Posts by scsimodo
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Message boards :
Number crunching :
Switch from W.XP to Linux.
(Message 50874)
Posted 21 Jan 2008 by  scsimodo
Post: Which version is best for BOINC/Rosetta Every Linux distro (of the literally hundreds that exist) hast it's pros and cons. If you are a Linux novice I'd suggest to chose one of the mainstream distros (Suse, Fedora, Ubuntu (or astro's Mandrake [EDIT] Mandriva [/EDIT]) to name a few). They usually have a better support and - in case of problems - the community is big enough to help you with all kinds of problems. Once you get familiar with Linux you can choose "more complicated" distros like Gentoo or some BSD flavour (which isn't a good choice regarding BOINC). Alle these are usable with BOINC, but some brand new distros cause problems with some projects (but that's not the distro's fault, it's more or less a kernel problem.) If Linux/BSD doesn't fit your needs (it doesn't for me, at least as a desktop for everday's use) you may have also a look at OSX. The only "drawback" is that you're bundled to (really nice!) hardware. |
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Number crunching :
User Average climbing back up after outage
(Message 46451)
Posted 17 Sep 2007 by scsimodo
Post: Anyone know if it is possible on a dual core computer to have one core running one project, Rosetta, and another core running another, like WCG? I am looking into upgrading to a dual core processor and am curious. Yes, attach to both projects and assign the same ressource share. Should do the trick |
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Rosetta@home Science :
RE: Rosetta@home hardware/fireware failure - Sept. 8/07
(Message 45876)
Posted 9 Sep 2007 by scsimodo
Post: I have to admit that it is tempting to give out the email address of the OEM vice presidents to the R@H community ... Hehe, would be funny! But I think it's already enough for them, if you address you complaint on behalf of more than 150.000 participants. This is the worst advertising I can imagine, if I were VP of this company. :) |
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Rosetta@home Science :
will the data be used for animal testing?
(Message 45520)
Posted 27 Aug 2007 by scsimodo
Post: the reason i ask is that i don't want to be reponsible for the deaths of thousands of innocent animals. I also don't like animal testing, but what if Rosetta generates some cure for a desease, is there an alternative to animal testing? No, I guess! Or to ask in a provocant way: Are you volunteering to test the new drugs? I guess not, I wouldn't either. So, how should new drugs then be tested if not with animal tests? If you have a serious desease and are already a "death candidate" then you might volunteer in testing. But what if you suffer from - let's say - Parkinson? Are you willing to risk your life to eventually(!!) cure a non-lethal desease? |
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Number crunching :
PENDING work units
(Message 42072)
Posted 11 Jun 2007 by scsimodo
Post: Many of my results are listed as PENDING. That's odd! I don't think I've seen that on Rosetta before considering each work unit is crunched only once. Same here, validator is down |
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Number crunching :
Hide computers
(Message 41215)
Posted 20 May 2007 by scsimodo
Post: so he doesn't mind you connecting it up to crunch, but does not want the specifics to be found out? sounds pretty strange to me,unless hes related to uncle sam. He's afraid someone can get further details (e.g. host name, IP address) if I unhide them. I already explained to him, that nothing interesting can be seen. He still insists on hiding them. His wish is my command :) |
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Number crunching :
Hide computers
(Message 41185)
Posted 20 May 2007 by scsimodo
Post: I still don't understand why people do this. Well, if the machines you use don't belong to you and the owner says "hide them", it's better to do that. Especially if the owner is your boss :) |
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Number crunching :
Claimed/granted credit
(Message 39830)
Posted 24 Apr 2007 by scsimodo
Post: ... according to these cross project stats comparing projects on the same machines, Rosetta credit per CPU second is comparable to other projects. According to my stats Rosetta gives pretty low credits. At least with low-performance CPUs (Duron, Sempron, Athlon XP). Granted credits are about 50 to 80% of the claimed credits. Modern CPUs (P4, A64, X2) give at least equal credits, compared to claimed (in fact it's slightly more). Rosetta claims to not depend on SSE2, but interestingly all SSE2 CPUs perform pretty well, SSE1 CPUs don't. Atleast with my CPUs :) |
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Cafe Rosetta :
Tell us about ESL
(Message 39038)
Posted 5 Apr 2007 by scsimodo
Post: are they high end machines? No, average CPUs (Duron, Sempron, P4, AXP). But that's better than nothing, I guess :) |
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Cafe Rosetta :
Tell us about ESL
(Message 38977)
Posted 4 Apr 2007 by scsimodo
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No, not really, owner of these machines is my boss :) |
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Cafe Rosetta :
Tell us about ESL
(Message 38965)
Posted 4 Apr 2007 by scsimodo
Post: you participate in science project but you want to hide your machine? thats a contradiction of common sense. All except one of my machines don't belong to me and the owner told me to hide them. I know it's some kind of paranoid, but his wish is my command :) |
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Cafe Rosetta :
Tell us about ESL
(Message 38944)
Posted 3 Apr 2007 by scsimodo
Post: But I understand the concern some people have about the privacy of their machine and their life. You understand people that are concerned about their privacy AND use Windows? Me not! Furthermore, real gamers give a s*** about their privacy, they are only concerned about their fps. Sorry to sound harsh, but that's the truth (at least for me :D) |
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Number crunching :
What caused the user increase?
(Message 38600)
Posted 29 Mar 2007 by scsimodo
Post: Maybe this is also a good reason for the user increase Quote from the BoincStats shout box: Rosetta@Home youtube video was shown on CNN. What a nice advertisement |
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Number crunching :
What caused the user increase?
(Message 38583)
Posted 29 Mar 2007 by scsimodo
Post: This team gathered more than 3000 member within a week. Gave an additional boost in new users. |
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Rosetta@home Science :
few questions?
(Message 36798)
Posted 14 Feb 2007 by scsimodo
Post: If i have only one rosetta project going on (i have amd 2700+ prosessor) and i set BOINC to use 100% for crunch....well if i decide to add another project...is my prosessor using then 50% to rosetta and 50% to that other project?.....i mean is it good thing to spread prosessors calculation power?... If the ressource share of both projects is equal, every project gets 50% of your crunching time. BUT: Your CPU load will be always at 100%. Boinc crunches project A for 1 hour (depending on your settings) then project B for one hour then again project A and so on. On a single CPU System there's only one project active at a given time. Boinc "switches" between the projects... |
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Number crunching :
Every package quits with a calculation error (Rechenfehler)
(Message 35439)
Posted 24 Jan 2007 by scsimodo
Post: Since yesterday I've been subscribed to Rosetta@home. Every package quits with a calculation error (Rechenfehler). Is this normal? No, it's not normal. Maybe it's this problem. |
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Number crunching :
SIMAP has some work!
(Message 33946)
Posted 2 Jan 2007 by scsimodo
Post: Project status What are you talking about? unsent 9,702 |
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Rosetta@home Science :
How can we bring more users to the Rosetta project?
(Message 31578)
Posted 22 Nov 2006 by scsimodo
Post: and now has just short bursts of wu's to update it's database, (next due 15/12). Nope, next SIMAP batch starts 1/12, HMMER batch follows 15/12 |
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Number crunching :
Problems with Rosetta version 5.40
(Message 31151)
Posted 14 Nov 2006 by scsimodo
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Just managed it to deliver 1 successful fibril-WU, all others died (5). Bad ratio, if you ask me :) Still one in my queue, let's see how this one behave. I'll let this one run without touching the graphic... |
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Message boards :
Number crunching :
Problems with Rosetta version 5.40
(Message 31146)
Posted 14 Nov 2006 by scsimodo
Post: Something's seriously broken, don't know if it's the client or the WUs. Many DOC-WUs are dying after approx. 1 hour, and those new fibril-WUs don't even think about surviving the first step! Have a look at my results I turned on the graphics and immediately after switching from "searching backbone" to "search all atoms" the graphics changed and the WU died. Turning on the graphics after the switch to "search all atoms" seem to work fine. Will try this again and keep an eye on it. [EDIT] Nope, not reproducable! Fourth fibril-WU runs fine even with graphics on[/EDIT] |
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