Posts by Tom Philippart

41) Message boards : Number crunching : Francais: Windows VS Linux (Message 43745) Posted 15 Jul 2007 by Tom Philippart Post: J'ai regardé les ordinateurs dans votre "profile" et j'ai remarqué que vous utilisez boinc 5.10.7 sur windows et 5.8.16 sur linux. Le nouveau 5.10.x donne des valeurs beaucoup plus grandes que par défaut. Si vous installez la version 5.8.16 sur windows également, les scores ne doivent plus différer tellement.
42) Message boards : Number crunching : Francais: Windows VS Linux (Message 43686) Posted 14 Jul 2007 by Tom Philippart Post: Oui, il y a de légères différences, car le benchmark n'est pas optimisé de la même façon, d'ailleurs il est impossible de l'optimisier identiquement. De plus il dépend si quelques programmes étaient au cours d'exécution. Mais de toute façon ces benchmarks n'ont pas d'importance, car le processeur reste le même et garde la même puissance et rosetta ne se base de toute façon pas sur ces benchmarks pour les calculs et les crédits. Vous aurez sans doute beaucoup plus de réponses si vous poseriez la question en anglais ;)
43) Message boards : Rosetta@home Science : FAQ on diseases being explored by RAH is out of date (Message 43582) Posted 13 Jul 2007 by Tom Philippart Post: [quote] as of yet, i have yet to figure out what RAH is working on at the moment. there is no clear information given about what disease or protein related to a specific disease we are working on now. i should also express that it just seems to me that we are crunching stuff to crunch stuff but there is no information in the WU text that tells us what that protein is related to or for that matter anywhere on the messages boards that tells us what is being sent out and what disease or specific part of a protein/gene/disease is being sent out. I agree, there should at least be a sentence of explanation on the screensaver, the current doesn't help at all. There used to be some better explanations. I see the problem that we don't really know what we're working on, I already tried to ask, push people to post the current goals, with no luck yet. That's also the reason why I made a suggestion in another thread about a "Status Page", please see this post: [url=http://boinc.bakerlab.org/rosetta/forum_thread.php?id=3296&nowrap=true#42375]Link[/link] As I said before, the lack of info about the current projects is the only downside of Rosetta.
44) Message boards : Number crunching : Screensaver: Question (and maybe suggestion) (Message 43440) Posted 9 Jul 2007 by Tom Philippart Post: When you don't click "show graphics" and the screensaver isn't running, it doesn't use any CPU cycles. The 10% in your preferences refers to the usage when the screensaver is running. To completely disable the graphics function, you have to install boinc as a service.
45) Message boards : Rosetta@home Science : Reasons some people avoid BOINC projects (Message 43038) Posted 2 Jul 2007 by Tom Philippart Post: Boinc security on Windows Vista has many security layers and a regular user is not an administrator. Furthermore you have UAC with which you can control any admin operations and system changes. So Vista runs Boinc in a kind of "sandbox" too.
46) Message boards : Rosetta@home Science : Help me explain the science behind Rosetta@home! (Message 42970) Posted 1 Jul 2007 by Tom Philippart Post: Any news about your work Ian Davis? (I don't mean to be pushy, but the thread was about to be forgotten ;) )
47) Message boards : Number crunching : 2 billion served (Message 42899) Posted 30 Jun 2007 by Tom Philippart Post: I wanted to post it too, but chose to wait till it happened---too late!
48) Message boards : Number crunching : Could GPU's mean the end of DC as we know it? (Message 42528) Posted 23 Jun 2007 by Tom Philippart Post: @Tom GPGPU would be general processing GPUs - ie they can do what CPUs do now, just a whole lot faster. We're not quite there yet, but from what I've been reading we're getting there. That'd definitely make CPUs obsolete. thanks for the info!
49) Message boards : Number crunching : Update BOINC immediately! (Message 42516) Posted 23 Jun 2007 by Tom Philippart Post: where did you read about that at? I don't think they can tap into your machine directly. It sounds more like sending out a command to kill bad WU's on peoples machines when they communicate their results back to the server. Rosetta can now abort expired or unnecessary WUs on client machines from their server. Yes, it's more like a kill command, sorry for the confusion. I read about this new feature in these threads: http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/forum_thread.php?id=40302 http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/forum_thread.php?id=40310&nowrap=true#590781
50) Message boards : Number crunching : Update BOINC immediately! (Message 42507) Posted 23 Jun 2007 by Tom Philippart Post: Rosetta can now abort expired or unnecessary WUs on client machines from their server.
51) Message boards : Number crunching : Could GPU's mean the end of DC as we know it? (Message 42506) Posted 23 Jun 2007 by Tom Philippart Post: It can never be the end of DC as we know it now, since GPUs are only good at a limited amount of fields (like graphics) so are PS3s. The CPU is the only component able to do "nearly" everything. GPUs and PS3s have advantages in some fields, but disadvantages in a lot of others. The guys at folding@home said that they can only run one type of simulations on GPUs, another one on PS3s, but majority of tasks still need CPUs.
52) Message boards : Rosetta@home Science : Help me explain the science behind Rosetta@home! (Message 42375) Posted 20 Jun 2007 by Tom Philippart Post: Here's a 5min attempt at a possible progress report subpage: Click here Do you think this could be useful?
53) Message boards : Rosetta@home Science : Help me explain the science behind Rosetta@home! (Message 42372) Posted 20 Jun 2007 by Tom Philippart Post: Wow, I'm impressed, this is the best post I read on the forums since Dr. Baker's last journal entry. This has to be put on a subpage of the frontpage as soon as possible before it submerges. I like the narrative, it only needs to be spiced up by a proper, clear form (like numbering the different steps, using symbols like => to show a consequence...) The 2 questions you focused on seem clear to me, ready for a FAQ.
54) Message boards : Rosetta@home Science : Help me explain the science behind Rosetta@home! (Message 42357) Posted 20 Jun 2007 by Tom Philippart Post: Here's some information about the 1gid protein: http://www.rcsb.org/pdb/explore/explore.do?structureId=1GID
55) Message boards : Rosetta@home Science : Help me explain the science behind Rosetta@home! (Message 42338) Posted 19 Jun 2007 by Tom Philippart Post: 4. I would love help with this project! If you would be interested in helping, what would you like to contribute? Should there be a R@H wiki (like Wikipedia) or just submit contributions by email? First of all I'd be glad to help you. I thought about the idea of a wiki (I contributed in one before), however I think it will be hard for new members to get the information they want in such a complex organisation. For instance if they type "rosetta error" in the search engine, they don't necessarily find the information they're looking for due to the very simplified language. (Encyclopedia: the reader knows a complex word and wants and explanation/more info). In this case it's the opposite. That's why I found this way of putting it more basic: http://boincfaq.mundayweb.com/index.php This thread seems to be quickly turning in to a "suggestions on how to improve Rosetta@home" (especially the website). That subject is too broad, and doesn't sound like what Ian took on. I hope this doesn't imply that there won't be any improvements to the website :D
56) Message boards : Rosetta@home Science : Help me explain the science behind Rosetta@home! (Message 42312) Posted 19 Jun 2007 by Tom Philippart Post: As feet1st said in the post before, there's confusion with the diseases studied. Here are a few points I'd like you to focus on ( in order of importance, 1. being the most important): 1. Is the disease related research terminated or still going on? That question should be covered in the first place. A subpage, with a list of the diseases covered and a short progress message (1 sentence is enough) on the current stage of the research (planned, ongoing, terminated, results published, ...) This type of progress report encourages many people to keep on supporting the project at WorldCommunityGrid and Einstein. 2. The WU description should be updated more frequently (at least once a month, once every second week is ok too) 3. A newsletter could be sent to all the accounts (as SETI did) to wake up old participants and to encourage others to restart crunching rosetta. This newsletter has often been discussed among the active forumers, it should include a brief summary (otherwise nobody will read it) of the science done so far, like the HIV research. I greatly appreciate your initiative Ian Davis, I hope some of my points can become reality :).
57) Message boards : Rosetta@home Science : Are the results of SIMAP interesting for Rosetta? (Message 42288) Posted 18 Jun 2007 by Tom Philippart Post: I asked about it at the SIMAP forums some time ago: Original answer: 23 Oct 2006: Ja, wir haben ueber Moeglichkeiten der Zusammenarbeit diskutiert. Es ist momentan noch unklar, ob die SIMAP-Daten fuer Rosetta hilfreich sind. Bislang war das nicht der Fall, weil nur Aehnlichkeiten mit einer kleinen Proteindatenbank (PDB) benoetigt wurden, die konnte man schneller selbst rechnen als aus SIMAP holen. Aber es wird momentan diskutiert diese Aehnlichkeitssuche auszuweiten. Da warte ich noch auf das feedback ob das tatsaechlich so kommt. Beste Gruesse Thomas http://boinc.bio.wzw.tum.de/boincsimap/forum/viewtopic.php?t=567 My translation (I try to keep it as accurate as possible): Yes, we discussed the possibilities of a collaboration. At this point it is still unsure whether the SIMAP results are useful for Rosetta. Till now this wasn't the case, because they only needed a comparison with a small protein database (PDB), which was easier to do by computing on their own than by taking data from SIMAP. Right now we're discussing whether we could widen the search for a comparison of proteins. I'm still waiting for an answer from the Rosetta team. Greetings Thomas
58) Message boards : Rosetta@home Science : Boinc/Rosetta on the Xbox 360? (Message 42145) Posted 13 Jun 2007 by Tom Philippart Post: there's a new cooling system: http://www.dailytech.com/article.aspx?newsid=7667
59) Message boards : Rosetta@home Science : Choosing work units to crunch (Message 42134) Posted 13 Jun 2007 by Tom Philippart Post: the idea sounds good, but there are so many projects running on rosetta, that you would have to change your preferences every 1-2 weeks. This could get annoying to some members.
60) Message boards : Number crunching : Task returning to 0% on restart. (Message 42066) Posted 11 Jun 2007 by Tom Philippart Post: Have you optimized the sutdown of windows? Please try if closing boinc manually before restarting solves the problem. (this could give us some clues what happened)

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