News from BOINC Projects

Recent items from the news feeds of various BOINC projects.

[Amicable Numbers] Part 3 of the 10^21 search has started

Part 2 of the 1021 search will be finished, for the most part, today. There are still ~2000 unfinished WUs which can take up to a couple of weeks to complete, depending on individual participants processing them.

Part 3 of the search will look for amicable pairs where the smaller member of the pair has its largest prime factor between 1011 and 1014:

m=m1*p, 1011 < p < 1014

There are too many primes larger than 1014 (all primes up to 5*1019 need to be checked), so they will require a different approach and a new application when the time comes.

Most of the participants have already started getting part 3 WUs. The new work units will require ~2.5-2.7 GB RAM on CPU, and the same amount of RAM on GPU (for GPU applications), so the minimum requirement for GPUs will be 3 GB RAM.

Right now I don't have an estimate on how long part 3 will take because I haven't accumulated enough statistics yet, and I haven't even finished generating all WUs for part 3.

View article · Wed, 27 Mar 2024 10:24:42 +0000


[Climateprediction.net] BOINC Needs Votes at a UN Upcoming Forum

BOINC is a finalist for an notable award, and needs your vote (*by Sunday)

The World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) (https://www.itu.int/net4/wsis/forum/2024) is a United Nations-sponsored initiative aimed at harnessing the potential of information and communication technologies to build inclusive and equitable information societies worldwide. BOINC has been nominated for a prize at the 2024 forum (https://www.itu.int/net4/wsis/stocktaking/Prizes/2024), and has passed initial hurdles; the next and last step ("Phase 3") requires public votes. The award would be a very nice boost and validation for BOINC and all our projects; if we can get our communities to vote, we should have a decent shot at this point...

Voting is pretty simple, takes just a few minutes; instructions are here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1x9Xi3tq7Y9dlDD0Xb0Ul0yYCXct5pDqIqssqARxvrXg/edit.

(*The deadline for votes is Sunday: 31 March 2024, 23:00 UTC+02:00)

View article · Tue, 26 Mar 2024 20:30:23 +0000


[NumberFields@home] BOINC is a finalist for an notable award, and needs your vote (*by Sunday)

The World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) is a United Nations-sponsored initiative aimed at harnessing the potential of information and communication technologies to build inclusive and equitable information societies worldwide. BOINC has been nominated for a prize at the 2024 forum, and has passed initial hurdles; the next and last step ("Phase 3") requires public votes. The award would be a very nice boost and validation for BOINC and all our projects; if we can get our communities to vote, we should have a decent shot at this point...

Voting is pretty simple, takes just a few minutes; instructions are here.

(*The deadline for votes is Sunday: 31 March 2024, 23:00 UTC+02:00)

View article · Tue, 26 Mar 2024 15:49:23 +0000


[Gerasim@Home] Gerasim@home:

BOINC номинирован на премию.
BOINC is a finalist for an notable award, and needs votes. 
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Как указано в заголовке, BOINC был номинирован на премию.
Финальный этап - публичное голосование.
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Voting is pretty simple, takes just a few minutes; instructions are here

Просьба проголосовать до 31 марта 2024 23:00 UTC+2.
Read more: https://boinc.ru/forum/topic/boinc-nominirovan-na-premiyu/


View article · Tue, 26 Mar 2024 11:36:59 +0000


[World Community Grid] The Computation Moonshot starts today!

The Computation Moonshot, a competition encouraging high school students to learn about data science and distributed computing, began today.

View article · Mon, 25 Mar 2024 19:49:06 +0000


[LHC@home] BOINC Needs Votes at a Upcoming UN Forum

BOINC is a finalist for an notable award, and needs your vote (*by Sunday):

Context: The World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) is a United Nations-sponsored initiative aimed at harnessing the potential of information and communication technologies to build inclusive and equitable information societies worldwide. BOINC has been nominated for a prize at the 2024 forum, and has passed initial hurdles; the next and last step ("Phase 3") requires public votes. The award would be a very nice boost and validation for BOINC and all our projects; if we can get our communities to vote, we should have a decent shot at this point...

Voting is pretty simple, takes just a few minutes; instructions are here.

(*The deadline for votes is Sunday: 31 March 2024, 23:00 UTC+02:00)

View article · Mon, 25 Mar 2024 14:59:22 +0000


[YAFU] Aliquot sequence 21546 has terminated!!!

The sequence 21546 has terminated with the amicable pair 1184/1210. It is the smallest discovered terminated sequence since 2012 and the first terminated sequence below 10e5 since 2020. The largest term of this sequence reaches 153 digits which is a new record.

View article · Sun, 24 Mar 2024 07:12:35 +0000


[Gerasim@Home] Gerasim@home:

News from the BattleFields:
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BAM! :: Challenge Chat
!!! Name: Crunching of Subfield 7 from NumberFields@home on GPUs !!!

Project Gerasim@Home. Start time 2024-04-05 23:45 UTC
https://www.boincstats.com/stats/challenge/team/chat/1122

Тема на форуме boinc.ru:
https://boinc.ru/forum/topic/sorevnovanie-v-chest-zapuska-sajta/?part=5#postid-8964
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View article · Sat, 23 Mar 2024 19:54:30 +0000


[Universe@Home] Planned power maintenance outgage

We have a planned network outage in the CAMK building scheduled for Saturday, March 23rd, 2024.
The outgage start on 7pm CET and finish on Monday, 25th, 8am.

View article · Fri, 22 Mar 2024 13:05:15 +0000


[SRBase] Formula BOINC 2024-03-21 06:00 UTC - 2024-03-24 06:00 UTC

The challenge is running. Good luck everyone!

View article · Thu, 21 Mar 2024 13:35:07 +0000


[RakeSearch] Processing of the square # 34 completed

Dear participants, processing of the square # 34 is fully completed! The square:

0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 A B
1 2 3 4 5 0 8 6 A B 9 7
5 0 1 2 3 4 7 B 6 A 8 9
7 6 8 A 9 B 1 0 2 4 3 5
6 8 A 9 B 7 2 1 3 5 4 0
B 7 6 8 A 9 0 5 1 3 2 4
8 A 9 B 7 6 3 2 4 0 5 1
9 B 7 6 8 A 5 4 0 2 1 3
A 9 B 7 6 8 4 3 5 1 0 2
2 3 4 5 0 1 A 8 9 7 B 6
4 5 0 1 2 3 B 9 7 8 6 A
3 4 5 0 1 2 9 A B 6 7 8

has 610170218 orthogonal mates which puts it on the 22th place of the rating which include now 5651 positions.

Now "high part" of spectra of ODLS-12 looks like this (square # 34 marked by red):


Thank you for project attention, support and donation of CPU time!

View article · Thu, 21 Mar 2024 07:22:07 +0000


[Gerasim@Home] Gerasim@home:

News from the BattleFields:
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Похоже, наша кавалерия добилась существенных успехов во второй точке Лагранжа!
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А вот и наше объявление:
Продаётся, недорого, двигатель Аль Кубъере.
Пробег по Галактике 90 Парсек. Не бит, не крашен, дедушка на дачу ездил.
Скидка на техническое обслуживание во всех точках Лагранжа!
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View article · Thu, 21 Mar 2024 00:37:32 +0000


[SRBase] base R815 Magaprime / proven

magic_sam, a member of the team Gridcoin found a megaprime for base R815.
The prime 8*815^559138-1 has 1.627.740 digits and entered the TOP5000 in Chris Caldwell's The Largest Known Primes Database. With this find it also has proven the base!

View article · Sat, 16 Mar 2024 22:07:17 +0000


[PrimeGrid] "Einstein" anniversary challenge

From March 20th 03:14:00 UTC to March 25th 03:14:00 PrimeGrid will be running a 5 day challenge on the Extended Sierpinsky project (ESP). Note the unusual start and end times! For more information, please see this forum thread.

View article · Fri, 15 Mar 2024 21:54:57 +0000


[World Community Grid] Research update from the MCM team (March 2024)

We continue to characterise lung cancer biomarkers identified in the MCM1 project. This update focuses on HSD17B11, a gene associated with lung cancer survival. HSD17B11 is a protein coding gene, relatively ubiquitously expressed across organs and tissues. It is a short-chain alcohol dehydrogenase that metabolises secondary alcohols and ketones.

View article · Thu, 14 Mar 2024 20:03:19 +0000


[YAFU] Aliquot sequences 2772150 and 2771604 have terminated!!!

Aliquot sequences 2772150 and 2771604 have terminated!!!



View article · Thu, 14 Mar 2024 17:20:46 +0000


[DENIS@Home] Hard drive space crisis solved // Crisis de espacio en el disco duro resuelta

Dear volunteers,
This weekend we have broken a new record for computing Teraflops (since we are in this new stage of the project). This is thanks to the pace of sending results that you have been doing in recent days and being more stable in the generation of work packages.

Although we were monitoring it, the coincidence of this peak with the database backup on the weekend has caused the hard drive to become saturated sooner than expected. We have been working since Monday on moving data out of the server and even other processes, but as we gained space it kept filling up with results that were pending upload.

This morning, for the first time in two days, more tasks have been validated than have been received and little by little normality will return. At first, it doesn't seem like anything has been lost and we are already submitting work again.

We have expanded the space to receive results and are working on automating some of the tasks to ensure we can continue to grow.

Thank you all very much, if we have this type of problems it is because of the great support you give us, we will continue working to grow by your side.

Sorry for not answering in the forums, and thank you very much for be aware of the evolution.

All the best,
Jesus.

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Estimados voluntarios:
Este fin de semana hemos batido un nuevo record de Teraflops de computación (desde que estamos en esta nueva etapa del proyecto). Esto es gracias al ritmo de envío de resultados que estáis haciendo en los últimos días y de estar más estables en la generación de paquetes de trabajo.

Aunque ibamos monitorizándolo, la coincidencia de este pico con la copia de seguridad de la base de datos en el fin de semana ha hecho que se saturara el disco duro antes de lo esperado. Hemos estado trabajando desde el lunes en mover datos fuera del servidor e incluso otros procesos, pero según ganábamos espacio se seguía llenando con los resultados que estaban pendientes de subir.

Esta mañana, por primera vez en dos días se han validado más tareas de las que se han recibido y poco a poco se irá retomando la normalidad. En principio, no parece que se haya perdido nada y ya estamos enviando trabajo de nuevo.

Hemos ampliado el espacio para recibir resultados y estamos trabajando en automatizar algunas de las tareas para garantizar que podemos seguir creciendo.

Muchas gracias a todos, si tenemos este tipo de problemas es por el gran apoyo que nos dais, seguiremos trabajando para crecer a vuestro lado.

Disculpad que no haya contestado en los foros, muchas gracias por estar tan pendientes de la evolución.

Un saludo,
Jesús.

View article · Wed, 13 Mar 2024 09:20:04 +0000


[Gerasim@Home] Gerasim@home:

Как известно, скорость эскадры определяется самым медленным кораблём эскадры.
На сегодня - самый медленный  корабль - Герасим. :(

News from the BattleFields:
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Batch Name: DS16x12
Total WUs in Batch: 78125000

Batch Progress13.2 %
ETA421.3 days

WUs completed: 10303000
WUs left: 67822000
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View article · Fri, 8 Mar 2024 09:43:36 +0000


[Gerasim@Home] Gerasim@home:

News from the BattleFields:
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Учёные доказали,  если магнит быстро распилить, мы получим два монополя Дирака!
Scientists have proven that if a magnet is quickly cut, we will get two Dirac monopoles!
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Musical pause. Я милого узнаю по походке.
Garik Sukachev and A.F. Sklyar - I recognize my sweetheart by his gait.
https://youtu.be/lpv7UHLJ2Jc
 
p.s
Ждём обновление статистики NumberFields@home.


View article · Wed, 6 Mar 2024 11:39:12 +0000


[RakeSearch] Processing of the square # 33 completed

Dear participants, processing of the square # 33 is fully completed! The square:

0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 A B
1 2 0 4 9 7 8 A B 3 5 6
2 0 1 9 3 A B 5 6 4 7 8
5 7 A 6 8 1 4 2 9 B 0 3
7 A 5 8 B 2 9 0 3 6 1 4
6 8 B 5 7 4 1 9 2 A 3 0
4 9 3 1 2 8 7 B A 0 6 5
8 B 6 7 A 9 2 3 0 5 4 1
9 3 4 2 0 B A 6 5 1 8 7
A 5 7 B 6 0 3 1 4 8 2 9
B 6 8 A 5 3 0 4 1 7 9 2
3 4 9 0 1 6 5 8 7 2 B A

has 540911874 orthogonal mates which puts it on the 23th place of the rating which include now 5628 positions.

Now "high part" of spectra of ODLS-12 looks like this (square # 33 marked by red):


Thank you for project attention, support and donation of CPU time!

View article · Fri, 1 Mar 2024 21:19:56 +0000


[YAFU] Aliquot sequence 2930256 has terminated!!!

Aliquot sequence 2930256 has terminated!!!

View article · Mon, 26 Feb 2024 17:30:04 +0000


[RakeSearch] Processing of the square # 32 completed

Dear participants, processing of the square # 32 is fully completed! The square:

0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 A B
1 2 0 4 5 3 8 9 A B 6 7
2 0 1 5 3 4 A B 6 7 8 9
B 7 9 8 A 6 3 2 4 0 5 1
A 6 8 7 9 B 1 3 2 4 0 5
9 B 7 6 8 A 5 1 3 2 4 0
5 3 4 2 0 1 7 8 9 A B 6
4 5 3 1 2 0 B 6 7 8 9 A
3 4 5 0 1 2 9 A B 6 7 8
6 8 A 9 B 7 2 4 0 5 1 3
7 9 B A 6 8 4 0 5 1 3 2
8 A 6 B 7 9 0 5 1 3 2 4

has 618759046 orthogonal mates which puts it on the 20th place of the rating which include now 5608 positions.

Now "high part" of spectra of ODLS-12 looks like this (square # 32 marked by red):


Thank you for project attention, support and donation of CPU time!

View article · Sat, 24 Feb 2024 20:07:57 +0000


[World Community Grid] The Computation Moonshot Competition

We are excited to announce a competition encouraging high school students to learn about data science and distributed computing using BOINC and World Community Grid.

View article · Thu, 22 Feb 2024 20:20:23 +0000


[PrimeGrid] Policy regarding banning computers

Effective immediately, PrimeGrid reserves the right to ban computers that exhibit problematic behavior. Please see this forum thread for more information.

View article · Thu, 22 Feb 2024 17:04:48 +0000




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