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Re: Morning Update (2)
Good afternoon team,

I have just added another hex core (12 thread) workstation to the fleet. With the exception of a few workstations, the fleet will be rendering over the weekend, so I expect a boost in runtime for the team.

In desperate need of a project with results that only take a couple of hours to complete at the most for my idle only workstations now that HCC is finished. Any recommendations?
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In Other News
@ crooks_uk

SekeRob dashboard shows mean average runtimes but I think these are since a project began so I've added (in blue) the figure for the last 60 days:
	FAAH	8.09		5.86		
	HPF	7.13		5.14		
	HCC	1.91		0.64		CPU+GPU
	CEP	7.10		7.55		
	DSFL	5.58		4.29		
	GFAM	5.57		4.18		
	SN2S	5.31		4.78


I recall there was a knreed post months ago saying that the techs are well aware of the need for 1 or 2 projects to have WUs with comparatively short Runtimes (I've tried to find the specific post without success). With the imminent end of HCC the server load will dramatically reduce so there will be the option for WU length (apart from CEP) to be reduced. I'll post the question in the forum and see what (if any) response there is. Posted here.
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Re: In Other News
Not much sign - yet wink - of HCC ending:
	        Global		                  HCC		
	        RT (days)	Results	          RT	        Results	
03/05/2013	1,642,491	  710,497	  203,788	  424,218	
02/05/2013	4,741,897	2,213,286	  820,076	1,420,371	
01/05/2013	2,048,809	1,102,865	  464,271	  784,982	
30/04/2013	3,543,579	1,741,817	  722,782	1,176,595	
29/04/2013	3,645,500	1,752,793	  730,741	1,165,648	
28/04/2013	3,221,678	1,684,645	  676,776	1,166,754	
27/04/2013	3,157,087	1,676,766	  668,236	1,177,896	
26/04/2013	3,438,249	1,755,533	  738,976	1,207,218	
					
Average    	3,399,543	1,703,958	  688,837	1,157,066

And not really any sign within the UK team:
	       UK Team		                  HCC		
	        RT (days)	Results	          RT	        Results	
02/05/2013	    442.6	    6,817	    155.0	    5,594	
01/05/2013	    195.7	    3,440	     76.3	    2,941	
30/04/2013	    336.5	    5,693	    126.0	    4,800	
29/04/2013	    336.6	    5,321	    119.6	    4,407	
28/04/2013	    329.7	    5,165	    109.8	    4,267	
27/04/2013	    300.8	    4,841	    105.3	    4,054	
26/04/2013	    326.2	    5,171	    119.8	    4,312	
					
					
Average    	    304.3	    4,939	    109.5	    4,130

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Random Factoid
Random Factoid #7
My gut feeling is that so long as our GPU crunchers (esp Soong) continue to grab their share of GPU WUs right to the bitter end, it won't be a problem.

Over the last 7 days Soong been responsible for 49.71% of the UK team's total Results (and possibly 59.65% of the team's HCC Results (assumes Soong project mix is 100% HCC)) cool cool
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Re: Random Factoid
Unfortunately, despite adding a handful of new host-machines to the VM cluster my team is running in work, I've not been able to add any new VMs, as there's a fair bit of development work being carried out on the platform at the moment. Hopefully, it'll be short work, and the resources will be freed up soon! smile

I'm also waiting on a decision to be made on what's happening with our "staff co-location" facility - all staff currently get 2U of rack-space allocation and a single power-socket, within three cabinets in our build-lab part of the data-centre, to put a server of our own in. However, with about 120U of space in those cabinets, and a growing number of people saying they're interested in putting a server in, space and power-sockets are getting very short in supply.

Currently, there is a project-team looking to convert those who wish to over to another VM platform, leaving those who wish to remain with a physical server the remaining space in the current location - as far as I'm aware, so far, this space will be prioritised to those who use the least space and power.

The server I currently have running in the allocated space is an ancient (and very slow) 1U dual single-core Xeon which, if the project team say the physical servers can stay, I'll be looking to replace with a 1U 4-way hex-core (24 hyperthreaded cores in total for 48 concurrent WUs) node-server - this will likely be quite power-hungry, so I want to make sure that I'll be OK to use it in the data-centre before I splash out the not-exactly-a-small-amount-of-money on it.

The comments in work about spending this amount of money on a server like that, I've answered by saying it's going to be funded by a small part of my inheritance from my Nan's estate (who sadly passed away in January of this year), and she was always proud that I was putting effort into something like this, that's such a good cause - I'd rather put the money to use on something like WCG (where I know what it's going towards) instead of simply giving it to charity (and not knowing what happens to it after that).
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Re: Random Factoid
@ Thargor
Thanks for sharing that with us. biggrin I think it goes without saying that we all understand the rationale behind your thinking, on the investment of your grandmother's legacy.


In other news:
The P/V gaoler is extracting his pound of flesh and left me 0.28hrs short of Emerald HCC following the overnight update! Grr!
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End of HCC
Some 60 hours after knreed posted:
We have just finished distributing the last of the new work for the Help Conquer Cancer project.

the overnight update has the first definite signs of work beginning to tail off!

Initial indications are that the UK team held up well smile
[edit] In comparison to other teams.

I'll post more details as I process the data. wink
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Morning Update
Congratulations to the following UK team members on achieving a personal milestone in yesterday's crunching: biggrin hugs

Soong 16 years RunTime

RussellBest moves above 11,000 in the Points Rankings to #10,983

Soong passes 400,000 Results for the UK team
RussellBest passes 20,000 Results for the UK team

Today marks:
8 years crunching for WCG for Nigel Bolley

Congratulations also to the following UK team members on setting new PBs biggrin hugs 
	Ari1             	Runtime	 3:13:11:04	Points	  22,846	Results	   26	
	gilesk           	Runtime	 3:06:39:47	Points	        	Results

UK team Comparison of Daily RunTime, Points, Results 
			                          	Hours		Points		      Results	
Yesterday's Production	0:300:08:49:45	 sick 		7,208		2,464,904		4,821 	
Average per cd  									
May     	          312.9			        7,488		2,518,664		5,026 	
April   	          369.9			        8,856		3,082,574		6,322 	
									
7day Avg per cd	          320.3	          crying 		7,680		2,564,141		5,156

Milestone Targets for the UK team 
	       	Target   		Current  	To Do    	7day Avg.	  Estimate	
	RunTime	  1,000 years		      337,084	      27,916	    320.3	   87 days Jul-30	
	Points 	1,250,000,000 		1,117,060,646	 132,939,354	2,564,141 	   52 days Jun-25	
	Results	    3,000,000		    2,359,250	     640,750	    5,156	  124 days Sep-05

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Re: Morning Update
Hmm I think I'll have to revise the parameters that insert the sick & crying etc in the Morning Update, to reflect the new reality post HCC GPU crunching. It'll take a few days decide the new boundaries. wink
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More on HCC ending 
	        Global		                  HCC		                 HCC:Global		
	        RT (days)	Results	          RT	        Results	       RT	Results	
03/05/2013	3,303,553	1,354,566	 385,692	  775,190	11.68%	57.23%	
02/05/2013	4,741,897	2,213,286	 820,076	1,420,371	17.29%	64.17%	
01/05/2013	2,048,809	1,102,865	 464,271	  784,982	22.66%	71.18%	
30/04/2013	3,543,579	1,741,817	 722,782	1,176,595	20.40%	67.55%	
29/04/2013	3,645,500	1,752,793	 730,741	1,165,648	20.05%	66.50%	
28/04/2013	3,221,678	1,684,645	 676,776	1,166,754	21.01%	69.26%	
27/04/2013	3,157,087	1,676,766	 668,236	1,177,896	21.17%	70.25%	
							
Average    	3,380,300	1,646,677	 638,368	1,095,348	18.88%	66.52%	

	       UK Team		                  HCC		                 HCC:Global		
	        RT (days)	Results	          RT	        Results	       RT	Results	
03/05/2013	    300.4	    4,821	     68.9	    3,747	22.94%	77.72%	
02/05/2013	    442.6	    6,817	    155.0	    5,594	35.02%	82.06%	
01/05/2013	    195.7	    3,440	     76.3	    2,941	38.99%	85.49%	
30/04/2013	    336.5	    5,693	    126.0	    4,800	37.44%	84.31%	
29/04/2013	    336.6	    5,321	    119.6	    4,407	35.53%	82.82%	
28/04/2013	    329.7	    5,165	    109.8	    4,267	33.30%	82.61%	
27/04/2013	    300.8	    4,841	    105.3	    4,054	35.01%	83.74%	
							
Average    	    323.7	    5,213	    115.3	    4,344	35.62%	83.33%

My brain is scrambled after assembling and formatting the data, so I leave you to put your own interpretation on the figures shown! wink
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