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We are planning a maintenance break for the evening hours today (08.08.2021, Sunday).
Maintenance break from approximately 20:00 (UTC+2:00 time zone).
The iThena project will be unavailable.
The break should last a few hours at most.

Twitter: https://twitter.com/iThenaProject/status/1424350491270598656

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Création : 8 août 2021

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As you know, GPUGRID was the first BOINC project to run GPU applications, in fact we help in creating the infrastructure for that. This was very many years ago and since then many things changed. In particular, recently, we had not a constant stream of workunits. I would like to explain the present and expected future of GPUGRID here. In the last few years, we moved from doing science by running very many simulations to develop new methods at the boundary between physical simulations and machine learning methods/artificial intelligence. These new methods did not require a lot of simulations and most of the PhD students in the research group did not use GPUGRID daily. We still had some long term project running on GPUGRID for which you will see results shortly in terms of new scientific publications. Among other things ACEMD, the application behind GPUGRID is now built partially using OpenMM, of which I am also principal investigator. As you might know OpenMM is also used in Folding@Home. We have received a grant to develop OpenMM very recently with one or two people starting before the end of the year. This will be good for GPUGRID because it means that we will be using GPUGRID a lot more. Furthermore, we recently found a way to run AI simulations in GPUGRID. We have only run very few test cases, but there is a PhD student in the lab with a thesis on cooperative intelligence, where very many AI agents collaborate to solve tasks. The goal is to understand how cooperative intelligence works. We are also looking for a postdoc in cooperative intelligence, in case you know somebody. https://www.compscience.org I hope that this clarify the current situation. On the practical term, we expect to have the ACEMD application fixed for RTX30xx within few weeks, as now the developper of ACEMD is also doing the deployment on GPUGRID, making everything simpler. GDF

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Création : 7 août 2021

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This Month in MLC@Home
Notes for Aug 6 2021
A monthly summary of news and notes for MLC@Home

Summary
Another month of good progress on MLC! First, this past month saw the completion of DS3! You have trained over 1,000,000 neural networks for DS3, which is a huge accomplishment. We're continuing to bundle and evaluate the dataset, so look for a complete public release shortly.

We also spend some time on the backend preparing for DS4. We've updated the website to show DS4 progress, but haven't sent any DS4 WUs yet. Instead we spent the bulk of the month trying to get the new client to work under Windows, which hasn't been going well. We spent a good 2.5 weeks trying to get pytorch and the client to compile (and run) statically on windows. Even though it now compiles, the client crashes when running. So last week we switched back to linking dynamically, and want to get an updated windows client out this weekend. The Linux/CPU version of the new client appears to be performing fantastically, so thanks to everyone who ran WUs from the "mldstest" queue tested!

DS4 WUs are incompatible with the older client, so we'll only release DS4 WUs as the new (v9.9x) client become available for each platform. This means CPUs first. GPUs will continue to work on finishing up DS1 and DS2.

Speaking of DS1/DS2, we're approaching the end of DS1 with only a few more weeks to go. and when we complete those networks we'll switch to DS2 to finish those up as well.

So, lots of movement this month behind the scenes, and great progress on the existing datasets. If *any* windows developers would like to help us out getting the new windows CPU client out the door, please contact us directly, we could use the help.

Other News

• GPU and CPU queues are stacked with DS1/DS2 WUs until those completes and/or until DS4 is ready. The CPU queue will transition to DS4 first, as we assume GPU builds will be even more of a headache than the CPU ones have been.
  
• Because existing WUs are incompatible with the new client, we've been keeping the CPU and GPU queues a little less full than we have in the past, because when the new client comes out, we don't want to have to cancel a bunch of existing WUs to be replaced with new ones. Unfortunately, since the updated windows CPU client is taking a longer than planned, we've run out of WUs a few times in the past month. We're trying to stay on top of this, and automating the process to keep them from running completely dry in the future.
  
• We have a new developer who has joined the team, who is working on more graceful handling of NaN errors, which has been an issue for a long time. If that's ready before the windows CPU client is ready, then that fix will be in the next release. You can see more in the #devel channel on Discord, or the issue on gitlab.
  
• Reminder: the MLC client is open source, and has an issues list at gitlab. If you're a programmer or data scientist and want to help, feel free to look over the issues and submit a pull request.
  

Project status snapshot:
(note these numbers are approximations)






Last month's TMIM Notes: Jul 1 2021

Thanks again to all our volunteers!

-- The MLC@Home Admins(s)
Homepage: https://www.mlcathome.org/
Discord invite: https://discord.gg/BdE4PGpX2y
Twitter: @MLCHome2

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Création : 6 août 2021

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Aliquot sequence 2579248 has terminated!!!



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Création : 6 août 2021

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After many problems, the BOINC server virtualization was moved to another server.
This is a temporary move, as the platform will eventually be moved to faster SAS 10k disks (within a few days).
We will keep you informed about planned shutdowns.

Link to ticket: https://status.cybercomplex.net/index.php?do=details&task_id=3

Twitter: https://twitter.com/iThenaProject/status/1423242652368220167

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Création : 5 août 2021

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On 03.08.2021 (Tuesday) we plan to perform a migration of the main BOINC virtual machine. Starting at 7:00 (UTC+2:00 time zone) the ithena.net website and the entire BOINC project will not be available. Hopefully the project will be available again the same day. Sorry for the problems ;)

Twitter: https://twitter.com/iThenaProject/status/1422263743120035844

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Création : 2 août 2021