Zivis Superordenador Ciudadano (New BOINC Project)

[Evil-Dragon]

A new project for you guys to crunch (i already see there's alot of you already joined!)

Project url is: http://zivis.bifi.unizar.es/
Account creation page: http://zivis.bifi.unizar.es/create_account_form.php
Team page: http://zivis.bifi.unizar.es/team_display.php?teamid=76
Server Status: http://zivis.bifi.unizar.es/server_status.php

No idea what the project is about however BOINCStats form said "Project sciense: to traze particle movements on superheated plasma. Related to fussion dry run on future ITER through CIEMAT spanish organisation. See following pages for more info: (english)" and "Apparently the project is working on "clean energy"."

Anyway enjoy if new projects are your thing

[Bender10]

The cool thing about this, is that the project was started by and is centered on increasing local (Zaragoza, Spain) user participation/awareness in DC.

[Nflight]

Each work unit is anywhere from 46 seconds to 11 minutes long, but there is a lot of data produced in that short time, each work unit is nearly 500k minimum to be sent back to the server, some are nearing 2 meg files. Thats a lot of data in a short amount of time!

The disk usage is nearly 22 meg off your hard disk, far above the majority of projects I crunch. For those looking to put this on a stick, I don't know if you can do that?

It is Linux Friendly!

Actually my first work unit ended with a computational error also, just hit the update and it was back loading a few more to crunch. been steady, but some of those finished are monster files.

I have had 6 consecutive WU's fail, and each time it has crashed my BOINC Manager. I have stopped running this project for the time being. Back to Tanpaku full time!

You never know till you try.

Post Script: It seems to not like some machines, whether it is all AMD's or Intel's I can't tell, What I Have seen is that if you are running anything else other then Zivis, the project will demand a lot of CPU power to operate. So no added eOn or Dimes in the background is suggested on this one!

[Beerknurd]

I am back on Neuron full time...

[spikey_richie]

Joined for a short time

[Lagu]

I´m in

[gamer007]

Joined. But I cut back for the moment as I have my final NanoHive WUs to crunch.

[spikey_richie]

I got an e-mail from them today:

--- A load of spanish ---

Again, a rough highlight of the above for foreign participants: Some scientific results are already in the website http://zaragozaciudad.net/zivis/ and I think that someone is translating them, to French at least. We are -arguably- very advanced in the debugging of boinc applications, and now we are catching some graphics errors, so some units are sent without graphics in order to compare performance. There will be a halt of the server Friday or Monday, to add extra disk storage. It will take a couple hours. We are now exporting stats and some BOINCstats sites are already downloading them. Note that credits will keep the current calibration during the contest period, dont ask me to recalibrate, at least before 15 May. Finally, and related to the contest, we thank to the people who has registered via our googlemaps mash-up, but I would like to ask an extra favour: to repeat the four step process deleting the "Primer Apellido" field, as the lack of this field is a clue for the rest of participants to know that you are not a local participant of the local contest (we will list you in the local classifications but we will not assign you a order number). Note that you do not need to reenter your map position nor other field, just delete the field and go forward until you reach the download step; no need to download any, of course.

De nuevo, gracias a todos. Nos vemos por el barrio.

[Evil-Dragon]

Thanks for the translation. I couldn't read it!

[spikey_richie]

I didn't translate it, there was a load of text in Spanish, then right in the middle a block of English