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Shinobi Gaiden
Advanced Cruncher Joined: Sep 27, 2005 Post Count: 92 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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I don't want people to stop computing for the causes they like, but considering the urgency (fatality rate of corona-virus) is there a way to simply make a compatible unit that simply runs another projects code?
I want to help the Covid research quite urgently. Kind of like a partnership between the other big names in distributed research. Good PR for all and it doesn't matter who wrote the code, just who has the best code for the fastest results. I know I can just sign up for folding at home etc, but there is a bigger picture. We certainly have the volume of people to contribute more than is currently happening. Just a thought. |
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Falconet
Master Cruncher Portugal Joined: Mar 9, 2009 Post Count: 3295 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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You need a science team ready for such a project.
----------------------------------------Compared to Folding@home, we are nothing considering the insane amount of computing power they have gained in March. Rosetta@home has 3 times more computing power than WCG, also thanks to COVID-19 work. If someone wants to use WCG for COVID-19, then they must present a proposal to WCG. WCG has already stated their position on COVID-19 - https://www.worldcommunitygrid.org/forums/wcg/viewthread_thread,42191 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 [Edit 1 times, last edit by Falconet at Mar 28, 2020 10:58:17 PM] |
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KLiK
Master Cruncher Croatia Joined: Nov 13, 2006 Post Count: 3108 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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It has been suggested to WCG to open up a port to get Rosetta@home WUs.
----------------------------------------Once those WUs are on a server, server can: - check if in the name it has the "COVID-19" or not. - delete the one WUs that don't have that in the name - send out only the filenames "COVID-19" to WCG users But it has not being arranged, so far as we know it. Even though we have suggested that towards techs & admins here.  Meanwhile, no other scientist has responded to the thread Falconet has set to you. So no one knows if & when some COVID-19 jobs will be available on WCG.  |
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supdood
Senior Cruncher USA Joined: Aug 6, 2015 Post Count: 333 Status: Offline Project Badges:
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Why would WCG go through all of the trouble to do this when WCG users can simply sign up for Rosetta? Takes less than 5 minutes for a user to do so if they want.
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Former Member
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Can you imagine the damage that would be done to Rosetta for WCG to download a "bunch" of work then cancel anything without the COVID-19 in the name. The amount of resend activity on their database would be unmanageable. Then you have to ask the question, download to what? Should they be put in the WCG database? IF not, how is WCG going to distribute the work? Unfortunately, there are some that are totally clueless as to how BOINC works and what happens on the backend. Potential outcome is both projects suffer needlessly when doing what supdood suggests is so much easier. Additionally, who is going to write the code to do all that checking? Who is going to provide the disk space for the downloaded (and potentially uploaded work)?
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Simplex0
Advanced Cruncher Sweden Joined: Aug 14, 2008 Post Count: 83 Status: Offline Project Badges:
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You need a science team ready for such a project. Compared to Folding@home, we are nothing considering the insane amount of computing power they have gained in March. Rosetta@home has 3 times more computing power than WCG, also thanks to COVID-19 work. If someone wants to use WCG for COVID-19, then they must present a proposal to WCG. WCG has already stated their position on COVID-19 - https://www.worldcommunitygrid.org/forums/wcg/viewthread_thread,42191 Thank you for that information. I had stop using Folding becaus of the high electricity bill it caus but now I will start folding on all my computers and leave WCG for a while. |
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hchc
Veteran Cruncher USA Joined: Aug 15, 2006 Post Count: 753 Status: Offline Project Badges:
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Thank you for that information. I had stop using Folding becaus of the high electricity bill it caus but now I will start folding on all my computers and leave WCG for a while. Folding@home made your electricity bill much higher than WCG? Were you using GPU folding? It should be very similar if comparing only CPU.
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KerSamson
Master Cruncher Switzerland Joined: Jan 29, 2007 Post Count: 1671 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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Dear WCG members,
----------------------------------------I fully understand needs and urge to support some covid-19 related science. However, covid-19 is only one of many diseases hurting the humankind. If everyone is just focusing on covid-19, forgetting / overseeing every other research projects, it will create additional troubles in science. Please, as far as possible, remain faithful to the projects you usually support, since behind these projects, there are a lot of scientists relying on your contribution and support. Happy crunching, Yves |
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jackielan2000
Advanced Cruncher China Joined: Dec 31, 2005 Post Count: 115 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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Dear WCG members, I fully understand needs and urge to support some covid-19 related science. However, covid-19 is only one of many diseases hurting the humankind. If everyone is just focusing on covid-19, forgetting / overseeing every other research projects, it will create additional troubles in science. Please, as far as possible, remain faithful to the projects you usually support, since behind these projects, there are a lot of scientists relying on your contribution and support. Happy crunching, Yves I'm sticking with WCG. Only one computer's running Rosetta. That's 1 out of 33 cores. 
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KLiK
Master Cruncher Croatia Joined: Nov 13, 2006 Post Count: 3108 Status: Offline Project Badges:
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Why would WCG go through all of the trouble to do this when WCG users can simply sign up for Rosetta? Takes less than 5 minutes for a user to do so if they want. 'cause, you would: - not get scientist involved with R@h on WCG - they have the project already - R@h also does some other jobs, which users like me are "deleting" - WCG would be a user on R@h, but here WCG will have a dedicated project fro users here - & would be a nice fix to the problem, some little programming on the server.  |
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