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Thread: restarts my task after about 2 hours.....? |
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Former Member
Cruncher Joined: May 22, 2018 Post Count: 0 Status: Offline |
I joined this whole thing yesterday cause i think its a great idead! I mean, i have many times just let my computer running, using it for nothing for example at night... Now i have a reason to let it running, and I am helping a good cause (I at least hope..
 )Well, I have a problem.. After about 2 hours of running the task, it automaticly goes to 0 hours, 0 min, 0 sec, and starts the whoooole thing over.. why? it doesnt make sense.. I reach about 5 % (because I am also working on the computer at the same time) and then it starts over.. I kinda think that, that isnt helping very much, and I want to help!!!  Any1 have the same problem, or had, and knows the answer?!?! plzz... well, thats all.. btw join Team DK in BE (HHH) --=MaDiX=-- |
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United_We_Stand
Cruncher Joined: Nov 20, 2004 Post Count: 15 Status: Offline |
It's all good
I Copied from another post : By Rick Alther World Community Grid Application Developer A "work unit" consists of various data including the protein sequence. The longer the sequence the "harder" it is to predict the fold. Longer sequence proteins take longer to process (sometimes much longer). Due to the nature of the work, it's impossible to predict how long any specific work unit may take. i.e. it's non-determinsitic. That's really the beauty of putting this on a grid: it's a difficult computation problem. Sometimes a work unit may not "converge" as we call it. This means it just hasn't found any way to fold this specific protein in a given amount of time and gives up. When it determines it can't converge it just stops working on it, sends it back (telling us it didn't converge) and you get a new work unit. However, it will try very, very hard before it gives up. This would explain why you saw it processing for probably 4 hours and still be at 0.0%...then suddenly you saw it go to 0.4% and the CPU time went down. Points-wise, you should still get credit for the effort though. Have some faith in that you really are helping to promote our understanding of the human proteome. If this was easy to do, we wouldn't have put it on the grid! ---------------------------------------- Rick Alther World Community Grid Application Developer |
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