Project Updates

[shift]

And... their website is down now.

[Mike Mitchell]

Last time I checked, they said Asteroids would be down until some major change could occur. It was a new datacentre or bunch of servers and was expected to take a long time.

[NudgeyNR]

Does anybody have any news about this project ?

[Dataman]

This project has been retired.

[shift]

According to us, boinc, or the admin of asteroids?

http://asteroidsathome.net/project.html

[Dataman]

According to us, boinc, or the admin of asteroids?

http://asteroidsathome.net/project.html

BOINCStats.

[Dingo]

Been a bit of news from Asteroids that I missed and a new GPU application.

New asteroid models - corrigendum
After a while, let me announce our paper based on the Asteroids@home project. It was published last year in the Frontiers in Astronomy and Space Sciences: https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/link_gateway/2022FrASS...909771D/PUB_HTML. We used ATLAS photometry and its bootstrap samples to derive rotation periods (no shape) for about 5000 asteroids.

The A@H project is currently processing data from ATLAS and Gaia together - that's what you are computing now.

Thank you all for your contribution!

P.S. Please ignore the previous news about the paper published in Astronomy and Astrophysics - its results were not based on A@H because, at that time, the server was down due to COVID and hardware issues. Sorry for the confusion.

22 Sep 2023, 11:53:53 UTC | Josef Durech | Discuss


New OpenCL application for AMD GPUs
Hi everyone,

We are proud to announce our new OpenCL applications for AMD GPUs!
Development process took some time but we finally managed to build it.
There are still many rough edges to be polished but thanks to you guys and to your feedback we'll continue to improve the code.

Linux application requires 64 bit OS with GLIBC v2.31 or higher and will run on most AMD Radeon GPU cards and some AMD Integrated Graphics with support of OpenCL 1.1 or higher.

Windows application requres 64bit Windows 10 or 11 and will run on most AMD Radeon cards and some AMD Integrated Graphics with support of OpenCL 1.2 or higher.

Happy crunching and thank you for your support!

Asteroids@home team

16 Sep 2023, 15:15:42 UTC

[Dingo]

Asteroids@home: New AVX512 application released
We are very proud to announce our new set of optimized applications that will utilize AVX512 instruction set capable engines or to be precise those, which support AVX512dq instructions!



These applications are built to support both Linux and Windows 64bit architecture OS. The development of this version was possible thanks to the great help provided by ahorek's team!



Unfortunately it turns out that BOINC client applications for Windows still do not report all processor options to the server correctly. It is because of a known bug and even after a lot of discussions in BOINC's channels it's still there. The good news is that thanks to ahorek's team a bugfix was already accepted and merged into the BOINC's repository and the fix will be applied when client version 7.26.0 is released. Till then in order to run the AVX512 application you might need to switch to the Anonymous platform.



We'd like to remind you that while the Boinc server is capable of finding the best performing application for every particular system taking into account multiple factors, after a while it will start sending the right one for every particular system. Which means that even if your CPU supports AVX512dq instructions it still might receive FMA or AVX tasks and there is nothing to be concerned about. In such a case you might want to give a try to the so-called Anonymous platform where your client will explicitly request the AVX512 application.



Happy crunching and thank you for your support!

Asteroids@home's team
10/12/2023 7:03:07 PM  1-parliamenthillottawa    more...

[Abruraspingi]

Looks like the server is down at the moment as I can't upload WU's and I also can't navigate to the website. I didn't see any notices about. I'm not signed up to X so I can't see if they've posted an update there

Chances are it's their database server has crashed again as they don't use garbage collection so it just blows out

[Dark Angel]

It's been up and down repeatedly over recent weeks.  Getting very frustrating.  I don't know if it's a technical failure or the cleaner just keeps unplugging the server to make coffee.

[Abruraspingi]

I would say that it's more that the team isn't looking after their servers. They used to be very stable and consistent but in recent years they constantly run out of disk space, forget to release more work units and if the servers crash or power is lost the admins don't realise for days

With saying that they have WU's again. I'm going to get to 1 million points and then finish up. Just like WCG I've gotten frustrated with the project but will still crunch on the odd occasion

[Dingo]

Asteroids@home: Big maintenance planned
There is going to be a big maintenance starting 2025-08-17 and it will take about 1 - 2 weeks. We'll be doing upgrade of Debian and BOINC server. We are going to make complete backup before that which will take some time.

Radim Vanco (FoxKyong)
15/08/2025 8:57:51 PM · more...

[Abruraspingi]

About time. Hopefully it's new hardware and not a software update as they've had so many issues