Project -> News & Articles about Rosetta
https://boinc.bakerlab.org/rosetta/rah/rah_news_media.php

to be fair - the last article listed there is from 2017. That's not up to date, in any sense of the term.

The last article detailing Rosetta in a journal was April 2nd - ok, maybe not daily but peer review is not daily :-

https://boinc.bakerlab.org/rosetta/forum_forum.php?id=202

Exactly. One of the major issues with Distributed Computing has been keeping users active.
Updates are one of the best ways to do that.

Project -> News & Articles about Rosetta
https://boinc.bakerlab.org/rosetta/rah/rah_news_media.php

hi, if the researchers need to evaluate the current results before the next batch, please make announcements on the main web page as well as in boinc-gui so that people would hang on in the project. if there is going to be a pause in between, do state so and give estimate of the pause duration if possible.

a pause is not a bad thing, people may perform maintenance in between, upgrades, restart servers etc.

There are multiple studies underway at all times. So, when one stops to evaluate results and plan next work to send, another has completed their plans for next work to send, and is sending it out. There is also a steady stream of work coming in through the Robetta servers.

You should post these updates on the Rosetta@home website and send out a notice.
https://twitter.com/RosettaAtHome/status/1260368548976713730 and https://twitter.com/RosettaAtHome/status/1260368892695699457

"COVID update:

Our project scientists submitted over 28M "scaffold design" work units in recent weeks.

Those helped enable a further 200M "binder design" calculations!

Initial laboratory testing of these candidate COVID treatments is underway.

Thanks to all crunchers!"

"This is just the first wave. Expect hundreds of millions of additional work units to be issued in the coming weeks and months.

We need you now more than ever!"

This WU:
https://boinc.bakerlab.org/rosetta/result.php?resultid=1177441830 has only progressed 2 minutes in the last 12 hours. My phone is running other WUs just fine - having reported 4 valid WUs today for Rosetta, and more for smaller projects like WCG. It just isn't running.

I'll provide any additional information as requested, as soon as possible. Its deadline is tomorrow, and it has been stuck at 16% (4 hrs 10 minutes, now up to 12 minutes) for ages. What should I do?

For tasks like that, I'd let try to run for about twice the time limit set for your Rosetta@home tasks, then abort it. This is in case the problem is only in reporting the progress.

Aborting it is in case it is now waiting for something that will never happen,

In the meantime, you might try making more memory available for it, by blocking any other tasks from starting but allowing any tasks that have started to continue until they finish.

The queue was brought up to over 9 million on April 28th - https://web.archive.org/web/20200428015118/http://boinc.bakerlab.org/rosetta/

fell to 5.7 million WUs less than a week later https://web.archive.org/web/20200502165444/https://boinc.bakerlab.org/rosetta/

and has depleted to 1.5 million as of the latest update at 19:xx UTC today. So, while much of this can be marked up to the BOINC Pentathlon's tendency to Bunker WUs - the end result will still be a potential shortage of WUs.

So because of these stats - it's fair to wonder if we'll be running into another shortage.

Note: Just wanted to start this discussion, not to yell at the scientists or mods to make more WUs. Please refrain from doing so in this thread, or in general. We're not entitled to WUs - I just wanted to start the conversation... a healthy conversation.

My understanding is the current tasks help determine the path the next round of tasks follow so yes they dwindle down and then pop back up again.

Thanks from my wife and I. Think I did it but notices still says this project is using old URL. Will that go away eventually?

Estimated CPU Time isn't always accurate - how long are they actually running? (try to run one as a test, if you haven't ran them)?

Ah, from my first sentence in my initial post-

After running Rosetta for over a month

Yes, some finish earlier. Some finish later. Some finish a lot later. But around 90% would be finished within 5-10min of the Target CPU Runtime.

I think your current work all gets dumped. I think mine did, for 4 cpus. I'm afraid to try it again.

Some companies have approached us about donating computing resources through R@h but will only do so through SSL for security reasons.

MacOS Catalina 10.15.4

After running Rosetta for over a month, with a couple of Application updates during that time, my Estimated completion time for newly downloaded work was generally within 15 minutes of my Target CPU Runtime (default, 8hrs) with an Estimated Remaining time for unstarted work of 7hrs 45min.

With the new application (and so no processing history), the initial Estimated Remaining time is 4hr 30min- just over half of the actual Target CPU Runtime. This is going to result in a huge number of Tasks missing their deadlines & being re-issued, and many of them will be re-issued to other hosts that will miss their deadlines & those Tasks just going to waste.

The ideal fix would be for the Estimated completion time to always be the same as the Hosts Target CPU Runtime. If tasks finish sooner, or it runs till the Watchdog timer ends it- not a problem. There is almost no chance of the Host missing deadlines* because the Estimated completion time will always start with the the most frequent actual CPU Runtime, being it's Target CPU Runtime.
The next best option would be for the initial Estimated completion time for a new Application or new Host to be double the present Initial Estimated completion time. People will still get work, but there will be no chance of Tasks going to waste due to multiple missed deadlines because of the unrealistically short Estimated completion times.






* Those hosts with huge cache settings & large & variable differences between CPU time & Runtime will always tend have issues with deadlines.

I used to use BOINC for SETI, but I am a total newbie here. I detached the project and then reattached it, but nowhere did I see the https: or a place to put that url. Can someone give me a tiny steps for tiny minds explanation a la Trump. (with bullets, a picture of me and my name?)

Using BAM is this possible without losing stats?

We updated our project to use SSL. The project URL has thus been changed to https://boinc.bakerlab.org/rosetta. You can reattach the project using this updated URL at your convenience. Please post any issues regarding this update in the discussion thread.

Does detaching then reattaching change the URL? If not how is one to do this? For the non computer geek type people.

I am wondering if this is a limitation in Rosetta or if there is another problem. I have an i9-9900KF Intel chip, it has 8 cores, and I can run quite few tasks. Right now it is running 8 tasks, 7 from WCG and 1 from Rosetta. My question is, why is Rosetta only get one task? My resources are set to 100%, 28.57 for three projects and 14.29% for a fourth project that is on pause.. why is WCG getting more resource share? Is that because I downloaded the manager from WCG instead of Boinc? I think it should all be the same. Or is this a Rosetta limitation, they only one a computer to work on one file at a time?

EDIT: So I suspended WCG and Rosetta immediately connected and downloaded more files, however, now, Rosetta is taking over WCG and WCG projects are not running. Why is the system not balancing? I would like to run half of each, but the system seems to think that isn't the way it will work. Before, years ago, I remember I was able to allocate a percentage to each project, and it seems it is allocated, but not being followed. Help!

Same problem here, no tasks.