DF Daily (09/13)

[m0ti]

Hello Folders,


I have to raise a bit of an alarm. Sun Microsystems is not staying down. Currently they're outproducing us by about 3M, and are just 4 (!!!) days away from passing us. If anybody has some extra firepower available, now would be the time to bring it in.

Today's milestone makers:

bfour has hit 400K!
Mloot has hit 100K!

Congrats, guys.

Top Folder: TA TheMagicman with 44M folds!
Best RMS: TA TheMagicman with 9.45 (good for about 27th)!
Best Production: Kris takes advantage of TA TheMagicman's shifting of computing power to Seti, to take the lead with 1.11M (good for about 58th overall)! Nice!

TeAm Stats:

We're currently 17M back of 20th and outproducing them at a rate of 3.5M per day. Unfortunately, we're only 12M ahead of 22nd and being outproduced by them at a rate of 3M per day. Extra power would be useful (more... more... more...)!!!

Daily Production: TeAm DF stays put at 16th place. Not much to add on to that.

 

[Robor]

Congrats to the milestone makers & thanks for the update, m0ti!

 

[Kris]

Congratulations bfour and mloot!

Sun has had me concerned, thus the extra production.

We need to optimize here. Everybody using -rt?
I know I have some extra 32mb pc100 sticks if that would allow somebody to add the extra ram switch.

Thanks for the update, m0ti.

 

[Insidious]

Thanks m0ti

Congrats to the MMs

 

[Baldy18]

Thanks m0ti.

Congrats to the MMs!

 

[Mloot]

Thanks for the kudos. It's great to feel welcome here, especially being as new as I am.

 

[Mloot]

BTW, could someone explain what RMS is? Thanks.

 

[Kris]

mloot
If I understand correctly, rms can be thought of as "how far off" a given structure we generate is from the known conformation.
root mean square deviation, measured in angstroms.

When we fold a sequence that corresponds to a known 3d structure, we are testing the software, mostly, to ensure that when we fold unknown stuff later the results will mean something.

That help at all?

 

[Baldy18]

Yeah what Kris said. Basically the way I understand it the lower the number the closer to correct the algorithm is.