Saturday, May 07 2005 @ 02:19 PM
Contributed by: Shaktai
Views: 2369

Macintosh BOINC GUI is now available as a Development version.
-- For those who haven't been paying close attention, there are now two BOINC GUI's for Macintosh. One is a simple menubar GUI that runs BOINC version 4.25 and the other is an Advanced GUI, version 4.35, that looks and works similar to the Windows GUI. (Actually it looks better). It also provides a screensaver and supports graphics on those BOINC projects that have Graphics. (Not all BOINC projects currently provide Graphics.) -- The Advanced GUI does have some bugs with "work estimation and completed percentage" but those will eventually be fixed.

So for those SETI and other DC participants who have been avoiding BOINC because of the terminal, now is the time to change. A user friendly GUI that installs just like any other application is now available for Mac users. Make the switch and crunch for Team MacNN.

NOTE: OS 10.3.x or greater is required..

Wednesday, April 06 2005 @ 05:36 PM
Contributed by: mikkyo
Views: 2701

reader50 has posted my latest optimized compiles of the Boinc 4.27 Beta clients on the team resource site.

Note that the benchmarking code has changed and so the clients will benchmark slower than existing ones.
They are not any slower, just the benchmarks are longer and more involved.

If you are daring, feel free to try out the new beta clients.

Boinc Beta Clients

Monday, April 04 2005 @ 12:34 AM
Contributed by: reader50
Views: 2321

The fix is in, you may now place your bets with confidence.

With Predictor's 20-member pages whipped, the way is clear to work on Climate stats. Look for things to heat up.

Thursday, March 24 2005 @ 02:57 AM
Contributed by: reader50
Views: 2415

Mikkyo reported recently that our Predictor stats were frozen, so I went after them tonight. It turns out the project people made a number of site changes, including modified HTML code. My local copy of the parsers is working again, but running them turned up yet another problem.

Looks like the Predictor folks upgraded to the latest BOINC server-side files, and forgot to reapply the hack so team member listings become unlimited. Yes, the team listings are again limited to 20 members per page. Even worse, the server files are hardcoded so the maximum team listing is 1,020 members, additional members are not listed after this point.

I could shoot off an email to them and request the hack be reapplied, but these limits apply to all the other BOINC projects too. Instead, I'll build an alternate idea to reach the data, which will make stats coverage practical on the other BOINC projects as well. Note, we could use the XML files for stats data that updates only every 12-24 hours. But that would be no better than anyone else's stats updates.

So, no Predictor stats tonight, or possibly for a few days. But the prospects are looking better for stats coverage on additional BOINC projects.

Monday, March 21 2005 @ 01:55 AM
Contributed by: reader50
Views: 1961

We've been doing some maintenance on the teamstats database over the last few days. This may go on for a couple days more, and it is maxing out the processing box. This is causing stats updates to lag on many teams.

Once the database maintenance is done, all the lagging teams will catch up. The maintenance is useful, we are clearing out redundant data that had swelled the DB from it's normal ~7 GB to over 13 GB. The specific teams being worked on will benefit from faster seek times afterwards.

Saturday, February 19 2005 @ 03:55 PM
Contributed by: Shaktai
Views: 1807

Feb 19, 2005
Einstein@Home was officially launched this morning at the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) meeting in Washington, DC, USA.

Einstein@Home.

Einstein@home is a program that uses your computer's idle time to search for spinning neutron stars (also called pulsars) using data from the LIGO and GEO gravitational wave detectors. Einstein@home is a World Year of Physics 2005 project supported by the American Physical Society (APS) and by a number of international organizations.

This first production run of Einstein@home carries out a search for pulsars over the entire sky, using the most sensitive 600 hours of data from LIGO's third science run, S3. The purpose is to detect and analyze Gravitational waves that may support Einstein's "Theory of Relativity".

Wednesday, December 22 2004 @ 05:16 PM
Contributed by: Shaktai
Views: 1533

Predictor@Home is back online, at least as far as their website goes. (Surprised me) During v4.0 alpha testing, I was never able to get any Mac work units, but the Win and Linux were working okay. However, I was probably the only Mac tester, and with most the staff at Casp 6, getting me Mac work was not a priority.

Team MacNN is ranked #8 in total credit. It may take a few days to get everything back up and working smoothly, but overall the platform is stable and is now running on some beefy new servers that should be able to handle the load.

Monday, December 13 2004 @ 08:32 PM
Contributed by: Scott
Views: 1664

If teamstats was to be rebuilt...
a thread for discussion about ways to improve teamstats

Planned teamstats outage coming up
information about an upcoming outage, and more

New Number 1 position in Folding@Home for Team MacNN!!!
Congrats to OneMacGuy on reaching number one for our team

Want more discussion? Head over to the team forum.

Tuesday, November 09 2004 @ 04:41 AM
Contributed by: reader50
Views: 2501

Predictor@home stats are online, but the project itself remains in closed beta. At some point, they will open back up to general participation.

For the moment, our stats are cronned to update once per day. When the project comes back, we will speed that up.

Thanks to krove for setting up Predictor and Climate sections, this is our first post in the Predictor section.

Friday, September 03 2004 @ 01:11 AM
Contributed by: reader50
Views: 2837

Yep, the sigs are still being blocked by the firewall. Scott will have to keep poking at that end when he isn't doing homework.

In the meantime, I'm building the stats code for Predictor@home. It doesn't help that this project is temporarily shutting down for upgrades, but it doesn't hurt development. The code is expected to be finished by the end of this week, but it won't work until the project comes back up.

Edit: The stats sigs started working again after I fixed a bug in my sigs code.