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Forum: FightAIDS@Home Phase 2
Thread: FightAIDS@Home, Phase 2 - Project Update, May 2018 |
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ErikaT
Former World Community Grid Admin USA Joined: Apr 27, 2009 Post Count: 912 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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Hi Everyone,
We just received a short update from the FightAIDS@Home - Phase 2 researchers about their plans for the next stage of the project, which you can read about here. Thanks to all of you for your support! ErikaT |
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TheBizii
Advanced Cruncher Slovenia Joined: Jan 4, 2016 Post Count: 51 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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Thank you Erika, I've been waiting for new information a lot recently.
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cjslman
Master Cruncher Mexico Joined: Nov 23, 2004 Post Count: 2082 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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Thanks Erika for the update !
----------------------------------------CJSL Crunching for a better world !!! |
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Seoulpowergrid
Veteran Cruncher Joined: Apr 12, 2013 Post Count: 815 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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Very happy to see the update, thanks much for everyone involved in that as it encourages us continue to contribute.
----------------------------------------We are also planning to use World Community Grid’s computing power to analyze new compounds that are important to our work with the HIVE Center at the Scripps Research Institute. This work will begin after we run a sample of these new compounds on our own grid computing network. Does this mean Phase 2 or does this mean something else? |
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NixChix
Veteran Cruncher United States Joined: Apr 29, 2007 Post Count: 1187 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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We appreciate everyone who continues to donate their computing power to the search for better anti-HIV treatments. We also encourage everyone to opt in to Phase 2 of the project—the more quickly we can run through the current work units, the sooner we can move ahead to new compounds. Does the team plan to make their project more friendly to the lower-powered crunchers? It has been said many times in the past that this project is not really for everyone. I got very frustrated trying to run this project on my computers. Cheers   |
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armstrdj
Former World Community Grid Tech Joined: Oct 21, 2004 Post Count: 695 Status: Offline Project Badges:
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NixChix,
Do you mean from a memory usage standpoint? There have been no changes to the memory footprint but there have been some changes that have reduced the runtime. I know there were some volunteers having issues with trickle messages and intermediate uploads. Currently the runtime per task has been decreased and because of that both trickle messages and intermediate uploads have been turned off. If you haven't run FAHB in a while and these were causing you issues you may want to try it again. I can't promise they won't be activated again in the future but for now they are disabled. For the memory footprint there are no planned changes. Thanks, armstrdj |
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Cmdrd
Advanced Cruncher Canada Joined: Mar 29, 2013 Post Count: 92 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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We appreciate everyone who continues to donate their computing power to the search for better anti-HIV treatments. We also encourage everyone to opt in to Phase 2 of the project—the more quickly we can run through the current work units, the sooner we can move ahead to new compounds. I would love to focus on doing work for this project, but I'm having a tough time keeping my systems fed with work, have to have this project plus one more just to keep my systems actually working.  AMD Ryzen R7 1700 (8 cores/16 threads)@3.85 GHz, 32 GB RAM 7x Dual Intel Xeon E5-2640 (2 x 6 cores/12 threads)@2.5 GHz, 256 GB RAM |
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Macroman
Advanced Cruncher Joined: Jun 4, 2005 Post Count: 112 Status: Offline Project Badges:
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The most common complaint is about the one-day deadline. My two computers are not particularly low-powered but still sometimes have difficulty managing the queue to meet all the deadlines with the one-day deadline. For this reason I have decided to focus on supporting other projects.
If the deadline were 3 days I would reconsider. Also, if there were an easy way for the user to allocate computational slots to a project like what was done with the clean energy project I would consider adding some slots for FAH2. |
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Former Member
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Also, if there were an easy way for the user to allocate computational slots to a project like what was done with the clean energy project I would consider adding some slots for FAH2. Can't you just set max_concurrent in app_config.xml? <app_config> <app> <name>fahb</name> <max_concurrent>2</max_concurrent> </app> </app_config>  |
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Macroman
Advanced Cruncher Joined: Jun 4, 2005 Post Count: 112 Status: Offline Project Badges:
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I searched my HD and don't have a file that goes by that name.
Can't the WCG admins create a web page that creates the appropriate config files or make it an installation option? Modifying the config files is beside the point. Only a small fraction of casual users would consider that type of customization. Project admins should act in way that makes it easy for contributors to donate their time and minimize the probability that it will be wasted. |
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