Posts by No.15

1) Message boards : Number crunching : I am getting lots of computation errors (Message 1164)
Posted 26 Oct 2017 by No.15

Like 860 of them so far
http://gene.disi.unitn.it/test/result.php?resultid=22183628

2) Message boards : Number crunching : gene_pcim v1.02 (Message 988)
Posted 17 Mar 2017 by No.15

Do you guys have the system down on purpose? If so do you have an et when it will be back?

3) Message boards : Number crunching : No available WU (Message 930)
Posted 2 Mar 2017 by No.15

Is there any particular reason why there are no wus?

I know there was an explanation that they may be longer and I can understand that.

We are dedicated so it shouldn't be a problem. Why not more credit if they are longer?

Very briefly, I have to limit the number of wu because of storage problems. We are waiting for a new application with a way smaller output file, this will hopefully solve the problem...

Do you have an approximate time frame for the new app? To many of my machines are idle :)

4) Message boards : Number crunching : Output file size (and plans for the future) (Message 887)
Posted 9 Feb 2017 by No.15

BTW I think running out of work is worse than having to big of an output file.

5) Message boards : Number crunching : Output file size (and plans for the future) (Message 886)
Posted 9 Feb 2017 by No.15

We are almost done with the Ec (Escherichia coli mono) experiment. As many of you have probably noticed we were switching to another organism (Vv, Vitis Vinifera). Complex organisms have a larger genome (our Ec dataset contains ~4000 genes, the Vv one ~28000). The application basically finds one-to-one interactions between all the genes of the dataset, so the output file is bigger on more complex organisms.

This is obviously a problem. A ~30 minutes run will produce a ~6 Mb output file (gzipped). Many people around the world simply don't have enough internet bandwidth to handle this. This is also a problem for us (more hard disk storage used).

The only way to solve this is to rethink the way the output file is built, maybe with some kind of filtering. But this means rewriting the application output code, i.e. it will take time to do this.

In the meanwhile we stopped the Vv experiment and are switching back to the dream5 experiment (see the science section of the forum) which is also based on Ec (smaller output file)

Thanks all for your understanding.

[edit] You may notice some workunits shortage in the meanwhile

What about something similar to what rosetta@home does? Where the end user can pick how long the WU's run and that would make the file size bigger/smaller depending on one's choices.

6) Message boards : Number crunching : Had a hard drive crash (Message 834)
Posted 29 Jan 2017 by No.15

Sorry to all my wing-men(people) that get validation delayed

7) Message boards : Number crunching : Sapphire badge (Message 827)
Posted 26 Jan 2017 by No.15

Hi Valterc

Thanks for the shout-out. Also thanks for your work and the work of community members like Daniel.

8) Message boards : Number crunching : Optimization (Message 781)
Posted 23 Jan 2017 by No.15

All I can say is wow. This new version is smoking fast.

Thanks for all your work Daniel!

9) Message boards : Number crunching : Optimization (Message 771)
Posted 17 Jan 2017 by No.15

Funny how when I follow the directions it works correctly ;)

Thanks for your help

10) Message boards : Number crunching : Optimization (Message 770)
Posted 16 Jan 2017 by No.15

app_info was deleted. I did not stop the boinc service though, I just hit reset after deleting app_info. I will try again on a different machine and see if it makes a difference.

Thanks for the work everyone did on this app, I really appreciate it.

11) Message boards : Number crunching : Optimization (Message 767)
Posted 16 Jan 2017 by No.15

when I am resetting the project it is not downloading the app to run the WU's. It is just downloading WU's and the erroring out with computational error.

I have been able to get it to download the apps with a detach/reattach. Initially it was running avx @ ~1hr45min a wu but now it is running ver9 at 4 hours a wu. Is there a reason it back leveled to the old app?

12) Message boards : Number crunching : Badges (all of them) (Message 612)
Posted 29 Nov 2016 by No.15

Thanks for this!

13) Message boards : Number crunching : Credit badges (Message 542)
Posted 10 Feb 2016 by No.15

Are the badges the coins to the left?