Windows S5R4 SSE2 power App 6.05 available
Bernd Machenschalk
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A SSE2 App for Windows can be found on the Power User's Apps page.
For this App to run your CPU must support SSE2 instructions.
This App has been built with an all-new build process using the MinGW/gcc compiler, which allows us to use the same code that's in the Linux SSE2 App.
Due to the great work of Oliver Bock (based on previous work of others) we should even get back useful stackdumps in case of a crash.
Primarily this is a field test for this new build process, I'd also expect significant speedup compared to the current standard Windows App.
This App is pretty recent and has undergone only very minimal internal testing, so prepare for the unexpected.
Only run this if you're sure of what you're doing
Happy crunching!
BM
BM
Windows S5R4 SSE2 power App 6.05 available
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The app_info.xml file in the distribution has no provision for handling already downloaded work "branded" as 6.04. So a direct installation will cause immediate erroring out of current queue, then a batch of resent lost results messages.
Nothing new there, but sometimes supplied app_info files have had grandfathering provisions, so I just thought I'd warn people that this one does not currently.
In contrast to the previous
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In contrast to the previous releases there isn't any installation instruction available. Is it possible to get one again?
Intel Q9300 Quadcore, 2500 Mhz, 4096 MB RAM, GeForce 9800 GT, Vista Ultimate 64-bit, Ubuntu 10.10 64 bit
Here's an app_info.xml that
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Here's an app_info.xml that should work. Due to the very different file structure Tasks already assigned to 6.04 will be finished with the 6.04 App, new tasks should be assigned to 6.05:
einstein_S5R4
einstein_S5R4_6.05_windows_intelx86.exe
einstein_S5R4_6.05_graphics_windows_intelx86.exe
einstein_S5R4_5.09_0_windows_intelx86.pdb
einstein_S5R4_6.04_windows_intelx86.exe
einstein_S5R4_6.04_windows_intelx86_0.exe
einstein_S5R4_6.04_windows_intelx86_1.exe
einstein_S5R4_6.04_graphics_windows_intelx86.exe
einstein_S5R4_5.09_1_windows_intelx86.pdb
einstein_S5R4
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6.3.0
einstein_S5R4_5.09_0_windows_intelx86.pdb
einstein_S5R4_6.04_windows_intelx86.exe
einstein_S5R4_6.04_windows_intelx86_0.exe
einstein_S5R4_6.04_windows_intelx86_1.exe
einstein_S5R4_6.04_graphics_windows_intelx86.exe
graphics_app
einstein_S5R4_5.09_1_windows_intelx86.pdb
einstein_S5R4
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6.3.0
einstein_S5R4_6.05_windows_intelx86.exe
einstein_S5R4_6.05_graphics_windows_intelx86.exe
graphics_app
Replacing the last einstein_S5R4_6.04_windows_intelx86.exe by einstein_S5R4_6.05_windows_intelx86.exe could work (i.e. finishing Tasks assigned to 6.04 with 6.05), but I'm not even fully sure that the checkpoint files are compatible.
BM
BM
As a potential user of the
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As a potential user of the optimised SSE2 code, I assume the installation of the software will be to -
Click through the following folders -
/C/programme files/BOINC/projects/einstein/
then -
Place the 3 files -
appl_info;
einstein_S5R$_6.05_graphics_windows_intelx86;
and, einstein_S5R4_6.05_intelx86)
- in that folder.
This is done after first marking the equivalent shown as einstein_S5R4_6.04_etc as ".old"?
There appears to be 4 files which need this treatment, as follows -
einstein_S5R4_6.04_graphics_windows_intelx86;
einstein_S5R4_6.04_intelx86;
einstein_S5R$_6.04_graphics_windows_intelx86 0
einstein_S5R$_6.04_graphics_windows_intelx86 1
Let me know if I am wrong?
Shih-Tzu are clever, cuddly, playful and rule!! Jack Russell are feisty!
RE: Primarily this is a
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Personally, I think you plan this stuff and release it when I start getting grumpy about it... :-P (just kidding)
I'll try it later tonight... Is anything known about switching a task in the middle of processing? Has that app_info really been shown to work as expected?
Hello! For run a new app I
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Hello!
For run a new app I must compute all tasks, suspend work requests, report about computed tasks and after all move new application files to einstein project folder? Or not?
Thank you!
RE: I'll try it later
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I have a pair of mid-course switched results in progress. I prepared an private ap_info.xml which reassigned the work in process from 6.04 to 6.05 before I saw Bernd's comment that this was imprudent.
In about two more hours it should be complete. I'll force reporting. As the quorum partner has already reported, I should be able to supply evidence of validation immediately. Even if it validates, please consider Bernd's position (I figure I might as well complete the unintentional experiment).
ATM I do not have a problem
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ATM I do not have a problem with WUs in the cache, having just moved temporarily to another project. My caches are mostly clear now, except for my slowest rigs which are crunching their last WUs as I type.
I plan to let my pending credit account run down from it's current near 4K claim (really 12.5K at granting stage).
I can therefore port the new SSE2 files to the project/Einstein folder with impunity.
All this assumes my way forwards is as described in my post before this one!
Shih-Tzu are clever, cuddly, playful and rule!! Jack Russell are feisty!
RE: I have a pair of
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OK, the first of my mid-course change results has validated.
Bernd, does this serve to alter your advice? Or do you advise and prefer that people not create mixed-ap results?
I don't have an estimate yet, but it is already clear that the 6.05 ap is faster than 6.04 on my Windows XP SP3 Conroe-type hosts (Q6600 and E6600).
Ok- I'm new to the advanced
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Ok- I'm new to the advanced apps, but got to it with SETI, and am looking forward to it here.
I'm running a 64 bit Vista Ultimate, Intel 6300, so I'm good for the app.
I'll guess both items go in the Programdata->Boinc->projects->einstein.phys.uwm.edu. Is that right?
Ralph