DPAD Daily user stats 29-7-08

[Assimilator1]

Local Teams output (Mpts) (No other teams are currently close to us in total points and output! ).

DPC - 939,578 (~90 million Mpts ahead, ~75 days to pass)
TA - 2,983,156

Prod Rank __ Team Rank __ Days Mpts _______ Total Mpts __________ Name

_1 _________ _1 _________ 1038836 _________ 825665743 _________ amd.borg
_2 _________ _2 _________ 992724 _________ 261721856 _________ JonB
_3 _________ 25 _________ 685062 _________ 12112872 _________ MarkP
_4 _________ _6 _________ _ 57465 _________ 81437380 _________ viztech
_5 _________ 20 _________ _ 56601 _________ 17914607 _________ mordrid52
_6 _________ _5 _________ _ 53945 _________ 104490788 _________ Silverthorne
_7 _________ _9 _________ _ 51173 _________ 28981788 _________ Assimilator1
_8 _________ _4 _________ _ 47350 _________ 117717636 _________ Amaroque

Active members over the past week - 13

[TA]amd.borg
[TA]JonB
[TA]Amaroque
[TA]Silverthorne
[TA]viztech
[TA]Assimilator1
[TA]OrangeKid
[TA]caferace
[TA]Petrusbroder
[TA]mordrid52
[TA]aphex
[TA]MarkP
[TA]Pacemaker

DPAD stats collected from Free-DC ('yesterday' column).
Official TeAm stats from the DPAD site.

Extra awesome output thanks to borgie,Jon & Mark P
...... err, who is MarkP?

Btw sorry for the very sparse stats atm , I seem to be busy a lot atm

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Good to see I'm back in my own stats

 

[GLeeM]

Thanks for the stats, Assimilator1

 

[JonB]

MarkP - your stats for today (July 30) were even better! (especially for just two days after being inactive for a long time!!!).

Say Hello!!!

and, Assimilator - thanks for the stats.

 

[Assimilator1]

Yeah 1.96 mill!!:shocked:

 

[petrusbroder]

Thanks for the numbers, Assim1!

 

[imported_MarkP]

Hey,
I haven't done all too much over the past year or so, but came across a PC that had been running dpad for over a year with no internet connection. Couldn't let a 113MB results.txt go to waste, so I had to turn it in.

The bad news is that it was a one time upload...

Maybe I'll get it going again on a few machines, could probably help out a little.

 

[Assimilator1]

Lol I was wondering if it was a lost ship , still an awesome megadump even if it is only one off .

And it'd be great to have you help out again .
What rig(s) would you be running it on?

 

[imported_MarkP]

Of course I restarted it on that laptop, so next year I should have another 100+Mb result file..

I have a 24x7 Core2 duo running at 2.7Ghz (might go quad at some point too) that doesn't have a project, so I'll probably get that one going. Might startup my work laptop too, but that one wouldn't be 24x7.

I used to have access to a lot more machines that I was able to run it on, but my current job doesn't allow it so I'm stuck to home machines only.

I do have one other machine (older) still running QMC@home for TA. Do you know if the team is still active for that project? I'd be willing to convert it back to Dpad.

 

[Assimilator1]

Pass, I don't even know what QMC is , I did a quick DC forum search (for what it's worth) & no QMC titled threads showed up however that doesn't mean TA QMC is totally inactive. A search of archived threads turned up a dozen or so threads from about 2yrs ago so it would seem it's dorment, at least as far as forum activity goes.
QMC stats show 6 active including yourself so it is still ticking over (excluding those with just over 0 RAC ).

[edit]read up om QMC, seems quiet interesting:thumbsup: )

Upto you whether you switch over the older rig, it'll certainly do useful work on DPAD, as you probably know their are generally no time limits on DPAD work, though I wouldn't leave it as long as a year again as the project moves onto different optimisations. Results from a dis-continued optimisation will likely have much less scientific value than a current one, though it seems you get the points anyway. It's at least worth checking every month that the optimisation your offline rig is running is still current & that it has the latest client. Not always critical but IIRC it is important to upgrade from the old 443x client to 444x.
Btw a quirk of the latest client is that it doesn't flush as often as the older ones did, so whilst in daily stats it may appear you've done nothing you're actually doing a similiar amount of work.

Your C2D @2.7GHz will crunch a decent number of Mpts , the E6420 @3.2GHz I had did about 50,000 Mpt/s day IIRC.
And yea it's ashame when you lose big work fleets, it's happened to quite a few people over the years .

Anyway, hope to see your regular output jump in future stats .

 

[Assimilator1]

Wow! Amdborg did a massive 7mill dump yesterday!:shocked:

 

[TurtleBlue]

Assimilator1

Posted this in the latest SoB Thread...

Hello Guys & Dolls

Ran into some probs with the new cores for F@H and spent a ton of time on it this past weekend. With the help of Cutthroat and others got the Quad box running at 75% for the project. Having probs with the AMD AM2 Brisbane box, though. The GPU2 program is running into hiccups and won't turn tricks for F@H so instead of wasting more time during the week until this comming weekend will be running SorB. No sense leaving a box doing any crunching, eh?

TurtleBlue

Well, the SoB program used to crunch has not changed since the last time I was involved last year. The Stats window says that it will take about 250 hrs to complete on my 1.9AM2 box which is a bit disappointing. Tallbill(?) replied that SoB plays nice with duo-cores so I'll have to investigate this.

Under Taskmaster SoB is only using 50% of the duo-core so I activated the Dpad program to run as well this morning. It was still "configuring" when I left and Taskmaster was showing that it was using about 15% cpu utilization. I did not look to see if I was running the 4.3 or 4.4 version of dpad - will have to check when I get back home later today.

My question is: What is the difference between the 2 core executables?

Turtleblue

 

[Assimilator1]

Firstly welcome back to DPAD .

I'm not exactly sure what you mean by your question but I guess you're asking about the differences between the v4.43x & v4.44x clients. (Btw setting up the client should be very quick).

From DPADs site for v4.44 (the 1st 1):-

A variety of features and bug fixes in this release, which is mainly for maintenance and bringing the code up to date. It includes a more accurate collision detection algorithm so simulations may take longer to complete but will also register more Mpts. Other new features:

The program will automatically prune the low-scoring results out of results.dat when it exceeds a certain size (this behaviour is configurable) so that the RAM requirements of Muon1 will not increase indefinitely.
By default the program will detect when it is being run on a laptop in battery mode and will sleep until the power is reconnected. In sleep mode it only polls for power every 30 seconds, so may not start up immediately.
"CPU throttle" configuration switch, to run Muon1 at less than 100% load, either for sharing with other DC projects or to keep systems stable when they have insufficient cooling.
HTTP upload chunks increased in size so large results files should upload more quickly.
Queue files have different names (queuecli.txt, queuegfx.txt, queue.txt) for the different Muon1 variants (commandline, graphical, background) to avoid clashes.
Muon1 will print the final score out in the commandline version when quarantine has finished.
-singlethread commandline switch added (mostly for testing).

Bug fixes:

Leak of Windows file handles fixed.
The fixed random seeds used in some lattices worked differently in multithreaded mode than single threaded. This was tracked down to a problem setting the FPU precision in a new thread and has been fixed.
Identical genomes should not be run twice if possible (the algorithm will go back to generate another).
Screensaver now works at the lowered priority specified in config.txt, but interactive graphical mode is normal priority.
Screensaver also uses the correct config.txt, not generating one in the Windows directory!
Problems with clients stopping during lattice changearounds should be reduced.
Finally note that there is the new file muon1startup.exe for automatically putting a shortcut to the background-running Muon1 in the Startup folder.

To see the updates for all v4.44 clients & v.4.43 history go here, though those ones are main bug fixes except the latest v4.44d which nakes much better use of multi-core rigs .

Btw IIRC v4.43 client results are no longer accepted, though I can't seem to find the info on that atm.

 

[TurtleBlue]

Thanks, Assimilator 1 for the post reply - sorry to confuse - guess I AM confused from this past wk/ends core replacement disaster for F@H on 2 of my boxes.

TurtleBlue

 

[amdxborg]

Hey guys! Well I decided to it's time we take back our #1 spot in DPAD! Over time a lot of my boxes stopped crunching, so I'm getting them all up and running again. I'm also doin SOB but mostly DPAD.. So on to bbq some cow!! O and I wouldn't mind breaking 1,000,000,000 either!

 

[Assimilator1]

Hey a Johan sighting , & lol BBQ.....mmmm I love BBQ cow

Btw we've never lost our No1 cruncher spot though naturally our lead was much smaller when your output dropped (& a handful of members have flatlined).
It'll be fun to scream up on DPC:evil:

How's the power situation going in SA btw?

Johan for 1 bill!:shocked:

Turtle Blue
No probs ,going by your post in the SoB thread you almost certainly have an ancient client (probably v443?) ,you need to update to the latest one. In my experience it's pretty stable & makes good use of multicores on auto threading .


Time for me to do some more stats I think ...........

 

[amdxborg]

Hey Mark!! I think we should indeed get the fire going, clean the grill, sharpen those knives.. and chase us down some cows!! So yeah, I'm up for it!

The power is normal atm, strange since it's winter here and more power is supposed to be being used, although they did mention there might be some cuts in the near future. Last month SA's only nuclear power plant producing 1840 megawatts or 6.5 percent of the countries power, came to a stand still due to an unknown problem.. I tell you the sheer incompetence of people in this country being placed in jobs they're not qualified for due to affirmative action will be the end of us all! :|

In any case, I think we should rally up some of the folk, we're set to pass the DPC in about a month. I'm sure they're sandbagging, but if we can get a couple more crunchers to fire up DPAD we should be in for a great BBQ! :evil::beer: