theSkyNet POGS News

[AMDave]

Migration
We'll start the migration/optimisation on Monday. Hopefully the last 25 results will be in by thenThis update will do the following:

Use the new BOINC wrapper code
Move the server to pogs.theskynet.org (hopefully you won't have to reconnect to the project)
Improve the speed of the Server by moving more of the BOINC stuff into the AWS cloud
Link to theSkyNet web site for the views of galaxies you've processed etc Shrink the DB from 1TB to 50GB (saves $200's a month!)




More... (http://ec2-23-23-126-96.compute-1.amazonaws.com/pogs/forum_thread.php?id=223)

[Dirk Broer]

Very easy to miss (if you work longer at the project and have the old url http://ec2-23-23-126-96.compute-1.amazonaws.com/pogs/):

Hey Everyone,

After several months hard at work we are ready to begin testing the new webpage, theSkyNet2.0 (http://production-test.theskynet.org/).

I would like to extend the invitation to all of our amazing users, who have already been using the BOINC project, to join us in testing the new web site.
The new site is a complete rebuild of http://www.theskynet.org using Ruby on Rails.

We’ve retained all the existing features and added some exciting new ones. The most interesting I’ll list here:


• Boinc is now included! When you sign up you are giving the option creating either a nereus or a boinc account (or both). You total credit value is then a combination of the two systems
• New stats. I’ve added a graphing feature to the site that shows historical statistics dating back to the beginning of the project.
• Json API, this was a requested feature from the old site. You will find that most of the pages are capable of rending as a json document just append .json to the url to see what happens.


What does this mean for boinc users? Once signed in to the site you will be taken to your ‘Dashboard’ page (http://production-test.theskynet.org/profile) where you have access to:
• Your galaxies
• Statistics about your contributions to POGS
• Leader boards that bridge the gap between the original project and the POGS project
• theSkyNet.org alliance system
• Trophies!
• And more


Anyone heading from POGS to the new site should be able to login with either your existing http://www.theskynet.org account (if you have one) or your POGS account details.

If you find any problems or have any feature requests could you please post them on the forums here under the website section (http://pogs.theskynet.org/pogs/forum_forum.php?id=11).

Thank you in advance for helping us test and improve the new theSkyNet webpage. This is a test site though and as we move out of testing in a few months’ time it is possible that accounts or alliances made on the site could be lost. Your BOINC credit is safe as I get it from the POGS system.

Cheers
Alex
theSkyNet webmaster

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theSkyNet Web Developer
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In short: detach, and re-attach to http://pogs.theskynet.org/pogs/