Science update August 2012
Read about recent adventures in model-fitting, and how your simulation runs were used to analyse which factors were most important to determine the effective lifetime of long-lasting insecticide treated nets. more... 29 Aug 2012 7:59:23 UTC · Comment

Status update Mar-Jul 2012
Read about some of our scientific progress in the first half of 2012. Read more.
28 Aug 2012 13:30:34 UTC · Comment

Branch B update to 6.63
We're planning to update Branch B to application version 6.58. We switched of the generation off workunits for this branch (6.57 and 6.58 are not compatible) until we got all workunits back.

But 'Branch A' and 'openMalaria test version' are still generating new workunits :) 28 Aug 2012 7:42:32 UTC · Comment

Situation on malariacontrol.net back to normal
The situation on malariacontrol.net is back to normal. Malariacontrol is generating and sending workunits at a normal rate.

Guillaume 20 Dec 2010 8:40:14 UTC · Comment

The workunits' amount to be validated has decreased... malariacontrol is now generating new workunits (at a slow rate)
Hi,

To allow the malariacontrol validator to catch up a bit (about 55'000 results are still waiting for validation), malariacontrol will not send new jobs in the next hours.

Edit: After few hours not generating workunits, malariacontrol is now generating new workunits, but at a slow rate.

Thanks
Guillaume 6 Dec 2010 8:22:38 UTC · Comment

High server load
Our server is currently overloaded. As a result few work units will be available and validation of completed work units will be slow (credit is granted upon successful validation). 1 Dec 2010 16:24:57 UTC · Comment

Update on credit corrections
The project is running again, total credits are fixed, but validation is currently disabled. 26 Nov 2010 15:37:14 UTC · Comment

Server will be shutdown for maintenance
The server will be shutdown today for maintenance.
Thanks for your understanding.

Guillaume 26 Nov 2010 10:12:07 UTC · Comment

Termporarily disabled stats dumps
We stopped exporting credit statistics to third party sites temporarily. We will reactivate it once credit granting is back to normal. 25 Nov 2010 15:41:43 UTC · Comment

Status update - November
We have recently analysed a lot of the results of simulation experiments we ran over the last few months. Some of the results are currently being written up for publication, others were already presented to the malaria research community at scientific meetings. Here are the links to summaries of presentations given recently at the Parasites to Prevention: Advances in the understanding of malaria conference, and the Annual meeting of the American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene.

Modeling the effects of vector control interventions in reducing malaria transmission, morbidity and mortality

Predicted impact of mosquito-stage transmission-blocking vaccines using an ensemble of microsimulations

Using ensemble modeling to predict the cost-effectiveness of pre-erythrocytic malaria vaccines

Modeling the effects of vector control interventions in reducing malaria transmission and disease

Thank you for your ongoing support.
Nick
16 Nov 2010 9:45:50 UTC · Comment

The project has been updated, the server is now working 11 Aug 2010 0:00:00 UTC · Comment

The project will be available ony intermittently on Wed Aug 11 from 11.00am CET due to system maintenance. 10 Aug 2010 0:00:00 UTC · Comment

There was serious problem during the server upgrade yesterday, and we finally managed to recover the server. We apologize for the inconvenience. 4 Aug 2010 0:00:00 UTC · Comment

The project will be offline for approx. two hours Tue Aug 2 from 10.00am CET for maintenance. 2 Aug 2010 0:00:00 UTC · Comment

We are submitting new workunits on malariacontrol.net. Please read this for more information. 6 Jul 2010 0:00:00 UTC · Comment

We have submitted some work-units for a follow-up experiment. 4 Mar 2010 0:00:00 UTC · Comment

malariacontrol.net will stop sending out new workunits for a few weeks starting Mon March 1st. Please read this and this for more information. 27 Feb 2010 0:00:00 UTC · Comment

Status update and outlook 26 Feb 2010 0:00:00 UTC · Comment

The project will be offline for approx. two hours tomorrow Tue Feb 9 from 10.00am CET for maintenance. 8 Feb 2010 0:00:00 UTC · Comment

The "Dutch Power Cows" team used the "Serious request" fund-raiser currently happening in Holland to promote malariacontrol.net. Read more here. 22 Dec 2009 0:00:00 UTC · Comment

An article in Wall Street Journal on the use of volunteer computing in medical research features malariacontrol.net 27 Oct 2009 0:00:00 UTC · Comment

October status update: D Hardy 1 Oct 2009 0:00:00 UTC · Comment

August status update: A Ross 27 Aug 2009 0:00:00 UTC · Comment

The project will be offline for approx. one hour Fri Aug 21 from 10.30am CET for maintenance. 20 Aug 2009 0:00:00 UTC · Comment

The project will be offline for approx. one hour later today for maintenance. 15 May 2009 0:00:00 UTC · Comment

Project out of work intermittently. Please read this thread for more information. 4 Dec 2008 0:00:00 UTC · Comment

The database problem is fixed. However, we expect that workunits will be available only intermittently for the next few hours. 3 Nov 2008 0:00:00 UTC · Comment

We're currently experiencing problems with our database. We're working on a solution. Sorry for the inconvenience. 3 Nov 2008 0:00:00 UTC · Comment

The optimizer application will leave testing status during next week, from monday 15.Sept. 08 More info 12 Sep 2008 0:00:00 UTC · Comment

The project server may be intermittently unavailable later today while we're testing a new backup process. 25 Jul 2008 0:00:00 UTC · Comment

We will stop sending out work for the optimizer application from tomorrow, 2008-07-03, and resume in ca. 2 weeks time. 2 Jul 2008 0:00:00 UTC · Comment

The project will be stopped again for approx. one hour for maintenance tomorrow 2008-06-05, starting 08:00 UTC. 4 Jun 2008 0:00:00 UTC · Comment

The project will be offline for approx. one hour later today for maintenance. 2 Jun 2008 0:00:00 UTC · Comment

The optimizer application will re-enter testing status for a few days, after some major changes to the application code. More info 9 May 2008 0:00:00 UTC · Comment

Work for the malariacontrol app is available again. Here's a short summary of what happened. 19 Feb 2008 0:00:00 UTC · Comment

The malariacontrol app is currently out of work due to a problem with the database server. We are working on a solution. 19 Feb 2008 0:00:00 UTC · Comment

We're back online. More info. 27 Dec 2007 0:00:00 UTC · Comment

The project will be offline on Dec 27 and 28 2007. Please read more about this here. 19 Dec 2007 0:00:00 UTC · Comment

The project will be offline for an estimated one to two hours today, starting 13:00 UTC. 22 Nov 2007 0:00:00 UTC · Comment

On Wednesday 2007-11-21 workunits of a third science application will be sent out to the volunteers. Read more about it 19 Nov 2007 0:00:00 UTC · Comment

We have now opened account creation again. Welcome new users! Please read our Rules and Policies before you attach to the project. 22 Oct 2007 0:00:00 UTC · Comment

Please read the update on the planned optimizer application. More. 14 Sep 2007 0:00:00 UTC · Comment

We're about to start a new batch of workunits for the mappredictor application. More 14 Sep 2007 0:00:00 UTC · Comment

The project will be offline for an estimated one to two hours today, starting 08:30 UTC. 3 Sep 2007 0:00:00 UTC · Comment

The server was unreachable for the last hour due to a network failure that affected all services at University of Geneva. 2 Aug 2007 0:00:00 UTC · Comment

The project will be offline for an estimated one to two hours today, starting 16:00 UTC. 25 Jul 2007 0:00:00 UTC · Comment

The server will be down for a few hours later today for maintenance. 14 Jun 2007 0:00:00 UTC · Comment

Due to a hardware problem the server was not working properly during the last 36 hours. We're working on this. 11 Jun 2007 0:00:00 UTC · Comment

Users with Windows hosts please read this post about the mappredictor application. 31 May 2007 0:00:00 UTC · Comment

We have just updated to the latest BOINC server version. 22 May 2007 0:00:00 UTC · Comment

The project will be offline for an estimated one to two hours tomorrow, May 4th, starting 10:30 CET. 3 May 2007 0:00:00 UTC · Comment

The project will be down for maintenance for 1 to two hours today starting 14:00 CET. 17 Apr 2007 0:00:00 UTC · Comment

AIMS workshop on Volunteer Computing: 16-22 July, 2007 More info 23 Mar 2007 0:00:00 UTC · Comment

We will update some of the server components later today. As a consequence the project may be down for one or two hours. Please let us know if you find problems. 22 Mar 2007 0:00:00 UTC · Comment

The project will be down for maintenance for about 1 hour today starting 14:00 CET. 7 Mar 2007 0:00:00 UTC · Comment

We have partially recovered from a database problem that occured during the backup today. We are working to bring the project back up. 12 Feb 2007 0:00:00 UTC · Comment

malariacontrol.net announces the second science application. More info 9 Feb 2007 0:00:00 UTC · Comment

The server will be down for some time over the next few hours due to required system maintenance. 12 Jan 2007 0:00:00 UTC · Comment

We have now opened account creation again. Please read our Rules and Policies before you attach to the project. 4 Jan 2007 0:00:00 UTC · Comment

As announced we plan to open account creation again tomorrow January 4th, 2007, 09:30 CET, and are looking forward to welcoming new users! 3 Jan 2007 0:00:00 UTC · Comment

Please restart your BOINC client if you keep getting the following message: Scheduler request failed: HTTP file not found. Thank you! 21 Dec 2006 0:00:00 UTC · Comment

Welcome to the new server! 19 Dec 2006 0:00:00 UTC · Comment

We will now migrate to the new server, please expect the project to be down for a few hours starting today, 19.12.06, 14.00 CET. More info 19 Dec 2006 0:00:00 UTC · Comment

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