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Past & Future
Yoyo@home
&
Rechenkraft.net e.V.
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A Volunteer Cruncher 1/3
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1996 Great Internet Mersenne Prime Search
1997 RC5-56, DES
1999 RC5-64 (distributed.net)
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A Volunteer Cruncher 2/3
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Lot of non Boinc projects
Lot of Boinc projects
12/2002 registered in the forum of
Rechenkraft.net
10/2004 founding of Rechenkraft.net e.V.
Rechen
Kraft
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- Computing
- Power
Rechenkraft.net e.V.
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Non profit organization
• Support distributed computing
• Promote it (Volunteers, Scientists)
• Promote science, research and
education
• Setup project to grant scientists access
to high performance bio-science
software
www.Rechenkraft.net
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A Volunteer Cruncher 3/3
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11/2005 Member of Rechenkraft.net e.V.
06/2006 rebuild home page as wiki
A lot of wiki work
After 10 years of DC volunteer
 yoyo@home started
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Never planned as project
begin 2007
• how does the server side works
• Boinc open source
• subscribe boinc_* mailinglists
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03/04 2007 Boinc Server VM
Laptop WinXP, 1.6 GHz 500MB RAM
• UPPERcase
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06/2007 wrapper announced for legacy apps
07/2007 distributed.net OGR app wrapped
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project moved from VM -> small root server
11/2007 evolution@home wrapped
• Rechenkraft.net has a long lasting relation to the
author Laurence Loewe
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03/2008 Stephen Brooks Muon1 wrapped
12/2008 ECM wrapped
• Trial factorization for different projects (6 included)
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04/2010 Euler wrapped
other projects, just contact me or our forum
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OGR queue
Boinc Server
Boinc
Client
EVO queue
Boinc
Client
MUON queue
OddPerfect
ElevenSmooth
Mersenne+2
NearRepdigit
RepUnit
XYYXF
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EULER queue
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Unsent
results
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Boinc
Client
Boinc
Client
Experiences from the other side of a project,
as project admin
+++ much unexpected help
• compiling on Win/Linux/Solaris/Mac/PS3,
• translations, screensaver, graphics
• help from other projects, mailing list, #boinc
--- some user are very aggressive and blaming
• specially about credits
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Learnings
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credits are holy, NEVER remove them, be
carefully, don't abort running wus
be open, specially on problems of any kind
(technical, monetary, time, ...)
fast answer forum questions
provide frequent news
don't talk about not available things,
specially about time schedules
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About the Future
RNA World:
 open a job submission interface for
scientists
 scientific publications
 wrap more bioscience applications
Rechenkraft.net e.V.
 get more member, active participants,
donations, monetary foundings
yoyo@home
 include more projects
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Boinc wish list
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check pointing outside the application
• E.g. using VM or saving the whole memory of
the application
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runtime selection in Boinc
• Don‘t get tasks longer than X
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RSS Feed in Client
Switch off GPU fetch for CPU only projects
Option to abort redundant results even if
they are started.
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Our URLs
www.Rechenkraft.net
www.Rechenkraft.net/yoyo
www.RNAWorld.de
AerospaceResearch.net/Constellation
…
[email protected]
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