Orbit@Home coming back soon!

[NeoGen]

January 16, 2008
We have received the grant money from NASA. Part of this money will be used soon to acquire a dedicated server, and by February 2008 the new server should be up and running. Between now and then, not much will happen, but expect a period of about a week during the which orbit@home will be down because of the server transition. For several reasons, we're also debating the possibility to start with a fresh installation of BOINC, that would thus require a new registration by all the users. We expect to start to develop actively this project in March 2008. Thanks for waiting for such a long time, and see you then.


http://orbit.psi.edu/

If anyone doesn't remember anymore what Orbit@Home is, it is a project that aims to keep track of the near-earth objects and their trajectories at all times, to prevent us for example from being hit by a meteor without warning. :icon_wink:

[mitchellds]

jeesh, I hope NASA is already doing that.

[Beerknurd]

jeesh, I hope NASA is already doing that.

LOL, I hope they are too... :lol:

[NeoGen]

I think they are. But you know how it is, they alone can only do so much. :icon_rolleyes:
If I'm not mistaken it's in the "Armaggeddon" movie with Bruce Willis, where there's a guy from NASA that says that their budget only allows them to keep track of about 4% of the sky.

[gatekeeper53]

And it's a big sky!!

[BobCat13]

Orbit@Home has a new project server:

http://orbit.psi.edu/oah/

If you had an account on the old server, it is gone as the database wasn't migrated to the new server.

Team page:

http://orbit.psi.edu/oah/team_display.php?teamid=12

[sentient_life]

Rejoined. Finally, something will be going on over there.:icon_wink:

[NeoGen]

I'm in! :)

[AMDave]

Thanks for the heads-up. Mine's fixed.

[Nflight]

I'm IN too... :blob3:

[Frederic Brillouet]

grrrrr only linux i see :icon_evil:

[Beerknurd]

I'm in... Well just in case they have Windows WU's anytime in the future....

[meshmar]

WUs are being sent and a couple of us have some credits ... finally!

But! This is VERY alpha right now and there are some major issues to be resolved ...

[mitchellds]

so what kinda credit is this returning and how many hours does a typical wu take ? It looks pretty pitiful right now.

[vaughan]

I just received an Orbit task on my core duo laptop. Estimate is 43.5 hours.

[sentient_life]

Don't look for that to complete in 43.5 hours. They all seem to be taking at least 170+ on a q6600. The estimation for these workunits are way, way off! We're approaching CPDN lengths without trickle updates!:shocked:

[vaughan]

1 percent done after 4 hours. :icon_mad:

[sentient_life]

1 percent done after 4 hours. :icon_mad:

Yep, gotta have a lot of patience with these ones and hope to God they don't crash (which has been happening!). I have one workunit on my Q6600 that is at 111+ hrs. @ 51% completed.

[vaughan]

I aborted the critter as I hate LRMs (long running molecules). :icon_twisted:

[PoorBoy]

I aborted the critter as I hate LRMs (long running molecules). :icon_twisted:

Good Idea Vaughan, I wish now I would have done the same thing with the 4 I have be because these things are like the Eveready Battery Bunny, he just keeps going & going & going ... :icon_lol:

The 4 I have are @ about 210 Hr's now and within less than an hour to completion but that could still take 15-20 hours before their done the way these things run ... :icon_rolleyes:

I won't be running any more unless theres a Trickle Credit System put in place or the Wu's get a lot shorter, somewhere in the 1-2 hour range would be more stress-less worrying if their going to crash or not ... :)

[Frederic Brillouet]

Good Idea Vaughan, I wish now I would have done the same thing with the 4 I have be because these things are like the Eveready Battery Bunny, he just keeps going & going & going ... :icon_lol:

The 4 I have are @ about 210 Hr's now and within less than an hour to completion but that could still take 15-20 hours before their done the way these things run ... :icon_rolleyes:

I won't be running any more unless theres a Trickle Credit System put in place or the Wu's get a lot shorter, somewhere in the 1-2 hour range would be more stress-less worrying if their going to crash or not ... :)
you dont call it the duracell bunny?

[PoorBoy]

you dont call it the duracell bunny?

Actually it's the Energizer Bunny which is a Subsidiary of Eveready ... :icon_razz:

[sentient_life]

I won't be running any more unless theres a Trickle Credit System put in place or the Wu's get a lot shorter, somewhere in the 1-2 hour range would be more stress-less worrying if their going to crash or not ... :)

I'm with you on this one. I'm not one to crunch projects just on how much credit they give (whatever amount that gets me to 100k:icon_wink:). However, I don't like losing a ton of computing time, if it could have been used by another, more stable project. uFluids will give you credit for failed workunits most of the time, and if a trickle system isn't implemented, at least give us something to make up for the time put forth.

The way things are going, I hope they are going to just release shorter running workunits after these "beasts" are killed off!
:2gunsfiring_v1:LRMs

[Sou'westerly]

The way things are going, I hope they are going to just release shorter running workunits after these "beasts" are killed off!
:2gunsfiring_v1:LRMs

I couldn't agree more. I had one that twice failed to resume from a checkpoint and at 80 hours crunching with zero progress :sad5: I killed it as impossible. Dave.