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Thread: Research Log: Updates from the Harvard Team |
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Former Member
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As some of the other WCG projects have finished recently, our return rates from the grid are improving again. Until June we had arrived at a daily average of 20-21y/d which then suddenly dropped to 13-14y/d for the rest of the summer. Now we seem to be picking up steam again and the average has been climbing to 15y/d. Hope we can get back to our former level sometimes. So, keep crunching, everybody!
https://secure.worldcommunitygrid.org/stat/viewProject.do?projectShortName=cep2 |
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Former Member
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I surely hope the numbers will be picking up again. Personally I believe energy, water and food security will prove to be huge challenges for the next century. This project may prove the first step to solving one of those.
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Amelior Scout
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I agree with MathFreak.
----------------------------------------~Anyway, is there anyone that knows what parallel computing is and if it could benefit computational research in some way? I'm curious because I found this: Kickstarter: Parallella by Adapteva It looks like Boston University is using it for neural modeling: Neuromorphics Lab: Parallella & Adepteva
~Life is ever-changing~
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Former Member
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Dear Wolf834,
parallel computing is when you have a multicore computer and all cores crunch on the same problem simultaneously. This can be very beneficial in scientific computing, as for instance a 2-core setup can ideally cut down the computing time in half (although in reality there is some loss, i.e., you only get a speedup of 1.8 or so). We have designed the CEP2 workunits in a serial fashion, i.e., the multiple cores work on multiple jobs. For us that actually works better because grid computing is really a volume rather than a high-speed computing paradigm. Best wishes from Your Harvard CEP team |
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Former Member
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Alan received some unexpected mail the other day from one of our crunchers names Steve. He saw a documentary about the World Community Grid and made a flyer to promote it. Really neat!
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Former Member
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P.S. You can check out Steve's flyer on our facebook research log:
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=53894...31&type=1&theater |
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Former Member
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One of the great quantum chemists of the 20th century has passed on and we pay our tribute to his life and legacy. Prof. Nicholas Handy has played an important role in the lives of many students, postdocs, colleagues, and collaborators, and it pains us to have lost him. RIP.
http://www.ch.cam.ac.uk/news/death-professor-nicholas-c-handy-frs |
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Have a great weekend everybody! Here is a bit of a poke at our friends in the medical research community. Enjoy!
http://xkcd.com/925/ |
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Former Member
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We are currently interfacing the new data calibration with CEPDB. Cool stuff.
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Former Member
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All righty - calibration interface worked out fine, now on to the Scharber analysis of the entire database.
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