KWSN Orbiting Fortress

LanDroid

Due to a relentless tie between Collatz Conjecture and Poem, KWSN will shrub both projects this month.

Protein Optimization with Energy Methods
By joining this project you will contribute to a computational approach to:
- predict the biologically active structure of proteins
- understand the signal-processing mechanisms when the proteins interact with one another
- understand diseases related to protein malfunction or aggregation
- develop new drugs on the basis of the three-dimensions structure of biologically important proteins.
- simulate miscellaneous nanoscale systems, which are of importance for current biological or physical research
http://boinc.fzk.de/poem/

Collatz Conjecture
Collatz Conjecture is a research project that uses Internet-connected computers to do research in mathematics, specifically testing the Collatz Conjecture also known as 3x+1 or HOTPO (half or triple plus one). It can run on an nVidia GPU, ATI GPU, or CPU.
http://boinc.thesonntags.com/collatz/

LanDroid · Posted: Fri Mar 01, 2013 6:41 am Post subject:

Starting stats P.O.E.M.
31st Place
239,448,532 total points
243,638. average daily production past week
551,502 RAC 32nd place
24th Place Formula Boinc

Tasks ready to send 68,163

Milestones:
Joe Bloggs passed 300,000
Michelle passes 20,000
Colleen passed 3,000

Starting stats Collatz
20th Place
1,145,595,349 Total points
1,477,176. average daily production past week
1,464,753 RAC 16th place
17th place Formula Boinc

Results ready to send (Collatz) 500
Results ready to send (Mini Collatz) 500

Milestones:
Williamd007 passed 13,000,000
Joe Bloggs passed 950,000
Michelle passed 40,000
thex656 passes 6,000
Sam Bickley passed 500
thex656 passed 5,000

Joe Bloggs · Squire Joined: 12 Jan 2013 Posts: 19 Location: Hong Kong

So this is the "keep doing what I've been doing all the time" month? Razz

I've been shrubbing these even before I joined KWSN #ni-1

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LanDroid · Posted: Sat Mar 02, 2013 10:38 am Post subject:

Those are some great numbers Sir Bloggs, glad we could accommodate you this month!

#ni-1

PhastPhred · Posted: Sat Mar 02, 2013 3:14 pm Post subject:

I read somewhere Lady Colleen needed help making POEM work on her Intel SomethingOrAnother GPU -
BOINC only lined up CPU POEMS, not GPU - I don't know what .XML file(s) she needs to edit...
I'll Tag-Team to somebody that may be able to help her out there...

Asus K55a Laptop, 6GB RAM, Intel i5-3210M (2-Core@2-Threads each), 2.5GHz, Intel HD 4000 Graphics,
(OpenCL works on it, but I don't what to tell her how to DO it, to implement it, or what else she may need),
Win8 64-Bit, System is almost new, like a few Months old...

I suggested to Download the Intel 64-Bit Driver, v9.17.10.2932 and see if THAT made BOINC do GPU work

#ni-2

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Sir Papa Smurph · Posted: Sat Mar 02, 2013 4:14 pm Post subject:

Damn, I never got to vote. I was saving it for another tie Razz

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LanDroid · Posted: Sun Mar 03, 2013 7:20 am Post subject:

Lady Colleen should also try updating the Boinc client to the latest test version, currently 7.0.52. During the install make sure you do NOT select a certain option that disables GPU's, don't recall exactly what that is something to do with running under reduced privileges?

[KWSN] Colleen · Posted: Sun Mar 03, 2013 4:13 pm Post subject:

Gemjunkie · Posted: Sun Mar 03, 2013 4:46 pm Post subject:

What does your BOINC manager's log report on startup? e.g.,

PhastPhred · Posted: Sun Mar 03, 2013 6:09 pm Post subject:

Gemjunkie · Posted: Sun Mar 03, 2013 8:49 pm Post subject:

The app_info.xml file will tell the client to shrub more than one WU simultaneously to use more of the GPU's capacity. I usually shrub 3 on a HD5770, 4 on one HD5870, 2 on another HD5870 that's not up to snuff, 2 on a GTX570 (could do 4 but want some cores for DDM).

I'm not familiar with 4000 series, let's get her walking before she runs.

I'll look at Poem site. BRB
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Yankton · Posted: Sun Mar 03, 2013 10:22 pm Post subject:

Just to get started:

Have her reset the project. No app-info or app-config is needed to get it to run 4000+ series GPUs.

Bear in mind that poem does not always have gpu work available. so look in the event log and see what it says when contacting poem, whether it be an error or simply no work sent.

Get it running in this fashion and then attempt tuning to make it run more efficiently.

I'm working like a mad henchman but I'll try and poke at this later also if it doesn't work or Sir Gemjunkie doesn't get it lined out or the toothfairy doesn't steal the shrubbery.

Wow, I think everything just tasted yellow for a second!

#ni-1

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PhastPhred · Posted: Sun Mar 03, 2013 10:49 pm Post subject:

Gemjunkie · Posted: Sun Mar 03, 2013 11:14 pm Post subject:

Try un-checking 'Use CPU' in your account preferences @Poem and manually update the project repeatedly, as soon as it says "Scheduler request completed", hit it again. May take 5-10 min. to get WU's.
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Yankton · Posted: Sun Mar 03, 2013 11:45 pm Post subject:

I apologize for not catching this at first.

Intel CPU. Yes boinc can detect it finally. No, there are NO projects with an opencl_intel application. At least none that I know of. Poem, Seti and Einstein do not, I stopped looking there.

I saw the 4000 and my mind went ATI.

So, until someone develops an application for intel's onboard gpu, the only boinc it can do is let you look at the manager. I think before the year is out we will see apps that support it, just not yet.

I need to pick up a can of beans to throw in the crock pot with the pork roast I have thawing. Idea

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PhastPhred · Posted: Mon Mar 04, 2013 12:50 am Post subject:

Gemjunkie · Posted: Mon Mar 04, 2013 2:24 am Post subject:

I missed that too. Embarassed

Have her ditch the laptoy and get a computer. Idea

Won't canned beans be mush by the time a pork roast cooks in a crock-pot? Confused

Could have soaked dried beans in the time it takes to defrost a roast. Idea

Cannellini?
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Yankton · Posted: Mon Mar 04, 2013 7:46 am Post subject:

That help page is slightly out of date. Boinc itself does now support intel's graphic set (you proved that above). None of the boinc projects have an app for it yet though. Be patient. I doubt they would have added boinc support if none of the projects would make an app for it.

More importantly,

The recipe I was given says to drain the crockpot with with two hours left and add beans and bbq sauce for the last two hours. I was going to use Bush's baked beans. I've never crock potted beans before so I really hope it doesn't turn them into mush. Bigger problem is it's just me eating off this so I'll just be eating at beans at first to avoid having to reheat them again afterwards. #ni-2

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Yankton · Posted: Mon Mar 04, 2013 7:12 pm Post subject:

Is anyone who wants to run Collatz's optimized apps but isn't need help getting them installed?

http://boinc.thesonntags.com/collatz/power_apps.php
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Plomos · Prince Joined: 26 Apr 2011 Posts: 859

how exactly does one manage to tell boinc to use those files sir Yankton?
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