I gather 'flop counting' refers to the total number of flops executed for a given work unit. A proxy measure of algorithmic complexity. But who/what does the counting? Is it the BOINC client?
Science application, reported..... I'd be getting a goose egg.
Or possibly turning into one. :-)
Thanks for that Brian. I now know enough to properly know I wished I didn't. I'm sure there's a 'Yes Minister' line about that! :-)
I too will withdraw. I feel I may risk ( if not already ) kicking an own goal ....
Cheers, Mike.
I have made this letter longer than usual because I lack the time to make it shorter ...
... and my other CPU is a Ryzen 5950X :-) Blaise Pascal
That's not quite right as there will be a flow of "high paying" resend work for the next several weeks...
...At that time if you want to continue to do your civic duty, you could run both the new app and the old app under the anonymous platform mechanism (app_info.xml). Even in a month's time, someone will still need to be running the old app to handle the resends that will still be trickling through the system.
I expect to publish a suitable example of app_info.xml (probably around next Tuesday) for the benefit of those who wish to assist with the ongoing cleanup. You can always do it for yourself by following the links that Bikeman mentioned.
I read the links, and look forward to you publishing a suitable example probably around next Tuesday! Sounds like a great idea (and I suspect Bernd may not have the time to work out the package you mentioned in another post).
S5R3 nearing completion has happened at a pretty good time I think. The summer heat is on now. It will be around 100 fahrenheit in my neck of the woods for the next week or so. My house stays much cooler with my 8 core Mac Pro space heater not running :O. My computers are enjoying a bit of a vacation while E@H winds S5R3 down. I look forward to the next run.
Been following this with interest, and have 2 questions you may care to answer?
First: If my caches, which will continue to crunch, are finishing after the server upgrade next week, will this be an issue?
Second: I am using the SSE version to crunch the S5R3 WUs. I am not sure whether this SSE client, with the right app_info fie, can also crunch the S5R4 WUs (when these are released to the wild)?
Shih-Tzu are clever, cuddly, playful and rule!! Jack Russell are feisty!
Any outlook on the aspect of runtime uniformity across work units for R4?
Cheers, Mike.
We discussed many alternatives until the very last minute, but it seems that all other kind of splitting up the sky than we do now bears at least a high risk of reducing the sensitivity of the search.
So for now we'll stick to the S5R3 scheme and I will make another attempt on adjusting credits in the workunit generation. Once we have an SSE2 App for Windows then probably built with the same compiler we use for Linux and MacOS Intel, most Apps used out there should behave roughly the same from the timing aspect, so this should be easier to handle.
It would make things even easier if we would switch from equatorial to ecliptical coordinates in the skygrid, but that would require more changes than we have time left for; and before this is fixed in the WUG, the effect would be even worse.
So I guess seen from a positive angle, the efforts that went into the Ready Reckoner and all the runtime statistics collecting wasn't in vain, and can now be used now to help calibrate the WUG's credit scheme :-).
RE: I gather 'flop
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Or possibly turning into one. :-)
Thanks for that Brian. I now know enough to properly know I wished I didn't. I'm sure there's a 'Yes Minister' line about that! :-)
I too will withdraw. I feel I may risk ( if not already ) kicking an own goal ....
Cheers, Mike.
I have made this letter longer than usual because I lack the time to make it shorter ...
... and my other CPU is a Ryzen 5950X :-) Blaise Pascal
Mike, you've really got to
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Mike, you've really got to get out more! ;)
/me ducks. :D
RE: Re-reading this post I
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I figured out the best way was to upgrade my computers so they were faster. :-)
RE: RE: .... See this
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Well, you WERE warned!
Seti Classic Final Total: 11446 WU.
RE: That's not quite right
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I read the links, and look forward to you publishing a suitable example probably around next Tuesday! Sounds like a great idea (and I suspect Bernd may not have the time to work out the package you mentioned in another post).
Thanks, appreciate your posts!
S5R3 nearing completion has
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S5R3 nearing completion has happened at a pretty good time I think. The summer heat is on now. It will be around 100 fahrenheit in my neck of the woods for the next week or so. My house stays much cooler with my 8 core Mac Pro space heater not running :O. My computers are enjoying a bit of a vacation while E@H winds S5R3 down. I look forward to the next run.
Just had a peek at the server
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Just had a peek at the server status screen, unsent 4.
So I guess that is the end of S5R3 except for the few re-sends.
Been following this with
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Been following this with interest, and have 2 questions you may care to answer?
First: If my caches, which will continue to crunch, are finishing after the server upgrade next week, will this be an issue?
Second: I am using the SSE version to crunch the S5R3 WUs. I am not sure whether this SSE client, with the right app_info fie, can also crunch the S5R4 WUs (when these are released to the wild)?
Shih-Tzu are clever, cuddly, playful and rule!! Jack Russell are feisty!
RE: Any outlook on the
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We discussed many alternatives until the very last minute, but it seems that all other kind of splitting up the sky than we do now bears at least a high risk of reducing the sensitivity of the search.
So for now we'll stick to the S5R3 scheme and I will make another attempt on adjusting credits in the workunit generation. Once we have an SSE2 App for Windows then probably built with the same compiler we use for Linux and MacOS Intel, most Apps used out there should behave roughly the same from the timing aspect, so this should be easier to handle.
It would make things even easier if we would switch from equatorial to ecliptical coordinates in the skygrid, but that would require more changes than we have time left for; and before this is fixed in the WUG, the effect would be even worse.
BM
BM
So I guess seen from a
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So I guess seen from a positive angle, the efforts that went into the Ready Reckoner and all the runtime statistics collecting wasn't in vain, and can now be used now to help calibrate the WUG's credit scheme :-).
Bikeman