March 02, 2006
Next Project Phase Begins April 3

I wanted to take a few minutes to update you on the projected schedule for switching over, permanently, from the old NAS to the new NAS. Library and target preparation is progressing well, and we plan to have the new tasks loaded on the new NAS by April 3 (more details later on the nature of the targets and libraries). We will then unplug the old NAS and replace it with the new NAS. At this point, the first phase (call it Phase I) of the project will be completed, and we will be starting fresh. All stats from Phase I will be saved and available in a static format, and a Hall of Fame will be formed from the top producers. The project stats will then be reset.

With this in mind, you need to be sure to upload any cached results you have by April 2 to ensure that your stats and the results themselves are saved and counted. Remember, Phase II starts on April 3, so Phase I results turned over after that date won’t count toward your new stats.

If anything happens to affect the planned schedule, I’ll announce it immediately. In the meantime, let me know if you have questions or concerns.

2006年3月2日
项目的下个阶段将于4月3日开始

我想要花几分钟时间告诉你项目已经完成了切换，项目已经按计划永久的从旧的 NAS 转到新的 NAS上。分子库和目标准备顺利，而且我们计划在4月3日之前把新的任务(有关目标和分子库的详情属性将稍后提供)上传至新 NAS上。然后我们将会禁用旧的 NAS ，而且用新的 NAS 替换它。届时，项目的第一阶段(称为Phase I)将会结束，而且我们将会以全新的状态开始。Phase I 的所有统计数据将会被保存，并且提供查询，而且会发布一个任务数量光荣榜。 然后项目统计数据将会归零。

记住，你需要确保在4月2日之前，上传你所有的结果，以便确保你没有白算。记住，在4月3日Phase II开始后，老结果将不再被接受。

如果碰巧有事影响了项目的时间表，我将立刻宣布它。此刻，如果你有任何疑问请告诉我。

[ Last edited by vmzy on 2006-4-28 at 11:31 ]

March 04, 2006
I have resurrected the old stats, in part, and created an All-Time Leaders section of the stats web page that will become the Hall of Fame in a month or so. These stats represent the old stats plus the new stats through yesterday morning. The pages aren't beautiful at this point, but it contains the basic information, and I'll make it prettier as time allows.

Note that these are static pages, and won't be updated automatically. I will update them occasionally between now and April, and then they will be frozen forever. Also, right now we're just displaying the top 100 nodes, members, and teams, and I plan to add a few options regarding how many you can view (500, 1000, all, etc.). I do not plan to make it possible to pick a particular number of records to view, however.

You can access the new pages from the "Hall of Fame" link on the stats pages, or directly at


2006年3月4日
我已经部份地恢复了旧的统计数据，而且在统计页面创建一个全部时间的排行榜，在一个月左右内将会变成光荣榜。这些统计表示至昨天早晨的新统计数据加上旧的统计数据的结果。页面此时还不美观，但是它包含基本的数据，而且如果时间允许的话，我将把它做的更漂亮。

注意：这些是静态页面，不会自动更新。我将会在从现在到四月之间的某个时刻更新他们，然后他们将会永远地禁止修改。还有，现在，我们只显示排行榜前100个节点、成员和团队，我计划增加一个能看多少的选项(500、1000、全部，等等)。然而，我不打算实现查看某一个结点的记录的功能。

你能通过统计页面的“光荣榜”链接来访问，或直接输入
http://app.d2ol.com/stats/hof.htm.

[ Last edited by vmzy on 2006-4-28 at 13:00 ]

March 14, 2006
DNS Change
I am in the middle of moving our hosted DNS package from one provider to another. There may be the obvious snafu during the period of time when data should be cascading across name servers.

Once that is done, we'll see if the 23 custom A records come across as well

2006年3月14日
DNS变更
我正在将DNS进行转移。当数据进行转移的时候，服务器可能会很慢。

一旦完成，我们将进行23人同时访问的测试

[ Last edited by vmzy on 2006-4-28 at 13:05 ]

March 20, 2006
Phase II Reminder and Update
I just wanted to remind you that Phase II of the D2OL Project begins on Monday, April 3. At that time, the new structure NAS will replace the old one, and we will begin working on the new Avian Flu target using our new candidate drug libraries. After a break-in period during which we make sure things are running smoothly, I'll begin to re-introduce our existing targets, also running against the new drug libraries. Once again, it is important to TURN OVER ALL OUTSTANDING RESULTS by the end of April 2.

In preparation for the switchover, I have temporarily overridden the maximum queue size for users to 500 tasks. This is done completely on the server side, and it simply prevents the server from handing out more than 500 tasks to any user at any one time. The purpose of this move is to reduce the number of outstanding tasks as we approach the switchover date so that the results/stats servers don't get completely swamped on that last weekend. I anticipate further lowering the queue size to around 100 this coming weekend, and then to something close to zero during the final weekend. April 1-2 should be used to finish any remaining tasks and make sure the results are uploaded.


2006年3月20日
Phase II 提醒和新消息
我想要提醒你一下D2OL项目的Phase II 将于4月3日星期一开始。届时，新的结构 NAS 将会代替旧的，而且我们将会开始使用我们的新候选药物分子库处理新的禽流感目标。在顺利开始后，我将开始再次介绍我们的现有目标，和新的药物分子库。再次提醒，一定要在4月2日前上传所有结果。

为替换做准备，我已经暂时将用户的缓存大小调整到500个任务。这个限制是在服务器上做的，它只是让服务器一次不能发放500个以上的任务给任何一个用户。这样做的目的是，当我们结束替换时，有效任务的数量不会多到，让结果/统计服务器挂掉。我在接近周末时会把缓存大小降低到 100 左右，然后在周末会把它改为0。4月 1-2 日应该完成所有的剩余工作而且确保结果被上传。

[ Last edited by vmzy on 2006-5-9 at 18:00 ]

March 25, 2006
I'll be doing some pre-switchover testing this weekend and next. During this time, you may see a few "sneak previews" in your downloads, and I can't guarantee that other strange things won't happen. I will, however, endeavor to keep my testing brief and relatively limited.

2006 年3月 25 日
本周末和接下来的几天我将做一些替换前的测试。在此期间，你可能在你的下载列表中看一些 "预告片" 数据，我不敢保证它们绝对不会出错。然而，我将努力保证我的测试影响不会太大。

[ Last edited by vmzy on 2006-5-9 at 18:11 ]

March 27, 2006
Brownouts

TRI is in the throes of a series of brownouts today, which are wreaking havoc on the servers. I'm doing my best to keep them up, but you may experience some problems uploading/downloading.

2006 年3月 27 日
拉闸限电

TRI今天遇到多次拉闸限电，极大的影响了服务器的正常运作。我正在尽全力维护他们，但是你们可能遇到一些上传/下载的问题。

[ Last edited by vmzy on 2006-5-9 at 18:18 ]

March 28, 2006
Hall of Fame Triage
At the risk of opening a statistical can of worms, there are a couple of issues that I need to address regarding the final generation of the Hall of Fame. Both are consequences of the stats crash in January.

1) The final Hall of Fame will not be immediately available once we move into Phase II. I anticipate it will take a week or so to build, depending on the work created by 2) below.

2) If you have unregistered nodes that were active before the crash, you should go ahead and register them, and the stats since the crash should be added automatically to users and teams. However, I will need to manually add in the stats that these nodes accumulated before the crash, since these stats were lost along with everything else. To facilitate this, I'll need you to e-mail (ahughes@childhooddiseases.org) me a list of your unregistered nodes that were active before the crash.

2006 年3月 28 日
光荣榜消息摘要
在此光荣榜即将发布之际，冒着打开统计会中蠕虫的危险，我要说一些事。 两者都是一月统计挂掉的后果。

1) 在我们进入Phase II后要等一段时间才能发布光荣榜。我预期创建它将会花一个星期左右的时间，具体取决于下面第2点所产生的工作量。

2) 如果你在崩溃前有未注册的工作node，你应该注册他们，而且崩溃后的统计会自动加入node到用户和团队统计中。然而，我需要手工把这些崩溃前累积的node加入统计，因为这些统计在崩溃时掉了。为了加快工作速度，我将需要你把所有在崩溃前的未注册的工作node列表，发电子邮件给(ahughes@childhooddiseases.org)。

[ Last edited by vmzy on 2006-5-15 at 11:29 ]

March 30, 2006
Phase II Is Coming!

Phase I of the D2OL project ends on April 2, 2006. On Monday, April 3, Phase II starts with new libraries and a new Avian Flu target. As well, updated server software will be deployed to better correlate the tasks assigned to your node(s) with the statistics credited to you.

To prepare for this new chapter of the project, please be sure to upload all of your results this coming weekend. Monday will be too late! After this weekend, you will need to flush any remaining tasks to ensure that your client is working on the latest material.

We appreciate all of your work during Phase I, and we look forward to ontinued collaboration. Stay tuned for more announcements soon!

2006 年3月 30 日
Phase II 即将开始!

在2006 年4月 2 日 D2OL项目的Phase I将结束。在4月 3 日星期一，使用新的分子库和一个新的禽流感目标的Phase II将开始。同时，更新的服务器软件能更好的统计分配给你的node的任务，和你应得的积分。

为了给项目的这个新章节做准备，请确保这个周末上传你的全部结果。等到星期一就太晚了!本周后，你需要清空所有的剩余任务确保你的客户端正在计算最近的数据。

我们对您在Phase I期间所做的全部工作表示感激，而且我们希望能继续合作。稍后会有更多的公告!

[ Last edited by vmzy on 2006-5-15 at 16:11 ]

April 02, 2006
What To Expect on April 3

I want to give you a brief rundown of what should happen during the switchover tomorrow:

By 8AM EDT, I will gather and archive the final statistics from Phase I for the purpose of creating the Hall of Fame (which won't appear for a few days). After that I will take the project servers down, and then Charles will switch to the new NAS. Finally, I'll bring the servers back up and we should be back in business. I'll make an announcement when everything is running again, which I expect to be before 10AM.

Initially, I'll put the queue size at 100, just in case something goes wrong. I don't want to hand out thousands of bad data points to you all. When things look OK, I'll bump it back up to the full 2000.

Thanks for your efforts during Phase I and your enthusiasm for Phase II.

2006 年4月 02 日
在4月 3 日会发生什么

我想要给你简要说明一下明天在替换期间会发生的事情：

在EDT早上 8 点前，我将会收集和存储Phase I最终的统计数据，以供创建光荣榜(过几天发布)。然后，我将会把项目服务器关闭，然后Charles将会开启新的 NAS。最后，我将重开服务器器，将一切恢复正常。当完工后我会发布公告信息，我希望能在早上 10 点之前完工。

最初，我将把缓存大小设为 100，以防万一。我不想发放数以千计的无效数据积分给大家。如果一切正常，我将把它改回到 2000.

谢谢你在Phase I期间所做的努力和你对Phase II 的热情。

[ Last edited by vmzy on 2006-5-18 at 10:22 ]

April 03, 2006
Phase II Tasks Available

Phase II tasks are now available for downloading. The queue size is currently set at 100 but will be increased once we get past any early bumps we might encounter.

I'll monitor the systems pretty closely the next few hours and let you know if there are problems.

Thanks to Charles for doing the physical NAS switch this morning.

2006 年4月 03 日
Phase II任务开始发放

Phase II任务已经开始发放。缓存大小现在设定为 100 ，但是如果没出什么问题的话将会被增加。

接下来的几小时我将守着监控系统，如果有问题，我会尽早通知大家。

感谢Charles今早所做的物理 NAS 的转换工作。

[ Last edited by vmzy on 2006-5-18 at 10:57 ]