MilkyWay@Home Project

Post by **Buga1** » Tue Dec 11, 2007 1:17 am

Anything related to MilkyWay@Home.

MilkyWay@Home Homepage

Description:
Milkyway@home is a research project that uses Internet-connected computers to do research in modeling and determining the evolution of the Milkyway galaxy.

Team attach: Calm Chaos
MilkyWay@Home - BoincStats

Project = Active | WU Availability = Sporadic | WU Time = ?

Rick

Post by **Buga1** » Tue Jan 08, 2008 10:00 pm

From there homepage:

January 8, 2007
Our labstaff is going to be taking down milkyway for awhile to run some tests to see why it's been crashing so frequently. Hopefully it will be back soon running smoothly.

Rick

Post by **Knightmare** » Wed Jan 09, 2008 4:18 am

Then what should we do with the votes it gathered???

Post by **Red Atomic** » Wed Jan 09, 2008 4:35 am

give them to Enigma@home

Post by **Knightmare** » Wed Jan 09, 2008 4:40 am

LMAO

Looks like PM has gotten to you....lmao

Post by **Gavin Shaw** » Wed Jan 09, 2008 4:46 am

I don't think MilkyWay will win the LTP vote. I think Malaria and Enigma may have to fight it out...

Post by **Gavin Shaw** » Sat Mar 01, 2008 12:16 pm

Well MilkyWay appears to be down and out at the moment. Just as well it didn't become the POTM for March.

Post by **Knightmare** » Sat Mar 01, 2008 4:43 pm

Yoyo seems to be having issues as well right now. Every time I try to connect to it, it says the server is " down for maintenance ".

Post by **Labbie** » Sat Mar 01, 2008 4:52 pm

Milkyway is back up.

They've been pretty good for a month or so, but just this week they have had two crashes that have lasted several hours each.

Post by **Gavin Shaw** » Sat Mar 01, 2008 11:46 pm

May be back but getting work is another issue.

Can't get anything at the moment. Probably have to wait for the backlog to clear...

Post by **Labbie** » Sun Mar 02, 2008 1:42 am

Gavin Shaw wrote:May be back but getting work is another issue.

Can't get anything at the moment. Probably have to wait for the backlog to clear...

I don't think it's a backlog per se, I think they are trying to update the science app with a new version and also working on the backend a little (reducing the time between connection attempts, working on the stats export stuff, etc).

Also, someone left the project a little while back and didn't give anyone else "write" rights to the program file folder, so they are having a teensy bit of trouble getting the new app in place. It was supposed to have been brought out last Wednesday, which is when they found the rights issue.

I wouldn't expect to see any WUs from there until tomorrow afternoon (US time) at the earliest.

Post by **Labbie** » Sun Mar 02, 2008 3:37 am

Looks like it will be Monday before Milkyway starts sending WUs again.

http://milkyway.cs.rpi.edu/milkyway/for ... =true#1802

Post by **Gavin Shaw** » Mon Mar 03, 2008 12:08 am

Actually I managed to get some units (about a dozen) last night Aus time.

So there may be some there. But I had trouble just getting them.

Post by **Labbie** » Mon Mar 03, 2008 12:12 am

I got some last night too (and all day today), but they are not the new version yet.

Post by **Gavin Shaw** » Wed Mar 05, 2008 1:28 am

MilkyWay appears to online now.

They have updated the app to verision 1.17. On Windows there appears to be a problem with the progress bar / stats. Currently it stays at 0% until the unit is finished. They are working on fixing it and believe verision 1.18 will be out soon.

I also note that the units are taking about half the time to complete using 1.17 when compared against 1.13 on my laptop but are still worth the same amount of credit.

Post by **Sarge_II** » Fri Mar 28, 2008 3:59 pm

Dave Przybylo wrote:The project is chugging along. We try to put out new WUs when the old ones get done but sometimes we have a lag time. Other than that, there was no one monitoring the server before i came on this semester. So now, I'm able to keep things very stable.

If you'd like you can pass it on to your team. :)

Post by **Labbie** » Fri Mar 28, 2008 8:24 pm

MilkyWay has been stable for almost a week now (IIRC). No crashes, no major WU shortages, etc.

Post by **Gavin Shaw** » Wed Apr 30, 2008 9:35 am

MilkyWy seems to be down at the moment. Less than a day after I started up there again.

So I have switched to Spinhenge so I can have some work to do.

Post by AC » Wed Apr 30, 2008 9:51 am

Yup. it's down. Can't upload or download.

Post by **Labbie** » Wed Apr 30, 2008 3:03 pm

Still can't report or download, but MW is coming back to life. MY uploads went thru.

Post by **Labbie** » Wed Apr 30, 2008 5:32 pm

MW seems to be working again. Just reported and downloaded.

Post by **Knightmare** » Thu May 01, 2008 6:22 am

YEah....it was just a one day ( if that ) long server burp.

Post by **Knightmare** » Sat May 03, 2008 8:02 pm

Boy. MilkyWay seems to REALLY like this computer.

Since the 24th of April ( when I started running the project ) through today...I have gotten 8051 Credits with a RAC of 456.

Ten days worth. I should be getting that laptop from Bucky in the next week or so. When I do...I figure I will throw whichever machine is faster on MilkyWay...and the other will run the POTM.

Post by **Gavin Shaw** » Sat May 03, 2008 10:40 pm

Hey KM,

Check you rear vision mirror. You might see the Prometheus and me coming up and catching you pretty fast.

Post by **Knightmare** » Sun May 04, 2008 12:44 am

Gavin Shaw wrote:Hey KM,

Check you rear vision mirror. You might see the Prometheus and me coming up and catching you pretty fast.

I know. I know...lol

I am taking what I can get right now. Laptop to come is a 2. something GHZ Pentium....and as soon as the " stimulus " check comes in...I'll have a quad. Maybe then I can keep up with some of you guys....lol

But then again...I am staying pretty close ( relatively ) to A/C...so that makes me feel a bit better...

Post by AC » Sun May 04, 2008 10:43 am

Knightmare wrote:
Gavin Shaw wrote:Hey KM,

Check you rear vision mirror. You might see the Prometheus and me coming up and catching you pretty fast.

I know. I know...lol

I am taking what I can get right now. Laptop to come is a 2. something GHZ Pentium....and as soon as the " stimulus " check comes in...I'll have a quad. Maybe then I can keep up with some of you guys....lol

But then again...I am staying pretty close ( relatively ) to A/C...so that makes me feel a bit better...

You and Gavin are extremely close now, and it's only a matter of time before you overtake me. I'm currently workin' on another plan. Nice going guys.

Post by **Gavin Shaw** » Sun May 04, 2008 11:00 am

But to overtake you I would need work from their sever. No work coming out so I guess I have to wait longer before I try to pass you...

Post by **Labbie** » Sun May 04, 2008 3:05 pm

WUs are flowing again.

Post by **Knightmare** » Sun May 04, 2008 4:38 pm

Well..at least the shortages aren't lasting for very long now.

Post by **Labbie** » Sun May 04, 2008 4:57 pm

They actually took WU production offline to let the assimilator backlog clear quickly.

Post by **Gavin Shaw** » Sun May 04, 2008 9:52 pm

Well I'm starting to get back to chasing down KM.

However while I was waiting for work I allowed some units from ABC. Three of the four have cleared just waiting on the fourth to finish and then I'll be back to full running at MilkyWay.

Post by **Knightmare** » Sun May 04, 2008 10:10 pm

Well..I won't say this too loudly because Bucky can sometimes be kinda unreliable....but as it stands at the moment.....you have about a week to pass me Gavin.

He's supposedly going to have the laptop done this weekend, and next weekend he'll be bringing it to me and installing my router.

Post by **Knightmare** » Tue May 06, 2008 4:53 pm

WOOHOO!!!! I'll be passing the 10K credit mark on MilkyWay today!!!!

This is a first. I'm not in the bottom half of the team stats on a project...lol

I am currently 3rd in RAC ( 3RD !!!!! ) at 508.

Boy...this project seems to REALLY like my computer...

Post by **zerocool** » Tue May 06, 2008 5:03 pm

well done km seems mine is eating them to. A little chase is afoot.

lol.

Post by **Knightmare** » Wed May 07, 2008 3:13 am

Bring it on..... [smilie=armata_pdt_40.gif]

lol