Rosetta does checkpoint often. On my machine usually between 5 and 20 minutes but that might take longer on slow computers and on certain WUs.

Please don't delete any jobs until the deadlines posted on the CASP website have been reached. For t283 we are continuing to do runs in hopes of finding still lower energy solutions. thanks, David

Results from robots are already available.

We will submit these lowest energy structures for T283 this week

Does this mean t283 is done, and we should abort the remaining workunits on t283 to move on to the other problems?

The __server__ ought to have recognized this, and not have downloaded so many WUs to my system.

(But I really wish BOINC had the option to enable, 'finish job through to the end' rather than this swithing thing, there is loads of time to finish these shorter deadline jobs)

What settings do you feel are not being respected by the current (improved) checkpointing?

You are already using the version that has had checkpoints added. Originally the checkpoints only were done at the end of a full model. Now they are every ~20 min.

Actually there are a number of dates that are pertinent depending on the catagory of CASP in which a project submits its results. The dates you are seeing are for server predictions. The predictions that Rosetta is working on are in a different category. The reporting dates they are using have already taken into account the dates the project needs in order to meet the CASP deadlines for the category in which they will submit their results.

With Rosetta 5.16 (and earlier) I see at the begin of the "relax"-phase the text "Accepted Energy" written into the low-energy-frame. The text is streched during the first steps until it is moved outside of the window. Hopefully the clipping of the graphics routines prevent bad sideeffects.

Norbert

What type of Work Unit is running just ahead of the CASP work. If it is a work unit that has a known structure, you could just be seeing image retention on the monitor.

I am still a little confused. Does the time to completion decrease after each checkpoint or does it decrease after each completion of a model?

I was thinking most people would be against this, but lets hear some opinons. Yes/no, how much, how often?

This is why a total focus on RAC alone gives a poor measure of actual system performance.

I have some machines that are not frequently connected to the Internet so I have my cache set to queue 10 days of work and I sometimes can only connect once a week to upload.

...(it's the _only_ BOINC project on that system).

But when I connected this time, MORE 7-day-deadline WUs were downloaded -- __despite__ me having specified "no more work". WHY is the rosetta project not giving me control over what work my system does ?
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