Mar 16, 2009
We didn't survive the recent power failure and lost all the 300,000 results crunched since yesterday.. Restarting everything - I apologize for all the 'not-needed' results from now on - we cannot make use of them at all. It's not only that our power failed, but also our UPS, it was too much for the DB, and the problem was revealed only now.

Mar 15, 2009
We anounce the very first Superlink challenge!!!! We must finish this batch as fast as possible to show the peak performance of the system. This is a new 2 mlns jobs batch, and we do hope that this time there will be no glitches. The analysis of the previous run will be published soon on our forums..

Feb 11, 2009
Long time no talk... We have just started a huge (about 2.5 mlns jobs) batch, after fixing most of the glitches we were aware of. We hope to see all our crunchers back. Hope it will run to completion as fast as the previous batch. Happy crunching!.

Nov 27, 2008
We are happy to announce the completion of the largest ever batch of 3.5 mlns jobs which was completed in 3 weeks. Read all our conclusions in the scientific discussion section on the forum.

Nov 21, 2008
We are done upgrading our back-end, if any strange behavior is observed, please report on forums.

Nov 21, 2008
We are currently upgrading our back-end, this will result in some temporary outages.

Nov 17, 2008
Due to the excessive load on the back-end we had to remove the data about all the results that have been crunched in the past two weeks; we are currently working on the solution that will both enable storing the historical data and will not create such a load on our server.

Oct 16, 2008
We have just recovered after a crash of our database, the restored data is dated back to 08:00 UTC, please verify that no data is lost and/or duplicated.

Oct 15, 2008
We have just allowed BOINC clients from EGEE, Madison Condor pool and our local Condor pool to connect to Superlink@Technion. All the clients belong to fictitious users, all of which are part of the team, called 'Clusters'. You are now able to compare the performance of your computers to the performance of entire pools/grids. Vital statistics of these clients can be now accessed from the homepage.

Oct 13, 2008
We are done upgrading our back-end, if any strange behavior is observed, please report on forums.

Oct 13, 2008
We are currently upgrading our back-end, this might result in some problems on the server side, but they are supposed to be temporary.

Sep 21, 2008
RAM requirement weakened to 450MB; a new Parkinson-related thread opened in scientific discussion rubric.

Sep 10, 2008
Deadline extended to 72 hours; Linux Intel 32/64 bit executables optimized.

Sep 9, 2008
We are observing about a half of the expected throughput of the system, without any apparent reasons. WUs are consumed with about a half of the expected rate, while there are not so many errors and rather few deadline misses. We'd appreciate any opinion regarding possible reasons of this issue.

Aug 28, 2008
We are back online, fully operational.

Aug 27, 2008
Due to the planned power outage the project will be temporarily unvailable until Aug 28 morning, IDT.

July 29, 2008
Our last batch which had been started about a month ago finished successfully yesterday, thanks to over 2,800 active contributors! It contained over 1.4 million WUs, and the results are beyond the expectations - we are almost certain that the mutation that causes the disease is there! It's actually the first time the system confirmed the hypothesis (while in all previous runs it was proved incorrect). New run is to be started soon.

July 17, 2008
All the platforms were updated. The update will hopefully give response to what BOINC clients recognized as DLL initialization errors.

July 15, 2008
Maximal number of credits increased to 360.

June 29, 2008
Thanks to our latest discussion about credits (here), we decided to grant 20% more credits for all the successfully (and timely) crunched results.

June 26, 2008
The new set WUs has been submitted. Looking forward for the results - this batch is the largest we have ever analyzed.

June 25, 2008
We are still analyzing the previous run results, and fixing the problems experienced during that run. We are expecting the new set WUs to be submitted within the next 3-4 days.

May 27, 2008
We have reached a new important milestone: 10,000 CPUs that contributed credits to the project since its very genesis.

Apr 27, 2008
We have just recovered after a severe crash due to the electricity failure in the faculty, please, check if your data is not corrupted.

Apr 14, 2008
Deadline extended to 48 hours; new version of loadd on Windows deployed (two major bugs fixed); pop-up dialogs (upon abort of WUs and, hopefully, everywhere else) suppressed; loadd on all other platforms upgraded accordingly.

Apr 9, 2008
Workunits' names made shorter, the former long names caused lots of troubles on Windows machines, hopefully, this is resolved now.

Apr 8, 2008
First and foremost: our scientific discussion on genetic linkage analysis is revived. Recent news are here. Other things: 1. Over 1ExaFLOPs, which is 1000 PFLOPs during the last month - it is about 385GFLOP/sec ( 385 modern CPUs working all the time). 2. A lot of interesting statistics were added and validated, such as average time it takes for a WU to complete (including all the restarts), the number of computers which we'd need to buy to get the same performance, and many others: click here to see more.

Mar 29, 2008
We have launched a new run with a short deadline (10 hours), the setup will be valid for this run only.

Mar 17, 2008
loadd for Linux PowerPC 32-bit optimized.

Feb 27, 2008
loadd for Linux PowerPC 32-bit deployed.

Feb 25, 2008
All workunits now come in bundles, progress bar is enabled, checkpointing implemented in loadd.

Feb 25, 2008
loadd for Linux PowerPC 64-bit deployed.

Jan 30, 2008
loadd for Linux 64-bit optimized.

Jan 27, 2008
loadd for Mac Intel upgraded, Mac Intel owners are kindly requested to test its functionality.

Jan 24, 2008
loadd for Mac Intel upgraded, Mac Intel owners are kindly requested to test its functionality.

Jan 15, 2008
loadd for Mac Intel added.

Jan 8, 2008
loadd upgraded.

Jan 7, 2008
loadd on Windows upgraded, hopefully, the popup dialogs would be over.

Jan 6, 2008
loadd on Windows upgraded, hopefully, the crashes would be over.

Jan 1, 2008
Bundled executables are assigned the same version number as loadd on Linux (32/64) and Mac (PowerPC).

Jan 1, 2008
To all our contributors: Happy New 2008 Year! Thanks for your patience, interest, feedback, and CPU power! 2007 was the year of our birth. Hope 2008 will be the one of our growth and maturation.

Dec 30, 2007
All executables compiled with Visual C++ 2005, manifests for all executables included.

Dec 26, 2007
Bundled executables are assigned the same version number as loadd itself.

Dec 25, 2007
Client upgraded to v1.07, detach and reattach to the project, if your application version is still 1.05 or 1.06 in order to download the latest version of superlink.exe.

Dec 23, 2007
A minor change in the invocation of Superlink: it will be ran via loadd from now on; we expect to have a new run within several hours.

Dec 16, 2007
Project URL has changed to http://cbl-boinc-server2.cs.technion.ac.il/superlinkattechnion; the old URL works as well, but we'd recommend to modify your bookmarks with the new host name.

Nov 29, 2007
Database migrated to another host.

Nov 13, 2007
Human check added to the account creation form.

Sep 24, 2007
Old hosts merged to newer ones, a new option for merging old hosts added on the hosts page (here); Mac OS Intel platform added.

Sep 18, 2007
New forum created for discussing topics, related to the science, going behind the scene (here).

Sep 16, 2007
Forum for Macintosh-specific problems created (here).

Sep 14, 2007
We have just added a new platform to run Superlink on - Mac OS PowerPC.

Sep 10, 2007
Create account form via php interface (here) is active now due to several requests.

Sep 2, 2007
Server backend started after a long break, database refilled with a new run (~56K wus).

Aug 12, 2007
Credits for all the users, teams and hosts are recovered up to July, 25th, thanks to the webmaster of BOINCstats.com.

Aug 11,2007
Current status of the project after the server crash is available here.

Aug 10, 2007
After more than 2 weeks of downtime, we started recovering after the disk crash, the web site is up, but there will be no WUs until further notice; users are kindly requested to reload their images and avatars, sorry for the temporary inconvenience.

Jul 18, 2007
Front page layout changed slightly, system requirements added; Superlink v4.73 released, packed with msvcp71.dll and msvcr71.dll.

Jul 15, 2007
Superlink v4.71 released.

Jul 12, 2007
The second batch of ~500,000 jobs has been started. These workunits may have different runtime (from few to dozens of minutes) and different memory requirements.

Jul 8, 2007
The first batch of 100,000 jobs is almost over. In order to analyze the system behavior towards the end of the queue, we will refill the queue once all tasks are over.

Jul 2, 2007
Linux 64-bit version of Superlink compiled (v4.77).

Jul 1, 2007
WU deadline increased to 28 hours; message board and Q&A sections integrated into one page.

Jun 30, 2007
We have reached two important milestones almost simultaneously: total of 1000 hosts and total of 1000 CPU days utilized.

Jun 29, 2007
Favicon added to the site pages - thanks to Krunchin-Keith - Kaptain of Team USA.

Jun 27, 2007
A link to the flash, showing the contribution of GigaFlops by countries, added to the front page: top countries.

Jun 25, 2007
Superlink statistics exported on a daily basis.

Jun 22, 2007
Due to mutliple requests, users' computers' details are not hidden by default; to customize it follow this page; automatic subscription to posted threads turned off, manually unsubscribe from the old threads, you don't want to get emails from; floating point operations' estimates altered to more realistic figures; WU quota per day altered to 500; crunched results will remain in the database for 7 days.

Jun 19, 2007
Classical server status page link added to the front page.

Jun 18, 2007
Users are now automatically subscribed to the forum thread, they post a message to.

May 20, 2007
Days of CPU utilized statistics added to the front page project status, charts filled with color.

May 15, 2007
We published our first release in the CS Department.

May 14, 2007
New statistics added (number of unfinished workunits and days of CPU utilization).

May 13, 2007
New statistics added (machine load and active hosts number), BOINC installers modified (a modification in one of the installers' screen).

May 8, 2007
Design of front page modified, downloads page created, BOINC installers modified (weekends policy).

Apr 22, 2007
Windows and Linux local copies of BOINC installers updated to 5.8.16.

Mar 30, 2007
Users can now upload their images into personal profiles.

Mar 28, 2007
Message board and Q&A structure was created. Users are kindly invited to share their experience and ask questions.

Mar 27, 2007
Four computers joined so far, about 160 real tasks completed, about 100 CPU hours utilized.

Mar 26, 2007
Beta testing of new system started.

Mar 19, 2007
Local mirrors for Windows and Linux BOINC clients added; instructions updated.

Mar 16, 2007
Installation instructions and instructions about how to attach to an existing project added to rules section.

Mar 14, 2007
Instructions section was updated, first helpdesk and message board forum launched.

Mar 5, 2007
New project for Technion volunteer desktop computing started.