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mohrorless · Posted: Fri Jul 27, 2007 6:12 am Post subject: Huge Einstein WUs

Has anyone else gotten the Einstein WUs that take 43+ hours to complete?
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I've got one that's taking 23 hours.

ohiomike · Prince Joined: 20 May 2007 Posts: 858 Location: Sometimes

I've got some 650+ credit jobbies that are taking almost 24 hours on a Mac Pro.
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mohrorless · Posted: Fri Jul 27, 2007 10:41 am Post subject:

Yes, mine seem to be getting 600+ in the credit department, but it is still a VERY long time for 1 work unit.
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JerWA · Prince Joined: 01 Jan 2007 Posts: 1497 Location: WA, USA

Yeah, I've had a few 30+ hours. Crunching a 29 hour one right now. Malaria is going through big work units right now too. They went from 45 minutes to 10+ hours, that's a big swing!
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mohrorless · Posted: Fri Jul 27, 2007 5:24 pm Post subject:

Ouch. What is bringing on such large units from these projects?
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JerWA · Prince Joined: 01 Jan 2007 Posts: 1497 Location: WA, USA

Getting a lot of errors on these WUs too.

http://einstein.phys.uwm.edu/workunit.php?wuid=34251082
There's one with one of my Core2s and a Core2 6300.

http://einstein.phys.uwm.edu/workunit.php?wuid=34181513
Look at that poor P4 lol. 500k+ seconds! That's 6.25 days of crunch time!

I've got 15 or 20 that errored out with 0 seconds, and one that ran nearly to completion before dying (grr @ 0 credit for 106,000 seconds of run time).

Seems like everyone is mucking about. Rosetta is now trying to make RALPH pointless. One of my machines runs Rosetta, not RALPH (I have no RALPH account at all), and I've noticed it's been getting beta work units mixed in with normal work.
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mohrorless · Posted: Sat Jul 28, 2007 8:38 am Post subject:

ohiomike · Prince Joined: 20 May 2007 Posts: 858 Location: Sometimes

Have you guys with the errors updated to the beta apps?
Einstein@Home Beta Testing
* even more paranoid error checking and reporting than the 4.32
* modifications to further narrow down the cross-platform differences and to avoid a certain Client Error (access violation)
* referencing a symbol store on the E@H server. This means that in case of a (debuggable) client error a debugger will be loaded (by newer BOINC Clients) that will in turn contact the Einstein@Home server in order to download debugging symbols ("phone home"). This means that the PDB is no longer distributed with the App, and symbol information will be downloaded compressed and only when needed.
* sanity checks on some more imput files
* fixed a bug related to uninitialized memory
* more verbose output in case of errors
* small improvements to the checkpointing
* a diffrent function is used for rounding in sin/cos calculation (ftol() instead of modf()), which should avoid the broken CPU feature detection and give some speedup on AMD and non-SSE2 Intel CPUs.
* more robust file access
* The app_info.xml distributed in this package should allow for finishing the results already assigned to prior App versions with this App
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mohrorless · Posted: Wed Aug 01, 2007 5:13 am Post subject:

What is it with Einstein? Not only are the friggin WUs are getting bigger, but when you finally send one back, you don't get anything for a few days then when you get new work from Einstein...you get 2 of those tremendous WUs. Then it only runs one of then until that one is done before starting the other.

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Grawlfang · Posted: Mon Aug 06, 2007 5:41 pm Post subject:

seem to be crunching just fine on my various www.zenwalk.org Linux based machines (even on some really old 700MHz Pentiums).
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belenus · Posted: Tue Aug 14, 2007 11:06 am Post subject:

I'm not getting new work from Einstein for two days. Nevr happened to me bafore.
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I got a WU 9 odd hours ago, they are still running at 20 hours a shot though.

belenus · Posted: Tue Aug 14, 2007 12:05 pm Post subject:

What a coincidence. Just got one a few minutes gao.
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mohrorless · Posted: Tue Aug 14, 2007 12:10 pm Post subject:

I have a couple on each machine, it's still running only one at a time though (completely ignoring the other until the first is finished).
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belenus · Posted: Tue Aug 14, 2007 12:18 pm Post subject:

I have only one in the single machine in which I run Einstein. But I'm pretty sure I've been running two WU's two or three weeks ago.
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