The race starts again

[Brucifer]

I tried downloading 500 on one system tonight and could only get 267. On another system I tried to get 200, and only got 129. Doesn't look like we are in the "new and improved" scene yet.... Any new gossip on this project???

[Lagu]

Brucifer

How about your Java. Have you upgrade the J2SE Runtime Environement?

I´m not sure if it has with your downlaod to do but I have found this from D2OL´s forum posted 10 Feb:

I have implemented the new tasks with all the structures that DID migrate. We're taking a change here wrt: what will the assignment engine do when it can't find the pdbq file I was starving y'all and as Adam is working on how to load new libraries, it seemed foolish to sweat the old library so much. Everyone needs WORK!

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Charles Beckius
D20L Forum Administrator

Lagu

[Lagu]

Hi

Here is some gossip from D2OL´s programmer Adam who have written this 10 Feb:

Greetings everyone,


My first visit to TRI (February 3 – 6) is now in the books, and I wanted to take a few minutes here to update the community on the activities from this weekend. We were able to accomplish a great deal of knowledge transfer from Charles and Wolfgang to myself, which will be very important as we move forward. Of more immediate concern to the science and community of the project, we established a strong set of goals for the coming year that will help to revitalize the project and give us a firm foundation for future improvements.

First and foremost, this project is about finding drugs that can help fight diseases. You all have done a lot of work over the last few years in crunching the candidates and targets that we have given you, and your efforts have whittled the field down to several top conformers. While we need to keep working on the current libraries and targets in order to find all of the promising conformers that we can, we realize that a large percentage of the solution space has already been visited. It is for this reason that our top priority for this quarter is the release of a new target and new candidate libraries. To that end, we have identified a promising Avian Flu target and two large libraries of commercially-available drug candidates. I am currently working on formatting the associated files for use with our software.

While the science of drug discovery is the central focus of the project, contributor statistics provide tangible, up-to-date metrics for users to gauge their activity and the contributions they have made to the search for drug treatments. To make tracking our progress a better, more meaningful experience for you (and us!), we are planning to update the statistics processing code to improve both accuracy and currency. I am working with Sengent to make sure we have access to a stable, up-to-date code base before I begin my development work.

Finally, this transition period in the project’s life cycle provides a good opportunity to step back and look at where we’ve been and where we would like to go in the future. Fairly soon, I will be releasing Vision and Values statements for the project, which will help guide our actions moving forward. These will be living documents, and I encourage you to participate in shaping the project by giving me your thoughts on these topics. Then, later in the year, we plan to publish a review article detailing D2OL’s accomplishments and our place in the historical and current Distributed Computing landscape for computational chemistry. This will serve as the perfect celebratory capstone on the first phase of the project as we turn the page and move forward.

As you can see, we had a busy weekend, and there is a lot of work to do in the coming year. I’m confident, though, that we’ll be able to make important improvements to the project and continue to do good science, and I look forward to working with the talented people at TRI and all of you in our dedicated user communities. Please don’t hesitate to contact me with any questions or concerns.


Thank you,
Adam

Lagu ;)

[Lagu]

Hi

I´ve just uploaded 2000 work units. It have take long time because I have run Majestic-12 and uFluid besides. We are still on 9th place yet.

Lagu

[vaughan]

I got some but not all of the requested work. Seems like D2OL are still having some hardware problems but as long as we get some tasks to crunch then it will be OK.

[Lagu]

Vaughan

Yes, you are right. I too notised this today. I should download 250 work units but got only 229.

I notised there was a failure trough the download process.

Lagu

[vaughan]

That was a nice 2000 dump in D2OL yesterday Lagu.

I don't have the patience to store up so many results.

[Lagu]

Hi

I think it took nearly 1 mouth to crunch.

Lagu