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Status Update
We suffered a server crash at the beginning of February. Because it came two weeks after the last one we took some time to review our options so that we can increase the project availability. We added a second server and we split the database load. We will continue to add servers as the project advances. We changed the hosting company. We have restored the database and the site files prior to the day of the crash. We restored the user profiles but it seems that some are still not displayed properly. We lost only the work units that were reported after the server went down.

With help from the community we finalized quickly the Windows and Linux applications. We have implemented checkpointing. The progress indicator is not displaying correctly and we will have that fixed in the next release of the client, in a couple of days. We have decreased the work unit file size to 25k. We have moved the neuronal generator program on the client side. The new work unit (i.e. WU) is generating and simulating 200,000 neurons. It takes anywhere between a couple of hours to a day to finish the computations. The reporting date has been increased to a month. Even if the server will become unavailable for a short time in the future the task can still be reported later on.

The project is currently running on the internal network. The Internet connection is very slow. We are also running in parallel a beta test project at http://www.intrealm.com/aisystem. Because the site was pointing to the internal network during the crash, the Boinc client detected the beta test site and tried to connect to it. We weren't aware that this can happen and as result of that a lot of confusion was generated in regards to the project URL. We would like to confirm that the project URL is http://www.intelligencerealm.com/aisystem and we have no intention of changing that. We apologize for the confusion created.

If a machine is unable to download the latest application files it is probably because there are leftover files in the Boinc client project directory belonging to the other URL. In order to fix that, the user must detach from the project and then attach again using the correct URL (i.e. http://www.intelligencerealm.com/aisystem).

We have also added more links (e.g. statistics, team search, bug report form) to the main project web page.

On Feb 21 or 22 we will move the servers to the new hosting company to restore the Internet connection speed. The site will be down again for a couple of hours. We appreciate your support. We continue as planned.

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Carsyn
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