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Message 10778 - Posted: 15 Feb 2009, 5:59:04 UTC - in response to Message 10776.  

I am using GCC however, so maybe with Intel's compiler we could do a bit better. Unfortunately it's not free so I probably won't be getting it anytime soon :P

Strange how college students run torrents... except those who run BOINC projects.

Their IT's have unlimited budgets......unlike Seti.....
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Message 10836 - Posted: 15 Feb 2009, 10:13:56 UTC - in response to Message 10767.  

Have you tried the evaluation package, I don't think you can publish the build but it can give you some ideas.

I've tried the Intel icc evaluation package and couldn't get any significant improvement over the stock OSX application.

I could be wrong but I think the imporovements with an icc app come from the use of the IPP libs and while the OSX eval version does come with IPP, I think it must be a cutdown version.

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Message 10841 - Posted: 15 Feb 2009, 10:58:45 UTC - in response to Message 10763.  

Now I just with I had some programming knowledge so I could do a optimized app for OS X.

I have 2 machines here on a 9% fix.

If it is an Intel Mac just run BOINC on Windows inside a virtual machine. You will loose less than 5% performance to a native Windows solution.
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Message 10842 - Posted: 15 Feb 2009, 11:06:57 UTC - in response to Message 10841.  
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Now I just with I had some programming knowledge so I could do a optimized app for OS X.

I have 2 machines here on a 9% fix.

If it is an Intel Mac just run BOINC on Windows inside a virtual machine. You will loose less than 5% performance to a native Windows solution.

I'm still scratching my head over the use of a virtual machine.

I have a GPUGRID, a CPDN and a MW WU running on a laptop (that's 3 WUs on a Core 2) all performing well, the MW optimized WU being completed in just over 5 minutes.

At the same time I have a virtual machine running with 2 MW optimized WU's being completed 10 minutes or so.

That's 5 WUs on one Core 2 laptop, all chugging along pretty much quickly. Amazing!

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Message 10900 - Posted: 15 Feb 2009, 16:08:10 UTC - in response to Message 10767.  

It looks like Alex Kan was using the Intel compiler to do the Intel builds of his V8 app on SETI.

I don't know what he used for the PPC builds though.


Correct, Alex used(s) OSX version of ICC.
PPC was built via GCC.
FYI, pretty sure V8 PPC is the "last" of the line.

Returning to topic : > )



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Message 10961 - Posted: 16 Feb 2009, 0:37:49 UTC

I had to change the ownership on the linux sse2 app as it came down as me as the owner.

I lost several units do to the output file missing error until I changed it over to boinc-client.
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Message 10966 - Posted: 16 Feb 2009, 1:36:05 UTC - in response to Message 10961.  

I had to change the ownership on the linux sse2 app as it came down as me as the owner.

I lost several units do to the output file missing error until I changed it over to boinc-client.


We all forget to change permissions sometimes, and wonder what on earth is going on ;-)
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Message 10968 - Posted: 16 Feb 2009, 1:58:35 UTC

Now I have a Vista machine, an OSX machine and a Ubuntu machine over here on Milkyway.

The Vista and OSX machines still have a majority share in SETI though.
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Message 11001 - Posted: 16 Feb 2009, 7:55:41 UTC - in response to Message 10842.  

Now I just with I had some programming knowledge so I could do a optimized app for OS X.

I have 2 machines here on a 9% fix.

If it is an Intel Mac just run BOINC on Windows inside a virtual machine. You will loose less than 5% performance to a native Windows solution.

I'm still scratching my head over the use of a virtual machine.

I have a GPUGRID, a CPDN and a MW WU running on a laptop (that's 3 WUs on a Core 2) all performing well, the MW optimized WU being completed in just over 5 minutes.

At the same time I have a virtual machine running with 2 MW optimized WU's being completed 10 minutes or so.

That's 5 WUs on one Core 2 laptop, all chugging along pretty much quickly. Amazing!

Not really that amazing. After a while the virtual machine loses response and almost makes my laptop unusable as the whole thing grinds to a halt. The two BOINC managers are presumably grabbing all the PC resource.



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Message 11002 - Posted: 16 Feb 2009, 7:58:13 UTC - in response to Message 11001.  

Now I just with I had some programming knowledge so I could do a optimized app for OS X.

I have 2 machines here on a 9% fix.

If it is an Intel Mac just run BOINC on Windows inside a virtual machine. You will loose less than 5% performance to a native Windows solution.

I'm still scratching my head over the use of a virtual machine.

I have a GPUGRID, a CPDN and a MW WU running on a laptop (that's 3 WUs on a Core 2) all performing well, the MW optimized WU being completed in just over 5 minutes.

At the same time I have a virtual machine running with 2 MW optimized WU's being completed 10 minutes or so.

That's 5 WUs on one Core 2 laptop, all chugging along pretty much quickly. Amazing!

Not really that amazing. After a while the virtual machine loses response and almost makes my laptop unusable as the whole thing grinds to a halt. The two BOINC managers are presumably grabbing all the PC resource.



The latest version of our stock app for os x should be a lot closer to the optimized windows apps. especially since the x64_64 version uses SSE3 and the i686 version uses SSE2.
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Message 11049 - Posted: 16 Feb 2009, 21:31:17 UTC

I've updated zslip with the latest 0.18d Linux versions.

I have nominally assigned the Windows apps as version 0.16, and 0.17 for the app to be used with an ATI card.



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Message 11063 - Posted: 16 Feb 2009, 22:58:56 UTC - in response to Message 11049.  
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I have put together new versions of the windows apps compiled for specific instruction sets (x87/SSE/2/3/4.1/4.2/SSSE3) with the version number bumped to 0.19. The computation is exactly the same as before (the stock app had to move ;) and so is the performance. But I've put some additional features in:

  • user configurable version number in the output file (will explain how it works if it is needed)
  • diagnostic information in stderr.txt (visible under task details when instapurge gets turned off) like

    • CPU detection
    • output of the crunch time (both CPU time and wall clock time) to recognize demanding background processes when comparing the times


Hope it works like intended.

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Message 11065 - Posted: 16 Feb 2009, 23:08:00 UTC - in response to Message 11049.  

Unable to download anything from zslip. It gives a "page not found" error.
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Message 11066 - Posted: 16 Feb 2009, 23:10:01 UTC - in response to Message 11065.  

Unable to download anything from zslip. It gives a "page not found" error.

I guess Ice is just updating the Win apps.
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Message 11069 - Posted: 16 Feb 2009, 23:20:10 UTC - in response to Message 11063.  

I have put together new versions of the windows apps compiled for specific instruction sets (x87/SSE/2/3/4.1/4.2/SSSE3) with the version number bumped to 0.19. The computation is exactly the same as before (the stock app had to move ;) and so is the performance. But I've put some additional features in:

  • user configurable version number in the output file (will explain how it works if it is needed)
  • diagnostic information in stderr.txt (visible under task details when instapurge gets turned off) like

    • CPU detection
    • output of the crunch time (both CPU time and wall clock time) to recognize demanding background processes when comparing the times


Hope it works like intended.




Thanks Cluster, for all your help.


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Message 11070 - Posted: 16 Feb 2009, 23:23:20 UTC - in response to Message 11066.  

Unable to download anything from zslip. It gives a "page not found" error.

I guess Ice is just updating the Win apps.

Yes, that's true. I messed up the Windows links when updating the Linux, but with updating Windows to 0.19 it will be fixed very shortly...


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Message 11072 - Posted: 16 Feb 2009, 23:28:28 UTC - in response to Message 11070.  

Ok, I will anxiously stand by!

Thanks
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Message 11073 - Posted: 16 Feb 2009, 23:31:36 UTC - in response to Message 11072.  
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Ok, I will anxiously stand by!

Thanks

Be anxious no longer, it's done :)

Windows v0.19 and Linux v0.18d are now updated to zslip

Thanks Cluster and speedimic :)

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Message 11074 - Posted: 16 Feb 2009, 23:36:38 UTC

Are there optimized apps for 64 bit Windows?
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Message 11079 - Posted: 17 Feb 2009, 0:10:16 UTC - in response to Message 11074.  
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Are there optimized apps for 64 bit Windows?


There don't appear to be any publicly available optimised apps for Windows 64, and those that are available are just the same app we have had for a number of versions, without many of the actual code optimisations. The compiler optimisations are all we get, due to being so fast already compared to the stock app (at least, that is how it looks, I hope someone will prove me wrong :) ).

The 32-bit Windows apps work fine with 64-bit Windows, and will run much faster than the stock app on all platforms.
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