It is a little early for the scientists to begin updating us about progress, but I believe the first batches of results have already been completed and returned to the researchers.

Even small differences in molecules can have a big impact on their effectiveness, so, while there are ways to optimise the search, it isn't as simple as eliminating similar compounds. I'm not sure what compounds the researchers are testing, but usually they will run a "diversity set" of very dissimilar compounds first. This lets them cover the most ground early on.

Remember that even if a lead were to be found tomorrow, it still takes years of testing before a drug is approved. Don't lose hope, though - other researchers will have other drugs already in the testing phase. A breakthrough may come at any time.

Unless we get work intermittent as we have with CEP, 40000 tasks a day, presently, and still warming up with a project length of 2 years gives a cool 29,200,000 results, which would include the double checks, but our stats do only show valid results.

The work in the batches is sliced differently than the 9 million suggest. As you will have surmised from other WCG projects, this can be done at will except for HCC which are unique and unsplittable single target image analysis. Given there is a library of a few million compounds to be tested against 3 or more specific targets requiring each a variable number of docking attempts to find the best fit, the tests can be compiled so they each run with a target project mean of 7 hours.

If the project produces too much data too fast, we could be facing RICE and DDDT situations... an intentional slow down, so with all this, not sure how many tasks there will or how many CPU years, which I think were initially estimated to be 8,000, which at present 20.2 7 day mean fills 400 days work.

Good thing this is Zero Redundancy and not Quorum 2 ;-)

Added: If this 8,000 CPU years was extrapolated from tests on a P3, this project could finish sooner than later :D

Hi Col323,

Would you mind sharing your calculations/spreadsheet? I am having a hard time understanding the statistics available through the same named module in the GCD application.

I am trying to see simple things, like estimated date for completion under current speed, number of scripts already calculated and to be calculated.

I really don't understand what those measures in the stats module mean, it says User Total 1400, what is that? Hours? Certainly not hours. User average 150, what about this one? The charts have no legend of the variable being reported.

Any explanation would mean a lot because I am gathering more data to explain to others.

Thanks!

Hi lwall_mba,

I'll second what Harreld said. Sekerob does some great analysis, plus he knows how things work behind the scenes. My numbers aren't meant for public consumption and I would wager are far less accurate than his.

If you have specific questions, don't hesitate to post. People here are quite willing to help. Developing a better understanding of WCG keeps us all motivated, and is very helpful when recruiting others.

Cheers!

Col323

I know I saw a bunch of new recruits for the CEP project but hadn't really noticed if there were a lot of new crunchers being drawn in for this project. Do we know if there was a big jump in registrations around the time the press release went out for this project?