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#1 Post by rebirther » 13.01.2006, 10:06

Our proposal submitted to NASA last summer has not been selected for funding.

The orbit@home project hasn't been able yet to find stable funding for its development, but we will continue to work on it with even more passion, investing as much time as possible on it. All the orbit@home users around the world can be sure that this project will start to crunch at full power at some time in the future, even if this time is getting a bit farther now. And we will also continue to apply for other funding, improving the quality of our proposals to increment the chances of getting funded.

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Wird wohl in nächster Zeit nix werden, hängt wieder mal immer vom Geld ab, Forschung ist ja nicht so wichtig auf der Welt aber Kriege :cry:
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#2 Post by Cheeky@Boinc » 13.01.2006, 11:35

Mist. *grummel*

Ich hatte mich echt darauf gefreut. Endlich mal wieder ein gutes "Weltraum" Projekt....

Naja. "full power at some time in the future"...wenigstens etwas

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#3 Post by grmbl » 13.01.2006, 16:26

Und ich hatte mich so gefreut! Das wäre ein Projekt gewesen, dass ich 100% gecruncht hätte. grmbl

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#4 Post by rebirther » 30.05.2006, 14:50

Mal was neues:
Dear orbit@home users:

The project is very well alive, but in a state of apparent inactivity, at least on the BOINC side. While we didn't work directly on the BOINC application or the science database, in the last months we've been working on ORSA, adding several important features that will be used in the BOINC application. On the funding side, we're "fighting" in order to demonstrate to NASA how important it is to use numerical simulations to support Near-Earth Objects discovery, characterization, and threat mitigation, and we should hear something back about this pretty soon (1-2 weeks from now). We're thinking about extending o@h's science in several directions, such as providing a guide to astronomers to where to point their telescopes every night in order to maximize the probability to detect a new NEO, or how to automatically determine rotation period, spin pole and shape of a NEO, or how to test numerically different deflection methods in order to mitigate the threat posed by NEOs. If these ideas turn out to be scientifically valid, then we should ear great news soon. Otherwise... we'll keep scratching our heads in order to find a way to make o@h start crunching!

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#5 Post by rebirther » 27.02.2007, 08:40

Na dann gehts bald richtig los:
February 26, 2007
We have finally some news. Good news. We're going to receive a very substantial donation sometime in the next four months, that will allow this project to reach the public beta phase, with support for clients for Linux/Mac OS X/Windows, new work units generated on a daily basis, and a graphical screen saver. Before then, we're going to update the orbit@home website, implementing a donation mechanism and exploring new ways to provide the funding for the project. Your ideas are welcome! One more thing: we're going to re-open for registration by new users. Welcome to the regenerated orbit@home!

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#6 Post by rebirther » 21.07.2007, 20:42

Und wieder gute Nachrichten:
This is just a quick and short message, as more details will follow shortly on the front page. We just received word that orbit@home has been selected for funding by NASA. This means that in a few months we will be able to work at this project with a dedicated time of at least 4 months per year, for three consecutive years. I'm extremely thrilled by this opportunity, and I thank NASA for making this possible, and all the users for their patience and belief in this project, because... WE GOT FUNDED!!!!!! :-D

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#7 Post by rebirther » 24.07.2007, 09:30

Wieder was orbitales:
Orbit@Home Selected for Funding by NASA We're pleased to announce that this project has been selected for funding by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. Our proposal was submitted in response to the Applied Information Systems Research (AISR) element of the Research Opportunities in Space and Earth Science 2006 solicitation. Approximately 160 proposals were submitted in response to this solicitation, representing a potential over-subscription of the nominal budget by more than a factor of six. This funding will provide partial support for this project for the next three years, allowing us to acquire the required computer hardware and to get started with the software development, focusing on two Near Earth Asteroids (NEAs) research areas: 1) develop a search strategy for NEAs surveys that maximizes the volume covered in the space of the orbital elements of the NEAs; 2) demonstrate the applicability and advantages of using distributed computing to monitor the impact hazard posed by NEAs to the Earth. We plan to start releasing clients for all the major platforms, and the relative work units, by the end of 2007

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#8 Post by rebirther » 18.01.2008, 17:56

Seit langem mal wieder was neues:
January 16, 2008
We have received the grant money from NASA. Part of this money will be used soon to acquire a dedicated server, and by February 2008 the new server should be up and running. Between now and then, not much will happen, but expect a period of about a week during the which orbit@home will be down because of the server transition. For several reasons, we're also debating the possibility to start with a fresh installation of BOINC, that would thus require a new registration by all the users. We expect to start to develop actively this project in March 2008. Thanks for waiting for such a long time, and see you then.

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#9 Post by rebirther » 02.03.2008, 19:43

On February 28th, 2008 we've received the new orbit@home server. It has 2 quad-code Xeon CPUs, 8 GB of memory, fast SCSI raid disks, and is powered by a dedicated UPS unit. Right after receiving it, we've deployed it in the Planetary Science Institute's IT room, and installed the Linux Ubuntu Server OS on it. This initial phase took only just over two hours. After that, we've installed all the software necessary to operate a BOINC-based project, including the web server and all its components. At this time (March 2nd, 2008), all the components are in place, BOINC is installed, and we plan to publish the complete system tomorrow. The main page of the project is handled by the Drupal CMS, an excellent piece of software that will help us communicate the mission of this project and its result to the public.
http://orbit.psi.edu/

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#10 Post by rebirther » 04.03.2008, 09:43

http://orbit.psi.edu/oah/

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#11 Post by rebirther » 07.03.2008, 11:59

In nächster Zeit wird die Server-Software geupdated, einige neue Anwendungen sind schon im Testlauf.

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#12 Post by rebirther » 18.03.2008, 08:44

SurveySimulator Anwendung nur auf Linux wird gerade getestet.

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#13 Post by rebirther » 19.04.2008, 08:44

Endlich mal ein paar WUs bekommen, Server status meldet um die 3500! Weitere Infos in der Wiki.

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#14 Post by rebirther » 22.04.2008, 18:07

Neue Anwendung 1.17 soll die Validierungsprobleme beheben.

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#15 Post by rebirther » 31.05.2008, 09:50

The orbit@home project is now open for public beta. After several
months spent testing our main application, called SurveySimulator,
we're now moving into a public beta phase, characterized by mainly
production WUs and infrequent application updates to fix minor bugs or
to add missing features. We believe the project is now mature enough
to accept BOINC users with modest experience, and we're looking into
expanding our users base from the actual ~3K to ~10K.

About orbit@home

Our project focuses on celestial mechanics, with applications to the
dynamics of asteroids. Our first scientific application,
SurveySimulator, is designed to accurately simulate the performance of
astronomical surveys searching for Near Earth Objects (NEOs),
asteroids and comets orbiting close to the Earth. By joining
orbit@home, you help us understand and optimize the search patterns
followed by the surveys, thus improving their performance and enabling
higher NEOs discovery rates.

The SurveySimulator application is available on all major platforms,
including Windows/x86, MacOSX/x86, and Linux/x86.

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#16 Post by rebirther » 04.09.2010, 16:58

We're creating about 300,000 WUs, the largest batch ever created on orbit@home. We will wait a few days to check how this goes trough, and if all goes fine, there will be several other similar large batches this month.

This is real data, and the results will be presented at a meeting in October, and will be tested on real telescopes in mid-October. We plan to write about this in more detail on the front page soon.

Enjoy!
Die Laufzeiten bewegen sich um die 1h!

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#17 Post by odicin » 16.02.2013, 20:15

Project Stopped
The BOINC pages and processes have been disabled pending future support to this project. Thanks everyone, we hope to have some good news soon.

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#18 Post by rebirther » 24.07.2013, 20:25

Project to Resume Activities in Fall 2013

We have some good news: the orbit@home project has been selected for funding by the NASA Near Earth Object Observations program. We plan to resume activities in fall 2013.
Back to life.

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orbit@home is upgrading!

#19 Post by odicin » 25.01.2014, 08:29

We are upgrading the orbit@home server.

A new version of the system should be online in early 2014.

All BOINC processes related to orbit@home are stopped at this time.

With the upgrade, a fresh BOINC system will be installed, and all users will have to re-register in order to continue to contribute to the orbit@home project.

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#20 Post by odicin » 31.05.2014, 22:53

We are upgrading the orbit@home server.

A new version of the system is in the works, and we expect to bring it online in the 2014-2015 period.

All BOINC processes related to orbit@home are stopped at this time.

With the upgrade, a fresh BOINC system will be installed, and all users will have to re-register in order to continue to contribute to the orbit@home project.
Hat sich wohl etwas verschoben...

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