Project Update

[Dataman]

BOINCStats is now reporting Gaia stats. 

[Dingo]

Thanks Dataman I have updated the Project Overview. 

[Dataman]

I had a new badge (bronze ribbon) appear this morning. It is marked "commentary science". I have no idea what that means or how it relates to Gaia data. Unfortunately this appears to be yet another project where the Administrator(s) do not feel it is necessary to communicate with the lowly plebes who run their work.   

[chooka03]

Congrats on the badge Dataman 

[Dingo]

Congrats Dataman +1 

[Mike Mitchell]

Congrats Dataman.    plus 1.

[Dataman]

Data haul from Gaia space observatory offers a glimpse of what Earth's night sky will look like for 1.6 million years to come.

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-03432-9?utm_source=Nature+Briefing&utm_campaign=a1014aecc6-briefing-dy-20201204&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_c9dfd39373-a1014aecc6-45627838

Video

https://www.esa.int/esatv/Videos/2020/12/Gaia_s_stellar_motion_for_the_next_1.6_million_years

[chooka03]

I wonder how this project differs from Milkyway@Home?
I never see much from the M@H team which is a bit disappointing.
I'm tempted to use my VM to start this project on 1 pc...... maybe.... dunno.1 cruncher just isn't enough and I don't think I can be bothered putting the VM/Linux on all my machines.

[Daniel]

This project is active again.
I've just downloaded a bunch of new workunits.
I'll report back once I know if they complete successfully.
 

 

[Daniel]

At first all my workunits failed after about 2 seconds.

To fix the problem I had to install libquadmath0 as follows ...
sudo apt install libquadmath0

After that all workunits completed & validated successfully.