Bigger, stronger, faster!

[vaughan]

I just noticed this posted at www.chessbrain.net

Sunday, January 23rd 2005, 3:40 PM (PST)
Bigger, stronger, faster!

The ChessBrain software is undergoing a year-long major rewrite. Our next release is designed to be massively scalable running on single processor machines to large compute clusters - and everything in between! For the first time, users will be able to build and operate their own local clusters!

[Beerknurd]

Yea but can I actually sign up now....... That is the question......

[Empty_5oul]

or will we all be under Vaughan again, lol

[jlangner]

uhh, feel free to sign under me as well. :D

[Beerknurd]

No offense but I want my own account dammit. :lol:

[vaughan]

I read somewhere that account sign-ups is working again. Anyone tried recently?

[Empty_5oul]

ah, nice
i'll try this evening and see if it works.
This yearlog re-write has that happened or is it just begining ?

[Ototero]

Logins ARE working :D :D :D

Get yours here :

http://www.chessbrain.net/member/new_account.php

[Empty_5oul]

excellent, i am signed up and ready for the new release.

[Beerknurd]

Woo Hoo I finally got an account.... It's about time. Sorry Vaughan....:lol:

[Beerknurd]

I've been running it for a while now and my stats aren't updating. Both machines show up under my username but I haven't seen my stats increase.... They used to update several times a day. Is there only one update now???????

[Empty_5oul]

from when i looked at it more recntly i think there is only 1 update per day.

[vaughan]

Not sure how often they update but only Bruce, Ototero and myself show as returning work in Bok's stats here:

http://stats.free-dc.org/new/teamstats.php?proj=cb&team=AMD+Users

[Empty_5oul]

i should also appear in those stats on the next update.

[Empty_5oul]

i am still not there (3 hours on). just wondering if free DC only takes the members from the CB server once a day and then does the work, so i wont appear till tomorrow - e.g. it still syas beerknurd is new.

[Beerknurd]

Vaughan's score took a nose dive yesterday.... Probably cause stats transfered when people signed up for their own account.... :lol: Poor Vaughan....

[Empty_5oul]

well, i am just opening a load of CB peers for overnight. so hopefully i will appear ont he stats tomorrow or at least Vaughan will get some credit. have to wait and see, if only there was hourly updates, lol.

[vaughan]

YIKES :!: :!: :!:

I hope I stop going backwards in this project soon.

I've got 6 or more instances running on most of my PCs now to try to stem the tide.

[Beerknurd]

I have 5 instances running on each of my PC's. We'll see where that gets me.......

[Beerknurd]

Should I have more than 5 running on my Dell 3.4..... I bet it could handle alot more....... What is the most anyone has on 1 machine???

[Empty_5oul]

i remember from other posts (maybe not on this forum) some people say they get up 25 running. I think this is too high though as some can't process immediatly as work comes in as other instances are taking the CPU.

right now i have 5 running on my screen but once i checked task manager i actually have 8 though 3 are not displaying :S
after further checking i find as i load the agent 2 automatically load under task manger but do not appear on the screen.

[Beerknurd]

Thanks Oli. I may try and bump it up to 10 and see if I can get better numbers tomorrow. I guess I'll just have to play around with it.

[Empty_5oul]

yep, see whats good for you.
what are you running with it, right now i have dnet (RC5) as it uses all resources when CB isnt but also allows CB to take resources when it needs it.

[Beerknurd]

2 instances of SOB. I may take it down to 1 instance and them add more ChessBrain clients.

[chaz]

Should I have more than 5 running on my Dell 3.4..... I bet it could handle alot more....... What is the most anyone has on 1 machine???

I have run 25 on my dualie, I dont know if it'll do more..That was with modded Tbreds, havent tried with the Mobiles yet, but i think i'd be short in the ram department anyway.
Single chips should do a dozen with 512mb, but HT P4's i couldn't say(My HT is off).

[Beerknurd]

I always wondered what the performance difference would be if I disabled it....... I guess I'll try it one of these days.

Both of my computers have 20 instances running now. I can already see a huge jump in my numbers. I'll let it run for a while and see if I can't gain some ground. Sorry about the drop in my SOB numbers. I only have 2 computers and it hard to spread them out over several projects.....

[chaz]

Never benched it either way, but it does seem snappier with it off imo.

[Beerknurd]

I may try that and try running different projects and test the results....

[NVM]

hmmm, cpu cycles for a .....chess game? :roll:

[Beerknurd]

yea but it only uses cpu cycles when it submits.

[Beerknurd]

damn Oli you must have opened a few more clients. Your almost keeping up with Vaughan and bwhite.

[Empty_5oul]

yep, i added the 64 so currently have a 3200 normal and 64 3200 working on it. 20 on each machine, so 40 open in total.
i also have RC5 running at the same time as it seems to cope with the sudden full processor capability and then lack of processing power.

each of them is far above me, my target is ototero - recently he has got me in SOB and OGR now chessbrain. I need to take some back.

[Beerknurd]

I added clients to my machine yesterday morning and it put me ahead of you in the daily numbers. Then I woke up this morning and saw that you creamed me!!!!!

[Empty_5oul]

lol, think of it as revenge for SOB.
I dont know how many this machine will handle but my results are very odd. the 64 has 3 days processing while 3200 has 52 yet the 64's scores are 1/3 of my total.
i think i'll sitck with this for a while.

[Beerknurd]

I noticed that too. My Gateway 733 is keeping up with my dell 3.4. Very strange..... My Gateway has 20 instances running and my Dell has 30.... It might be an overkill.... I was trying to benchmark them but the stats are down..... I did notice a big increase when I put 20 on each. But like I said.... 30 may be overkill on the Dell while still crunching SOB at a 2.5M rate.

Just 100 posts to go for #2000.

I wanna be a Senior Post Whore.

[Empty_5oul]

gd gd, i'm a little way off my next rank increase.
was it decided whatever you become your 1st start will turn to gold.

i reckon 30 could be overkill, i have got 25 on each and when they all want work they are dividing to about 8% processor each.
i think i need a new machine to catch vaughan in the daily rate, he is just unreachable.

try having sob set to idle and low processor usage in tsk manager, it made a difference for me.

[Beerknurd]

Ok I'll try that

[Empty_5oul]

just looking at the free DC overall CB stats. what is up with team ninja getting such a massive loss today :? (10:13 is thev culprit) http://stats.free-dc.org/new/teamstats.php?proj=cb&team=TEAM+NINJA

[NVM]

oh, what the heck, i may as well CB too. hmm, now i have to find room in the sig panel. :P

[Beerknurd]

I knew you'd come around..... Too bad your playing for the wrong team... :-(

[Empty_5oul]

our scores are well up on the competition currently though, its looking gd for an eventual overtake.

[NVM]

thanks for getting me to CB fellas! and i just figured out how to make huge dumps too!

[vaughan]

All part of the friendly service N.V.M. O:)

[NVM]

9 billion point dump! hehehe.

[Beerknurd]

ok now i'm curious...... I wanna make a dump... :lol:

[Empty_5oul]

how is that possible ??
i thought you had to be parm. connected to get and sent work -- and as this happened you get credit that comes in instantly.

[NVM]

Ninjas-masters of stealth... :lol:

[Empty_5oul]

you gonna share the secret of the configuration then ??