Electron Microscope III v2.2.8 (Update)

[The WeatherMan]

Fixed a bug in create stats page routines
Window change view faster
Stats recovery method changed

Turns out I forgot to test and make sure a data stats file actually exists before I try and create the HTML stats page. Ooops... this will cause EM to freeze up in previous versions. Now, it doesn't do anything.

When changing window views it was slow to update if there were several clients being monitored. I re-wrote the routines to speed this up. You should notice a faster change in the client display, especially in the 7 and 13 view where proteins are not displayed. Turning off the protein drawing routines speeds up the display even more. This may be helpful if you are monitoring a very large number of clients, but there is no need to do that unless you change views a lot.

Stanford notified us that they had improved the stats recovery method they were using. It is many times faster but the format of the returned data was changed so EM had to be modified to read it. I didn't want to release an update until this new method went live at Stanford so I wouldn't have to release an update back to back. I also tried to make sure that the correct score information was being returned. EM verifies both the user name and the team number match before it decides the score it found (if any) is good.

Many thanks to those that donated a few $$$ to help me keep the EM-DC web site up and running this past year. It all helps, and you will see many changes and improvements in the site over this next year.

I hope everyone has a great New Year!

Get the latest version here: http://www.em-dc.com

http://www.em-dc.com/images/latestem.jpg

[Allan]

Nice!

Happy new year to you too!

[mookydooky]

Happy New Year Weatherman!!! Best wishes for the coming new year.

[The WeatherMan]

Version 2.2.9 (Update)
Fixed an issue with the stats recovery

Updating and improving the stats recovery feature caused a problem when testing names that have spaces in them. Stanford replaces the spaces with an underscore and EM did not recognize this in the validation routine. That problem has been resolved.

[The WeatherMan]

There has been a GAH work unit out there for a while (1tst/pdb1tst). I had forgotten to add it to the protein data file. While EM can calculate the point value, it doesn't do that when you are creating HTML stats files. This fixes that issue. The Autoupdate will get this for you if you have that feature active.

[The WeatherMan]

Since hardware is a major part of what Distributed Computing is all about, I have started to build information pages devoted to helping a DC'er enhance and/or expand their system or systems to get more power going on their DC project of choice. The first page of information was built from a post on the Free-DC hardware forum by Steve Watkins. He took pictures and outlined the "how to's" involved in using one power supply to power two motherboards. It was pretty well done, and since this is just the thing I've been looking for to compress my farm into a smaller area, I can tell you this works. As I create other new hardware related pages I will expand the area to a hardware news page with links to the information on how to get more out of your DC stuff. I hope you enjoy the first offering and of course any comments or suggestions are always welcome.

If you know of or have an article, post, images, etc. that go into some hardware detail that other DC folks might like to read about, see, and/or get some use out of, please feel free to point me to it. All contributed information will be credited to the person who wrote the info, and of course any pictures that go along with it. I am interested in helping others expand and improve their DC situation. This isn't a hardware "review" section, or anything like that. It is strictly related to hardware information for the DC person. Please keep that in mind when suggesting or submitting anything.

[Allan]

Sounds great WeatherMan, I'll be sure to let you know of anything I stumble on that you could use.

I'm looking forward to seeing your new hardware section!