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Sightus@CAU, a member of the team Planet 3DNow! found a megaprime for base R96. The prime 1648*96^547292-1 has 1.084.885 digits digits and entered the T5k PrimePages. Continue reading...

hypersphinx, a member of the team BOINC@AUSTRALIA found a megaprime for base S811. The prime 450*811^373026+1 has 1.085.144 digits and entered the T5k PrimePages. Continue reading...

SkyHighWeFly, a member of the team Antarctic Crunchers found a megaprime for base S788. The prime 14*788^346279+1 has 1.003.008 digits and entered the T5k PrimePages. Continue reading...

From July 16 16:00 to July 21 16:00 PrimeGrid will be running a 5 day challenge on the Factorial Prime Search project. For more information, please see this forum thread. Continue reading...

M1.LaN, a member of the Czech National Team found a megaprime for base S754. The prime 199*754^384827+1 has 1.107.293 digits digits and entered the T5k PrimePages. Jeff_Wright, a member of the team Gridcoin found a megaprime for base S754. The prime 199*754^423309+1 has 1.218.020 digits digits...

benhines, a member of the team Gridcoin found a megaprime for base S716. The prime 166*716^447858+1 has 1.278.598 digits and entered the T5k PrimePages. Continue reading...

We continue to explore genes with top scores in association to lung cancer as part of the Mapping Cancer Markers (MCM) project. This update focuses on the SLC5A1 (solute carrier family 5 member 1) gene. The gene is mainly associated with regulating the uptake of glucose and galactose from the...

Hey All, I have released a new version of Nbody. This version corrects some bugs in the algorithm. Also, we performed some optimization on the initialization code which allows it to run much faster. We will be looking to change the time estimate to fully account for this initialization in the...

Hey Everyone, I will be running some simple updates and giving the server a quick reboot later today. Shouldn't cause any issues on you end, but if it does please let me know. Jake W. Continue reading...

Hey All, Bitcoin Utopia is holding another fundraising campaign for MilkyWay@home! Check it out: http://www.bitcoinutopia.com/2014/07/milkywayhome/#.VTqEAic4l4u Continue reading...

Hey All, I just wanted to let you know that we will be releasing a version of Nbody tomorrow. I will be more specific on the changes that have been made after releasing. However, this version should hopefully be much faster and fix some other bugs. Continue reading...

Hey all, We have released a new version of Nbody. There are a few changes in this version. First and foremost, we changed the way dark and light matter in our model dwarf galaxy is assigned. Previously, we would have all the particles have the same mass and assign a certain number as dark or...

Per Project Scientist Sidd: If you are a Windows user please abort all N-body tasks and go into Preferences and uncheck "MilkyWay@Home N-Body Simulation" for now. Thank you. Continue reading...

Hey Everyone, I was just informed by the admins in the server room on campus that they will be shutting down all of the servers for some schedules power outages at some point today. The server will be down overnight while they do some maintenance on the campus power systems. Thank you for your...

Hey all, We are currently having a few issues with the server. Everything seems to be up and running yet no work units are being sent out. If any of you see any erroneous behavior on your end please let us know. Thanks, Sidd Continue reading...

Hey all, Jake Weiss and I will be making fairly regular updates on the status of the project under the Application Code Discussion part of the forum. Cheers, Sidd Continue reading...

Hey All, Just a quick update on the status of Nbody. I discovered that the hanging that people were experiencing were due to the Newton Raphson root finding algorithm which would get stuck in an infinite loop. After looking for why this occurred for sometime, I decided to switch to a bisection...

Hey Everyone, BOINC has released a new version of the BOINC client (7.6.6) which fixes a known bug causing ~3% validation errors on MilkyWay@home and other projects. Please update your clients soon to fix this issue. For more info please see my thread in number crunching here. Jake W...

Hey all, We will be rolling out a new version of Nbody, v1.52, within the next 24hrs. I have left such a large time window because, as these things sometimes go, there could be unforeseen setbacks. I will update everyone once we are about to hit the go button (if only we had an actual go...

Hey All, I have some important news. It seems that all of the linux 32bit binaries are failing. These account for 2k of the 70k returned results so far. I do not think it is the binaries that are at fault since I am getting error returns from them (which I wouldn't if it was the binaries...