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21) Message boards : Number crunching : RCOS Spring 2011... (Message 48173)
Posted 23 Apr 2011 by Profile Crunch3r
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Just found those over at Youtube...

RCOS Spring 2011

RCOS Spring 2011 - Matt Arsenault - Milkyway@Home
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yR_Xkm2IITY

and

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B1TgxCMfvGk

:p
22) Message boards : Number crunching : Is MW going to be a GPU project now? (Message 48172)
Posted 23 Apr 2011 by Profile Crunch3r
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Without using an opti app Cpu performance and credits are poor. Is there any plans to put out better cpu apps?


I know that the stock app is pretty much unusable on a CPU.
FWIW, it seems that i can reduce crunching times to less than ~5h on a XEON(5365@3 Ghz, core 2 based)...

Anyway, i do know that that's far away from what the previous opt app did...

I'd be interested to know some crunch times on different CPUs with the stock app (cpu:time:credits), before using a LUT for the INT EXP part...
(wich i know for a fact that the previous optimized CPU app used and i allready suggested to Matt for the GPU BUT it'll greatly speed up the stock CPU app as well)
23) Message boards : Number crunching : Crunching on AMD 1090 (Message 48171)
Posted 23 Apr 2011 by Profile Crunch3r
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FWIW, i don't recommend using your 1090 on AQUA, since it will interfere with MW and slow down your GPU, which is a fact.

Besides that, the RAC posted by some that your 1090 could achieve over at AQUA is far from reality. Instead I'd suggest using it over at primegrid using the PPS Sieve app where it will get the best RAC possible.


I extreamly second that, Crunch3r. Aqua Roqs will need at least 2 free cores to feed the gpu( as in my case on both my i7 and AMD) taking a big hit on ANY gpu'ing. PPS sieve, on my AMD P-IIX4 9650 avg. 24/30 hours, reguardless you get 4500.


Yes, that's what i was talking about. AQUA's ROQS is a dog and has some serious issues. It doesn't utilize all cores while running. On a V8 xeon, it uses less than 4 cores most of the time in the hot loop... (between 49 to 55 % progress)

Collatz is a good go-to for cpu. Im thinking of building a cheap i7 960 just for Aqua/Roqs? I like the Quantum computer aspect. By the way, what can I expect frm 2 5870? Stock clock, two differnt rigs. Im using TThrotle at 130 deg. F, runs avg. 75% day 100% at nite. They still finish around 2 min.


Collatz on CPU using a 64 bit OS is almost as close to PPS Sieve credit wise and works even better along with GPU apps like MW, having no effect on MW GPU times at all.
24) Message boards : Number crunching : Crunching on AMD 1090 (Message 48165)
Posted 23 Apr 2011 by Profile Crunch3r
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FWIW, i don't recommend using your 1090 on AQUA, since it will interfere with MW and slow down your GPU, which is a fact.

Besides that, the RAC posted by some that your 1090 could achieve over at AQUA is far from reality. Instead I'd suggest using it over at primegrid using the PPS Sieve app where it will get the best RAC possible.
25) Message boards : Cafe MilkyWay : Team Recruitment III (Message 48093)
Posted 22 Apr 2011 by Profile Crunch3r
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26) Message boards : Number crunching : Problem Clients (Message 48084)
Posted 20 Apr 2011 by Profile Crunch3r
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The problem is not the 3850, It's your CPU that causes the crash.
The app is compiled with SSE2 enabled and every time the app tries to calculate the likelihood on the CPU, it crashes.

There's nothing you can do about that ATM.
27) Message boards : Number crunching : Problem Clients (Message 48021)
Posted 19 Apr 2011 by Profile Crunch3r
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I have a ATI4875 (Gigabyte branded) as my primary display and yes the APP Driver set was loaded. I am wonder if the ATI 3200 built into the 780G chipset is the problem, and if short of disabling it completely ( I use it to drive a secondary monitor ) is there a means to tell milkyway not to use it. That would also explain why 1 GPU process seems to run OK while the other GPU work units quickly error out. That is the 4875 is processing correctly and the 3200 errors out over and over quickly consuming all the wu. The $64 question is that up until the recent server issues both GPUs ran fine, in fact they ran at similar speeds.


You can disable the 3200 in boinc to prevent it from trashing more WUs.

Shut down boinc and after that, create a file called cc_config.xml (using notepad) with the following content:

<cc_config>
    <options>
    <ignore_ati_dev>1</ignore_ati_dev>
    </options>
    </cc_config>


copy that file to "C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\BOINC"

start boinc again.




28) Message boards : Number crunching : Where's our double credit? (Message 47997)
Posted 18 Apr 2011 by Profile Crunch3r
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With no official feedback was it just a hollow promise?


I'd rather wait till the next app release with integrated likelihood calculation on the gpu. That might shave off 5 sec. or so... ;)
29) Message boards : News : ATI application updated to 0.60 (Message 47744)
Posted 12 Apr 2011 by Profile Crunch3r
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Mine seems pretty responsive, maybe a touch slower than the old app. Overall, I am pleased so far.
PS I don't have the latest/greatest hardware out.
It is slightly slower. Most of the slowdown is since the likelihood at the end isn't currently done on the GPU which I'm planning on fixing.


But even if you do the likelihood on the GPU, it won't be nearly enough to comepensate the total performance loss of 25% compared to the old app.

Adding it all up here across the machines, i roughly lose ~100k credits/day using the new app.
30) Message boards : Cafe MilkyWay : Team Recruitment III (Message 47657)
Posted 11 Apr 2011 by Profile Crunch3r
Post:


BOINC United is a unique, international team open to all that are interested.

Combining our knowledge, having inspirational talks with our Members and
helping out the scientific community by participating in various BOINC Projects.

Be part of something special!

Are you ready to make a difference ?

Please join us



BOINC United
31) Message boards : News : ATI application updated again (Message 47652)
Posted 11 Apr 2011 by Profile Crunch3r
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WOW.....

Whatever they just did here triggered a major malfuntion on my big gun battlecruiser!!

Not only did it trash all the MW when I restarted BOINC, but the whole load went down the drain!!

OUCH!! :-D

<edit> All I did was stop BOINC to go do a race in iRacing. When I restarted BOINC after the race, all hell broke loose!


If that one -> http://milkyway.cs.rpi.edu/milkyway/show_host_detail.php?hostid=88232 is your "battlecruiser", then it 's fairly obvious.

<core_client_version>6.10.60</core_client_version>
<![CDATA[
<message>
Incorrect function. (0x1) - exit code 1 (0x1)
</message>
<stderr_txt>
<search_application> milkywayathome_client separation 0.57 Windows x86 double CAL++ </search_application>
Found 3 CAL devices
Chose device 0

Device target: CAL_TARGET_610
Revision: 19
CAL Version: 1.4.1332
Compute shader: CAL_FALSE
Engine clock: 650 Mhz
Memory clock: 1000 Mhz
GPU RAM: 341
Wavefront size: 64
Double precision: CAL_FALSE
Compute shader: CAL_FALSE
Number SIMD: 2
Number shader engines: 1
Pitch alignment: 256
Surface alignment: 256
Max size 2D: { 8192, 8192 }

Device does not support double precision
Device failed capability check
Failed to setup CAL
22:22:17 (4536): called boinc_finish

</stderr_txt>

There are plenty of other like that tasks as well.
32) Message boards : Number crunching : app 0.57 100% core use... (Message 47519)
Posted 10 Apr 2011 by Profile Crunch3r
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I fixed this last night (https://github.com/Milkyway-at-home/milkywayathome_client/commit/b83566d399c5b63f717d864a3a45b8a04ff2fa9b), so CPU usage should be normal when I update it. I'm going to try fixing a few more problems before I do that though.


Yes, works like a charm and CPU usage is even lower (1%) than what the old app used to be.
33) Message boards : News : sending out some more workunits (Message 47383)
Posted 10 Apr 2011 by Profile Crunch3r
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I have tried stock, with an app_info referencing the brook.dll file and with an app_info referencing both the brook32 and brook64 dll files and they all crash out.

So far it looks like people with 32-bit systems are running file while those of us with 64-bit systems are not.
That's strange since I built it for 32 bit on a 64 bit system. I also didn't use Brook, so that DLL shouldn't be necessary.


It works fine here on 64bit windows(Win7 x64 and server 2008r2).
All machines are using cat 11.4
34) Message boards : News : ATI application (v0.57) should be available now (Message 47321)
Posted 9 Apr 2011 by Profile Crunch3r
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The ATI app is using nearly a full cpu core per wu....ouch!


Not here, only 0.05CPU.

That's what it says, but it's busy waiting for the GPU to finish things which I thought I fixed months ago.


And it's ~25% slower compared to the old app... that sucks :(
What GPU? I was running it for a few days in the last week and it was pretty much the same for my 5870


on a 4850 @ 760MHz it takes 249 sec compared to 188 sec using the old app (same WUs of course).

On a 5870 @ 960MHz it takes 105 sec now, while the old app only took like 80 sec or so.
There are different sized tasks out there, so you need to be sure to compare ones from the same set of workunits. When I was using it there were some that were around ~80s and some ~110s for both.


I know, that's why i posted "same WUs" (10_3s_fix20) those that grant 367 credits. It is definetely quite a bit slower.

EDIT:

Are you using the math functions included with cal++ (include\cal\il\math) or something else ?
35) Message boards : News : ATI application (v0.57) should be available now (Message 47316)
Posted 9 Apr 2011 by Profile Crunch3r
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The ATI app is using nearly a full cpu core per wu....ouch!


Not here, only 0.05CPU.

That's what it says, but it's busy waiting for the GPU to finish things which I thought I fixed months ago.


And it's ~25% slower compared to the old app... that sucks :(
What GPU? I was running it for a few days in the last week and it was pretty much the same for my 5870


on a 4850 @ 760MHz it takes 249 sec compared to 188 sec using the old app (same WUs of course).

On a 5870 @ 960MHz it takes 105 sec now, while the old app only took like 80 sec or so.
36) Message boards : News : ATI application (v0.57) should be available now (Message 47311)
Posted 9 Apr 2011 by Profile Crunch3r
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The ATI app is using nearly a full cpu core per wu....ouch!


Not here, only 0.05CPU.

That's what it says, but it's busy waiting for the GPU to finish things which I thought I fixed months ago.


And it's ~25% slower compared to the old app... that sucks :(
37) Message boards : News : sending out workunits (Message 47283)
Posted 9 Apr 2011 by Profile Crunch3r
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I am getting download errors because the application to run these work units, "milkyway_0.57_windows_intelx86__ati14.exe", is not found on the server.


It looks like when the server got brought back up this morning the download directory was restored to an earlier version which didn't have Matt's application added to it yet. So as soon as he wakes back up and updates the applications I'll start sending out work again (which should fix the problem).


you should take a look there -> http://milkyway.cs.rpi.edu/milkyway/download/tests/
38) Message boards : News : Old ATI applications deprecated (Message 47196)
Posted 9 Apr 2011 by Profile Crunch3r
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No. I don't really see the point of checkpointing when the entire thing takes less time than the default checkpointing interval (although I'm not really sure how long it takes on the slower GPUs.
I'm guessing it might take 30minutes or so on some of the lower end and older stuff?) It wouldn't be hard to add if people want it.


It would be really nice if it had checkpoints implemented.

(Besides, the 'low end stuff ('38xx'), which should be in the ballpark of 30min or more) there are other ATI enabled projects as well and boinc tends to switch between them in a complete irational/retareded way, sometimes suspending a WU that's ~98% done... so there you go, we need checkpoints. :)


The 2.4 SDK release notes say CAL will be deprecated in the next release, so I'll make another attempt at getting the OpenCL one as fast. There was some kind of mention on the AMD forum that they were looking into the possibility of adding inline IL in CL kernels, which would be fine. The only thing then we would lose is support for 38xx GPUs.


I just installed the 2.4 SDK today and havent had a closer look at it at all... anyway, just did some tests using the SKA and there where only a 2% speedup for the kernels i've tested. I'm not convinced that openCL is ready to replace CAL performance wise in the near future. Just look at some sameples from the cal++ amd compare them to OCL. Some of those are 20x faster using cal++ (Pyrit comes to mind too...)



39) Message boards : News : Old ATI applications deprecated (Message 47194)
Posted 9 Apr 2011 by Profile Crunch3r
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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.



The questions is how does the 'new' app perform copmpared to the old one(Gipsel) ?

Does it come even close performance wise or is it nowhere near that ?
Some realistic numbers would be nice to see if it'S worth running at all.
Thanks.
The main integral piece which matters seems to be about the same. The end likelihood I don't have on the GPU so that adds about 2-3 seconds at the end.


OK that sounds good to me (especially since it's NOT openCL)!

Does it checkpoint ?
40) Message boards : News : Old ATI applications deprecated (Message 47192)
Posted 9 Apr 2011 by Profile Crunch3r
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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.



The questions is how does the 'new' app perform copmpared to the old one(Gipsel) ?

Does it come even close performance wise or is it nowhere near that ?
Some realistic numbers would be nice to see if it'S worth running at all.
Thanks.


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