Magnetism@home

About Magnetism@home

Magnetism@home is a research project that uses Internet-connected computers to explore the equlibrium, metastable and transient magnetization patterns (first and foremost in nano-scale magnetic elements and their arrays, but later other systems may be considered). You can participate by downloading and running a free program on your computer.

The project is based at Donetsk Institute for Physics and Technology.

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News

August 1, 2008 Planned downtime
The project server will be down (or working erratically) during the coming weekend (August 1-2) due to computer hardware upgrade.

July 23, 2008 New smaller WUs
To improve precision on one of the critical lines (clumped in-between of a very few grid points) a new barrage of WUs is dispatched, increasing the resolution on calculated maps. These new points are going to complement the results of our fist round and use the same (lower) number of finite elements. The memory consumption of new WUs is low (but there is no credit bonus as in memory-demanding WUs, just pure FLOPS).

July 17, 2008 Memory limits.
Workunits in the current batch are memory-intensive (requiring around 700Mb of free RAM to run). Please check your BOINC preferences and set the memory and other limits to ensure that your client does not attemt at a jobs, bigger than it can comfortably handle.

July 15, 2008 Check done, new work is coming.
I have successfully reproduced (with much better precision and confidence) my recent result for stability radius of magnetic vortex in circular nano-cylinder using the magnetostatic functions we have calculated. The paper (with credits to the world-wide community of volunteers) is being prepared for publication, preprint will be available shortly at ArXiV (and linked here).
Meanwhile, I'm scheduling the final run on circles. During this run the number of finite elements will be increased, making the program heavier on memory (please set comfortable memory limits in your BOINC client). Hopefully, this run will give us machine precision in calculated magnetostatic functions. The current ones are good enough for preliminary analysis, which I'm going to continue (as well as many other tasks, such as populating wiki and testing the program for non-circular shapes for the next run).

July 13, 2008 Source code is released.
The source code of the project is now available via vievVC. The current URL of the code is temporary (until migration to the new server is complete), please bookmark wiki instead, which is going to contain an updated URL.

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