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TimeLord04 Send message Joined: 9 Mar 06 Posts: 21140 Credit: 33,933,039 RAC: 23 |
Your user page. Thanks, HAL. :-) TimeLord04 Have TARDIS, will travel... Come along K-9! Join Calm Chaos |
TimeLord04 Send message Joined: 9 Mar 06 Posts: 21140 Credit: 33,933,039 RAC: 23 |
Your user page. He seems to be crunching only SETI at the moment; so, his RAC will be higher than mine, as I'm crunching Beta and Einstein as well... Maybe, I'll still get to the 4,300 Mark, though. TimeLord04 Have TARDIS, will travel... Come along K-9! Join Calm Chaos |
Ianab Send message Joined: 11 Jun 08 Posts: 732 Credit: 20,635,586 RAC: 5 |
I need one CPU core free and since I have a dual core processor, that leaves one core to feed the GPU - so, I'm stuck at crunching one GPU WU at a time, right? Not necessarily... Feeding the GPU only takes a % of the CPU's time, so the remainder is available to do other work. Now it may be best to dedicate one CPU core to feeding a high powered GPU. That's just because the extra work the CPU does doesn't make up for the reduced work from the GPU. Max performance may be had by keeping the GPU working as hard as it can, even if a CPU core spends some time idle. With a low powered GPU, you want to let the CPU do other tasks as as well as feeding the GPU as the gains from dedicating a core to the GPU is less than the work the CPU can do itself. A similar idea with doing 2 GPU workunits at once. Because of the way the software works it's possible that a powerful GPU is only being utilised 70-80% of it's potential (it's waiting for tasks from the CPU). If you have 2 tasks running, there is more GPU work "queued", and less idle time. So instead of doing one task in 15 min, you end up doing 2 in 25 minutes. Now with a lower powered GPU this may not work as the extra overhead slows things down, and you go from one hour per task, to 2 in 2.5 hours. Obviously a bad idea. But all this is getting into that voodoo advanced setup / optimised apps area. You will probably need to edit config files etc. If you want more performance, start with the packaged optimised apps, and tweak from there. The setup of each machine is slightly different, CPU, GPU, RAM, OS, other apps running etc. All make a slight difference to how the machine runs. Ian |
James Sotherden Send message Joined: 16 May 99 Posts: 10436 Credit: 110,373,059 RAC: 54 |
TL, Is your RAC climbing on that machine? I dont know what a 760 can do. Have you tried running two work units on it. TL, take a gander at my running stock thread and read it thru to the end. You will bennefit from running lunatics. Then as your RAC settles down you can play with that 760 running two work units at a time. Just do one step at a time. [/quote] Old James |
kittyman Send message Joined: 9 Jul 00 Posts: 51469 Credit: 1,018,363,574 RAC: 1,004 |
I see we gots badges everywhere..... "Freedom is just Chaos, with better lighting." Alan Dean Foster |
Bernie Vine Send message Joined: 26 May 99 Posts: 9954 Credit: 103,452,613 RAC: 328 |
I see we gots badges everywhere..... Not sure I care for that !! Anyway to turn them off, other than to stop crunching!!! |
kittyman Send message Joined: 9 Jul 00 Posts: 51469 Credit: 1,018,363,574 RAC: 1,004 |
I see we gots badges everywhere..... I doubt it. They don't bother OR excite me much. I mean, when a 13k-14k RAC gets you the same badge as a 600k RAC, it's kinda a shrug for me. They'd need a .001% level badge or sumpthin'....LOL. "Freedom is just Chaos, with better lighting." Alan Dean Foster |
Bernie Vine Send message Joined: 26 May 99 Posts: 9954 Credit: 103,452,613 RAC: 328 |
I mean, when a 13k-14k RAC gets you the same badge as a 600k RAC, it's kinda a shrug for me. Indeed they mean very little and are just a distraction to me. I believe it should be down to personal choice whether you want it displayed, the same as a donation green star. Most here crunch what they can afford and it seems wrong that people with one slow machine are excluded from the "award". To me it has never been about "how big is your RAC" but if you care about the project and do whatever you can afford!! These "merit badges" are sending the wrong signals in my humble opinion. |
JohnDK Send message Joined: 28 May 00 Posts: 1222 Credit: 451,243,443 RAC: 1,127 |
Guess you can use ad block capable browser to remove badges. |
HAL9000 Send message Joined: 11 Sep 99 Posts: 6534 Credit: 196,805,888 RAC: 57 |
Guess you can use ad block capable browser to remove badges. I use ad block to trim out such things from various sites. The down side is that removing them from the forum area will remove them form the user info as well. Since they use the same message. I think placement after the under info, like other sites do it, would be better rather than next to the user name. Perhaps a defined section under the flag area for them. Having them next to the author in the thread listing is a bit annoying too. SETI@home classic workunits: 93,865 CPU time: 863,447 hours Join the [url=http://tinyurl.com/8y46zvu]BP6/VP6 User Group[ |
Wiggo Send message Joined: 24 Jan 00 Posts: 35117 Credit: 261,360,520 RAC: 489 |
I see we gots badges everywhere..... How about a 0.1% Platinum badge? Cheers. |
Wedge009 Send message Joined: 3 Apr 99 Posts: 451 Credit: 431,396,357 RAC: 553 |
I just noticed the badges popping up next to user names as well. I am wondering, though, it looks to me as though 'top x%' is calculated based on all registered users. But only a fraction of these users are actually active. Would it be possible to calculate 'top x%' based on active users? Then there would be more of a distinction between the gold, silver and bronze - as it stands at the moment, it looks like everyone active enough to post is active enough to score a badge. As to whether it's good or not to have these badges displayed along with the donation star, I don't really mind either way but I can understand that for some people being recognised for computational as well as monetary contributions is important. Soli Deo Gloria |
Josef W. Segur Send message Joined: 30 Oct 99 Posts: 4504 Credit: 1,414,761 RAC: 0 |
I just noticed the badges popping up next to user names as well. I am wondering, though, it looks to me as though 'top x%' is calculated based on all registered users. But only a fraction of these users are actually active. Would it be possible to calculate 'top x%' based on active users? Then there would be more of a distinction between the gold, silver and bronze - as it stands at the moment, it looks like everyone active enough to post is active enough to score a badge. When I checked the break points for my earlier post, there were ~1350 at 1% and stats sites were showing around 135000 active participants, so it's already percent of active. Since the bronze badge is top 25%, clearly 75% of active participants get no badge. I have none, for instance, and I'm far above the RAC of 1.0 required to post. But I agree that if we're going to have badges based on RAC then adding a top 0.02 percent or something similar would make sense. A break point within the group of enthusiastic participants who do most posting would make the whole idea more interesting. OTOH, although Dr. Anderson set up the mechanism so projects could customize it I don't think asking the S@H staff to do so makes sense. There are many more important things for them to do. Joe |
Wedge009 Send message Joined: 3 Apr 99 Posts: 451 Credit: 431,396,357 RAC: 553 |
Oh, right. It's just that when I looked at the forum it looked like every thread author had a badge so it seemed a bit skewed to me, but now that I look again there are a few who don't. Soli Deo Gloria |
HAL9000 Send message Joined: 11 Sep 99 Posts: 6534 Credit: 196,805,888 RAC: 57 |
I see we gots badges everywhere..... 0.1% Platinum 0.01% Titanium 0.001% Diamond 0.0001% Unobtainium SETI@home classic workunits: 93,865 CPU time: 863,447 hours Join the [url=http://tinyurl.com/8y46zvu]BP6/VP6 User Group[ |
woohoo Send message Joined: 30 Oct 13 Posts: 972 Credit: 165,671,404 RAC: 5 |
just give Charles Long a badge that spans across multiple displays |
Wiggo Send message Joined: 24 Jan 00 Posts: 35117 Credit: 261,360,520 RAC: 489 |
just give Charles Long a badge that spans across multiple displays With the current output level on the cricket graphs and no AP's, except for resends, maybe Charles is loading up for another stress test. ;-) Cheers. |
HAL9000 Send message Joined: 11 Sep 99 Posts: 6534 Credit: 196,805,888 RAC: 57 |
just give Charles Long a badge that spans across multiple displays I figured that was just the data being moved form the storage array back to the lab so they could load up another set after maintenance. SETI@home classic workunits: 93,865 CPU time: 863,447 hours Join the [url=http://tinyurl.com/8y46zvu]BP6/VP6 User Group[ |
Wiggo Send message Joined: 24 Jan 00 Posts: 35117 Credit: 261,360,520 RAC: 489 |
just give Charles Long a badge that spans across multiple displays That to me has also seemed to happen when the blue line peaks up. *shrugs* Cheers. |
HAL9000 Send message Joined: 11 Sep 99 Posts: 6534 Credit: 196,805,888 RAC: 57 |
just give Charles Long a badge that spans across multiple displays I have noticed it as Phase 1) The green goes up while the data goes back top the lab, freeing up disk space. Then the blue line goes up as they dump data to the array in the colo. Phase 2) Phase 3) Profit Then again it could be none of those things. Such as moving data to one of the other servers they have in the colo. SETI@home classic workunits: 93,865 CPU time: 863,447 hours Join the [url=http://tinyurl.com/8y46zvu]BP6/VP6 User Group[ |
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