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Send message Joined: 12 Jul 11 Posts: 857 Credit: 1,619,050 RAC: 0 |
I am now going to submit just a few hundred very log 10**7 turn jobs to complete two studies. I think this will be OK now; we shall see. |
Send message Joined: 16 Aug 05 Posts: 5 Credit: 2,795,425 RAC: 0 |
I think I already received one: http://lhcathomeclassic.cern.ch/sixtrack/workunit.php?wuid=2801939, task #6150030. It is running 13h30m (9h50m effective) at 9.4%, and BoincTasks estimates that it will take another 6 days to finish. Ruud |
Send message Joined: 4 May 07 Posts: 250 Credit: 826,541 RAC: 0 |
I am now going to submit just a few hundred very I just looks at the "Server Status" and it shows 214,982 Tasks. Is this correct? That's a lot more than a "few hundred". Are these all test jobs? |
Send message Joined: 27 Oct 07 Posts: 186 Credit: 3,297,640 RAC: 0 |
I think I've got a very big, very long one: wlxu2_nuebb0__3__s__64.31_59.32__4_4.5__7__27_1_sixvf_boinc42970 Fortunately, it got sent to the very big, very fast computer I built at the weekend - an excellent test, thank you :) It's reached 60% after 19 and a half hours - estimating another 14 to go. But the deadline is 28 August, like the others... [and since receiving it I've received - and returned - other, shorter jobs. Not all the jobs in the queue are like this one] |
Send message Joined: 24 Oct 04 Posts: 1127 Credit: 49,752,900 RAC: 8,696 |
Nice one Richard, I should have my GeForce 660Ti superclocked in a couple days......but just a quad-core running it and not close to your 8 cores. I think you just might like your new machine. Volunteer Mad Scientist For Life |
Send message Joined: 27 Oct 07 Posts: 186 Credit: 3,297,640 RAC: 0 |
Fortunately, it got sent to the very big, very fast computer I built at the weekend - an excellent test, thank you :) It's still only 4 cores, but with the new i7 hyperthreading which seems to work much better than the P4 version did. The supplier matched up the CPU/motherboard/RAM before I picked it up, so it ran at 4.5 GHz at first boot - and it's been running like that ever since. Yes, I like it! |
Send message Joined: 25 Nov 05 Posts: 1 Credit: 969,430 RAC: 0 |
I believe I have received three of the very long jobs so far. Two jobs have completed with the runtime of one job at 65,229 seconds and the second job at 94,123 seconds. The third job is presently at just over 95% with 27:57 runtime so far. These jobs are indeed taking much longer compared to previously received jobs. I have my CPU running at half load with HT enabled. I think these jobs would take even longer if I were to load the CPU 100%. |
Send message Joined: 24 Jun 10 Posts: 40 Credit: 5,307,216 RAC: 17,597 |
Greetings Have picked up 7 long ones and crunching at a good pace, glad to see the work has picked up Regards Tazzduke |
Send message Joined: 24 Jun 10 Posts: 40 Credit: 5,307,216 RAC: 17,597 |
In further to my last post, I have set to NNT until I have crunched these 7 long workunits. Regards Tazzduke |
Send message Joined: 12 Jul 11 Posts: 857 Credit: 1,619,050 RAC: 0 |
Just to clarify most of the current jobs are part of the intensity scan which I mentioned earlier. The very very long jobs all begin wlxu7_* |
Send message Joined: 6 Jul 06 Posts: 108 Credit: 663,175 RAC: 68 |
Just to clarify most of the current jobs are part of the The "wlxu2_*" work unit type is the type that has been reported in this column and is the type that I have that report possible run times of 50 odd hours. Could also include wlxu7_* but I have not seen any of these. Conan |
Send message Joined: 3 Oct 06 Posts: 101 Credit: 8,994,391 RAC: 421 |
I am now going to submit just a few hundred very No, Eric! This is not Ok, because these very long tasks still have the same deadlines as normal tasks. It is very sad, but You are ignoring some facts... 1. Almost nobody of us is crunching LHC@home only. So, such big tasks with extremely short deadlines are starting to run in panic mode immediately after they are downloaded. CPU tasks from another projects are blocked. 2. Not all of us are rich people from rich countries, so not all of us: - have newest and fastest machines; - have possibility to crunch 24/7 (if computer is at work, very often it is running only 8/5). PLEASE, do not follow some arrogant projects, designed for US, British Union and EU Western only. |
Send message Joined: 27 Oct 07 Posts: 186 Credit: 3,297,640 RAC: 0 |
Just to clarify most of the current jobs are part of the The first batch of very long jobs we ran at the beginning of this month were wlxu7_* The ones I'm working on now are all wlxu2_* |
Send message Joined: 9 Jan 08 Posts: 66 Credit: 727,923 RAC: 0 |
Could you please make the deadline for the long runs 2 weeks instead? I had to cancel 2 jobs because I couldn't do them in time (I ofcourse aborted them before starting them to not waste power) |
Send message Joined: 12 Jul 11 Posts: 857 Credit: 1,619,050 RAC: 0 |
I need to see Igor about this........... I set dealine of 30 days always. However I think BOINC re-computes based on the estimated FLOPS. Eric. |
Send message Joined: 12 Jul 11 Posts: 857 Credit: 1,619,050 RAC: 0 |
There are ony afew hundred wlxu7. Ther arevvery very many "long" tasks including wlxu2 but they run for "only" a maximum of 10**6 i.e. one million turns. |
Send message Joined: 6 Jul 06 Posts: 108 Credit: 663,175 RAC: 68 |
There are only a few hundred wlxu7. There are very, Ah, OK, No problem, my 50 hour work units are not the real long ones. The wlxu7_ work units would be impressive then, 100 hours or more. Conan |
Send message Joined: 12 Jul 11 Posts: 857 Credit: 1,619,050 RAC: 0 |
Now with this magnificent system (thanks to all) I am thinking of 100 million turns next to study the growth of floating-point error and the loss of symplecticity! We shall see. |
Send message Joined: 12 Jul 11 Posts: 857 Credit: 1,619,050 RAC: 0 |
Du calme as we say in French. I am hurt by your accusation. I have always insisted that we run on any "old" machine, even a Pentium 3. The experiment with 10 million turns has shown some deadline/scheduling problems. These will be addressed before we proceed. The few hundred jobs are necessary to complete a couple of studies. I have a few hundred thousand other jobs available. Watch this space. Eric. |
Send message Joined: 25 Jan 11 Posts: 179 Credit: 83,858 RAC: 0 |
Du calme as we say in French. I am hurt by your accusation. I have always Tasks that are much longer than the tasks a project usually issues cause problems on some hosts. Also, it's entirely possible that your longest tasks won't finish before deadline on a Pentium 3 even if it crunches 24/7. Other projects have run into exactly the same problem and rather than keep all tasks short they have configured their server to offer 2 different types of tasks: long tasks and short tasks. They create an option in user website prefs to allow crunchers to choose both types or just one type depending on their hardware and expectations. I have no idea how much work it would take to implement such an option (perhaps server code already has that functionality?) but you/Igor might give it some thought. GPUgrid offers a long vs. short option, maybe they can give you/Igor some ideas on how to implement it. |
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