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After many hours of configurations, builds, and reboots, the new Mind Modeling database is finally up! We're still configuring all our
authentication and networking scripts, so please be patient as we wrap up the final stages of the installation.
If you notice any abnormalities or inconsistencies with your account, please let me know and I will resolve the matter immediately.
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Hi folks, MindModeling.org will be experiencing updates over the next couple days which may result in the server being shut down for
extended periods of time. Please be patient and we will provide as much information as possible in regards to the status
of the site.
-Tom |
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There was a quick disconnect this afternoon between our database server and MySQL. The system is rebooting the data right now, and
everything should appear normal again in just a few hours.
-Tom |
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We're installing a new database this week, and there may be short periods of disconnect while we make the transition. Consequently, we'll
be pausing our current jobs until the installation is complete. Thanks for all your support and we look forward to your continued
participation! :)
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We've got a new job in the system, SASTNM_10, and it's big one; it should provide crunching for at least several weeks. There
are some quirks to it though. Because it's such a large space, and becuase we're running 100 sample of the same parameter
set, this job only includes one parameter set per WU. What does this mean for crunchers? Well, since our 'percent complete'
calculation is based off the completion of the first paramter set, having only one parameter set per WU is going to throw our
calculation off a bit. This isn't something we haven't seen before, but it can be misleading sometimes. Just know that
each workunit will start off at around 90% complete, but will work for about 10-15 minutes before completing. If there are any other
issues we will address them as they come up, but feel free to let me know via email or the message boards.
And as always, Happy crunching!
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After many hours, and hard crunching, we've completed two of our largest tasks ever (1,500,00 nodes)!! SASTNM_9_9 completed over a week
ago, and it's sister job, SASTNM_9_7, will complete in a short period of time (it's currently 99.93% complete). Thanks to all the volunteers
for continuing to aid us in our mind modeling efforts, and greatly furthering our research goals. Your contributions are extremely
appreciated. In the next couple of days we'll be adding a whole new set of jobs to crunch (the SASTNM_10 family),
so get ready for some heavy crunching. And as always, email me or post to our bulletin if you have an questions.
-Tom |
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We've got some great news, crunchers-- Our new servers are up and running! Crunching can commence like never before. Thanks for your
patience and feedback, and please continue to help the research here at MindModeling.org!
-Tom |
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Hello again mind modelers! As some of you may have notice, the
server will go up and down over
the next couple of days as we complete our migration to a much BIGGER
and
BETTER web
server. This new addition to our
servers will allow our project, as well as this website, to run at a
much more efficient and stable rate. Thanks for all your patience
and contributions; Mindmodeling.org continues to grow because of
YOU. We'll
have more updates as they
become available.
-Tom |
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Hello crunchers! We are currently migrating our projects across servers, so web services may be slow
for a day or so. We'll keep you posted of the progress.
-Tom |
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Happy New Year!! The team here at Mind Modeling would like to take a moment to thank all of the wonderful
volunteers for all the computations they've devoted to our project during 2008. We appreciate your time,
patience, and dedication to this project. Each and every volunteer is a integral and valued member of this
research, and we look forward to your continued participation in 2009. Again, Happy New Year and have a safe
holiday!
-Tom |
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Happy New Year's Eve! Kicking off 2009 we have a brand new job for our mind modeling research.
Enjoy! We look forward to the new year and your continued participation!
-Tom |
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Our holiday maintenance is complete! We thank you for your patience, and we appreciate everyone's help on this
project over the last year. Have fun and be safe over the holidays!
-Tom |
| MindModeling.org will be down periodically over the next few days while we do maintenence on our servers. We appreciate your patience and Merry Christmas. |
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MindModeling.org will be down periodically over the next week for routine maintenence.
We appreciate your patience.
-Tom |
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We're currently updating our Boinc software, so all current jobs will be paused over the weekend.
We anticipate crunching SSAT and PVTNM again by Monday.
Additonally, the Work Units for SSATNM_8 will display an incorrect percent complete while crunching numbers. For instance, the percent complete total will immediately jump to 95% and then linger there for an extended period of time before the WU actually finishes. This is specific to the model, it relates to our research, and it should just be ignored. Sorry if it causes some confusion. -Tom |
| MindModeling@Home has just been upgraded to the latest version of BOINC -- 16009 |
| 3.4 is now out. Documentation will be added to the message boards later this evening. 3.4 removes the needs for patches to any platform's application in order to cruch MM@Home workunits. |
| Botched application version update occured. Corrections are underway. New version is being moved to our remote repository now. The new version will be 3.4 for all supported platforms |
| MindModeling@Home has just been upgraded to the latest version of BOINC -- 15983 |
| All the database's tables that were corrupted by our storage system's filesystem corruption have been rebuilt. The system is NOW online again -- (and much more stable). |
| It is nice to be able to reboot your server and the RAID array doesn't just disappear. Upgrading our storage solution was successful. Final reconfigurations are underway and should be completed this weekend. |
| Our storage solution has still been having intermittent problems. We are bring down the system today and will be doing a full reload of this system over the weekend. Sorry for the inconvenience. |
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It appears our database became to large and was unable to query the massive amounts of
result files we were generating. As a solution, we've reallocated the old result files to a new location.
This has allowed our data to flow back to the server again and work properly. If problems continue to persist,
please send a private message
to me via the message boards.
-Tom |
| Monsoon season got us -- we had a power outage last night that caused some problem with our storage system. Things are running again. |
| MindModeling@Home has just been upgraded to the latest version of BOINC -- 15552 |
| MindModeling@Home experienced some network problems on the 3rd that lasted until this evening. The site is back up though we are waiting a day or two before putting any new work into the system |
| Another MILLION credit crunching team at MindModling! The PC Perspective Killer Frogs Team has become the second team ever to crunch over MILLION total credits for MindModeling@Home - Congratulations and Thank You |
| The Swordfish becomes the first individual to crunch over a half a MILLION total credits for MindModeling@Home - Congratulations and Thank You |
| The BOINC Synergy Team have become first team to crunch over a MILLION total credits for MindModeling@Home - Congratulations and Thank You |
| A new DB server has been installed and the databases were ported over to the device (The site was down for 45 mins while this occured). |
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To quote Woodrow Wilson 'I not only use all the brains that I have, but all that I can borrow.' Thank you all for letting us borrow your CPUs for our brains. |
| The BOINC Synergy Team quickly answered the question 'Who will be next?'. They have become second team to crunch over half a MILLION total credits for MindModeling@Home - Congratulations and Thank You |
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The PC Perspective Killer Frogs Team has become the first team to crunch over half a MILLION total credits for MindModeling@Home - Congratulations and Thank You Who Will Be Next? (BOINC Synergy?, AFRL?, PALM?) Who will be first to break a MILLION? |
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Windows x64 and Vista clients having problems with SBCL can now cruch MM@Home work A patch is required until the next MM@Home version is released in May Read / Discuss more here (http://mindmodeling.org/beta/forum_thread.php?id=137) |
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Thanks to the awesome work of jedirock and zombie67, Tiger can now cruch MM@Home work once again A patch is required until the next MM@Home version is released in Read / Discuss more here (http://mindmodeling.org/beta/forum_thread.php?id=106) |
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This new addition should help provide a more fair credit distribution scheme. Wingman result comparisons will only be done against others where valid data has been returned. Read / Discuss more here (http://mindmodeling.org/beta/forum_thread.php?id=102) |
| MM@Home up and running (svn 14958) |
| Site temporarily down while we upgrade to the lastest verion of BOINC. |
| The credit system has been fixed [darwin now requests credit:)]. There are still issues with the Winx64 and Tiger releases, but these should be resolved soon. All stats sites are welcome to post MindModeling@Home (beta) data. |
| PVTNM is a cognitive model dealing with fatigue during the Psychomotor Vigilance Test (PVT) Read more on the wiki or visit the forums |
| Friendly IT consultants adjusted the firewall and redirected port 80 to the wrong server. |
| Version 3.0 Now Available for Windows, Linux and Mac (Intel) |
| Version 3.0 science applications slated for release tomorrow. 3.0 will more effectively use bandwidth by decreasing the amount download volume of the Cognitive Architecture by a factor of 2 (Windows/Linux/Mac all now use the same resource file). Windows will runs 2 times more efficiently. Mac gives credit. Mac and Linux upgraded lisp version to SBCL 1.0.12, Windows upgraded to SBCL 1.0.13 |
| The network issues have been resolved. The problems stemmed from network interference on our wireless link between buildings. |
| Network problems currently causing problems for MindModeling@Home. The problem has been isolated to faulty network equipment. New equipment should be in next week. |
| Upgrade to work unit creation routine complete! New work should be available today. |
| Upgrading work unit creation routine - new work should exist in the first week of Feb |
| MM@Home (beta) project running on 3 High Performance Computing Centers [LSF and PBS systems] |
| New Feeder Projects [MM@RPI, MM@ACS, MM@PALM, MM@HPC] created to test new cognitive models to ensure work units will be always available when MM@Home goes live |
| A lot has happened the week to prepare the beta web site for release. A new logo has been add along with an associated favicon for the browser. More importantly the graphics portion of ACT-R distributed application has been extracted so to support Windows Vista. |
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| ACT-R BOLD (Blood-Oxygen-Level-Dependent) fMRI predictions were integrated into a 3D visualization for the ACT-R BOINC application. |
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| Utilizing Steel Bank, ACT-R was integrated as a BOINC application for Windows. |
| Held at the Air Force Research Laboratory in Mesa, AZ; the symposium was the kick off for MindModeling.org. |
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