In October 1969 I took an oath to support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic;
There was no expiration date.

But which version of the constitution?

We have done research on grape in collaboration with the Edmund Mach Foundation, funded by our regional government, the Autonomous Province of Trento. It's important for our local economy, from the agricultural point of view grape (and it's side product, wine), apples and small fruits are among the relevant products.
See https://www.fmach.it/eng

I think they look great, but not gonna be relevant for me for a long time :)

Just a brief update:
- No new experiment ready yet (people are working on but no ETA)
- The latest batch on Vitis vinifera has been collected and validated, ready for further biological analysis and publication
- I am re-organizing all the (many years of) data that we collected, trying to optimize the whole system
- Some of us will be here https://grapedia.org/annual-meeting/

NOTE: new version is v7.22.2 -- it is NOT a required upgrade for TN-Grid project, but it allows the user to specify how much CPU work is done when machine is "idle" and how much when machine is "used".

Better settings.

We are inmediately crunching whatever it produces

Thanks. That is what I wanted to know.

All the additional people from WCG tasking the work rate over the rate of production.

Will you create an application for AMD GPUs?

I'm actually on it.

The client code is open-source and anyone willing can improve it. Several people from outside the research group already added very clever stuff (see posts by "[B@P] Daniel"), but so far no GPU version made it to stable. I'm now focusing on a new OpenCL-GPU (Nvidia and AMD GPU) implementation.

The current code cannot be ported 1:1, but the idea behind it can be ported. The switch from sequential to parallel will have 2 effects:

1. the raw number of calculations goes up by a factor of 1.5 - 2. That isn't so bad as most computers have way, way faster GPU than CPU.

2. the results will slightly change. I contacted the team about this. They seem to be willing to at least consider the option. The change in results implies the CPU and GPU version cannot crunch the same WU without major changes on the server side. But the scientific output will be comparable.

TN-Grid recovers links between gene expressions. Nobody knows for sure what the true result is. There is the uncertainty related to the measurement itself, statistics,... . But there are also test data sets generated by a human (ground truth data). Even for those datasets the algorithms don't hit the target perfectly. Getting the main parts right is good enough, for various liberal definitions of "main", "right" and "good enough".

Porting the code takes time, don't hold your breath. I'm not part of the team, i'm not related to the university, the scientific team may not like the result in the end and i do this on my own in my free time. It currently looks doable without major gotchas. It will be faster than the CPU version, but not by an exorbitant factor. Expect 25x or maybe 100x faster than a single CPU-core, not some magic 10.000x faster. Given that modern CPUs with 8 cores / 16 threads already run 16 WU in parallel, the impact will not be a total game changer. The current code is already good and highly optimized.

ETA wise think months, not days. And the results need to be verified, which will also take time.