KWSN Orbiting Fortress

Plomos · Prince Joined: 26 Apr 2011 Posts: 859

Wondering what else i should let mine munch on since i have 2 physical cores so those go to climate but that leaves the other 2 HT cores empty which i rarely do
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Yankton · Posted: Fri Oct 11, 2013 10:26 pm Post subject:

Went to add another machine. No work available.

#ni-1

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Pooh Bear 27 · Posted: Sat Oct 12, 2013 3:47 am Post subject:

Glad I got mine when I did. All 20 of my cores are busy. Although one of my machines went on about a day hiatus because of a bad KVM (feedback to the video card and not allowing the machine to boot). It's now on my bench with an old 17" tube monitor until I can replace the KVM.

It will be wild to get all these WUProp hours when done.
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Gemjunkie · Posted: Mon Oct 14, 2013 8:02 pm Post subject:

I had a WU error out today, not sure if I should try to get more as it would run well into next month. Confused

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Pooh Bear 27 · Posted: Mon Oct 14, 2013 8:18 pm Post subject:

Yankton · Posted: Tue Oct 15, 2013 2:14 pm Post subject:

I did finally snag two more. I must have gotten lucky and snagged them as they re-appeared on the server.
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LanDroid · Posted: Fri Oct 18, 2013 9:21 pm Post subject:

Climate may not produce new WU's for quite a while if I understand the following thread correctly. Sounds like they pulled a large number of WU's and want the current batch completed first, i.e. not until the 61K units currently being shrubbed have been analyzed.

http://climateapps2.oerc.ox.ac.uk/cpdnboinc/forum_thread.php?id=7671

Nevertheless, production is way up from 33K earlier to 80K daily average over the past week, but that is dropping. I'm down to 4 WU's from 8, several have errored out...

'Stones:
Pooh Bear 27 passes 1,700,000
SMPaulsen 950,000
Mark Ostruszka 200,000
Bellator passed 150,000
Sir Stooper 150,000
LanDroid 100,000
tjcares 80,000
KWSN-Gemjunkie[TeaM] passes 80,000
KWSN Sir Mifun Fat in a Right Place passes 40,000
branjo 20,000
Plomos 10,000
Keegan 6,000

Pooh Bear 27 · Posted: Mon Oct 21, 2013 7:56 am Post subject:

So far of the 20 units I had, 6 completed successfully on my 3rd and 4th Gen i7 CPUs at around 10 days of processing time, 3 have returned with some failure. The other 11 are going to take me to the end of the month, or nearly 22 days to complete.

Those 3rd and 4th Gen i7 CPUs sure to pack a punch on many different projects.
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Gemjunkie · Posted: Tue Oct 22, 2013 3:34 pm Post subject:

I just picked up a WU ~10min. ago.
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Yankton · Posted: Tue Oct 22, 2013 8:59 pm Post subject:

One finished and one failed on the new box. Haven't tried to get more. Mostly been playing games on it. Still 4 in progress on the old desktop. The oldest shrubber I still have running is linux x64. CPDN doesn't support it. Oh well.
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LanDroid · Posted: Wed Oct 23, 2013 10:41 am Post subject:

Interesting discussion of climate models here:
http://climateapps2.oerc.ox.ac.uk/cpdnboinc/forum_thread.php?id=7683

'Stones:
Tom 700,000
Blurf 150,000
Yankton 150,000
Gemjunkie[TeaM] 100,000
Colleen 50,000
Sir Mifun Fat in a Right Place 50,000
branjo 25,000

Gemjunkie · Posted: Wed Oct 23, 2013 12:06 pm Post subject:

Yankton · Posted: Wed Oct 23, 2013 1:10 pm Post subject:

Are you pulling 32 bit shrubs? None of the listed applications are 64 bit for linux and when I tried anyway it told me it none for my architecture or something along that line.
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LanDroid · Posted: Wed Oct 23, 2013 11:54 pm Post subject:

I just noticed this is one of the few projects that still has WU graphics - click on a WU then click the "Show Graphics" button. Rotate the globe, check out the temps. Cool....

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Plomos · Prince Joined: 26 Apr 2011 Posts: 859

I use that feature to check the progress of the timesteps versus the total for the WU. lets me know how close it is to more points
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Blurf · Posted: Sat Oct 26, 2013 8:59 am Post subject:

Out of work...very disappointing
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Pooh Bear 27 · Posted: Mon Oct 28, 2013 7:29 pm Post subject:

Update, of 20 units, 5 have died with some points, 6 have completed. 3 should complete in the next 12 hours and the other 6 have about 2-4 days if they complete.

1/4 errored is reasonable to me for these. I remember when I couldn't finish half of them back in the day. They have a lot of sensitivity in the models and can easily go out of bounds. Smaller models are not so bad, but these full ocean ones are rough.

In WUProp I have over 3600 hours pending for these last 9 units and I have already accumulated over 2700 hours. So lots of hours have been put into this.
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LanDroid · Posted: Fri Nov 01, 2013 9:17 am Post subject: Wrap up

Climate Prediction is more important to KWSN than I thought since over 45 Knights earned points in the last week. Despite the frustration over lack of work in the 2nd half of the month, I'd like to see us shrub this more often once the WU's start a-flowing again.

What is your opinion of this project?

Final stats:
109,146,190 points +1,518,294
26,580. daily average +11K
17,727 RAC, 10th place +17
11th place Formula Boinc -1

'Stones:
Allen Tindall 300,000
Gemjunkie[TeaM] 150,000
W1GG1NS 25,000
nalmeth 20,000
Keegan 7,000

Yankton · Posted: Fri Nov 01, 2013 1:43 pm Post subject:

I still have 4 shrubs in progress. one will finish today, the other three in 3 - 4 days.
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Pooh Bear 27 · Posted: Fri Nov 01, 2013 2:01 pm Post subject:

This project is a good set and forget one. No real need to babysit anything since the units take a while. Error rate is hire than many other projects, but you still get credit. It's one of the few projects with a graphics view that you can play with.

Problem is they do not always have work. They send out a bunch, then wait for many to return before sending out more. A few stragglers happen, but there are long dry times.

It is a poor payout credit wise. Most of us don't care, but we know many do.

I'd like to see us back at it again maybe before the warmer weather hits.
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