How's this for a messed up work unit...

[vss1980]

As most of use use our computers while we leave a distributed computing application running, we cant sometimes help check up on it.
At the moment I'm running the distributedfolding.org protein folding client and it gives a small graphical representation of what its working on which usually just looks a representaion of your average molecule tree.

Anyone else who runs this project will probably be able to imagine the look on my face when I saw this on the screen.
And before you ask, it did complete and is continuing folding away more proteins.

 

[ViRGE]

Just for comparison's sake, what should it look like?

 

[vss1980]

Typically, not much different from this screenshot, but with the normal random variance that you get with these things.

 

[ViRGE]

Woah.:Q

 

[Zim Hosein]

Originally posted by: ViRGE
Woah.:Q

What ViRGE said 😉

vss1980, I'm not familiar w/ the DC project you are running, but how much longer did it take to crunch? 😕

 

[ProviaFan]

What ViRGE said. 🙂

Reminds me of the time I got a 200 frame F@H unit (99.9998% of all FUs are 100 frame units). I thought it would take forever to complete, but surprisingly it went a good deal faster than the average ProteinA (one of the more complex 100 frame unit types).

BTW, how long did it take to finish that weird unit of yours? And how long does a regular unit take?

 

[vss1980]

From what I saw when I picked up on it, it wasn't progressing very quickly at all and spent several more minutes on the same protein structure (which normally take only a few seconds to calculate from start to finish of the structure). I have no idea how long it had taken to get to that point although I reckon it probably was a good while as it got a bit complicated.

What I'd be more interested in is if it is better that it was so complex or was just wasting its time on something of no use.

PS. This kinda reminds me of the time I got a 70 hour SETI WU.....