How come I'm not getting any WU's on my M4 Mac mini?

How come I'm not getting any WU's on my M4 Mac mini?

Update: Just got WU's while writing this post, both Rosetta and Rosetta Beta WU's.

These are running through Rosetta 2 though, and even though CPU utilization is almost at 100%, temps and clock speeds are low, and I'm not getting any GPU tasks.

So please add some info somewhere on the website, that WU's on Apple Silicon Macs work through Rosetta 2.

Also, how come I'm not getting any GPU tasks, and when will the project add native Apple Silicon for at least one application?

Also, how come I'm not getting any GPU tasks,

Because there aren't any.

and when will the project add native Apple Silicon for at least one application?

Never.

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Grant
Darwin NT

when will the project add native Apple Silicon for at least one application?

Not likely. The project is a mess now and all kinds of technical problems aren't even being addressed. The possibility of them adding ARM64 MacOS support is very slim.

Little to no work for some time.
only a couple of thousand tasks and just a few users.

When can we see many more tasks so more of us can get some?

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To the Project Rosetta Team,

Subject: Inquiry Regarding the Current Status and Future of the Rosetta@home Project - Lack of Work Units (WUs)

Dear Sir/Madam,

I am writing to respectfully inquire about the current status of the Rosetta@home project, particularly concerning the significant and prolonged absence of new Work Units (WUs). We have observed a marked reduction in available WUs over the last few months, a development that has caused some wonder among those of us dedicated to providing computational resources.

This situation prompts a few points of puzzlement:

Has the necessity for the Rosetta computing model diminished?

Are there no longer students or staff actively contributing to or managing the project?

Or, indeed, has the Rosetta project perhaps been placed into a state of abeyance?

I personally maintain several high-priority computational assets specifically allocated and waiting to receive Rosetta WUs. In the interim, the processing gap is being filled by other, less significant distributed computing projects, which are being run at a low-priority setting.

We, the contributors who dedicate substantial CPU time to this valuable research, would be most grateful if some clarifying information could be provided. An update detailing the immediate future, as well as the long-term outlook for the Rosetta project, would be highly appreciated.

Thank you for your time and consideration of this matter. We eagerly await your response.

Yours faithfully,

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Nice letter and we'd all benefit from a response, but I fear posting it here won't get seen.
However, some people here did find some email addresses that seemed to be right for the project.
Can anyone remind us what those addresses were? For Bakerlab, IPD and/or UW?

Edit:
IPD: Email: contact@ipd.uw.edu from https://www.ipd.uw.edu/contact/
Bakerlab: Executive Assistant Zari Magness, MS ipdadmin@uw.edu from https://www.bakerlab.org/contact/

I don't know if either of these will work or if they're the same as the addresses other people discovered earlier, but it seems a reasonable start that may go somewhere better than these forums

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Thank you for your kind words.

Now we can't start a new thread every time a question is asked, that's why I found the thread that comes closest to the topic.

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Thank you for your kind words.

Now we can't start a new thread every time a question is asked, that's why I found the thread that comes closest to the topic.

Have you sent your letter to one of those email addresses I posted?
I think it's the second one that's most likely to get a response, if you get one at all.

The only change/addition I'd make is to add how keen many willing users are to continue contributing to the project in any way that helps

I'd also point you to this topic so you can be aware of the last thing they said to us

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Sir Sid Celery.

Thanks for your advice. I couldn't read your email addresses. But repided the message on your recommended path.

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Sir Sid Celery.
Thanks for your advice. I couldn't read your email addresses. But replied the message on your recommended path.

Sorry, I didn't make those links clickable, did I
On Bakerlab's contact page
The email address of David Baker's Executive Assistant, Zari Magness, is ipdadmin@uw.edu

If anything will get through to the Project Leader, that will (but it still might not)
Unfortunately, I don't think any forum post, in this thread or the other one I pointed to, will reach anyone

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As I said in the other thread, you can write them, but don't expect an answer.
And why you don't get much work is two fold. The machines attached to this project are who knows how many times greater than the number of tasks generated. The reason for the small batches is that we are only refining a specific protein that the AI generated and the team wants to examine. We don't do the old way of raw data crunching to find new proteins. The AI does that faster and more efficiently.
The reason I found via the chatbots for slow amounts of work is that the team takes our results and analysis them and when they are done with that they put the next batch out.

It's just the way Rosetta is now in the last few years.
And if you look at the structure of how Dr. B has things now...its the Institute for protein design and within that the Baker Lab and within the Baker Lab Robetta (the AI) and Rosetta (BOINC) But for all these fancy names it really is just a handful of people.

There is no dedicated IT guy anymore. Some will remember DEK. There are no mods (so we get spammed now and then) and there are no Grad Students that have time to post here. They write the academic papers (research always take publishing above average communications) and move on to the next project or next protein.

We get what they want to give us. Thats the way it goes now. Writing will do nothing. I tried 3 years ago when things quieted down and died. I got no reply at all.

I wish you the best in getting an answer, but I would be highly surprised if you do get one. If you do it will probably reflect the above points.

BTW look at the stats:

Users
With recent credit 3414
Registered in past 24 hours 59

Computers
With recent credit 5293
Registered in past 24 hours 143

I'll leave it at that...good luck

The reason for the small batches is that we are only refining a specific protein that the AI generated and the team wants to examine. We don't do the old way of raw data crunching to find new proteins. The AI does that faster and more efficiently.

And it's a pity. Now also home computers have cpus "AI-friend" (indeed they are using TOPS instead of historical FLOPS).
So, as usual, it's a problem of will...

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