Proteins@home

[russkris]

http://biology.polytechnique.fr/proteinsathome/images/cath0.gif

By joining Proteins@Home, you will be part of a large-scale protein structure prediction project and help to advance an important area of science. By increasing our knowledge of proteins, you will contribute to a better understanding of many diseases and pathologies, and to progress in both medecine and technology. Proteins@Home is not for profit.


http://biology.polytechnique.fr/proteinsathome/

[Webmaster Yoda]

I've been running this project since closed Beta (when they used invitation codes). It's been open beta for a month now with account creation open to all.

My team (BOINC@AUSTRALIA) has been active in it since September and apart from validation problems in the early stages, it appears to be smooth sailing. I haven't heard any complaints from our members.

Stats are updated at least daily (no gaps in the past 30 days at BOINCStats)

[russkris]

Thanks Yoda.. :ninjawel: to the forum...

Maybe if so of your team mates could pop by and gives us some detail on how the project works and runs as well

[Wang Solutions]

I have been running Proteins now for a few months. It seems to be very stable and runs equally well on different processors (pentium 4, pentium M and various AMD chips) - all on Windows in my case.

I have not experienced any problems with it.

My 2 cents worth. ;)

[russkris]

Would this Project fit into Biological Science?

[Webmaster Yoda]

Would this Project fit into Biological Science?


Yes:
"By joining Proteins@Home, you will be part of a large-scale protein structure prediction project and help to advance an important area of science. By increasing our knowledge of proteins, you will contribute to a better understanding of many diseases and pathologies, and to progress in both medecine and technology."

And it's run by:

Laboratoire de Biochimie (UMR CNRS 7654), Department of Biology, École Polytechnique, 91128, Palaiseau, France.

[Carlos_Pfitzner]

I had run it from the days of "invitation codes",
paused some time, cause it was doing too much i/o on my hd.
now there is a new app version, that seems to runs fine on windows xp,
and it is open to everyone create an account, so im running it again.
it fits into "Biological And Medical Science"

[Toutouf]

École Polytechnique, 91128, Palaiseau, France.

Hey ! I know that place !
I pass to side every night while driving to work !

Sure I'll help a little more when they'll be registered in the Vault.

[mike047]

Anyone have information as to why this project is unreachable and when/if it will be back up???

[Adywebb]

Mike - seems like they have a serious hardware problem - earliest would be Monday I suspect......

[russkris]

Thank you for letting us know gents

[Narwhal]

<LEGEND align=center>News</LEGEND>
Mar 5, 2007 Mar 5, 2007 18:00:00
Our server is back online after having been down for 3 days. Problems came from a network hardware breakdown. See more on the message boards.

[Adywebb]

Yep, managed to catch a brief glimpse of that message today - unfortunately whilst attempting to reply to it, the site went down again.

What I was attempting to say was that my machines still can't communicate with your server, I still have 200-300 results with their status stuck either at 'uploading' or 'waiting to report' :sigh:

I would suggest there are still problems - and I hope they extend the unit deadlines further until its sorted....

[mike047]

It is OK right now.

[Adywebb]

Still not working for me Mike - don't know if all these results are borked now or something :(

When I manually try to update or upload results I get:

Project communication failed - project servers may be temporarily down

or

Access to reference site succeded - project servers may be temporarily down.

and also:

Scheduler list fetch failed:http error

or

Schedular request failed: couldn't connect to server


As it was a network hardware fault, maybe if they have more than 1 server, then the one that I'm unfortunately linked to is still having problems?

I am also having sporadic problems even viewing their project site - in fact I can't get on it at the moment to post my problem...

[Adywebb]

Mike or Rusty - over at the Proteins site I have been asked to post those errors listed above from the messages tab, but I can't even get on there now long enough to post them :confused:

Can one of you please help me doing a copy and paste over there for me in the 'server now working' thread?

If thats possible can you also say I can access any other site or forum, and also that Boinc is running and communicating with all other projects just fine

Thanks, Ady :)

[russkris]

Done Mate :thumbsup:

I have subscribed to the thread and will post any reply here...

[Adywebb]

Thanks Rusty - I appreciate it :cheers:

[Adywebb]

Rusty - sorry to be a pain but in the brief 30 secs i managed to get on the project site I noticed a reply from one of the project staff saying something like the past few days the servers have been very busy - but should be OK now - can you post the following there as a follow up for me?

I can still rarely even access the website with any of my machines, never mind Boinc communicate anymore with your server since the network hardware issues.

I have disabled all firewalls in case that is an issue, and also tried from various different machines with no success - as a last resort I have detached from the project on 2 machines and tried to re-attach, but unable to do so.

I have no issues connecting or communicating with any other DC projects.

All my PC's go through a router - my IP address is 82.69.183.62 - I was wondering if you could look at my account to see if you can find any issues, and also see if your server is for some reason blocking my connection attempts?

Thanks Rusty :cheers:

[russkris]

Done Mate..

[russkris]

Glad to see every thing is working now matey

[Adywebb]

Thanks Rusty - and a big thanks for the help :cheers:

Still have no idea what happened, but maybe when the server came back online, my router couldn't cope with 100's of results all trying to communicate with the server at once and developed a bottleneck of some kind :dunno:

Anyway, I have detached from the project for now, and may give it another go in future.

Ady :)

[russkris]

Attention all crunchers..


Whats going on with Proteins@Home... DC-Vault hasn't taken stats for sometime now, is it still active?

[umccullough]

Free-DC claims stats haven't updated since 2007-07-21 - so it's only been a little over a month so far...

[russkris]

Hmmm.. Thanks mate....

Anyone getting work from them?

[KAMCOBILL]

HTTP 403 Forbidden

9/11/2007 02:14:17|proteins@home|Fetching scheduler list
9/11/2007 02:14:22|proteins@home|Deferring communication for 1 days 0 hr 0 min 0 sec
9/11/2007 02:14:22|proteins@home|Reason: 23 consecutive failures fetching scheduler list

19 days since last connect

[Adywebb]

Seems Proteins is about to start up again :)

[russkris]

Awesome news... Can you please Keep me up to date?


EDIT:January 29, 2008
Our server is back online! Some new workunits are coming ...

[cswchan]

Srarted crunching some WUs today...

[russkris]

Nice....

[umccullough]

I attached several of my boxes to this project again - and they are definitely picking up work.

Unfortunately the Linux64 box I attached got none, and upon further inspection - there is no Linux application for proteins@home :( That's a bummer.

Otherwise the windows clients are plugging away just fine.