Once the old server is repaired we will have a fully redundant system, which will avoid downtime due to hardware failure. Since we already had a fully redundant disk setup none of the science data was lost. Everyone will get credit for the work they did. Please give us some time (a few days to a week) to sort through the credit issue. If some WU expired before you were able to upload the results we will have to intervene manually to make sure you get the credit you deserve. Happy crunching! We have some lost time to make up for! |
| 2007-11-14: Cosmology@Home - More Server Fixes and Message Board Down-Time |
| We just fixed the server's clock so that it's no longer fast. However, this has the side-effect of making it impossible to post for the next 7 or so hours. In the mean time, we've also fixed the file uploader, so it looks like almost everything is back up and running. |
| 2007-11-14: Cosmology@Home - More Server Fixes and Message Board Down-Time |
| We just fixed the server's clock so that it's no longer fast. However, this has the side-effect of making it impossible to post for the next 7 or so hours. In the mean time, we've also fixed the file uploader, so it looks like almost everything is back up and running. |
| 2007-11-14: Cosmology@Home - Cosmology@Home is back! |
| We are back! We just recovered from a hardware failure which caused the downtime for the last few days. Cosmology@Home is back online, running on a new server. Once the old server is repaired we will have a fully redundant system, which will avoid downtime due to hardware failure. Since we already had a fully redundant disk setup none of the science data was lost. Everyone will get credit for the work they did. Please give us some time (a few days to a week) to sort through the credit issue. If some WU expired before you were able to upload the results we will have to intervene manually to make sure you get the credit you deserve. Happy crunching! We have some lost time to make up for! |
| 2007-10-26: Cosmology@Home - Cosmology@Home Beta Testing |
| From this point on, Cosmology@Home is now in the beta testing phase! For more, read this thread on the message boards. |
| 2007-10-26: Cosmology@Home - Cosmology@Home Beta Testing |
| From this point on, Cosmology@Home is now in the beta testing phase! For more, read this thread on the message boards. |
| 2007-10-23: Cosmology@Home - New CAMB Application Testing Today |
| Testing for the new, stand-alone CAMB app will start today at 5 PM. This version will implement progress indication, as well as relieve our independence on the wrapper app. Go here for more information. |
| 2007-09-18: Cosmology@Home - New Website Design Is Up |
| The new website design is now up and running. Please post any bugs and other issues in the message boards. Some of you may be concerned that the website is too narrow, so we are working on an option to increase the width of the content window, which should be available soon. |
| 2007-09-10: Cosmology@Home - Project Down during Maintenance |
| Cosmology@Home will be down for a couple of hours while we perform server maintenance related to the vast number of errors we've been seeing for the past couple of hours. I'll be sure to notify everyone when we're back up. |
| 2007-08-22: Cosmology@Home - Open Registration for Alpha |
| For those who can't wait until Beta begins, we have opened up registration for the current Alpha stage of Cosmology@Home. Registration through the boinc client is still disabled, so go to the account creation page for more information. |
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| 2007-08-14: Cosmology@Home - New URL for the Project |
| The new URL for Cosmology@Home is www.cosmologyathome.org. The old URL will still work to ensure there aren't any problems. |
| 2007-08-10: Cosmology@Home - Server back up |
| The server is working again after a restart. Sory for the down-time. |
| 2007-08-07: Cosmology@Home - Testing New CAMB App |
| We are going to start testing a new version of CAMB that does not require a wrapper application to run. This app should eventually fix a number of issues with progress indication and checkpointing. It should be noted that this test app is currently only working for Linux, finishes in about a minute, and will grant 0 credit upon completion. |
| 2007-08-07: Cosmology@Home - Test App |
| The test application is now non-beta, so the "Run test applications" option no longer needs to be enabled in the project preferences. Sorry for the confusion. |
| 2007-07-31: Cosmology@Home - Server is back up |
| The server is back up after a couple of hours of downtime. |
| 2007-07-23: Cosmology@Home - Faulty WUs Now Finished, No More Aborts |
| All of the faulty WUs from the weekend should be gone now, so please do not abort any more WUs with the intention of not crunching bad results. |
| 2007-07-19: Cosmology@Home - CAMB 1.22, Checkpointing, and Longer WUs |
| We have released version 1.22 of our CAMB app today, which implements a checkpointing system. Along with the new application come longer WUs, wihch should take several hours to complete and will grant more credits per completed result. More information |
| 2007-07-06: Cosmology@Home - Faster Version of CAMB for Windows Available |
| The performance gap between the Windows and Linux versions of CAMB has been eliminated due to the release of a new, recompiled version of Win32 CAMB. Granted credits may be slightly lowered to compensate. |
| 2007-06-29: Cosmology@Home - Fixed Credit Coming on Monday |
| On Monday, we'll be implementing a fixed-credit system for all WUs. Ideally, this will take care of multiple issues we have been experiencing with granted credits in recent days. |
| 2007-06-18: Cosmology@Home - Letter from Benjamin Wandelt |
| Benjamin Wandelt, the head of our research group here at the University of Illinois, has written a letter to the users of Cosmology@Home. In the letter, Ben explains the scientific background behind the projects as well as the actual contribution individual users will be making to Cosmolgy. |
| 2007-06-12: Cosmology@Home - Revised Test WUs Available This Week |
| The last batch of test WUs took as long as 4 hours each to complete, so we've created a new set which should last somewhere between 8 and 20 minutes. I'll be creating new WUs all this week to test out minor changes being made to CAMB. |
| 2007-06-11: Cosmology@Home - New Test WUs Available |
| New test WUs are available, although these are considerably different than the last set of test WUs. Whereas previous WUs ran for about 15-30 seconds, these should run for about an hour. We are making a relatively small batch of WUs to see how well these work. |
| 2007-06-08: Cosmology@Home - Science Behind Cosmology@Home |
| I've been receiving a lot of questions about the scientific reasoning behind Cosmology@Home; specifically, you want to know what our application does and how that fits into the grand scheme of Cosmology. Dr. Benjamin Wandelt, the head of the research group that is hosting Cosmology@Home, is working on explaining exactly that as a part of the current redesign of his website aimed at accomodating our BOINC project. I'm sorry that we don't already have one, but it seems that the technical progress on Cosmology@Home is outpacing the other efforts. As soon as Ben has finished, I'll post a link and make an announcement. |
| 2007-06-08: Cosmology@Home - No More Invitations for Now |
| Thanks to everybody for such a tremendous showing of support for testing Cosmology@Home. I've had more than enough requests to help with testing at this point, so for now, registration is closed again. Thanks again for all of those who volunteered to help test our project! |
| 2007-06-08: Cosmology@Home - Project Down |
| The project will be down for a while until we can make the necessary upgrades to our server and application. We will not be creating any more WUs until the test next week. |
| 2007-05-23: Cosmology@Home - Project Status and Account Creation |
| How so many people have found out about Cosmology@Home this early into development is still a mystery to me, but I'm not complaining! At this point, Cosmology@Home is still in the pre-alpha stage; therefore, I have disabled account creation until I can get everything up and running. As soon as we're up, though, registration will be opened and we'll be off! |
| 2007-03-31: Cosmology@Home - Testing has Begin! |
| Cosmology@Home is currently in the pre-alpha phase. Expect us to be up-and-running soon! |
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