One of my wingmen with a very special P4 doing wu's in less than 200 seconds....

sweet

http://milkyway.cs.rpi.edu/milkyway/show_host_detail.php?hostid=103399

One of my wingmen with a very special P4 doing wu's in less than 200 seconds....

sweet

http://milkyway.cs.rpi.edu/milkyway/show_host_detail.php?hostid=103399

He is using anon platform and a very early version of BOINC ... these versions of BOINC ran the tasks on the GPU but reported them as being run on the CPU ...

I don't know how else he can be doing it ... because at the reported clock rate there is no way to run the tasks off that fast on a CPU ...

It also looks like he might be using an outdated app or maybe even a single precision one as the only valid results are without a wingmen, at least on the first page that I checked.

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Whether a GPU or a hacked CPU application, the results being returned are not correct to the required degree of accuracy as all tasks with quorum of 2 are invalid.

One possibility is someone who has updated from an earlier model ATI card to a HD 5850 and has not updated their GPU application version to the newer version with the Cypress fix.

This kind of thing should get cleaned up when the milkyway3 application is introduced.

IIRC, there was a BOINC ver 6.1.0 that was a hack to increase the claimed credit value. (Not much use here with fixed credit tasks.)

I hope things can soon be updated to allow the validator to filter out glitches like this, accidental or intentional.

Well, with luck Travis will see and take appropriate action in his copious free time ...

Found a couple more wingmen with problems..

This is a different one, but nothing but errors...

http://milkyway.cs.rpi.edu/milkyway/show_host_detail.php?hostid=169067

Here's another that is not completing any with a wingman..

http://milkyway.cs.rpi.edu/milkyway/show_host_detail.php?hostid=126692

I did not check them all, just a few.

And here is an output file from the first one.. is that (-np) a legitimate input argument?

Name de_new_test2_407708_1272080339_2
Workunit 97285225
Created 2 May 2010 5:30:34 UTC
Sent 2 May 2010 5:32:07 UTC
Received 2 May 2010 5:46:10 UTC
Server state Over
Outcome Success
Client state Done
Exit status 0 (0x0)
Computer ID 103399
Report deadline 10 May 2010 5:32:07 UTC
Run time 0
CPU time 189.2969
stderr out

<core_client_version>6.1.0</core_client_version>
<![CDATA[
<stderr_txt>
Running Milkyway@home version 0.19 by Gipsel
relabeled by input argument in app_info.xml to version -np
CPU: Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 2.80GHz (1 cores/threads) 2.8001 GHz (1913ms)

WU completed. It took 189.297 seconds CPU time and 377.131 seconds wall clock time @ 2.8001 GHz.

</stderr_txt>
]]>

Validate state Invalid
Claimed credit 0.607677624771588
Granted credit 0
application version Anonymous platform

Seems to be more widespread than I originally thought..