Re: Folding@home

7/24/2002 PSC to backup (and eventually host) F@H data We've been working to set this up for a while and it's finally going on right now: we're backup all the F@H data to PSC (Pittsburg Supercomputer Center). This has been a huge issue for us for quite a while since F@H generates multiple terabytes in a year. Short term, PSC will serve as a backup site, making sure the data is secure. Long term, we will work with PSC to make this data available to other researchers and in principle anyone who would like access to the data. Don't look for this part immediately -- it will take a while just to backup the data -- but as we get papers published, we will put the raw data into the public domain for all to see and to use (following the model established by the PDB). We can't do this w/o PSC, since the raw data is HUGE (terabytes) and we just can't serve that size of data publically (although I'm told that's no biggie for a supercomputer center). I think this will really set F@H apart from the other d.c. projects -- not only are we publishing the results in scientific journals, we will be also making the raw data available. Again, I stress that the backingup itself will take a while (possible a couple months), since we have a large backlog of files and the PSC archiver takes a while to store the files (and it does take a while for anybody to backup a few terabytes over the internet...). However, once this has gotten rolling, the public dissemination of the raw data won't be far away. J'ai l'impression qu'on peut leur confiance. Le projet genome@home a aussi fusionné avec le projet folding@home. Bref, cela m'a l'air sérieux et pas un attrape pigeons. Un team linuxfr à créer ?

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