Muon1 (DPAD)

[Gilthanis]

Currently only two of our team members are doing work at this project using their client. The only team on the radar for passing us is OcUK which is estimated at 130 days. At our current pace, it will be 1,582 days before we take our next spot. This project has the highest points in the DC-Vault per position right now. (135.14) At some point we need to hammer away at this project and a few others we have been putting off simply because we are almost to the nickel and diming phase for DC-Vault points.

 

[RFGuy_KCCO]

This message was recently posted in the Muon1 forums by Stephen Brooks, the admin for the project:

It's got a bit out of sync with my active area of research within accelerator design. Muon1 (the code) is still under active development and I'm using it in my work all the time. However, I've not yet managed to find a design problem for the new accelerator (eRHIC) that is efficiently split off into a large optimisation like the ones you are doing for the neutrino factory. Well, that's not quite true: there are some that I've done as optimisations just on my local computer, but I had to finish those quickly because there were times when eRHIC-related deadlines came in fast succession.

So, I'm not sure what to do. I don't particularly want to shut things down totally for an indefinite period, or kick anyone off, since I might need this sort of capability again. But feel free to keep this as a "side project" for a while, with most of your distributed computing power going elsewhere.

I've also got some new ideas on AI that I want to use this as a testbed for. Hopefully I'll get a bit of spare time in my schedule soon (within the last 2 years I emigrated to the US, moved house a second time and am now applying for a green card so it's been busy).

The main publication of Muon1 results was in my thesis chapter 8, available here.

Here is the link to the original thread where this was posted:

http://stephenbrooks.org/forum/?thread=1564&bork=angaozmdpd

 

[Gilthanis]

I will have to read the thread at home since work blocks their site. It for some reason comes up as social networking. However, as long as the project stays active and supplies plenty of work along with regular stats updates, it probably wont have any effect on the DC-Vault...

 

[Gilthanis]

Well look at that

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[Gilthanis]

Here is the responses I got today to a few questions I asked Stephen.

Hi,

On points 1 and 2, if you have an "inactive/dormant" status for projects,
which can be reversed later, then that's what I'd recommend doing. That's
what Yoyo@home has done too. I'm going to keep the back end working in case
I need it later (and there are some hobbyists who like to run Muon1 no
matter what).

I'm not sure I like that last sentence as that pretty much says I'm leaving this up so people can potentially just waste resources. However, I guess that is just up to each person to decide.

On point 3, the file
http://stephenbrooks.org/muon1/simplestats.txt
...may be of some help.

The Muon1 website displays the total of all results I receive, whether they
are via BOINC or direct. However, all the BOINC results have been removed
from the file above, as requested previously by another stats aggregation
site. The BOINC results all have the substring "(Boinc Wrapper)" in their
username, which doesn't appear in that file.

-Stephen

That last quote was to help clarify to people about concerns of double dipping with YoYo as that topic has popped up elsewhere.