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[chaz]

res0r9lm and his diskless nodes just appeared in my rear view mirror.........
Getting smaller.....
And smaller.....
Everybody wave....... bye bye :hello2:

Don't go by him too fast, you might blow out the windows!!! :hello2:

At this rate though, you will be #1 in Predictor within the week!

(OMG, I've invited a monster to dinner!!!! )

ROFLMAO!!

res0r9lm is Bionic Redneck, the one who switched teams and took with him some hardware that was donated to build the last node(supercomputer).
Just wanted everyone to have the opportunity to rub his nose in it a little, thats all.
It doesnt look like we're going to pull enough to prevent SETI.Germany from overtaking us, I may move some more to this but resources are getting scarce. 3 reserves, 2 Intel and 1 AMD.

[chaz]

Don't go by him too fast, you might blow out the windows!!!

Wouldn't have hurt my feelings a bit :twisted:

Oops, almost forgot 1 thing......BYE BYE:bootyshake:

[BC]

Chaz,
Thanks for the update the situ with redneck. I understand and fully agree.. It would be a shame if any stones flew up now, wouldn't it!

Seti Germany did a bulk update... Their average is already eroding so I would not worry too much... they will slip back again.. As for the other team... last person to blow by is that other team's lead @ 11896 points.. only 14 RAC seperate you two... then you will definately be gaining.

How much do you do CLI mode and how much GUI ... also, what is your disk-write rate? I got better perf by bumping up the write time to 120 seconds.



I hope those database 'burps' of earlier today don't damage anyone's scores. maybe I should check... how does that esql go?
"((select * from .... where 'user == .......... ' ) if (score = 0) )" ???

[chaz]

I'm not so worried about how well I do, I just wanted to help keep the team in the top 10. It looks like this project is getting some serious attention lately and I'm sure it wont be long before the big guns are on it and blowing the doors off everyone, lol.

I have my prefs to write to disk every 60 secs, and I'm using the cli on all but HER machine. She has this thing about DOS boxes, she cant seem to keep her mouse off the little 'x' .So for the time being she gets the gui. I was running 100% cli today, fired up hers about 15 min ago, so now 6 cli vs 1 gui.

Difficult to track client performance, it would be nice if the wu's were the same size. I have completed units with CPU time ranging from 21min to 2 hrs

[BC]

I'm not so worried about how well I do, I just wanted to help keep the team in the top 10. It looks like this project is getting some serious attention lately and I'm sure it wont be long before the big guns are on it and blowing the doors off everyone, lol.

I have my prefs to write to disk every 60 secs, and I'm using the cli on all but HER machine. She has this thing about DOS boxes, she cant seem to keep her mouse off the little 'x' .So for the time being she gets the gui. I was running 100% cli today, fired up hers about 15 min ago, so now 6 cli vs 1 gui.

Difficult to track client performance, it would be nice if the wu's were the same size. I have completed units with CPU time ranging from 21min to 2 hrs

Unfortunately the different sizes come from the different targets mostly (as I am told)... and if you have any Charmms (ct.....) those will run in nothng flat...

I'm switching to CLI now, tired of erratic performance because I'm not paying attention. Anything special you can recommend?

I did one thing outside the scope of this forum, but it may help you to tell me anything special I need to do for max perf on predictor based on your experience with CLI.

Fresh Diagnose - System Report


CPU Bench Result
WhetStone FPU 7,916 MWIPS
DhryStone ALU 9,522 MDIPS
Speed 2261 MHz

Last Benchmark Saturday, Jul 10, 2004 04:20 pm



Memory Bench Result
Integer Assignment 12,346
Real Assignment 12,555
Integer Split 59,738
Real Split 80,967

Last Benchmark Saturday, Jul 10, 2004 04:22 pm


.... It seems my Asus MB in 'auto' mode is doing both 1T and 2T as it wants based on the interleaving to memory. That's the only way I can get the math to work out ... Does that make sense to you (and Keith, if you are reading along...... does it fit with what you've seen?)

BC

[chaz]

It seems that benchmarks and CPU speed isnt going to help alot based on what I've read here.
http://predictor.scripps.edu/forum_thread.php?id=211


I know I have some charmms, but if I remember correctly the deadline for them is September or October. I believe the client will run work units in the order of the deadline, so getting credit for those may try your patience.
I have only been using the cli for about 1 full day now, but I seriously cant tell if it helps performance, although it seems to use less memory. It appears to be better, the gui makes a couple of my machines hang when I bring them up to check progress and the cli does not. But, i have no real numbers to verify any increase in performance.

I dont know much about memory timings really, I stick the modules in my PC and I get what I get. I guess I look at it this way, for what it costs to buy low latency high performance ram, i could get more of the cheap stuff, or the same amount of the cheap stuff and use the extra cash to upgrade an existing machine or start ordering components for another.
I got this PC3700 the other day simply to push the limits on this p4, I know it will do more than my current PC3200 will allow.

Does anyone know what the commands are for the cli to force updates?

[BC]

The Big Guns are making their way here..

We are technically 'alpha' only because 1 application is having trouble.
However, the mfoldB (which is 90% of the work now) is production.

So... "we ARE live"... it's just not official until both executables are 100% solid and we've shaken down 3.20..


PS: I emailed w/ the project lead (predictor) and was gratefull that you all helped catch the DB error... Her thanks are extended to all...

[BC]

It seems that benchmarks and CPU speed isnt going to help alot based on what I've read here.
http://predictor.scripps.edu/forum_thread.php?id=211


I know I have some charmms, but if I remember correctly the deadline for them is September or October. I believe the client will run work units in the order of the deadline, so getting credit for those may try your patience.
I have only been using the cli for about 1 full day now, but I seriously cant tell if it helps performance, although it seems to use less memory. It appears to be better, the gui makes a couple of my machines hang when I bring them up to check progress and the cli does not. But, i have no real numbers to verify any increase in performance.

I dont know much about memory timings really, I stick the modules in my PC and I get what I get. I guess I look at it this way, for what it costs to buy low latency high performance ram, i could get more of the cheap stuff, or the same amount of the cheap stuff and use the extra cash to upgrade an existing machine or start ordering components for another.
I got this PC3700 the other day simply to push the limits on this p4, I know it will do more than my current PC3200 will allow.

Does anyone know what the commands are for the cli to force updates?

I'll find that CLI force update... it's in my doc here somewhere... If the GUI is working right, it SHOULD come up and see the CLI and be the 'remote console'... there is a lot of email traffic on that in boinc_dev... I will go search there too.



as for the plain GUI mode ...the GUI runs on the mutex against the background program... and it is MUCH slower (per the developer himself).... when you have the window open.


So.. recapping... I owe you two answers:

1. GUI command interface verification....
2. Forced update...


BRB.


BC

[chaz]

Yeah I tried using the gui to force the cli to update, but the gui crashes.

I noticed that with the gui, if you have the window open, the time to completion for the current wu's starts to increase.

I've been looking for the commands on the site, and in the boinc directory but no luck yet.

[BC]

Yeah I tried using the gui to force the cli to update, but the gui crashes.

I noticed that with the gui, if you have the window open, the time to completion for the current wu's starts to increase.

I've been looking for the commands on the site, and in the boinc directory but no luck yet.

Exactly... Just got an email from Rom confirming that... the email is:
============================================
If the cli is in the Windows service mode it'll log to the Windows event
log.

The GUI currently has to be shut down, they cannot work together.

When I finish the new GUI you'll be able to use them together...

There are already a few tools out there that will query the service to find
out the status of it...

----- Rom
=============================================

Gotta find those tools.... BoincSpy??? that ring a bell?