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Message 746902 - Posted: 2 May 2008, 10:59:06 UTC

I too will add my voice to the chorus of Thank You's

Thank you guys for all your hard work.

Now how do we get Alex to look at optimizing some of the other BOINC projects like Einstein? :-)
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Message 746905 - Posted: 2 May 2008, 11:11:35 UTC - in response to Message 746899.  


Correct, they do. I have a couple P4 laptops, Toshiba 2435-s255, that I cant seem to find the information on.

Also, both the Athlon and Phenom, are running Vista. Is Vista supported? I could only find mention of earlier Windows versions.


Use something like CPU-Z to check the older CPU's where it's less certain. And there are x64 version of the V8 app and I'm running them on Vista x64 and Xp64.

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Message 746965 - Posted: 2 May 2008, 14:29:33 UTC

yes, thanks to all for a great new worker - the SETI project will really benefit!
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Message 746996 - Posted: 2 May 2008, 15:46:30 UTC - in response to Message 746902.  

I too will add my voice to the chorus of Thank yous

Thank you guys for all your hard work.

Now how do we get Alex to look at optimizing some of the other BOINC projects like Einstein? :-)

Last I looked unless Einstein is open source, He can't, It would be nice though.
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Message 747045 - Posted: 2 May 2008, 17:44:36 UTC

WoW!!! My Triple-Core Phenom is processing nearly TWICE as fast. (Will this make ET only half as far away?) :)
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Message 747063 - Posted: 2 May 2008, 18:17:43 UTC - in response to Message 747045.  

WoW!!! My Triple-Core Phenom is processing nearly TWICE as fast. (Will this make ET only half as far away?) :)

I doubt It, Space is vast and ET could be anywhere in space.
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Message 747083 - Posted: 2 May 2008, 19:06:24 UTC

Just wanted to post my "thanks" to all involved too. Tremendous improvement in crunch times seen here and no other apparent issues.
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Message 747121 - Posted: 2 May 2008, 20:01:49 UTC - in response to Message 747083.  

Just wanted to post my "thanks" to all involved too. Tremendous improvement in crunch times seen here and no other apparent issues.


I want to echo Andy's thanks to the port team and to Alex for the code.
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Message 747128 - Posted: 2 May 2008, 20:15:24 UTC - in response to Message 746595.  

A big " THANK YOU " to all the people involved in the porting !!!

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Just wait a few days, Your RAC will or maybe already is gonna surprise You, Mine sure enough has, It's going up and I'm not sure where It'll stop. :D I've shaved on average of about 32 minutes per WU from 2.4V, AK_V8 ROCKS! Now we're cookin, Pedal to the metal guys. ;) :D

I, for one, have had nothing but mid AR units (between 0.4 and 0.5) since the new App was released. This band is where the new Apps have greatest impact (not accidentally as I understand it). As and when we get some VLAR or VHAR WU's, the improvement, while still very impressive, is not quite so mind-blowing.

Don't expect the gravy train to keep going full tilt :)

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The new app works like a charm ! Unfortunately I`m only feeding my PENDING cache
at the moment - Therefore my RAC is on the same level as usual, although I spend
about 1/3 time less for each wu. But that`s no big deal, I`ll sit it out !

Happy crunchin`
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Message 747142 - Posted: 2 May 2008, 20:57:05 UTC - in response to Message 747128.  

A big " THANK YOU " to all the people involved in the porting !!!

Kurt




Just wait a few days, Your RAC will or maybe already is gonna surprise You, Mine sure enough has, It's going up and I'm not sure where It'll stop. :D I've shaved on average of about 32 minutes per WU from 2.4V, AK_V8 ROCKS! Now we're cookin, Pedal to the metal guys. ;) :D

I, for one, have had nothing but mid AR units (between 0.4 and 0.5) since the new App was released. This band is where the new Apps have greatest impact (not accidentally as I understand it). As and when we get some VLAR or VHAR WU's, the improvement, while still very impressive, is not quite so mind-blowing.

Don't expect the gravy train to keep going full tilt :)

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@ Joker
@ Fred

The new app works like a charm ! Unfortunately I`m only feeding my PENDING cache
at the moment - Therefore my RAC is on the same level as usual, although I spend
about 1/3 time less for each wu. But that`s no big deal, I`ll sit it out !

Happy crunchin`
Kurt



Pending??? I blew my cache down to .5 days before the switch to V8 and my pendings dropped to 32k. Right now I sit at 60k in pendings, and RAC has increased slightly.
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Message 747174 - Posted: 2 May 2008, 22:09:05 UTC

THANK YOU. Just installed it last night. My cruch time were about 1:20 per wu. Now they are getting done in about 55 mins. Well done guys.
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Message 747325 - Posted: 3 May 2008, 5:02:07 UTC

My crunch times for 74 point work units went from over 14k seconds, down to 6.6k seconds.

Way to go with that app optimization!!!!!!!!
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Message 747326 - Posted: 3 May 2008, 5:03:33 UTC

I would like to say a big thank you to those who tirelessly ported and optimized this new app. I just installed it and I love it!

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Message 747454 - Posted: 3 May 2008, 13:19:03 UTC - in response to Message 746685.  

Fred W said:
From the charts I published I was quite confident that the SSSE3x and SSE4.1 Apps were much faster than the SSE3. I have run through over 100 WU's using the SSE4.1 on my Q9450 since yesterday (all in the same AR band) and it looks like there are still a lot in the same AR band coming next, so I have just swapped to the SSSE3x App to do a direct comparison.

I can provide additional support for your confidence from a small experiment on two Conroe-class systems.

I tried downgrading my Q6600 and E6600 from the SSSE3x to the SSE3 ap versions overnight.

By chance the Q6600 has caught a number of VLAR work units at exactly .008341 Angle Range (on the low end of VLAR). The advantage of the SSSE3x version is clear and substantial.

SSE3 5 results, average 4798 CPU seconds
SSSE3x 17 results, average 4094 CPU seconds

The distribution of individuals is very clearly different, not even close to overlapping at this sample size.

On the same host, I happen to have caught a single exact Angle Range in mid-AR also, .408612. Here the advantage of SSSE3x was much smaller:

SSE3 5 results, average 3248 CPU seconds
SSSE3x 11 results, average 3100 CPU seconds

The distribution of individuals here is not nearly so impressive as at VLAR, with plenty of overlap, and room for doubt on the large-sample result.

In case it matters, this Q6600 is running 25% SETI, with the rest being the current Beta Einstein Windows ap.

My E6600 caught smaller comparisons of the same populations, with very similar results (large, unambiguous SSSE3x advantage at VLAR, much smaller, possibly questionable advantage a mid-AR, no results for SSE3 at VHAR on either host). As it also runs 25% SETI, all these ran with a current Windows Beta Einstein on the other core.

I'm convinced enough of the SSSE3x advantage on these hosts to switch back, so won't be producing more data on this point.

If I understood Jason's comment about stride reduction and memory conflict correctly (for the tweaks bearing the Xeon label), it is likely that were the Q6600 running four SETI's rather than one SETI and three Einsteins that the SSSE3x advantage would be yet larger.



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Message 747455 - Posted: 3 May 2008, 13:29:50 UTC - in response to Message 747358.  
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caw.... thanks Grace :D *blushes*


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Message 747499 - Posted: 3 May 2008, 15:45:01 UTC

I have installed it did I install the right one as it says Core 2 and I only have one cpu
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Message 747509 - Posted: 3 May 2008, 16:05:46 UTC - in response to Message 747499.  

I have installed it did I install the right one as it says Core 2 and I only have one cpu

You have the right app........
And judging from the last result you returned, your crunch time has dropped almost in half......very nice.
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Message 747517 - Posted: 3 May 2008, 16:28:14 UTC - in response to Message 747499.  
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I have installed it did I install the right one as it says Core 2 and I only have one cpu


Yep, to explain that peculiarity with a piece of nonsensical technical gibberish:

The AMD/INTEL SSE3 build, actually uses "generic" core2 optimisation compiler flags ( /QxO ) and whatever the code runs on, it was still hand optimised by Alex for Core2 type machines ... So there you go, you're running a core2 optimised app on a p4 as it says ;D

(It's the "generic" bit that limits it to SSE3 & let's it run on AMDs too)

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Message 748007 - Posted: 4 May 2008, 15:32:25 UTC

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