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In the next days (probably Monday next week) we will begin testing a new scheduler code

November 20, 2008

In the next days (probably Monday next week) we will begin testing a new scheduler code. We'll start a specific thread on the Problems and Bug Reports message board to report problems with this new scheduler when we actually start testing. Please prepare for some irregularities while we tune the new setup.

We have completed processing the S5R3 workunits

September 25, 2008

We have completed processing the S5R3 workunits. S5R3 was the first search using the combined F-stat plus Hough method, which is currently the most sensitive search technique that is known. This search used approximately one year of data from LIGO's first science run (S5) at design sensitivity. The S5R3 post-processing is being led by Dr. Maria Alessandra Papa, one of the inventors of the search technique.

The server upgrade is mostly complete, and we are now distributing work for our new search, S5R4a

August 05, 2008

The server upgrade is mostly complete, and we are now distributing work for our new search, S5R4a. If your personal BOINC installation has behaved strangely in the past days, please be patient. In most cases this will now sort itself out. We still need to track down a few remaining issues: some of the project PHP pages are not working entirely as they should, and there have been some performance problems with the web pages. Hopefully these will be resolved in the next few days.