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Orbit@home

"One slow week and a half
Submitted by tricaric on Thu, 04/03/2008 - 09:52.
During the past ten days, not much has happened here at orbit@home. Many of the WUs sent out have produced errors, and this is now being taken care of. The biggest problem was that the size of output files was underestimated, so nothing too complicated to fix.

On the science side, we've been busy writing an abstract that has now been submitted to the ACM Meeting, where we plan to present the results of the simulations that we're performing here with the SurveySimulator code. Writing conference contributions is always a great moment to take a break and see where a project is going. Orbit@home is still relatively young, but reality checks every now and then help stay focused on the real objectives. With SurveySimulator we aim at improving the search strategies adopted by Near Earth Objects (NEOs) astronomical surveys. This is a big deal. Believe it or not, when every night an astronomer points the telescope to the sky to try to detect new NEOs, there's only a handful of basic (but well tested) principles guiding her or him. In absence of better information, these principles have served well the community and new NEOs are discovered almost every night. But by the end of 2009, when the results of SurveySimulator will be applied to the real world, there will be one more tool to help astronomers point their telescopes to patches of the sky where it is likely to detect new NEOs. We don't know yet exactly how well this tool will perform, but we expect orbit@home to provide a list of patches of the sky where the probability to detect a new NEO is 10 or even 20 percent higher than the background. A very significant improvement if you consider that doesn't require any telescope hardware upgrade. All it needs is writing reliable code and hours and hours of diligent number crunching. But you certainly know about this already..."
 
Originally posted by: Assimilator1
Me too 🙂

But linux client 1st?😕 ,are they trying to keep the numbers low?😉
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i know! there was a bit of a discussion?? about this at one time, but the url has kinda slipped my mind for now 🙂 :beer:


edit:
can't think why 😀 :beer:
 
oops, nearly missed this! 🙁

"Submitted by tricaric on Fri, 04/11/2008 - 20:59.
We've focused our recent efforts into porting the SurveySimulator application to Windows. All looks good now, and we plan to add it to the system next week, along with the generation of a new set of WUs.

Since the application is still non-graphical and does not include a screensaver, porting was relatively easy. On the other hand, we're experiencing important issues related to porting recent ORSA based graphical apps to Windows, and we'll need to solve them before starting to think about an orbit@home screensaver. The good news is that we've already succeeded to solving similar problems in the past, so we're optimistic, and it should simply be a matter of time.

At this point, the Mac OS X version of the application should not be too far away, and we plan to start the porting effort next week."

woo-bloody-hoo!!! 😀
about time hehe 🙂
 
Actually, since I've a great deal of interest in the project, starting first with a Linux client gives me that much more incentive to get familiar with a non-Microsoft O/S. 😉
 
Originally posted by: networkman
Actually, since I've a great deal of interest in the project, starting first with a Linux client gives me that much more incentive to get familiar with a non-Microsoft O/S. 😉
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me too.
tried putting a linux os on a box.
the os worked, but o@h didn't, so gave it up as a bad job 🙂
 
Originally posted by: Assimilator1
So there is a windows text client then? or will be?
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supposed to be a non-graphical app only at first, and should be released sometime this week!

mind you, taking that news with a slightly large dose of salt, considering the wait so far 🙂
 
OMG, OMG, OMG, I got Two windows WUs from Orbit.

🙂🙂🙂🙂🙂🙂🙂🙂🙂🙂🙂🙂🙂🙂🙂🙂🙂🙂🙂🙂🙂🙂🙂🙂🙂🙂🙂🙂🙂🙂🙂🙂🙂🙂🙂🙂🙂🙂🙂🙂🙂🙂🙂🙂🙂🙂🙂🙂🙂🙂🙂🙂🙂🙂🙂🙂🙂🙂🙂🙂🙂🙂🙂🙂🙂🙂🙂🙂🙂🙂🙂🙂🙂🙂🙂🙂🙂🙂🙂🙂🙂🙂🙂🙂🙂🙂🙂🙂🙂🙂🙂🙂🙂🙂🙂🙂🙂🙂🙂🙂🙂🙂🙂🙂🙂🙂🙂🙂🙂🙂

http://orbit.psi.edu/oah/workunit.php?wuid=1896

http://orbit.psi.edu/oah/workunit.php?wuid=1877

Yay! It's finally here!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
 
Originally posted by: RobertE
OMG, OMG, OMG, I got Two windows WUs from Orbit.

🙂🙂🙂🙂🙂🙂🙂🙂🙂🙂🙂🙂🙂🙂🙂🙂🙂🙂🙂🙂🙂🙂🙂🙂🙂🙂🙂🙂🙂🙂🙂🙂🙂🙂🙂🙂🙂🙂🙂🙂🙂🙂🙂🙂🙂🙂🙂🙂🙂🙂🙂🙂🙂🙂🙂🙂🙂🙂🙂🙂🙂🙂🙂🙂🙂🙂🙂🙂🙂🙂🙂🙂🙂🙂🙂🙂🙂🙂🙂🙂🙂🙂🙂🙂🙂🙂🙂🙂🙂🙂🙂🙂🙂🙂🙂🙂🙂🙂🙂🙂🙂🙂🙂🙂🙂🙂🙂🙂🙂🙂

http://orbit.psi.edu/oah/workunit.php?wuid=1896

http://orbit.psi.edu/oah/workunit.php?wuid=1877

Yay! It's finally here!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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woohoo!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
just up, checked this and found 2 as well :beer: :beer: :beer: :beer: :beer: :beer: :beer: :beer: :beer: :beer: :beer: :beer: 😀

too tired to do any more! 🙂
 
After weeks of trying, I finally got one WU. It's on my new Phenom. The other 2 boxes are still waiting.

The WU has a duration of 38 hours! I'm curious about the size of the credit for that!

--Fred
 
Originally posted by: Rudy Toody
After weeks of trying, I finally got one WU. It's on my new Phenom. The other 2 boxes are still waiting.

The WU has a duration of 38 hours! I'm curious about the size of the credit for that!

--Fred
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on a dual pentium d 2.8 they're showing up as 70 hours!
not that i'm worried, just happy they're finally getting off the ground, so to speak 🙂
 
Originally posted by: TAandy
Originally posted by: Rudy Toody
After weeks of trying, I finally got one WU. It's on my new Phenom. The other 2 boxes are still waiting.

The WU has a duration of 38 hours! I'm curious about the size of the credit for that!

--Fred
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on a dual pentium d 2.8 they're showing up as 70 hours!
not that i'm worried, just happy they're finally getting off the ground, so to speak 🙂
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Cool!🙂, but yet another project for me to chose over😉

Btw are these early WUs the ones that are giving Orbit a shakedown test?

 
Originally posted by: Assimilator1
Originally posted by: TAandy
Originally posted by: Rudy Toody
After weeks of trying, I finally got one WU. It's on my new Phenom. The other 2 boxes are still waiting.

The WU has a duration of 38 hours! I'm curious about the size of the credit for that!

--Fred
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on a dual pentium d 2.8 they're showing up as 70 hours!
not that i'm worried, just happy they're finally getting off the ground, so to speak 🙂
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Cool!🙂, but yet another project for me to chose over😉

Btw are these early WUs the ones that are giving Orbit a shakedown test?
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pretty sure they are.
'survey simulator 1.11' is what i see.

i've suspended rosetta on my main pc.
cheeky ah heck.
had orbit set at 80% and rosetta the rest.
when i got the orbit wu's, rosetta decided to run at high priority!

seems to be, either orbit or not. if you swap applications, orbit goes 'BURP' 🙂

i've been waiting so long, i'm staying with orbit 😀
 
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