Spinhenge@Home

[russkris]

Volker just emailed me a new project called

http://spin.fh-bielefeld.de/img/spinhenge_at_home_logo_h90px.jpghttp://boinc.berkeley.edu/boinc_logo_trans.gif


What is Spinhenge@home?

Spinhenge@home was born when I (Thomas Hilbig) asked my professor for a subject suggestion for my dissertation. My professor offered to me to realise the statistical calculations for Spin Dynamics by means of distributed calculation. The basis for this should be BOINC, because BOINC is used also already for other scientific purposes. So I go to Google and search for 'BOINC'. After I had made myself clever what comes up to me, I have decided them.

To whom Spinhenge@home is use of?

In the field of research 'Nanotechnologie', in the area 'Molecular Magnets : Controlled Nanoscale Magnetism', from the American energy ministry (DOE) of promoted interdisciplinary big research project, physicists work on utilising chemist, mathematician and engineers in it, molecular magnetic materials technological. On this occasion, it is to be carried out inevitably mathematical calculations. Because these calculations are very time-consuming, it is obvious, this on several computers.


Currently it's not public

[Toutouf]

Written on main page now :

From Friday, 01.09.2006, we go to the public beta test. Then everybody can take part.

:cool:

[N.V.M.]

i'll definitely pass on this project....:rolleyes:

[russkris]

And why?

[Miko]

I can't understand this allso.
Spinhenge is starting like a rocket!
The project is (at the 1st of Oktober) one of the "big dozen",
it overtake in number of users 21 projects in the first month!
This shows that Spin is a really popular project!
The science is really interesting! So the results can, for example, become the base for match-head or smaler sized CPUs!!!

It's a private thing if someone likes a project or not.
But if You've a real reason let me know maybe it's something changeble...
Regards
Miko

[wyles]

k............ anyone???

[russkris]

:dunno:

[Miko]

Is Spinhenge delightet from DCV?
I can't find it in theprojectlist (http://www.dc-vault.com/projects.php) and in the teamstats of our team (Crunching Family http://www.dc-vault.com/showteam.php?team=379)

[Toutouf]

Project main page says :
Projekt Status
State: Beta


and Beta projects have things like this one :
Please cancel all workunits with the names "fullerene_0_* - fullerene_7000_*"! There was an error while creating these ones!

It's a good thing that Spinhenge get many teams running Beta.
Keep on it. (You're no crunching only for DCV, are you ?)
But Vault rules say project has to be more than Beta to be registered.

Be patient...

P.S. : I am running 11 Boinc projects which are still not in the Vault.

[Miko]

Thx for the info!
I understand this!
But its sad to haven't a statistic about all... :(

[russkris]

Nope actually. These are the requirements
The project must:

* be active
* accept new members and teams immediately upon registration
* have parsable team stats
* have team stats that are updated regularly
* provide a client program which runs on a local PC

[Webmaster Yoda]

I haven't run Spinhenge a lot lately, but intend to go back to it soon. They have had some problematic work units and because they still do not have checkpointing, there's a potential to waste quite a lot of CPU cycles.

Still, I haven't heard too many problems mentioned in our team forum (with 62 members signed up in this project and about half of them active in the past week).

Stats updates have been regular in the past 30 days, with at least one export every day (according to the message boards, they are running every six hours).

They do have a problem right now though: "Because of unexpected harddiskspace problems we have to announce that there could be an insufficient amount of new Workunits. We are sorry and we will work on a solution as fast as possible. "

[Wang Solutions]

Yes they have had a few problems - but so do all projects from time to time (yes, even Einstein of late). But they have been quite communicative about their problems in multiple languages, I like their objectives and they are improving all the time. This is one project that I intend to stick with.

[russkris]

Would this Project fit into Physical Science?

[Webmaster Yoda]

It's a tough call (with the talk about it being inter-disciplinary) but as they're looking at things on a molecular level, I would class it a physics project.