Welcome to MilkyWay@home

8 WU queue is not enough

Message boards : MilkyWay@home Science : 8 WU queue is not enough
Message board moderation

To post messages, you must log in.

AuthorMessage
Nero24

Send message
Joined: 30 Jul 08
Posts: 1
Credit: 1,433,940
RAC: 0
Message 4635 - Posted: 6 Aug 2008, 12:59:23 UTC

Dear Milkyway team,

on your homepage you wrote "Due to the longer WU calculation time we've reduced the WU queue to 8 (from 20). Let us know if this causes any problems."

So I'd like to inform you there are problems. My AMD Phenom X4 9850 plus Windows XP x64 permanently run out of tasks, although the system isn't overclocked. Perhaps it's a combination of short crunchtime and temporary downtimes of the server. Imagine what this means for even faster systems like QX9770 or an Opteron server with 4 sockets and 16 cores. A strategy which allows the number of WUs depended of the number of cores or at least the benchmark of the BOINC manager would be the smarter way here.

Please think about :)

CU
ID: 4635 · Rating: 0 · rate: Rate + / Rate - Report as offensive     Reply Quote
STE\/E

Send message
Joined: 29 Aug 07
Posts: 486
Credit: 576,514,284
RAC: 37,074
Message 4637 - Posted: 6 Aug 2008, 13:37:26 UTC

Theres already a Thread http://milkyway.cs.rpi.edu/milkyway/forum_thread.php?id=377 started in the Numbers Crunching Forum about the 8 Wu Limit that the Dev's haven't seen fit to respond to yet ... :)
ID: 4637 · Rating: 0 · rate: Rate + / Rate - Report as offensive     Reply Quote

Message boards : MilkyWay@home Science : 8 WU queue is not enough

©2024 Astroinformatics Group