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supdood
Senior Cruncher USA Joined: Aug 6, 2015 Post Count: 333 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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Will the new WUs checkpoint more quickly/often? I'm not running any 24/7 machines but have been hoping to contribute since I joined WCG.
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Falconet
Master Cruncher Portugal Joined: Mar 9, 2009 Post Count: 3297 Status: Offline Project Badges:
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Will the new WUs checkpoint more quickly/often? I'm not running any 24/7 machines but have been hoping to contribute since I joined WCG. Not from the information available. All the BETA's were to test fixes, not change the checkpointing feature. AMD Ryzen 5 1600AF 6C/12T 3.2 GHz - 85W AMD Ryzen 5 2500U 4C/8T 2.0 GHz - 28W AMD Ryzen 7 7730U 8C/16T 3.0 GHz |
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supdood
Senior Cruncher USA Joined: Aug 6, 2015 Post Count: 333 Status: Offline Project Badges:
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Not from the information available. All the BETA's were to test fixes, not change the checkpointing feature. Thanks for the info Falconet. Too bad... |
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cehunt
Senior Cruncher CANADA Joined: Oct 10, 2011 Post Count: 172 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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I believe in this project but I was hoping that the length of time to get to the first checkpoint would be one of the issues being addressed in the beta tests. I am sure that I am not the only CEP2 volunteer who has an issue with the amount of time til the first checkpoint is reached. If the lengthy checkpoint issue is not addressed, then the level of participation in the project will suffer.
Surely another checkpoint can be inserted into the workunit or make each workunit smaller. Clive |
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Sgt.Joe
Ace Cruncher USA Joined: Jul 4, 2006 Post Count: 7763 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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I believe in this project but I was hoping that the length of time to get to the first checkpoint would be one of the issues being addressed in the beta tests. I am sure that I am not the only CEP2 volunteer who has an issue with the amount of time til the first checkpoint is reached. If the lengthy checkpoint issue is not addressed, then the level of participation in the project will suffer. Surely another checkpoint can be inserted into the workunit or make each workunit smaller. Clive There was a post some years ago which explained in some detail why the first checkpoint took so long. I don't remember the details, but if the scientists could make it any shorter, I am pretty sure they would have by now. The size of the workunits is dependent on the size of the molecule being studied. They have worked on only releasing to the project those molecules small enough to be done on most PC's. A few of the bigger ones have leaked through which have exceeded the 18 hour time limit (and thus did not finish). The larger molecules are run on their cluster at Harvard. Cheers
Sgt. Joe
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Jim1348
Veteran Cruncher USA Joined: Jul 13, 2009 Post Count: 1066 Status: Offline Project Badges:
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There was a post some years ago which explained in some detail why the first checkpoint took so long. I don't remember the details, but if the scientists could make it any shorter, I am pretty sure they would have by now. That is quite right. I have been here from the beginning, and various problems (including the very high disk write rate - hard on SSDs) were noted all along. That is the way the calculations work; they are not the usual ones, and had to be developed along with the science specifically for this study. And that is why it is the only project at WCG that allows you to choose how many work units you can have downloaded at one time. You need to understand the hardware limitations before you can crunch it successfully. Having a machine that is on 24/7 helps too. |
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Jack007
Master Cruncher CANADA Joined: Feb 25, 2005 Post Count: 1604 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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Bring it back and I'll turn on my RAM DISK again :D
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cehunt
Senior Cruncher CANADA Joined: Oct 10, 2011 Post Count: 172 Status: Offline Project Badges:
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Besides believing in the "green" aspects of this project, I am 60 days shy of my 20 year badge in this project.
I am currently crunching Mapping Cancers Markers but this project is nearing completion. I hope we do not have to wait long for the resumption of CEP2. Is there a target date available? Clive |
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uplinger
Former World Community Grid Tech Joined: May 23, 2005 Post Count: 3952 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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Greetings all,
We are resuming some computations for The Clean Energy Project - Phase 2. The first batch will only have 1,000 results. This will be like an extended beta test. We are planning on increase the number of results to 43,000 and will get these results back to the researchers for them to investigate and review before providing more batches. Thanks, -Uplinger |
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SekeRob
Master Cruncher Joined: Jan 7, 2013 Post Count: 2741 Status: Offline |
Many will surely have liked this 'extended Beta' to run through the 'Beta pipeline'
 . You don't say, but what version of app are you employing for this elongated trial? |
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