Universal Time Plugin, Jedi Formatted Code

GPU is an experimental grid computing project which targets the rise of a big and cheap supercomputer over Internet, run by volunteers.
This is the project status for October 12, 2005.

First, we thank gratefully lwm (Laurent Wattieaux) for adding a new entry host for the GPU network, which solves the problem of the momentaneously broken spartacus node. A big thanks to paulatreides, for fixing some problems in earthsim plugin and reformatting most of the GPU source code with the Jedi formatter. Now the source code looks most of the time nicer and more readable. With time, we will reformat some parts where Jedi did not perform so well. The formatted source code is already on CVS and will be released with 0.925.
Lot of credits to sabybuld (Stefano Godenzi) for buying and planning the water cooling system which will be built in spartacus very soon. Delphifreak (Samuel Herzog) keeps his support to the DelphiPackagerTool, too. pisces computer is now running version 0.9194 for more than 850 hours (35 days) without application crashes.
Red's movie ShipRockFinal was published on the Movies section as well.

Universal Time Plugin

nanobit (Rene Tegel) realized a new plugin which keeps synchronized the clock of any computer running GPU with the atomic clock of the U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology. The plugin queries time.nist.gov at 5 minute intervals and consequently adjusts the system clock of the operating system in little steps of 100 milliseconds, so that other applications are not affected.
With the GPU command "timeerrorms, nodename", it is possible to see the difference in milliseconds in respect to universal time. This plugin is very important, if we would like to turn the GPU network into a sensor network. It would be then easier to compare data from sensors like weather stations or even seismographs. More on http://nist.time.gov

Search Engine News and Manual

nanobit wrote an interesting news describing the progress done by the search engine here:
http://www.tea.ch/gpu/updates/gpuse_news_sept25-2005.pdf
Try to query the GPU network at http://search.dubaron.com with some keyword like "grid computing". The query interface is really impressive, especially if viewed with Firefox or Mozilla browsers.
A new manual on how to use GPU together with the Search Engine is available at
http://www.tea.ch/gpu/updates/gpuse_manual.pdf

Other improvements

GPU Core improved only slowly, providing new functions to load and discard dynamic link libraries one by one. This lead to DLL Manager fixes and to an autoupdater which does not always need to close GPU to perform its work. There will be more work on Core in the upcoming month of November (in particular fixes to the frontend manager, allowing more frontends to register to the same service).
Terragen shipped with GPU was updated from 0.9.21 to 0.9.43. This step should fix some rendering bugs.
Finally GPU is shipped with a full (16MB) and lite (6MB) install. Releases are now marked as "test" when they are released. Depending on how they perfom, they will be renamed in "stable" or "unstable". In fact, 0.923 was quite weird, we apologize for any inconvenient it might have created to our community!
Finally, be sure to check out the Seismograph section on http://gpu.sourceforge.net!