Started an AMD Users team for Einstein@Home

[gamer007]

For those who don't know, its a project coming soon.

October 12, 2004

Thank you for your interest in Einstein@home!

Einstein@home is a program that uses your computer's idle time to search for spinning neutron stars (also called pulsars) using data from the LIGO and GEO gravitational wave detectors. We plan to deploy a production version of Einstein@home around the end of 2004, as part of the American Physical Society's World Year of Physics 2005 activities. If you would like to register as a test user, please go to the APS WYP 2005 Page.

Testers: Please be aware that this is not a production version of Einstein@home: it is an early (alpha) test release, which has undergone only limited testing within the LIGO Scientific Collaboration and GEO project.

Since this is our first (alpha test, pre-production) Einstein@home release, we are only accepting a limited number of users, who have indicated an interest in helping. During the next few months, as we continue and complete our testing, we will release new versions of Einstein@home, and accept more and more users. If all goes well, we hope to 'throw open the doors' near the end of 2004.

This first test of Einstein@home carries out a search for pulsars over the entire sky, using the ten most sensitive hours of data from LIGO's second science run, S2. This same data has already been analyzed using a very powerful dedicated supercomputing cluster (nothing significant was found). For our first test of Einstein@home, we are repeating this search with some small technical changes.

Bruce Allen, Professor of Physics, U. of Wisconsin - Milwaukee
Einstein@home Leader for the LIGO Scientific Collaboration


Here's the email I got.

>Thank you for your interest in Einstein@home!
>
>Einstein@home is a program that uses your computer's idle time to
>search for spinning compact stars (such as pulsars) using data
>from the LIGO and GEO gravitational wave detectors. We plan to deploy
>a production version of Einstein@home around the end of 2004, as part
>of the American Physical Society's World Year of Physics 2005
>activities.
>
>We have just completed our first test release of Einstein@home, and
>would like to solicit your help in testing it. Please be aware that
>this is not a production version of Einstein@home: it is an early
>(alpha) test release, which has undergone only limited testing within
>the LIGO Scientific Collaboration and GEO project.
>
>We would be grateful for your help in testing this first Einstein@home
>release. If you would like to help us, please go to
>http://einstein.phys.uwm.edu/ and click on the 'Download BOINC' link.
>Download and run BOINC, and when prompted, enter:
> Project URL: http://einstein.phys.uwm.edu
> Account ID: *****************************
>The account ID is case sensitive: please cut-and-paste it into your
>browser or type it exactly as above. At the URL above, use the
>'Your account' link to set preferences about when Einstein@home will
>run on your computer, change your account name, etc.
>
>Since this is our first (alpha test, pre-production) Einstein@home
>release, we are only accepting a limited number of users, who have
>indicated an interest in helping. During the next few months, as we
>continue and complete our testing, we will release new versions of
>Einstein@home, and accept more and more users. If all goes well, we
>hope to 'throw open the doors' near the end of 2004.
>
>This first test of Einstein@home carries out a search for pulsars over
>the entire sky, using the ten most sensitive hours of data from LIGO's
>second science run, S2. This same data has already been analyzed
>using a very powerful dedicated supercomputing cluster (nothing
>significant was found). For our first test of Einstein@home, we are
>repeating this search with some small technical changes.
>
>If you experience problems with Einstein@home or have suggestions,
>please post a question on the message board at the URL above.
>
>Sincerely,
> Bruce Allen, Professor of Physics, U. of Wisconsin - Milwaukee
> Einstein@home Leader for the LIGO Scientific Collaboration

Even though its in the alpha stage, just thought I should make the team since i'm interested in it.

[Beerknurd]

Can't sign up.... I guess they have all the registrations they need for now.

[BigDawg]

Account creation is disabled for Einstein@Home at the moment, because Einstein@Home is in a testing phase.
If you would like to register as a test user, please go to the APS WYP 2005 Page.
Alternatively, please try again later.

[gamer007]

Looks like they are having problems. Downloaded 100's of WUs over a period of time, all of them MD5 Checksum error. :-(

[Empty_5oul]

maybe worth disconnecting / detaching and trying again in a few weeks.

hopefully they will have it sorted by then.

[gamer007]

:D Working now.

November 9, 2004

Due to some server misconfiguration at our end you may have noticed errors while downloading files. This is now fixed. If you notice error messages about missing files or download problems please try doing 'Reset Project' from the Project Tab (select "einstein" then use right mouse button).

Now I can test it.

[jlangner]

So much to run! So little pcs. :cry:

[Beerknurd]

I'm getting used to saying that...... :lol:

[gamer007]

Now works. Takes 1 hour and 10 minutes for one WU to finish for me. Plus, we got a new member in the team. :)

EDIT: Currently 12 place.

Place:| Team:| Mem:| RAC:| Total Credit:| Country:
12| AMD Users | 2| 39.52| 407.90| International

Name| Total credit| Recent average credit| Country
1) gamer007| 60.24| 5.67| Canada
2) Miltman25 | 347.65| 33.72| United States

[BigDawg]

Sweet, just get the new member to join here. What kind of pc are you running? let me have some specs man, those wu completion times are good!!

[gamer007]

:oops: AMD Athlon XP 1700+ 1.46Ghz :oops:
Windows XP Home SP2

Suprisingly, I find E@H takes very little RAM. Around 3-5 MB.

[BigDawg]

Man, wish i would have been on the invite list. Would really like to do some einstien@home. i would put your xp1700 against an intell 2ghz any day of the week. :hiding:

[Beerknurd]

I never get invited to do sqwat.

[gamer007]

Now 11 place. Thanks to Miltman25. I'm also doing SETI BOINC which takes up most of the time.

[gamer007]

Now we are in 10th place! :D

[Beerknurd]

Go team go!!!!!!! :givemea:

[BigDawg]

Hey, i got my invite to einstien this morning. On the team now. GO TEAM!!!!

[gamer007]

Just checked standings, fell back to 11th. Einstein@Penn State has slight more RAC than us.

[BigDawg]

let me get some of these wu's crunched and maybe we can head back up the ranks......

[gamer007]

9 place already! We're kicking butt! :D :D

[Empty_5oul]

quite a lot of us run BOINC so as more people sign up and do ti LHC, SETI, CP and now this should all go up quite a bit.
seeing as we are starting so well on einstein maybe we could try and keep 10th for as long as possible. i will go and sign up now :thumbleft:

[BigDawg]

Hey Gamer007, looks like 6 members on einstien team. How many from here on the forums???

[gamer007]

Hey Gamer007, looks like 6 members on einstien team. How many from here on the forums???

Here's the list:

gamer007 - Me!
Miltman25 -Unknown
Brent Dax -Unknown
jasont -Unknown
rdupont -Unknown
BigDawg -Obviously!

[BigDawg]

time for some recruiting :lol:

[gamer007]

Holding on to place 9 nicely.

Place|Team Name|Member(s)|Recent Average Credit|Total Credit

8 Team Eagles 1 107.48 1178.85
9 AMD Users 6 77.32 835.78
10 Brigham Young University 1 54.18 673.08

EDIT: Can someone explain why this is happening on the site?

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[vaughan]

Unable to join the Einstein thingy. Yet another BOINC botch-up I guess.

[BigDawg]

did you get the email invite??

[vaughan]

no

[gamer007]

Go here: http://www.physics2005.org/events/einsteinathome/index.html

Go to What should you do? There, you sign up there and wait till you get chosen.

EDIT: This was part of the news from October 12.

Since this is our first (alpha test, pre-production) Einstein@home release, we are only accepting a limited number of users, who have indicated an interest in helping. During the next few months, as we continue and complete our testing, we will release new versions of Einstein@home, and accept more and more users. If all goes well, we hope to 'throw open the doors' near the end of 2004.

[BigDawg]

And i guess we forgot to mention this is the alpha test of it. So i expect some
probs with it along the way..

[bwhite]

did you get the email invite??

no :-(

http://boinc.mundayweb.com/seti2/stats.php/userID:1613/trans:off/.png http://boinc.mundayweb.com/predictor/stats.php/userID:41/trans:off/.png

[BigDawg]

The site says they still need some testers, go to this address and sign up, maybe they will send you an email invite.


http://www.physics2005.org/cgi-bin/wyp.cgi?ID=1000

[Beerknurd]

With Boinc there's always problems.....

[BigDawg]

yep, but half the fun of boinc is because you never know if its gonna work when you try it. Its like gambling. ;) or playing russian roulette, not sure which on is more appropriate :eek:

[DMMc]

WAAAHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!

I want my invite....I've been signed up for one since tday one.

:cry:

[BigDawg]

go to the link and sign up agian, maybe it works on a point system, i signed up 3 times.

[gamer007]

I signed up months ago. Just be patient and you may get one. I signed up with my gmail account but never got that one.

EDIT: We lost jasont. But I don't think he had done any work.

[Beerknurd]

Well this Jason would like to join..... But no email invite yet.... :twisted:

[BigDawg]

i Hope you get one. but the validation isnt going that fast, i have 500 credits pending at this point.

[Beerknurd]

Well that's Boinc for ya.... It;s probably better anyway. I don't run Boinc projects... At least not now.

[BigDawg]

they just put up an announcement that the newly installed validator should go through the backlog this weekend. lets see if it really does.

[Beerknurd]

Knowing Boinc........ Probably not. :shock:

[gamer007]

I have 120.50 pending credits. :P

[Beerknurd]

You better hope they count....

[BigDawg]

i have noticed going through my pending credits, that they havent got the problem with windows vs. linux fixed yet for the credits claimed. the linux boxes are claiming half the credits. so when we validate against them we get screwed for credits!!!!

[Beerknurd]

Boinc is whack will be my new saying......

[jlangner]

Well I emailed them - So if I get a reply I'll put a machine on it.

[Beerknurd]

I still haven't gotten one. Maybe I should sign up again. I'll do it everyday until they accept me. I'll just annoy the hell out of them. :lol:

[BigDawg]

did you notice the core update on einstien? it updated to 4.35, which isnt bad.
but for some reason i also got updated to boinc 4.54 which i thought was still in alpha or beta over on the seti side. guess will just see how it works. I did notice that 4.54 dropped my benchmarks by almost 2000 on integer. fpu went up a little.

[Empty_5oul]

fpu ?? do you meen cpu ?? - or if not what does fpu stand for

[BigDawg]

fpu is the way boinc states floating point unit calculations

[Empty_5oul]

oh, k.
i did know after reading that what it stood for but not just having the abreviation, thx bill

[jlangner]

Oh no Beerknurd, your going to be an "email whore" as well! :D

[Beerknurd]

Yep..... I am a talented whore, if I must say so myself..... :lol:

[BigDawg]

now that it has ran for awhile, boinc 4.54 seems to work better than all the earlier ones. it fixed the prob with my machine claiming way more credits than everyone else.

if you want to try it let me know and i will post the link to the alpha download for 4.54boinc.

[gamer007]

Good news, a.angermann joined us and now in 8th place. :D

[BigDawg]

I saw that, hopefully some of my 569 pending credits will kick in soon.

[gamer007]

gamer007 hopes he will get his 179.02 pending credits.

EDIT: Why is this around?

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Anyone else get it?


EDIT2: Good work team, now in 7th place. :)

[jlangner]

not here

[BigDawg]

hey gamer, what browser are you using???

[Ototero]

I get it sometimes and I'm using firefox 1.0

[jlangner]

Vaughn, did you get a reply yet?

[Beerknurd]

I signed up 3 more times.

[jlangner]

So being an email hasn't helped yet. lol.

[BigDawg]

I think beers persitstance will pay off

[Beerknurd]

I guess we'll see......

[Ototero]

What has happened to the individualstats in E@H ?

http://einstein.phys.uwm.edu/team_display.php?teamid=19

[jlangner]

Still no email to sign up, anyone else.

[Ototero]

Still can't produce any stats for E@H for individuals :cry:

[Jeff]

Firefox has cookie issues with this site. I have that problem too when I use firefox.

[Empty_5oul]

it has flash problems as well, it doesnt like displaying them inside a web browser.

[Beerknurd]

I can't get no damn email...... Such crappy service.... :evil:

[vaughan]

No Jeff L, E@H's email must be going the long route!

[Beerknurd]

mine too. I signed up 3 more times today. :lol:

[BigDawg]

if you guys want to try e@h, i will send you my username and id. :lol:

[gamer007]

Doing great, now back in 8th place. :)

Now we have 8 members.

1) gamer007
2) Miltman25
3) a.angermann
4) truffino
5) Brent Dax
6) rdupont
7) senator2
8) BigDawg

EDIT: Now 7th.

[jlangner]

You would have 9 if I would ever get an email!

[Beerknurd]

10......... :evil:

[gamer007]

If you guys ever get in, there's some good news for us!


Good to hear. Yes, we found and fixed the problem. The 4.44 ist out since yesterday and besides containing some fixes behind the scenes should be 20-25% faster than the 4.35.


The new version seems very AMD friendly and Intel hostile. My home machine (Athlon XP 3200+) dropped from 43min per work unit to 27min. My work machine (P4 2.66Ghz) went from from 53min/unit to 72min/unit. Looks like the new core may be hiting a sweet spot on the XP and throwing a bubble somewhere in the P4's long pipeline. Anyone else with similar results?


Just checked my results again, and the new version seems to be running about twice as fast. Running a Celeron 1Ghz.

My WU's usually take just over 60min, now dropped to 40min. :D

[vaughan]

Grrr, still waiting for the email
.

[Beerknurd]

me too :?

[BigDawg]

holy *&^%$$, mine just dropped from 44 to 25 minutes. gotta like that!!!

[bwhite]

10......... :evil:

11 :!: :!:

http://boinc.mundayweb.com/seti2/stats.php/userID:1613/trans:off/.png http://boinc.mundayweb.com/predictor/stats.php/userID:41/trans:off/.png

[Empty_5oul]

^^^ better make that 12 with me.

[BigDawg]

if you really want to try it i will give all of you my project url and account id.
that way you can help out the team till you get your invites :lol:

[BigDawg]

Doing great, now back in 8th place. :)

Now we have 8 members.

1) gamer007
2) Miltman25
3) a.angermann
4) truffino
5) Brent Dax
6) rdupont
7) senator2
8) BigDawg

EDIT: Now 7th.

Did truffino quit the team, E@H page says 7 members now

http://boinc.mundayweb.com/einstein/stats.php/userID:13/.png

[gamer007]

Doing great, now back in 8th place. :)

Now we have 8 members.

1) gamer007
2) Miltman25
3) a.angermann
4) truffino
5) Brent Dax
6) rdupont
7) senator2
8) BigDawg

EDIT: Now 7th.

Did truffino quit the team, E@H page says 7 members now

http://boinc.mundayweb.com/einstein/stats.php/userID:13/.png

Yes he did. :-( But we are in 6th place now. :D

[BigDawg]

we are in 6th if you look at RAC, but if you sort by total credit we are in 7th

[BigDawg]

looks like we lost another member of the e@h team, miltman25 is gone, sure gonna miss his pc's..



http://boinc.mundayweb.com/einstein/stats.php/userID:13/.png