Hello Shinobi Gaiden,
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Work units are organized into batches on the backend. Batches are sent to the WCG from the project institute, and results are organized into matching batches and sent back. It is a simple way of keeping track of huge amounts of data.

Which project are you asking about?

mycrofth

HPF has been running batches of about a thousand proteins per batch. We have several more batches of proteins waiting at the ISB to run, and we have processed more than a hundred thousand proteins (counting those processed by grid.org).

We intend to run a different project, currently referred to as HPF2, which will use the slower, more computationally intensive, high resolution folding method of Rosetta on some carefully selected proteins that we have already folded in HPF using the fast low resolution method. Right now, Rosetta@home is trying to improve the algorithm that we shall be using in HPF2.

The greater accuracy of high resolution folding will let us use the results in ways fundamentally different than we can with the less accurate results from the low resolution method used in HPF. I am quoting in that previous sentence. No, I don't know what the fundamentally different ways are. I hope that will be explained when the HPF2 project starts (whatever it is named).

mycrofth