Lifemapper News 04/12/04

Distributed Computing Projects Lifemapper Project
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[u]Stats Updated[/u]

Sat Dec 4 03:42:22 CST 2004

Based on Free-DC’s stats Here

Pipeline database is now back online :slight_smile:

LifeMapper Project Progress

Top 5 Team Totals


                      Last Update     Daily     Weekly     Monthly         Total

01 Team Phoenix Rising        971     1,360     21,050     117,075     1,891,781
02 The Digital Darkroom       221       648      8,404      66,054     1,361,642
03 TeAm AnandTech           1,836     1,472     29,460     155,094     1,329,492
04 US-Distributed              50        72      2,417      22,359     1,222,263
05 Picard                     113       103      4,948      29,944     1,169,804

Top 10 Individuals Totals


                  Last Update     Daily     Weekly    Monthly       Total

01 888                     27        22        644      3,536     831,584
02 Condor_fdc               0        89        510      2,715     299,834
03 Silverthorne           297       282      4,397     29,526     250,295
04 Fritz                    0         0          0          0     199,140
05 Aydon                   82        65        909      7,060     178,906
06 PCZ                     13        23        431      3,086     177,038
07 Dezyboy & Foxylady       0         4        886     11,159     176,767
08 TPR-markONE             71       784      2,529     13,721     167,593
09 Strop                    0         0          0          0     160,033
10 Team [GSV]               0        98        577      2,534     153,379

TPR LifeMapper Team Progress

New Recruits

None

Leavers

None :slight_smile:

Research Daily Dons


01 TPR-markONE                784
02 Mulda                      190
03 Mortlake                    58
04 Richard Ellis               51
05 Curly99                     47
06 KYOGRE                      42
07 Vortex Graphics             29
08 Michael and Daniel          20
09=step2000                    18
09=Jeff                        18
09=Hairymonster                18

Research weekly Dons


01 Mortlake                  4,367
02 Mulda                     3,459
03 TPR-markONE               2,529
04 allen                     1,666
05 Wyntrblue 'n' Grrrd       1,513
06 step2000                  1,445
07 Richard Ellis               976
08 Speedo                      909
09 KYOGRE                      837
10 Curly99                     678

Total Research Completed


                    Last Update     Daily    Weekly   Monthly       Total

01 TPR-markONE               71       784     2,529    13,721     167,593
02 MAOJC                      0         0         0         0     149,372
03 Mulda                    222       190     3,459    24,164     127,816
04 tpr-wolf                   6         6       102       740     125,700
05 allen                     48        11     1,666     8,326     108,540
06 step2000                  59        18     1,445    11,055     106,228
07 Jeff                      22        18       351     2,486     103,098
08 HairyMonster              16        18       240     4,499     102,640
09 Curly99                   50        47       678     4,693      78,145
10 kraut                      0         0         0         0      72,631
11 Wyntrblue`n`Grrrd        100         0     1,513     9,486      71,720
12 Alta Rica                  9         9       148     1,086      66,830
13 Richard Ellis             45        51       976     6,064      64,025
14 DoubleTop                  0         0        20       554      48,411
15 Gandelf                    0         0         0         0      47,259
16 Speedo                     0        12       909     3,397      41,713
17 Muppet #9 unt Spaceboy     0         3        21       115      41,660
18 KYOGRE                    50        42       837     5,591      37,300
19 Phwaap                    12         5       550     2,986      29,280
20 [TPR] Goody600             0         0         0         0      25,463
21 TPR_Mojo                   0         0         0         0      24,227
22 Mrs Balrog                 0         6       229       976      23,477
23 Bullseye                   3         1       224     1,979      18,631
24 Sir Ulli                   0         0         0         0      17,462
25 mackerel [TPR]             0         0         0         0      16,514
26 barcode                    0         0         0         0      14,244
27 Ciccio                     0         0         0         0      13,734
28 Stomping Boyos             0         0         0       497      11,211
29 kefkef                     0         4       282     1,795      10,752
30 Special K                  0         0         0         0       9,883
31 lab_boy                    0         0         0         0       9,192
32 Mortlake                 253        58     4,367     9,040       9,040
33 pappistox                  0         0         0         0       8,780
34 Jimwyser                   0         0         0         0       8,678
35 Overclocker[TPR]           0         0         0         0       7,569
36 MrTFWitt                   0         0         0         0       7,165
37 Renata Chantrill           0         0         0         0       6,936
38 JUGGY                      0         0         0         0       6,845
39 AAdjuster                  0         0         0         0       6,765
40 SizEzE                     0         6        52       735       6,631
41 Michael and Daniel         1        20        93       505       5,830
42 MrSobre                    0         0         0         0       4,811
43 onclesam691                4         3        51        96       3,305
44 brucie                     0         0         0        66       2,678
45 Nigma                      0         0         0         0       2,172
46 andyu                      0         0         0         0       2,047
47 Hidden Spirit              0         0         0     1,141       1,932
48 gizmo                      0        12        80       548       1,904
49 Wolram                     0         0       102       382       1,585
50 riddlermarc                0         0         0         0       1,478
51 Rangershash2               0         0         0         0       1,426
52 Karlloss                   0         0         0         0       1,402
53 PMM                        0         0         0         0       1,323
54 Bob-A-Job                  0         0         0         0       1,029
55 metz2000                   0         0         0         0       1,002
56 kevdt67                    0         0         0         0         811
57 Vortex Graphics            0        29        29       177         743
58 ReikiMaster                0         0         0         0         562
59 AGD                        0         0         3         3         512
60 io_venus                   0         0         0         0         484
61 GAteKeeper                 0         0         0         0         405
62 Eremita                    0         0         0         0         283
63 wytey                      0         0         0         0         252
64 binlala                    0         7        88       149         149
65 Endre                      0         0         0         0         126
66 Radar                      0         0         0         0          86
67 Dobleslady                 0         0         6        23          80
68 Kirchoff                   0         0         0         0          75
69 SPEEDYJ                    0         0         0         0          48
70 Tanktrooper                0         0         0         0          28
71 wooyento                   0         0         0         0          27
72 pmiloscave                 0         0         0         0          14
73 bachus anonymous           0         0         0         0           6
74 Hoppy                      0         0         0         0           6

Milestones


 None

Usefull links

Lm pipeline: Here

LM forums: Here

Jeff’s TPR stats: Here

TPR LifemapperDriver: Here

top mapping, Curly

all Errors and Ommissions are intentional :wink:

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Thanks for the news Curly. :thumbsup:
Here is the response I received to my email yesterday to the Provost:

Dear Richard –

Your e-mail re Lifemapper to Jim Roberts, the KU Vice Provost for Research, was forwarded to me and I am happy to respond.

First, let me thank you for your unbridled enthusiasm for collaborating with the Lifemapper Project as a distributed computing client, we can see how voracious your processors have been for LM jobs and we’re really in your debt for the cycles you have volunteered.

Second, I would like to apologize for the high latency, lately, in our responsiveness to issues raised in the forums and occasionally to correcting problems in our job processing pipeline. We should have been more timely on both accounts.

We haven’t been neglecting Lifemapper. We are running into severe problems with scalability with our current architecture which was not designed to handle the throughput of the high-performance, command line clients that the DC community has so successfully deployed. There are several applications involved in responding to client job requests, accepting their output, spatial post-processing of the model results and tracking all of the user job information. Most of those have pushed our database servers to their limits and, as you know, some applications are breaking under the strain of the throughput being generated by the DC community.

We’re facing some tough decisions on the project. At the moment the number of jobs being executed is outstripping the availability of new museum data. Unlike SETI, with an unlimited supply of radio signals, we’re dependent source data from museum computerization projects and that’s a significant constraint. Not enough museums are coming online fast enough for us to take advantage of all of the power you and your collaborators are providing for developing predictive distribution models for new, i.e. additional, species. As a result we have been recomputing prediction models for existing data and species to fill the client demand. That is not a bad thing with a non-deterministic algorithm such as ours, additional models give us a greater likelihood of better models.

We know we need to re-engineer the entire LM pipeline to handle the processing load and to be able to scale up to even higher levels of throughput. And we know how to do that. The question is one of timing, priorities in light of other science informatics objectives, and of course ultimately human and financial resources.

The LM Team has been discussing and pondering the options. We will have an announcement within 10 days about the future of the LM Project as a distributing computing effort. We are discussing and planning ways to evolve LM into a more research-oriented service, moving it away somewhat from a passive public archive model and into a set of pluggable web services for research applications-for example for cleaning up and verifying spatial attributes of museum specimen locality information.

Thank you again for your patience. I regret the frustration we’ve generated and I can promise that we will have some clarification of how we are going to proceed with LM as an internet archive and distributed computing initiative soon.

Jim B.

James H. Beach, LM Principal Investigator
Biodiversity Research Center
University of Kansas

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Looks like LM is going away soon. I have always wondering how they could keep it going with such a smaller data set to work with for results. Once a species has been calculated several times the only other variable would be, and external force changing the habitat (Climate would the greatest). These changes would mean many more points of calculation, but would not be what LM was directed at. So that said…whats the next DC project gang?

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I’ll carry on lifemapping untill the project stops, if/when this happends I think I will go back to Folding.

Curly

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Going to continue Lifemapper until it ends.

My decision about the next project depends on if the data and results can be cached as my farm does not have direct connection to the net and I have to move the data by hand to a system that has net access, usallly take home on a pen drive or laptop.

I may go back to using setistash as I know that works on good ole Seti.

Is there any other cachable type projects out there???

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I never had a chance to become addicted , now there seems little point :frowning: , so its back to SETI Classic until Predictor returns bug free .

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I’m glad I’m not the only one who read that reply to REJ in that way :frowning: Sad that it may be going, but who knows, a hundred museums may come online as soon as they get a new db supervisor.

Predictor testing on my machines appears to be running fine, one small issue for me with validation, in that it always takes the lower of two returned results and it would seem that all my results have been crunched by a FX-53 rocket !! Looking good for a return though.

DT.