KWSN Orbiting Fortress

Gemjunkie · Posted: Sun Jul 08, 2012 7:47 am Post subject: Ralph

For those interested, Ralph has work.

http://ralph.bakerlab.org/

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LanDroid · Posted: Sun Jul 08, 2012 9:22 am Post subject:

FYI: Ralph is basic research to test and improve the software that Rosetta uses. So if you like Rosetta, prolly should shrub some Ralph once in a while. Crunching it now might help CASP10 if Rosetta releases an update prior to the end of that competition at the end this month.

Ewwww, the WU I just got has the word "Ebolanator". I s'pose they're trying to attack the deadly Ebola virus.

Plomos · Prince Joined: 26 Apr 2011 Posts: 859

joined up for the heck of it. Looks like ralph uses an older version of the rosetta software than what rosetta uses which is loonie for beta testing..... count me in!
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Gemjunkie · Posted: Tue Jul 10, 2012 8:54 pm Post subject:

Out of work again. KWSN moved up one place, though.

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Nuadormrac · Prince Joined: 13 Sep 2009 Posts: 506

It's an alpha, it will tend to run out of WUs rather quickly. Theoretically one could increase the crunch time per WU, same as on Rosetta, if one's after credit (sorta an after thought on an alpha project though); but that will also increase the possibility of an error being exposed in a task, hence resulting in 0 credit granted. Aka, if the error would occur on one of the latter models further into the WU #ni-1

This said, if one was inclined to try to increase their credits, in spite of that risk, I guess further down into the WUs could use testing also, so long as one reports the problems they encounter on the forums...
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Gemjunkie · Posted: Wed Jul 11, 2012 2:53 am Post subject:

Since there is a daily quota of 20 WU's/core, 1hr. WUs means you'll run out of work for 4hrs. every day. I tried 2hr. WUs to solve that but found tasks occasionally paused "Waiting for memory" on my hex-cores with 8GB ram. I switched back to 1hr tasks.

The last day I suddenly started getting ~75% validate errors. Perhaps why they stopped issuing work??

Switched back to WCG.

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Killerrabbit · Posted: Thu Jul 12, 2012 11:49 pm Post subject:

Ralph use to be a test project for Rosetta to try out new clients. Now I have no clue what it is for.

Like the SETI Beta team, which we have. They run the current client.

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Nuadormrac · Prince Joined: 13 Sep 2009 Posts: 506

Perhaps they're testing

* server side software changes?
* changes in the script, perhaps setting different flags, configuring the app differently (perhaps for better performance or because they want different results from the data? Course this would also depend on how complex their app is, in if it can be run more then one way, as dictated by one of the downloaded WU files...
* certain other settings if available?
* new types of WUs under their client?

Just a thought.... The client side app is only part of what's running, as server side apps, how an app is configured (if they have such option open to them through one of the tasks download files that tells it how to run), and the WU itself is also software running, somewhere #ni-1

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