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        <title><![CDATA[The server is back]]></title>
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As you probably guessed, the maintenance work took longer than expected, but the server is up and running now.
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        <pubDate>Wed, 30 Jun 2010 19:04:26 GMT</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Another round of server maintenance]]></title>
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The server will be down around 12 pm local time today (29-June-2010) for a couple of hours.
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        <pubDate>Tue, 29 Jun 2010 17:42:46 GMT</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Server will be down for maintenance]]></title>
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The server will be down for maintenance today (28-June-2010) starting at 5 pm local time. The expected downtime is about 1 hour.

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        <pubDate>Mon, 28 Jun 2010 18:58:36 GMT</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[AQUA's technical papers]]></title>
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A list of AQUA's technical papers is available at http://aqua.dwavesys.com/aqua_papers.html . It is a pleasure to share our scientific and technical findings with others, and we enthusiastically thank our volunteers for enabling us to produce the results that are presented in these papers!

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        <pubDate>Thu, 24 Jun 2010 00:09:57 GMT</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[FP workunits are available for crunching]]></title>
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There are new FP workunits available. These workunits adapt to the number of available cores, so computers with fewer cores will finish workunits faster than before. Note that BOINC's predicted completion time for these units may be off. The progress bar gives a better idea of the time to complete a workunit.
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        <pubDate>Fri, 30 Apr 2010 00:25:47 GMT</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Server is back online]]></title>
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The server is now online. Thanks for your patience!
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        <pubDate>Fri, 23 Apr 2010 16:13:08 GMT</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Server maintenance on Thursday, 22-April-2010]]></title>
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 The AQUA server will be down for maintenance on Thursday, 22-April-2010, starting at 12 PM Pacific time. The work involves copying a large amount of data and may take several hours.
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        <pubDate>Wed, 21 Apr 2010 21:38:06 GMT</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Server maintenance delayed]]></title>
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Due to an urgent need to run the Fokker-Planck (FP) application, AQUA server's maintenance is delayed for now. We have emptied the other queues so FP work can get done (as a colleague puts it:) As Quickly As Possible (AQUAP).
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        <pubDate>Fri, 16 Apr 2010 16:54:01 GMT</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Server will be down for scheduled maintenance]]></title>
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Maintenance work needs to be done by our System Administrator on a number of servers, including AQUA. Quoting our sysadmin: "The outage period starts from 9 AM on Saturday, 17th April 2010 and could continue till 9 PM on Sunday, April 18th 2010. I expect any given server to not be down more than half a day but the outage could occur anytime during the maintenance window."


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        <pubDate>Thu, 15 Apr 2010 21:03:25 GMT</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Scheduled Server Downtime]]></title>
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Our sysadmin needs to perform some maintenance work that affects the AQUA server. Downtime will begin on Saturday, 20th March 2010 @ 9 AM pacific time, and services should be restored by 9 PM on Saturday, 20th March 2010, barring unforeseen events.

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        <pubDate>Tue, 16 Mar 2010 18:53:08 GMT</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[The AQUA server will be shutdown tomorrow for scheduled maintenance]]></title>
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The server will be down for a few hours tomorrow (Tuesday, 2-Mar-2010). Our Sysadmin needs to do some hardware upgrades, and we'll be updating the OS.
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        <pubDate>Mon, 01 Mar 2010 21:19:56 GMT</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Help needed to analyze promising quantum processor data]]></title>
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The AQUA project is getting promising data from D-Wave's quantum processors. The project is currently running a large number of simulations to help analyze this data. Anyone in the BOINC community with available CPU capacity would be very welcome to help out. The applications are now highly optimized and pay well. Please spread the word among your team members if you are interested in this scientific effort.

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        <pubDate>Sat, 20 Feb 2010 02:07:59 GMT</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[In the next few weeks emphasis will be on FP workunits]]></title>
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Recently we have been performing a lot of simulations using the Fokker-Planck application, and this trend will continue for a while. The Fokker-Planck application supports single-core CPUs (SSE2 is required) and gives out about the same amount of credit as the original aqua application.
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        <pubDate>Thu, 18 Feb 2010 01:02:00 GMT</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[A small number of FP work units released!]]></title>
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We needed to confirm a few of our observations in Fokker-Planck simulations, so we released more FP work units just now. This may be repeated as needed, so don't be too surprised to see FP work units on your machines every now and then.

 

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        <pubDate>Thu, 07 Jan 2010 01:31:29 GMT</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[End of Fokker-Planck simulations]]></title>
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We are done with the Fokker-Planck simulations, so all remaining work units have been cancelled. The main aqua application will again run on CPUs with two and more cores. The implication is that currently there are no work units for single-core CPUs, but this can change at anytime, so please leave your single-core boxes attached to AQUA@home. 

Thank you.
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        <pubDate>Wed, 06 Jan 2010 21:55:57 GMT</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[AQUA@home's main app (aqua) started again]]></title>
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AQUA@home's main application (used to estimate the running time of an adiabatic quantum computer) will start again. Work units will be sent to computers with 4 or more cores, while computers with 1, 2, or 3 cores will continue to run the Fokker-Planck work units.

Thanks for your help!

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        <pubDate>Wed, 30 Dec 2009 20:22:07 GMT</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Welcome to the News forum]]></title>
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We will be using this forum to communicate any AQUA@home news to volunteers.
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        <pubDate>Wed, 23 Dec 2009 00:39:42 GMT</pubDate>
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