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Kevin Project developer Project tester Project scientist Send message Joined: 4 Feb 12 Posts: 103 Credit: 1,003,053 RAC: 580	Message 131 - Posted: 13 Aug 2012, 15:46:55 UTC Last modified: 13 Aug 2012, 15:47:12 UTC
	Hi everyone, We have had some server problems. For this reason, we will not be sending new tasks for a few days. Sorry for the inconvenience. We will be up and running again soon. New apps and workunits are coming soon too. The new apps should be a bit faster and compatable with a wider range of hosts, while the workunits will be significantly shorter. Kevin
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frankhagen Send message Joined: 15 Jul 12 Posts: 38 Credit: 39,211 RAC: 225	Message 132 - Posted: 13 Aug 2012, 16:21:27 UTC - in response to Message 131.
	Hi everyone, We have had some server problems. For this reason, we will not be sending new tasks for a few days. Sorry for the inconvenience. We will be up and running again soon. New apps and workunits are coming soon too. The new apps should be a bit faster and compatable with a wider range of hosts, while the workunits will be significantly shorter. Kevin good news? i hope you can speed up server side also. with shorter wu's the load will definitely get much higher.
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Henk Haneveld Send message Joined: 25 Jul 12 Posts: 14 Credit: 67,178 RAC: 301	Message 133 - Posted: 13 Aug 2012, 18:25:47 UTC
	The last batch of workunits used on my host on average about 20 minutes runtime. This is compared to work for most other projects short. Provided you enable checkpointing you should go for longer running workunits not shorter. If this is not possible you may consider taking a look at what Einstein did. They have a application with short workunits but they bundeled them into a larger result to reduce serverload.
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Kevin Project developer Project tester Project scientist Send message Joined: 4 Feb 12 Posts: 103 Credit: 1,003,053 RAC: 580	Message 134 - Posted: 13 Aug 2012, 18:50:04 UTC
	Thanks for the feedback. The workunits are now shorter because we are docking to a smaller region of the protein. We will wait and see how long they take to run and if needed we may bundle them. As for the server, we are meeting with IT services this week to try and arrange something better. Thanks, Kevin
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frankhagen Send message Joined: 15 Jul 12 Posts: 38 Credit: 39,211 RAC: 225	Message 135 - Posted: 13 Aug 2012, 20:32:42 UTC - in response to Message 134. Last modified: 13 Aug 2012, 20:51:23 UTC
	As for the server, we are meeting with IT services this week to try and arrange something better. tell them your problem is database performance. if they can't deal with it, oh well - you're toast with shorter wu's..
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tng* Send message Joined: 9 Aug 12 Posts: 1 Credit: 1,093,004 RAC: 0	Message 136 - Posted: 13 Aug 2012, 23:52:07 UTC - in response to Message 135.
	As for the server, we are meeting with IT services this week to try and arrange something better. tell them your problem is database performance. if they can't deal with it, oh well - you're toast with shorter wu's.. Longer WUs would definitely help the server load, but it shouldn't be a problem to provide the resources for a BOINC project of this size. Speaking as a volunteer, though, I really would like to have longer WUs. WUs as short as the ones you have had are actually rather annoying to me, and the way the BOINC scheduler works seems to shortchange projects with short WUs (they don't sem to run as much as they should based on resource share). I personally won't care about checkpointing until your WUs start taking a day or so to complete, but I'm sure others will differ with me on that.
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