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

A Few Small Sets
A small set of workunits was distributed to a handful of volunteers this afternoon, and we'd like to thank you for your computations. Another small job may shortly follow. We're currently in the phase of migration and refactoring. The migration is nearly complete, but there is still much work to be done for refactoring the system. As such, the flow of WUs and jobs will not be continuous until the new system is rolled-out. We greatly appreciate everyone sticking with the project, and the contributions to the current running model, as well as the many models in the past, has helped out our lab immensely.
21 Jul 2010 15:29:08 UTC · Comment

Changes
As it has been several monthes since my last news post, I will attempt to address some of the growing concerns relating to the current state of this project. On the development side, the team is working hard to expand our IT infrastructure and implement new technologies that will allow for a more reliable and robust system. We're also taking great strides to develop a new backend portal for our modelers to make our project easier-to-use and include more features. What does this mean for our volunteers? A more reliable system with quicker debug times and plenty of available work. What does this mean for our project? Advances in cognitive modeling at a much faster pace and grander scale than ever before. Unfortunately, there is also some bad news. We are currently unable to host our MidModeling servers under the same agreement that we've been operating, and we will need to find a new home. We've got several options under way and should be hosting/serving MindModeling.org again sometime in early 2010. It is a setback, but it has also given us the time to make some necessary changess to our code and underlying architecture. Thanks for all your contributions and patience while we go through this period of readjustment.
"It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change." - Charles Darwin, English Naturalist 15 Dec 2009 17:45:08 UTC · Comment

MindModeling.org Banner Contest 2009!!
While our researchers are preparing new models to run on MindModeling.org, the MM team has decided to take some time to update and make improvements to the website. Part of this is the inclusion of a Mind Modeling banner that can be displayed at the top of our main webpage. Instead of simply making the banner ourselves, we decided to open up the design to all of our volunteers and hold a contest to select the best design. The banners will be voted on by the MindModeling team, and the winner will get to see their work displayed on MindModeling.org for at least the next year. We will keep the contest open until the end of July, 2009. Please submit all entries to our forum here: Banner Contest 2009 or via email. If there are any questions or concerns, please let me know through email.
30 Jun 2009 9:45:08 UTC · Comment

Daemon shutdown and DSST6 model
Hello crunchers! A model that we submitted to the volunteers last week was recently aborted, but all the workunits were not purged from the database. We're shutting down the server side daemons until all instances are removed. In the meantime, please abort any workunits with the prefix DSST, because generally they will not work on volunteer machines. Thanks!
28 Jun 2009 9:08:08 UTC · Comment

Database Migration Complete!
Hello crunchers! MindModeling.org has completed it's database migration, run two small tasks within the last couple of days, and is ready to submit large cognitive models to the volunteer community again. Our team and contributers are expanding, our research is growing, and our models are getting more complex and computationally intensive. We look forward to the active participation from our volunteers, and as always, we appreciate your help! Good luck and happy crunching! (So say we all)
25 Jun 2009 15:08:08 UTC · Comment

Status Update
After many hours of configurations, builds, and reboots, the new Mind Modeling database is finally up! We're still configuring all our authentication and networking scripts, so please be patient as we wrap up the final stages of the installation. If you notice any abnormalities or inconsistencies with your account, please let me know and I will resolve the matter immediately.
5 Jun 2009 11:32:08 UTC · Comment

Server Updates
Hi folks, MindModeling.org will be experiencing updates over the next couple days which may result in the server being shut down for extended periods of time. Please be patient and we will provide as much information as possible in regards to the status of the site.
25 May 2009 11:32:08 UTC · Comment

MySQL Reboot
There was a quick disconnect this afternoon between our database server and MySQL. The system is rebooting the data right now, and everything should appear normal again in just a few hours.
18 May 2009 3:02:08 UTC · Comment

Mind Modeling Maintenanece
We're installing a new database this week, and there may be short periods of disconnect while we make the transition. Consequently, we'll be pausing our current jobs until the installation is complete. Thanks for all your support and we look forward to your continued participation! :)
10 Mar 2009 7:04:08 UTC · Comment

New Job! SASTNM_10 is ready for some heavy crunching!
We've got a new job in the system, SASTNM_10, and it's big one; it should provide crunching for at least several weeks. There are some quirks to it though. Because it's such a large space, and becuase we're running 100 sample of the same parameter set, this job only includes one parameter set per WU. What does this mean for crunchers? Well, since our 'percent complete' calculation is based off the completion of the first paramter set, having only one parameter set per WU is going to throw our calculation off a bit. This isn't something we haven't seen before, but it can be misleading sometimes. Just know that each workunit will start off at around 90% complete, but will work for about 10-15 minutes before completing. If there are any other issues we will address them as they come up, but feel free to let me know via email or the message boards. And as always, Happy crunching!
10 Feb 2009 7:04:08 UTC · Comment

SASTNM_9 Complete! Thanks Crunchers!
After many hours, and hard crunching, we've completed two of our largest tasks ever (1,500,00 nodes)!! SASTNM_9_9 completed over a week ago, and it's sister job, SASTNM_9_7, will complete in a short period of time (it's currently 99.93% complete). Thanks to all the volunteers for continuing to aid us in our mind modeling efforts, and greatly furthering our research goals. Your contributions are extremely appreciated. In the next couple of days we'll be adding a whole new set of jobs to crunch (the SASTNM_10 family), so get ready for some heavy crunching. And as always, email me or post to our bulletin if you have an questions.
4 Feb 2009 0:00:00 UTC · Comment

Migrating Servers COMPLETE!
We've got some great news, crunchers-- Our new servers are up and running! Crunching can commence like never before. Thanks for your patience and feedback, and please continue to help the research here at MindModeling.org!
9 Jan 2009 0:00:00 UTC · Comment

Migrating Servers UPDATE
Hello again mind modelers! As some of you may have notice, the
server will go up and down over
the next couple of days as we complete our migration to a much BIGGER
and
BETTER web
server. This new addition to our
servers will allow our project, as well as this website, to run at a
much more efficient and stable rate. Thanks for all your patience
and contributions; Mindmodeling.org continues to grow because of
YOU. We'll
have more updates as they
become available.
6 Jan 2009 0:00:00 UTC · Comment

Migrating Servers
Hello crunchers! We are currently migrating our projects across servers, so web services may be slow
for a day or so. We'll keep you posted of the progress.
6 Jan 2009 0:00:00 UTC · Comment

HAPPY NEW YEAR!!
Happy New Year!! The team here at Mind Modeling would like to take a moment to thank all of the wonderful volunteers for all the computations they've devoted to our project during 2008. We appreciate your time,
patience, and dedication to this project. Each and every volunteer is a integral and valued member of this
research, and we look forward to your continued participation in 2009. Again, Happy New Year and have a safe
holiday!
1 Jan 2009 0:00:00 UTC · Comment

New Work! SASTNM Ver 9.6
Happy New Year's Eve! Kicking off 2009 we have a brand new job for our mind modeling research.
Enjoy! We look forward to the new year and your continued participation!
31 Dec 2008 0:00:00 UTC · Comment

Maintenence Complete
Our holiday maintenance is complete! We thank you for your patience, and we appreciate everyone's help on this project over the last year. Have fun and be safe over the holidays!
26 Dec 2008 0:00:00 UTC · Comment

Christmas Maintenence
MindModeling.org will be down periodically over the next few days while we do maintenence on our servers. We appreciate your patience and Merry Christmas. 23 Dec 2008 0:00:00 UTC · Comment

Routine Maintenence
MindModeling.org will be down periodically over the next week for routine maintenence. We appreciate your patience.
6 Nov 2008 0:00:00 UTC · Comment

Boinc Update and Percent Complete Error

We're currently updating our Boinc software, so all current jobs will be paused over the weekend.
We anticipate crunching SSAT and PVTNM again by Monday. Additonally, the Work Units for SSATNM_8 will display an incorrect percent complete while crunching numbers.
For instance, the percent complete total will immediately jump to 95% and then linger there for an extended period of time before the WU actually finishes.
This is specific to the model, it relates to our research, and it should just be ignored. Sorry if it causes some confusion.
24 Oct 2008 0:00:00 UTC · Comment

MindModeling@Home BOINC upgrade (16009)
MindModeling@Home has just been upgraded to the latest version of BOINC -- 16009 17 Sep 2008 0:00:00 UTC · Comment

3.4 is now available

3.4 is now out. Documentation will be added to the message boards later this evening. 3.4 removes the needs for patches to any platform's application in order to cruch MM@Home workunits.
11 Sep 2008 0:00:00 UTC · Comment

Botched Application Update - Down for the next 30 min

Botched application version update occured. Corrections are underway. New version is being moved to our remote repository now. The new version will be 3.4 for all supported platforms 11 Sep 2008 0:00:00 UTC · Comment

MindModeling@Home BOINC upgrade (15983)

MindModeling@Home has just been upgraded to the latest version of BOINC -- 15983 9 Sep 2008 0:00:00 UTC · Comment

MindModeling@Home Storage System Rebuilt - part 2
All the database's tables that were corrupted by our storage system's filesystem corruption have been rebuilt.
The system is NOW online again -- (and much more stable).
30 Aug 2008 0:00:00 UTC · Comment

MindModeling@Home Storage System Rebuilt
It is nice to be able to reboot your server and the RAID array doesn't just disappear. Upgrading our storage solution was successful. Final reconfigurations are underway and should be completed this weekend.
30 Aug 2008 0:00:00 UTC · Comment

MindModeling@Home Downtime
Our storage solution has still been having intermittent problems. We are bring down the system today and will be doing a full reload of this system over the weekend. Sorry for the inconvenience.
28 Aug 2008 0:00:00 UTC · Comment

Database Update
It appears our database became to large and was unable to query the massive amounts of result files we were generating. As a solution, we've reallocated the old result files to a new location. This has allowed our data to flow back to the server again and work properly. If problems continue to persist, please send a private message to me via the message boards.
19 Aug 2008 0:00:00 UTC · Comment

MindModeling@Home Power Outage

Monsoon season got us -- we had a power outage last night that caused some problem with our storage system.
Things are running again.
8 Aug 2008 0:00:00 UTC · Comment

MindModeling@Home BOINC upgrade (15552)

MindModeling@Home has just been upgraded to the latest version of BOINC -- 15552 4 Jul 2008 0:00:00 UTC · Comment

Happy 4th of July

MindModeling@Home experienced some network problems on the 3rd that lasted until this evening. The site is back up though we are waiting a day or two before putting any new work into the system 4 Jul 2008 0:00:00 UTC · Comment

Congratulations to the PC Perspective Killer Frogs Team

Another MILLION credit crunching team at MindModling! The PC Perspective Killer Frogs Team has become the second team ever to crunch over MILLION total credits for MindModeling@Home - Congratulations and Thank You 30 Jun 2008 0:00:00 UTC · Comment

First individual user to crunch over 1/2 a million credits

The Swordfish becomes the first individual to crunch over a half a MILLION total credits for MindModeling@Home - Congratulations and Thank You 31 May 2008 0:00:00 UTC · Comment

Congratulations to the BOINC Synergy Team

The BOINC Synergy Team have become first team to crunch over a MILLION total credits for MindModeling@Home - Congratulations and Thank You 30 May 2008 0:00:00 UTC · Comment

Server Upgraded

A new DB server has been installed and the databases were ported over to the device (The site was down for 45 mins while this occured).
29 May 2008 0:00:00 UTC · Comment

Over 5 Million Credits Crunched

To quote Woodrow Wilson 'I not only use all the brains that I have, but all that I can borrow.' Thank you all for letting us borrow your CPUs for our brains.
22 May 2008 0:00:00 UTC · Comment

Congratulations to the BOINC Synergy Team

The BOINC Synergy Team quickly answered the question 'Who will be next?'. They have become second team to crunch over half a MILLION total credits for MindModeling@Home - Congratulations and Thank You 15 May 2008 0:00:00 UTC · Comment

Congratulations to the PC Perspective Killer Frogs Team

The PC Perspective Killer Frogs Team has become the first team to crunch over half a MILLION total credits for MindModeling@Home - Congratulations and Thank You Who Will Be Next? (BOINC Synergy?, AFRL?, PALM?) Who will be first to break a MILLION?
13 May 2008 0:00:00 UTC · Comment

Happy Mother's Day - MindModeling 3.00 Patch available for Windows

Windows x64 and Vista clients having problems with SBCL can now cruch MM@Home work A patch is required until the next MM@Home version is released in May Read / Discuss more here (http://mindmodeling.org/beta/forum_thread.php?id=137) 11 May 2008 0:00:00 UTC · Comment

MindModeling 3.00 Patch available for Mac 10.4 (Tiger)

Thanks to the awesome work of jedirock and zombie67, Tiger can now cruch MM@Home work once again A patch is required until the next MM@Home version is released in April May Read / Discuss more here (http://mindmodeling.org/beta/forum_thread.php?id=106) 28 Mar 2008 0:00:00 UTC · Comment

New Data Validator added to MM@Home [Happy Easter]

This new addition should help provide a more fair credit distribution scheme. Wingman result comparisons will only be done against others where valid data has been returned. Read / Discuss more here (http://mindmodeling.org/beta/forum_thread.php?id=102) 23 Mar 2008 0:00:00 UTC · Comment

Upgrade Complete

MM@Home up and running (svn 14958) 22 Mar 2008 0:00:00 UTC · Comment

Upgrade in progress

Site temporarily down while we upgrade to the lastest verion of BOINC.
22 Mar 2008 0:00:00 UTC · Comment

Stats Sites Welcome

The credit system has been fixed [darwin now requests credit:)]. There are still issues with the Winx64 and Tiger releases, but these should be resolved soon. All stats sites are welcome to post MindModeling@Home (beta) data.
13 Mar 2008 0:00:00 UTC · Comment

New study running on MindModeling.org
PVTNM is a cognitive model dealing with fatigue during the Psychomotor Vigilance Test (PVT) Read more on the wiki or visit the forums
11 Mar 2008 0:00:00 UTC · Comment

Unscheduled Outage - Resolved
Friendly IT consultants adjusted the firewall and redirected port 80 to the wrong server. 6 Mar 2008 0:00:00 UTC · Comment

Version 3.0 Now Available
Version 3.0 Now Available for Windows, Linux and Mac (Intel) 5 Mar 2008 0:00:00 UTC · Comment

Version 3.0 Applications Coming Soon
Version 3.0 science applications slated for release tomorrow. 3.0 will more effectively use bandwidth by decreasing the amount download volume of the Cognitive Architecture by a factor of 2 (Windows/Linux/Mac all now use the same resource file). Windows will runs 2 times more efficiently. Mac gives credit. Mac and Linux upgraded lisp version to SBCL 1.0.12, Windows upgraded to SBCL 1.0.13 4 Mar 2008 0:00:00 UTC · Comment

Network Problems Resolved
The network issues have been resolved. The problems stemmed from network interference on our wireless link between buildings. 19 Feb 2008 0:00:00 UTC · Comment

Network Problems
Network problems currently causing problems for MindModeling@Home. The problem has been isolated to faulty network equipment. New equipment should be in next week. 6 Feb 2008 0:00:00 UTC · Comment

Upgrade to Work Unit Creator Complete New Work Available Soon
Upgrade to work unit creation routine complete! New work should be available today. 30 Jan 2008 0:00:00 UTC · Comment

Upgrading Work Unit Creator (VERY) Temporarily No Work Available
Upgrading work unit creation routine - new work should exist in the first week of Feb 27 Jan 2008 0:00:00 UTC · Comment

HPC Integration
MM@Home (beta) project running on 3 High Performance Computing Centers [LSF and PBS systems] 26 Jan 2008 0:00:00 UTC · Comment

Feeder Projects
New Feeder Projects [MM@RPI, MM@ACS, MM@PALM, MM@HPC] created to test new cognitive models to ensure work units will be always available when MM@Home goes live 2 Jan 2008 0:00:00 UTC · Comment

Vista support around the corner
A lot has happened the week to prepare the beta web site for release. A new logo has been add along with an associated favicon for the browser.
More importantly the graphics portion of ACT-R distributed application has been extracted so to support Windows Vista. 10 Aug 2007 0:00:00 UTC · Comment

BOLD 3D Brain Visualizations
ACT-R BOLD (Blood-Oxygen-Level-Dependent) fMRI predictions were integrated into a 3D visualization for the ACT-R BOINC application. 31 Jul 2007 0:00:00 UTC · Comment

ACT-R BOINC Integrations
Utilizing Steel Bank, ACT-R was integrated as a BOINC application for Windows. 1 Jun 2007 0:00:00 UTC · Comment

Cognitive Modeling Volunteer Computing Symposium
Held at the Air Force Research Laboratory in Mesa, AZ; the symposium was the kick off for MindModeling.org. 17 Mar 2007 0:00:00 UTC · Comment

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