I thought you all might want to know what your little CPU cycles are going towards. If you have let your BOINC client get disconnected, here's some incentive to get it going again:
This is a message from the head of the Rosetta@home project, David Baker from the University of Washington, published Feb 15:
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These are exciting times!
first, please bear with us! the all new beautiful completely object oriented C++ rewrite version of Rosetta is now running on your computers. old timers will recall that in the early days of the project, it took sometime before all the kinks were worked out, and that the graphics took some time to get to the very nice state we have all become used to. the new version of rosetta is extremely powerful, but as it is very new, there are still some rare problems surfacing, and some of the bells and whistles, such as the screensaver, are not yet in place. similar issues have been slowing us down a bit with our in house research and computing projects. rest assured however, that these problems will be solved quite soon, and the new version is so much more powerful that this inconvenience will be made up for many fold.
second, the game continue to progress, and I think is getting more and more fun to play. still some things to work out, so not quite ready to go public, but I encourage any of you who are interested to give it a try (see thread below).
third, as I alluded to in my last post, we have two very exciting papers describing a major breakthrough--the computer based design of new enzymes catalyzing novel chemical reactions-- that will be appearing soon, for a preview you can look at the current online issue of Nature.
