Boinc info,

[wraithe]

Just to let you guys know, boinc xtremlab project...
IceInSpace team is now in 50th place and is in 17th spot by rac...
I wont be doing any crunching after tomorrow until i get back on the 7th...So there will be a drop and my position on xtrem will probably slip a spot or two...
I have a heap of einstein work units waiting to be returned and hope to get that done before i leave but none are due back till the 10th so it may be fine...I have heard that it was an air con failure.. Hope its up and online soon..
I hope the little that i am doing now is helping the team overall, and helping the science as well...


http://xw01.lri.fr:4320/

[shaneaust]

Uh...what??

[janoskiss]

Please don't take this the wrong way because I mean it in the nicest possible way...

You're way out there, wraithe! :hi: Would you come back down to Earth? :lol: Here is a tip: Pretend you are talking to the cashier at your local Woolworths. ;)

[ballaratdragons]

Ummmm :shrug:

[mickoking]

Um??????????????????????????? what????????????

[wraithe]

boinc = Berkeley Open Infrastructure for Network Computing. Worlds largest super computer.
quote from there overview page:

BOINC is a software platform for distributed computing using volunteered computer resources. The BOINC's features fall into several areas:
Resource sharing among independent projects

Many different projects can use BOINC. Projects are independent; each one operates its own servers and databases. Participants can participate in multiple projects; they control which projects they participate in, and how their resources are divided among these projects. When a project is down or has no work, the resources of its participants are divided among other projects.

Project features

BOINC provides features that simplify the creation and operation of distributed computing projects.

Flexible application framework
Existing applications in common languages (C, C++, Fortran) can run as BOINC applications with little or no modification. An application can consist of several files (e.g. multiple programs and a coordinating script). New versions of applications can be deployed with no participant involvement.
Security
BOINC protects against several types of attacks. For example, digital signatures based on public-key encryption protect against the distribution of viruses.
Multiple servers and fault-tolerance
Projects can have separate scheduling and data servers, with multiple servers of each type. Clients automatically try alternate servers; if all servers are down, clients do exponential backoff to avoid flooding the servers when they come back up.
Source code availability
BOINC is distributed under the Lesser GNU Public License (http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/lesser.html). However, BOINC applications need not be open source.
Support for large data
BOINC supports applications that produce or consume large amounts of data, or that use large amounts of memory. Data distribution and collection can be spread across many servers, and participant hosts transfer large data unobtrusively. Users can specify limits on disk usage and network bandwidth. Work is dispatched only to hosts able to handle it.Participant features

BOINC provides the following features to participants:

Multiple participant platforms
The BOINC core client is available for most common platforms (Mac OS X, Windows, Linux and other Unix systems). The client can use multiple CPUs.
Web-based participant interfaces
BOINC provides web-based interfaces for account creation, preference editing, and participant status display. A participant's preferences are automatically propagated to all their hosts, making it easy to manage large numbers of hosts.
Configurable host work caching
The core client downloads enough work to keep its host busy for a user-specifiable amount of time. This can be used to decrease the frequency of connections or to allow the host to keep working during project downtime.

[wraithe]

BOINC lets you donate computing power to scientific research projects (mouse over for details):

LHC@home (http://lhcathome.cern.ch/)
World Community Grid (http://www.worldcommunitygrid.org/)
SZTAKI Desktop Grid (http://szdg.lpds.sztaki.hu/szdg/)
Seasonal Attribution Project (http://attribution.cpdn.org/)
Einstein@home (http://einstein.phys.uwm.edu/)
Climateprediction.net (http://climateprediction.net/)
SIMAP (http://boinc.bio.wzw.tum.de/boincsimap/)
Quantum Monte Carlo at Home (http://qah.uni-muenster.de/)
BBC Climate Change Experiment (http://bbc.cpdn.org/)
Rosetta@home (http://boinc.bakerlab.org/rosetta/)
Predictor@home (http://predictor.scripps.edu/)
SETI@home (http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/)BOINC is an open-source software platform for volunteer computing. You can participate in several projects, ensuring that your computer will be kept busy even when one project has no work.
To participate:

Select projects (http://boinc.berkeley.edu/projects.php)
Download (http://boinc.berkeley.edu/download.php) and run BOINC software
Enter the projects' URLs (visit each project's web site, and copy the URL from your browser's address field).

[janoskiss]

i sort of understood the general idea of boinc when you posted a link to info another time. But tell me what you mean by: "IceInSpace team is now in 50th place and is in 17th spot by rac..."? :confuse2:

[wraithe]

There was no team in xtremlab(one of the projects with boinc) so i started one and so far the team position is 50th overall and 17th by rac (recent average credit)...
I have been in the top ten for quite some time and as i am still in 6th place i thought i may as well make my credit go towards iceinspace so i started the team there and my credit i earn now goes towards iceinspace's total, it also adds more credit to the team boinc total..

[dugnsuz]

...I just look through the little hole at the top of the big tube!:P

ps: I only checked out this thread as I thought you had mis-spelled "binoc":rofl: :thumbsup:

[janoskiss]

:lol: You're doing better than the average person. Most people try to look through the back of the primary mirror of a Newt. :doh: :P

[dugnsuz]

wraithe...sorry for helping to lower the tone of this thread.:whistle:

[janoskiss]

I still don't have a clue what's going on wraithe, and what IceInSpace is doing on this xtrem boinc thing. Call me paranoid, but to be honest I'm a bit concerned about what you're up to... :confuse3:

[wraithe]

Oh so i'm not the only one lowering the standards here....



janoskiss, not sure what your paranoid of...
have you looked at einstein@home..
there are 18 members from ice in space in that project alone and 4 or 5 of them also do seti@home as well....which are both boinc projects...
every body knows what seti is all about...einstein is an interesting one for astronomy too...
hmmm pulsars yummm

[janoskiss]

Just seemed odd to me that you now appear on the French website as the founder of the Australian Amateur Astronomy Community at IIS, but the other mods have told me to relax, so sorry for being paranoid. :)

Hey Ken, what's a seti? Any relation of the yeti? :shrug: :lol:

[wraithe]

What i would like is one of the founders to take over the team at xtrem...but as there not members of that project it kind of is a bit hard...when i get back next week, hopefully something can be done...(i'm actually shy when it comes to leadership), i like too much fun...anyways i'm off on a holiday so will be back to annoy the helpless in about a week,or more.....

[janoskiss]

Have a great holiday, wraithe! :)

[middy]

That reminds me of the other week when I let my 4yo daughter look through the new Dobbie. She had previously had a couple of looks through a refractor, so when she went over to the Dob she got on all fours and stuck her head to the bottom of the tube :lol:

[ving]

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v46/ving68/rabbit_pancake.jpg

[wraithe]

I'm concerned about you ving...then i spose i do have to stand in line there....seems like quite a few are concerned about you....:D