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[DENIS@Home] Project status and next steps // Estado del proyecto y pasos futuros

Dear volunteers,

Apologies for the delay in getting back to you since the simulations were completed. Over the past few weeks, and with a special mention to all of you, Iván defended his Final Degree Project. In the weeks leading up to it, we were somewhat disconnected as we reviewed his project and prepared for the defense. He achieved an excellent grade (one of the highest in his class). Congratulations to Iván for all the hard work!

These days, we are preparing a paper for the Spanish Society of Biomedical Engineering Conference, to present the new features of DENIS and some initial performance tests. The idea is to later carry out a larger set of tests to see how volunteer computing can help with this type of problems, which types of simulations could benefit most from your support, and what the limitations are.

Once this more technical part is further along, we have two challenges ahead. The first, which is delayed on my part, is to run a few more simulations for the model optimization and publish all the results. The second is to advance in the area of model optimization, but now using the fiber simulator: this opens many new doors for us.

The holiday season is approaching, so I’m not sure how much we’ll be able to launch before then, but we’ll keep you informed as things progress.

Thank you all very much for your support.

Best regards,
Jesús

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Estimados voluntarios:
Disculpad por haber tardado un poco en daros noticias desde que se terminaron las simulaciones. En las últimas semanas y con una mención especial a todos vosotros, Iván defendió su Proyecto Final de Grado. En las semanas previas estuvimos algo desconectados revisando su memoria y preparando la defensa. Consiguió una magnífica calificación (de las mas altas de su promoción). ¡Enhorabuena Iván por todo el trabajo realizado!
En estos días estamos preparando un artículo para la Conferencia de la Sociedad Española de Ingeniería Biomédica, para presentar las nuevas funcionalidades de DENIS y unas primeras pruebas de rendimiento. La idea es hacer más adelante una batería de pruebas más grandes para ver cómo la computación voluntaria puede ayudar en este tipo de problemas, qué tipos de simulaciones son las que más se podrían beneficiar de vuestro apoyo, y cuáles las limitaciones.

Una vez avanzada esta parte más técnica, tenemos dos retos por delante. El primero, que van con retraso por mi parte, es hacer algunas simulaciones más de la optimización de modelos, y publicar los resultados. El segundo es avanzar en el tema de la optimización de modelos, pero haciendo uso ya del simulador de fibra: aquí se nos abren muchas puertas nuevas.

Se acercan ya los días de descanso, por lo que no sé cuánto podremos lanzar antes, os iremos informando según vayan saliendo.

Muchas gracias a todos por vuestro apoyo.

Un saludo,
Jesús.

View article · Mon, 21 Jul 2025 08:43:31 +0000

[SETI@home] SETI@home papers accepted for publication

Two papers on SETI@home will be published in The Astronomical Journal, a well-regarded scientific journal:

SETI@home: Data Acquisition and Front-End Processing describes SETI@home's data recorder, splitter, and client program. It covers the five detection types, their parameters and statistics, and the algorithm for finding them.

SETI@home: Data Analysis and Findings describes the back end (Nebula) and its results: RFI removal, candidate finding and ranking. It explains how artificial signals, or 'birdies', were used to optimize algorithms and estimate overall sensitivity.

For details, see an entry in the Nebula blog.

View article · Wed, 18 Jun 2025 03:23:30 +0000

[YAFU] Aliquot sequence 3107886 has terminated!!!

Aliquot sequence 3107886 has terminated!!!

View article · Sun, 15 Jun 2025 19:40:10 +0000

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