it did not occur to me that PG is running dynamic quotas at all - or do you mean their new approach to WU-distribution?

by the way of "in the evening UTC" on which slot of timezones are you sitting?

perhaps a countdown-clock like the one on PG would be nice on BOINCstats..


frank.

From the SIMAP Website:

July 28, 2008

New Workunits: The calculation of similarities and features of the new sequences, that were imported from the databases PDB, RefSeq and Uniprot in july 2008, will start in the evening (UTC) of next monday, august 4th. Additional workunits will contain sequences from approx. 100 new environmental sequencing projects.

With the new calculation period we will limit the number of workunits in progress to max. 30 per CPU, in order to distribute the work more homogeneously. We hope this limitation will work properly, for feedback and reporting problems with it, please use our message boards.

frank:


With past practice as our only guide, the folks at SIMAP will begin issuing new work in the early afternoon [3 or so, Munich time].

They don't even pretend to give a definite time, so we have to keep guessing.


Sid

The August SIMAP Scramble is winding down, and Team BOINCstats is in 9th place [RAC] . . . amazing since 3 months ago, we were in 43rd.


1 Planet 3DNow! 48,040

2 SETI.USA 19,290

3 SETI.Germany 15,229

4 L'Alliance Francophone 14,936

5 boinc.at 13,779

6 BOINC.Italy 6,503

7 Nordlichter 6,383

8 Electronic Sports League (ESL) 5,564


9 BOINCstats 4,757


10 Rechenkraft.net 4,666

11 BOINC Synergy 4,260

12 Ars Technica 4,123

13 TeAm Anandtech 4,027

14 Czech National Team 3,267

15 Team Wa 2,873

16 IfE'fanten 2,712

17 Calm Chaos 2,485

18 MEDIA DATABASE 2,464

19 Team 2ch 2,398

20 BOINC@MIXI 2,091



From the SIMAP MB, we can expect the September Scramble to me more of a marathon.

. . . get ready to participate and join your team.

From the SIMAP Website:

August 23, 2008

New Workunits: One week earlier than expected we could prepare the new workunits for the 2 million environmental sequences from the preprocessing batches. The calculation of these workunits will therefore already start in the evening (UTC) of august 24th.

Additional workunits have been prepared for the calculation of similarities and features of the 400.000 new sequences, that were imported from the databases PDB, GenBank, ENSEMBL and Uniprot in august 2008.

From the SIMAP Website:

Project status

Calculation of SIMAP updates is starting soon.

The calculation of new simap workunits containing new sequences from public databases imported in september 2008 (simap app) and their domains (hmmer app) will start in the evening (UTC) of october 1st.

IOW, this months SIMAP Scramble can begin at any minute!

Join us, participate and crunch one of the most worthy projects in the BOINC stable.

From the SIMAP Website:

October 28, 2008 New Workunits: Calculation of SIMAP updates is starting soon.


The calculation of similarities and features of approx. 100.000 new sequences, that were imported from protein databases into SIMAP in October, will start in the evening (UTC) of October 30th.

Join us, participate and crunch one of the most worthy projects in the BOINC stable.

Are all WUs sent out at the beginning? I attached to this project several days ago and got a couple of bursts of work, but nothing for the last 2-3 days.

Cheers,

MarkR

Hello

SIMAP - Only releases (x) ammount of work units once a month and these are rapidly consumed by the many crunchers that exist.
Many of whom have boinc farm's and make short work of the hand out's !

Grab them while there hot and fill your machines to the brim - When there gone there gone !

They dont call it the simap scramble for nothing

On a lighter note... The next simap scramble will start soon !

John

Project status


Calculation of SIMAP updates is currently running.

The current workunits calculate the similarities and domains of approx. 1.500.000 new sequences from metagenomes imported in december 2008.

After these calculations are finished, next workunits are expected around january 1st.


More . . .

The March SIMAP Scramble is rounding the clubhouse turn:





Looks like things might get exciting:

1 Planet 3DNow! 107,904

2 BOINCstats.... 102,876

Team BOINCstats is the reigning King of the Hill at SIMAP.

We will be taking a break before getting ready for April.

SIMAP (Similarity Matrix of Proteins) is a public database of pre-calculated protein similarities that plays a key role in many bioinformatics methods. Protein sequence comparison is the most powerful tool in computational biology for characterizing protein sequences because of the enormous amount of information that is preserved throughout the evolutionary process.

The SIMAP database contains all currently published protein sequences and is continuously updated. The computational effort for keeping SIMAP up-to-date is constantly increasing. Please help to update SIMAP by calculating protein similarities on your computer. The computing power you donate supports manifold biological research projects that make use of SIMAP data.

SIMAP is, to our knowledge, the only project that combines comprehensive coverage with respect to all known proteins and incremental update capabilities.


More . . .

The June SIMAP Scramble is getting interesting:


1 utg.................... 26,203

2 BOINCstats.... 25,497


3 Planet 3DNow! 24,951

Team BOINCstats is the reigning King of the Hill at SIMAP.

We will be taking a break before getting ready for July.

It's getting to be that time of month. . . the July SIMAP Scramble will begin sometimes tomorrow.

. . . time to blow the dust out of your computers and prepare to crunch mass quantities of SIMAP.

Team BOINCstats is the reigning King of the Hill at SIMAP.

We will be taking a break before getting ready for August.

The November SIMAP Scramble has turned into a marathon.

. . . in fact, the currently running Scramble will seamlessly morph into the December Scramble.

Let's see if we can smoke test the SIMAP servers . . . .

The February SIMAP Scramble has morphed into a marathon!

. . . join Team BOINCstats in crunching mass quantities of SIMAP.

The April SIMAP Scramble is almost here!

The April SIMAP Scramble is on!

The April SIMAP Scramble is still on!

. . . get some while they are available.

The May SIMAP Scramble is on!

. . . get some before they go away until June . . . .

Project status

Calculation of SIMAP updates is starting soon.


New Workunits: the calculation of similarities and features of approx. 200,000 new sequences, that were imported from protein databases and metagenomes into SIMAP until the end of May, will start in the evening (UTC) of June 1.

This is this month's starting lineup:

cool