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Folding@home COVID-19 efforts
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Global project progress. #10

Open zbigos opened 4 years ago

zbigos commented 4 years ago

Hello, not really sure if this sould be an issue, but please treat it as a feature request.

Could we get a percentage progress of the whole project, not just the job we are currently working at?

jchodera commented 4 years ago

This is a great idea! We're not quite sure how to do this yet, because we don't know how much science we have to do in order to find therapeutically useful inhibitors, but we'll try to find a good way to communicate how far we've gone and how far we think we have to go!

Thanks so much for your help!

zbigos commented 4 years ago

Nobody expects a progress bar with 0% on the left and covid-19 cure on the right. Most of the contributors probably are not even aware about how complicated what you are doing is. I for sure, have no clue about molecular biology that is going on in the simulations.

I just think that a progress bar per proteine (with todo/currently distributed/done parts) will be more motivating for the community, since we would be able to see results of the effort. However, I probably am not the best person for those sudgestions, since as I've said earlier, I have no clue about biology.

Anyways, keep up the great work. I hope we can tear through this in no time. And please keep those WU's coming!

rudi-ct commented 4 years ago

Simply show sum of all computing units dedicated to project as graph over time so we can see growth buy in worldwide. Will add sense of community and amplify participation manifold

jchodera commented 4 years ago

That's a great idea!

amalic commented 4 years ago

My PC is currently working on Cancer, but I prefer it to work on COVID-19. Please as many others have already asked, create a project for COVID-19!

You're making a mistake if you use goodwill of people wanting to fight COVID-19 to push your other projects.

jchodera commented 4 years ago

@amalic : The FAH Client unfortunately contains hard-coded disease categories---the "All diseases" category will pick up the COVID-19 projects.

All GPU projects at this point are COVID-19 projects, and we've spun up a large number (but perhaps not enough) of CPU projects for COVID-19 that examine different aspects of targeting the SARS-CoV-2 virus: Some look at conformational dynamics to identify pockets to target with ligands, while others are assessing new compounds to be synthesized for crystallographic screens for the COVID Moonshot.

Demand for new work units has increased by 10x over the past couple of weeks, and we've been working to get as many COVID-19 work units up as fast as our groups can manage. Please understand that if you see non-COVID work units, they were likely projects our groups had running on the system before we pivoted to work on COVID-19 in mid-Feb!

rudi-ct commented 4 years ago

I thinks it’s worth a new release to make the COVID category separate and visible. Otherwise most people will continue to give up on it before much work is done because they aren’t coming to GitHub or reading the details about how all means COVID. Visibility will more than double the engagement I’m sure. Is it impossible to make a new release of the client with enhanced COVID visibility?

darkmastermindz commented 4 years ago

As a feature request, I think if we can get a simple JSON API call/response to a database going that confirms progress, categories, other flaggable important features, etc we can easily graph this and maybe help out with looking at areas that need improvement? Possibly treat it as telemetry to help understand the progress being made.