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October 08, 2006
October Project Status
Our last project status update was in July, so it's high time for another one. I expect development activity to pick up in the next few months, so I'll plan on publishing updates at least monthly, if not more frequently.
July-September 2006
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You guys have exceeded your own lofty standards of crunching in the last few months. Since the last project update on July 5, you have returned about 4.5 million candidate results, and you're now uploading between 40,000 and 50,000 candidates a day. This is outstanding and you are to be commended on your dedication to this project!
In early July, we had just "turned on" candidate time limits, and I hadn't had much time to evaluate the impact to the project by the time of the last status update. Over the last few months, I've monitored the results coming in to see how many "expired" tasks are being returned. In the first week or so of time limits, some nodes were returning lots of expired tasks, but that seems to have become less of a problem as people have gotten the hang of downloading manageable chunks of tasks to work on. Currently, less than 1% of all returned results are expired. And remember, even if a task is expired, it is still saved, but it does not toward a node's statistics.
Along these lines, I'd like to know how you all feel about the time limits now that we've had them for awhile. Is 31 days working OK? Are there problems that the time limits are causing you? I've had a smattering of feedback, but no landslide of protest or yippees. Let me know if we need to change something.
I still have some of the old targets queued up and ready to be deployed with new candidates, but the coverage statistics show that we've still got awhile to go before we have really complete coverage of the targets deployed right now. In general, I'd like to keep a couple of targets active until we've pretty well exhausted them, and then move on (or back) to other targets.
In regards to client updates, you may have noticed the new forum area to discuss which features we'll put into the client update slated for 2007. This is the first step toward making sure that we get the features that are most important to the biggest segment of our users.
Finally, preparation work for the project review article continues, but it's going a little slower than I hoped and expected. I'm still committed to finishing the article, though, and I'll let you know how it's coming.
Upcoming
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On the server side of the project, I have a few things line up for the not-too-distant future. One is a password utility that will allow you to reset your project password on your own. As I get ready to unroll these items, I may be asking for a few volunteers to try them out before they go live.
In the next couple of months, I'll continue to be asking for your input on features for the next release of the client, scheduled for 2007. The more input you provide, and the more discussion we can generate, the better the final product will suit your needs. Please plan to visit the requirements forum often!
I'll continue to monitor the coverage statistics and switch out targets when appropriate. Something we may want to consider is that the switchouts represent natural breakpoints in the project. We could take statistics snapshots at these times and save them as we did with the Hall of Fame, but without the overall statistics reset. At some point we could possibly have two sets of running stats: all-time and current. This way, we could have "seasons" in which to do our crunching. Let me know your thoughts
As always, your questions and comments are welcomed.
2006年10月8日
十月项目消息
我们上次是在七月更新项目消息的,因此,现在是发布新消息的时候了。我想在接下来的几个月里加快开发活动,因此,我至少每月发布更新消息。
2006年7-9月
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在最近的几月里你们做的太棒了。自从上次项目在7月5日更新以来,你们已经上传了大约450万个结果,而且你们现在每天要上传4-5万个结果。这太棒了,你们对这个项目所做的贡献值得表扬!
在七月初,我们正式 "开启" 了任务的时间限制,不过在上次消息更新前我没有太多的时间考虑它对项目造成的影响。在最近的几月,我检查了有多少 "过期 " 的结果被上传。在第一个星期里,一些节点上传了许多过期的任务,但是,这似乎并不是公共问题,因为这些人的网络出了问题,无法及时上传/下载。现在,不到 1% 的所有上传的结果是过期的。而且记住,即使一个任务过期,它仍然被保存,只是不加入该节点的数量统计而已。
我们已经照这样进行了一段时间了,我想要知道你现在对时间限制的看法。31天限制好吗?你是否遇到了问题?我已经有了些许的反馈、但是没有特别好或坏的意见。如果你觉得我们需要作出改变,就告诉我。
我仍然有一些需要针对新的候选分子库进行计算的旧目标在排队等待部署,但是统计显示我们还需要一段时间才能把现有目标完全算完。大体上,我会保持一定数量的目标开启,直到我们把他们全部算完,然后转移至其他的目标。
关于客户端更新,你可能已经注意到新开的论坛讨论区,讨论2007年的客户端更新应该加入哪些功能。这是重要的第一步,以确保我们新加的功能对我们的大部分使用者而言很重要。
最后,项目概览文章还在继续准备中,但是它比预期的进度要稍慢一些。不过我答应了会完成文章,而且我将会及时告诉你相关的消息。
接下来
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至于项目的服务器,在不远的将来我已经安排满了一些事情。一是,密码工具,可以让你按自己的意愿重新设定你的项目密码。在我准备好公开这功能之前,我可能会要求一些志愿者进行测试。
在接下来的两个月,我将继续要求你提供 2007版客户端的功能需求。你提供越多的需求,我们就能进行更多的讨论,最终的产品也将会更适合你的需要。请常来需求论坛看看!
我将继续关注统计数据,并在适当的时候放出新的目标。我们可能想要考虑的事情是,每次发布新目标都代表着项目的阶段性成就。我们在这些时候,会把统计数据作个快照并且保存他们,就如同我们的名人堂一样,只是不用重置全部的统计数据。在某些时候,我们可能有二套统计数据:全部时间的和当前的。这样,我们可以 "阶段性" 地进行计算。告诉我你对此的想法。
一如往常,欢迎你的疑问和意见。 |
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