To be more precise, I would say that you should start to crunch something by late August, with some sporadic test starting in late July.

The first one will probably be x86 Linux, since we develop on that platform, shortly followed by \"32bit Windows\", \"x86_64 Linux\", \"Mac OSX\".
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Orbit@home is currently closed to volunteers - beta testers will be wanted around November 2005.

Orbit and CPDN share the distinction of being the two 'Planetary safety' Boinc projects: each could directly affect the future of life on this planet.

Orbit, by alerting us to the need to divert an asteroid from a mass-extinction scale collision with the Earth; this project by confirming the warinings already given by many that we need to change from our silly cleverness that is in itself (possibly) threatening life.

I find it ironic that technology will be the saviour in one case, and the cause from which we need to save ourselves in the other.

<a href="http://orbit.psi.edu/forum_thread.php?id=93">http://orbit.psi.edu/forum_thread.php?id=93</a>

As you can read from the latest news, orbit@home is starting several scientific collaborations in order to use all the potential of this distributed computing system to study other scietific projects, always related to celestial mechanics.

In particular, we are considering orbit@home to study:


* meteor showers;
* dynamical stability of extra-Solar planetary systems;
* dynamical evolution of "dust" in the Solar System;
* dynamical stability of natural satellites.



This means that, when we will have a fully functional screen saver, you will see your computer following the evolution of a Near Earth Asteroid, then simulating a just-discovered extra-Solar planetary system, then simulating the orbital evolution of the dust released by a comet...

Near Earth Objects will always be studied, and with the highest possible priority.
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that's cool, the more the merrier! :-)

When you here more please let us know. I may run that in place of SETI. Current breakdown of time allicated:
CPDN 50%
SETI 25%
Protien Predictor 25%
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August 29, 2005
Orbit@Home Project Update: we are testing the scientific application, and adding the few more features needed in order to make it completely automatic. This first version of the scientific application will be able to determine the orbit of any asteroid, using only the astrometric observations. After completing our tests, we plan to generate work units and test it on orbit@home, hopefully within 2-3 weeks from now.
At the same time, since the BOINC team has recently introduced a number of new features, we will sync the orbit@home code to the latest BOINC version and fix all the related problems.

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September 9, 2005
First application now available, for the i686-pc-linux-gnu platform only. We are generating WUs, and of course we are noticing a lot of problems, as expected. Please report any problem, using the forums.

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hello

ORSA@work => orbit reconstruction simluation analysis

http://orsa.sourceforge.net/atwork.html

windows , linux , MAC OS X
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http://orsa.sourceforge.net/download.html

@+ ^^

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October 21, 2005
In the last month, we\'ve not been able to work on orbit@home on a daily basis for various reasons, but still some important results have been achieved. The most important improvements to orbit@home are the result of the collaboration with Pan-STARRS (http://pan-starrs.ifa.hawaii.edu/public/) researchers in order to be ready to analyze their observations as soon as their survey starts (first light for PS1 prototype is scheduled for early 2006) and the observations are made publicly available. This requires substantial science-code development, and the results so far are extremely positive. As the first wave of WU demonstrated, the code based on ORSA works correctly on remote clients (only Linux platform tested for the moment). In order to provide WUs on a daily basis, we are developing a science-database and the relative management code. This will take a fair amount of time, about two more months of work. For this reason, the beta phase will be postponed to early 2006. Clients for Windows and Mac OS X will be provided as soon as the scientific application is considered sufficiently stable on the Linux platform. All the clients will be provided and tested during the alpha phase, to fix all the major problems before the beta phase.

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