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Hackerspace Global Grid: Stuttgart Hackathon Weekends
The Stuttgart-based Hackerspace Global Grid Team meets on Saturday and Sunday afternoon for in-depth hack-sessions to work on the project.
Everyone interested is free to join in to help or simply copy by and talk to us.

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Event details:
Everyone’s welcome!
Date: Saturday and Sunday afternoon and late into the night
Driving directions: U4/U9 station “Im Degen”, Ulmer Straße 255, Stuttgart Wangen (across from Kulturhaus Arena)
11 Jan 2012 0:35:52 UTC · Comment

How to be involved? Overwhelming 28c3 response
Hi everyone,

we received some emails after the 28c3, where you asked us how to be involved.

There are quite some ways.

A:
You can participate in the distributed ground station network and help building it. There is a special email list constellation@lists.shackspace.de

B:
You can propose your own project and we would love to let it run on Constellation. So when you need massive computing power for your aerospace simulation or want to build your own sensor grid, just ask us via email (constellation@aerospaceresearch.net) or in our forums.

C:
Or you can just be generous and passivley donate your idle PC time to our project by joining it. This project uses BOINC. If you're already running BOINC, select "Attach to Project". If not, download BOINC.
When prompted, enter http://aerospaceresearch.net/constellation/ .

So there are some ways to do some good for the (science) community, you just have to pick one.
We're really eager to receive more comments.

And here are some FAQs http://shackspace.de/wiki/doku.php?id=project:hgg:faq

What an overwheling response to our project presentation on 28c3. THANK you, but you have to thank yourself, because it's the community that makes this platform run!

Questions?
Just send us an email, follow us on twitter.com/ARDNnews, like our site on facebook.com/AerospaceResearch.net

Andreas 31 Dec 2011 13:01:30 UTC · Comment

28c3 video and media coverage
Hi everyone,

I just came home from 28c3 and it was really fantastic. I will do a summery later, but for all of you, here is the video of our presentation.

http://youtu.be/iuwkzNjaPwc

and we received quite some media coverage.

Stuttgarter Zeitung - Hacker aus Stuttgart Mit dem L�tkolben ins Weltall
BBC - Hackers plan space satellites to combat censorship
DerStandard.at - Hacker wollen eigenes Satellitensystem starten
msnbc - Hackers to launch satellites to block Internet censorship
@pcworld @pcwtoday - Hackers Said to be Planning to Launch Own Satellites to Combat Censorship
@pcmag - Proposed Hacker Satellite System Would Fight Web Censorship
Golem.de - Hacking im Weltraum: Hacker basteln an eigenem Satellitennetzwerk

here are our FAQs
http://shackspace.de/wiki/doku.php?id=project:hgg:faq
These FAQs are very helpful to realize, which press exaggerates a LITTLE bit and which didn't.
There are some false parts, that's aren't facts.

For example, we don't build satellites. That's not part of our paper and video.
And we're not doing internet, also I can't exclude that for future steps. But we're not there yet.

When you have additional questions, just ask. So far only 4 journalists asked directly and 2 wrote an article. ;)

Andreas 31 Dec 2011 12:48:56 UTC · Comment

Meet & crunch on 28c3 or RKN beer table
Hi everyone,

I will head to 28th chaos communication congress in Berlin in some hours and I heartly invite you to grab me there when you see me and ask me anything you'll like. I hope to get in contact with a lot of interesting people there.
And of course I would like to have a hugh audiance present there on 28.12.11 and via video streaming.
https://bitly.com/28c3hgg

And there will be a Rechenkraft.net organized beer table (you can't call it regular's table ;)) at the Brauhaus am Alex, map here http://g.co/maps/5v43j
next to the congress centre at 29.12.11-19:45hrs
You will find us starting at the Sudhaus and then Yoyo will lay out some Rechnekraft.net flyers on our final table.

More in here for the beer table http://www.rechenkraft.net/phpBB/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=12007 27 Dec 2011 0:15:15 UTC · Comment

Merry Christmas & a happy new year 2012!
Hello Everyone,

we want to wish everyone a merry christmas and a happy new year 2012!

This year was fantastic, so we try our best to have a fantastic next year as well. THANK YOU!


merrychristmasandpeaceonearth von aerospaceresearch.net auf Flickr 23 Dec 2011 11:50:40 UTC · Comment

Your Science Slogan Idea on Poster
We wish you a merry St Nicholas' Day!

I started to create new posters for constellation and it turned out to be fun that I want to share with all of you.

The purpose ist to use a science bachground, create a slogan, sketch an easy symbol and to reveal the used science.
When you have such an idea, you can source yourself directly underneath the heading tagline with your twitter address.

tweet your slogan with #aerospaceslogan or post it in this thread.

This is my first poster for St Nicholas' Day

santa_1 von aerospaceresearch.net auf Flickr

I will release all my poster ideas on a daily basis, and I will also release my template (vector Inkscape SVG) that you could use for your sketches.

At the end, I would like to print all posters and pin them on 28c3 congress.

Best regards,

Andreas 6 Dec 2011 0:57:17 UTC · Comment

On 28c3: Building a Distributed Satellite Ground Station Network - A Call To Arms - Berlin (28.12.11)
Good news Everyone,

when you want to grab us in real life, the next chance will be on 28c3 in Berlin on 28.12.2011.

Hadez and my paper had ben accepted and we had been scheduled on day 2 of the Chaos Cummunication Congress.

Building a Distributed Satellite Ground Station Network - A Call To Arms
Hackers need satellites. Hackers need internet over satellites. Satellites require ground stations. Let's build them!

TrackJack: HyEnD batch#1 25% done
Good news everyone!
Due to all your combined efforts the HyEnD batch#1 is done by 25%. The Constellation team wants to thank you!

The batch was started in April 11, when Constellation went public. So There is still something to do for you all, whether you already are a Constellation cruncher or a newbie.

Keep on crunching!

THANK YOU!

Andreas Hornig 26 Nov 2011 21:41:30 UTC · Comment

Website: "Supporter & Sponsor" page new, new team member
Good news Everyone,

we have something new to read. Perhaps you already asked yourself who is supporting Constellation and you can now have more details on "Supporter & Sponsor" and you and your society, club or company can also become a supporter or sponsor.
And Wissam Rammo joined our team, so please give him a heartly welcome! He will help to find new sub-projects and applications. So when you have an application, contact him!

Andreas 16 Nov 2011 23:03:12 UTC · Comment

Constellation beta one year ago, donations and new hardware application
One year ago, we opened Constellation for the first wave of users for the beta test. Until then, we really improved Constellation a lot because of your sugestions and remarks. In behalf of the Constellation Team, I want to thank you all. We think that you users are an essential part of our project and we have a place on our team-page. Without you, Constellation wouldn't be possible.

I also want to take this opportunity to give special thanks to our donators, who believe in our platform and made donations. That's propelling our endeavor. Some of you used PayPal and our website system recognizes this and donates "Crowns" on their detail pages. Some of you used Flattr, but this is unfortunately not supported yet. So I would like to offer you Flattr users to send me an email stating their donation (with a proof, like Screenshot) and I will set this "Crown" by hand. As you helped us to improve our system, we should make Flattr and other services create a fitting API, so that BOINC can directly recognize this donation.

This news started with a description of our beta test and it will end with beta tests. Our latest supporter shack e.V. and we are working on a new application for Constellation. This will be a hardware application and serving as a distributed groundstation network. It's currently under development and we can't go into specific details currently. But you can also be part in this and bringing in even the tiniest skill you think can be usefull. We don't promise you when it will be finished or if it will be ever finished, BUT we promise you that we will try our very best to create new and interesting applications to you.

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Andreas Hornig 28 Oct 2011 5:02:49 UTC · Comment

Hackers in Space - Shackspace as new supporter of Constellation Platform
After the meeting in Stuttgart's Shackspace, Constellation and Shackspace will join efforts to create a new subproject with current working title "Hackerspace Global Grid" where one aspect will be to create a distributed ground station.

We are happy to announce Shack e.V. as a new aspect to our Constellation Platform and are excited about the progress. Be part, the universe is yours! Enlist on our email-list.

Hackers in Space campaign as proposed on Chaos Communication Camp 2011

Andreas


22 Oct 2011 10:06:07 UTC · Comment

Treffen: Constellation at Shackspace Stuttgart
shackspace lädt am Samstag den 24. September 2011 ab 15:00 Uhr alle Interessierten in seine Räume ein um in lockerer Runde über das Constellation Projekt zu diskutieren. Im Speziellen geht es um den Konzeptentwurf für eine verteilte Bodenstation zum Empfang von Satellitensignalen in Amateurfunkbändern.

Das Treffen wird geleitet von Dipl.-Ing. (FH) Andreas Hornig welcher sich im Rahmen seiner Studien an der Universität Stuttgart eingehend mit dem Constellation Projekt beschäftigt.

Aus der Projektbeschreibung:
[...] Das Projekt „verteilte Bodensation“ [soll ermöglichen] Daten von Satelliten zu empfangen und an den Rezipienten weiterzuleiten. Dazu soll ein weltweit verteiltes Antennennetzwerk aufgebaut werden, die über das Internet empfangene Signale zu einem zentralen Server schicken und von dort aus zu den Rezipienten. Die einzelnen Antennen stehen dabei bei Freiwilligen Helfern (Citizen Scientist) und Partnereinrichtungen (Universitäten, Institute, Firmen).
Ziel soll es sein eine günstige Hardwareplattform mit Antennen und Empfängern zum Anschluss an Heim-Computern und die dazu erforderliche Software zu erstellen, mit dem ein kostengünstiger Empfang möglich wird, und schwarze Empfangsflecken auf der Weltkarte zwischen den eigenen und gemieteten Empfangsstationen gefüllt wird. Es wird dabei Wert auf die Teilnahme von Freiwilligen und Amateurfunkern gelegt, die sich passiv beim Empfang als auch aktiv bei der Gestaltung des Projektes beteiligen können, um daraus ein Communityprojekt mit Open-Source Anwendungen zu gestalten. [...]

Zum Treffen:
Eintritt frei! Jeder ist willkommen! Um eine formlose Anmeldung (Doodle) wird gebeten.
Datum: 24. September 2011
Beginn: 15 Uhr
Anfahrtsbeschreibung

Zum Blogeintrag auf shackspace.de

23 Sep 2011 18:05:57 UTC · Comment

SGC2011 and IAC2011 in Cape Town, ZA (29.09.11-07.10.11)
Good News Everyone,

thanks to OHB, Space Generation Advisory Council and DLR I was granted a scholarship to attend Space Generation Congress 2011 and International Astronautical Congress 2011 in Cape Town, South Africa (29.09.11-07.10.11).
My TYCHO-L4L5 moon mission had been chosen and I will present it at the SGC11 (read news and proposal).

I applied for SGC2011 with Constellation under "Society" and will also present it there.

If you will be there, just fell free to contact me. For everybody else, I will do a report.

Thank you so much, I'm still flattered! 8 Sep 2011 12:40:36 UTC · Comment

Interview for L'Alliance Francophone [Eng/Fre]
Could you please introduce yourself?

My name is Andreas Hornig and I'm the head of the Constellation Platform. I'm an aerospace engineer with a Diplom (FH) from University of Applied Sciences Bremen and doing another Diplom with specialisation in Space Systems and Space Applications (Raumfahrtsysteme und Raumfahrtanwendungen) at the University of Stuttgart.



Could you introduce the team that is in charge of the project?

The Constellation team consists of an interdisciplinary mixture from aerospace related professions and topics, from server admins to earth and space enthusiasts. A complete list can be found here and feel free to contact each of us according our expertises. Withouth the team, this project wouldn't be as progressed, as it is today.

We are a rather small team, but we are also a young academics group at the university and are always looking for new team-members, who want to be part of our team and let our team grow.

And we feel, that you, the crunching volunteers, are part of our team, too. You can take part in decisions, like we asked you what duration our workunits should have to please you, or with what frequency you set your check pointing to implement it in our application.
And of course participation is so important for us, that you can also create your own sub-project that can run on the platform.


The complete Interview and a French translation can be found on boinc-af.org

Have a nice race! Thank you for the interview. 7 Sep 2011 20:11:06 UTC · Comment

Short Downtime due to Donated RAM Installation (21.07.11 18:00-19:00 CEST)
Hello Everyone,

today, 21.07.11, there will be a short downtime at 18:00-19:00 CEST due to installation of 2 new RAM bars.

These Samsung M378T5663EH3-CF7 2GB DDR2 800 MHz (PC2-6400) could been bought from your generous donations and the Constellation team wants to say Thank You to all our donaters! We really appreciate your help and support.

The second RAM bar is only partly paid by the donation, as you can see on our Make a Donation page, so you can still support us.

This installation will give us 6GB of RAM in total, that will increase database handling and will also keep our webserver running the BOINC client as well for computing our own Workunits.


samsung_m378t5663eh3_cf7_server_ram_pc6400_800mhz_2gb_no1and2_2 von aerospaceresearch.net auf Flickr 21 Jul 2011 15:43:39 UTC · Comment

You Users are Constellation! 1000 Users with Credits
Today, our project stats shows that Constellation is formed by 1000 users with credits.
So the team want to say 2521 (all users) times thank you for all your help and support. Without you, Constellation wouldn't be possible!

The Team

http://aerospaceresearch.net/constellation/server_status.php 17 Jul 2011 11:09:52 UTC · Comment

Linux Power/PowerPC TrackJack Application available
We have released a TrackJack application for Linux on Power/PowerPC(PPC) CPUs. 17 Jun 2011 7:11:13 UTC · Comment

One year of work, first conference "DGLR Raumfahrtkonferenz 2011" and next
Hi Everyone,

today is a special day. Today was the monthly regulars' table of Stuttgart local group of DGLR (German Society for Aeronautics and Astronautics). On last year's june regular's table we proposed Constellation to the local group and we found DGLR and Rechenkraft.net as our first supporters. Although the BOINC project was started even before, based on my Diploma Thesis, in june 2011 it started to form a real shape leading to the project you can attach to now. But this is not the end. We still progress and include your ideas and comments.

Another important step was our participation on the "DGLR Raumfahrtkonferenz 2011 - Missionen aus Baden-Württemberg (DGLR Astronautics Conference - Missions from Baden-Württemberg)" in Stuttgart on 30.05.11. We presented our platform, our sub-project(s) and future perspectives to the professional audiences from aerospace business, university personal and other students. We had some real fruitful discussion in our booth and even in the smoking area (at least the smoking part of us :)). There could be some nice collaborations, we're working on it!

If you want to get an impression, we have some pictures on http://www.flickr.com/photos/63534146@N02/sets/72157626730898759/ and there is a slide from Björn Weigel, DGLR local group Stuttgart, on http://scr.bi/lGutFG (German)
If you look close enough you can have a glimpse on our pre-alpha screensaver!

But we don't stop here. Our next stop will be on "6th OpenFOAM workshop - PennState University" (13-16 June 2011), where we unfortunately couldn't attend personally, but we have a poster there.
http://aerospaceresearch.net/constellation/forum_thread.php?id=63
Next time we will and have good news for them in our backpack, at least we have some work in the pipes.

Some links:
DGLR Stuttgart http://stuttgart.dglr.de
Rechenkraft.ne e.V. http://rechenkraft.net
DGLR Raumfahrtkonferenz 2011 http://www.raumfahrtkonferenz.de

And finally, cheers to you all! This drink is for you crunchers!


IMG_5066 von aerospaceresearch.net auf Flickr 7 Jun 2011 19:51:10 UTC · Comment

Solaris SPARC and x86 TrackJack applications released.
Today we have released two TrackJack applications for Solaris 9 or newer on SPARC 64 Bit(UltraSPARC/v9) and Solaris 10 x86/x64.
30 Apr 2011 9:34:57 UTC · Comment

HPUX I64 and PARISC applications released
Today we have released two applications for HPUX 11i on Itanium(IA64) and PARISC 2.0(64 Bit).
More applications for other platforms will follow soon. 28 Apr 2011 20:01:20 UTC · Comment

Project reached 1 TeraFLOPS
Good news, Everyone.

Today Constellation reached 1 TeraFLOPS of combined cpu capacity http://aerospaceresearch.net/constellation/server_status.php
The team wants to thank all of you participants for donating your idle PC time so that we reached this mark after 13 days of operation.

If you want to know how many of your PC it will need to reach1 TeraFLOPS you can take these infos http://www.intel.com/support/processors/sb/cs-023143.htm#1 when you have an INTEL CPU at least.

Thank you very much, we appreciate your help and we hope FLOPS count will still increase.

Andreas 25 Apr 2011 8:08:24 UTC · Comment

Server hoster maintenance on monday 18.04.2011 - 7:30-11:00
Hello Everyone!

there will be a short server downtime due to server hoster maintenance on monday 18.04.2011 at 7:30-11:00 German time.

Best regards,

Andreas 17 Apr 2011 17:27:26 UTC · Comment

MacOS 10.4(Tiger) problem fixed
The MacOS 10.4(Tiger) problem is fixed. If you have a MacOS 10.4 system, please perform a reset project to get the new application. Details in the forum thread. Sorry for the problems. 15 Apr 2011 19:01:45 UTC · Comment

Constellation opens on Yuri's Night - Docking ports open and airlocks ready for space rendezvous
Constellation opens on Yuri's Night - Docking ports open and airlocks ready for space rendezvous

Today is the 50th anniversary of the first manned spaceflight. On April 12th, 1961 soviet cosmonaut Yuri Alekseyevich Gagarin was the first human to reach outer space when completed an orbit of the Earth onboard the Vostok 1 spacecraft. This historic event is celebrated on several events around the earth under the name "Yuri's Night" since 2001.
http://yurisnight.net/

This important cornerstone in the history of spaceflight not only inspired generations of children to become spacepioneers, but also inspired our Constellation project and we want to celebrate this event by opening our project to the public.
It's our honour and pleasure to invite you to join our community, to discuss aerospace related topics and perhaps to start your own sub-project in our forum and to support scientific research by donating idle CPU time to our platform from this special day on.

Constellation will start with TrackJack application that will optimize trajectories of space-launchers and spacecrafts. The first task is to find the optimum thrustcurve for HyEnD (Hybrid Engine Development), a student group at the University of Stuttgart, Germany. HyEnD is developing a hybrid propellant sounding rocket and is an official DGLR (German Aerospace Society) young-academics group and optimizing the thrust-level is supposed to increase the maximum flight altitude. http://hybrid-triebwerk.de

TrackJack is a Java application and supports Windows 32 & 64 Bit, Linux 32 & 64 Bit and MacOS 32 Bit in automatic download and FreeBSD 32 & 64 Bit as manual installation. More operating systems are planned.

As every space programme Constellation couldn't be realized without help.
We want to thank the DGLR-Stuttgart (german aerospace society) to be an official academic student team at the University of Stuttgart, Germany. http://stuttgart.dglr.de/
We want to thank http://Rechenkraft.net e.V. in Marburg, Germany, the world-wide first voluntary association with purpose to advocate distributed computing, for pieces of advice and funding.
And we want to thank http://Selfnet.de e.V. in Stuttgart for beeing our server hoster.
We are really standing on shoulders of so many giants.

We invite you to be part of Constellation's distributed computing space race and we reccommend to join a Yuri's Night event in your area!
We salute to Yuri and all space pioneers who came before and after him who made this dream possible. Distributed computing for human kind!

About Constellation:
Constellation is a platform for different aerospace related projects that need intensive computational power. The platform supports the efforts of participating projects by providing Distributed Computation capability using
BOINC. Constellation will send work-units of attached projects to volunteering, idle PCs where the units are processed. The combined power of all volunteering users will help to solve important scientific tasks in fields from astronomy to aerospace-engineering beginning from student up to university projects. The bottom line is to benefit from the generosity of the volunteers and to benefit from the accumulation of different projects, like sharing programming knowledge in distributed computing andinfluencing the others' simulation by its own solutions. The platform is an open space for anyone, who is an air and space enthusiast and wants to donate idle computing time or even skill for a sub-project on platform.
Applications for sub-project are welcome!

About Yuri Alekseyevich Gagarin:
Yuri Alekseyevich Gagarin was a Soviet Cosmonaut born 9th march 1934 in Klushino (RUS).
He was the first man in space.
1960 he and 19 other pilots selected for the Soviet space program.
Gagarin and Gherman Titov selected out of the 20 pilots after a training and physical characteristic-tests.
Gagarin (1.57meters) and Titov were short and that was perfect for the small Vostok cockpit.
In an anonymously vote under the 20 pilots (Which other candidate they would like to see as the first man in space), only 3 didn’t chose Gagarin.
On 12th April 1961 he flew with the Spaceship “Vostok 1” and orbited earth it in 108 minutes.
He died in a jet-crash on 27th March 1968, but the cause is uncertain.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yuri_Gagarin
http://yur.is/1stOrbitMovie YouTube-video 12 Apr 2011 18:21:35 UTC · Comment

Trackjack 0.06
We have released the new TrackJack application version 0.06.
But, in the Windows application, a failure happened and the WUs errored out. Please make a reset project, to get the new Windows Application. 8 Apr 2011 6:34:45 UTC · Comment

Patchinstallation and reboot 24.2.2010
For thursday, 24.2.2010 we planed a patch installation and a reboot of the server from 17:30 to 18:30 UTC. 23 Feb 2011 6:42:34 UTC · Comment

Beta Testing announcements
If you have enabled the Beta Test Apps within your prefreneces, please follow this thread for announcements and actual informations regarding the beta testing.

The actual goal is the development of the TrackJack application (currently 0.05).
The new app includes a new unzip wrapper, which fixes problems with the unzip on multi core systems and reduces the output file size drasitcly. Also the JRE will been updated to the recent version which fixes several security bugs.

The science app has following new features:
* new thrustcurve optimizer
* redundant savepointing
* bugfixes

Please make a reset project to get the new application and help us to test the application.

Thank you, Andreas Hornig 13 Feb 2011 19:12:36 UTC · Comment

Working on TrackJack v0.05 and HyEnD task
Good news, everyone!

We are in internal testphase for TrackJack v0.05.
We're checking plausibility and the improved savepointing.
Additionally we narrowing parameters for HyEnD's tasks http://bit.ly/g7fXQ6.
So we're in final spurt!

new features v0.05:
* +optimizing thrustcurve
* improved savepointing by redundancy
* some fixing/tweaking 23 Jan 2011 11:50:35 UTC · Comment

... and a happy new year 2011!
The Constellation Team also wishes you a happy new year in addition to the previous season greating http://aerospaceresearch.net/constellation/forum_thread.php?id=38.

Party where ever you are! See you again next year!

The Constellation Team! 31 Dec 2010 15:41:42 UTC · Comment

Constellation wishes you a merry Christmas and happy Crunchmas!
The Constellation-Team wishes you a merry christmas, and have a nice chrunchmas during your holidays!

We'll do our best to give you a nice WU-gift.

After the festivities we'll be there for you 24/7 and will update the TrackJack app.

Until then, have a wonderfull time with your families!

The Constellation Team! 25 Dec 2010 11:15:31 UTC · Comment

Winter solstice will bring you 100 invite-codes before christmas!
Today, on December 21, 2010, winter solstice will occur at 23:38 (or 11.38pm) Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) on the northern hemisphere, leading to the shortest day and longest night. So the days will be longer from this day on. This important stellar day and because of imminent christmas the Constellation-Team decided to present you with 100 individual invite-codes for our project.

This will be done with first "come-first, first served" principle and will only last until 2010/12/23-23:59:59UTC, so that we can be sure that anyone will get his/her invite-code before christmas eve.

What you have to do is to contact us with ONE out of three ways and send us your desired nickname and a working email-address. We will then create your account and send you your temporary invite-code/account-password to the given email-address. You will then change the password and the account is officially yours.

For the last action, where users send in really good simulation ideas and they got the invite-codes for their ideas, we promoted it on several websites and forums. This time you will spread the good word, so you can follow twitter account http://twitter.com/ARDNnews and send us a private message to our,
join our facebook-site AerospaceResearch.net http://www.facebook.com/pages/AerospaceResearchnet/146743982016629?ref=ts and stick a PM on our pinwall to this notice (just post a notice without both datas, because WE will contact YOU there to give us the nickname and the email-address. No one else should know your data)
or send us an email to constellation@aerospaceresearch.net. There is only one code for each person so just send in your personal and individual data and only via one of the 3 ways.

Please make sure to send us the both, nickname and your email-address. Both infos will set the delivery time and this will rank you for the 100 give-away invite-codes. We won't accept incomplete inquiries and we can't contact each and every of you 100 people telling you to resend complete data.

We hope that you will like our christmas gift and you will help us to open the project to the public sometime after the christmas holidays.

Have a nice longest night with clear sky for optical astronomy!


The Constellation-Team

PS: Summer solstice will be on the southern hemisphere and if you are living there you are also invited to get a code! 21 Dec 2010 22:38:30 UTC · Comment

Working on TrackJack v0.04
Good news, Everyone!

after we ran out of workunits http://aerospaceresearch.net/constellation/forum_thread.php?id=10 we started to work on some improvements, that's why we haven't created new WUs so far.

Some of you already attached to the TrackJack-Beta app and helped us checking it.
The new things are
* TrackJack app additions and a result fix
* Using Java "JRE 6.0.22" now. It includes security bugfixes.
* switching from ZIP-compression to the OpenSource 7ZIP-compression giving us smaller files. As a result we can decrease datarates and you can receive apps and WUs faster.

Please give us some time to test the beta before we release it in the main-app branch for everybody.

Thank you so far for your help, Andreas 17 Nov 2010 22:06:26 UTC · Comment

Server reboot 4.11.2010
After installing some OS patches and upgrades, we need to make a short reboot for today 4.11.2010.
The reboot will been initiated between 19:00 and 20:00. The downtime will be about 5 to 15 minutes. 4 Nov 2010 7:12:57 UTC · Comment

We ran out of Workunits, that's actually a good thing!
Hi everybody,

we ran out of Workunits and that's actually a good thing!
The last results are beeing processed right now http://aerospaceresearch.net/constellation/server_status.php and after these will have been finished, the team will use this WU-less time to do some re-arrangements. We hope you don't mind!

Afterwards we will create workunits to check the results with previous processed workunits from my Diploma Thesis and do a validation.
There will be more workunits for you, because the current set kept you bussy for JUST one week, and even longer running workunit. The longer running workunits will be even new for me, because they exceeded my personal computing power, so this will be very exciting for me.

The ordinary work will also been done in the meantime, concerning webpages about the project, the team, science ... and everything.

Thank you very much for your help and participation!


Andreas Hornig 3 Nov 2010 23:53:21 UTC · Comment

Constellation welcomes maiden-flight passengers!
I want to welcome you in behalf of the Constellation-Crew on board of our maiden-flight.

If you encounter any problem or other occurance, please let us know. We'll do our best to fix it according to your given infos.

The website will take form bit by bit and will give you more information on what we want to achieve and how you help us.
The next steps will be to publish project infos and your send ideas.

We hope you will experience a nice and safe flight!


Your Constellation Crew! 28 Oct 2010 21:01:20 UTC · Comment

Constellation Invite-Code action started here http://bit.ly/bLmu6I @Rechenkraft_net (German language, but not exclusively for Germans!).
More places will follow, even in other languages.
Watch the sky and be creative!

Andreas Hornig
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www.aerospaceresearch.net/constellation 12 Oct 2010 18:01:57 UTC · Comment

First News Test Thread
Hi,
This test thread will self destruct in minus 10 seconds!
10, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1 boom!
Okay, news are working! Fine, finally! 21 Sep 2010 21:04:42 UTC · Comment

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