NEW: LINUX TEST APPLICATION FOR EINSTEIN@HOME

Shaktai
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RE: Could someone tell me

Message 14846 in response to message 14839

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Could someone tell me some example times for Windows runing Einstein@Home on the 2000+ and 2400+

I don't have a 2000, but below is a link to my 2400 running on Win XP Home Edition. 512mb RAM

http://einsteinathome.org/host/99268/tasks

Longest time: 23,607.81
Shortest time: 23,194.36

Thinking about testing the new Linux client on one of my two AMD 64 3200's. If I can get Mandriva up and running again, I'll post the results and compare to the same running Windows.

Revolution
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When you guys talk about

When you guys talk about times, what figures are you quoting?
What is 28,364.86?

I see CPU time for WUs only.

Ok scratch that - Its time in seconds on the results page.

Just out of interest I've overclocked my Celeron 2.4D up to 3GHz (Running Ubuntu Linux 5.04) and it performs exceptionally well.
2.4GHz - 51,483.06
3.0GHz - 41,594.52

For some reason though, all my credits for the overclocked period (this last week) are all still pending.

[AF>Linux]Arnaud
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Hi, Just completed 1 Wu with

Hi,
Just completed 1 Wu with the test app and everything went fine (I can even see the viz now)
Time: 14h21 instead of about 19h with the old app.(resultid=6933441)
P4 3ghz HT, Linux Suse 9.2, CC4.43.
Well done. :o)

Arnaud

Jordan Wilberding
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Probably just

Message 14849 in response to message 14847

Probably just coincidence.

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For some reason though, all my credits for the overclocked period (this last week) are all still pending.


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Jordan Wilberding
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Is there a chance you will

Is there a chance you will support sse2, and sse3 in the future? Maybe I am wrong, but can't boinc support specific clients for specific processors? So just have optimized clients for athlon, athlon xp, pentium3, and pentium4. That would cover most of the processors out there.

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Bernd has finished building a new test application for Linux. This detects and uses the SSE instruction set if your computer supports it, which can increase the speed by a significant factor. The test app is available here.

Please report success and/or failure with the test app to this message board thread.


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Darren
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Here are some times for my

Here are some times for my dual boot system comparing Win to Linux.

The system is a p4 3.06 with HT running either WinXP Pro or Mandrake 10 (kernel 2.6.3-7mdksmp). In Windows, the client is 4.45 and is running the windows test version 0.03. In Linux, the client is 4.43 running test version 0.06.

Each has completed 2 full work units now to make sure nothing really weird dramatically altered a time somewhere.

Windows - 42,066 & 42,264 giving an average of 11:41:06 per result
Linux - 49,833 & 50,580 giving an average of 13:56:47 per result

The system is not a dedicated cruncher, so I wouldn't suggest that everyone else would have the same results. It doesn't do anything else that is really CPU intensive though (mostly just email, web browsing and XMMS) so it shouldn't be way out of line either. I should note that if I boot it into windows for boinc, I usually do so at night when I don't have to do anything else (that way I don't really have to use windows myself), so in that aspect windows may get a slightly unfair advantage, in that the 1 or 2 percent of the CPU that I use under linux isn't as likely to get used as much under windows.

So, in my particular case, comparing test version to test version, the linux client is now taking 20% longer than the windows client. MUCH better than it used to be, but still a very noticable difference.

Bernd Machenschalk
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Anyone compared the 006

Anyone compared the 006 against the Windows one on Wine?

BM

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hgr4x
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> Anyone compared the 006

> Anyone compared the 006 against the Windows one on Wine?

Athlon XP 1800+:

Linux standard version: ~ 15 h
Linux v0.06: ~ 11 h [1]
Wine: ~ 8.8 h [2]

[1] http://einsteinathome.org/host/311409/tasks
[2] http://einsteinathome.org/host/357361/tasks

Jordan Wilberding
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Maybe for the Linux version

Message 14854 in response to message 14853

Maybe for the Linux version of Einstein, they should just compile the windows version for Linux using winelib. ;)

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> Anyone compared the 006 against the Windows one on Wine?

Athlon XP 1800+:

Linux standard version: ~ 15 h
Linux v0.06: ~ 11 h [1]
Wine: ~ 8.8 h [2]

[1] http://einsteinathome.org/host/311409/tasks
[2] http://einsteinathome.org/host/357361/tasks


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Revolution
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Well I now have several WUs

Well I now have several WUs completed with the new 0.06 Linux code.
Running 2.4GHz Celeron overclocked to 3GHz

0.06 Code - 27,431.39 : 27,403.10 : 27,400.30
Old Code - 41,645.10 : 41,612.27 : 41,594.52

When I was running at 2.4GHz WUs were around 52,000

Now I'll be able to chug through WUs twice as fast.

On another note...Jordan do you really have 14 Linux boxes running E@H?

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