Hey everyone,
I go to school at Cornell, which is now experimenting with their own folding software. The school is holding a contest open to all current undergrads, it runs from now until sometime in April. I am currently in 4th place (one place under a prize ).
The software does the same type of thing as F@H, crunching numbers for protein comparison. The software isn't as refined as F@H yet, but it's not bad (biggest annoyance is that it runs in the toolbar instead of the system tray).
Read about it here: www.tc.cornell.edu/biocontest
Anyway, is anyone here willing to download the program and fold under my name for a while? It could really help me get ahead and have a chance at winning a prize. Any money I win will be used to purchase myself a laptop to use for school, and of course run F@H 24/7 once the Cornell program is over.
If you're willing, you can get the program at http://webserver.tc.cornell.edu/biocontest/CTC_Contest.MSI , and the email to enter when you install it is brh27 AT cornell PERIOD edu. Every little bit helps, even if you only run it for a week, a day, or even an hour. I'm competing against someone who works for the IT desk and has access to many more computers than I do, I don't see this as much different.
If you do this, it pretty much has to be under my name unless you're a Cornell undergrad, as they are the only ones who are eligable to win.
Thanks for the consideration everyone, and thanks for any help you'd be willing to give.
Lastly: This doesn't have to be in place of f@h or whatever else you run as I originally thought. It seems the server is not fast enough for everyone accessing it, so for every 3seconds of actual processor activity, there is a lag for more numbers to crunch. It won't hurt your folding stats much at all I don't think...but the more computers I have the better my chances of winning. Thanks to everyone that is helping already and to those who start!
EDIT: There are now two modified versions of the folding program which work better than the official. One allows multiple instances of the program to run, downloads several WU's at once to stop server lag some, and is more stable. The other does the same thing, but aims to save some bandwidth by utilizing a proxy as well. Thanks to Psyduck at genmay for these.
Again, thanks for all the help everyone, pretty soon #1 is gonna get smoked.
I go to school at Cornell, which is now experimenting with their own folding software. The school is holding a contest open to all current undergrads, it runs from now until sometime in April. I am currently in 4th place (one place under a prize ).
The software does the same type of thing as F@H, crunching numbers for protein comparison. The software isn't as refined as F@H yet, but it's not bad (biggest annoyance is that it runs in the toolbar instead of the system tray).
Read about it here: www.tc.cornell.edu/biocontest
Anyway, is anyone here willing to download the program and fold under my name for a while? It could really help me get ahead and have a chance at winning a prize. Any money I win will be used to purchase myself a laptop to use for school, and of course run F@H 24/7 once the Cornell program is over.
If you're willing, you can get the program at http://webserver.tc.cornell.edu/biocontest/CTC_Contest.MSI , and the email to enter when you install it is brh27 AT cornell PERIOD edu. Every little bit helps, even if you only run it for a week, a day, or even an hour. I'm competing against someone who works for the IT desk and has access to many more computers than I do, I don't see this as much different.
If you do this, it pretty much has to be under my name unless you're a Cornell undergrad, as they are the only ones who are eligable to win.
Thanks for the consideration everyone, and thanks for any help you'd be willing to give.
Lastly: This doesn't have to be in place of f@h or whatever else you run as I originally thought. It seems the server is not fast enough for everyone accessing it, so for every 3seconds of actual processor activity, there is a lag for more numbers to crunch. It won't hurt your folding stats much at all I don't think...but the more computers I have the better my chances of winning. Thanks to everyone that is helping already and to those who start!
EDIT: There are now two modified versions of the folding program which work better than the official. One allows multiple instances of the program to run, downloads several WU's at once to stop server lag some, and is more stable. The other does the same thing, but aims to save some bandwidth by utilizing a proxy as well. Thanks to Psyduck at genmay for these.
I had this semi good idea to make a proxy webservice that sits on a fast host relaying WU requests. But in this case the client->proxy stage would compress the WUs. This seems to work quite well, it will generally max out your CPU, but the best thing is that is doesn't max out the net connection as the compression is about 8:1
However this version is not for everybody, there's no change apart from the proxy and if you're on a very fast connection then I doubt you'll see much increase. But worse than that, the server is only on 100MBit connection, so at 500KB per WU I can see it getting starved very quickly.
http://www.7internet.co.uk/public/ctc_contest/CTC_Contest__CV_Bin.rar
Source
http://www.7internet.co.uk/public/ctc_contest/CTC_Contest_CV_Source.rar
The proxy only has one method which is below, so no point posting that.
Code:[WebMethod] public bool GetNextWorkUnit(ref byte[] pdbFile1, ref byte[] pdbFile2, ref string pdbFile1Name, ref string pdbFile2Name, ref string pdbId1, ref string pdbId2, ref string pdb1ChainId, ref string pdb2ChainId, long maxFileLen) { CEService service = new CEService("[url="http://ctcdn.tc.cornell.edu/BioContest/CEWebService.asmx"]http://ctcdn.tc.cornell.edu/BioContest/CEWebService.asmx[/url]"); bool retVal = service.GetNextWorkUnit(ref pdbFile1, ref pdbFile2, ref pdbFile1Name, ref pdbFile2Name, ref pdbId1, ref pdbId2, ref pdb1ChainId, ref pdb2ChainId, maxFileLen); MemoryStream stream; GZipOutputStream cstream; if (pdbFile1 != null) { stream = new MemoryStream(); cstream = new GZipOutputStream(stream); cstream.Write(pdbFile1, 0, pdbFile1.Length); cstream.Finish(); pdbFile1 = stream.ToArray(); cstream.Close(); } if (pdbFile2 != null) { stream = new MemoryStream(); cstream = new GZipOutputStream(stream); cstream.Write(pdbFile2, 0, pdbFile2.Length); cstream.Finish(); pdbFile2 = stream.ToArray(); cstream.Close(); } return retVal; }
Reverse engineering, hence why all the local variables were named flag1 and text1 etc. I don't even know whether the original was written in C# or not. From all the global variables I would guess that it came from a VB coders hands.
Again, thanks for all the help everyone, pretty soon #1 is gonna get smoked.
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