Another one bites the dust

Distributed Computing Projects BOINC - biology@Home
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The Future of POEM@HOME
Dear POEM@HOME community,

first of all we want to express our deepest gratitude for every contributor to our project. Last year we developed a GPU optimized version of SIMONA, which is used as part of POEM@HOME, which speeds up the calculations by various magnitudes. Due to this speedup it has been very hard for us to supply sufficient work to saturate our BOINC project.
Therefore after eight years running, we have so much computational power that we do not require your large and generous contributions to conduct our science anymore. At the same time other, smaller and bigger projects require more computational power than ever.

The GPU accelerated algorithm will be open-sourced so that other groups can use the efficient forcefield freely to conduct research on GPU clusters on their own (the timeframe for this will be until Christmas. The code is ready to be shipped and the paper is written, but needs to be peer-reviewed before).

We are sorry for the hiccups in the last month; we would have liked to prepare a cleaner and better run of the final tasks.

Thank you again for your amazing support and we hope that your contributions will help other BOINC projects from now on. We want to especially thank Vladimir Tankovich for his contributions to the GPU code.

Best regards,
The POEM@HOME admin team

I recently broke into the top 100 and had just passed 250 million, so it’s a shame that POEM@HOME is coming to an end…

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I made it 412K before swapping back to SETI for old times sake. Was a good project to run and easy WUs

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I’ve switched some of my AMD GPU power over to Milkyway@home, and although not as productive credit wise it’s bumping up my score quite well already

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I’ve switched some of my AMD GPU power over to Milkyway@home, and although not as productive credit wise it’s bumping up my score quite well already

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a shame it closed, but the geek in me really loves the reason why. New tech can manage the work units in a few dedicated machines rather than 1000’s of machines - that’s pretty cool

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Might give that a go. Always good to try a different project from time to time :thumbsup:

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Started to cool off and went to reattach and found it gone. . . gee and I was almost at 2 million.

Attaching two rigs to Rosetta, but only at night right now; still hitting in the mid 80’s F ( high 20’s C) during the day. Strange weather.

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Any extra crunchers towards Rosetta are very much welcome!!!

Shame to see another project go though :frowning: as DT said its nice to see its going for the right reasons.