ronbo54
05-03-2006, 10:31 AM
From Adam Hughes on D2OL site:
"Now that things have stabilized a bit after the start of Phase II and the Member Services crash in April, it's a good time to review recent events and the project status, as well as to lay out our plans for the coming weeks and months.
April 2006 Recap
================
1) Phase I of the project was completed on April 3 as we turned the page
to Phase II. This new period was marked by:
a) A new Avian Flu target.
b) Two new candidate drug libraries.
c) Statistics server updates to prevent duplicate submission of results.
2) We experienced a hardware crash on April 5 that affected all aspects of
Member Services and Statistics. Task downloads and uploads were
unaffected, so the important work of finding drug candidates continued.
A temporary software workaround allowed the statistics server to continue.
The Memeber Services system was recovered during the last three weeks
of the month through the following steps:
a) New hardware was purchased and brought online.
b) The Member Services database was restored from the quarterly backup
of January 24, 2006.
c) Nodes that were created after January 24 and before the crash
were manually re-created in the Member Services database.
Further, new data backup protocols have been established
to hopefully make recovery a bit easier and more reproducible in
the future should the unthinkable happen again.
3) A "Hall of Fame" was created as a historical record of all the
hard work that went into Phase I. The statistics for nodes, members,
and teams have been preserved for posterity, and you all have our
hearty congratulations and deep gratitude for your devotion
to this project.
Now, moving forward ...
Planned Activities
==================
1) After more than a week at 1000, the maximum queue size has been bumped
up to 2000, where it will remain unless problems crop up. You should
be getting your full complement of tasks.
2) Starting on or about this coming weekend (May 6-7), the "old" targets
will be re-introduced to the system, only this time we'll be running
them against the new drug candidates. Expect to see about one new/old
target a week until we're back up to full speed.
3) More statistics server changes are planned. In particular, a "turnaround"
time limit will be instituted to encourage more timely uploading of
results and to discourage the accumulation of large amounts of results
that need to be uploaded. The initial time limit will be one month,
and we'll adjust from there as we gain more experience. This means
that the results for each task need to be uploaded within a month
of the assignment date or statistics won't be credited to the node
that did the work. If something comes in late, the docking results
will be collected, but the stats won't be incremented.
Obviously, since I'm just mentioning this now, I'm not going to turn
this feature on tomorrow. My plan is to install this change around
the middle of June.
As always, your questions and comments are welcomed.
Thanks!
Adam"
The third planned activity is very good news :)
"Now that things have stabilized a bit after the start of Phase II and the Member Services crash in April, it's a good time to review recent events and the project status, as well as to lay out our plans for the coming weeks and months.
April 2006 Recap
================
1) Phase I of the project was completed on April 3 as we turned the page
to Phase II. This new period was marked by:
a) A new Avian Flu target.
b) Two new candidate drug libraries.
c) Statistics server updates to prevent duplicate submission of results.
2) We experienced a hardware crash on April 5 that affected all aspects of
Member Services and Statistics. Task downloads and uploads were
unaffected, so the important work of finding drug candidates continued.
A temporary software workaround allowed the statistics server to continue.
The Memeber Services system was recovered during the last three weeks
of the month through the following steps:
a) New hardware was purchased and brought online.
b) The Member Services database was restored from the quarterly backup
of January 24, 2006.
c) Nodes that were created after January 24 and before the crash
were manually re-created in the Member Services database.
Further, new data backup protocols have been established
to hopefully make recovery a bit easier and more reproducible in
the future should the unthinkable happen again.
3) A "Hall of Fame" was created as a historical record of all the
hard work that went into Phase I. The statistics for nodes, members,
and teams have been preserved for posterity, and you all have our
hearty congratulations and deep gratitude for your devotion
to this project.
Now, moving forward ...
Planned Activities
==================
1) After more than a week at 1000, the maximum queue size has been bumped
up to 2000, where it will remain unless problems crop up. You should
be getting your full complement of tasks.
2) Starting on or about this coming weekend (May 6-7), the "old" targets
will be re-introduced to the system, only this time we'll be running
them against the new drug candidates. Expect to see about one new/old
target a week until we're back up to full speed.
3) More statistics server changes are planned. In particular, a "turnaround"
time limit will be instituted to encourage more timely uploading of
results and to discourage the accumulation of large amounts of results
that need to be uploaded. The initial time limit will be one month,
and we'll adjust from there as we gain more experience. This means
that the results for each task need to be uploaded within a month
of the assignment date or statistics won't be credited to the node
that did the work. If something comes in late, the docking results
will be collected, but the stats won't be incremented.
Obviously, since I'm just mentioning this now, I'm not going to turn
this feature on tomorrow. My plan is to install this change around
the middle of June.
As always, your questions and comments are welcomed.
Thanks!
Adam"
The third planned activity is very good news :)