Happy new year!  |
The RNA World team wishes all of you a healthy und successful new year and we also hope that you all had a nice christmas season.
Das RNA World Team wünscht euch allen ein gesundes und erfolgreiches neues Jahr und hofft, dass ihr alle auch ein schönes Weihnachtsfest verbringen konntet.
;-)
Michael.
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| Foldit on the Web! |
Introducing Foldit Education Mode v2 on the Web
In 2020, as the pandemic set in and classes moved online, the Foldit team realized they had a tremendous opportunity to help the science education community that was desperate for good science learning tools. They therefore created and released Foldit Education Mode in August 2020 as a ready-made teaching tool for biochemistry that instructors could use easily and freely in their courses. In the past five years, at least hundreds of educators and many thousands of students have used Foldit Education Mode.
While Foldit Education Mode was greatly successful at meeting the challenge of the moment, it still had flaws that would hold some students back from using it. The Foldit team also recently published a quantitative assessment of learning with Foldit Education Mode (https://doi.org/10.1002/bmb.21906), and while it was fulfilling its purpose, there was definitely also room to improve.
That’s why they're very excited to introduce their second release of Foldit Education Mode with improved levels and teaching tools, but even more excitingly: now available on the web! This means no more downloads required, and compatibility with any computer type. For many, this will enable use of Foldit in the classroom that was never previously possible, and for many more a great degree of increased flexibility and improved user experience.
To play Foldit Education Mode on the web, please go to https://play.fold.it/, and you can start playing immediately! You’ll notice several updates to the user interface along with the new and improved puzzles. The number of puzzles is slightly larger, but this change was largely made to break up levels that had too much biochemistry and gameplay content all rolled together, and by separating it out, the learning experience becomes considerably easier.
In the long term, the Foldit team plans to explore the possibility of hosting smaller Science puzzles to help bridge the gap for new players who start with the web version, but that will require more work to complete. In the meantime, they hope that educators and students worldwide will enjoy the new and improved experience, and those who couldn’t participate before will now be able to.
As always, the Foldit team would appreciate finding out who is using Foldit Education Mode, as they don’t collect that data; it really helps with procuring more funding to support these efforts. So if you do use it, please drop them a line at mail.fold.it@gmail.com.
This post originated from the Foldit blog post https://fold.it/forum/blog/introducing-foldit-education-mode-v2-on-the-web
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| SETI@home papers accepted for publication |
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| JOIN GPUGRID discord |
We mainly use discord these days:
https://discord.gg/dCMkcafPpX
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| sr2sieve wu needs much RAM |
| The workunits of the current S31 batch requiring 3 GB of RAM or more. Also workunits of the next R19 batch using much RAM. |
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| sr2sieve wu runtime increased |
| I increased the runtime for sr2sieve workunits. They should now run twice as long as before. |
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| sr2sieve wu generation |
| I changed the workunit generation for sr2sieve workunits, workunits which are named sr2_*.
The sieve range is now smaller and workunits are running faster. With this they are fitting also
better die old CPUs and ARM processors. |
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| Universe@Home is ending... :( |
My dear friends,
For over 10 years, I have taken care of the Universe@Home project.
Unfortunately, since the passing of Prof. Krzysztof Belczynski, we have not been able to find a way to continue the project. Therefore, as funding ended at the end of August this year, I am no longer formally associated with the project. Still hoping that a scientific team will be found to carry it forward, I have continued to handle the ongoing maintenance of the server, and I intend to keep doing so in my free time until either a successor to Krzysztof is found or CAMK decides to shut down the servers.
I truly regret that such a long history of our shared work is coming to an end. Unfortunately, I lack the scientific expertise needed to continue the research myself.
I would like to thank all of you for years of support and express my hope that we may someday meet again on another project that I could manage from the BOINC side.
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| С Днём Рождения! |
Дорогие друзья!
Поздравим администратора проекта Progger с Днём Рождения!
Пожелаем ему всего-всего, чего ему хочется.
Пусть будет удача во всех делах и начинаниях.
Пусть будет мирное небо и ласковое солнце!
Здоровья и долгой жизни без болезней.
Спасибо вам, Progger, за этот проект!
Дарю вам свою книжечку
"ORCHARD-PLANTING PROBLEM
или
ТРЕТИЙ КОНКУРС ЗИММЕРМАННА"
https://disk.yandex.ru/d/Zxwj7N_DEFACR
PS. Книжку скачать можно всем желающим.
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| Rosetta version 4.29 released for testing |
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The Rosetta application has been updated to include fixes to the core algorithm for protein modeling. Due to how the algorithm interacts internally, we will leave graphics disabled for this version. Please report any issues in the discussion thread here: https://ralph.bakerlab.org/forum_thread.php?id=944
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| BOINC server migration and upgrade |
The project will be offline starting at 3:00 PM UTC on August 9th in order to migrate and update the BOINC server.
The operation could last until August 12th.
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| New batch going out to volunteer's machines: STORMS, investigating how low-pressure systems may change in the future |
Project: Quantifying controls on the intensity, variability and impacts of extreme European STORMS
by Clément Bouvier and Victoria Sinclair (University of Helsinki)
Throughout the year, low-pressure systems regularly move across Europe, usually from west to east, bringing cloud, rain and windy weather. Sometimes these weather systems can become very intense, and the winds and rain associated with them can cause damage to buildings and infrastructure, flooding, and can disrupt electricity supply and travel. Although the short-term weather forecasts of these storms are now quite accurate, it still remains uncertain how these storms, and their impacts, are likely to change in the future as our climate changes. Some of this uncertainty is because our understanding of what controls the strength and impacts of these storms is incomplete.
The aim of this project is to understand what controls the strength and structure of these low-pressure systems. We will quantify how the atmospheric state that the low-pressure systems develop in affects the strength and structure of these low-pressure systems. This atmospheric state can be described by various parameters, for example, the mean temperature, moisture content, and upper-level wind speeds (i.e. the strength and width of the jet stream). Since there are lots of different parameters we want to study (not just the ones described above), we want to do lots of experiments in a high controlled manner. Therefore, we will run a large ensemble of simulations of idealised low-pressure systems using the numerical weather prediction model OpenIFS. Although the simulations are idealised, the weather systems that develop look very like real weather systems that we observed in reality. Each ensemble member differs in its initial atmospheric state, and we choose these initial states to cover everything from the current climate to past pre-industrial climates to the most extreme future climate projections. This is exciting because although idealised simulations of low-pressure systems have been performed before, this is the first time that such an extensive exploration of the parameter space will be conducted.
Once we have the results from the large ensemble, we will calculate different measures of the strength of the storms and then use machine learning techniques to see how these relate to the initial states. Our results will hopefully increase in confidence in how these storms and their impacts will change in the future.
Technical information:
Run time: between 8 and 9 hours for 1 workunit (1 core, Xeon Gold 6230)
Number of files: 480 files
Maximum size of individual files: 1.3MB for 2D fields output files, 13.3MB for spectral output files, 7.1MB for 3D fields output files
Total disk load: 2.0GB
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| Electrical work 3 |
I just being informed now that tomorrow 29/05/2024 in my area there will be another electrical power off from 9:00 to 16:00!!!!
This means that battery power supply cannot handle 7 hours of power failure, so I need to program that the server shot down automatically before 9:00 to preserve it.
It need to be manually power on and this could be done at 19:00.
Sorry for the problems.
Thanks
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| Electrical work 2 |
It seems that in my area electrical works are every month!
On 16/05/2024 from 9:00 to 13:00 there is no electrical power in the area again, so no connection to server (power supply should be able to carry the 4h of power off and still run the server, but without connection to internet).
Thanks
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| Some issues |
I just see today that the OS update of some days ago has stopped something in connection.
Now I reboot all to be sure new kernel were loaded.
Actually log seems good, so I hope that the Boinc activity is restored good.
Thanks
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| Electrical work |
On Thusday 23/4/2024 there are planned some electrical works in my area from 9:00 to 13:30 with power that probably will be tuned off too.
So the server could be not reachable during that times due to loss of internet connection.
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| Lightning bolt |
There was a lightning bolt on 1/4/2024 in the night that damage (e.g. they broke) many electrical devices in the area (1Km^2).
Internet connection were restored only in the morning (as provider is at 200m distance of the server and it was damaged too).
Even if the server is behind a power supply, it get in non operational state (e.g the data disk was disconnected), maybe due to the heavy electrical current it passes onto the battery power supply.
Every disk of the server were un-mount from it and tested in another machine and all data were ok, even if the server did not boot properly.
Now it is running in emergency mode (e.g. it need a manual start up, so if it restart from eventual current blackout, it will no boot) and I will monitoring if all is going right.
During the weekend, I will work on fix it, so the server will be disconnected for some times during the day.
Remember that if the internet connection is on and the server is off, you can see some message here: http://boinc-status.multi-pool.info/ about his state.
Please, remember to set up a backup BOINC project in case of emergency. Thanks.
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| P2203:270000000 wu's (of 10000 trials each equiv.) processed! |
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Thanks to all the users. Please keep crunching!
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| 12-digit factor of P2203 has now been found by the project... |
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...447780 times - still no sign of any larger factors
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| Admin Updates |
Hello everyone,
This thread will be used as a place for project admins to post updates.
If you have a comment or a question, you should post those in the appropriate threads.
There is also an Admin Updates Discussion thread for further discussion on the updates.
Thank you,
Kevin
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