World Community Grid

[laurentius]

Now i bought another laptop just yesterday and put it on it too, perhaps that works better since it has Athlon.

[Skanky Burns]

I have to babysit the damned thing. I have finished 3 packets now, and each time they were finished I had to authorise the program's access to the internet. It seems they keep wanting to make minor adjustments to the program so zonealarm keeps warning that the program has changed. Due to me being afk for a few days, the damn program was just sitting there idle.

[Pekka]

Phew! My packet was some kind of SUPERPacket.. I mean what the hgell it took me like.. MANY hours . More than 24.. well it generated points pretty nicely too. Now I'm doing faster, so maybe I have more.. simple packet this time.

[Asher]

Originally posted by laurentius
I dont know whats wrong but the Rosetta-program but, seldom finished anything, just today I witnessed 3 situation where it started all over again after doing 27 and 10 %

Also I left the Rosetta on alone to my laptop for the weekend. Since I was away visiting my parents it had all the CPU cycles available. I come back and it has finished just one package...over 3 days!

IBM software

The client is the United Devices client which has been around for years.

Skanky: I use ZoneAlarm on both computers installed, and it hasn't asked repeatedly for internet access after the first time I OKed it. Further, the client's binary is unchanged for about a month now (well before it was launched officially).

Are you sure it's not a ZoneAlarm bug?

I don't know why you guys are seeing it start and stop packets repeatedly, both of mine have never done that. Do you guys have slower systems that it just "gives up" on for some reason?

[Asher]

Originally posted by laurentius
Now i bought another laptop just yesterday and put it on it too, perhaps that works better since it has Athlon.

I very very much doubt it, Athlon XPs are just as bad as Pentium 4s for heat.

What happened to your Dell laptop?

[Asher]

BTW, this is from the support forums:

A "work unit" consists of various data including the protein sequence. The longer the sequence the "harder" it is to predict the fold. Longer sequence proteins take longer to process (sometimes much longer).

Due to the nature of the work, it's impossible to predict how long any specific work unit may take. i.e. it's non-determinsitic. That's really the beauty of putting this on a grid: it's a difficult computation problem.

Sometimes a work unit may not "converge" as we call it. This means it just hasn't found any way to fold this specific protein in a given amount of time and gives up. When it determines it can't converge it just stops working on it, sends it back (telling us it didn't converge) and you get a new work unit. However, it will try very, very hard before it gives up.

This would explain why you saw it processing for probably 4 hours and still be at 0.0%...then suddenly you saw it go to 0.4% and the CPU time went down. Points-wise, you should still get credit for the effort though.

Have some faith in that you really are helping to promote our understanding of the human proteome. If this was easy to do, we wouldn't have put it on the grid!
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Rick Alther
World Community Grid Application Developer

[Kuciwalker]

It's fun to watch each time it adds a new amino acid... sometimes the fold changes a lot.

[Richelieu]

Bump

[Verto]

Nearly 51 hours and my first task is only at 49%.

[Richelieu]

Originally posted by Verto
Nearly 51 hours and my first task is only at 49%.

I know the feeling : I'm at 43% of my current task after 39 hours.

[Skanky Burns]

Originally posted by Asher
Skanky: I use ZoneAlarm on both computers installed, and it hasn't asked repeatedly for internet access after the first time I OKed it. Further, the client's binary is unchanged for about a month now (well before it was launched officially).

Are you sure it's not a ZoneAlarm bug?

Its possible, I've been changing the network recently. It hasn't done it again, so it seems that it may have been a user error. :shrug:

[Spiffor]

Very interesting

I was unconvinced by SETI@home's cause, but I think I'll install WorldCommunityGrid as soon as I get an Internet connection. A firend of mine has Seti]home, I'll tell him to switch.

[Q Classic]

18 asher? jeebus.

[Asher]

And the last one took over 40 hours to do on the P3 3.2GHz w/ 1.5GB of RAM.

[Asher]

Unfortunately, I'm going to have to shut down the P4 3.2 over the weekend, because they're cutting power to the building at work to do some upgrades and backup tests.