Testing news, new team member
Volunteers,

Good Afternoon. My name is TJ and I'm a new member of the MindModeling development team.

I'm currently investigating our system performance issues relating to the low bandwidth you may have been experiencing with the last couple of jobs we've submitted to the system. I just wanted to let you all know that we'll be submitting a couple of large jobs in the next few days. These will be jobs whose results we already know, but I want to run these jobs again and watch our resource utilization while we're cranking out data with your help.

I'm announcing this here because it was brought up in team discussion that it's possible some of you don't want to crunch numbers for us if it doesn't lead to some kind of usable result. Rest assured, your donated CPU cycles will always be put to good use while attached to our project, as each cycle you donate helps us tune and improve our system in the hopes of one day being that Go-To solution for cognitive modelers.

Please continue posting feedback about your experience with our project, and we'll keep working to make sure your participation in our project minimally impacts your donated system.

Thank you.

-TJ 9 Aug 2011 21:01:59 UTC · Comment

Faster Download Speeds
In our previous batch of workunits, volunteers reported download speeds ranging from 14kB/s to 100kB/s when pulling down work from our servers. We've since updated our distribution system so individual workunits will be orders of magnitudes smaller, and thus download speeds should be greatly increased. If you volunteer your computer for the current batch of workunits and are still experiencing problems, please let us know and we will diagnose the issue further.

Also, the initial workunit may take longer than usual to download since we have a new application version to distribute, but all subsequent downloads should be much quicker. 28 Jun 2011 15:23:05 UTC · Comment

New Application! New Workunits!
A new MindModeling application has been deployed, and along with it a new batch of workunits! This will aid one of our cognitive researchers in Germany who has been working in the field of Robust Decision Making. Thanks to everyone who has contributed thus far. Please post to the Number Crunching forum if you need to report any issues. 29 Mar 2011 15:08:38 UTC · Comment

Site Updates
Over the next couple days we will be deploying our new system to the live site. Most of the migration should go unnoticed except for a few modifications to our forums, including a news thread. There may be be several short periods when the site is inaccessible, but these should be minor and infrequent. If you notice something on the site is broken or missing, please report it on the forums or via private message and we will address it as soon as possible. Thanks! -Tom 2 Feb 2011 17:29:08 UTC · Comment

Happy Holidays
The MindModeling team would like to thank all of the volunteers who have helped crunch workunits for our cognitive modeling research over the last year and years prior. The project has gone through major changes this year with the addition of two new server sites and the refactoring of our system software. As mentioned in the forums, we're currently in the testing and quality assurance phase of development. We also need to port our screensaver to work with our new client application. Moving forward we expect a lot of demand out of our system, so please stand by with your CPU cycles ready to crunch! Have a happy and safe holiday season, take a well-earned rest to recharge your energies, and we'll see you in the New Year!
29 Dec 2010 11:29:08 UTC · Comment

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