Rosetta at home: Are all of you running a optimised client?

[Freewolf]

Originally posted by: emjem
Yeah, and where do I go to see MY results? I'm crunching on BadThad's 'team'/account. In S@H I had results for my PCs locally. I don't see anything in Boinc that's tracking my output. Kind of frustrating to not see results for each PC.

You can.
Go here and log into ya'll account and it will tell you what each machine has done by clicking "view computers"
http://boinc.bakerlab.org/rosetta/

 

[Freewolf]

Originally posted by: emjem
Oh, and I don't see any place to set hdd space allocation. Maybe I'm riding on BadThads settings?

You can fix that problem by logging into the account and setting different preferences for your location.

 

[emjem]

Great Freewolf. Just what I wanted. Thanx.

 

[Rattledagger]

BOINC relies on redundant computing both for validating the science, and for guarding against cheaters claiming too much credit. As long as a majority of users isn't cheating, this system works.

But, Rosetta@home isn't currently using any redundancy, meaning only relies on anyone crunching incorrectly gets "impossible" result or something, while for credit there isn't really any limits currently...

BTW, even without anyone cheating, the BOINC-benchmark can give wastly different claimed credit on different computers.


Rosetta@home is currently working out which method to use to minimize the variations in claimed credit, and to guard against cheaters.


Optimized BOINC clients was made so someone running an optimized seti-application should get roughly the same claimed credit as other users. Running an optimized BOINC client in other projects on the other hand means you're getting artificially high benchmark-score, and therefore also artificially high claimed credit. In other projects this isn't really a problem, since due to redundancy the too-high claim is discarded.

So, till Rosetta@home has landed on a solution, using an optimized BOINC client can be seen by some as cheating...

 

[GLeeM]

@emjem
You can set separate preferences for Primary, Home, School, and Work.

@Rattledagger
Is there a way for emjem to use his four computers with 2 GB drives?
(if not F@H doesn't use/need much space )

@all
Rosetta is still fairly new. They fixed a bunch of stuff already and fixed it pretty fast too! But I would check computer daily if possible.

I am still running v4.43 BOINC, I don't have problem with blank Manager. I think I will wait to update

 

[Rattledagger]

A quick look indicates Rosetta@home needs 200MB free disk space to download work...
If you've got less than 200MB and can't clean-out enough by deleting or compressing files, there isn't really any solution.

But, for anyone else having problems, check your preferences if any problems, check the computer is using the correct "venue", check under computer-listing the reported "Total disk space" and "Disk space free".
If runs an old BOINC-client, try upgrading, this is especially true if runs v4.7x...

Also, completely stopping and re-starting BOINC can in some instances work...

 

[The Reaper]

So where's these optimized clients?

I saw that then Rosetta team is releasing something for Athlon 64's this week.

Edit: link for the A64 info here.