UBERO Project- Did you know...

[em99010pepe]

This project aligns the genomic sequence of a wheat germ. It looks for areas in the sequence that have similar attributes. It was launched as Ubero's first project for University of California's Institute of Genomics and Bioinformatics but was finished long ago. It is used as our primary "test project" and the results that are returned are discarded. Members and teams still run it to compete against each other and help keep the Ubero network active.



Source (http://www.ubero.com/projectprofile.asp?pid=4)

[Bionic_Redneck]

yea I knew that already but can't speak for all here. There are many other fine dc projects that we are also involved in.

I'm mainly running ubero to test of if it worth the effort to build optimized linux distro for DC and different memory setting for java. The client seems to max out at about 150mb ram usage

[em99010pepe]

Well, I will continue running UBERO's project. It's not heavy for my computer.

[vaughan]

Ubero is a great application. I find it is very stable and doesn't hog the CPU like some other DC programmes. However, as you have observed correctly, it is discarding the work done. The user-base has pleaded with Scott Hodgson on the Ubero Forum to get new work to crunch. He has always replied with words to the effect of "soon" or "just wait a little bit longer". This has been going on for years and as I write this there are only 27 people IN THE WORLD still running it according to Darkness Productions' site at http://stats.dp.cx/ubero/leaderboard/today/

[em99010pepe]

vaughan,

In your opinion should I continue spending my processor time running UBERO's project ?

[vaughan]

em99010pepe,
I am only running Ubero now for personal reasons. I don't want twistedwire to knock me off world 8th rank.
Its up to you to decide which DC project to run. As Bionic Redneck said in his post there are lots of projects that the AMD Users team is running.
Personally, I like to try to keep my hand in with several. I've recently run or am currently running:
Ubero (personal favourite)
Porivo / Gomez Peer ('cos it pays real US dollars, yum! :P )
ChessBrain (doesn't interfere with other projects)
Seti (that was how I got started in DC'ing)
Muon / DPAD ('cos its there)
17 or Bust ('cos I'm still trying, albeit unsuccessfully :) , to catch Chaz)
Distributed Folding ('cos I don't want Keith to catch me, but he is gaining 8O )
Folding At Home 4 ('cos Bionic Redneck posted that version 4 was out :drinking: and I wanted to try it on the Mobile Athlon XP2400)
Distributed.net / RC5-72 / OGR-25 ('cos they're easy to run [but boring to watch] and I think our team should be higher ranked in these projects)
LifeMapper ('cos pben and MWJR overtook me recently)
EON (as it is what my computers default to running if I re-boot and forget to login on the Win XP login screen)
I'm also running Tiny Key Counter [http://keycount.piqsoftware.com] we're 97th, Marmot Project [http://www.marmotproject.com] and Pulse [http://dolphin.twistification.net/]
I abandoned BOINC as it took ages (>12 hours per task on an XP2000+) and all of mine were rejected by the server and so didn't count in the stats. I strongly recommend AGAINST running BOINC until they correct this unfairness.

[em99010pepe]

vaughan,

Thanks for your opinion. It was very important.

[Bionic_Redneck]

Pepe, if your using IBM's java adding -Xms64m -Xmx150m to the command should help speed it up some.

[em99010pepe]

Bionic_Redneck, where can I find that IBM's java? Could you put here the link. Thanks.

[Bionic_Redneck]

http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/java/jdk/index.html

It part of webspere if you need the windows version and is a very large download also you have to register first. Another thing sun and blackdown have the -server flag (makes it use more memory) but ibm java doesn't because it already uses the extra memory I assume.

[em99010pepe]

Bionic_Redneck, thank you. There's only a problem with this Java version, is incompatible with my operation system, windows Me.

[Bionic_Redneck]

I remember using the sdk before with windows 98 before they started making it part of webspere. so maybe it's webspere thats not compatable

[em99010pepe]

The SDK is compatible with Windows Me but the IBM's java isn't. Thanks anyway.

[chaz]

That's what you want, IBM java2 sdk 1.4.0, its about 47mb in size.

[vaughan]

I downloaded the behemoth from IBM, it was 154 MB. Its called wsdksetup.zip

[Bionic_Redneck]

Maybe what IBM is saying is they only tested win2k and winXP which would make some sense after all what developer would use winme or 98se for that matter.

[Jeff]

What was the java you were using BR? Do they have it for windows?

[Bionic_Redneck]

I am using ibm now. I was using blackdown then I notice gentoo had ebuilds for all the javas so i install that one instead

[em99010pepe]

What was the java you were using BR? Do they have it for windows?

I'm using Java(TM) 2 SDK, Standard Edition 1.4.1_06. Internet page (https://jsecom8b.sun.com:443/ECom/EComActionServlet;jsessionid=jsecom8b.sun.com-1e52a%3A3ff80a6a%3A74a2d867af37efc1).
I don't no if there is a portuguese version. I usually use inglish versions.


My doubt is that I can't find the link to download the IBM java.