Workunit statuses

Mapping Cancer Markers: We have increased the number of threads assigned to creation of MCM workunits by about 60% on each workunit management server. As a result, the 7 day average of completed batches sent back to MCM1 research servers (10,000 workunits to a batch) has risen to 57 from 45, roughly a 25% increase. As we increased the number of threads in a two-step process and conducted maintenance on the storage server twice during the 7 day period over which the average is calculated, we do expect this number to increase further even without additional adjustment. We will continue to assess whether we can optimize it more (without interfering with the work currently underway at SHARCNET to resolve our network congestion ticket and move to the new, faster storage server).

Africa Rainfall Project: The ARP team is finalizing storage issues, and plans to resume downloading results from our servers, which will enable more workunits to be sent to volunteers. Workunits are being sent out at a slower rate due to the backlog of completed results. Further, errors in specific generations have caused some generations to lag behind. Together with the ARP team we have investigated the cause of these errors, and we determined that re-sending them after adjusting the granularity/time-step should resolve the problem.

OpenPandemics: As mentioned in a previous update, OPNG workunits are paused as the team is preparing a new set of protein targets. We will provide an update once the new workunits are ready to be distributed.

Help Stop TB: The team has been analyzing previous results and devising new strategies for the search. We are waiting for the Help Stop TB team to provide us with new workunits.

Smash Childhood Cancer: Once the team finalizes new targets, they will be able to prepare workunits for the next phase of the SCC project.

Missing devices

We continue working on resolving the reported problem causing some registered devices not appearing in the My Contribution section. For some insight into the cause of these issues, read our previous update on the topic. At present, we encourage everyone who has this issue to send an email to support@worldcommunitygrid.org that includes your missing device’s name and host ID so we can solve it manually.

If you have any comments or questions, please leave them in this thread for us to answer. Thank you for your support.

WCG team