Posted 29 May 2026 by
valterc
That's work trying to answer new scientific questions related to two "old" datasets, see a recent post in the science section of the forum. So it's not a test work nor the beginning of brand new experiments.
This phase will end soon, there is only one small batch waiting to be queued.
Posted 15 May 2026 by
valterc
There seems to be a constrant stream of tasks flowing. Get 'em while they're hot!
well, not exactly, this batch is limited (testing things), there will be more in a few days but not that many. The main stuff is still work in progress...
Posted 7 Apr 2026 by
valterc
It isn't dead, it’s simply waiting for its moment... There are rumours that something will happen.
Posted 9 Jan 2026 by
valterc
Unfortunately, there is nothing to report right now. The BOINC server is up and running, waiting for input from the scientists, but there is no news at this time. Thank you for your patience.
The biologists are still working on the results obtained in the past. I’ll keep you updated when some papers are published.
Posted 31 Oct 2025 by
valterc
So there will be a new batch coming? Hopefully a larger one? :D
Not that big ... 8964 tasks
Posted 31 Oct 2025 by
valterc
I got three tasks, which started to run and then were aborted by the project.
Cheers
Yep I made a mistake while preparing them and had to abort them all
Posted 20 Oct 2025 by
valterc
Well, this was completely unexpected... The application has not been changed since 2017. There is formally no difference, no source code change, between the 1.10 and 1.11 version, if I remember correctly we moved from 1.10 to 1.11 just for windows because we changed the compiling environment (gcc inside cygwin)
What we now, from the beginning, is that Linux and Windows produce slightly different results, and made some changes in order to make them equal (a cut threshold in the output list)
What was changed, our side, is the input dataset. The latest one triggered that effect again (don't know exactly why, right now).
For now there is nothing I can do apart being upset because of the waste of computational power.
There is no plan to use this dataset again, in the future we'll try to do our best in order to avoid this problem.
Posted 1 Aug 2025 by
valterc
Well, here is another ping, but, unfortunately, no news regarding the BOINC part of our work. I'm keeping the server up and running waiting for data from the scientists.
Posted 2 May 2025 by
valterc
Will science status page be updated?
Not for such a small experiment — I'll do that if something really big comes up one day.
Posted 30 Apr 2025 by
valterc
Hi all, another experiment in this topic, same gene list, slightly different dataset. The people involved in the project may probably answer, better than me, if you have some related scientific questions.
There will be a total of around 4500 workunits (times two if you count the redundancy needed for validation)
Posted 2 Apr 2025 by
valterc
Well, that's complicated...
We definitely need some hardware to upgrade our server infrastructure. The one we have works but, as you may probably know, it was not able in the past to completely fulfill the volunteers requests (slow workunits production rate).
More important is the scientific part. We have some ideas, some of them are also very interesting (IMHO), we are still trying to work with single-cell transcriptomic datasets (related to pediatric cancer disease), but science is not "easy".
Posted 6 Dec 2024 by
valterc
Hello! What's the situation?
No news (don't know if it is good news...)
Posted 18 Sep 2024 by
valterc
Hi, i see few tasks in progress.
Could you please provide more info about science part of this, maybe update the http://gene.disi.unitn.it/test/gene_science.php page ?
Thank you!
Well, it's just a single expansion of a FANTOM related gene network (about 700 workunits). As requested by the scientist... No news about future big experiments.
Posted 22 Aug 2024 by
valterc
Hope all of you got a great vacation and work in progress had a great result.
Instead of of ask when work is available i would take time and ask if goal will remain or change with new experiment?
What is the next goal?
The next big goal, from the computational point of view, would be to find a way to re-arrange the really big single cell RNA datasets we are playing with in order to make them compatible with our casual discovery algorithm. It's not that easy...
Posted 30 Jul 2024 by
valterc
Just a ping to state that the project is alive and running.
The last year I was way too optimistic in forecasting that a big new experiment would have started soon. I was wrong, in the last months just a handful of workunits were distributed. Anyway, even in this strange and hot summer, the scientists are working, and the project is making progress, although we cannot say when new job will be available.
BTW, if you want to check something we did recently, although still in beta stage, just go to https://onegene-causality-weaver.disi.unitn.it/
Posted 19 Apr 2024 by
valterc
The SIMD optimizations were made by a volunteer many years ago, by adding specific ASM code for SSE2, AVX and FMA. If I remember correctly, at that time, the benefits of using FMA instructions were minimal. I don't know if our algorithm will really make good use of AVX512...
Posted 18 Apr 2024 by
valterc
Just a guess, maybe you need some old compiling environment, or older boinc libraries, something might have changed from years ago. The CLI executable you used is the official one or the result of your compilation?
Posted 15 Apr 2024 by
valterc
Another small batch is on its way
Are larger ones in the works?
Yes, they are, but no ETA right now...
Posted 15 Apr 2024 by
valterc
Another small batch is on its way
Posted 20 Mar 2024 by
valterc
I just put into the queue the expansion of ten genes of an old dataset of Vitis vinifera. A short experiment (around 1k workunits) that we need to do for a statistical analysis.