[astro] Re: BOINC server update

[Carlos Varela]

Dave and Travis,

   Thanks for your efforts on the MilkyWay at Home project.

- Carlos.

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On Mar 6, 2008, at 6:25 PM, Travis Desell wrote:

> Hi Everybody,
>
> Just an update on the status of the BOINC server.  Dave and myself  
> have been working on updating the binaries all week, and with some  
> help from a few volunteers we've increased the number of supported  
> platforms, and come up with some compilation optimizations which  
> speed up the time to crunch a work unit but 20-30% in some cases  
> (which is great)!
>
> It also looks like the memory leak problem has been fixed, and we  
> have code in place which should let us find out why windows is  
> causing popup errors.  I think that after that windows problem is  
> fixed we should be able to go into beta (and hopefully get many more  
> users).
>
> At any rate, it's been quite the busy week, but we've gotten a lot  
> of good stuff done on the BOINC server.  Also, we've had a lot of  
> help from users who are really interested in our project, which is  
> also good news :)
>
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