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Former Member
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Bit of a change from Particle Physics Fraz. Good luck with the new job.  Same from here too....does the new job involve looking at the bigger picture? OK...I'm going |
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Former Member
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Thanks guys
 The place I'll be working at was founded by three particle physicists, in fact. Particle physicists have a lot of experience of dealing with large amounts of data (i.e. 100+ petabytes), and day to day will not be all that much different from my previous job in physics in many respects. However, the main reason for the job switch was that I'm unlikely to go much further working at a University. I never did the whole postdoc in various different institutes thing, which seems to be ~essential for getting higher up the ladder in the university system. Not a good idea to stay working at the same institute for a long period, apparently, for reasons that are beyond me. |
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retsof
Former Community Advisor USA Joined: Jul 31, 2005 Post Count: 6824 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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Thanks guys That is so the ones that have tenure can stay there and everybody else has to leave. A friend with a PhD in music has to shuffle every two years. Good luck with all of that.The place I'll be working at was founded by three particle physicists, in fact. Particle physicists have a lot of experience of dealing with large amounts of data (i.e. 100+ petabytes), and day to day will not be all that much different from my previous job in physics in many respects. However, the main reason for the job switch was that I'm unlikely to go much further working at a University. I never did the whole postdoc in various different institutes thing, which seems to be ~essential for getting higher up the ladder in the university system. Not a good idea to stay working at the same institute for a long period, apparently, for reasons that are beyond me. large amounts of data about very small things? Fortunately the particles aren't larger. :-p Another thought about a small amount of data about a very large thing, like an attoparsec. The computers will be off for a week, but I will look in when I can.
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Former Member
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large amounts of data about very small things? Fortunately the particles aren't larger. :-p Small amounts of data about small things, but very very many small things. Raw data out from the detector is about a petabyte a second. Each proton-proton collision spews out a bunch of particles that produce about 1MB of raw detector data, and there are about 2 billion proton-proton collisions per second within the detector currently. It soon adds up. A truly huge amount of custom electronics followed by a huge CPU cluster reduces this data rate down to a few hundred megabytes per second that then gets stored permanently to disk/tape. Again, it soon adds up when you run the detector 24/7 for 11 months a year, for many years. [Edit 1 times, last edit by Former Member at Feb 3, 2013 9:24:49 PM] |
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retsof
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Just noticed I've passed ten years. What will you say after 20? Thanks for popping in here. Now that Fraz put the particle machines out of their misery, the stats are starting to drop off. If I can every get this thing updated, we won't be in our top 100 for awhile. The last message I posted above is current.
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Now that Fraz put the particle machines out of their misery, the stats are starting to drop off. If I can every get this thing updated, we won't be in our top 100 for awhile. The last message I posted above is current. Nah, the recent drop-off in the last 48 hours is my computer becoming a victim to Microsoft's automatic reboot after installing patches. That and the fact that you can't install BOINC as a service if you want to run jobs on the GPU. So... if your machine reboots, you have to log back into your account before crunching starts up again. Grrr. Anyway, stats should go up again in the next 24 hours or so. |
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Now that Fraz put the particle machines out of their misery, the stats are starting to drop off. If I can every get this thing updated, we won't be in our top 100 for awhile. The last message I posted above is current. Nah, the recent drop-off in the last 48 hours is my computer becoming a victim to Microsoft's automatic reboot after installing patches. That and the fact that you can't install BOINC as a service if you want to run jobs on the GPU. So... if your machine reboots, you have to log back into your account before crunching starts up again. Grrr. Anyway, stats should go up again in the next 24 hours or so. My wonderful plan to stuff my spare machines with GPUs to fly back up the rankings crashed and burned....all 5 spare cards were on the 'not a chance' list, as were the cards already fitted in all my systems.  To make matters worse, my current employer has BOINC blacklisted as an 'unwanted application' so I can't discretely add it to any kit here...not even spare test boxes  |
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PMH_UK
Veteran Cruncher UK Joined: Apr 26, 2007 Post Count: 786 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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Fraz,
----------------------------------------Do you need to re-start GPU crunching again ? Points dropped a lot yesterday. Paul. Nah, the recent drop-off in the last 48 hours is my computer becoming a victim to Microsoft's automatic reboot after installing patches. That and the fact that you can't install BOINC as a service if you want to run jobs on the GPU. So... if your machine reboots, you have to log back into your account before crunching starts up again. Grrr. Anyway, stats should go up again in the next 24 hours or so.
Paul.
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Fraz, Do you need to re-start GPU crunching again ? Points dropped a lot yesterday. Paul. Nah, the recent drop-off in the last 48 hours is my computer becoming a victim to Microsoft's automatic reboot after installing patches. That and the fact that you can't install BOINC as a service if you want to run jobs on the GPU. So... if your machine reboots, you have to log back into your account before crunching starts up again. Grrr. Anyway, stats should go up again in the next 24 hours or so. Well it isn't my fault...still running at my usual levels which used to be called a flood of points until Fraz had it reclassified as a trickle  |
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Former Member
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Fraz, Do you need to re-start GPU crunching again ? Yup. Computer got rebooted, and I didn't notice for a couple of days again. Tis annoying. I've logged back into the account that runs BOINC again, and it should pick back up. Gonna try and make some changes so that on a reboot it'll auto-login and then lock the screen. Seems easy enough, judging by e.g. this: http://www.techwork.dk/windows-7/enable-autol...ows-7-and-lock-the-screen [Edit 1 times, last edit by Former Member at Mar 2, 2013 5:54:56 PM] |
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