NEW PROJECT - Pi Segment (not boinc)

[gamer007]

My P4 3.0GHz takes about 2h to do 1 WU. I'm trying one of my brother's computer which is my old AMD Athlon XP 1700+ (1.4GHz), taking forever.

[NeoGen]

My P4 3.0GHz takes about 2h to do 1 WU.

I guess this is a project best suited for newer AMD's and dual cores then. My Athlon64 3200+ at work, clocked at 2GHz I think, sweeps them at little over 1 hour each.

[JUST]

Is it possible to merge computers? I had to reset the client on my main computer for some reason so it shows up twice.

well, I'm sorry there is no similar function yet. Maybe I will consider adding it like BOINC.

[JUST]

Hi Just

Please greet Snoopy wery welcome to AMDusers. We is proud have a Chinese friend in the project of PI Segment. Snoppy have give us a real bost. Other Chinese is also welcome. I´m only unsure if they understand English but I beleive most all young peoples understand and talk English very good.

And I wish to tank you Just because you have developed a client as allow Dual 2 Cores, HT, and SSE2 at the same time. It is more I can say about other oroject out there as run the same old clients. Both my Intel Dual 2 Core and AMD Athlon 64, 3200+ run your project and the AMD run a WU at 0,55 minutes whish is 0,09 minutes faster than Intel.

The Intel Is newer and with more speed byt yet AMD is faster. It is a great mashine. I have even a AMD Athlon 1001 GHz, 640 MB memory but I think it is to slow and a WU will takes hours to be finished but I perhaps should testrun it. What is your option?

My pleasure, I will notice him and I think most Chinese young people have a better English than me The current client can support machine with 8 CPUs at most

About Athlon 1G (1001 G is terrible ), I think it will be very slow. But, anyway, you can test it.

AMD K8 is a very advanced architeture which is suitable to run Pi Segment. It has double FPU (the unit used to compute float numbers) and short pipeline.

Specially, I optimized Pentium 4 by SSE2 a lot but it is also less efficient than K8.

[gatekeeper53]

Everyone is always screaming about a level playing field, I don't see how one could get anymore level than this. It looks like fun and a great way to promote DC'ing in China. Welcome Just.

[Evil-Dragon]

I wonder how many WU's till the Pi record is broken?

[JUST]

I wonder how many WU's till the Pi record is broken?

The current test is to compute Pi's 40000000000000th bit and it spend about 28 days. But the speed is not equal during the test: at the beginning, the speed is less than 300 results per day.
The newest record is the 1000000000000000th bit, 25 times as we have just finished. My plan is to double this record. Moreover, we need the same number of WUs to verify the result's precision.
In sum, 100 times as we have done. As the users will increase after deployment and the process is improving, I hope we can get it within two years. In addition, the huge computation resources is wasted in China. I expect the project can use them so that it will certainly accelerate the progress.


BTW, the WUs have been assigned over. After analyzing the results, I will add some more WUs.

[gatekeeper53]

Can you give us an idea on when there will be more wu's? I only got to play for a couple of hours but I really like the 40 minute wu's.

[NeoGen]

Work is out already... 7,000+ WU's. Look at the statistics chart!

[gatekeeper53]

Only a short time down. Just must really be on top of things.