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Former Member
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In reference to Storage with World community Grid:
I began with default storage of maybe 2 gigabytes, in looking over the Grid, I increased the size of my Storage to 10 Gigabytes. After a bit, I checked the usage of storage of the 10 Gigabyte allocation and discovered most of the 10 gigabytes allocated was still free space. So can anyone tell me, if at some point my world community grid allocation space of 10 gigabytes, will be accessed by by the grid??? for the moment I've downsized the appropreated storage space to 2 gigabytes, ah yes more points for more space, just wouldn't want to waist any space if it wouldn't be used at any point. If any of of the space would be used say in a week or even within a month I would like to have the space ready for that time. Any thoughts??? appreciated ThankYou swl 01801_2454 |
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Former Member
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The Storage Allocation is really a Storage Authorization. You are authorizing the World Community Grid to use that much of your hard disk if some project needs it. The current Human Proteome Folding Project is very computationally intensive but does not require much space. It seems to fit into a 50 MB Storage Allocation. The default allocation of 1 GB (0.98 GB) allows for a wide variety of projects.
I feel sure that the requirements will be specified in great detail for each new proect. |
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Former Member
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ThankYou
lawrencehardin Community Admin swl_01801_2454 |
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GEORGE DOMINIC
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actually in the digital music industry theres a lot of money on the idear that adding extra space means higher quality, absolute fortunes rest upon this concept ,however as a computer musician my self the more i can compress(properly)an mp3 the better. I suppose I can sit back and laugh, as im in a respected corner of the argument, whilst they insist they can play my own music better than i currently can simlpy by adding extra zeros to the registry/ file or the price of space>Now wheres that girl gone.
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joatmon
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the current protein folding workunits are small and don't use a gig, so as long as you are signed up on the protein folding project, you will have no problem set to 1 GB or 10 GB. Setting the profile to use 10 GB does not reserve the space, so you can set your profile to 10 GB for max points and still use the disk space for other things.
----------------------------------------The protein folding project is just the first of an anticipated large number of possible grid computing projects that may become available at some point. It is possible that these future projects will use more disk space than the current one. Part of the profile is selecting which project to support, so as long as you do not change your profile to support a different project, then there should be no problem setting to a higher value. Hopefully, if a new project is made available that uses a different amount of disk space, the WCG wizards will let us know what the storage space impact is, and then you can adjust your storage setting appropriately as desired when you choose to switch to the new project. I wonder how they will handle deploying a new project. If they wait until the protein folding project is fully completed, then it will take everyone to log in and change their profile to select the new project. If they deploy a second project before the first is completed, then they risk having everyone switch to the new one and never fully finishing the first. probably be enough people that will either think the protein folding is the more important project, or will never notice that there is a project alternative that the protein folding one will get completed even if there are multiple concurrent projects. [Edit 1 times, last edit by joatmon at Jan 5, 2005 7:25:19 PM] |
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Former Member
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Noone will ever know... I do say, amp it up to 10GB for the points! Like joatman said, they will never be used in the proteing folding project...
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Former Member
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actually in the digital music industry theres a lot of money on the idear that adding extra space means higher quality, absolute fortunes rest upon this concept ,however as a computer musician my self the more i can compress(properly)an mp3 the better. I suppose I can sit back and laugh, as im in a respected corner of the argument, whilst they insist they can play my own music better than i currently can simlpy by adding extra zeros to the registry/ file or the price of space>Now wheres that girl gone. well. It depends what you're talking about. higher quality for sure if you're recording in 24bit depth!! You get a much smaller signal-noise ratio/ a larger dBB range to work with! CDs, MP3s and the likes are all sub-par especially for genres such as classical music due to the large dBB range. Same reason why analog is better than digital. Same goes for having an increased sampling rate -- when you sample digitally you make copies all over the frequency range. Higher sampling rate, the further out the copies are, so you can High-pass filter out the central one (the one you want) and have to worry less about the ones further our interfering with what you hear (HP-filters are non-ideal). w00! Score one for ELEC241. |
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