The Scottish Boinc Team

About USPEX@home
USPEX@home is a research project that uses Internet-connected computers to do research in the field of computational materials design. You can participate by downloading and running a free program on your computer.

USPEX@home is a collaborating project of the USPEX laboratory (based in Skoltech, MIPT) and IITP.

USPEX is a method for the computational materials discovery developed by the Oganov laboratory since 2004. Currently it can be used for the screening of stable and low-energy metastable crystal structures, nanoparticles, surface reconstructions, molecular packings in organic crystals, and used to search for materials with desired physical (mechanical, electronic) properties.
The core of USPEX is an evolutionary algorithm. For the proper work it requires generation and optimization The core of USPEX is an evolutionary algorithm. For the proper work it requires generation and optimization of the series of structures population. Such calculations are extremely resource consuming, that is why we have started this distributed computing project. You welcome to help us to solve curious scientific problems and to contribute to the development of new materials.
More information about discoveries made by our method you may find on our website.
The main developer of the BOINC project is Nickolay Khrapov.

Currently, the project is in the alpha testing phase.

join project via this link. http://uspex-at-home.ru/prediction/

System requirements:

Windows 7+
BOINC-client 7+
Virtual Box 5.1.12+
700 MB RAM
10 GB free disk space

Warning: VirtualBox version within default BOINC-client is depricated.
You need install VirtualBox version from the official web-site:
https://www.virtualbox.org

Aplications available

Microsoft Windows (98 or later) running on an Intel x86-compatible CPU
Microsoft Windows running on an AMD x86_64 or Intel EM64T CPU
Linux running on an Intel x86-compatible CPU
Linux running on an AMD x86_64 or Intel EM64T CPU
Mac OS 10.4 or later running on Intel
Intel 64-bit Mac OS 10.5 or later

Team is set up and ready to go.

Server claims work available but I have never been able to pull any.
Also has never exported any stats etc. Seems to be limping along but with very little interest on project side.

I have 12k on it ... enough for 100 hours. Only Windows machines ever got work.

Website is down.

EDIT

I am guessing this project is the same

http://usproteins-at-home.ru/usproteins/

Forum is inactive. Windows only project. Requires VirtualBox (in unsupported version ). Tasks download with permanent HTTP error.
I dropped quick email to alleged admin of the project but not heard from him yet.

you are doing sterling work there Hal - I lack the time and patience to try all that stuff

Thanks David. I will try to get as much info as possible to keep our team updated.

Hal Bregg wrote: ↑Sat Jun 22, 2019 8:14 am Website is down.
EDIT
I am guessing this project is the same
http://usproteins-at-home.ru/usproteins/
Forum is inactive. Windows only project. Requires VBox (in unsupported version ). Tasks downloads with permanent HTTP error.
I dropped quick email to alleged admin of the project but not heard from him yet.

From 'XANSONS is dead':

Alez wrote: ↑Wed Jun 19, 2019 5:46 am The database of diffraction patterns is offline since April because the data center at the Institute for Information Transmission Problems of RAS in which it is hosted (also, this center is a hosting provider for the Acoustics@Home, USPEX@Home, SAT@Home, Optima@Home, Boinc.ru and some other non-boinc resources) is powered off and in the middle of moving to a new location. As soon as the data center will be powered on, the database will be back online. However, moving the academic data center to a new location is a long process because a lot of bureaucracy involved.