FAH wird in SETIs BOINC integriert

[Michael H.W. Weber]

Eben erreicht mich die unten stehende Meldung, nach der FAH in SETIs neue BOINC Infrastruktur integriert wird. Zunächst zusätzlich zum bestehenden FAH System und falls sich das hinsichtlich Performance und Stabilität auszahlt, später ggf. komplett und ausschließlich.

Details zu BOINC: http://boinc.berkeley.edu/

Michael.

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Just a heads up for you guys. We haven't made any real public press release about this (well, I haven't), but more and more details are gradually being leaked by the SETI guys

http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/seti_021001.html

so I thought I'd bring you up to speed.

As you've probably surmised, we're going to integrate F@H cores into BOINC (SETI's second generation infrastructure). Actually, most of the "new" things to BOINC are things we've had for a while, although I'm not completely happy with our versions (eg how to choose projects etc).

Anyway, the pros are

1) We'll probably get a lot of clients through BOINC

2) Modifying our cores to run under BOINC will be trivial -- probably no mods required at all. Their infrastructure design is similar enough to ours (client, core separation, assignment server, etc) that the conversion will be pretty easy.

3) If their infrastructure is really that much better (eg more stable, faster, less prone to down time, etc) than ours, we could switch completely to BOINC.

I'm holding off any judgement on this last point until we see how things go, but I have an open mind. The SETI guys do a great job with their current client of course, although it's relatively simple. It will be interesting to see how this works out. My bet is that they will do a great job with BOINC as well. Also, I'd be happy to get out of the infrastructure business and spend 100% of our time on the science (data analysis and core design).

So, let's hold off on releasing any details on the forum just yet, unless the cat's already out of the bag. In that case, let me know and I'll likely add something to the faq or more likely make a BOINC page like our Gromacs page to answer some questions.

[vfrey]

Na, ist das nicht eine Riesensache...

[Michael H.W. Weber]

Dürfte für eine anständige Verbreitung von FAH sorgen. Ansonsten weiß ich bislang über BOINC nur die "basics" - und das ist noch nicht allzuviel. Warten wir mal ab, was da auf uns zukommt. Auf jeden Fall geht Vijay mal wieder mit der Zeit und probiert Neues aus.

Michael.