AMDave
04-09-2011, 07:09 AM
Priority news from MilkyWay@home (http://milkyway.cs.rpi.edu/milkyway/forum_thread.php?id=2329)
Old ATI applications deprecated
So I figured while everything was breaking and people are already mad at us for having to wipe the workunit and result tables from the database, it would be time to deprecate the old ATI GPU applications. From here on out, we'll not be generating a parameter file for the applications (as all the new versions accept these from the command line which significantly cuts down on the servers file IO), and we'll not be accepting results coming in a file (all the new versions write the result to standard error which goes right into the database, also saving us a lot of file IO).
Matt A is updating the ATI application so they'll be available and automatically downloaded when new work is generated, but for people with customized app info and who are using old versions of the ATI application this is fair warning. We should probably be generating new work sometime this weekend, and the workunits being sent out will break with the older versions of the ATI applications.
I suppose this means that you can ditch your cache now if you are still holding onto it because it appears that those results can no longer be returned.
The best way to do this AND get a clean install of the new app would be to detach and re-attach the project. That will clear out the old config files and any executables etc.
Old ATI applications deprecated
So I figured while everything was breaking and people are already mad at us for having to wipe the workunit and result tables from the database, it would be time to deprecate the old ATI GPU applications. From here on out, we'll not be generating a parameter file for the applications (as all the new versions accept these from the command line which significantly cuts down on the servers file IO), and we'll not be accepting results coming in a file (all the new versions write the result to standard error which goes right into the database, also saving us a lot of file IO).
Matt A is updating the ATI application so they'll be available and automatically downloaded when new work is generated, but for people with customized app info and who are using old versions of the ATI application this is fair warning. We should probably be generating new work sometime this weekend, and the workunits being sent out will break with the older versions of the ATI applications.
I suppose this means that you can ditch your cache now if you are still holding onto it because it appears that those results can no longer be returned.
The best way to do this AND get a clean install of the new app would be to detach and re-attach the project. That will clear out the old config files and any executables etc.