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Thread: Have we gotten a sudden surge of crunchers lately? |
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Former Member
Cruncher Joined: May 22, 2018 Post Count: 0 Status: Offline |
Seeing as there's only three active projects remaining (our mission is almost accomplished!), has the Clean Energy Project suddenly gotten a lot more crunching done in a single day?
I remember it used to get a small piece of the pie, but now there's not many slices... |
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gb009761
Master Cruncher Scotland Joined: Apr 6, 2005 Post Count: 3010 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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As can be seen from the CEP2 Statistics (for the last 60 days), the volume of WU's hasn't really increased - even though there's now only 3 Active projects running. This, in the main, will be due to it still being an "opt-in" project that has weighty resource requirements.
----------------------------------------I can't presonally see this really changing - even if CEP2 was the only project left. Slowly, but surely, it'll get there   |
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Former Member
Cruncher Joined: May 22, 2018 Post Count: 0 Status: Offline |
Strange, I see a 25+% increase in that 60 day period, where results is really no measure, since the per-result average runtimes have been slowly climbing for quite a few months... that requires more contribution ;>)
But, as I attributed in another thread, just yesterday, the second main driver is empowering the user to control the running number at the client side through the app_config.xml's <max_concurrent> control [requiring v7.0.40 and up]. No doubt, with less sciences to pick from, more are trying CEP2 out, and get to do and contribute what maybe was too long postponed ... this project too does not have eternal life.  |
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Former Member
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CEP was part of the BOINC "Pentathalon" challenge from May 7 2013 though May 12 2013, so you'll see a noticeable bump in the graph around that time.
-Steve |
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Former Member
Cruncher Joined: May 22, 2018 Post Count: 0 Status: Offline |
Ignoring that bump, the trend is clearly up. That said, with all that press attention, there could be right this day many new arrivals trying out to get that 200MB of application files and then the results... the WCG site on all sections is like a slug since a little while... clients having hard time to upload [very slow] and report, and this is DSFL going to WCG and not CEP2 going to Harvard.
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Mike.Gibson
Ace Cruncher England Joined: Aug 23, 2007 Post Count: 12594 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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According to Sekerob's charts, most of the project transfers seem to have gone to DSFL. I was thinking of going for a first saphire there, but the DSFL remainder has been falling too fast so I'll stop after emerald.
I was thinking of switching then to CEP2. but I keep being told that there are no WUs available. Is this temporary? I have 6 cores available, 4 of which are hyperthreaded so I can run 10 WUs at a time. Mike |
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jonnieb-uk
Ace Cruncher England Joined: Nov 30, 2011 Post Count: 6105 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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For information and to inform this discussion:
----------------------------------------WCG Project mix - last 7 days Project RT (days) % Points % Results % @ SekeRob The project that you "volunteered"  me for is in progress and I hope to report shortly. |
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Paul Schlaffer
Senior Cruncher USA Joined: Jun 12, 2005 Post Count: 279 Status: Offline Project Badges:
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I was thinking of switching then to CEP2. but I keep being told that there are no WUs available. Is this temporary? I have 6 cores available, 4 of which are hyperthreaded so I can run 10 WUs at a time. Mike I am running almost exclusively CEP on the home network on 16 processors with no work shortage. Keep in mind hyerthreading is basically creating a fake core by splitting a single processor into 2 "virtual" processors. For this application it is better to disable hyperthreading.
“Where an excess of power prevails, property of no sort is duly respected. No man is safe in his opinions, his person, his faculties, or his possessions.” – James Madison (1792)
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Mike.Gibson
Ace Cruncher England Joined: Aug 23, 2007 Post Count: 12594 Status: Offline Project Badges:
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Paul
When I decided to switch to CEP2 on 25 June, I downloaded 9 WUs to cache on my new quad. I have continued to complete DSFL as I haven't yet completed emerald and each time I return a WU my log says I am requesting work and that no work is available. My old dual core machine stopped getting new WUs on 26 June - the last download was at 21:12:59 GMT/UTC.. Hyperthreading is not involved there. Again the log says that there is no work available. Mike |
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Former Member
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Makes no senses... you've got 9 CEP2 by flipping the selection, still crunch DSFL [older than CEP2]. What's the number you allowed to be 'in progress' for CEP2? If the number is 9, then you would get a no work available for CEP2, but still get DSFL, but instead of guessing, please tell us the exact project selections, and post the message log. We like reading those, top to bottom, ideally a client restart gone before, so we have a seamless start to warning messages sequence.
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