Running complex molecular modeling jobs—such as protein structure prediction or molecular dynamics simulations—often requires substantial computing power, software installations, and careful monitoring of progress. For researchers dealing with local system limits, slow workflows, or collaboration headaches, SAMSON’s cloud-based Job Manager offers a practical and integrated alternative.
Whether you’re predicting structures using AlphaFold or pushing systems with GROMACS, SAMSON lets you launch these jobs in the cloud and manage them all in one place, directly from the interface.
Centralized Job Monitoring
The Job Manager in SAMSON provides a centralized interface to manage all your computational jobs. To open it, simply navigate to Interface > Job manager or use the keyboard shortcut Ctrl+6 (or Cmd+6 on macOS). Once open, you’ll see a clear overview of all cloud-launched jobs.
Features That Help Researchers Stay Focused
- Create jobs directly from SAMSON using compatible extensions.
- Monitor job progress: Start, pause, stop and check the current status from a unified interface.
- Retrieve results automatically into the SAMSON environment.
No more guesswork—clicking on any job reveals detailed information on the right panel, including logs and outputs.
Stay Organized with Notes and Context Menus
Collaboration often suffers because of poor documentation or inconsistent annotations. In SAMSON, you can easily edit job names and notes, which sync automatically with your SAMSON Connect account. This keeps your projects and thoughts organized.
You can also quickly download all job files by double-clicking on the job, making local analysis straightforward.
Right-click on a job to access its context menu, which gives you fast navigation to local and cloud-stored files, as well as the job profile on SAMSON Connect.
Bonus: Share Your Work Easily
All your cloud jobs are also accessible through SAMSON Connect, where you can share access with collaborators or just keep track of everything you’ve launched over time. This makes transitioning between teams or continuing work on a new device seamless.
If you’re used to running everything on your local workstation, the cloud alternative offered by SAMSON could save time, reduce setup friction, and allow you to focus on why you got into molecular modeling in the first place.
To learn more about the full capabilities of SAMSON’s cloud jobs, visit the original documentation: https://documentation.samson-connect.net/users/latest/cloud/
SAMSON and all SAMSON Extensions are free for non-commercial use. You can download SAMSON at https://www.samson-connect.net.