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Former Member
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Hello,
i don't know why my client is working slowly... i have P4 @ 2.8Ghz and 4h for 14% with 100% off processor can you say me how to increase that? thx  |
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Former Member
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I don't think that is slow. Some proteins have more complicated folding and take a very long time. I'm on my third one now and while the first two took under 5 hrs each to complete the current one has been running for 13.5 hrs and is only 70% complete.
If these things didn't need absolutely tons of computing time I doubt they would need our help in the first place  .Kerina |
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Dataman
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I agree ... my first one took 20+ hours with a 3.0 GHz processor. The second one took a mere 11 hours. That is why they need us <LOL> Hang in there. <dataman>
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Former Member
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Hello, i don't know why my client is working slowly... i have P4 @ 2.8Ghz and 4h for 14% with 100% off processor can you say me how to increase that? thx Yep, changing years into months by using hours upon hours of processing among thousands of computers. |
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While that does seem a little slow you may have just gotten a big work unit. I have processed two work units now and while the first one took a little over 9 hours the second one took almost 13 hours and they were both done with 100% CPU time. I would suggest to the staff of this effort that they base the point system off flops per hour and not units completed. It would be somewhat unfair to base it off work units completed if they are not the same size and do not require the same CPU time.
One thing you may do to speed it up is free up a little more memory and make sure there are no programs running in the background stealing CPU time but that is about it. |
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Alther
Former World Community Grid Tech United States of America Joined: Sep 30, 2004 Post Count: 414 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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While that does seem a little slow you may have just gotten a big work unit. I have processed two work units now and while the first one took a little over 9 hours the second one took almost 13 hours and they were both done with 100% CPU time. I would suggest to the staff of this effort that they base the point system off flops per hour and not units completed. It would be somewhat unfair to base it off work units completed if they are not the same size and do not require the same CPU time. This is indeed how points are calculated. It's reallly how much work you've done regardless of how many work units you've returned. All of this is explained on our Points System page. - Rick Alther World Community Grid Application Developer
Rick Alther
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Former Member
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One thing you may do to speed it up is free up a little more memory and make sure there are no programs running in the background stealing CPU time but that is about it. Thx all for answers. Concerning my CPU, there is an average of 95% and i have 500Mo of ram free Now it's 54% for 14h...  |
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Former Member
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And what's the necessary time for a typycal task, on a PIII 1000?... I don't think that I can do much with this, but I can't have any better, at this time...
, and cosidering that the other program that I always leave opened and active is a file sharing program (eMule).Daniele |
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Former Member
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Is it worth contributing if I have only an old PIII @ 600 Mhz
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Former Member
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It is worth contributing no matter what your CPU speed/class is as long as it meets their minimum requirements. The objective of distributed conputing projects is to leverage whatever spare CPU cycles are available from whatever source. The key is the number of users not how fast your machine is.
If you want to feel like you are contributing more, join a team (insert shameless plug for Slashdot Users here  ). Hang in there though. Every CPU cycle is helpful. |
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