Posts by Michael G.R.

21) Message boards : Rosetta@home Science : DISCUSSION of Rosetta@home Journal (4) (Message 66166)
Posted 17 May 2010 by Michael G.R.
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Great to see the almost 34% increase in computing power for the project! I hope many of the new users will stick around even after CASP9 is over, as Rosetta@home is truly a great project with huge potential to help humanity.
22) Message boards : Rosetta@home Science : CASP9 (Message 65822)
Posted 25 Apr 2010 by Michael G.R.
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Great, I'll try to throw more computing power your way for the duration! It will be interesting to see how Rosetta has improved since the last CASP.

btw, this announcement should probably linked from the frontpage news.
23) Message boards : Number crunching : OUT OF TOWN, MY 5 COMPUTERS WILL BE OFF (Message 65748)
Posted 15 Apr 2010 by Michael G.R.
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Good, that gives me a chance to catch up to you ;)
24) Message boards : Rosetta@home Science : Design of protein-protein interfaces (Message 65216)
Posted 5 Feb 2010 by Michael G.R.
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Very exciting news, Jcorn. Thanks for the update. Am particularly excited about IGF research because I've read a bit about it lately. Seems very important in a lot of things that go right and wrong with metabolism.
25) Message boards : Rosetta@home Science : Design of protein-protein interfaces (Message 65129)
Posted 27 Jan 2010 by Michael G.R.
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Thanks for the update, very interesting stuff. Keep up the good work!
26) Message boards : Rosetta@home Science : Design of protein-protein interfaces (Message 64839)
Posted 7 Jan 2010 by Michael G.R.
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Thank you for the update, Sarel. Sounds like promising developments.
27) Message boards : Number crunching : IBM z900 for Crunching (Message 64570)
Posted 22 Dec 2009 by Michael G.R.
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I can't answer your questions, but I have to say that if you can pull it off, kudos. Very cool way to help Rosetta@home :)
28) Message boards : Number crunching : Low Credits RAC for 8-Core PC? (Message 64265)
Posted 28 Nov 2009 by Michael G.R.
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Yeah, RAC is probably a 30-day average, though I'm not certain so don't take my word for it..

In any case, welcome on board, thanks for bringing so many CPUs with you :)
29) Message boards : Rosetta@home Science : DISCUSSION of Rosetta@home Journal (4) (Message 64069)
Posted 17 Nov 2009 by Michael G.R.
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Thank you for the update Dr. Baker.

Speaking of publications, this page:

http://boinc.bakerlab.org/rosetta/rah_publications.php

Doesn't include anything from 2009. Will it be updated to include the latest publications?


It seems like the page was updated with 2009 papers since I wrote. Thanks to whoever updated it!
30) Message boards : Number crunching : Minirosetta 2.00 (Message 63977)
Posted 8 Nov 2009 by Michael G.R.
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Seems to work fine but the graphics lock up and need to be force quitted in activity monitor in OS X 10.6.1.


I'm on OS X 10.6.1 and the graphics are fine here (though I haven't left them running for very long -- did you experience a lock up after a long time?).
31) Message boards : Rosetta@home Science : DISCUSSION of Rosetta@home Journal (4) (Message 63939)
Posted 3 Nov 2009 by Michael G.R.
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So we can't quantify our progress by giving you a % complete. Instead, the project's contributions and progress can be evaluated by the many scientific publications it has produced, some of which I've tried to summarize in these posts. (the current issue of Nature for example has the article I described below on designing new enzymes to ultimately repair disease causing mutations).


Thank you for the update Dr. Baker.

Speaking of publications, this page:

http://boinc.bakerlab.org/rosetta/rah_publications.php

Doesn't include anything from 2009. Will it be updated to include the latest publications?
32) Message boards : Rosetta@home Science : DISCUSSION of Rosetta@home Journal (4) (Message 63871)
Posted 28 Oct 2009 by Michael G.R.
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They might be planning to add a Nvidia GPU application, and therefore attending the GPUGRID meeting in or near Barcelona, Spain. Don't expect any GPU version of minirosetta to run much faster on a GPU than on a CPU very soon, though; that would take a major rewrite to allow each GPU core to run with much less a share of memory than the current minirosetta application, even if Nvidia's plans to make more compilers available soon allow the project team to avoid rewriting the new version in an entirely different computer language.


I kind of doubt it.

From what I know, Rosetta@home takes too much RAM for current GPUs. Though I suppose that it would be possible to only run multiple instances of very small proteins on a GPU to keep the RAM requirements low while taking advantage of the many cores, but I'm not sure if such small proteins would be useful scientifically.

In any case, every time the project has been asked about GPUs they said that it's not in the plans for now.

33) Message boards : Rosetta@home Science : DISCUSSION of Rosetta@home Journal (4) (Message 63857)
Posted 27 Oct 2009 by Michael G.R.
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It's been 40 days since the last update. What's going on? Working on anything new and exciting?
34) Message boards : Rosetta@home Science : Structure predictions in copper-bearing proteins (Message 63787)
Posted 23 Oct 2009 by Michael G.R.
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Thanks, interesting stuff!
35) Message boards : Number crunching : Minirosetta 1.98 (Message 63703)
Posted 15 Oct 2009 by Michael G.R.
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Thank you Yifan.
36) Message boards : Rosetta@home Science : Types of WU's and Their Nomenclature (Message 63621)
Posted 7 Oct 2009 by Michael G.R.
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Wikipedia's a good place to start. Just look up the stuff you don't understand.

But if you want to dig deeper, you can do what I did and get "Molecular Biology of the Cell" (5th ed) by Alberts & Al.
37) Message boards : Number crunching : Finally, I made it to the 1 mil club (Message 63613)
Posted 5 Oct 2009 by Michael G.R.
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Our team Mac OS X Users has finally... 24,000,000 credits! :)


Congrats! Most of my credits have been crunched on Macs, so I guess I could join.. But for now I'll stick with the Lifeboat Foundation team (lifeboat.com).
38) Message boards : Number crunching : Granted Credit taking forever.... (Message 63315)
Posted 13 Sep 2009 by Michael G.R.
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The TeraFLOPS estimate on the frontpage is down to 9, which probably means that nobody's WUs are getting validated right now.

I suspect that they'll fix it soon and it will process the backlog.
39) Message boards : Number crunching : Catching falling knives. My RAC has been dropping unexplainably. (Message 63269)
Posted 11 Sep 2009 by Michael G.R.
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The science IS very important and cutting edge. I would recommend that you wait a bit more before doing anything; chances are that everybody is getting the same slowdown, and that it will be fixed when a new version of the app is released (or when any server bug is fixed).

These projects are complex and these things happen, but in the long run, you should get credits in proportion to the computing power you have (which is a lot. Thanks!), and the science you contribute will help further the fight against many diseases.
40) Message boards : Number crunching : Q?: Work Units Finishing Before Target Time (Message 63147)
Posted 3 Sep 2009 by Michael G.R.
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Hi,

Sorry if this has been answered somewhere else. I performed a few searches on the forum and couldn't find anything...

My question is about target times. I've set mine to 10 hours, but I very frequently see work units finish before (sometimes at 5 hours, 7 hours, even 2-3 hours).

Looking at my "tasks" in my account, they seem to have finished successfully, uploaded to the server, and I'm getting credit for them.

What I'm wondering is: Is this normal? What's the reason for it? Is it a sign of something else (do I close boinc too often/put it on snooze? Does this somehow corrupt checkpoints and make the WU finish?)

Thanks.


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