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PecosRiverM
Veteran Cruncher The Great State of Texas Joined: Apr 27, 2007 Post Count: 1053 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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I think I need more computers. Humm I wonder if that ole dual core 200mz P-Pro would work. Maybe one of those 386DX 33mz?
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Sekerob
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Imagine being 'just' over gold for longer and having had emerald (1 year) as original target to go for some time later At least you've reached the first major "milestone"... The duo has started on FLU yesterday after finishing a run at CEP... going for Ruby, but with 76 CPU days to go it's going to be awfully tight. Set the upload/download to 15 minutes daily as none of the machines like starting of a new flu job that includes a heavy setup combined with the end of job benchmarking-QA and uploading. This strategy has worked quite well in past. Wence the quad is done with CEP, heels over the ditch to get emerald, it will be switched too, but that wont be until probably the 10th... so so tight. Will have to miss out on the next HFCC beta.
WCG
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robertmiles
Senior Cruncher US Joined: Apr 16, 2008 Post Count: 443 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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It looks like silver is all I can hope for - not enough air conditioning to handle another desktop and still let me be comfortable. However, I've added a few posts that suggest some new targets, hopefully for phase 1.
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Steve WCG
Senior Cruncher Joined: May 4, 2009 Post Count: 216 Status: Offline |
We all do what we can and your collection of silver bades looks pretty good to me
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gb009761
Master Cruncher Scotland Joined: Apr 6, 2005 Post Count: 2977 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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It looks like silver is all I can hope for Well, I'm currently 5 days away from Silver, and I'm still striving to reach Gold. I've got enough WU's buffered to certainly reach Silver, and as we get nearer Target 9 WU's, I'll be increasing my buffer to it's virtual limit - in the hope that it'll get me there... Thankfully, this project does have a daily restriction, and thus, it won't be affected too much by monster crunchers coming on board and striving for their Sapphire badge... BTW, does anyone know as to what the daily restriction is?  |
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Steve WCG
Senior Cruncher Joined: May 4, 2009 Post Count: 216 Status: Offline |
WCG stats show 24,495 WUs per day avg with 27,007 WUs yesterday. Sekerob's charts show a recent uptick so I am gonna guess 25,000 ... maybe someone with better numbers (holla out to the WCG techs in the house?) will chime in.
I have not seen any "no WUs for selected project" messages in my BOINC manager so I guess there are enough to go around for now. If I do start to see those I may increase my buffer so I don't run dry but I should have my emerald by the time the new WUs stop so I the .75 of a day queue I have now should be OK. Good luck ... don't turn that machine off ... no rebooting, no games ... crunch, crunch, crunch  |
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roundup
Veteran Cruncher Switzerland Joined: Jul 25, 2006 Post Count: 831 Status: Offline Project Badges:
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Set the upload/download to 15 minutes daily as none of the machines like starting of a new flu job that includes a heavy setup combined with the end of job benchmarking-QA and uploading. This strategy has worked quite well in past. Hi Sekerob, this sounds very interesting. However, I do not understand this to the full extent. Here are my questions: 1) How many resources (e.g. CPU-time on a 2,5 GHz system) are used by the "heavy setup"? 2) Why is the effort for the setup lower as soon as you restrict your machines to 15 minutes upload/download per day? 3) Does IADS always perform an "end of job benchmarking-QA" for each WU? 4) Do you have some numbers at hand (e.g. CPU time) for the optimization caused by the restriction to 15 minutes upload/downlad per day? Greetings and thanks in advance! |
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Sekerob
Ace Cruncher Joined: Jul 24, 2005 Post Count: 20043 Status: Offline |
Set the upload/download to 15 minutes daily as none of the machines like starting of a new flu job that includes a heavy setup combined with the end of job benchmarking-QA and uploading. This strategy has worked quite well in past. Hi Sekerob, this sounds very interesting. However, I do not understand this to the full extent. Here are my questions: 1) How many resources (e.g. CPU-time on a 2,5 GHz system) are used by the "heavy setup"? It's not the resources, it's the very high intensity with which a FLU1 job is started [kind of a grid is set up to optimize the FLU jobs efficiency], which takes about 5 minutes. Similarly there's a benchmark at the end. Certainly on all my machines I find upload + startup of a FLU job to dramatically reduce the claim. Somehow networking itself draws allot of housekeeping juice, possibly WIFI amplifying this effect? 2) Why is the effort for the setup lower as soon as you restrict your machines to 15 minutes upload/download per day? The chance of an upload [any project] and the start of a new FLU1 job is rather small if the connect window is set to just 15 minutes a day. Of course this requires to maintain a buffer of about 1.5 days, else there'd be a chance of idle air crunching. 3) Does IADS always perform an "end of job benchmarking-QA" for each WU? Yes 4) Do you have some numbers at hand (e.g. CPU time) for the optimization caused by the restriction to 15 minutes upload/download per day? No numbers, just seen it time and again, ballpark impact probably 25%. Found it on the quad to be even worse than on the duo. It's one of the reasons I think to have read [post by a tech] why FLU1 is not distributed at normal weight, it probably decreasing chance that multiple run simultaneous which has the worst benchmark impact. Greetings and thanks in advance! Kind of academic so close to the end, but reason I've not put much focus on this project and let them come at random with other work... Though, I'm still trying for the Ruby
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roundup
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Thanks, Sekerob
 Indeed very interesting to understand how the project works. I will set up my machines your way after I got my Emerald for CEP. |
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gb009761
Master Cruncher Scotland Joined: Apr 6, 2005 Post Count: 2977 Status: Offline Project Badges:
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Well, as this morning I downloaded a WU from within batch#884, I wouldn't be too surprised if we see the beginning of target 9 (i.e., the last of the currently scheduled targets) being distributed today...
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