Posts by Jim1348

21) Message boards : Science : Other uses of docking than viruses? (Message 767) Posted 3 Apr 2021 by Jim1348 Post: We will explore in the future also other targets than for corona; that would be not neccessarly connected with viruses. Excellent. That is what I was hoping for. And if you get a good GPU development volunteer, maybe you can get the remarkable (100x) speedup that Autodock is getting on WCG/OPNG. They can tackle anything now I think.
22) Message boards : Science : Other uses of docking than viruses? (Message 763) Posted 1 Apr 2021 by Jim1348 Post: Thanks. I had not seen that.
23) Message boards : Science : Other uses of docking than viruses? (Message 761) Posted 1 Apr 2021 by Jim1348 Post: I have only heard of docking (such as Autodock and VINA) being used against viruses. But can docking be used for other types of diseases as well? I don't know what they would be, but maybe you could give some idea. Thanks.
24) Message boards : Number crunching : Never ending WU's ? (Message 747) Posted 26 Mar 2021 by Jim1348 Post: But, I think, after several days estimate time will be close to actual. Yes, they have converged to 7 hours on one Ryzen 3950X, and 8 hours on the other, which are much closer to the actual time of about 5 1/2 hours.
25) Message boards : Number crunching : Never ending WU's ? (Message 742) Posted 25 Mar 2021 by Jim1348 Post: sidock is not so accurate - they plan two hours on a job, but it actually works four It goes the other way with me on two Ryzen 3950s. They run between 5 and 6 hours, but the estimates are 9 hours on one machine, and 12 hours on the other. They should be converging to the correct value by now, but are correcting more slowly than usual.
26) Message boards : News : Fifth Target is SARS-CoV-2 EProtein (Message 717) Posted 21 Mar 2021 by Jim1348 Post: Thank you for the well-considered explanation. Virology is not my field, but it shows you have given significant thought to the problem. That is a lot better than just choosing targets at random. I will try to keep a machine on it, more or less. (I run my machines 24/7, and will try to make up for some of the people who have to have checkpoints. The longer ones are OK with me.)
27) Message boards : Cafe : SIDock taking over! (Message 630) Posted 7 Mar 2021 by Jim1348 Post: In addition to that, you can shorten the time it takes for BOINC to converge to the desired resource share by using a cc_config.xml file in the BOINC Data directory. There should be one there already, and you can just add this in the Options section: <rec_half_life_days>1.000000</rec_half_life_days> My entire file looks like this, and probably won't do you any harm: <cc_config> <options> <rec_half_life_days>1.000000</rec_half_life_days> <use_all_gpus>1</use_all_gpus> <allow_multiple_clients>1</allow_multiple_clients> <allow_remote_gui_rpc>1</allow_remote_gui_rpc> <max_file_xfers>8</max_file_xfers> <max_file_xfers_per_project>4</max_file_xfers_per_project> </options> </cc_config> The number of simultaneous file transfers is doubled, and you can increase it more though I think it can cause problems if it goes too high. It also allows the use of more than one GPU, and remote monitoring, though that may be irrelevant to you, but won't hurt. Note that you can create the file in a text editor (Notepad), and then save it as an ".xml" file rather than a text file, and then place it in the BOINC data directory. You have to activate it, as by restarting BOINC, or rebooting.
28) Message boards : News : Fourth target (corona_RdRp_v1) (Message 601) Posted 17 Feb 2021 by Jim1348 Post: Thank you for the update. But I have been wondering, what is next? After you find promising candidates, do you do in vitro lab tests yourself, or publish the results for others to use? Or perhaps you do more in-house screening to eliminate false positives?
29) Message boards : News : Release CMDock v 0.1.1 (Message 550) Posted 6 Feb 2021 by Jim1348 Post: I don't see it on the Applications list nor is it on the Preferences list yet. It looks like a stand-alone program to me, not a BOINC app. It just looks like a later version of this: https://covid.si/en/quick-start/ I ran it for a short while, but it does not give as much information or control as BOINC.
30) Message boards : News : Temporary task shortage (Message 471) Posted 27 Jan 2021 by Jim1348 Post: Doing the same work does not mean that they are doing it with the same programs, and therefore asking them is unlikely to help if the problem is with the programs. I think Falconet was just responding to the point about what information the various projects give you. WCG is not bad.
31) Message boards : News : Temporary task shortage (Message 460) Posted 24 Jan 2021 by Jim1348 Post: If you were working for an American company, you would be busy working on your resume for a new job. I had to explain that once to a colleague visiting from Germany. He didn't believe me.
32) Message boards : Number crunching : NO LONGER running SiDock, NOT willing to waste PCU hours (days). PLEASE FIX project. (Message 449) Posted 23 Jan 2021 by Jim1348 Post: I have gotten only valid (45 of them) the last 2 1/2 hours. It may be fixed. EDIT: Those are the ones sent out after 23 Jan 2021, 13:30 UTC. I keep a short buffer, so that I can spot the changes.
33) Message boards : Number crunching : Something wrong with the validator? (Message 446) Posted 23 Jan 2021 by Jim1348 Post: On 22 January, I had 706 valid and 680 invalid. Whether that is too high to conitnue is a matter of personal judgement. It is 706 more than if I weren't doing them, but then there are other options too. I hope it is fixed soon. I have three machines on it now. Maybe I will just leave one on to see when it is fixed.
34) Message boards : News : New application: CurieMarieDock (Message 428) Posted 18 Jan 2021 by Jim1348 Post: I have no idea what you mean by your OR statement. If a WU is suspended it restarts from the last checkpoint. If you have no checkpoints then it restarts from the beginning. You are probably using "leave application in memory"? In that case, you don't need checkpoints if you don't reboot. But BOINC wrapper apparently implements one or the other, but not both.
35) Message boards : Number crunching : Threadripper 3990x stingy scheduler (Message 393) Posted 10 Jan 2021 by Jim1348 Post: I expect that they limit the number sent out to each machine in order to get them back quickly. I can live with that, if it helps the science. Otherwise, I could use more too.
36) Message boards : News : 2020-12-04: progress report (Message 355) Posted 27 Dec 2020 by Jim1348 Post: Excuse my ignorance, but upgrade to what? A Hadron Collider? ;-) I am not sure what they are working on, but a brainwave accelerator would be useful for all of us. (But the terminology is common on these projects).
37) Message boards : Cafe : Hi, just new here (Message 343) Posted 25 Dec 2020 by Jim1348 Post: It's bit of a shame I couldn't join the project early but I don't know any website listing new BOINC projects. This is a good place to start (in German). https://www.bc-team.org/viewforum.php?f=22&sid=bf3e52b8cf0bcefb63924ad5084d3101 We are all new here.
38) Message boards : News : Merry Christmas! (Message 341) Posted 25 Dec 2020 by Jim1348 Post: A few of our presents will be late, so we are going to stretch it out and do both Gregorian and Orthodox Christmas this year. S rozhdyestvom Hristovym!
39) Message boards : Number crunching : Estimate on How Long We're Going to be Out of CurieDock WUs :) (Message 336) Posted 24 Dec 2020 by Jim1348 Post: I usually have 0 + 0 days and a backup project with ressource share 0, works fine That certainly minimizes the work units to the minimum possible. But the reason for a buffer is to also reduce the load on the server so that it does not have to be accessed for each work unit. I don't know if that is an important consideration for the servers on this project or not, but that was the original idea I believe, in addition to giving you some cushion in case of a server outage of course.
40) Message boards : Number crunching : Estimate on How Long We're Going to be Out of CurieDock WUs :) (Message 332) Posted 23 Dec 2020 by Jim1348 Post: it would help, if everybody would load just the amount of wus, which he can calculate at once + maybe the same amount for buffer. Yes. Keeping a large buffer just delays the project for everyone. I normally use the default of 0.1 + 0.5 days for work units of normal length. That works fine with this project.

Previous 20 · Next 20