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LanDroid
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 Posted: Mon Jan 30, 2012 12:01 pm Post subject: GPU Project of the Month Feb. '12 => Milky Way |
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By fending off challenges from GPU Grid and Moo! Wrapper, Milky Way won as the GPU Project of the Month for February 2012. Although KWSN has already shagged 'er for over 1.1 Billion points, we can finally scratch that "Virgin" off "The List". 
| Quote: | Milkyway@Home uses the BOINC platform to harness volunteered computing resources, creating a highly accurate three dimensional model of the Milky Way galaxy using data gathered by the Sloan Digital Sky Survey. This project enables research in both astroinformatics and computer science.
In computer science, the project is investigating different optimization methods which are resilient to the fault-prone, heterogeneous and asynchronous nature of Internet computing; such as evolutionary and genetic algorithms, as well as asynchronous newton methods. While in astroinformatics, Milkyway@Home is generating highly accurate three dimensional models of the Sagittarius stream, which provides knowledge about how the Milky Way galaxy was formed and how tidal tails are created when galaxies merge.
Milkyway@Home is a joint effort between Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute's departments of Computer Science and Physics, Applied Physics and Astronomy.
http://milkyway.cs.rpi.edu/milkyway/ |
Starting stats:
15th Place
1,190,980,627 Points
500,967 RAC
13,302,964 credit last month
506,093 shrubbed yesterday
40th Place Formula Boinc
Server status:
All servers running
1,387 WU's to send / 397,520 in progress |
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John Galt 007
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Pooh Bear 27
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| Posted: Mon Jan 30, 2012 12:31 pm Post subject: |
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For those of *me* who do not own DP cards I am staying on Moo!
My GT220 has given me fits and I have retired using it, so I just have a couple of medium ATI cards that do the GPU crunching. |
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Gemjunkie
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| Posted: Mon Jan 30, 2012 2:56 pm Post subject: |
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Moo! seems to be hard on GPUs, one of my 5870's started taking much longer to complete tasks. Now I run at least one other project alongside it to let the GPU rest a bit every other half-hour.
As I recall, MW was down a lot then. So we had the PoTM annulled. 
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Blurf
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| Posted: Mon Jan 30, 2012 4:44 pm Post subject: |
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Yes MW was having significant issues this summer and fall. We now have a shiny new server and stability has been dramatically improved.
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LanDroid
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| Posted: Mon Jan 30, 2012 7:47 pm Post subject: |
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Yes, either that was annulled, virgin restoration surgery was performed, or that's the 2nd virgin memory failure I've had in 3 months. I must be getting old.  |
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Gemjunkie
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| Posted: Mon Jan 30, 2012 11:33 pm Post subject: |
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Beats the alternative. 
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| Posted: Fri Feb 03, 2012 9:13 am Post subject: |
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Production is up from 500K to about 875K.
Milestones:
GMC-Peeper of the Castle Anthrax passed 1,500,000
Sethi_Salou passed 800,000
Kamots 700,000
Jim Manson 600,000
Candy 400,000
mriswith passes 60,000
Sir Mifun Fat in a Right Place passed 100 |
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Blurf
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| Posted: Fri Feb 03, 2012 3:08 pm Post subject: |
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There will be a double-credit period from 10am-10pm EST on Tuesday, Feb 14th (Valentine's Day).
NOTE: This will be officially announced tonight or tmrw.
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Gemjunkie
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| Posted: Fri Feb 03, 2012 3:21 pm Post subject: |
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This forum is read by many from other teams, you might want to PM that sort of thing.
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| Posted: Fri Feb 03, 2012 5:30 pm Post subject: |
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Spies are everywhere!
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| Posted: Fri Feb 03, 2012 6:17 pm Post subject: |
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They lurk near picket fences from what i've been told
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| Posted: Sat Feb 04, 2012 11:40 am Post subject: |
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'Stones:
dalaitom passes 500,000
Andy passed 450,000
Sir Mifun Fat in a Right Place passes 7,000 |
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| Posted: Sat Feb 04, 2012 11:54 pm Post subject: |
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| Quote: | News
Remainder of the Double Credits: A Valentine's Day Present
A few weeks ago, we ran double credits in order to make up for a database error that occurred earlier in 2011. Unfortunately, the server crashed with just 12 hours left until the make-up credits were finished.
Now that the new server is up and running (and stable! very stable!), and everyone here is back from travels and winter break, we are ready to finish running those last 12 hours of double make-up credits.
If there are no significant objections, we'll run the double credits on St. Valentine's Day (February 14), from 10:00 am until 10:00 pm, US Eastern time (EST). This corresponds to 3pm (Feb14)-3am (Feb15) UTC.
Happy crunching! 5 Feb 2012 | 3:25:39 UTC · |
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| Posted: Mon Feb 06, 2012 11:01 am Post subject: |
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WOW - KWSN GPU'd over 1.1 Million yesterday!
Milestones:
Blurf 17,000,000
Sir Papa Smurph passes 12,000,000
Attila 2,500,000
ajanata passed 1,200,000
Sethi_Salou passed 850,000
efs passed 800,000
Kamots passed 750,000
ksweitz passes 150,000
mriswith passed 70,000
Sir Mifun Fat in a Right Place passed 20,000 |
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| Posted: Wed Feb 08, 2012 2:37 pm Post subject: |
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Server Status shows work available but I stopped getting work. 
| Quote: | 2/8/2012 2:24:13 PM Milkyway@Home update requested by user
2/8/2012 2:24:14 PM Milkyway@Home Sending scheduler request: Requested by user.
2/8/2012 2:24:14 PM Milkyway@Home Requesting new tasks for GPU
2/8/2012 2:24:25 PM Milkyway@Home Scheduler request completed: got 0 new tasks
2/8/2012 2:24:25 PM Milkyway@Home Message from server: No tasks sent
2/8/2012 2:25:31 PM Milkyway@Home Sending scheduler request: To fetch work.
2/8/2012 2:25:31 PM Milkyway@Home Requesting new tasks for GPU
2/8/2012 2:25:43 PM Milkyway@Home Scheduler request completed: got 0 new tasks
2/8/2012 2:25:43 PM Milkyway@Home Message from server: No tasks sent
2/8/2012 2:27:48 PM Milkyway@Home Sending scheduler request: To fetch work.
2/8/2012 2:27:48 PM Milkyway@Home Requesting new tasks for GPU
2/8/2012 2:28:03 PM Milkyway@Home Scheduler request completed: got 0 new tasks
2/8/2012 2:28:03 PM Milkyway@Home Message from server: No tasks sent
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| Posted: Wed Feb 08, 2012 9:06 pm Post subject: |
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Now update messages say no work available. 
| Quote: | 2/8/2012 8:55:57 PM Milkyway@Home Requesting new tasks for GPU
2/8/2012 8:55:58 PM Milkyway@Home Scheduler request completed: got 0 new tasks
2/8/2012 8:55:58 PM Milkyway@Home Message from server: No work available |
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LanDroid
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| Posted: Wed Feb 08, 2012 9:31 pm Post subject: |
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See announcement and discussion at link below:
| Quote: | Separation updated to 1.00
I've updated all of the separation applications to 1.00. For changes people might care about:
- The old CAL version is gone; it's replaced with the OpenCL application. On AMD/ATI GPUs (older than 79xx) it is using some hackery to use the same IL kernel as before so it should be as fast. However this also means the Radeon 38xx cards aren't supported with new stuff.
- Radeon 79xx stuff should work
- The occasional validate errors from empty / truncated stderr should stop
- AVX will be used if available on Linux and Windows (64 bit only for Windows)
- I've increased the default GPU target frequency so GPU stuff should make things less laggy on average. You can now also configure this with the web preferences now so you don't need to use app_info stuff if you want to play with that.
- Partial workaround with high CPU usage with recent Nvidia drivers.*
As usual post problems you run into here.
* It should cut down on the CPU usage a bit while not sacrificing too much. I would recommend not using it unless you are very unhappy with the CPU usage on Nvidia. There are options to change the polling mode if you want to lower the CPU usage further while not slowing it down. (--gpu-wait-factor (default = 0.75) and --gpu-polling-mode (default = - 2) work similarly to how they did with the old CAL one, but slightly different). With the default of -2 it will use mode -1 unless it is an Nvidia driver newer than the one that introduced the high CPU issue, where it will use mode 0. Mode -1 uses the correct waiting method, mode 0 use the correct waiting method with an initial sleep based on time estimates, and modes > 0 are a polling period in milliseconds. The wait factor is a sort of correction of the time estimate used for the initial wait. The default is 0.75, to wait for 75% of the estimated time before trying to poll.
8 Feb 2012 | 17:36:48 UTC · Comment
http://milkyway.cs.rpi.edu/milkyway/forum_thread.php?id=2764
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Also see this thread - Sir Blurf is on it:
http://milkyway.cs.rpi.edu/milkyway/forum_thread.php?id=2743 |
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Gemjunkie
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| Posted: Wed Feb 08, 2012 10:13 pm Post subject: |
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I detached/reattached and still get 'no tasks available'.
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| Posted: Wed Feb 08, 2012 10:46 pm Post subject: |
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This issue has been escalated.
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