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Status of the project

Veröffentlicht: September 29, 2017, 6:40pm CEST

Dear volunteers,
First of all, I want to apologize for the long time since the last update of information. As I explained in other thread, we had a database crash. This problem coincided in time with a change of work of Joel, so I was alone to manage the crisis.
Unfortunately, due to other research and teaching commitments, I cannot now devote enough time to the project to be ready and re-generate results. So I had decided to stop it temporarily. I hope to restart the project in January or February. I'll let you know by using this forum and the other official channels of the project.
Finally I want to resume the status of the recovery and the project:
• All the volunteers, hosts and teams created before 2017 have recovered they credit.
• To those ones created after January 2017, if you have computed for the DENIS project in a computer with other BOINC projects, we will be able to recover the credit through the BOINC Cross project ID. You have to add the project to a computer with the other projects and your BOINC Cross project ID will be updated to the oldest one. I’m not sure but I think that the update will take place after computing for the project. Once the project updates your CPID, I will be able to identify you in the stat files to restore your credit. I will analyze it again the next month.
• If you are not in the previous situation, please, contact me if you want to recover your credit and we will try to find any other mechanisms to identify you in the stat files.
• After the recovery, the last version of the app that was compiled and uploaded by Joel is not working. I think that the problem is in the code and not in the DB crash, but I need time to analyze the app, and to learn how the system to compile the apps and to upload them works.

Actually, the major limitation to continue with the project is the time I have available for been developing it. This project is very important for me personally and more after seeing the great welcome you have given and the great support received. Thank you once again for your patience, your support and for been here. I hope I can live up to how much you have given.

Kind regards,
Jesús.
Problems in the server

Veröffentlicht: Juni 22, 2017, 5:27pm CEST

Dear volunteers,
These days we have been suffering problems in the database due to an update. Many information was corrupted in the process. We have recovery a backup copy but it is a bit old.
We are working to get everything working well as soon as possible.

Please, be patient and thank you in advance.

Best regards.
Big simulation in the "New Carro et al. Human Ventricular Cell Model" subproject

Veröffentlicht: Mai 19, 2017, 4:47pm CEST

Dear all,
We are going to start a big simulation today. This is the last block of the subpropject entitled "New Carro et al. Human Ventricular Cell Model" ( [denis.usj.es] ). In this last simulation we use an optimization algorithm to improve the model. We estimate that the algorithm will need around 6 or 7 iterations and in each iteration we will send around 160000 new tasks. All this job will run in the CRN application.

We thank you in advance for all the effort and support you give us and we encourage you to spread this great simulation to add more people.

Thank you so much for everything!

Best regards,
Jesús.
First Scientific Results of DENIS in the Biophysical Society 61st Annual Meeting

Veröffentlicht: Februar 7, 2017, 1:40pm CET

Dear volunteers,
Next week, I will attend the 61st Annual Meeting of the Biophysical Society in New Orleans. During the conference I will present a modification of one of the currents of our model (the calcium current). This current was modified to solve some problems of the model. We decided to modify this current thanks to the results obtained in DENIS, so we can say that this is the first scientific result in cardiac electrophysiology obtained thanks to your collaboration. Thank you very much!

You computed the exploratory study to locate the part of the model that was causing the problem. Thanks to your collaboration we were able to find it and propose a solution.

We continue to work to make our heart cell model as realistic as possible, we hope we can continue to give you great news like this in which your effort is rewarded enriching science.

Thank you very much for being by our side and helping us in this and in future works.

Sincerely,
Jesús.
Launch of new Application

Veröffentlicht: Januar 4, 2017, 7:03pm CET

Hi everyone,

As some of you have noticed, there are new WUs in the system. We are starting with a small peak of work, but the idea is to maintain a continuous flow of new WUs.

This new part of the project is related to a Database of markers of the simulations. We are populating a database with relevant values of the simulations to make to scientist easy the way to make a exploratory study of the model or avoid making all the time the same simulations.

We are working on the interface of this database and how to integrate in our website, also, we are developing a post to explain more this idea of the Database of markers.

Happy New Year!! And Happy Crunching!
Telegram Channel

Veröffentlicht: Juli 15, 2016, 9:17am CEST

Dear all,
We have created a Telegram Channel to send you information: [https:]] . If you join this channel you will receive a Telegram message when we post something in the News Forum and when new simulations are uploaded to the CRLP2011EPI application.

We hope you find it useful.

Best regards,
Jesús
Simulations are back!

Veröffentlicht: Juli 8, 2016, 12:43pm CEST

Dear all,
We are putting new simulations in DENIS (in the CRLP2011 app). These first simulations will be in small groups and little by little the groups will increase in size.

Thank you for your patient!

Best regards,
Jesús.
CoMetS Track Best Paper Award

Veröffentlicht: Juni 16, 2016, 7:45am CEST

Dear all,
This week Joel is attending to the 25th IEEE WETICE Conference in Paris. He has presented a paper about our work in the project and he has been awarded as the best paper of his track (Collaborative Modeling and Simulation).

I want to thank you because much of the credit is yours! This project is a reality because you are supporting us. Thank you very much!

I want publicly to congratulate Joel, the award is a reflection of all the work he is being done on the project. Great job Joel!

Hopefully it will be the first of many good results!

Best regards,
Jesús
Citizen Science event in Zaragoza

Veröffentlicht: Mai 26, 2016, 2:44pm CEST

Dear all,
Ibercivis foundation is planning a Citizen Science event on June 30, in Zaragoza (Spain). We are going to be there, and it could be a good meeting to share our experiences. If you are in Zaragoza or close to here, we hope to see you the next month.

As soon as they publish the final program, we will share it with you.

Best regards,
Jesús.
Paper accepted in the WETICE conference

Veröffentlicht: Mai 4, 2016, 11:55am CEST

Dear all,
Great news! A paper about DENIS has been accepted to be presented in the WETICE conference. Joel will be presented this project next June 14 in Paris.

You can find more information about the conference in this link: [www-inf.int-evry.fr]

Best,
Jesús.
Beta Version of DENIS Simulator (Natrium) now running

Veröffentlicht: März 17, 2016, 5:11pm CET

Hi!
The new version of DENIS Simulator is out. We will generate some beta WUs to see if all is correct. To run those WUs, you have to modify your account preferences and check the option of run beta applications.
You can find more information about the new version here: [denis.usj.es]
Delay in the launch of new version

Veröffentlicht: Dezember 9, 2015, 7:36pm CET

Hi everyone,

It's sad for us to say that we will delay the launch of the new version at least one or two weeks.

Our team is small and health problems have a lot of impact on it. We suppose that in one week we will ready to work at 100%.

We will advice you when the new version will be available.

Best regards, Joel.
New web of the project

Veröffentlicht: November 27, 2015, 4:55pm CET

Hi everyone!
In the last months we have been working on a new web page of the project and now is on-line. You can see at [denis.usj.es.]
We have added more information about the project, the research we are doing and about the members of the team. We will gradually merge this page and the BOINC web page of the project.
We hope that this new web page will increase your knowledge of the project.
Any comment to improve it is welcome.
Thank you!

Best regards,
DENIS@Home staff.
New WUs Generation will be paused

Veröffentlicht: November 24, 2015, 4:13pm CET

Hi everyone!

We are ready to launch a new version of DENIS application, which will include more than one model, also, it will have new features for scientists like the ability to storage more parameters from the simulation.

We are working also in a new web page with more information about the project and the workunits organization, to do all that things we need to "purge" the system and prepare some scripts that will maintain the server paused this week.

We hope that the new web page and the new version of the app will be running during the next week.

Best regards, DENIS@Home Staff.
DENIS@Home Server is Up again

Veröffentlicht: September 1, 2015, 12:28pm CEST

Hi!

We have solved the space issue and we restart the server. The server is up and we will send new tasks when we test if everything it's ok.

Best regards from DENIS@Home Staff
DENIS@Home Server Maintenance

Veröffentlicht: September 1, 2015, 10:10am CEST

Hi everyone,

The server will be down for maintenance during approximately 24 hours. We have suffer some storage problems that we are trying to solve.

Best regards for DENIS@Home Staff.
New communication channels

Veröffentlicht: August 26, 2015, 5:14pm CEST

Dear all,
We have configured two new channels to communicate with you:
- Twitter: [https:]]
- Facebook: [https:]]

All the news posted in this forum will be published there automatically. If you prefer to use this channels to communicate with us, we will be also there listening to all of you.

Best,
Jesús.
New badges

Veröffentlicht: Juli 15, 2015, 1:19am CEST
Dear volunteers,
To thank you for the great effort you are doing and to recognize it, we have created new badges. You'll be awarded with this new badges at some milestones for your total credit.
They are inspired in the idea that our heart beats around 3 billion times during all our live.
The total credit you need to get the new badges is (users/teams):
- Red heart (3.125M/31.5M):
- Bronze heart (6.25M/62.5M):
- Silver heart (12.5M/125M):
- Gold heart (25M/250M):
- Platinum heart (50M/500M):
- Blue Heart Diamond (100M/1B):
We hope you like them.

Sincerely,
DENIS Staff
New BAM! Challenge: B@P POTM DENIS@Home

Veröffentlicht: Juli 13, 2015, 9:42am CEST

Dear all,
The BOINC@Poland team has created a new BAM! Challenge: "B@P POTM DENIS@Home".
If you want to join, you can find more info in the boincstats web page: [boincstats.com] .
Thank you to BOINC@Poland and to all the participating teams.
Best,
Jesús.
BOINC transitioning to a Community Based Governance

Veröffentlicht: Juli 12, 2015, 10:06pm CEST

BOINC transitioning to a Community Based Governance...
[boinc.berkeley.edu]

David Anderson wrote:

BOINC's funding from the U.S. National Science Foundation has ended, at least for the time being.
This funding supported me, Rom Walton, and Charlie Fenton.
We're now working on other things, although we'll stay involved in BOINC at some level.

The BOINC project will continue, and will be run according to a community-based model rather than centrally.
In essence, the people who contribute to BOINC now make the decisions about it.

This model is summarized here: [boinc.berkeley.edu]
and described in detail here: [https:]

There will probably be little visible change.
The BOINC software will continue to work.
The translation system, Alpha testing project, BOINC web site,message boards, and email lists will continue to operate.
However, any new development and major bug fixes to BOINC will need to be done by volunteer programmers.
I'm confident that the BOINC community will meet the challenge.

I welcome your feedback.
Please post it to boinc_admin@googlegroups.com, a new email list for discussions about the BOINC project as a whole.

-- David