Big changes afoot at Stanford!

[muddocktor]

I was just over at the community forums and was looking in the announcement section and ran across the news that the Genome@Home project is being terminated. :eek2: Here is the link (http://forum.folding-community.org/viewtopic.php?t=7252) to the announcement thread. Needless to say, there will probably be some adjustments made on various teams over the next few weeks as the G@H project winds down. There will be some teams from large forums that will most probably show a giant increase in production I imagine, as their genomers switch over to folding. One that I really expect to be moving is ARS, who has the number 1 genome team.

Just thought I'd post this up.

[Straight_Man]

Thanks for the heads-up....

John D.

[primesuspect]

My poor little "mini-army" of 450mhz and under processors :(

[Straight_Man]

My poor little "mini-army" of 450mhz and under processors :(

Actually, in my case, I will have a couple 3.2 GHz P4s going within next 45 days-- the Barton is getting sold and the motherboard, it cannot take even slightly summerish heat and the P4 CAN do so reliably... But, Tinkers will still be needed to be worked on. Not all by any means of the Tinkers were GAH Tinkers. Just the ones that followed up some GAH projectrs were, some of those projects have been used to build into newer cancer and other mysterious disease research.

Now that the Genome has been mapped decently, we can expect derivative work but that is proving to be cluster and mainframe work for fastest results. so, the stuff that the GAH project did is being done by dedicated faster boxes as folks want to patent practical results. Good thing you bought or have folding for you, the P4 boxes.... :D

John D.

[csimon]

If we could get those guys interested in F@H we'd be :smokin: !!!

[Lincoln]

My poor little "mini-army" of 450mhz and under processors :(Just keep 'em going and they'll get deadline-less WUs for F@H. Good 'nuff, I'd say :)

[profdlp]

My poor little "mini-army" of 450mhz and under processors :(
MannyMax
Site Moderator

OC-AMD wrote:
Sad to see it go... but I do have a question. What is recommended for slower machines or machines that don't finish F@H WU's in time? It use to be recommended that you do G@H units... Do we just shut them off now?


I'm not sure how much I can reveal here, but expect to see more in the near future for F@H users with slower machines.
Looks like it might not be time to retire my K6-2 yet!

[profdlp]

Revealed!

What will happen to clients which have the gah preference selected?
We are setting up a server for FAH units without any deadlines. Only clients with gah selection will get assigned to this server. It will take the place of the gah server.

[primesuspect]

woo!

[Spinner]

Good thing you bought or have folding for you, the P4 boxes....
Erm, Yoda? what have you done with John? ;)

[t1rhino]

That is great news for the Folding community. Think of all the computers switching over... :)

[mmonnin]

I have known about this for a little while and its what I hinted at about in another thread. a2j tries to tease me over in telling him.

They will be sending out GAH Wus until the 15th of April and will be still accepting them until May 1st.

Stanford recieves no grants or funding for this project and cant afford to have people keep this going.

I will this this dearly. The GAH saved me ass several times when we lost the internet. The Gromacs finished but I still have 10 GAH WUs lined for an emergency. Got that on all my main systems and I have GAH running on some other slower systems like a P2 233 MHz.

The news does not stop here tho. Not sure when it will be posted about but something else is stirring in the Pande Labs.:D

[Lincoln]

Revealed!Echo? :p

[profdlp]

Echo? :p
I read through three pages of the thread at the Folding Community, then saw primes comment and responded. (OK, blurted.) Just missed your post altogether... :-/

...it's not like I was ignoring you... :p

[mmonnin]

Prime: I just read the thread and deadlineless WUs will still be available with the GAH option during setup. They will be normal Tinkers but ones that dont have a high priority.

More in the FAQ.
http://www.stanford.edu/group/pandegroup/genome/faq.html

[EyesOnly]

So much for folding on this rig. Now i really gotta upgrade. :rant:

[profdlp]

So much for folding on this rig. Now i really gotta upgrade. :rant:
No! Just set the program to run the genomes. It will give you F@H WU's with no deadline.

But, you'll be happy once you get the upgrade. I've been postponing my "sure thing" upgrade for about six months now... :banghead:

[mmonnin]

Yeah no need to change EyesOnly. Keep the settings fine. It may take even longer but you will still get full credit.

[EyesOnly]

Longer great. :( Oh well i'll keep the settings and see what happens.


But, you'll be happy once you get the upgrade.

I don't doubt that.

[mmonnin]

But they will be worth more points tho.

[EyesOnly]

More points more time, less points less time. I don't see a differens. Oh well as long as i get credit for it it's ok i guess. :fold: