Currently, I have 14 machines with 80+ cores and 14+ GPUs. When I switched over to run one of them to Rosetta, from cancer research (WCG), I did NOT receive anything related to covid19. Whenever I would receive ALL WUs for covid19, I will switch over... Till then I will stick with cancer research. Let me know when covid19 is the priority here. I am NOT going to download the fold@home app. If it is not thru BOINC, I do not run it.
James

Most Rosetta WUs are coronavirus. And is it that bad if you happen to do other biology research?

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Currently, I have 14 machines with 80+ cores and 14+ GPUs. When I switched over to run one of them to Rosetta, from cancer research (WCG), I did NOT receive anything related to covid19. Whenever I would receive ALL WUs for covid19, I will switch over... Till then I will stick with cancer research. Let me know when covid19 is the priority here. I am NOT going to download the fold@home app. If it is not thru BOINC, I do not run it.
James

Most Rosetta WUs are coronavirus. And is it that bad if you happen to do other biology research?

I think they ran out of packets to send. If you look at their status page they have 0 packets in the queue for anything.

Currently, I have 14 machines with 80+ cores and 14+ GPUs. When I switched over to run one of them to Rosetta, from cancer research (WCG), I did NOT receive anything related to covid19. Whenever I would receive ALL WUs for covid19, I will switch over... Till then I will stick with cancer research. Let me know when covid19 is the priority here. I am NOT going to download the fold@home app. If it is not thru BOINC, I do not run it.
James

Most Rosetta WUs are coronavirus. And is it that bad if you happen to do other biology research?

I think they ran out of packets to send. If you look at their status page they have 0 packets in the queue for anything.

There will be more soon. They need to look at the results we gave back to create the next set of work units. We're just processing faster than usual as everyone is going nuts over the virus.

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Currently, I have 14 machines with 80+ cores and 14+ GPUs. When I switched over to run one of them to Rosetta, from cancer research (WCG), I did NOT receive anything related to covid19. Whenever I would receive ALL WUs for covid19, I will switch over... Till then I will stick with cancer research. Let me know when covid19 is the priority here. I am NOT going to download the fold@home app. If it is not thru BOINC, I do not run it.
James

Most Rosetta WUs are coronavirus. And is it that bad if you happen to do other biology research?

I think they ran out of packets to send. If you look at their status page they have 0 packets in the queue for anything.

There will be more soon. They need to look at the results we gave back to create the next set of work units. We're just processing faster than usual as everyone is going nuts over the virus.

Fantastic news. I have 2 more computers being shipped to me this week to help out more!

Currently, I have 14 machines with 80+ cores and 14+ GPUs. When I switched over to run one of them to Rosetta, from cancer research (WCG), I did NOT receive anything related to covid19. Whenever I would receive ALL WUs for covid19, I will switch over... Till then I will stick with cancer research. Let me know when covid19 is the priority here. I am NOT going to download the fold@home app. If it is not thru BOINC, I do not run it.
James

Most Rosetta WUs are coronavirus. And is it that bad if you happen to do other biology research?

I think they ran out of packets to send. If you look at their status page they have 0 packets in the queue for anything.

There will be more soon. They need to look at the results we gave back to create the next set of work units. We're just processing faster than usual as everyone is going nuts over the virus.

Fantastic news. I have 2 more computers being shipped to me this week to help out more!

I hope they get the GPU WUs going soon, I have a lot of GPUs.

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I hope they get the GPU WUs going soon, I have a lot of GPUs.

No gpu work on Rosetta.

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I hope they get the GPU WUs going soon, I have a lot of GPUs.

No gpu work on Rosetta.

Message 92681 in this thread: "c. We are in communication with Charity Engine to possibly use their infrastructure to run GPU machine learning based jobs and to help integrate such capability to R@h."

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A heartfelt welcome to the BOINC Brotherhood that came over from SETI@home! 😀
Repeat after me:
Together we crunch,
to test out a hunch,
and wish we had scores like the best of the bunch!

Guess it might be a good time to let my rebuilt OptiPlex (Core i5-2400) and HP Pro (Xeon X3470) desktops rest for a bit, my room has become a sauna since I threw them into the project and we haven't un-tarped the air conditioner!

Wow, I can't get any tasks anymore. Nice for the project I suppose. :)

Not so nice for me, because for some reason (driver/hardware/windows sucking) stressing my CPU actually makes my computer work better. Go figure.

Guess it might be a good time to let my rebuilt OptiPlex (Core i5-2400) and HP Pro (Xeon X3470) desktops rest for a bit, my room has become a sauna since I threw them into the project and we haven't un-tarped the air conditioner!

Don't you run it backwards in winter? And you could open a window :-)

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Hi from Germany!
Not new to BOINC, but new with R@H since... we all know when.

Stay safe and healthy, everyone!

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Hi from Germany!
Not new to BOINC, but new with R@H since... we all know when.

Stay safe and healthy, everyone!

It's not the virus that concerns me, it's the world falling apart due to virtually nobody working. I already find it hard to buy food, a freezer, a home gym, or brewing sugar. Panic is always worse than the actual thing.

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Sure, but the only thing you can do, is keeping a cold state of mind. Don‘t panic, and try to calm down the people you‘re with.
The virus is everywhere, so there‘s nowhere to run. No panic needed. ;)
I still have a lot of work, and if I should run out of jobs, I‘ll help to do groceries for those, who are in more danger than me.

Hi from Germany!
Not new to BOINC, but new with R@H since... we all know when.

Stay safe and healthy, everyone!

It's not the virus that concerns me, it's the world falling apart due to virtually nobody working. I already find it hard to buy food, a freezer, a home gym, or brewing sugar. Panic is always worse than the actual thing.

The world won't fall apart. We as a human race will prevail and overcome this, and I really really hope, many volunteers will stay with Rosetta and do work units for years, to maybe help the scientists understand new things about folding and might help to be prepared for the next pandemic. Since 2000 every decade China gifts the world some respiratory virus, and there is/was Ebola/Zika. We are more fragile than we think folding is a good way for the average joe to contribute to the fight.

Just keep your head down. 4-6 weeks and Europe will overcome the first wave, and we have to hope and give all the help to the science to get a therapy or a vaccine, while Covid is in retreat, because as the best minds see, there is a good chance it will emerge in the autumn.

Sure, but the only thing you can do, is keeping a cold state of mind. Don‘t panic, and try to calm down the people you‘re with.
The virus is everywhere, so there‘s nowhere to run. No panic needed. ;)
I still have a lot of work, and if I should run out of jobs, I‘ll help to do groceries for those, who are in more danger than me.

I don't panic, which is why I haven't bought 5 times my normal food shop and made everyone else do without. Same crap happened when one of the UK's oil refineries went on strike. There wasn't a shortage of petrol until people thought there might be, filled up all at once, and then there was a shortage. There is no accounting for human stupidity - Albert Einstein.

And there is somewhere the virus isn't - the open countryside. But apparently I'm supposed to take exercise from my front door and not travel elsewhere. No thanks, I'll go running in the middle of nowhere, not down the street meeting hundreds of others.

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It's not the virus that concerns me, it's the world falling apart due to virtually nobody working.

That is not unreasonable. At some point, you have to allow the less-vulnerable (whoever they are) to get back to work in some limited form, with the attendant health risks.
If the economy stops entirely, it will be hard to restart.

You would think that given the inevitability of viruses and pandemics (and they can be far worse than this one), that governments would have stockpiles of face masks, gloves, ventilators, and whatever.
It would cost a very (very) small fraction of what we spend on defense in the U.S. Also, they should have run computer models for various scenarios on how to keep the economy from seizing up.

Did they do that? Fat chance. Maybe China did. They seem to be managing it the best.

PS - Maybe you can read this. I think the NYT is making some things available without a subscription.
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/03/21/upshot/coronavirus-deaths-by-country.html

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It's not the virus that concerns me, it's the world falling apart due to virtually nobody working.

That is not unreasonable. At some point, you have to allow the less-vulnerable (whoever they are) to get back to work in some limited form, with the attendant health risks.
If the economy stops entirely, it will be hard to restart.

You would think that given the inevitability of viruses and pandemics (and they can be far worse than this one), that governments would have stockpiles of face masks, gloves, ventilators, and whatever.
It would cost a very (very) small fraction of what we spend on defense in the U.S. Also, they should have run computer models for various scenarios on how to keep the economy from seizing up.

Did they do that? Fat chance. Maybe China did. They seem to be managing it the best.

Well they are the expert on viruses, since it started there, but apparently it's not allowed to suggest that in here. I won't be donating my computing power to this project any longer due to power hungry admins yelling at me.

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Sid Celery,

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I'm also sorry to say the tasks ready to send on the server status page are <not> ready to send. There's always an 8,000ish discrepancy when tasks run out completely for several days, as they do now and as they did a few months ago - confirmed when compared with the homepage right now. I've learned to ignore it and look elsewhere.
It's not important, but It's distracting, because people are regularly distracted by it.

I'm going to get thrown out of here, aren't I... :(

Could that be because the tasks are set up to run under specific operating systems, and the last 8,000 are not suitable for the operating system on your computer?

Also, could it be that 8,000 tasks are of types that are not shown under Tasks by application at the bottom of the server status page?

The two listings of available tasks tasks on the server status page do not agree, but it is not obvious whether it is because they show the status at different times or because one doesn't show all types of tasks.

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Well they are the expert on viruses, since it started there, but apparently it's not allowed to suggest that in here. I won't be donating my computing power to this project any longer due to power hungry admins yelling at me.

The virus starting in China does not prove that the Chinese did it. It now looks like natural processes among animals did it instead.