Project News

[IronBits]

10/02/2002
The server will be down again tomorrow morining (EDT) for a few minutes to replace some faulty hardware.

- We did it, we broke the 8A barrier, just as predicted (see 09/09 comment) - can we reach 7A within out 10 billion sample size?

[IronBits]

10/09/2002
As we have now reached 10 billion structures, the next protein update will occur on the following Tuesday, Oct. 15, at around noon EDT.

[Darkness Productions]

Better make that the 16th, as posted here .

[IronBits]

10/10/2002

- As we have now reached 10 billion structures, the next protein update will occur on the following Wednesday, Oct. 16 , at around noon EDT (it is Thansgiving long weekend here in Canada).

[IronBits]

- The problem mentioned in the next paragraph has been fixed, so you can re-download from the download page if you need this fix. Note if your UNIX machine auto-updates from now onwards, you should not need to apply this fix, the auto-update will get a corrected version. If you have already auto-updated and have a buggy version (see problem description below) and you are using any of the following OSes, click the appropriate link to get just the executable (smaller download) - you will have to un-gzip it and rename it to 'foldtrajlite', and overwrite the buggy foldtrajlite in your client directory. You may need to hold the Shift key when you click on the following links for the patches:

FreeBSD
Linux gcc (Redhat 6.2)
Linux icc (Redhat 7.1)
Mac OS X
Solaris 64-bit

If you are using a different flavour of UNIX and need the fix, please re-download the whole package on the download page.

- It has come to our attention that there is a relatively serious (but easily fixed) bug in the UNIX versions of the latest release (Windows is unaffected). If your /tmp (or TEMP) directory is NOT on the same hard drive partition as where you are running the client from, the client will crash when it tries to write out a log file (after 5000 strucs or when you hit 'Q' to exit) (It will say 'the program has crashed', etc. etc.). To correct for now, you can change your TMPDIR environment variable or location of your client so they are on the same partition. A fixed version with just the executable for the more common OSes will be posted as soon as they all get built. (For the less common OSes it will be fixed too, but you'll have to download the full package, that's all). Sorry for any inconvenience, but you will soon agree it is well worth the trouble as uploads of structure data to the server will now be about 25 times smaller/faster!

- Some new features have been added to the client, mostly due to user requests - see the whatsnew.txt in the client directory for details, but:

- The most significant change is much faster uploads due to smaller size. There is a small issue which needs to be corrected still with the new log format so uploads may fail with a '903' error for short periods until the exact problem is identified but for now this should not occur. If you get this error, just try again later.

[Darkness Productions]

11/22/2002

- We are slowly approaching our goal of 10 billion lysozyme structures. This is just a quick note that the next change will NOT occur until on or after Dec. 8. Technical support may be limited until this time to. Sorry for inconvenience. This time we are going to try something a little different - the next protein will be the same one, but we will change the sampling technique. We expect this will result in a best RMSD about 2A smaller than with the present technique (but only one way to find out for sure). This approach will also likely be noticeably faster at generating structures, but they will be of slightly poorer structural quality. We are interested and excited to see if our energy functions are able to pick out the low RMSD structures any better with this alternate sampling approach.

- The Distributed Folding Project will be covered on TV on Wed. Nov. 27, at 5pm EST on a show called 'homepage'. It is on a local Toronto station, but can be viewed from anywhere in the world through the web at http://www.cp24.com/ (scroll down and click on CP24Live to get the channel streamed live to your machine). I believe it will re-run at 11pm EST the same day for those of you on the otehr side of the world who are sleeping at 5pm EST.

[m0ti]

12/07/2002

- Just a quick note that the next protein update is scheduled to occur on Tuesday, Dec. 10 at around noon EST

[m0ti]

12/30/2002

- We have reached our target of 10 billion today, however, in light of it being holiday time now, the next update will not occur until Tues. Jan. 7 at 4pm EST. Thanks to everyone for your continued support and Happy New Year!