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February 23, 2006
An Update on Tasks
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.
just my two cents ... I finally received a new KVM over IP that I needed to install for the 24 servers in the rack and since I had to require the whole dang thing anyway, I just gave some power and network to the old NAS and crossed my fingers. No matter how fragile the disks are, they do have data on them. We will all realize improved use of the client if they bloody well have some work to do
Further, this will also provide a quiet and stable NAS onto which Adam can load the new Library - with no one hitting it, it will be less painfull (I assure you, it is never painless). When that is complete, I move a plug and life goes on with new tasks.
When we release the new library, we will no longer be handing out tasks from the OLD library - we will be closing that chapter if you will as have to do it SOME time and call it a complete dataset for analysis. Please don't hoard results - results that come in after we take the old library down will NOT be useful from the perspective of stats or the SCIENCE!
2006年2月23日
任务消息更新
你可能已经注意到,自从安装了新的NAS以来,前两个星期任务载入方面已经出了一些问题。这些问题的起因是由于“旧NAS上的许多文件无法复制到新的NAS上”。因为大家完成了这么多的任务,而且发现了这么多有效的分子构型,我们感觉我们在复制旧 NAS 上的数据花费了太多的时间,应该关注一下更有意义的事情,比如说配置新分子库。然而,我们等一个月左右才能开始做这件事,并且我们确实想继续在现有数据里寻找任何好的构型。综上所述,这是我们未来的计划。
Charles已经关掉了新的 NAS,而且在重装旧的 NAS。这样应该可以消除形如“loaded 9 of 0 tasks”的警告,等等。它也将会让你继续算现有的所有数据,而不只是一小部分。我正在格式化项目将使用新的分子库(和一个新目标),我希望能在三月底左右完工。届时,新的任务将会放在新的 NAS 上,而且我们将会关掉旧的 NAS,并重装新的 NAS。旧的任务将会从数据库中清除,你就能开始算全新的数据了。注意,当旧的任务不见了的时候,旧的结果将会被保存,所以将来他们可用来进行实验室测试。
总之,通过计算现有任务,帮助我们解决问题,你能继续做有意义的工作。它也意味着,你应该在下个月底左右上传所有的结果。我们想要确保你的全部结果被计算、保存,最好的方法是,等到新的 NAS启用前再上传。
感谢你的时间和努力,如果你有任何疑问请告诉我。
发发牢骚…我终于收到了新 KVM,我需要把它装入架子中的24台刀片伺候器。但这是我份内的事,我刚刚把旧的 NAS,上电和联网,期盼一切顺利。不论磁盘上有多少碎片,但上面确实有数据。我们都意识到,如果有可能一定要改良客户端。
此外,这样也会提供一个纯净和稳定NAS ,好让Adam把新分子库装进去 - 还没有人算过,它将会比较少出问题(我向你保证,它不会出错)。当一切结束的时候,我开放新的任务。
当我们发布新的分子库的时候,我们将会不再发放旧的分子库的任务 - 我们会完全禁用旧分子库,只会拿他们来做分析用。请不要囤积任务 - 在我们把旧的分子库禁用后,那些结果,没有任何科学价值!
[ Last edited by vmzy on 2006-4-28 at 10:53 ] |
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