Posts by JigPu

21) Message boards : Number crunching : The 'Zero CPU' problem ... !!! (Message 6385) Posted 5 Mar 2005 by JigPu Post: >Instead, no, you complain, try to get the quotas raised >and deprive other people of wu's because you are sucking >more then your fair share - that sounds real nice. Enjoy. "Please Please please pleeeeeaaaaasssseee increase the units per day." dosen't really sound like complaining to me... More like a polite request since one of the two reasons for the quota is (likely) gone. "I'm not kicking out a bunch of errors, they're just fast crunchers. It hurts me to see them starving for work :(" Taking more than his fair share? I don't know, but taking how ever many his machine can crunch through sounds fair to me. Regardless, the reason for the quota has NOTHING to do with "fair share" or anything like that. The folks at LHC have the quota in place for two reasons (from what I could glean from the other thread): to help reduce server load, and to get through a small batch of WUs quickly. None of this is to say that the quota should nesscessaraly be increased (that decision should of course be left up to the LHC staff), but you villify him far more than he deserves. On topic, /me isn't going to leave either. The loss of credit certianly sucks, but I'm willing to go on anyway. It's not like credit is some vital thing I'll die without :D Puffy
22) Message boards : Number crunching : Note to my team (Message 6325) Posted 4 Mar 2005 by JigPu Post: I wouldn't exactly put LHC as "Stable and running well", but it's not like this is some kind of catastrophe. Berekeley is definatly having serious issues at the moment, and the other projects I don't really have much of an interest in. I'd rather donate un-credited CPU time to a project I really enjoy helping than get credit with a project I really don't enjoy. No, I'm not really helping my team blast through the stats this way, but we're doing well enough anyway to overtake a few more spots in the SETI team (our main one), and any contribution that does manage to get credit over here is just gravy for our baby LHC team. (Note: the views presented in this post may be skewed since I've not had the displeasure of crunching very many zero time WUs [..since I haven't crunched through many LHC WUs period ;)]) Puffy
23) Message boards : Number crunching : an unexpected pause (Message 5088) Posted 11 Nov 2004 by JigPu Post: > It's also worth mentioning that since this project is about tuning the design > of a collider, the WUs will come in "fits and starts". They make some changes, > run some WUs and then analyze the data that is returned. Repeat as required. > Even after the new permanent servers are installed, I expect to see > interruptions in workflow. It's just the nature of the project, as I > understand it. > I agree. This project isn't quite like SETI where new work is (theoretically) all but garunteed. The number of paramaters LHC varies is finite, and the amount it varies them is also finite. Barring a change in the collider specifications (which they say they'll use this project to determine the impact of), there's only so many different ways of running it before everybody winds up crunching the same WU several times. [url=//spreadfirefox.com/community/?q=affiliates&id=1015&t=85]
24) Message boards : Number crunching : comparision of computational power (Message 4817) Posted 2 Nov 2004 by JigPu Post: > The 'athlon64 3400' has no performnce increse over the normal athlons as they > don't TAKE ADVANTAGE OF THE 64 EXTENSIONS. Well, the 64 bit extensions aren't the only thing the Athlon64 has going for it. The onboard memory controller, different pipeline layout, etc all will make a diference. It kinda makes me wonder just what makes LHC run faster on a CPU. For SETI, gobs of L2 was key to low WU times, but LHC may (and probably is) different. [url=//spreadfirefox.com/community/?q=affiliates&id=1015&t=85]
25) Message boards : Number crunching : POLL: Q what are YOU doing with the ready2Report ?? (Message 4684) Posted 31 Oct 2004 by JigPu Post: I usually let the client do it's own thing -- it's no hassle to let it just sit there. =D It's not the fastest way of giving the validator results, but it's the intended mode (and will be the mode used by people who aren't as "into" BOINC as some of us. Sometimes I'll use the "-return_results_immediately" switch on BOINC which forces it to talk to the scheduler after it uploads (essentially the same as hitting update as soon as a WU finishes), but with BOINC being updated so often I haven't remembered to add the switch in the shortcut ^_^;;;; [url=//spreadfirefox.com/community/?q=affiliates&id=1015&t=85]
26) Message boards : Team invites : Overclockers.com (Message 3380) Posted 9 Oct 2004 by JigPu Post: We finally got a team here then I see =) joins Don't be shy, we overclockers don't bite :D Puffy (JigPu!) [url=//spreadfirefox.com/community/?q=affiliates&id=1015&t=85]

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