News

In the next several days we are going to shift from using the current BOINC scheduler to a new BOINC 'locality' scheduler

January 12, 2005

In the next several days we are going to shift from using the current BOINC scheduler to a new BOINC 'locality' scheduler. This will have some important benefits. In particular, it will ensure that host computers get lots of work for the (large) data files that they have already downloaded, instead of being required to download a new large data file for each new item of work. It will also remove these large data files from the host computers when they are no longer needed. Unfortunately the new scheduler is not compatible with the test workunits currently in progress on many hosts.

In anticipation of 'going public' Einstein@Home is now running on the new server hardware

January 04, 2005

In anticipation of 'going public' Einstein@Home is now running on the new server hardware. We need to complete and test (hopefully) one final round of application revisions before this happens. Hopefully this will eliminate the remaining problems with SIGABORT failures in the Linux application and similar problems (and a useless docked window) in the Macintosh application.

[b]Important News![/b] The Einstein@Home server will be SHUT DOWN a ~9:30 UTC on WED JAN 4 so we can upgrade to new hardware

January 03, 2005

Important News! The Einstein@Home server will be SHUT DOWN a ~9:30 UTC on WED JAN 4 so we can upgrade to new hardware