Cosmology now Milkyway

[Nflight]

L'Alliance Francophones decided that Milkyway was going to be there new project to over take our lead. :BangHead: Thanks goes to CarcinogenX is leading our Team Efforts :blob3: but, today the Francophones :icon_mad: have decided to push out 2 1/2 times the output.:shocked: IF your stumbling on deciding which project to push some points too, this might be one of those deciding moments. :icon_thumright: Vaughan has come on board to push out some workunits, anyone else interested in placing some crunchers now is the time! :icon_mrgreen:

[PcManiac]

Milkyway was SO last week! lol, I got 26k, but I decided to pursue medical projects again :)

[meshmar]

I've got MalariaControl at top priority - with Milkyway 2nd ...

[vaughan]

Milkyway tasks are nice and short to run, about 10 to 20 minutes each. There is some random message about 20 tasks per host in BOINC manager but just ignore it as it will only limit the download to 20 at a time. It will grab some more every so often so you don't run out.

[CarcinogenX]

Congrats to Meshmar - Milkyway UOTD

[CarcinogenX]

Strange thing about this project - my AMD 5200 running Linux can outperform a Q6600 running windows xp.

This is the perfect AMD project

[PoorBoy]

Strange thing about this project - my AMD 5200 running Linux can outperform a Q6600 running windows xp.

I took a look @ your Pc's since you have them showing & I don't really see what you are basing that that on. Don't forget the Quad is running 4 WU's @ a time and the 5200 only 2 WU's, so yes it can run 2 WU's faster than the Quad can run 4 WU's, but if you add up the time it takes the 5200 to run 4 WU's as far as I can see the Quad is faster ... :)

[meshmar]

Clock for clock, an AMD will out crunch an Intel cpu ... per WU, not per core.

I don't have a quad core to compare amd to intel, but my dual core is faster than any dual core intel at the same clock speed.

[gatekeeper53]

I can almost hear the Quads fireing up on Milkyway LOL

[Lagu]

We have today went up a step from fourth to third place:)

Come join us and have fun. Short WU´s as takes from 5.14 to 19.17 on AMD64 3200+ and 5.19 to 15.48 in Intel C2D.

Of cource a heavier and faster computer runs their tasks faster.

I have after little more than a 24-hour period earned over 2.000 points.:icon_wink:

[mitchellds]

ok, I'm on board, and giving Cosmo a rest for a bit.

[PoorBoy]

Congrats on reaching 3 Million @ Cosmo Mitch ... :icon_thumright:

[gatekeeper53]

Congrats Mitch!!! That's a bunch!

[Bender10]

It looks like 3 Bunches!!!

[mitchellds]

Thanks guys !!

[Lagu]

Now we are baxk to the forth place again. Boinc Australia has stopmped us:icon_twisted:

[Danish Dynamite]

this was an experiment i started a few days ago, running milkyway on same computer with different os's/boinc versions and comparing numbers, data set for xp_x64/5.10.28 and kubuntu v7.10 amd 64/5.10.8 contains 20 results and 19 results for xp 32bit/5.10.30

http://i117.photobucket.com/albums/o75/yuchup/milkywayoscpu-1.jpg

as soon as i finish up work units on 5200 i will switch it over to kubuntu v7.10 amd 64 should be good for about 1.7k per day might even install kubuntu on phenom (average work unit time with xp_x64 = 963.29s) and let it have a run at milkyway see what it can do with linux

q6600 takes 1071.83 seconds (average work unit time) for 6.5 credit work units with Windows xp 32 bit and 670.16 seconds (average work unit time) with Kubuntu 7.10 amd64

[Nflight]

Those are nice stats there Danish Dynamite! Thank You :blob3:

[CarcinogenX]

I ran one of my Q6600’s on windows XP pro and ubuntu 7.10 – Running Linux it took a couple seconds longer to complete a WU so I stuck with Windows but as far as my 5200, the difference between XP and Ubuntu was night and day. My times with Ubuntu are about 209 seconds for a 2 credit WU and 513 for 6.5 credit WU. That is way, way faster than my results with XP and even faster than my quads that are running 500mhz faster.

Milkyway only supports 32bit Linux for now. I imagine that a 64bit would be faster?

[CarcinogenX]

Think I am going to let L'Alliance Francophones have all the Milkyway they want. I have been running the project since it started a few months ago and can honestly say that it is down more than it is up and I have grown tired of my computers sitting idle.

Time to move on for a while until they will work out the bugs.

[Danish Dynamite]

I imagine that a 64bit would be faster?

the tests i have done so far was with 64 bit linux was with ia32 libs installed, i still have to test using 32 bit linux, but last time i tried to do that project was not sending work / server down

ps currently running abc at home with kubuntu 7.10 amd64 to find out if these is a speed difference between linux 64 bit and xp_x64, when i have a nice sized sample size i will swap over to kubuntu v7.10 i386 and get some data for milkyway

[meshmar]

the tests i have done so far was with 64 bit linux was with ia32 libs installed, i still have to test using 32 bit linux, but last time i tried to do that project was not sending work / server down

ps currently running abc at home with kubuntu 7.10 amd64 to find out if these is a speed difference between linux 64 bit and xp_x64, when i have a nice sized sample size i will swap over to kubuntu v7.10 i386 and get some data for milkyway

This is the 64 bit OpenSuSE 10.3 install I have running on Milkyway right now:
http://milkyway.cs.rpi.edu/milkyway/show_host_detail.php?hostid=3829

That should give you a rough idea how it would compare. BTW - it's a 5000+ BE and running at 3.2 GHz. :icon_mrgreen: