DC Vault

[Jathanis]

According to the main page, there's only 18,881 WUs for this round GARLI & MARXAN, with the GARLI ones requiring a minimum of 1.2 Gig of RAM. Of these, 1730 are already done (?), and 2325 are in progress as of 1pm pacific. They also say there'll be about 38,000 MARXAN jobs next week.

Just an update - I've changed Lattice preferences to not include GARLI, and get the following in the BOINC client:

1/23/2009 4:25:44 PM|The Lattice Project|Sending scheduler request: To fetch work.  Requesting 72698 seconds of work, reporting 1 completed tasks
1/23/2009 4:25:48 PM|The Lattice Project|Scheduler request succeeded: got 0 new tasks
1/23/2009 4:25:48 PM|The Lattice Project|Message from server: No work sent
1/23/2009 4:25:48 PM|The Lattice Project|Message from server: No work is available for HMMPfam
1/23/2009 4:25:48 PM|The Lattice Project|Message from server: No work is available for MARXAN
1/23/2009 4:25:48 PM|The Lattice Project|Message from server: No work available for the applications you have selected.  Please check your settings on the web site.

So I guess for now it's jumbo killer WUs or nothing!

 

[alan2308]

I'm at 70% on the GARLI unit that is still running, the estimate dropped from ~50 hours to a hair over 17. Maybe we'll have something on the board for this project tonight.

I've switched my preferences to no GARLI and my resource share to 500 so when something else becomes available, I'll be all over it. I've done the same for Proteins@Home since there's no telling if/when work will ever become available.

 

[Tobit]

Lattice is showing two teams for us - [H]ard|OCP and HardOCP. Ugh.

 

[alan2308]

Lattice is showing two teams for us - [H]ard|OCP and HardOCP. Ugh.

I looked into this a little. The "Other" team, HardOCP, was started by omegaman and he's pretty much inactive from what I can tell. It shouldn't be a problem. I'll put a warning on the projects list.

 

[SazanEyes]

Well, I thought I had enough memory to run The Lattice Project, but it turns out when you install the equivalent of 8 graphics cards, it limits the amount of RAM available to Windows. Right now I'm running Memtest86 just to make sure nothing broke, and then I'm going to do some BIOS tweaking to see if I can free up a little more RAM.

BTW, the Wieferich@Home server has been down for a while today. Hopefully they'll fix it soon so I can get some new work units.

 

[Tobit]

Lattice is running well here but at 1GB memory needed per core, I can only run 7 cores at a time. I guess this gives me an excuse to throw another 6GB of memory in my i7.

jt@ganymede:~$ free
             total       used       free     shared    buffers     cached
Mem:       6021564    5988616      32948          0       6644      85380
-/+ buffers/cache:    5896592     124972
Swap:     17679492     161820   17517672

 

[alan2308]

I'm at 70% on the GARLI unit that is still running, the estimate dropped from ~50 hours to a hair over 17.

Now, 12 hours later, its still sitting at 70% complete, and now saying 11 more hours to go.

I get the feeling this thing already died and it just hasn't realized it yet.

 

[Razor_FX_II]

Now, 12 hours later, its still sitting at 70% complete, and now saying 11 more hours to go.

I get the feeling this thing already died and it just hasn't realized it yet.

I had one of mine stick and I shutdown Boinc then rebooted to clear the memory, started it back up and the progress bar started climbing again after a little bit.

 

[alan2308]

I had one of mine stick and I shutdown Boinc then rebooted to clear the memory, started it back up and the progress bar started climbing again after a little bit.

Thanks, I'll just did that so I'll see in a bit.


Has anyone actually finished a Lattice unit yet? I was just wondering if the points went up right away or sat pending for up to a week like with SZTAKI. I'm itching to see another "no team" get off our page.

 

[alan2308]

Well, I thought I had enough memory to run The Lattice Project, but it turns out when you install the equivalent of 8 graphics cards, it limits the amount of RAM available to Windows. Right now I'm running Memtest86 just to make sure nothing broke, and then I'm going to do some BIOS tweaking to see if I can free up a little more RAM.

This just means its time to go 64-bit.

 

[Kendrak]

I'm in!

Installed on Main rig.

WCG is going now, I added Einstein@home

Where else do you need me?

 

[Tobit]

Has anyone actually finished a Lattice unit yet?

Not yet but I should be getting close I think.

Regarding the sticking progress at 70%, this is a common problem based on the forum postings I've read. This behavior is actually normal according to the developers.

 

[Razor_FX_II]

I'm in!

Installed on Main rig.

WCG is going now, I added Einstein@home

Where else do you need me?

Niice to have you on the team.
Anything under 5k in the vault we could use help on.
http://www.dc-vault.com/showteam.php?team=98

 

[metallicafan]

I'm in!

Installed on Main rig.

WCG is going now, I added Einstein@home

Where else do you need me?

Thanks man. Glad to have you aboard! I just put 5 cores on Sudoku for the weekend. With a couple more cores there I think we could be in the Top 10 for daily output. That should give us a decent boost there.

 

[alan2308]

Niice to have you on the team.
Anything under 5k in the vault we could use help on.
http://www.dc-vault.com/showteam.php?team=98

We could probably change that to anything under 6K since at least for BOINC based projects I don't see anything staying sub 5K through the weekend.

 

[sirmonkey1985]

well im shutting everything down til the 1st of next month to save me a little extra money on my electrical bill.. so we might take a small points hit..

 

[Razor_FX_II]

We could probably change that to anything under 6K since at least for BOINC based projects I don't see anything staying sub 5K through the weekend.

Yeah I agree, we are running out of projects below 5k .
Great work from everyone!
New goal is get everything we can 6k+. (I don't think this goal will last long either)
That team rank of 50 sure has been coming up fast!

well im shutting everything down til the 1st of next month to save me a little extra money on my electrical bill.. so we might take a small points hit..

We sure will miss your help but you have to take care of family and bills first. Priorities have to be adhered to.
We will carry on and will be eagerly awaiting your return and help.
Thanks for all your efforts with our mission sirmonkey1985, you have been a great bonus for the team.

 

[alan2308]

I forgot to mention that I did finish that Lattice Project unit. Unfortunately, it does sit there pending validation.

 

[metallicafan]

Eight logical cores in one machine. Looking good Tobit.

Im thinking of ordering a Core i7 chip. Tobit - What kind of success have you had with our chip? Heat, OC, stability, etc. What MB are you using?

 

[Tobit]

What kind of success have you had with our chip? Heat, OC, stability, etc. What MB are you using?

I love it. Does 9200 PpD on FAH. OC'd to 3.4GHz with core temps never getting any higher than 68C under full load. Motherboard here is an ASUS P6T6 WS Revolution. Next step is to start filling the 6 x16 slots with GPUs.

 

[alan2308]

Thanks for all your efforts with our mission sirmonkey1985, you have been a great bonus for the team.

I'd like to second this. You've already done more for the effort than 99% of the Horde will.

 

[Tobit]

Alan, how long did that first Lattice WU take? I'm at the 16H mark on my first ones with no clear ETA.

 

[sirmonkey1985]

Yeah I agree, we are running out of projects below 5k .
Great work from everyone!
New goal is get everything we can 6k+. (I don't think this goal will last long either)
That team rank of 50 sure has been coming up fast!


We sure will miss your help but you have to take care of family and bills first. Priorities have to be adhered to.
We will carry on and will be eagerly awaiting your return and help.
Thanks for all your efforts with our mission sirmonkey1985, you have been a great bonus for the team.

i trust me.. 12 am the first on February everythings getting turned back on.. all the laptops all the desktops.. coming back with a vengeance to make up for the points lost..

 

[alan2308]

Alan, how long did that first Lattice WU take? I'm at the 16H mark on my first ones with no clear ETA.

~24 hours of CPU time according to the lattice site.

 

[metallicafan]

I love it. Does 9200 PpD on FAH. OC'd to 3.4GHz with core temps never getting any higher than 68C under full load. Motherboard here is an ASUS P6T6 WS Revolution. Next step is to start filling the 6 x16 slots with GPUs.

Sweet. I was looking at an Asus MB as well. I just snagged a Corsair 620W PSU for the new build.

68C is pretty good under full load from what i have read. What heatsink are you using?

 

[Razor_FX_II]

I noticed mfl0p joined our Seti team the other day with a huge pile of points and jumped us up 2 Seti spots in the DC-Vault.
The killer points in OGR-26 you put in everyday is awesome.

Thanks for joining the effort mfl0p, greatly appreciated.

 

[Tobit]

68C is pretty good under full load from what i have read. What heatsink are you using?

Noctua NH-U12P SE1366

Everything stuffed in an Antec 300 - Pic

 

[sirmonkey1985]

68C is the norm.. what your seeing is the insanely high temps from benchmarking, metallicafan.. you cant really compare those temps to an avg multi-threaded program..


btw damn you for putting a picture of your antec 300.. now its making me want to clean up my crappy wiring.. even though i have no clue where im going to hide 6 sata cables..

 

[Tobit]

Man, these GARLI projects are seriously messed up with regards to the BOINC progress indicator and time estimating. However, it is a known problem and only an annoyance according to Adam the lead Lattice developer. I'm at the 21 hour mark with my initial cores. For over 7 hours, it had sat at the 70% mark and then jumped to 99% for about an hour and then reset to 1% where it has been sitting for a little while now but, as I finish this, I notice it has now jumped to 10%. Very weird but, again, normal behavior.

 

[Kendrak]

I loaded up one of the climate ones.....

Over 2 hours and I'm not at 1% yet

 

[alan2308]

I loaded up one of the climate ones.....

Over 2 hours and I'm not at 1% yet

I've still got one from back when we first started this. It doesn't help that my BOINC clients are typically overloaded with work from at least 10 projects at any given time, but still.

 

[Razor_FX_II]

Man, these GARLI projects are seriously messed up with regards to the BOINC progress indicator and time estimating. However, it is a known problem and only an annoyance according to Adam the lead Lattice developer. I'm at the 21 hour mark with my initial cores. For over 7 hours, it had sat at the 70% mark and then jumped to 99% for about an hour and then reset to 1% where it has been sitting for a little while now but, as I finish this, I notice it has now jumped to 10%. Very weird but, again, normal behavior.

That one may have restarted.
After the 70% pause mine jumped to 100% and was finished.
Are you sure it didn't finish and get sent in and a new one started at 1%?

 

[Razor_FX_II]

I loaded up one of the climate ones.....

Over 2 hours and I'm not at 1% yet

Yeah the climate ones take like a week to get done.
If you run it a little at a time the suspend it and do a manual update on it you can get points for partially completed unit.
This way you can get points as you go (as you complete the climate unit).

 

[Tobit]

That one may have restarted.
After the 70% pause mine jumped to 100% and was finished.
Are you sure it didn't finish and get sent in and a new one started at 1%?

Yeah, there's been no new activity in "Messages". It's still working on the same unit and the CPU time keeps getting longer so I don't think it restarted. This is 6 cores showing the same behavior so they'd all would have had to restarted and I just don't see any evidence of that in the BOINC log or my "top" numbers. At the 22.5 hour mark now and still crunching away. Alan's took 24 hours so we'll see where I'm at in another 1.5 hours.

 

[alan2308]

Are you sure it didn't finish and get sent in and a new one started at 1%?

You can quickly verify this by going to your "My Account" page at the project site and clicking on results. I doubt anyone is already 10 pages long of recent units.

Yeah the climate ones take like a week to get done.
If you run it a little at a time the suspend it and do a manual update on it you can get points for partially completed unit.
This way you can get points as you go (as you complete the climate unit).

I had points accumulating on every active unit whether or not I was doing that so I'm not sure that that is actually necessary.

 

[Razor_FX_II]

You can quickly verify this by going to your "My Account" page at the project site and clicking on results. I doubt anyone is already 10 pages long of recent units.

I had points accumulating on every active unit whether or not I was doing that so I'm not sure that that is actually necessary.

Yeah, there's been no new activity in "Messages". It's still working on the same unit and the CPU time keeps getting longer so I don't think it restarted. This is 6 cores showing the same behavior so they'd all would have had to restarted and I just don't see any evidence of that in the BOINC log or my "top" numbers. At the 22.5 hour mark now and still crunching away. Alan's took 24 hours so we'll see where I'm at in another 1.5 hours.

Thanks for the feed back. As little sleep that I get it sure is nice to have you help correct me thinking.

 

[Tobit]

I just had it happen again on another core. It went to 99% and then, after 5 minutes, went to 100% where it sat for 10 minutes before going back to 1%. During all of this, I watched the core utilization and it never dropped below 99%.. just continued crunching so it definitely did not restart. Just very odd progress meter behavior like Andy states I guess. Again, this is Linux, so maybe it's even more exaggerated than it is on Windows.

 

[metallicafan]

Noctua NH-U12P SE1366

Everything stuffed in an Antec 300 - Pic

Whew - 770g+. Thats a heavy cooler! It is as easy to install as they make it sound on their site? I always worry about heatsinks that weight that much. Does it fit pretty good on the socket? I have an Arctic Cooler on my X2 and I swear that thing bends my motherboard because it fits so damn tight.

 

[sirmonkey1985]

yeah noctua actually sends a real mounting bracket with their heatsinks unlike the xigimatek's.. but the heatsink still weighs about the same as the TRUE..

 

[Tobit]

It is as easy to install as they make it sound on their site?

Piece of cake and the retention bracket is awesome.. no board flex at all. I was initially going to go with a TRUE but couldn't find any of their LGA1366 brackets in stock at any of my suppliers so I went with this Noctua. No regrets whatsoever.