| OGR-27: official results Source: yoyo@home jeudi 27 février 2014 00:00 Dear friends, distributed.net is proud to announce the completion of OGR-27! It is almost five years ago to the day that we began on this exciting journey. Almost 20,000 of you joined us.. without whom, it would have been impossible. We have proven conclusively by the exhaustive search of all possible rulers that the previously predicted 27-mark ruler is indeed the most optimal one. We were confident that we would find a more optimal ruler during this search, but it was not to be. We expected it to take us seven years to complete this awesome task but thanks to your efforts recruiting your friends and co-workers to our effort and a little help from Moore’s Law, we did it in five. The best known ruler is 27/3-12-26-25-29-2-9-36-10-68-1-4-17-53-35-8-16-28-6-14-13-71-18-19-23-7 (length 553). Represented the other way, this is marks at positions 0 3 15 41 66 95 97 106 142 152 220 221 225 242 295 330 338 354 382 388 402 415 486 504 523 546 553. In total, we verified 302,621,586 unique stubs (2,526 with 3-diffs, 179,120 with 4-diffs, 6,457,815 with 5-diffs and 295,982,125 with 6-diffs), requiring each to have been completed at least two times independently and with an identical node count. Additionally, due to a client implementation bug in some early clients, we required all stubs to have been verified at least once by a client greater than v2.9109.518. This delayed us by a few weeks towards the end of the project but was necessary to ensure that no work was skipped. The shortest ruler was sent to us 11 times, with one user completing it twice. I will be writing to this user directly for some help picking lottery numbers! We will be sending some distributed.net swag to the lucky winners and hope that you will join us as we move on to our next challenge! (from http://blogs.distributed.net/2014/02/25/16/09/mikereed/) |
| System maintenance being performed Sunday 2:00 UTC - 8:00 UTC Source: World Community Grid News and Updates mercredi 26 février 2014 15:04 |
| Mapping Cancer Markers Beta Test - Version 7.29 Source: worldcommunitygrid.org (Forum: Beta Test Announcements [Read Only]) mercredi 30 novembre -0001 00:00 We will be starting a new version of Mapping Cancer Markers that addresses a checkpoint issue with certain work unit types. This test will be rather large. We request that during this beta test you attempt to perform at least 1 restart. You can do this by either suspending the work unit with "Leave Application in Memory" turned off or by restarting your computer. The version being ... |
| Firmware sources Source: Radioactive@Home mardi 25 février 2014 23:02 We have updated firmware source files and detector diagrams to newest version. ZIP archive is available under this link. All sources are available under GPL v3 licence. |
| First result in the experiment for Bivium Source: SAT@home lundi 24 février 2014 06:56 First result in the current experiment was obtained by Retupmoc and dimawalker. Первые результаты текущего эксперимента были получены Retupmoc и dimawalker |
| Double Top Secret Mystery Challenge starts March 1st 2014, 18:00 UTC Source: PrimeGrid lundi 24 février 2014 16:56 After 4 year long hiatus, PrimeGrid is once more offering a challenge on the Prime Sierpinski Problem subproject. The challenge will last 15 days and runs from March 1st, 2014 18:00 UTC to March 16th, 2014 18:00 UTC. For more information, assistance and cheery banter please do join us on the forums in this thread |
| "Power To Give" - volunteer distributed computing for smartphones Source: GPUGrid mardi 25 février 2014 00:17 HTC have just announced "Power To Give", a new BOINC-based initiative for volunteer distributed computing on Android smartphones. HTC deserve to be commended for putting effort into helping the development of a polished BOINC client for Android. You can read all about it here: http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2014-02/24/htc-power-to-give and see a video here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_0oJ39vs_Kk GPUGRID's very own Gianni De Fabritiis presented at the launch, happening as part of the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. Video to follow soon, but you can read as-it-happened coverage here http://www.gizmodo.com.au/2014/02/htc-mobile-world-congress-press-conference-live-blog-follow-all-the-news-as-it-happens/ We're very excited about this! Expect more news soon... Matt |
| Call for mentors and students for Google Summer of Code 2014! Google awards stipends of US$5500 to selected students Source: Constellation@Home lundi 24 février 2014 21:30 AerospaceResearch.net accepts applications for mentors and students for Google Summer of Code (GSOC) 2014, now! As a mentor, you can realize your space software, and as a student you are coding it during the summer and are paid US$5500 by Google for it! The application period for Mentors is open now and you can apply via https://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/org2/google/gsoc2014/aerospaceresearchnet. So be creative and propose your idea and be a trustworthy mentor to a young and creative mind! For you students, the application period starts 10 March and will end 21 March. Prepare yourself and read our and all the other 190 organizations' ideas. And then come back to AerospaceResearch.net, because we have the most awesome coding ideas for your. They are all space applications! Here is a brief overview:
GSOC is an annual coding campaign, in which Google awards stipends (of US$5500) to selected students who work on free and open-source software projects for certain organizations during the summer. This year it is Google's 10th Summer of Code. It will be bigger and better! With this years 190 organizations, it tops last year's 177 open source projects and organizations who took part and mentored 1,192 students and their projects.
In general, GSOC is open for students aged 18 and older. It offers diverse projects ranging from software development for Wikipedia and Linux operating systems, to mobile platforms, to firmware and also academic work on basic algorithms. People can also mentor emerging developers during their three months of work and provide support and personal help. (some background information on Wikipedia)
On a private remark about GSOC 2013, AerospaceResearch.net was lucky to have been selected as an organization and mentoring three students. This was an "awesome and motivating" experience and we advise projects and students alike to visit GSOC 2014 website and apply!
You can find our information and ideas via https://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/org2/google/gsoc2014/aerospaceresearchnet.
During GSOC 2013, we mentored 3 students who coded open-source space application. So this is your chance to combine three things you like during summer: space, programming and money. Of course Google looks for talented programmers like you!
Being a mentor is inspiring because you support great students and great space projects. Mentors are also invited to Google HQ in Mountain View (paid flight) to the mentors summit and get a tour. This is rewarding in many ways to be part of such a great campaign!
You, as a mentor or student, can propose and let your space project ideas be realized! So if you have coding ideas for your project, you can propose them to us and we will announce them on our ideas page to the coding GSOC students. Here is your chance to find further helping hands.
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| OddWeirdSearch continues Source: yoyo@home dimanche 23 février 2014 00:00 I released some workunits for Linux 64 systems as test. We now attack a range up to 1028. |
| OGR-27: Finished Source: yoyo@home mercredi 19 février 2014 00:00 After 1,821 days we finished the OGR-27 project. All stubs were computed at least twice. The Boinc part of this distributed.net project computed more than 5% of all OGR-27 stubs. At the end we had a rate of 10%. Now the Boinc server delivers OGR-28 workunits. This is to discover the most optimal Golomb Ruler with 28 marks. We anticipate that it will take about as long as OGR-27 has. It has some features in common with OGR-27: some of the packets will be very large (up to 1500 Gnodes), and there are three stub spaces. We expect that the first two stub spaces will take about 90 days to complete. For the stats freaks among you, the number of stubs for each stubspace of OGR-28 is below: Stubspace 1: 115676 Stubspace 2: 5823649 Stubspace 3: 518152118 No new application is needed, since OGR-27 clients are ready for OGR-28. (from http://blogs.distributed.net/2014/02/18/23/23/mikereed/) |