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This is the Ars Technica Team Stir Fry Website!
We are a distributed computing team participating in the Distributed Folding project.
Quote: "Our goal is to engineer a system capable of finding the three-dimensional fold for
any protein. We seek a serious, practical and scalable solution to the protein folding problem."
Christopher Hogue
Wednesday, January 14, 2004
Posted @ 00:06:00 GMT by aegion
The new protein is 105 ammino acids long, instead of the old size of 108. This new protein appears fast, so make sure all your systems are updated and get crunching!
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Monday, January 12, 2004
Posted @ 19:06:00 GMT by aegion
A big welcome and thank you to all our new members! The Distributed Folding Project's client software will be switching over to a new protein on Tuesday the 13th. While those who selected automatic update in the install options and have a 24/7 internet connection should be ok, you should still check the client when the changeover occurs to make certain it updated sucessfully. While you can check the forums to verify this once the switchover occurs, ordinarily the ammino acid length for the protein varies after each switchover, so you know its switched sucessfully if the protein length has changed.
Those who connect ocassionally, or run the project in "no-net mode," need to make sure they have the software update to the new client and upload all their old results within 24 hours of the switchover occuring in order to receive full credit for that work. Ordinarily the client should detect that a new version of the software is released after starting with access to the internet and update automaticly or after getting human permission, but if this doesn't work, manually downloading the full client install software and reinstalling it again after the protein switchover occurs should effectively update the client. Make sure you have uploaded your results before you reinstall the client software you just download or you will lose your old results!
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Saturday, December 20, 2003
Posted @ 23:13:00 GMT by Aegion
The new software algorithem update has now occurred. This is confined to just altering the software algorithem for the project, and not actually altering the protein we are working on. This new algorithem software is extremely fast, giving everyone the opportunity to accumulate points extremely quickly! Team Stir Fry team members that are running more than one distributed computing project should keep in mind that this is a perfect time to focus the majority of your computing power on Distributed Folding. Everyone should make sure that your computers have been update, the key indication is that you should end up processing 100 structures per generation as opposed to 50 with the old algorithem.
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Wednesday, December 17, 2003
Posted @ 07:09:00 GMT by Aegion
Here's the official news:
12/15/2003
Upcoming update
There is a client/screensaver update scheduled for Thursday, December 18, 2003, at 10:00 am EST. Now that the algorithm changes have been tested, we would like to release the update with sufficient time to ensure a smooth transition before the holidays, despite the fact that we have not yet reached the posted 5 billion target.
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Sunday, November 30, 2003
Posted @ 06:54:00 GMT by Aegion
Here's some information from Howard on how and when the next protein swichover will occur.
11/28/2003
Protein Update - Test version
A test version of the update will be posted on Tuesday, November 2, 2003. The goal for the current protein will be adjusted accordingly, pending the success of the test version. If you are interested in testing the update, please make sure to upload your results ahead of time and follow the news closely.
Its probably safe to say that Howard meant DECEMBER 2, 2003.
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Monday, November 3, 2003
Posted @ 00:24:00 GMT by Aegion
A big congratulations to Rura who is number one in best structures generated with a 9.64 RMS! Pizzaking is number three and Furballexpress is number six to give Team Stir Fry three out of ten spots in the best structure list. Let's keep up the good work!
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Monday, October 27, 2003
Posted @ 21:13:00 GMT by pizzaking
A new application that is a combination of the features of dfGUI and DCMonitor was released a couple of days ago.
From the dfMon page:
dfMon marries ideas from both dfGUI and DC Monitor - it monitors multiple Distributed Folding (DF) clients and creates HTML output alongside the desktop app and has detailed information regarding each client.
dfMon site
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Friday, October 24, 2003
Posted @ 00:52:00 BST by pizzaking
Digital Parasite has recently updated dfGUI to version 3.2. For more details see this thread in the DCArcana.
DCMonitor has also just been updated to version 0.8. For more details see this thread in the DC Arcana.
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Tuesday, October 7, 2003
Posted @ 23:30:00 BST by Aegion
From the official website comes the following update on the science of the project.
10/07/2003
- We are now on the last protein of our folding 'mini-experiment', protein L with a 14-residue floppy tail removed. Both this protein and protein G (two proteins back) have been folded essentially to completion (well under 3A RMSD) and so the folding pathways we have obtained can be compared to experimental observations of folding pathways, as well as simulated unfolding pathways, to learn a bit more about how proteins fold. As we analyze the data over the next few months we will post results here. For the next protein, we will switch back to an energy-only scoring function (not RMSD-based), so that we will be doing true blind prediction. Thus expect higher RMSDs to native than we have been seeing recently. Our hope, of course, is that we are still able to completely fold proteins using the current approach without using the explicit knowledge of the native structure that we have been using for the last few proteins.
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Thursday, October 2, 2003
Posted @ 06:06:00 BST by Aegion
From the official website news:
10/01/2003
- In consideration of recent upload difficulties, we have rescheduled the protein update to Friday, October 3, 2003 at 11:00 am EST.
- Some users have reported long waits for uploading their data. We believe we have fixed this problem, but if you continue having difficulty please post details on the project forum.
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