Me too, I quit until chechpoint issure is resolved.

Help, Natalia !
Add some check-points.if you can
You are our only hope !

As stated on the forums, they are working on checkpoints.

https://www.sidock.si/sidock/forum_thread.php?id=105&postid=776#776

This is great project! Please please add checkpoint support, thanks ;-)

This is great project! Please please add checkpoint support. Thanks ;-)

Dear Boincers,

we are working to solve the checkpoint issue, which is critical in the case of long-running docking problems.
E-protein has a relatively large binding site and it takes more time to sample configurations/conformations of
the ligand within the binding site. The suggestions to split WU into smaller ones seems a good idea, in this
intermediate time.

To provide better experience and some changes will be done soon:

* we will add new server (s) to the project
* we will increase diskspace (this is probably the most urgent)
* I hope that we will hardcoded checkpointing very soon (very top on our task list)

All the best,

Crtomir

Does SiDock use adaptive replication (Q2R2 changes to Q1R1) or does it always stay as Q2R2 ???

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There was a power outage this morning, which in my case means I have totally lost hundreds of hours of computing., approximately the work of 220 logical cores over the span of 12 hours...

Even with Q2R2, we still need to recompute certain tasks. Quorum = 2 helps a lot.

Approaching the BOINC Pentalon, I am curious as to where you stand on checkpointing. What is the issue holding you up atm to implement this feature?

The team needs to implement them in CmDock for all platforms, build and test. It is not a good idea to hurry just before the competition...

I second that thought. Might be wise to hold back on this plan for the while being. But just a litlle longer or else I fear that you might lose volunteers with powerful systems who understandibly get angry with you about loads of kWh being potentially lost.

The CmDock GitLab repo just reported the appearance of a new version with the desperately awaited checkpointing feature.
So, things are well in the works. ;-)

Michael.

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I concur with KPX as all my Win 10 machines decided to do Windows updates and the obligatory reboot cycle at 3am so I lost all the tasks in progress.

Please bring in checkpoints and in the time we wait for the application to be upgraded send out smaller tasks (shorter run times).Many take over 6 hours per core.

It is not writing checkpoints correctly:(win8.1, latest boinc Version, checkpoint Intervall 600 sec.

Application CurieMarieDock on BOINC + zipped input 2.00
Name corona_Eprot_v1_nb3di_203441_1
StateRunning
Received 21/05/2021 10:56:34
Report deadline25/05/2021 10:56:37
Estimated computation size 50,000 GFLOPs
CPU time 08:45:21
CPU time since checkpoint 06:24:52
Elapsed time08:47:10
Estimated time remaining 07:34:02
Fraction done 53.727%
Virtual memory size 148.43 MB
Working set size 149.75 MB
Directory slots/1
Process ID 3924
Progress rate 6.120% per hour
Executable cmdock-boinc-zip_wrapper_2.0_windows_x86_64.exe

Hello! Try to check file docking_out.chk in appropriate slot directory. If you see a number (between 1 and 500) and name of ligand inside file, checkpoints - are created. :)

With windows7 Boinc dont shows the checkpoints correct:

Projekt	SiDock@home
	
Name	corona_Eprot_v1_nb3di_206123_2_1
	
Anwendung	CurieMarieDock on BOINC + zipped input 2.00
Arbeitspaketname	corona_Eprot_v1_nb3di_206123_2
Status	Aktiv
Erhalten	23.05.2021 00:10:17
Deadline	28.05.2021 00:10:00
Geschätzte Anwendungsgeschwindigkeit	1,63 GFLOPs/sec
Geschätzte Arbeitspaketgröße	50.000 GFLOPs
CPU-Zeit beim letzten Checkpoint	00:09:39
CPU-Zeit	09:00:41
Vergangene Zeit	08:31:45
Geschätzte verbleibende Zeit	04:58:35
Fortschritt	63,153%
Größe des virtuellen Speichers	147,75 MB
Größe des Arbeitspakets im Speicher	151,31 MB
Verzeichnis	slots/2
Prozess-ID	2765056

The docking _log and the docking_out.chk shows 462 and the same ligand name.

On my ARMs with Linux BoincTasks shows the checkpoints correct.

Thanks.

The first number is counting up.(xxx ZINCyyyyyyyyyyyyyy)
However, the checkpoints appear to be written every 2 min, ignoring the boinc setting.
Inerestingly the change date of the file you mentioned is not updated, even thoug the contense of it is changing.

Congratulations on adding checkpoints! Although not all seems to be perfect yet, this is a great relieve for crunshers like me who don't have their machines up and running 24/7. From now on I will dedicate them more towards your project.

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I still don't see any use of checkpoints on Windows PC's. BOINC always shows ZERO and time since checkpoints as run time.

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