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gb009761
Master Cruncher Scotland Joined: Apr 6, 2005 Post Count: 3010 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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Obviously, we know the project is back up and running again (it appears to still being 'throttled back' though), and thus, I was wondering, have all the scientists/staff managed to get their lives (and labs) back in full working order yet?
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Sekerob
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Well, I think post by the chief scientist tells the story:
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gb009761
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Thanks Sekerob - I had read that in the thread I'd originally asked this question (and hence, the reason why I asked it in that particular thread...).
----------------------------------------What I'm really wondering though, is, 'is the project back up to full speed - considering that yesterday, only about 10 years of work was processed, as opposed to other projects with many times more work processed - or is it still being reigned in due to the many issues posed by the result of Hurricane Ike?'... |
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Sekerob
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If I were in charge I'd start slow as were it a new project. No point in clogging up the WCG storage, when the new set up needs to proof itself.
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gb009761
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Okay, thanks
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Obviously, we know the project is back up and running again (it appears to still being 'throttled back' though), and thus, I was wondering, have all the scientists/staff managed to get their lives (and labs) back in full working order yet? Good question! We have asked the IBM to rein in this project a little; hence, we are not receiving equivalent processing time as other projects. There were several factors for this decision. (1) Although we are up and running, we are not yet fully recovered at UTMB. The campus and community (and hence our staff) continue to rebuild, but this will take time and money (and only one of those items is assured). (2) We are still evaluating our new disk storage arrangement. Until we have more experience with its operation, we decided to temporarily reduce the data flow we receive from the grid (since each target generates ~0.5 TByte of information, we are seeing how well we handle 1 TByte/month of incoming data before again ramping up this project). (3) We have ~4 more antiviral targets (mainly HCV) and 6 Leishmania targets to examine in Phase 1. However, we are behind in analyzing and testing Phase 1 results received for the dengue and West Nile protease targets. Thus, we are playing catch-up with the results we have received from your computers. Delays in analyzing Phase 1 results are due to Hurricane Ike and from shifting the efforts of our computational chemists more towards the Phase 2 calculations. Delays in "wet bench" testing of Phase 1 results are due to Hurricane Ike damage and the time-consuming nature of these experiments. So, at this point we are hard-pressed to keep up with the data generated by the grid (too many ever-increasing powerful computers out there). However, I suspect that the grid will need to grow even more to return our Phase 2 calculations as fast as we would like ... we will see shortly ...  All my best, Stan  |
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Col323
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<snip> So, at this point we are hard-pressed to keep up with the data generated by the grid (too many ever-increasing powerful computers out there). However, I suspect that the grid will need to grow even more to return our Phase 2 calculations as fast as we would like ... we will see shortly ... All my best, Stan That sounds like a challenge.  All the best catching up on phase 1, you may need those people to keep up with phase 2. Thanks for your continued updates, they mean a lot! |
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gb009761
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Thanks Stan for your feedback.
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damir1978
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Thanks for the update. I really apreciate it.
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hunterkasy
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I will also be working on this project as soon as I catch up on the others
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