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Main database corrupted
Our main project DB here on Albert@Home got partially corrupted during last weekend's shutdown. We're looking into it...

Oliver
19 Nov 2012 | 14:56:47 UTC · Comment

Planned downtime of Albert@Home: Nov, 17th (this weekend)
Out test project will be shut down on Nov, 17th due to a planned power outage. More details here (message board of our main/production project).

Cheers,
Oliver
16 Nov 2012 | 10:11:48 UTC · Comment

Work availability
Hi,

You may have noticed that we didn't produce new work units over the past few days. This was due to an infrastructure upgrade in our data center. While we made sure that our production project wasn't affected, our test project ran out of work. Oh well, it's a test project after all.

Anyway, we began producing work again, at least for the binary radio pulsar search, so you should be able to fetch new work units soon.

FYI, we're also going to update the BRP apps themselves over the next days. They include improvements that should make them more robust against external termination, in particular the GPU apps.


Thanks for your patience!

Oliver
5 Nov 2012 | 14:24:25 UTC · Comment

[New release] BRP4 app v1.30 (new 64bit versions)
Dear volunteers,

we just released some new BRP4 1.30 app versions. These are based on the same code basis as the v1.28 versions, but are compiled for 64 bit.

The app versions support the following platforms

- CPU, 64 bit, for Windows,
- NVIDIA CUDA , 64 bit, Linux
- OpenCL (ATI/AMD), 64 bit, Linux.

Requirements & known limitations

The OpenCL version requires BOINC 7.0.27 or later, the CUDA app requires 6.10 or later.
The Linux 64bit v1.30 app versions come without a graphics-app ("screensaver" equivalent).

Please report any issues / feedback in the "Problems" section of the forum here: http://albert.phys.uwm.edu/forum_thread.php?id=8938&nowrap=true#112238


Thanks for
contributing to Albert@Home
HBE


15 Oct 2012 | 13:43:38 UTC · Comment

[New release] BRP app v1.28
We just released the first app versions of a new BRP4 v1.28 app release. Over the next days, we will release this app for all supported platforms, today we released

- OpenCL (ATI/AMD), 32 bit, for Linux,
- OpenCL (ATI/AMD), 32 bit, Windows and
- OpenCL (ATI/AMD) OSX (Lion and later).

All versions require BOINC 7.0.25 or later, but we encourage volunteers to actually use the latest recommended BOINC versions, currently 7.0.28 or 7.0.31.

Versions for CPU and NVIDIA CUDA GPU will follow soon, plus some app versions that are native 64 bit apps.

New in this app version:
- Various performance improvements
- cross-validation improvements for HD 69xx GPUs

For discussion on this new version, please use this thread http://albert.phys.uwm.edu/forum_thread.php?id=8912
8 Aug 2012 | 17:39:47 UTC · Comment

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