tjmagneto
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Crunching is a creative and challenging way of learning about the behavior of our computers and improving them while helping the GPUGRID team to understand a bit more the mystery of the world we live in and the diseases that affect not only us, but also the people we love. The GPUGRID team couldn’t be more satisfied and proud of forming part of this noble project, and so we’d like to deeply thank each of the 1000 users that connect to us every day, making us part of their lives and making them part of ours, as a team.
Behind each computer, behind each GPU and each WU or forum post, there’s the real protagonist of our story as a community: YOU, the cruncher.
At GPUGRID, we are considering the possibility of starting a new campaign to thank the users that contribute with our project by sending them little tokens of gratitude, such as proteins/aminoacid molecules printed by our 3D printer or merchandising such as t-shirts or stickers. We still have to establish the contest rules, but most likely each of the user would have a probability of winning based on their contribution. Once in a while we would like to run a story about the winner, explaining why you crunch, what's the setup of your computer, a small description of yourselves or a picture of you and your token.
We believe that it would be a fun and productive experience but before anything we’d like to know your opinion, your suggestions and whether we have your support for this initiative. Let us know!
hi guys,
do you know anybody interested in doing a PhD with us. We have a fellowship but we need to find a candidate within a week.
Please forward it on if you know somebody interested
http://multiscalelab.org/Jobs/PhD_intrinsically_disordered_proteins_barcelona
Best,
gdf
Great TJ !OK, count me in.
You do realize you are making me move things around
I placed second in one of the performance rankings for long runs.
It's mindblowing that one user has racked up 30,000,000 pts for the challenge.
You should recruit them....
For F@H????
Just keep it up and I will keep on LOL, we can always use a good chuckle.
We need a damn LOL emoc.
Anything would be an improvement versus a clapping pony.
Meanwhile, with a little over an hour left, we have a lock on 2nd place.
Yes, we achieved a great second place, congrats !
As already pointed out, maybe the greatest achievement was to have the [H]orde slightly overperforming RaymondFO (alone) by 0,5 million points
I tried so see what sort of stuff that RaymondFO was running but that info was not available. Maybe that's what the FO stands for.
https://www.upf.edu/home/-/asset_publisher/UI8Z8VAxU47P/content/id/8788860/maximizedHey all,
some astute members might have noticed we got a new publication out? https://goo.gl/MoIi0d
You remember these BARNA/BNBS workunits? Well, we finally made it
Frank and Nuria did an incredible work with our simulations and got the paper published in Nature Chemistry which is a top-top journal in our field!
To thank you all for this incredible contribution we will be handing out badges soon and you have my (and our group's) heartfelt thanks to all of you!
ps. A layman news piece on the article https://www.upf.edu/home/-/asset_publisher/UI8Z8VAxU47P/content/id/8788860/maximized
Fixing bugs with BOINC is relatively pointless from our perspective (and time-intensive). We are considering rather other options like moving out of it, but don't ask when or how as it's more an idea than a scheduled plan.
I am sorry for those inconveniences that this causes.
The reason we cannot address technical issues with BOINC is that we don't have anyone in the lab anymore who knows his way around it and that priorities are higher on getting scientific work done. Of course you have a point that this will eventually bite us in the ass since we won't be able to do scientific work without crunchers but it's a tricky thing to manage.
Dears,
we would like to test our new CPU multicore application for quantum chemistry tasks ("QC"). Since it’s the first time we have a CPU app out, I’ll test the behavior of GPUGRID with a relatively large batch that you will see soon. Workunits are named "*QC309big*".
Here’s some features of the app, in short (subject to change):
* Platform: Linux only for now, generic x64.
* Threads: as many as Boinc decides. I guess it depends on your machine, your preferences, and other running tasks in ways which are obscure to me…
* Run time: about 1 CPU hour per WU (so, shorter if multithreading)
* Credit: computed with the default algorithm (tasks are short, don’t expect much). Bonus mechanism for fast turnaround is still on.
* Known bugs: restarts and checkpoints. This should be mitigated with the “keep in memory when suspended” option. Sorry about that, it’s outside of our control.
* Network behavior: the first time you get a WU of this kind it downloads a Python interpreter (miniconda) and then some open-source packages, and installs them in the project directory. The installation is reused whenever possible.
* Disk usage: could go around 1 GB, perhaps more when tasks are running. Resetting the project should remove everything.
* Memory usage: should be around 1 GB when running.
Depending on the results of this test, we’ll start thinking about other platforms.
Thanks and nice crunching!
Toni
Dear all,
GPUGRID will stop supporting Windows XP in April 2018
Every version of the science application we have to maintain costs us time and effort, and it's important that we focus our resources where they can give us the best return.
Building and testing Windows XP versions our applications is increasingly difficult now the OS is unsupported by both Microsoft and NVIDIA.
There are now fewer than 20 Windows XP machines crunching on GPUGrid, out of a total of over 2500, and it's difficult to justify on-going engineering effort for a small fraction of our capacity.
Sadly, this means that it's time for us to stop supporting Windows XP. The recent update to the application will be the last, and will cease to work one year from now. After that time work will only be issued to hosts running Windows 7+ or Linux.
If this affects you, please accept my apologies. Your contribution has been greatly appreciated, and I hope that you'll continue to support us.
Matt