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Message 9057 - Posted: 25 Jan 2009, 6:10:44 UTC
Last modified: 25 Jan 2009, 6:58:08 UTC

It's in the code release directory again.

I've made two changes:

1.At the end of calculate integrals there is:
        #ifdef GMLE_BOINC
                int retval = write_checkpoint(es);
                if (retval) {
                        fprintf(stderr,"APP: astronomy checkpoint failed %d\n",retval);
                        return retval;
                }
        #endif


So in the rare case that this is the last checkpoint calculated (and there hasn't been a new one from the next integral calculation or likelihood calculation), the app will recalculate an integral which would give a bad result.

The other change I did was move the code to checkpoint from the innermost integral loop, to the middle loop. This should speed things up a little (and maybe more than a little on older architectures).

With the updates to 0.14 it seems like the bad results were quite a bit less frequent, so I'm hoping this was the last bit of the issue.
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Message 9063 - Posted: 25 Jan 2009, 6:40:42 UTC - in response to Message 9057.  

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Message 9065 - Posted: 25 Jan 2009, 6:57:56 UTC - in response to Message 9063.  

http://milkyway.cs.rpi.edu/milkyway/download/code_release/ <-- this is better


I fail at the interwebs tonight :(
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Message 9066 - Posted: 25 Jan 2009, 6:59:50 UTC - in response to Message 9065.  

http://milkyway.cs.rpi.edu/milkyway/download/code_release/ <-- this is better

I fail at the interwebs tonight :(

Then I await v0.16 in the morning. Nice RAC.
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