KWSN Orbiting Fortress

ToeBee · Posted: Thu Jun 16, 2005 9:01 pm Post subject: orbit@home

Thats right, there is a new BOINC project out there! The newest addition to the family is Orbit@home. Haven't looked at it much yet but it appears to be analyzing data to detect objects which pass near to the earth. Think of it as a proximity warning system for the planet Smile

I have signed up and founded the KWSN team. We are team #20. I believe they are only looking for 1,000 testers right now but I hear BOINC synergy already has 30 members signed up so I thought I would give the knights a chance Smile

You can create a new account that is automatically on the KWSN team by going here

Ni!

Cohiba · Posted: Fri Jun 17, 2005 7:34 am Post subject:

Signed up

June 16, 2005
After less than one day, more than 100 user accounts created! Also still having problems with slashes in urls, we are working on that. As a reminder, we don't have any BOINC application yet, and the scheduler is not running, so the BOINC client will bounce off the orbit@home website without much work to do for now. Update: now the scheduler is running, the BOINC client should be able to connect, ask for work, and then disconnect because there is no work available. The client can also complain for "platform 'x-y-z' not found": this is because there is not an application available yet.

let us know when there's some work and i'll throw some clients towards it.
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LanDroid · June 20, 2005

Michelle · Posted: Fri Jul 22, 2005 11:51 pm Post subject:

Account creation is disabled at the moment, but I've bookmarked in readiness.
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LanDroid · Posted: Mon Oct 10, 2005 1:18 pm Post subject:

When are we gonna get some frikkin work units already! We've got very small rocks raining down on us all the time plus quite a few huge ones zinging around just WAITING for the perfect moment to smash us to smithereens! I'm getting sick and tired of wearing my tin foil lined hard hat/pith helmet. We need to start tracking all these orbitting menaces before I lose my grip!
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Cohiba · Posted: Mon Oct 10, 2005 3:26 pm Post subject:

They have a linux only test client out that is getting test units.. windows will be a few more months.
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Dagger · Prince Joined: 10 Mar 2004 Posts: 2918 Location: BC Canada

Being in 137th is hard on thee ol peepers. Sad

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Killerrabbit · Posted: Wed Oct 19, 2005 9:14 am Post subject:

Well there is hardly any work for us to do. Hard to get up in the rankings.

Ni
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Javapersona · Knight Joined: 09 Jul 2004 Posts: 88

Latest news from orbit:

October 21, 2005
In the last month, we've not been able to work on orbit@home on a daily basis for various reasons, but still some important results have been achieved. The most important improvements to orbit@home are the result of the collaboration with Pan-STARRS (http://pan-starrs.ifa.hawaii.edu/public/) researchers in order to be ready to analyze their observations as soon as their survey starts (first light for PS1 prototype is scheduled for early 2006) and the observations are made publicly available. This requires substantial science-code development, and the results so far are extremely positive. As the first wave of WU demonstrated, the code based on ORSA works correctly on remote clients (only Linux platform tested for the moment). In order to provide WUs on a daily basis, we are developing a science-database and the relative management code. This will take a fair amount of time, about two more months of work. For this reason, the beta phase will be postponed to early 2006. Clients for Windows and Mac OS X will be provided as soon as the scientific application is considered sufficiently stable on the Linux platform. All the clients will be provided and tested during the alpha phase, to fix all the major problems before the beta phase.

Shocked

LanDroid · Posted: Sun Nov 06, 2005 6:56 pm Post subject:

Here are a couple of articles in this area.

Fart in your gen direxion · Posted: Sun Nov 13, 2005 4:47 am Post subject:

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

Some competition for you Sir Fart?
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LanDroid · Posted: Wed Nov 23, 2005 7:44 pm Post subject:

Some project news:

Michelle · Posted: Fri Nov 25, 2005 5:31 am Post subject:

Account creation is still disabled. Confused

*sigh*
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Grawlfang · Posted: Sat Dec 10, 2005 7:39 pm Post subject:

so rosetta@home still gets the bulk of my CPU's - that and climateprediction ....
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LanDroid · Posted: Mon May 01, 2006 9:13 am Post subject:

Looks like Orbit@Home is virtually dead due to lack of funding. As with so many many things in life, THIS ANGERS ME! I am sick and tired of very small rocks raining down from the heavens and denting my iron helmet! The noise in my brain is deafening!
#ni-1

alpha_fruit · Posted: Mon May 01, 2006 9:20 am Post subject:

Take off that helmet and step into another project. Most any project will welcome you with open arms. #ni-1

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Mr. Snrub · Posted: Mon May 01, 2006 9:51 am Post subject:

I have begun throwing the rocks back up. We will see what effect, if any, this has.

BmfCb · Prince Joined: 26 Jun 2005 Posts: 1422 Location: Belgium

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Javapersona · Knight Joined: 09 Jul 2004 Posts: 88

Yes, seriously for a moment, I have been eagerly awaiting a chance to sign up and crunch for this project. I am hopeful that the situation improves soon.
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