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CyGoR

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Is it just me or is the grid.org website down.
My client can't upload/download any new work..

Running Boinc till servers are up again 🙂
 
Why not move over to the original grid client founders project. FaD

Here is some info about the project: http://www.find-a-drug.org/aboutus.html

They claim to process the molecules up to 40x faster than UD does. And they give out cool certificates when you find a hit which 'shows promise' for a cancer curing molecule. I just found 4 hits this month.

http://stats.findadrug.org.uk/certify.php?Nickname=DRingdahl

We need help to power us up in rank, in June we have moved from 16th to 10th.

Also, you can move up fast as it is a relatively new project, I have moved to 88th place in just 4 weeks.

Thanks
 
Originally posted by: CyGoR
Is it just me or is the grid.org website down.
My client can't upload/download any new work..

Running Boinc till servers are up again 🙂
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Its 2 p.m. Central Time U.S. and the UD servers are up as of about 25 minutes ago. The web site seems slow, but is accessible. Crunching yummy UD wu's again!!
 
so lets say my internet connection was going to be down for a little while....could I increase the size of the chunk of information downloaded so instead of like 8 hours to return results, it takes like a week full blast?
 
Originally posted by: IBdaMac
so lets say my internet connection was going to be down for a little while....could I increase the size of the chunk of information downloaded so instead of like 8 hours to return results, it takes like a week full blast?
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If you cache you WU's You could keep on processing. That's why I use UDMonitor.

On my fastest box I keep 12 WU's cached. I have it run like it would normally, but after it returns a WU UDMonitor will use the next one in the cache. I have a network timeout set @ 5 minutes so if connection cannot be made in that amount of time it will abandon trying to reach the server and start crunching the next WU. The finished result can be sent later when a connection can be made.

Actually the only other thing that I wish UDMonitor would do is sent all finished WU's when connection becomes available. I have to occasionally check my boxes to make sure there are no results sitting in their cache. (They become stale after 2 weeks and you get no credit for completing them.) It was actually written for users on dial-up. You can set it to complete all WU's then send/receive all cache slots.

Another benefit is you don't lose any processing time when you shut down or restart you comp. Instead of using the start button > shut down computer > etc... you right click the UDMon icon > after next save > shut down, reboot, send/receive... etc. Or if you hover your mouse pointer over the icon it will show you how long since it saved to disk. (On this machine 5-30 minutes... On my slowest 5-6+ hours)
 
Originally posted by: dringdahl
Why not move over to the original grid client founders project. FaD

Here is some info about the project: http://www.find-a-drug.org/aboutus.html

They claim to process the molecules up to 40x faster than UD does. And they give out cool certificates when you find a hit which 'shows promise' for a cancer curing molecule. I just found 4 hits this month.

http://stats.findadrug.org.uk/certify.php?Nickname=DRingdahl

We need help to power us up in rank, in June we have moved from 16th to 10th.

Also, you can move up fast as it is a relatively new project, I have moved to 88th place in just 4 weeks.

Thanks
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Hi DRigndahl,

Thanks for your invitation to join the FaD project. But my roots lay here with United Devices and that's the project I will continue to do until it stops.
Furthermore, the things you say about the FaD project compared to the UD project are exactly the opposite of what I've heard.. And when you compare the websites, user stats etc, a project with such an ugly site will not be something for me to join.
It's a relative new project, but they should have paid more attention to that to look just a little bit professional..
But, congratulations on your first spot and the 5M milestone, just saw the thread. I only have 2 pc's cruching, so that 'moving up fast' will not count for me I guess.
And, I've got my own stats page for the UD project (check the sig-link) so enough reasons for me to stay in this project.
Good luck with yours! 🙂
 
Hey DRingdahl

From what I read, the THINK portion of UD (which was run originally for the cancer project) was developed by the people now running FAD. I think FAD started after UD stopped using THINK (instead they now use LIGANDFIT, which is apparently much better than THINK). The FAD team improved THINK after UD stopped using it, which is probably how they can claim 40x faster than UD, as UD used the THINK software years before FAD deployed it. Also, they say that the 40x improvement was made with help from Intel, so what platform are they benchmarking to claim their 40x improvement? Is it only on P4 Prescotts that happen to have SSE3? What kind of boost do AMD processors get? Again from what I've read, THINK was used by UD to filter out the background noise... to get a list of candidates that could possibly be used for a drug... either a yes or no. LIGANDFIT actually scores the molecules and gives a likeliness that the drug would work. This will definitely take a lot more processing time than the THINK client, so there's another way they could claim 40x faster.

It is nice that FAD finally developed a Linux version of the THINK client, but I remember back to the problems UD was having with them when they asked for a Linux client. UD has developed a linux version of the wrapper application, but FAD refused to license a linux version of the THINK client to them, so noone running linux could run THINK.

And yeah, their website looks like something I threw together in a few minutes, and does not give a professional air to their project. Their mystery meat navigation bar looks like it's from 1995. This statement makes me unsure of their motives: "income from partnership agreements to exploit the results will allow Find-a-Drug to become self-funding." Although directly after they state "results from public interest projects such as the Bioterrorism Antidote project will be made available to approved academic and government research laboratories without charge," which projects are deemed public interest projects? Can they be swayed by someone offering them enough money to make the cancer drug they find "non-public interest?"

UD makes their money licensing the wrapper application, and the grid.org cancer project is the best way to demonstrate the client working on a very large scale.

Anyway, I'm sticking with UD, but everyone is free to their own opinion.
 
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