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Message 5562 - Posted: 20 Oct 2008, 0:38:19 UTC - in response to Message 5561.  
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That is just too fast!

It shows the wasted computation time. With the Windows stock app it takes close to 6 hours to calculate a long WU on a 3GHz Core2. But it can be done in just 2 minutes!
Most likely even faster, if someone would take the time and effort of rewriting the complete app.
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Message 5563 - Posted: 20 Oct 2008, 1:22:23 UTC - in response to Message 5562.  

It shows the wasted computation time. With the Windows stock app it takes close to 6 hours to calculate a long WU on a 3GHz Core2. But it can be done in just 2 minutes!
Most likely even faster, if someone would take the time and effort of rewriting the complete app.


Indeed. But in all likelihood, these are just college kids. I can think of several things that would take precedence over an undertaking like that (some of them even related to school!). I was pretty proficient in Basic back in the day, and I think C looks a lot like it. But to sit down and just look at code without knowing much about the flow or end product, it would take me forever to get anywhere! I have other priorities too - too many.

I think if it were me, I would have just given them the improved code, but that's just me. I'm sure the developers are very appreciative of the hints you have already given them and they will implement them when they find them.
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Message 5565 - Posted: 21 Oct 2008, 16:45:13 UTC

I´m shaking my head while reading zed´s comments. Do you cut down a redwood tree just to get one toothpick?

You don´t get the point, right? It doesn´t matter if Milksops account is deleted or whatever happens to it. Its just a proof of concept, that even unexperienced "programmers" can speed up the computation by the factor of 50-100 within hours.

The average user doesn´t know that his ressources are wasted in such a shameful manner by the project, ignoring optimizations that can be mathematically proven to deliver the exact same result as the original application.

even if the credits/day was specifically adjusted to 10 for the account of milksop, it won´t matter: the project still would get 100x correct results resulting in a huge leap for the completion of the project.


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Message 5569 - Posted: 21 Oct 2008, 20:15:33 UTC
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Message 5570 - Posted: 21 Oct 2008, 21:12:07 UTC - in response to Message 5569.  

No reply to the Optimisation thread asking how the recoding is going, if at all?

Maybe some people will now start to understand that just waiting for an improvement isn't the right tactic here ;)
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Message 5571 - Posted: 21 Oct 2008, 21:52:54 UTC - in response to Message 5570.  

No reply to the Optimisation thread asking how the recoding is going, if at all?

Maybe some people will now start to understand that just waiting for an improvement isn't the right tactic here ;)


Alternatively, maybe people who aren't in college, or as you all across the pond say, aren't in "uni" right now might perhaps understand that the past week has been mid-term...and there could be other things taking precedence that has to take precedence due to the academic calendar. I could be wrong, obviously, but I'm willing to give the benefit of the doubt...
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Message 5572 - Posted: 21 Oct 2008, 22:27:27 UTC - in response to Message 5571.  
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Alternatively, maybe people who aren't in college, or as you all across the pond say, aren't in "uni" right now might perhaps understand that the past week has been mid-term...and there could be other things taking precedence that has to take precedence due to the academic calendar. I could be wrong, obviously, but I'm willing to give the benefit of the doubt...

Me too. Let's wait another week.

Btw., I'm working at a university and Travis has already graduated ;)
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Message 5574 - Posted: 21 Oct 2008, 23:26:08 UTC
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I graduated, reading Chemical Engineering, just a tiny few years ago.

Pity it's now been 35 years since I stopped programming a AIM65 for light control of continuous chemical process plant.
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Message 5575 - Posted: 23 Oct 2008, 7:19:05 UTC

One thing to consider, when some folks use their optimized code to generate massive credit counts on limited CPU capacity, it eventually gets noticed by other players in the BOINC world.

Even with the current unoptimized code, MilkyWay is awarding a LOT more credit per CPU cycle than other projects, even those which have available optimized code (SETI for example).

Folks like milksop and cruncher3r show up toward the top of the overall BOINC stats for their very high RAC numbers -- and since they are single project folks, they shine something of a light on MilkyWay.

At some point, perhaps the optimized code for Milkyway will find its way into public use rather than for those who have done the code modications only. When it does, I suspect the admins here will be *compelled* to drop their credit schema so that credit per CPU cycle doesn't make MilkyWay a pariah project in the BOINC world.

But that might be something of a collective citizenship argument -- one which might well have no credence in this particular population.
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Message 5576 - Posted: 23 Oct 2008, 7:34:29 UTC - in response to Message 5575.  

I suspect the admins here will be *compelled* to drop their credit schema so that credit per CPU cycle doesn't make MilkyWay a pariah project in the BOINC world.

But that might be something of a collective citizenship argument -- one which might well have no credence in this particular population.


Well MilkyWay is already being discussed on a number of forums, and it isn't all nice and rosy. For as long as this has gone on does it really appear that anyone in an administrative position really gives a damn what anyone or the other projects say or think? And you're right about the overall stats watchers. Those that have been quietly crunching along for years and generally moving up the stats at a regular pace suddenly find that someone who has only been on one project for less than 1 month had generated more credits than what a majority of crunchers have in years.

I wonder how long it will be before David Anderson and the credits cops show up and put this project in the toilet or make them straighten it out. Or who knows when the stats sites finally get enough of this and pull MilkyWay out of the stats so that everything goes back to normal. But then more than likely after this project is screwed into submission these folks would just leave here and go somewhere else and start this all over again with another project.

There isn't and won't be any winners here for either the crunchers, or the project science.



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Message 5577 - Posted: 23 Oct 2008, 8:08:09 UTC - in response to Message 5576.  
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I wonder how long it will be before David Anderson and the credits cops show up and put this project in the toilet or make them straighten it out.

Well, that already happened some time ago, look here.
But there was no serious answer from the project admins, only a user debate, so it ended up in nothing (like it mostly does).


Or who knows when the stats sites finally get enough of this and pull MilkyWay out of the stats

LOL, that won't happen. Even a misleaded project like Predictor wasn't excluded from the stats sites because of it's behaviour against his users... ;-)

Btw:
MilkyWay isn't the project with the highest credit rate per hour.
It is way beaten by PS3Grid, where you can make at least over 150 Credits/hour even with the slowest NVidia card!
But the users there are still very less. Consider when they get some thousand users in the future, it will blow up the stats sites and will beat SETI for sure some day. ;-)
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Message 5580 - Posted: 23 Oct 2008, 11:49:45 UTC - in response to Message 5577.  
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MilkyWay isn't the project with the highest credit rate per hour.
It is way beaten by PS3Grid, where you can make at least over 150 Credits/hour even with the slowest NVidia card!


But only with cards that run Cuda 2.0 compiled applications.

My Geforce 8800 GTS support only 1.0. So even recognized by BOINC as CUDA device, it still get "Full-atom molecular dynamics is not available for your type of computer". :(
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Message 5581 - Posted: 23 Oct 2008, 14:48:53 UTC - in response to Message 5580.  

MilkyWay isn't the project with the highest credit rate per hour.
It is way beaten by PS3Grid, where you can make at least over 150 Credits/hour even with the slowest NVidia card!


But only with cards that run Cuda 2.0 compiled applications.

My Geforce 8800 GTS support only 1.0. So even recognized by BOINC as CUDA device, it still get "Full-atom molecular dynamics is not available for your type of computer". :(


You need at least a 8800GT or 8800M to run the CUDA 2.0 WU's, the 8800GT will run the Wu's in about 16 Hr's & the 8800M will run them in about 65 Hr's ... :)
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Message 5584 - Posted: 23 Oct 2008, 23:49:00 UTC - in response to Message 5581.  

exactly, and since the WU's run so long, the credit is not all that great per day. PS3 running this stuff only avg. 3500 points per day, where-as here its easy to get 9k per day on a decent pc running IX.
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Message 5590 - Posted: 24 Oct 2008, 8:42:49 UTC - in response to Message 5577.  
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Btw:
MilkyWay isn't the project with the highest credit rate per hour.
It is way beaten by PS3Grid, where you can make at least over 150 Credits/hour even with the slowest NVidia card!
But the users there are still very less. Consider when they get some thousand users in the future, it will blow up the stats sites and will beat SETI for sure some day. ;-)


Yea, but the only difference between PS3GRID/GPUGRID and Milkyway is that PS3GRID is using FLOPS counting. So you really get the credits for what is computed and not a fictional number of credits...
The CUDA code on GPUs is faster than a something computed on a CPU. That's the way things are... ;)
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Message 5600 - Posted: 24 Oct 2008, 21:11:28 UTC

Well, I think I was waiting long enough for an improvement.
Setting 30+ boxes elsewhere - where I known it's not a 99% waste of CPU cycles and electricity.
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Message 5612 - Posted: 25 Oct 2008, 9:03:48 UTC

I am out too with 36 cores.:(
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