Is it Orbit or is it me?

[Wiz]

I've been getting the cold shoulder from Orbit at home for a week on all my machines.

Come on Orbit, I didn't mean it... I'll change - I promise... whatever it takes for you to share some of those sweet sweet work units with me I'll do it baby... just come on home, please??

Thank goodness Seti has been keeping me company!

 

[petrusbroder]

Same problem here ... Good for the crunchers that there are back-up projetcs ...

 

[Ken g6]

The link to their server status is hard to find, but the problem is easy to spot from there: They have no work! Pasquale hasn't added any all month!

 

[RobertE]

No WUs currently as Pasquale is off to some conference to present the results from the latest round of work. Once he returns, there should be more.

 

[biodoc]

I received an email from Orbit a few days back and I guess I assumed everyone got it. Anyway they're predicting sending out more WUs near the end of the month.

Here's the email:

Dear biodoc:

Greetings from Orbit@Home.


Project News
We are pleased to announce that Orbit@Home is now in production mode. During the past month we have generated work-units at a rate of 300,000 per week, each one requiring about one hour of computing time on an average desktop computer. Read more about this here.

The process of preparing the astronomical data for the analysis with the Orbit@Home client, and then recombine all the results to generate an optimized search strategy for near-Earth asteroids, has been recently described in detail on the Orbit@Home website. To read more about the science behind Orbit@Home, visit here.


What's Next?
We are now analyzing the results obtained so far, and testing the latest improvements to the scientific application before deploying it and create a new series of work batches. New work-units should be generated by the end of October 2010.


Support Orbit@Home
We appreciate your generous donation of computer time. In order for Orbit@Home to become fully productive, we are now in critical need of server-grade storage equipment. To help us meet our storage requirements with hardware donations, please contact us here. For regular donations, please visit this page.


About the Planetary Science Institute
The Orbit@Home project is hosted at the Planetary Science Institute in Tucson, Arizona. PSI does research and provides educational outreach on a wide variety of topics in planetary science. To learn more about our programs go to www.psi.edu and please consider getting more involved by becoming a "Friend of PSI".

Thanks again for your ongoing help.

-- The Orbit@Home Staff

 

[networkman]

I'm actually getting back into DC with a couple computers primarily for the purpose of doing the Orbit@Home project. Until they start this back up, I'm doing the Einstein & Enigma projects, the latter under my id, and the former under the GRRO id, both for TA.

 

[biodoc]

Welcome back networkman!

 

[Alyx]

I've been getting back in to DC over last month or so as well! I also got that Orbit email, its exciting to see that they are starting to do real work soon. I really like the premise of this project.

Good to see you guys!

 

[petrusbroder]

Welcome back!

 

[biodoc]

Welcome back Alyx!

 

[mk]

Good to see you again, Alyx.