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Citizen Cyberlab: a new project accepted by the European Union
Dear all,

A few months ago we asked you for opinions on ways to combine projects like T4T with online learning. Your feedback was really useful for preparing a funding proposal on this theme, and it's a pleasure to announce that the proposed project, called Citizen Cyberlab, has been accepted by the European Commission.

The project will involve a number of institutions in London, Paris and Geneva, including CERN – you can read more about it in the first comment of this post. A specific goal for CERN in the project will be to build an educational game based on LHC@home.

The project should start by the end of this year. However, we plan to start improving the links between LHC@home and online education already this summer, in a collaboration between Peer-to-Peer University (P2PU) and the Citizen Cyberscience Centre. I look forward to telling you more about that when the project kicks off in June.

Best Regards,

The team!

16 May 2012 | 7:24:56 UTC · Comment

New bug fix release for the virtual machine
Dear all,

We have just deployed a new revision of the current Virtual Machine 2.5.1-3-1.1 that should improve the stability of the system and reduce the errors with the floppy device.

The queue has right now new WUs with this VM, so you will get it in the next few days.

Best regards,

The team

24 Feb 2012 | 8:04:51 UTC · Comment

P2P University challenge
Dear all,

As a joint effort of the Test4Theory team and the P2P University, we are glad to announce that we have created the first challenge to help people to become a volunteer in scientific projects thanks to BOINC.

The challenge has three tasks, and gives the opportunity to everyone to learn how you can from your home be part of the scientific community, joining different projects and solving easy tasks (installing BOINC, posting your first credits, etc.)

This first challenge will help other people to join any BOINC project. The next step will be the creation of a specific challenge to join Test4Theory, as this research project is a bit more complicated due to we need to install VirtualBox.

If you want to help us in getting more people involved in this project, as well as in the BOINC community, don't hesitate and join the P2P Test4Theory study group, and help us creating new challenges, mentoring new users, etc.

As usual any comments and feedback are welcome!

Best regards,

The team!

Update: The P2PUniversity has a blog post about the challenge :)

21 Feb 2012 | 15:47:18 UTC · Comment

CernVM Wrapper 7.07 is out!!
Dear all,

Today we have released a new version of the wrapper, that restores the previous 7.05 version behavior for pausing/saving the VM.

This new release does not abort the VM after 10 failed tries to suspend or save the VM. The previous 7.05 behavior has been restored, but the log file will be populated with 7.06 messages.

If you were suffering errors from the previous wrapper, you should get the new one asking for a new WU.

Best regards,

The team

21 Feb 2012 | 10:41:02 UTC · Comment

The 2nd Citizen Cyberscience Summit: Feb 16 - 18, 2012
Dear all,

We are happy to announce that this week the project Test4Theory will be present in the 2nd Citizen Cyberscience Summit in London.

Dr. Ben Segal will be presenting the project and the status in a panel session about volunteer computing this Friday afternoon (check the details of the program!)

And on Saturday there will be a hackday around citizen cyberscience, with one special challenge for LHC@Home. As many of you know, we have created a study group in the P2P University, and we will be inviting people from the summit to join us to create some courses/challenges for this study group.

The first courses/challenges could be about how a person can join a BOINC project, with special focus for LHC@Home (Sixtrack and Test4Theory), the requirements, how you can check the results, etc. If you are in London and want to participate, just register (there are only 36 tickets left!) and join us to create some courses/challenges for LHC@Home study group.

Best regards,

The team!

UPDATE You can watch online the talks, check this broadcast tomorrow morning!.

13 Feb 2012 | 12:52:22 UTC · Comment

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