newbie here, want to get into DC

[VirtualLarry]

Ok, when I look at my SoB stats, it says "Currently pending tests" - "3 tests".
When I installed it, I let it run a little while before I shut it down and installed it as a service. (For two cores, because I have a dual-core rig.)

Does this mean that it pulled a WU during "normal mode" (as opposed to "service mode"), that is just sitting there now and not being worked on? Do I need to do anything with that WU, or will it get returned to the pool automatically?

 

[TallBill]

What name are you crunching as? Btw, 7.2 Mcems is still pretty darn good. I probably get that with a 2800+, 3500+ and my 2.17 ghz core duo laptop combined.

 

[VirtualLarry]

Crunching as "VirtualLarry" (team "Anandtech"), having fun watching my name rise up in the ranks in stats. At this rate, in a few days, I'll be at 1.0T cems. My goal is to crack the top100 in under a month.

About the "3 tests" thing - I tried starting the normal-mode client at the same time as running the two service clients, and it started crunching the same WU as one of the service clients, so I stopped it. I have no idea why it lists 3 tests pending.

Are there any rules about "borging" other machines? I have a couple other machines that I have access to that I want to install the client onto.

Damn, I wish I could run DC on my cell-phone even. This stuff is addictive.

 

[TallBill]

I wouldn't worry to heavily about the 3 test thing. If a workunit never gets returned, the system "should" regenerate it.

You should be able to make it into the team top 100 in the month.

And the only rules against borging are just to make sure that you have explicit permission to install on whatever system.

 

[Amaroque]

'Borging' is encouraged, as long as nobody gets into any trouble!

 

[VirtualLarry]

I realize that SoB gives you stats credit while you are crunching, but as far as the science goes - it only counts towards the goal once you actually finish the entire proth test, correct? So once installed and crunching on a WU, the client should be left alone until it finishes, right?

This added AMD 3400+ OCed to 2.44Ghz gives about 2.45M cems/sec, btw. Not as good as my C2D but still decent.

... must borg more machines!

Just in case, does anyone know how to un-install the SoB service? (Install is "sobsvc -i", so uninstall should be something similar I guess.)
Or if worst comes to worse, how to recover half-finished WUs and transplant to another machine?


Ok, this is wierd. My friend's E6300 @ 2.63 (mine is E4400 @ 2.81) is faster than my CPU at SoB. Both of his clients (two client service install) are computing at 4.6-4.7M cems/sec. On mine, I got about that speed, possibly a little faster with a single thread, but with two threads I get only 3.4M and 3.6M cems/sec. I'm confused as to the slowdown on my machine. I do have maxed downloads going on in the background on my PC, but that doesn't take much CPU.

Borged a couple of 1.6Ghz Merom C2D laptops, getting 2x2.4M cems/sec out of each of them. I'm up to 27M cems/sec aggregate now.

Edit: Just hit 1.000 T cEMs.
Edit: 2.744 T cems, will I hit 3.0T before RUSSELLMANIA catches up?

Edit: Added my mom's machine, a 2.0Ghz C2D with 512KB L2 cache, it does 2.5M cems/sec, just a tad more than the 3400+ @ 2.44Ghz, and only 35W.

 

[TallBill]

Wowsers, keep borging

 

[Assimilator1]

Originally posted by: VirtualLarry
Ok, this is wierd. My friend's E6300 @ 2.63 (mine is E4400 @ 2.81) is faster than my CPU at SoB. Both of his clients (two client service install) are computing at 4.6-4.7M cems/sec. On mine, I got about that speed, possibly a little faster with a single thread, but with two threads I get only 3.4M and 3.6M cems/sec. I'm confused as to the slowdown on my machine. I do have maxed downloads going on in the background on my PC, but that doesn't take much CPU.

It would seem then that SoB likes high FSBs then,the E6300 will be on a much higher FSB than your E4400.375 vs 281 if I've got the multipliers right

 

[VirtualLarry]

But it only seems to affect performance, if both cores are loaded. With a single core running, both machines run at about the same speed. Does SoB load down the memory interface that much? I'm on DDR400 @ 224Mhz (DDR 448, really), he's on DDR2.

 

[Assimilator1]

I don't know I don't run SoB ,but it would appear so ,2 cores would make much more use of the FSB/RAM bandwidth.
Also even with just 1 core loaded it is still effecting it ,you said they achieve the same scores on 1 core yet your E4400 is running 180MHz faster ,if the FSB had little or no effect yours would be faster than his.

Btw that's a common thing with many DC projects ,I know SETI & DPAD perform better with higher FSBs too.

 

[Amaroque]

I can only speak for DPAD myself... Two single cores in seperate machines are faster than one dual core, even with seperate instances.