Posts by jringo

1) Message boards : Number crunching : Is Rosetta still issuing COVID-19 relataed workunits? (Message 91993) Posted 15 Mar 2020 by jringo Post: we continue to help as best we can with the twitter @BOINCNetwork and podcasts hosted at https://boinc.network along with the BOINC Network discord server: If anyone wants to help, join us! Discord invite link: https://discord.gg/wPRafUq Twitter: https://twitter.com/BOINCnetwork Website: https://boinc.network/
2) Message boards : News : Rosetta's role in fighting coronavirus (Message 91778) Posted 25 Feb 2020 by jringo Post: Awesome!
3) Message boards : Number crunching : Huge RAM usage by some of latest WUs (Message 91724) Posted 17 Feb 2020 by jringo Post: We're using BOINC Network to spread the word that R@H is working on corona virus problems. This is the sort of news that would be a great public driver! This news will not only bring cycles from other BOINC projects to yours (likely only temporary -- to solve an immediate and tangible problem -- so don't feel guilty), but would likely bring a significant number of people into the BOINC network at large. Always feel free to reach out if you'd like help getting a PR made up. Good luck on the project! email: boinc.network@gmail.com discord: https://discord.gg/wPRafUq twitter: @BOINCNetwork
4) Message boards : Number crunching : BOINC Radio Episode 03 - BOINC in Schools; Roadmap and Wishlist; Small Spinning Things (Message 91587) Posted 20 Jan 2020 by jringo Post: BOINC Radio Episode 03 - BOINC in Schools; Roadmap and Wishlist; Small Spinning Things Recorded on January 17th This week we discuss a competition that involved BOINC, a high school, and microbiomes! We also discuss the BOINC roadmap and wishlist along with some science news including the world's fastest spinning object. Listen on the web: https://boinc.network Listen on LBRY: https://lbry.tv/@BOINCNetwork:c Listen on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/30EtN42RCSUPPC3OvUO2lM Listen on Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/boinc-radio/id1492837872 Learn, Chat, Science BOINC Radio is a participatory podcast hosted on the BOINC Network Discord server. This means you, listener, help guide the direction of each episode! Every Friday at 4pm EST your friendly hosts bring topics for everyone to discuss. Topics can range from BOINC, science, and distributed computing news to network theory to interesting anecdotes. To participate, all you need to do is join the BOINC Network Discord server and take part in the live recording every Friday at 4pm EST. If you can't join the live recordings, feel free to reach out on discord with your ideas and we will do our best to integrate your suggestions or thoughts into a future episode. Otherwise, we hope you enjoy the show! Each episode is uploaded 1-3 days after the live recording session. You can listen at https://boinc.network, or on LBRY , spotify, apple podcasts, or your favorite podcast app. Oh! Don't forget to follow us on twitter: https://twitter.com/BOINCNetwork BOINC Network Discord: https://discord.gg/wPRafUq
5) Message boards : Number crunching : BOINC Radio 02 - TeaTime@Home (Message 91544) Posted 13 Jan 2020 by jringo Post: BOINC Radio Episode 02 - TeaTime@Home Recorded on January 10th This week we discuss CERN's 2019 round-up video, Einstein@home, how much BOINC will not destroy your computer, and more! Listen on the web: https://boinc.network Listen on LBRY: https://lbry.tv/@BOINCNetwork:c Listen on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/30EtN42RCSUPPC3OvUO2lM Listen on Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/boinc-radio/id1492837872 Learn, Chat, Science BOINC Radio is a participatory podcast hosted on the BOINC Network Discord server. This means you, listener, help guide the direction of each episode! Every Friday at 4pm EST your friendly hosts bring topics for everyone to discuss. Topics can range from BOINC, science, and distributed computing news to network theory to interesting anecdotes. To participate, all you need to do is join the BOINC Network Discord server and take part in the live recording every Friday at 4pm EST. If you can't join the live recordings, feel free to reach out on discord with your ideas and we will do our best to integrate your suggestions or thoughts into a future episode. Otherwise, we hope you enjoy the show! Each episode is uploaded 1-3 days after the live recording session. You can listen at https://boinc.network https://boinc.network, or on LBRY , spotify, or apple podcasts Oh! Don't forget to follow us on twitter: https://twitter.com/BOINCNetwork BOINC Network Discord: https://discord.gg/wPRafUq
6) Message boards : Number crunching : BOINC Radio 01 - What is BOINC? (Message 91529) Posted 6 Jan 2020 by jringo Post: BOINC Radio Episode 01 - What is BOINC? Recorded on January 3rd This week we discuss the basics of distributed computing, BOINC, and BOINC projects. We are also joined by a BOINC project creator. Don't forget to follow us on twitter and join the discord for your chance to win a Primaboinca invite code! Listen on the web: https://boinc.network Listen on LBRY: https://lbry.tv/@BOINCNetwork:c Listen on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/30EtN42RCSUPPC3OvUO2lM Listen on Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/boinc-radio/id1492837872 Learn, Chat, Science BOINC Radio is a participatory podcast hosted on the BOINC Network Discord server. This means you, listener, help guide the direction of each episode! Every Friday at 4pm EST your friendly hosts bring topics for everyone to discuss. Topics can range from BOINC, science, and distributed computing news to network theory to interesting anecdotes. To participate, all you need to do is join the BOINC Network Discord server and take part in the live recording every Friday at 4pm EST. If you can't join the live recordings, feel free to reach out on discord with your ideas and we will do our best to integrate your suggestions or thoughts into a future episode. Otherwise, we hope you enjoy the show! Each episode is uploaded 1-3 days after the live recording session. You can listen at https://boinc.network https://boinc.network, or on LBRY , spotify, or apple podcasts Oh! Don't forget to follow us on twitter: https://twitter.com/BOINCNetwork BOINC Network Discord: https://discord.gg/wPRafUq
7) Message boards : Number crunching : Join us today for the BOINC Radio podcast! (Message 91511) Posted 3 Jan 2020 by jringo Post: BOINC Radio Learn, Chat, Science https://boinc.network BOINC Radio is a participatory podcast hosted on the BOINC Network Discord server (linked below). This means you, listener, help guide the direction of each episode! Every Friday at 4pm EST your friendly hosts bring topics for everyone to discuss. Topics can range from BOINC, science, and distributed computing news to network theory to interesting anecdotes. To participate, all you need to do is join the BOINC Network Discord server and take part in the live recording every Friday at 4pm EST. If you can't join the live recordings, feel free to reach out on discord with your ideas and we will do our best to integrate your suggestions or thoughts into a future episode. Otherwise, we hope you enjoy the show! Each episode is uploaded 1-3 days after the live recording session. Oh! Don't forget to follow us on twitter @BOINCNetwork BOINC Network Discord: https://discord.gg/wPRafUq BOINC Network Twitter: https://twitter.com/boincnetwork Today! What is BOINC? Today we're introducing the basics of BOINC. We'll be discussing distributed computing, how it helps science, BOINC and BOINC projects, BOINC as a FOSS project, and BOINC as a network. See you soon!
8) Message boards : Number crunching : First Episode of BOINC Radio podcast! (Message 91274) Posted 16 Oct 2019 by jringo Post: BOINC Radio is a participatory podcast brought to you by the BOINC community. On it Delta1512 and jringo discuss BOINC, BOINC developments, BOINC projects, the BOINC community and network, and SCIENCE! The audience is welcome to participate through voice-comms or via the discord text chat. You can join the BOINC community on the first and third Friday of the month at 5pm EST on the BOINC Network discord server. Discord: https://discord.gg/wPRafUq You can listen to the episode on podbean, spotify, apple podcasts, or LBRY. Links to all of them are in the description of the episode: Episode: https://dcuni.podbean.com/e/boinc-radio-01-what-is-boinc/
9) Message boards : Number crunching : What is BOINC? I need help explaining to my friends/family. (Message 91114) Posted 12 Sep 2019 by jringo Post: Wow. Okay. I posted this question on several forums and have admittedly received a lot more response than I expected. There’s no way I can reply to everything so I’m just going to absorb and reply in general. I’m providing the links to all the threads (ordered from most responses to least). I would highly recommend reading them. There are very insightful responses that approach the question from several different perspectives. I have no doubt that they will help anyone looking to spread the Word of BOINC. I plan on integrating a lot of the ideas into my personal elevator pitch. https://www.reddit.com/r/gridcoin/comments/d2oi12/what_is_boinc_i_need_help_explaining_to_my/ https://www.reddit.com/r/BOINC/comments/d2ohll/what_is_boinc_i_need_help_explaining_to_my/ https://setiathome.berkeley.edu/forum_thread.php?id=84643 https://steemit.com/gridcoin/@jringo/what-is-boinc-i-need-help-explaining-to-my-friends-family https://www.worldcommunitygrid.org/forums/wcg/viewthread_thread,41828 https://boinc.bakerlab.org/rosetta/forum_thread.php?id=13277#91104 https://boinc.berkeley.edu/forum_thread.php?id=13106 My own answer to the question was lightly touched on by Mod.Sense over on the Rosetta@home forums when they said: “BOINC is also the client which makes it easy for participants to connect to projects…” Lumendan from the Gridcoin community on steemit also shared something that resonates with what I’ve been thinking: “There is a network of people who contribute to research by volunteering some of their PC's spare computing power to solve massively difficult problems. BOINC is the backbone of that network, it's the system that links research projects with volunteers.” To elaborate: BOINC is the middleware software, but it feels like there’s more... particularly after having experienced the BOINC workshop... after sitting in a room (or walking along a lake) and discussing the worlds of BOINC and science with only a few dozen of the engineers, scientists, researchers, professors, contributors, builders, leaders, crunchers, thinkers, tinkerers, students, publishers, enthusiasts,... whatever, involved with BOINC... it feels like there’s more to BOINC than the code that handles the data. It feels like there’s more in that when I explain BOINC to my friends we never end up discussing the software or how it works. And when I force them to start crunching and we start talking about BOINC again, we almost never talk about a feature or a coming update. And when an update is released my friends really don’t care. But when DHEP was spun up… or when DHEP was spun down… or as BlackHoles@home gets closer to release or when WCG teases new climate change projects… or when they realize that IBM runs WCG, or that DHEP was hosted out of the University of Sussex… or that LHC runs data with BOINC… or that some projects are hosted on laptops in closets by people just like them… What I’m getting at, I suppose, is that these folks really couldn’t care less about the tech behind BOINC, supercomputers, or even science and research in general. Their interest seems to focus on the human network behind BOINC and the potential to become part of that network. First they seem to think: Here’s this human network established by and around a program that seeks to better humanity through the advancement of science, understanding, and knowledge. Then they seem to think: Here’s this program developed, maintained, and utilized by this human network that lets me immediately participate, contribute, and interact with scientists, entities, and other like-minded individuals by completing real world scientific and data-analytic tasks. So what is BOINC? Well. What is the internet, what is Linux, what is Bitcoin? Maybe BOINC is a human network anchored by a grid computing technology that enables seamless and immediate participation in and contribution to that network. One thing I’ve learned for certain over my years interacting with the BOINC community is that BOINC feels like far more than just some software.
10) Message boards : Number crunching : What is BOINC? I need help explaining to my friends/family. (Message 91104) Posted 11 Sep 2019 by jringo Post: So, I was recently talking to a family member about having attended the BOINC workshop in Chicago. Right off the bat they asked the big questions: BOINC? BOINC what? What’s a BOINC? I answered as best I could, but ultimately I realized that “it’s a middleware system that networks everyone’s computers together to form a supercomputer that anyone can use. SETI uses it.” was seriously insufficient, particularly when it came to keeping the attention of this science loving technically illiterate individual -- let alone driving their desire to learn more or participate. I’ve spent some time thinking about it and I have a few different answers now, but even they feel limited. I’ll share a few ideas if the discussion gets going. So yeah, I'm curious what everyone else thinks: What is BOINC?
11) Message boards : Cafe Rosetta : Help Gridcoin Test Team Requirement Removal (Message 90985) Posted 6 Aug 2019 by jringo Post: BOINC Teams, I come to you with a request for help from the Gridcoin community. I am posting this on a select number of project forums because I would like to reach the most number of teams without spamming across all the projects. If you find this inappropriate, please delete the post and accept my apologies. For the past year or so, a core group of Gridcoin developers has been working to implement the updates required to remove the Gridcoin team requirement. They are now ready to begin the actual roll-out of the removal, but would first like help testing the functionality and scaling capabilities of the mechanism; They would like the mechanism tested by more people than the dev team and current testers can provide. There are two planned phases of testing before the team requirement is removed completely. The first phase tests the update on the Gridcoin testnet. The second phase tests the update on the Gridcoin mainnet. Once the team requirement is completely removed any person contributing processing power to a BOINC project on the Gridcoin whitelist will have the option to earn GRC without leaving their current team. Phase 1 - Testnet; Functionality Phase 1 of testing intends to confirm the functionality of the team requirement removal update. The Gridcoin testnet is a blockchain used to test new features and updates. The cryptocurrency minted by this blockchain has no real-world value. The goal of the testnet is to catch bugs before an update is released onto the mainnet where real-world transaction and currency distribution takes place. Anyone that wants to help test the team requirement removal on testnet is welcome. We are specifically looking for people on teams other than the Gridcoin team. Anyone that wants to help will be joined by several Gridcoin developers who have left the Gridcoin team specifically to test this update. They will walk you through the setup process for testnet. You will be asked to keep your wallet running for a few weeks while the developers monitor the network for any errors or bugs. If a problem comes up you might be asked to download a hotfix or to change a setting. The process for anyone interested in helping with phase 1 testing is fairly straightforward: - Join the Gridcoin slack server https://join.slack.com/t/teamgridcoin/shared_invite/enQtMjk2NTI4MzAwMzg0LTUzMmY0YjdiNzYxYzQ0MDc3MGE1NjQ3Nzg2NWMzZTUzMjAwZjdhMWI1YWUzMDE4YzQyZjVjMjMzOTc1M2RmMmM - Join the #testnet channel in the slack server - Tag or PM Barton26 (testnet coordinator), or mention in the chat that you are there to help with testing the team requirement removal Follow instructions given to you. These instructions will include how to: - Download and setup the testnet wallet - Register a testnet beacon (the way the blockchain monitors computation contributions) - Receive testnet GRC (Monopoly money used for testing updates) - Build magnitude (crunch whitelisted BOINC projects) - Stake a block on testnet (leave the wallet running) Phase 1 testing is expected to take 4-6 weeks, though as I’m sure everyone knows, the actual testing schedule depends on the results of the testing. Phase 2 - Mainnet; Scaling Phase 2 testing intends to confirm the scaling capabilities of the team requirement removal update. The Gridcoin mainnet is the main Gridcoin blockchain. The GRC produced by mainnet is controlled entirely by an open-source protocol-based economic system. It can be exchanged for other currencies or used to purchase goods and services. For phase 2 testing we are looking for 20 teams that would like to volunteer to enable their crunchers to receive GRC for their computation contributions. GRC rewards will be enabled for these teams in four batches of five teams. This will let us slowly test the scaling capabilities of the update. After all 20 teams are enabled and if everything is running smoothly the team requirement will be completely removed. Once the team requirement is removed, any person contributing computation to a whitelisted BOINC project, regardless of their team, will have the option to earn GRC for their work. We are using a phased roll-out out of an abundance of caution with regards to testing the team requirement removal. Remember: every cruncher will have access to GRC rewards at the end of this process, regardless of their team. We do not recommend switching teams if your team does not want to be involved in phase 2 testing. The benefit for doing so will be negligible. To be one of the teams that helps with phase 2 testing of the Gridcoin team requirement removal: - Discuss it among your team - Have your team leader contact myself or Jim (Gridcoin core developer and very long standing BOINCer -- https://www.boincstats.com/stats/-1/user/detail/13042401404/overview) You can reach us via: Slack https://join.slack.com/t/teamgridcoin/shared_invite/enQtMjk2NTI4MzAwMzg0LTUzMmY0YjdiNzYxYzQ0MDc3MGE1NjQ3Nzg2NWMzZTUzMjAwZjdhMWI1YWUzMDE4YzQyZjVjMjMzOTc1M2RmMmM Discord https://discord.gg/jf9XX4a Email jringo@gridcoin.world james.owens@gridcoin.us From there, you will be shown how to: - Setup the Gridcoin wallet - Register a beacon (the way the blockchain monitors computation contributions) - Receive GRC or join the pool - Build magnitude (crunch whitelisted BOINC projects) - Stake a block (leave the wallet running) --- Thank you in advance to anyone that wants to help! Feel free to ask any questions you might have.
12) Message boards : Cafe Rosetta : Kings Distributed Systems - Alpha Registration (Message 87083) Posted 15 Aug 2017 by jringo Post: SApZBVS6ERW4T5BkSRGY-JV4LDcZ898T