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I was just looking over this list, and deciding to join a few projects. I was curious if Orbit@Home was still going, so I checked their message boards. It looks like they had an update there at the end of May:
Dear orbit@home users:

The project is very well alive, but in a state of apparent inactivity, at least on the BOINC side. While we didn't work directly on the BOINC application or the science database, in the last months we've been working on ORSA, adding several important features that will be used in the BOINC application. On the funding side, we're "fighting" in order to demonstrate to NASA how important it is to use numerical simulations to support Near-Earth Objects discovery, characterization, and threat mitigation, and we should hear something back about this pretty soon (1-2 weeks from now). We're thinking about extending o@h's science in several directions, such as providing a guide to astronomers to where to point their telescopes every night in order to maximize the probability to detect a new NEO, or how to automatically determine rotation period, spin pole and shape of a NEO, or how to test numerically different deflection methods in order to mitigate the threat posed by NEOs. If these ideas turn out to be scientifically valid, then we should ear great news soon. Otherwise... we'll keep scratching our heads in order to find a way to make o@h start crunching!
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I wonder, though, if they shouldn't just run under Leiden Classical?
 
BOINC! (no simple bumps for me. 😉)


Updated info for BOINC Alpha, Cunning Plan, and Chess960 (Chess is open for processing now). Added missing description for Einstein@home.

I don't really want to paste that whole message from Orbit@home in the list so I'll just keep an eye on it and update the thread when they have some solid news. 🙂
 
Hi Fardringle,

Just read the updates about Orbit@home. Gave me an idea for the stats list. Can you include the follwing:

1. The application download size - eg the latest Einstein is about 15 meg.
2. The WU download size - eg SETI is about 350k, Einstein is about 20k (?).
3. The WU upload size - eg SETI is < 10k, Einstein in the other hand is about 150k, Climate has periodic 4.x meg files.

BTW, I see the race is on with Xtremlab. Looks like I started something and everyone is having a go at it.
 
Download size of each application (size on disk) is easy. I have all available projects attached on my home computer. 😉

Upload and download size of the actual results and work units might be hard since (as far as I can tell) you have to actually be looking at the Transfers tab in the client while the work unit is being uploaded/downloaded in order to get that information. If you know of an easier way to find those numbers, I'll be happy to add them to the list.
 
Hi,

I would not be so sure about 'size on disk' - is that from the disk tab? That as far as I can tell the total amount of space the app uses.

The download size you can get from the projects folder. All the WU's are stroed there (except I see Xtremlab - but I think that is just a 'flag'). QMC shows 1k (they are about 300bytes = 1k).

Since I have a dial up, it is like watching paint dry, so I will, where I can, send you the numbers I have.
 
Hi Fardringle,

Numbers as promised:

Xtremlab:
App: ?
D/L: = 0. I think it is a flag and a reference to the server only.
U/L: = +/- 1.9 kb

Einstein:
App: ?
D/L: = ?
U/L: = +/- 135 kb

QMC:
App: 1 meg + 230 kb (periodically, depending on state of project)
D/L: = +/- 1 kb (310 bytes)
U/L: = +/- 71 kb + 1 kb

SETI:
App: ?
D/L: = 350 kb
U/L: = +/- 11 kb

Not much I know, but that is what I am running at the moment. There is not a significant difference between the Xtremlab numbers on Windows or Linux.
 
BOINC! 😀


Added Rectilinear Crossing Numbers project and a few missing pieces of info for a couple of other projects.
 
For the SZTAKI project: "WU Processing Time: 71.4 minutes "

I have one of these WUs right now that has been running for 2 hours, 40 minutes, lists as 0% completed, and projects to take another 220 hours and 56 minutes to complete!

Boggle.

EDIT: This is on a dually running AMD MP 1800 chips. Well, actually, XP 1800 chips, modded of course to run SMP 😀
 
Sounds like a stuck job to me. I hate those! 🙁


The processing time and points per day numbers are averages from my Sempron 2600+ (2.2GHz) and are just given to show a comparison between the projects so your mileage may vary. Some projects have very dramatic ranges of processing time. For example, the new Rectilinear Crossing project can go anywhere from 4 seconds to 50+ hours depending on the individual work unit.
 
Yes, I PMed them again about a week ago but nothing 🙁

Dunno, it's never been a big deal to get a thread sticky in the DC forums as long as I can remember ... maybe they have some new admins 🙁
 
Stating the obvious ... this thread is stickied - for 30 days to start with, and an option for prolongation. 😀
Thanks Anandtech Mods! 🙂

So let us - from now on - only post stuff related to the topic of this thread and thus inform Fardingdale when something new happens. :sun:
 
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