Lifemapper将停止！

vmzy

2004-12-16
Lifemapper will end as a distributed computing project some time around January 1. There is not enough new museum data for the project to process. In the future the project will use a computing cluster at the University of Kansas to process new data.

译文如下：
2004年12月16日
Lifemapper分布式计算项目将于1月1日左右停止。因为项目的数据不够计算。将来项目将会使用Kansas大学的集群进行数据计算。

翻译BY VMZY

碧城仙

相信每个Lifemapper项目的参与者都已经在一周以前收到过官方的E-mail通知，以下是邮件原文：
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Lifemapper News: distributed computing clients to be dropped

Dear Lifemapper Community and Collaborators:

The Lifemapper Project Team has decided to make several significant changes to the Project as part of a new two-year design and re-implementation effort.

Probably the most significant change for most of you is that we are going to eliminate the distributed computation component and disable communications with the Lifemapper clients within a few weeks time--around the first of the new year.

The DC architecture has been very productive and until now critical for computing LM's GARP prediction models. We gratefully thank each and everyone of you for your enthusiasm as collaborators operating LM's distributed computing clients.  We know how much your processing has contributed; the environmental biology community is in your debt for the cycles you volunteered and the models you computed.

At the moment the number of jobs being executed is outpacing the availability of new museum data.  Unlike SETI, with an unlimited supply of radio astronomy signals, LM is dependent on source data from museum computerization projects. Currently that is our primary constraint for generating models for additional species. Not enough museums are coming online fast enough for us to take advantage of all of the power you and your collaborators are providing.

We intend to re-architect the LM species data archive, but we'll keep the models you computed online until we restart the computation engines and gradually update the current models with those derived from museum data coming out next year and beyond. In the future, LM will use computational resources of a cluster we operate for modeling at the University of Kansas.

We plan to evolve LM into more research-oriented uses, migrating from a passive public archive model to a set of pluggable web services for environmental research applications, e.g. for cleaning and verifying spatial attributes of museum specimen locality information.

On behalf of the scientific, educational, and public users of the LM geospatial species data archive, thank you again for your dedication, perseverance, commitment and accomplishment.  Because of you, LM is still the best and only general archive of species distribution niche models.  We plan to build upon that success and experience.


Sincerely,


Jim Beach
Lifemapper, Project Director
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James H. Beach
Biodiversity Research Center
University of Kansas
1345 Jayhawk Boulevard
Lawrence, KS 66045, USA
T 785 864-4645, F 785 864-5335

[ Last edited by 碧城仙 on 2004-12-19 at 09:22 PM ]

Lightalt

晕~
不够计算
看来分布式力量太强了~~

碧城仙

jxbbs  在 2004-12-25 11:41 AM 发表:
这个运算是做啥的?

Lifemapper 是帮助建立“集合有影响的地球生物多样性预言性的电子地图”。由美国肯萨斯大学生物多样性信息研究中心发起。参与研究“计算，地图以及准备知识”为地球上的动植物物种现在的生存，及它们可以潜在地生存，和它们在哪里以及怎样散布横过世界上任何不同的地方。 点此了解更多这个项目的信息。

项目的结果将被用来“对生物多样性的研究, 教学和全球性的保护, 特别是对周围事件的预测和获得对于科学前沿的公共政策。”