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CandymanWCG
Senior Cruncher Romania Joined: Dec 20, 2010 Post Count: 421 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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Sorry to break the spell and disturb the silence here (just kidding
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Former Member
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No one is aware what's coming except the techs. If by the off chance a CA would have been slipped the knowledge, they'd be mum still.
Till then, revert to jhindo posts on new projects general statement. Of course science app fixes always come out of the blue as do performance enhancement tests. Neither has an indication on the forums as there being a problem [except maybe those who have an NVIDIA card and suffer lag, not using default settings i.e. by choice... that problem will be self-resolving shortly ;>) |
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Ingleside
Veteran Cruncher Norway Joined: Nov 19, 2005 Post Count: 974 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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Neither has an indication on the forums as there being a problem Well, where's been more than one post about XYZ under Linux is much faster than under windows, and this points to a problem with the windows-build of XYZ and this problem should preferably be fixed ASAP. Appart for speed-problems, where's also the continuing problem with CEP2's many tiny files killing performance. Unzipping 6466 mostly tiny files for every wu is a very inefficient method to use. Now, with some "bleeding"-edge games like DOOM, the files is also zipped. But, instead of unzipping all the files, they've kept in the zip-file, and accessed directly from the zip-file. So, a nice fix would be to change CEP2 to do the same, access the files directly from the zip-file without needing to extract them to disk. Since DOOM will have it's 20-year-anniversary later this year, it's not like this is "new" technology...  "I make so many mistakes. But then just think of all the mistakes I don't make, although I might." [Edit 1 times, last edit by Ingleside at Apr 26, 2013 3:57:47 PM] |
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Former Member
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To translate for you what I said [speak no Bokmål though]: There's nothing pressing, except in your book of course ;>). If you can find compiler libs for Windows that XYZ [speak VINA or integer intense scvience] make run faster, do speak up ;>)
CEP2 we were already told that a new science app is in development based on a new Q-Chem engine, old news thus. |
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Rickjb
Veteran Cruncher Australia Joined: Sep 17, 2006 Post Count: 666 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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Sekerob: "If you can find compiler libs for Windows that XYZ [speak VINA or integer intense scvience] make run faster, do speak up ;>)"
Think I suggested one such in the CEP2 forum here : Intel(R) Math Kernel Library (Intel(R) MKL) If I read things correctly the docs suggest that it can be configured to automatically select at run-time the best instructions to use for a particular CPU. Also optimises AMDs. CEP2 scientist cleanenergy replied that CEP2 already "uses optimized libraries such as MKL or ATLAS, but for use on the World Community Grid we have to compromise a lot because we cannot tailor the executable for every host hardware." ATLAS can be found at http://math-atlas.sourceforge.net/ |
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Former Member
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Thank you for presenting the case.
1) Best libraries are being used (uplinger laid already out one time what's being chosen from in quantitive terms) 2) Compiling with optimizations down to the CPU type / family is not viable (A support nightmare and scientists nightmare on the in and output side.) My question still stands thus. |
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nasher
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i would hope more projects would be coming out soon... but right now i am guessing they are concentrating on making sure the projects that are ending get finished up properly .. so i would not expect anything before GFAM and HPF clear up and end. but we can always hope
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Steve W
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If you read the latest news here http://www.worldcommunitygrid.org/about_us/viewNewsArticle.do?articleId=302 then there should be a beta for a new project with Ontario Cancer Institute soon(ish).
It seems unlikely this will be before GFAM and HPF are wrapped up, but only the WCG techs would be able to offer any ideas of timelines. |
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