News archive

December 31, 2009
Just allocated some additional space for our project. Happy New Years! Be safe.

December 29, 2009
Drugdiscovery@home team wishes you a merry Christmas and Happy New year to all our project participants as well as to all other people involved in volunteer computing projects

December 15, 2009
MDRUN app is working very well on Windows and 64-bit Linux. There is a little problem on startup for 32-bit Linux where the wrapper fails to execute. It should be fixed in a few days. Otherwise the project is looking spectacular!

November 18, 2009
Taking down the server to shrink the database

November 14, 2009
Currently the project is down for some maintenance. We hope to restore it in a few hours.

November 8, 2009
recommended boinc client version. 6.10.17+ please update to this version so that we all are on the same client version.

October 14, 2009
Please, join the discussion at our meassage boards on organizational questions of the legal entity for the Drugdiscovery@home project and project status.

October 13, 2009
We are preparing to migrate the server to a host provided by IronScale. Workunits are disabled at the moment

October 5, 2009
We are improving the progress bar for our apps. This is especially important for mdrun where we want to run simulations for several days. With a progress bar that updates every 100 steps of a 5 million step simulation, a cruncher should be more confident that the simulation is running properly if they see th progress bar updating over the course of 5 days. In addition, checkpointing is already a feature native to this app, so if you pause, you should be able to return to the same point in the simulation. -Jack

September 23, 2009
The group on Drugdiscovery@home project was created at Facebook. It's called: "Drugdiscovery@home - help us making new cures for age related diseases". We'll be glad to invite people interested in distributed computing application for the early drug discovery process.

September 14, 2009
We have translated www.drugdiscoveryathome.com content into several languages. If you still see some strange translation for your language - this means that we need your help with translation.

September 10, 2009
Drugdiscovery@home project was presented on SENS4 conference at Cambridge (UK) during 3-7th of September. If you are interested in acceleration of early drug discovery research in the fields of aging, cancer and stem cells - please join our project.

September 8, 2009
Please help us translate our pages on www.drugdiscoveryathome.com

September 3, 2009
See our demo simulation posted on www.drugdiscoveryathome.com

August 26, 2009
Our project is back online. We now have a workflow to further analyze docking results using molecular dynamics. We are also on the verge of providing GPU support. Our project needs its volunteers to come back. Your credits can be restored. Just provide us your username, authenticator and email address. We also have account creation temporarily enabled so you can register. -Jack

August 10, 2009
We are in the process of restoring user data

August 2, 2009
We have a problem with a corrupt database

July 17, 2009
We are working on several things, resolving problems with certain ligands, experimenting with GPUs and studying the feasability of optimizing gromacs for PS3s for our project. I am also planning another BOINC Meetup. This time a social gathering on the US National Mall to watch Close Encounters of the 3rd Kind. Bring your SETI Shirts http://opensource.meetup.com/84/

July 14, 2009
Happy Bastille Day! We are now looking at GPU integration for GROMACS. We may need a little help with this integration. Here is a thread I started which includes links to related code. There is a msvc solution for building gromacs and there are various pre-compiled libraries for integrating cuda called OpenMM, read more http://boinc.drugdiscoveryathome.com/forum_thread.php?id=84

July 13, 2009
We submitted a large batch of flexible docking last night. Almost 200,000 workunits pending. Come and kill this queue and please if there are any Macs, by all means attach. -Jack

May 29, 2009
Recently purchased a system with nvidia cards and will begin testing cuda code for GROMACS. We will also be running flexible docking simulations in the next few days. And then taking those results and simulating the docking complexes with GROMACS.

May 6, 2009
Our project Designs and Tests prospective drug-like compounds for regulation of signaling pathways involved in tissue engineeering and cancer. Currently we are benchmarking Autodock on Lysozyme and H1N1 Neurominidase.

May 11, 2009
In the process of converting some 600,000 molecular structures to a pdbqt format for analysis with Autodock.