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We\'re getting ready to run another batch of mappredictor workunits. The first workunits will be sent out starting tomorrow Friday 14th. The new workunits are very short (around 1 min on an avarage PC), mainly because the prediction focus on a much smaller geographical range (see below). Otherwise the same as usual applies for the mappredictor: The application makes use of BOINC\'s wrapper approach for legacy applications, therefrore there is no checkpointing and no feedback from the application about progress. As usual you can opt out by changing your project preferences. |
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ID: 3783 | Rating: 0 | rate: / | |
Has anyone seen any of these yet? |
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ID: 3822 | Rating: 0 | rate: / | |
Has anyone seen any of these yet? They seem to be available now. Run time on an Athlon 1500 is ~25 seconds (and there\'s a daily limit of 500, which that PC will reach in under 4 hours). |
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ID: 3823 | Rating: 0 | rate: / | |
We\'ve started sending them out this morning, phasing in slowly as usual. The daily quota has been increased, this should not be limiting any longer. |
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ID: 3825 | Rating: 0 | rate: / | |
I had one. Quick little buggers. :) |
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ID: 3826 | Rating: 0 | rate: / | |
YAY. I got some! And they are very quick little buggers! ;) |
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ID: 3828 | Rating: 0 | rate: / | |
Im getting quite a few. |
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ID: 3833 | Rating: 0 | rate: / | |
YAY. I got some! And they are very quick little buggers! ;) So quick in fact that it clogs up the client_state.xml file as it needs to download so many to keep the wu cache at the desired level. Let\'s see - 30 sec per wu - 0.5 day cache = 21600 seconds - 2 cores - required work = 43200 seconds = 1440 wu\'s! I\'ve reduced my cache setting to 0.25 days to reduce the load on boinc.exe having to write 4MB of data (ie client_state.xml) every 15 seconds or so. In the last 14hrs boinc.exe has consumed 2hrs of cpu time on my 3.2GHz P4. Hmmmm, surely if the wu\'s only take 30sec then they could be run internally within reasonable time limits. Live long and BOINC! ____________ Paul (S@H1 8888) |
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ID: 3836 | Rating: 0 | rate: / | |
Gotta hate it when the power goes out in the middle of an edit.... |
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- 30 sec per wu Throttle your CPU. ;-) I\'ve got mine throttled at 65% and then they run in 1m 13s (average). But run they do. Good thing there\'s no graphics included. ____________ Jord. BOINC FAQ Service |
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ID: 3838 | Rating: 0 | rate: / | |
These small WUs are getting a big problem for me, Boinc.exe takes up 100% CPU Time, because Boinc downloads and uploads so many WUs to get enough work for the 2 cores of my CPU. It takes around 11 seconds to crunch a single unit!! |
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ID: 3841 | Rating: 0 | rate: / | |
These small WUs are getting a big problem for me, Boinc.exe takes up 100% CPU Time, because Boinc downloads and uploads so many WUs to get enough work for the 2 cores of my CPU. It takes around 11 seconds to crunch a single unit!! We still have about 18\'000 waiting to be sent for the first time, and expect the last one to go out later today. If the short map workunits are a problem, please opt out using the project preferences. Thanks Nick ____________ Nicolas Maire Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute http://www.swisstph.ch |
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Good thing I only work half days, as this morning, during the download of a lot of the small ones, my computer hung. Nothing spectacular about that, but worrisome in some sense anyway. No results that hung, though, so it was probably \'about time it hung again\'. |
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Hmmm, let\'s not run this mappredictor anymore. It rebooted my system while I was away and since BOINC runs as a service, it continued to run on the login screen, then hung my system again. |
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We received the last result for this batch last night. I\'ve passed all the data on to the scientists of this project to analyze. |
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We received the last result for this batch last night. I\'ve passed all the data on to the scientists of this project to analyze. Wow, that took a long time! I haven\'t seen one of those wu\'s for many days. To speed up the response in the future is it possible to target specific hosts known to be reliable to run any wu\'s that are stragglers? ____________ Paul (S@H1 8888) |
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ID: 3925 | Rating: 0 | rate: / | |
Yes, turnaround time is an issue in volunteer computing. We are now using a scheduler that resends error or no_reply results to reliable hosts only. This seems to make a big difference, but there is still the rare case where more than one resend is necessary. The last result to come back, for example, was for a workunit that was sent out at the very beginning (Sept 17th), and then resent on the 21th and 24th. Nick ____________ Nicolas Maire Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute http://www.swisstph.ch |
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