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LanDroid
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 Posted: Thu May 31, 2012 10:48 am Post subject: GPU PotM June '12 => Einstein |
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| Quote: | Einstein@Home uses your computer's idle time to search for weak astrophysical signals from spinning neutron stars (also called pulsars) using data from the LIGO gravitational-wave detectors, the Arecibo radio telescope, and the Fermi gamma-ray satellite. Einstein@Home volunteers have already discovered more than three dozens new neutron stars, and we hope to find many more in the future. Our long-term goal is to make the first direct detections of gravitational-wave emission from spinning neutron stars. Gravitational waves were predicted by Albert Einstein almost a century ago, but have never been directly detected. Such observations would open up a new window on the universe, and usher in a new era in astronomy.
http://einstein.phys.uwm.edu/ |
Starting Stats:
17th Place
284,712,833 Total Points
283,714 RAC 16th Place
7,480,329 Points crunched last 28 days
282,302 average shrubbed over last week
12th Place Formula Boinc
Milestones:
Starship Trooper passed 1,200,000
Al Dente 750,000
Trusty Steed, Patsy 550,000
Major Clanger passes 300,000
RFSMOKIN passed 10,000
Josh passes 6,000
As Albert says, "Fire up dem graphics thingies!"
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LanDroid
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| Posted: Thu May 31, 2012 2:59 pm Post subject: Boinc notices |
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Check the Boinc Notices in your client for two cool messages:
| Quote: | Volunteers whose computers discover new pulsars receive framed certificates of appreciation. The latest batch is just being sent out! Here is a photo of one certificate and here is a photo of the boxes ready to ship to our vounteers.
Bruce Allen
Director, Einstein@Home
http://einstein.phys.uwm.edu/forum_thread.php?id=9487 |
| Quote: | In the past weeks, Einstein@Home volunteers have discovered nine new new radio pulsars! Seven were found in data from the Parkes Multi-Beam Pulsar Survey (PMPS) and two in data from Arecibo. Congratulations to:
Robert D Burbeck (Derbyshire, UK)
Harald Buchholz (Springfield, Virginia, USA)
Andrew Fullford (Texas, USA)
Pavlo Ovchinnikov (Dnipropetrovsk, Ukraine)
Nemo Cluster (Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA)
ATLAS Cluster (Hannover, Germany)
Victor1st (UK)
Dušan Pirc (Domzale, Slovenia)
Riaan Strydom (South Africa)
Edelgas (Germany)
Craig G (USA)
Brian Adrian (Dade City, Florida, USA)
Frederick J. Pfitzer (Phoenix, Arizona, USA)
Benjamin Rosenthal Library, Queens College, CUNY (New York City, USA)
Masor_DC (Czech Republic)
Gordon E. Hartman (US Navy Team, Dover, Pennsylvania, USA)
Eric Nietering (Dearborn, Michigan, USA)
Tim Taylor (USA)
Christoph Donat (Ingolstadt, Germany)
gone (USA)
Further details about these new discoveries can be found on this web page for PMPS discoveries and this web page for Arecibo discoveries, and will be published in due course. These discoveries bring the Einstein@Home discovery total to 22 new radio pulsars since the beginning of 2012!
Bruce Allen
Director, Einstein@Home
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Pooh Bear 27
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| Posted: Thu May 31, 2012 3:37 pm Post subject: |
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You will not get a lot of points off this project. The GPU units pay 500 credits. So if you are looking to gain a lot of ground quick, you will not be very successful.
It is also recommended you have a CPU free for the GPU work, so if you prefer using all your CPU power your GPU will be even slower on this project. |
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Mifun
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| Posted: Thu May 31, 2012 4:22 pm Post subject: |
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Well i definitely wanna find a holy grail to get a framed certificates of appreciation.
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The Knighty NI
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| Posted: Fri Jun 01, 2012 10:30 am Post subject: |
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I'm in 
Lets find some Wholey Shrubs. You know the ones with the little path through the middle with one side slightly higher than the other
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Pooh Bear 27
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| Posted: Fri Jun 01, 2012 11:13 am Post subject: |
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| Mifun wrote: | | Well i definitely wanna find a holy grail to get a framed certificates of appreciation. |
For those who don't read the Einstein fora, or understand the above statement, Einstein gives framed certificates if you are the finder of a Pulsar (and I am sure if something else is significantly found, also). |
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| Posted: Fri Jun 01, 2012 11:24 am Post subject: |
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I'm in
it only runs about 50% on each GPU and eats one CPU core as well.
Often it runs at 0% for quite a while on the GPU, Not a very efficient app...
20% in 20 min so about 1.5 hour for each shrub....
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Mifun
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| Posted: Fri Jun 01, 2012 12:09 pm Post subject: |
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| Pooh Bear 27 wrote: | | For those who don't read the Einstein fora, or understand the above statement, Einstein gives framed certificates if you are the finder of a Pulsar (and I am sure if something else is significantly found, also). |
It was a joke. Sadly it's pretty hard for me to make a joke in english. Sort of.
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| Posted: Fri Jun 01, 2012 12:29 pm Post subject: |
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| I do it for the greater glory of the Ni! |
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Pooh Bear 27
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| Posted: Fri Jun 01, 2012 2:21 pm Post subject: |
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| Mifun wrote: | | It was a joke. Sadly it's pretty hard for me to make a joke in english. Sort of. |
The good thing is there is real certificates, so joke or no joke, it works out well. When I started with the original SETI in the end of 1990s/early 2000s, before BOINC, I never imagined that we'd have so many diverse projects doing this. I've been a lucky finder of some very significant Primes on PrimeGrid, I know there have been others on our team that have had other neat milestones on different projects, also. So as a team we may be a bit Looney, but we are also pretty tried and true to our Shurbbaries and make a dent in many different areas. |
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| Posted: Sat Jun 02, 2012 3:14 pm Post subject: |
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| Pooh Bear 27 wrote: | | Mifun wrote: | | It was a joke. Sadly it's pretty hard for me to make a joke in english. Sort of. |
The good thing is there is real certificates, so joke or no joke, it works out well. When I started with the original SETI in the end of 1990s/early 2000s, before BOINC, I never imagined that we'd have so many diverse projects doing this. I've been a lucky finder of some very significant Primes on PrimeGrid, I know there have been others on our team that have had other neat milestones on different projects, also. So as a team we may be a bit Looney, but we are also pretty tried and true to our Shurbbaries and make a dent in many different areas. |
PhastPhred introduced these work projects to me just last year. I have to say, this is one of the most fascinating things people have ever come up with. Maybe I'm just an old hippie but when I see people from all over the world working together for a common goal it does my heart good.
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| Posted: Sun Jun 03, 2012 6:27 am Post subject: |
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Shrub like a Hippie!  
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| Posted: Sun Jun 03, 2012 11:00 pm Post subject: |
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Production up from 282K to over 430K yesterday...
'Stones:
William Donovan passes 1,700,000
DalaiTom 1,100,000
XY 600,000
Major Clanger 300,000
copycat 200,000
PimpInTheBox passed 70,000
VJ passes 60,000
Catweazel passes 50,000
KWSN Sir Mifun Fat in a Right Place passes 20,000
Josh passed 7,000
tjcares passed 200 |
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Sir Papa Smurph
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| Posted: Mon Jun 04, 2012 5:38 am Post subject: |
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Sorry folks, I'm done...
I went from ~300k a day to 10k 
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| Posted: Mon Jun 04, 2012 7:04 am Post subject: |
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| Sir Papa Smurph wrote: | Sorry folks, I'm done...
I went from ~300k a day to 10k |
Yes, it is a very poor paying project, but the results are very interesting and has a physical reward if you do find something.
Plus it seems there is a good percentage of pending (although currently it seems better since our team has made a little push, which is nice to see).
I'll stick it out through the month. |
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The Knighty NI
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| Posted: Wed Jun 06, 2012 11:25 am Post subject: |
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VERY Interesting.
Just found out that it is possible to run more than 1 WU concurrently on my GPU for this project.
Theory is that it will almost double my output by running 2 WU's. Can it run 3, 4 or 5 even? If 5 WU's can be run concurrently that will put my daily production up to about 120K rather than the paltry 13-15 recent output.
Gonna see how far this can be pushed before it breaks. Will keep you posted
GPU is a GTX 560 Ti with 1.25Gb ram on-board. It uses 0.2 CPU per WU.
Name NVIDIA GeForce GTX 560 Ti
Adapter Type GeForce GTX 560 Ti, NVIDIA compatible
Adapter Description NVIDIA GeForce GTX 560 Ti
Adapter RAM 1.25 GB (1,342,177,280 bytes)
Oh by the way. Not detected any slow down for the 2 WU's currently being shrubbed concurrently.
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Quick update on this.
There is a slow down in the length of time taken for each WU from 44mins to 50mins.
Gonna try 3 concurrently now
Wish me luck.
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