New Projects

[Rusty]

I think it is time to add a few more projects to the Vault.

Lets have a good chat about which projects(BOINC) should be added

[mewbysea]

I'd recommend NQueens@Home and Docking@Home as additions to the Vault.
* NQueens has been a pretty steady performer in the Math/games category and looks to have a continuing flow of work. A solid research project with university affiliation and open publication of results.
* Docking has been in closed alpha for a while and is now in open beta and going strong. Docking is another addition to the Biological category. Another solid research project with university affiliation and open publication of results.

[Wabbit98]

Besides those two I would say Enigma@HomeL an interesting BOINC project, not your normal one; plenty of work and seems to run well.

SHA-1 Collision Search Graz: this project has been around and is fairly stable, the Workunits do not take forever for my little AMD.

Ni

[1fast6]

I support adding the missing BOINC projects:
NQueens
Docking
SHA
superlink
Chess960

I also think the logic/puzzle based projects, such as Sudoku, Nqueens, Chess960, etc, should be added to the Misc group, not the matematical group...

[cswchan]

I don't know the others... I have run SuperLink & Docking for a while & have not yet seen any problems...

[Beyond]

Originally Posted by 1fast6

I also think the logic/puzzle based projects, such as Sudoku, Nqueens, Chess960, etc, should be added to the Misc group, not the matematical group...

I second this with vigor! These don't seem a good fit for the Math group.

[The Shadow]

HmmPhhh - Chess 960 down for WELL over a month now (site is on-line , but last admin comment was Jan 2007 ) .
Enough said on that project , for now .

Shads .

[leavitron]

Originally Posted by 1fast6

I support adding the missing BOINC projects:
I also think the logic/puzzle based projects, such as Sudoku, Nqueens, Chess960, etc, should be added to the Misc group, not the matematical group...

Agreed. ALL of the logic/puzzle projects should be in Misc.

[Ungelovende]

Originally Posted by leavitron

Agreed. ALL of the logic/puzzle projects should be in Misc.

I guess you could add:
RC5-72 - Bruteforce - Math?
Seti - Search for ET -physical?
Muon Dpad - design stuff - physical?
etc..

I guess Ars wants 1. place in misc - and don't have unlimited internet connection

[IronBits]

I'd like to nominate NPLB (No Prime Left Behind) to the Math section

There are Teams and stats.
http://nplb.ironbits.net/ - server status
http://stats.ironbits.net/statsnew/nplbstats.php - project status
http://stats.ironbits.net/statsnew/n...ntent=progress - progress reports

Free-DC Bok's Stats here: http://stats.free-dc.org/stats.php?page=proj&proj=nplb
Forums here: http://www.mersenneforum.org/forumdisplay.php?f=82

[Xaverius]

Is it possible to update the current project list (http://www.team-ninja.com/vbulletin/...ad.php?t=36977) it is not up to date anymore.

[Rusty]

Originally Posted by Xaverius

Is it possible to update the current project list (http://www.team-ninja.com/vbulletin/...ad.php?t=36977) it is not up to date anymore.

Sure mate I will do it very soon

[Yankton]

Not technically a new project, Ramsey is active again and producing work. The operator is still working some kinks out (checkpointing doesn't quite work right yet, but he's getting there). Worth checking out. http://www.ramseyathome.com/ramsey/

[Sport]

AIS

Artificial Intellegence system

To date we have simulated 766,100,333,333 neurons. The human brain has an estimated 100 billion neurons. For summary results click on the image link below.

Computing Information
The neural network simulator is an application that simulates neurons. Each downloaded work unit generates 500,000 biophysical neurons. Because the simulator is in an initial phase and we have very few cellular models implemented, we can only use it to test for simulations capacity. We have completed the first phase of the project, to simulate over 100 billion neurons. The second largest brain simulation has been done on a cluster of 27 machines, with 100 billion neurons simulated over a period of 50 days. While it was a very interesting experiment which pushed the frontier further on it was a partial simulation only, in the sense that many of the required components were not implemented due to hardware constraints.

The neurons were created, simulated and then destroyed in memory, without any data being stored. Based on their results the estimate for full brain simulations was calculated to be the year 2016; we would like to prove otherwise. From a practical point of view it didn't advance the knowledge further on and that's why we would like to continue along this line of thought and bridge these results with some practical data. The problem of storage and computing power is esential for large scale brain simulations because without them we can't plan and estimate these requirements. Without planning there is also no clear understanding as to what is needed in order to do that. As we advance with the simulation and more and more neurons get simulated, we should be able to make increasingly precise estimations on storage, number of computers required, duration, bandwidth and other factors. Regardless of the fact that at this stage our simulation is not precise and it lacks in many aspects, this is what we want to achieve with your help.

There is also the added benefit that once we will publish these results and the public at large would see that the capacity to simulate the entire brain is considerably higher than previously thought, a large stumbling block will be removed from the path of artificial intelligence.

Artificial Intelligence System
SC at AIS

just a thought ...Orakk @ SC found this one


3 sc'ers {including 1 of my machines} are giving it a trial...will let you know

[Rusty]

Artificial Intellegence system --> http://www.team-ninja.com/vbulletin/...ad.php?t=45136