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Former Member
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I was wondering is there a info how fast this grid is?? Im curious. It doesn't need to be exact and 100% correct. Who could know this thing?
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Former Member
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one of the members of "my online team" posted an estimate the other day of 58 teraflops... here, about 7 posts down
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David Autumns
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Hi musicmann,
----------------------------------------Yesterday the WCG posted 12,850,066 points thats 535419 points per hour. My PC scores 29.4 points per hour and benchmarks at 3.447 GFlops So every hour there are 18211 PC's like mine crunching through Work Units for the WCG which would make 62775GFlops of raw number crunching power or 62.775 TeraFlops This is the raw power of the WCG at the moment and would put is in 3rd place on the list of the top 500 supercomputer as of June this year. There is redundancy however built into the system so that Work Units can be verified against each other due to the distributed nature of the Grid and the medical science that is being carried out here. I believe that each Work Unit is sent out about 5 times. So the actual like for like comparison with a true Supercomputer would be around 12.5 TeraFlops give or take a GFlop or 2 which would still put the WCG a P14 in the list of the fastest supercomputers just 8 1/2 Months after the projects launch. Which I think is just  take care and happy crunching Regards Dave  |
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David Autumns
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Cheers Mousie
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very nice you get the estimates, david
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Former Member
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curious...is the redundancy set to five here? some folks over at grid.org mentioned it was only three. just wondering.
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Former Member
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very good news.
Thanks for sharing that David. |
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Former Member
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Hello mousie,
curious...is the redundancy set to five here? some folks over at grid.org mentioned it was only three. just wondering. smile This is something that is up in the air. A long time ago I posted a reply in which I used the figure 3. But later when I started searching, that was the only post I could find. I cannot remember what gave me that idea, so I have to assume that I picked up that idea from some speculative post. The only official information that I have is a mention that, on average, the servers are sending out about 7 copies of each work unit, though they get fewer results back. That would fit in with trying to get 5 identical results returned for each work unit, assuming that some unattended installations just keep haplessly requesting new work units without completing them while some computers have faulty FPUs. But I do not know. Sorry I have no definitive information about this. |
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Hi musicmann, Yesterday the WCG posted 12,850,066 points thats 535419 points per hour. My PC scores 29.4 points per hour and benchmarks at 3.447 GFlops So every hour there are 18211 PC's like mine crunching through Work Units for the WCG which would make 62775GFlops of raw number crunching power or 62.775 TeraFlops This is the raw power of the WCG at the moment and would put is in 3rd place on the list of the top 500 supercomputer as of June this year. There is redundancy however built into the system so that Work Units can be verified against each other due to the distributed nature of the Grid and the medical science that is being carried out here. I believe that each Work Unit is sent out about 5 times. So the actual like for like comparison with a true Supercomputer would be around 12.5 TeraFlops give or take a GFlop or 2 which would still put the WCG a P14 in the list of the fastest supercomputers just 8 1/2 Months after the projects launch. Which I think is just take care and happy crunching Regards Dave Hmmmmm nice to know. Thanks for reply. |
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