KWSN Orbiting Fortress

Clark · Prince Joined: 07 Mar 2006 Posts: 1448

http://milkyway.cs.rpi.edu/milkyway/

No work yet, I've created the team but it's not appeared on the team list yet and there appear to be a few website bugs here and there and only Linux binaries have been compiled so far.

The "project is being developed to better understand the power of volunteer computer resources."
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mohrorless · Posted: Wed Aug 29, 2007 5:44 pm Post subject:

I prefer PayDay to Milkyway, unless it's the dark chocolate one then maybe I will do it.
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Sir Papa Smurph · Posted: Wed Aug 29, 2007 7:16 pm Post subject:

I like Snickers........
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Killerrabbit · Posted: Wed Aug 29, 2007 11:15 pm Post subject:

I prefer snickers as well. Where is my snickers@home project?

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Al Dente · Posted: Sun Sep 30, 2007 4:59 am Post subject:

I attached just one m/c and it's just got it's first Test work unit, so I've attached another ½ dozen.

It seems they're getting quite close to "real" WUs. I had a good nose around the site, and MilkyWay@Home appears to be a test project (albeit doing some interesting work) for a much larger DC programming languages project, focusing both on BOINC-style distributed resources and on the heavy metal - they're using an IBM BlueGene to test their software! (What a waste of good shrubbing power Crying or Very sad

) There are a number of links to what they're doing, try this for an overview.
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Killerrabbit · Posted: Sun Sep 30, 2007 4:02 pm Post subject:

So in more simple language what is this project supposed to be doing?

Ni
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Al Dente · Posted: Sun Sep 30, 2007 5:11 pm Post subject:

Analysing the structure of the Milky Way.

Although I can determine this in one bite:

But in the US, it would be like this (a Mars Bar in the UK):

But if there's a Restaurant At The End Of The Universe, surely there'll be a Bar At The Centre Of The Galaxy:

Happy Shrubbing #ni-1

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Eaving · Posted: Sun Sep 30, 2007 6:42 pm Post subject:

Who do we have to kill to get a BarNone@home?

Al Dente · Posted: Thu Nov 08, 2007 11:14 am Post subject:

MilkyWay@Home is now producing a bit of work - I'm about ½-way through 2000 WUs (very short @ 1½ mins/0.35 cobblies each) and showing in the World Top 10. Laughing

A bit of digging reveals that they'll initially be building a 3-D model of merging galaxies, using observational data from a small galaxy that our own Milky Way is currently swallowing.

I don't know if these are just test units or real data, but if anyone else wants a piece of the action then now's the time to get crunching, before too many people get involved.

Happy Shrubbing.

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Sir Papa Smurph · Posted: Thu Nov 08, 2007 3:45 pm Post subject:

is this still only Linux. all my shrubbers are Windoze XP
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Killerrabbit · Posted: Thu Nov 08, 2007 8:10 pm Post subject:

I keep getting Download fails on this project when I attach.

Ni
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Al Dente · Posted: Fri Nov 09, 2007 2:15 am Post subject:

Sir PS - so are all mine.

KR - they changed the URL, are you using the new one?

And it's given me my highest yet - 5th in the World

I don't think that'll last very long, so I'll bask in it while I can. Laughing

KR - Did you hit any wrong keys when you set up the team? I'm shown as a member, and I show up on the team page, but there's no sign of us anywhere in the team stats - we'd be 6th! Crying or Very sad

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Dagger · Prince Joined: 10 Mar 2004 Posts: 2918 Location: BC Canada

Hrmm.. no work for me to try out on. Sad

Sir Latch · Posted: Fri Nov 09, 2007 9:48 am Post subject:

Killerrabbit · Posted: Fri Nov 09, 2007 11:53 am Post subject:

I will check team classification in a moment, I got some WU's that downloaded successfully and they took about 2 minutes each. About half did not download well. I will double check the URL.

Ni
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Al Dente · Posted: Fri Nov 09, 2007 2:41 pm Post subject:

KR. I saw your post in the forum and 2CPU.com have got the same problem, so maybe the it's at their end.
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Sir Latch · Posted: Fri Nov 09, 2007 2:49 pm Post subject:

Killerrabbit · Posted: Fri Nov 09, 2007 5:26 pm Post subject:

It is always the projects fault, all the other projects I am team founder on there is not this problem.

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Sir Latch · Posted: Fri Nov 09, 2007 5:36 pm Post subject:

KWSN - Sir Brian C....... · Posted: Fri Nov 09, 2007 5:57 pm Post subject:

In!
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