Project news

CPDN would like to wish all participants a very Merry Christmas and a happy New Year! As always, many thanks for your continued support of the project. CPDN is very close to the impressive milestone of 50 million model years! None of this would be possible without your support - THANK YOU!

For some time the Recent Average Credit calculations for one particular model type (HadAM3P) have been too high. We've been working on this problem and have deployed an adjustment to the credit calculation scripts that should correct it. Actual credits will be unaffected by this fix. We expect the corrected RAC values to start showing up on the various BOINC stats sites within 24 hours.

Both CPDN and Myles Allen receive a brief mention in this Financial Times article.

We plan to shut down the web server hosting these pages some time around 9AM BST on the 8th of September to upgrade the RAM and processors. This isn't expected to be a long procedure, but whilst it is taking place BOINC clients will not be able to contact the scheduler and the main pages and PHP boards will not be available. The upload servers and BOINC boards will continue as normal.

Thanks for your patience during this upgrade and the earlier, and much more extensive, database upgrades.

Due to problems noted with missing results and credits, the database is undergoing some work for a few hours to reinsert the missing records. We apologize for the inconvenience and stress any missing credits may have caused - however we hope to have the database back up (and missing credits returned) within a few hours.

The upgrade is completed, thanks for your patience!

We are replacing a database server starting this Sunday 5PM BST (12M EDT/9AM PDT), so we will probably be down through Monday morning. This is a much needed upgrade and we appreciate your patience during this outage. The PHP bulletin boards will still be available (as will this website), but the CPDN/BOINC database access (credits/trickles/new signups/etc) will not be available.

Facebook users who are not currently running BOINC may be interested in a new application sponsored by Intel and developed in association with GridRepublic and BOINC — Progress Thru Processors. The public beta has been launched today and includes our project amongst those supported.

For more information please refer to the application's Facebook page.

The BBC Climate Change experiment is now finished and we will be shutting the project down, although we will be continuing to release similar experiments via the main CPDN site. We'd like to thank all those participants who have donated computing time to help us with the BBC project — the results which have been returned will be used as part of a submission to the IPCC AR5 (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Fifth Assessment Report). The BBC's summary of the results can be seen here.

There's currently a shortage of space on some of our upload servers and one has suffered a power supply failure. The failed supply will be replaced shortly but there will be a wait whilst new RAID arrays arrive to take the load off the other servers. More information will be posted in the PHP board news thread as we get it.