ronbo54
02-23-2006, 09:28 AM
From Adam on D2OL forums:
"The current thinking is that we will have a Hall of Fame covering the project from inception through roughly the end of the first quarter of this year (2006). Then we'll start fresh. Look for more announcements on this in the coming weeks."
Also
" All,
As you may have noticed, there have been some problems in loading tasks over the last couple of weeks since the new NAS was installed. These problems are due to the fact that many of the files on the old NAS were not able to be copied to the new NAS. Because you all have done such a great job and found so many promising conformers, we feel that we can spend the enormous time and effort involved in a complete replication of the data on the old NAS in more worthwhile pursuits, like the deployment of new libraries. However, we’re still a month or so away from that point, and we DO want to continue to find any good remaining conformers from the present setup in the meantime. With that in mind, here is our plan for going forward.
Charles has switched out the new NAS and re-installed the old NAS. This change should eliminate the warnings you are seeing, such as “loaded 9 of 0 tasks”, etc. It will also allow your computations to continue to span the entire existing problem space, and not just a small segment of it. I am working on formatting new libraries (and a new target) for use with this project, and I expect to have that work done sometime around the end of March. At that point, the new tasks will have been loaded on the new NAS, and we will remove the old NAS and re-install the new NAS. The old tasks will be purged from the database, and you can start crunching on completely fresh material. Note that while the old TASKS will be gone, THE OLD RESULTS WILL BE SAVED, so that they’re available for future laboratory tests.
What all this means to you is that you can continue to do valuable work by loading existing tasks and helping us to fill any holes that we still have in our solution space. It also means that you should be thinking about uploading any cached results within the next month or so. We want to make sure that ALL of your results are counted and saved, and the best way to do this is for you to upload before the new NAS comes on line permanently.
Thanks for your time and efforts, and please let me know if you have any concerns or questions.
Adam"
"The current thinking is that we will have a Hall of Fame covering the project from inception through roughly the end of the first quarter of this year (2006). Then we'll start fresh. Look for more announcements on this in the coming weeks."
Also
" All,
As you may have noticed, there have been some problems in loading tasks over the last couple of weeks since the new NAS was installed. These problems are due to the fact that many of the files on the old NAS were not able to be copied to the new NAS. Because you all have done such a great job and found so many promising conformers, we feel that we can spend the enormous time and effort involved in a complete replication of the data on the old NAS in more worthwhile pursuits, like the deployment of new libraries. However, we’re still a month or so away from that point, and we DO want to continue to find any good remaining conformers from the present setup in the meantime. With that in mind, here is our plan for going forward.
Charles has switched out the new NAS and re-installed the old NAS. This change should eliminate the warnings you are seeing, such as “loaded 9 of 0 tasks”, etc. It will also allow your computations to continue to span the entire existing problem space, and not just a small segment of it. I am working on formatting new libraries (and a new target) for use with this project, and I expect to have that work done sometime around the end of March. At that point, the new tasks will have been loaded on the new NAS, and we will remove the old NAS and re-install the new NAS. The old tasks will be purged from the database, and you can start crunching on completely fresh material. Note that while the old TASKS will be gone, THE OLD RESULTS WILL BE SAVED, so that they’re available for future laboratory tests.
What all this means to you is that you can continue to do valuable work by loading existing tasks and helping us to fill any holes that we still have in our solution space. It also means that you should be thinking about uploading any cached results within the next month or so. We want to make sure that ALL of your results are counted and saved, and the best way to do this is for you to upload before the new NAS comes on line permanently.
Thanks for your time and efforts, and please let me know if you have any concerns or questions.
Adam"