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Thread: Important Announcement about the future of the Microbiome Immunity Project |
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Wotan
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Good luck for the future! It is fascinating how much the world of computing changed, from only CPU to GPU computing and now IA and deep learning with its dedicated hardware.
I wonder what hardware will they use and what method, something like AlphaFold? Or Tr Rosetta? Will they use GPU or maybe TPU? |
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Dayle Diamond
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They explained it to me on the WCG Facebook page, but not here.
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retsof
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It did get updated to nearly complete. That's why I looked in here. I don't think I can go from 28 years to 50 years by the end of the year, so it's been another worthy project.
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gb009761
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Thankyou retsof, Sgt Joe and all the other 'big crunchers' who've decided that for them, attempting to stretch to their next goal is simply a 'step too far' - as that then allows others, such as myself, a faint chance of reaching our goal. I've no idea as to whether I will reach 5 years or not, only time will tell with that - but, here's hoping....
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RedRocketRed
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I'm thinking the same thing, Macromancer. As other researchers catch wind of the advantages of using AI and deep learning, we'll be left with cooler-running machines once again, and WCG will join the myriad great ideas only in fond memory of the early decades of the public Internet.
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Sgt.Joe
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I'm thinking the same thing, Macromancer. As other researchers catch wind of the advantages of using AI and deep learning, we'll be left with cooler-running machines once again, and WCG will join the myriad great ideas only in fond memory of the early decades of the public Internet. I would not worry about a lack of work. There are a myriad of problems which will require either cpu or gpu cycles or maybe both. There are many mysteries in this world which need to be unraveled and each new advance in how to solve some of them presents us with new challenges we had not even thought of before. crunch on. Cheers
Sgt. Joe
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"faster techniques that can be performed on traditional high-performance compute clusters and do not need the power of World Community Grid."
So the researchers now got money for a HPC cluster, AND, no more need to freely pass the data library and research findings, all paywall, or am I wrong thinking that aloud. At any rate, someone did the sums and reckoned win-win :? |
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bozz4science
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It’s a justified thought. But maybe they also got another grant for the prospective future research after having refined and/or revolutionized their employed research methodology. Maybe there will also be some drawbacks with this approach that will only surface later. Anyway, it’ll be interesting to read about the team’s future plans once the project will come to a definite end.
----------------------------------------As this is definitely an important field with yet many unknowns, I do hope that much of the future studies will provide public access to the data to advance our understanding of this amazingly complex system within each and every one in us. It was a great non-fiction book that I read a while ago that sparked my interest in all matters related to our microbiome. Not meant as an ad but “10% human” IMO is money and time well spent.  AMD Ryzen 3700X @ 4.0 GHz / GTX1660S Intel i5-4278U CPU @ 2.60GHz [Edit 1 times, last edit by bozz4science at Jul 4, 2021 4:35:47 PM] |
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Falconet
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The estimate that I provided to the researchers was off by a bit. We should have continuous work for about another 33 days +/- 5 or so depending on various factors. This means that we will run out of work somewhere between July 8 and July 18th. At that point we will have about a 14 day period where only resends are sent to finish off the workunits that are still out. This means that the final tasks will be sent out towards the end of July. Getting close. 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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Former Member
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Slightly more than 700 batches left to process.
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