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After a long dry spell, I received my first WU from this project in a long time today. This is the first task I've ever received for the subproject Tsinghua Nano Tech Research. Looks like it is a long one: ~4.5 days on my 4.4GHz 4790K.
 
Last one I had was from November and the borg just completed it apparently... lol 1,276,201.64 seconds which is ~15days run time. That was on an old Optiplex GX280 that has an Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 3.00GHz

Edit: Wow... someone waited like 2 years for that one to validate........... http://casathome.ihep.ac.cn/workunit.php?wuid=9285304

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The timer on this WU is counting down regularly and is currently showing ~4 days left until finish. I guess I'll find out if the timer is accurate (improved) in 7.4.36. Past versions have been terrible about keeping accurate time on many different project's WU's. I think I read they made some improvements in the counter in this version. I am skeptical, since I think it is more dependent on how well the project writes their apps, or even the nature of the work itself.

Anyway, I noticed their wasn't an {H} thread link for this project in the Definitive Guide. May as well link to this thread now and make this the official CAS@Home thread.
 
RFGuy_KCCO said:
The timer on this WU is counting down regularly and is currently showing ~4 days left until finish. I guess I'll find out if the timer is accurate (improved) in 7.4.36. Past versions have been terrible about keeping accurate time on many different project's WU's. I think I read they made some improvements in the counter in this version. I am skeptical, since I think it is more dependent on how well the project writes their apps, or even the nature of the work itself.

Anyway, I noticed their wasn't an {H} thread link for this project in the Definitive Guide. May as well link to this thread now and make this the official CAS@Home thread.
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I already did. Notice the edit time... lol http://hardforum.com/showthread.php?t=1801908

Nevermind, I had to make a few other adjustments. I had your link added 30 minutes before your post... lol
 
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Looks like they have work. Fill up while you can....
 
Looks like all my crunchers got some CAS love today. I hope they can keep sending work for longer than a day or two.
 
Well, you can cache up to 40 at a time on a rig...lol
 
I know... I know... I just can't do large caches and still run all the projects I do. It just causes almost all WU's from every project to go into High Priority mode and preempt all my GPU work. I know, first world problems. Lol

All my machines did get ~15 WU's each, so that is pretty good - especially considering the lack of any work at all from CAS for far too long.
 
If you set the other projects to NNW, 40 work units may not be that much depending on the system you have. Once you have the 40 work units, change the cache back to something small and resume the other projects. Odds are, if you have several cores, you wont really have to worry about things going into panic mode. But then again some projects go panic mode almost as soon as you get them...
 
RFGuy_KCCO said:
The timer on this WU is counting down regularly and is currently showing ~4 days left until finish. I guess I'll find out if the timer is accurate (improved) in 7.4.36. Past versions have been terrible about keeping accurate time on many different project's WU's. I think I read they made some improvements in the counter in this version. I am skeptical, since I think it is more dependent on how well the project writes their apps, or even the nature of the work itself.

Anyway, I noticed their wasn't an {H} thread link for this project in the Definitive Guide. May as well link to this thread now and make this the official CAS@Home thread.
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Still crunching on this WU. As I suspected, BOINC was way off on the original time estimate. The WU is now 13.985% completed after 106 hours of crunch time. BOINC now says it has 26 days to go - this on a [email protected]! :eek:
 
Yeah... all of the current work units are rather quick. That would be alarming if someone wasn't aware that those are much larger...
 
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Still crunching on this WU. As I suspected, BOINC was way off on the original time estimate. The WU is now 13.985% completed after 106 hours of crunch time. BOINC now says it has 26 days to go - this on a [email protected]! :eek:
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Still crunching on this WU. Now at 14d,1h,31m compute time and only 47.608% complete. Boinc says it has 16 days to go. Good lord!
 
Work appears to be going out at the moment.. get them while you can.
 
The main application running on CAS@home is the TreeThreader which predicts protein structure. After finishing a big campaign in Oct 2015, there have been sporadic TreeThreader jobs running on CAS@home which is around 200 sequences to predict every month. Currently, the TreeThreader application provides a public service FALCON to allow worldwide biologists submitting their protein sequences for structure prediction, and CAS@home is the backend computing platform for this public service. This service has just been open to the public, and it expects more biologists to use it in the near future with a recent publication. Apart from the jobs from FALCON, there will also be another campaign of TreeThreader between Feb and May 2016 to prepare for the CASP event . As usual, CAS@home appreciates all the support from its volunteers!
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cas@home project status
 
For anyone looking to hit goals or just likes the project, there is work going out right now.
 
CAS has work now, which is a rarity, so jump in and grab some work to crunch!
 
I got a later start on these than I would have liked, but am pulling some now. The wife decided we needed a puppy and guess who is the one that is doing most of the care and supervision..... Certainly not the two little ones. Anyways, I've added a few cores...well... woke them up as I've had the project looking for work now for months. Sometimes you have to give the clients a nudge to check in every now and again. I'm about 350k from my goal and then I can forget about the project...lol.
 
Nevermind, I looked at the wrong list. With that said, this project only seems to have work a couple times a year and they usually go quick due to MM chasers. The good news is that we are currently in 1st place for our league (actually in any league :D) on this project. If we can maintain that, we will more than likely be squatting on those points the rest of the year.

Another thing...last I knew they limited you to 40 work units per rig. So, you may need multiple clients or vm's and other work around to cache some up.
 
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Is this normal?:
Why does CAS give me messages saying that "Scheduler request failed: Couldn't connect to server." and "Project communication failed: attempting access to reference site" and "Internet access OK - project servers may be temporarily down."
 
Yes, this is normal for CAS. The server seems to go through short intervals of not responding.
 
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