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Dr. C.E.T.I. Send message Joined: 29 Feb 00 Posts: 16019 Credit: 794,685 RAC: 0 |
. . . AMD Stream Computing Overview - pdf File . . . from boinc_projects -------- Original Message -------- Subject: Working with SETI@home development team to create a ATI GPU (graphics processor unit) accelerated version of your client (plus any other BOINC projects :-) Date: Wed, 1 Oct 2008 16:48:34 -0400 From: Dodd, Andrew ... ATI (now AMD) is now in a great position to work will a number of distributed computing projects that could benefit greatly from GPU acceleration. We now have an SDK that will significantly help anyone trying to use the GPU for stream calculation. I've attached a link to the AMD Stream website (which includes a link to the SDK), as well the AMD Stream user guide to give a quick over-view of things. GPU Technology for Accelerated High Performance Computing We'd love to work with SETI@home or any other project that uses BOINC (if you could forward this to boinc_projects@ssl.berkeley.edu, it would be greatly appreciated as well). Thanks very much for your time, Andrew [/quote] BOINC Wiki . . . Science Status Page . . . |
Dr. C.E.T.I. Send message Joined: 29 Feb 00 Posts: 16019 Credit: 794,685 RAC: 0 |
. . . date: Thu, Oct 16, 2008 at 8:37 AM 'The Quake-Catcher Network is a collaborative initiative for developing the world's largest, low-cost strong-motion seismic network by utilizing sensors in and attached to internet-connected computers. The picture above maps the major earthquakes recently detected' subject: [boinc_projects] CFP on Desktop Grids and Volunteer Computing Systems CALL FOR PAPERS Third Workshop on Desktop Grids and Volunteer Computing Systems (PCGrid 2009) held in conjunction with the IEEE International Parallel & Distributed Processing Symposium (IPDPS) May 29, 2009 Submission deadline: November 14, 2008 Rome, Italy web site: 3rd Workshop on Desktop Grids and Volunteer Computing Systems (PCGrid 2009) See below for details --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Journal of Grid Computing Special issue on desktop grids and volunteer computing (Independent of PCGrid workshop) Submission deadline: January 31, 2009 web site: Announcement - Call for papers: Journal of Grid Computing ###################################################################### Third Workshop on Desktop Grids and Volunteer Computing Systems (PCGrid 2009) held in conjunction with the IEEE International Parallel & Distributed Processing Symposium (IPDPS) May 29, 2009 Submission deadline: November 14, 2008 Rome, Italy web site: 3rd Workshop on Desktop Grids and Volunteer Computing Systems (PCGrid 2009) Keynote speaker Prof. Jon Weissman, University of Minnesota, USA Desktop grids and volunteer computing systems (DGVCS's) utilize the free resources available in Intranet or Internet environments for supporting large-scale computation and storage. For over a decade, DGVCS's have been one of the largest and most powerful distributed computing systems in the world, offering a high return on investment for applications from a wide range of scientific domains (including computational biology, climate prediction, and high-energy physics). While DGVCS's sustain up to PetaFLOPS of computing power from hundreds of thousands to millions of resources, fully leveraging the platform's computational power is still a major challenge because of the immense scale, high volatility, and extreme heterogeneity of such systems. The purpose of the workshop is to provide a forum for discussing recent advances and identifying open issues for the development of scalable, fault-tolerant, and secure DGVCS's. The workshop seeks to bring desktop grid researchers together from theoretical, system, and application areas to identify plausible approaches for supporting applications with a range of complexity and requirements on desktop environments. Last year's workshop was a great success (see the past program here: 2nd Workshop on Desktop Grids and Volunteer Computing Systems (PCGrid 2008). We invite submissions on DGVCS topics including the following: - cloud computing over unreliable enterprise or Internet resources - DGVCS middleware and software infrastructure (including management), with emphasis on virtual machines - incorporation of DGVCS's with Grid infrastructures - DGVCS programming environments and models - modeling, simulation, and emulation of large-scale, volatile environments - resource management and scheduling - resource measurement and characterization - novel DGVCS applications - data management (strategies, protocols, storage) - security on DGVCS's (reputation systems, result verification) - fault-tolerance on shared, volatile resources - peer-to-peer (P2P) algorithms or systems applied to DGVCS's With regard to the last topic, we strongly encourage authors of P2P-related paper submissions to emphasize the applicability to DGVCS's in order to be within the scope of the workshop. The workshop proceedings will be published through the IEEE Computer Society Press as part of the IPDPS CD-ROM. ###################################################################### IMPORTANT DATES Manuscript submission deadline: November 14, 2008 Acceptance Notification: January 16, 2009 Camera-ready paper deadline: February 15, 2009 Workshop: May 29, 2009 ###################################################################### SUBMISSIONS Manuscripts will be evaluated based on their originality, technical strength, quality of presentation, and relevance to the workshop scope. Only manuscripts that have neither appeared nor been submitted previously for publication are allowed. Authors are invited to submit a manuscript of up to 8 pages in IEEE format (10pt font, two-columns, single-spaced). The procedure for electronic submissions will be posted at: 3rd Workshop on Desktop Grids and Volunteer Computing Systems (PCGrid 2009) ##################################################################### ORGANIZATION General Chairs Franck Cappello, INRIA, France Derrick Kondo, INRIA, France Program Chair Gilles Fedak, INRIA, France Program Committee David Anderson, University of California at Berkeley, USA Artur Andrzejak, Zuse Institute of Berlin, Germany Filipe Araujo, University of Coimbra, Portugal Henri Bal, Vrije Universiteit, The Netherlands Zoltan Balaton, SZTAKI, Hungary Massimo Canonico, University of Piemonte Orientale, Italy Henri Casanova, University of Hawaii at Manoa, USA Abhishek Chandra, University of Minnesota, USA Frederic Desprez, INRIA, France Rudolf Eigenmann, Purdue University, USA Renato Figueiredo, University of Florida, USA Fabrice Huet, University of Nice Sophia Antipolis, France Yang-Suk Kee, University of Southern California, USA Tevfik Kosar, Louisiana State University, USA Arnaud Legrand, CNRS, France Virginia Lo, University of Oregon, USA Grzegorz Malewicz, Google Inc., USA Kevin Reed, World Community Grid, USA Olivier Richard, ID-IMAG, France Mitsuhisa Sato, University of Tsukuba, Japan Luis M. Silva, University of Coimbra, Portugal Jaspal Subhlok, University of Houston, USA Alan Sussman, University of Maryland, USA Michela Taufer, University of Delaware, USA Douglas Thain, University of Notre Dame, USA Bernard Traversat, SUN, USA Carlos Varela, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, USA Jon Weissman, University of Minnesota, USA BOINC Wiki . . . Science Status Page . . . |
Dr. C.E.T.I. Send message Joined: 29 Feb 00 Posts: 16019 Credit: 794,685 RAC: 0 |
. . . . "To: David Anderson", "From: John 37309": subject: Re: [boinc_projects] Creating a unified marketing effort for all projects This discussion is continueing; Message boards : Promotion : Creating a unified marketing effort. for whatever final "brand" BOINC unifies under
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Dr. C.E.T.I. Send message Joined: 29 Feb 00 Posts: 16019 Credit: 794,685 RAC: 0 |
. . . Subject: Re: BOINC_Projects LIST - from Eric J Korpela [boinc_projects] 60 days of credit multiplier history....
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Dr. C.E.T.I. Send message Joined: 29 Feb 00 Posts: 16019 Credit: 794,685 RAC: 0 |
Berkeley NEWS: November 14, 2008
. . . see here: New SETI Sky Surveys for Radio Pulses ---> pdf File BOINC Wiki . . . Science Status Page . . . |
Dr. C.E.T.I. Send message Joined: 29 Feb 00 Posts: 16019 Credit: 794,685 RAC: 0 |
BERKELEY NEWS: December 18, 2008 A version of SETI@home that runs on NVIDIA graphics boards using their CUDA computing engine has been released. The CUDA version runs up to 10X faster than the CPU version. NVIDIA has put out a press release about the SETI@home CUDA client and about GPU Grid. See directions for getting started <---- click me . . . see the SETI@home CUDA FAQ <---- click me . . . there's also a Question & Answer Forum here: CUDA - Installing and running CUDA applications <---- click me BOINC Wiki . . . Science Status Page . . . |
Dr. C.E.T.I. Send message Joined: 29 Feb 00 Posts: 16019 Credit: 794,685 RAC: 0 |
. . . as an Addl. Note regarding the Previous Post by me here - this New one is from Paul D. Buck: Message boards : Number crunching : CUDA and Resource Share well worth the read imho . . . Thanks Paul > Have a Wonderful Holiday and A Happy & Most Prosperous New Year as Well . . . BOINC Wiki . . . Science Status Page . . . |
Dr. C.E.T.I. Send message Joined: 29 Feb 00 Posts: 16019 Credit: 794,685 RAC: 0 |
. . . from Paul D Buck Date: Sat, 27 Dec 2008 23:50:51 -0800 From: "Paul D. Buck" <snip> Subject: Re: [boinc_dev] New work fetch policy design On Dec 27, 2008, at 11:25 AM, Nicol?s Alvarez wrote: >> David is looking into hacking something together for the 6.6 client >> and >> then fully fixing the issue in 6.8. We are looking for a January >> release >> for 6.6 if everything goes well. > > As long as that "hacking together" doesn't involve protocol changes > that may > cause problems in the future... Getting back on topic... :)
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Dr. C.E.T.I. Send message Joined: 29 Feb 00 Posts: 16019 Credit: 794,685 RAC: 0 |
. . . from Paul D. Buck [boinc_dev] Date: Wed, 7 Jan 2009 22:41:27 -0800 From: "Paul D. Buck" <snip> Subject: Re: [boinc_dev] Cross project login To: Rom Walton
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RandyC Send message Joined: 20 Oct 99 Posts: 714 Credit: 1,704,345 RAC: 0 |
Perhaps it is about time for some serious soul-searching among the development community. When leadership (i.e. Dr. A. et al) is no longer responsive to the needs/desires of the community, it is no longer leadership, but an open invitation for revolution. I don't know the feasibility of the following, but: Maybe it's time to port the whole shebang over to someplace like Sourceforge.net and enable those who truly want a workable product make the updates they feel are needed. I do understand that it's not possible to add every bell and whistle someone calls for into BOINC, but it seems that a lot of nasty bugs are being allowed to fester in favor of going off on some tanget. One major undesirable result of the above occurring might be that various people currently employed working at BOINC could lose their income...not a good thing at all. Another point to consider would be that such an undertaking would be strictly by volunteers and thus no guarantee of long term support. If the BOINC project as it now stands is unresponsive to the BOINC community as a whole, they need to reexamine their priorities lest the community decides to move forward on its own without them. |
Paul D. Buck Send message Joined: 19 Jul 00 Posts: 3898 Credit: 1,158,042 RAC: 0 |
Perhaps it is about time for some serious soul-searching among the development community. When leadership (i.e. Dr. A. et al) is no longer responsive to the needs/desires of the community, it is no longer leadership, but an open invitation for revolution. I don't know the feasibility of the following, but: There is a sub-project out there ... sadly I lost it almost as soon as I saw it .. but, they did take a fork of the source code and are, or were, developing on it... I do not know how active they are or what they are doing ... We have no guarantee of support now ... I have been feeling for some time now that one of the best things that could happen to BOINC is that it could lose all funding from external sources. Then, and likely only then, will the projects see that the only choice that they have is to come out of their ivory towers and actually do some things to save their projects ... I doubt it though... for a group of supposedly smart people they seem remarkably dense ... {edit} Here it is, Synecdoche for those with ability and health ... please visit and support ...{/edit} |
Paul D. Buck Send message Joined: 19 Jul 00 Posts: 3898 Credit: 1,158,042 RAC: 0 |
I was just mousing about and stumbled across this very nice summarization of the "Credit problem" by Dr. Eric Korpela. An interesting read ... And yet, when I was done I could not help but think that he missed a couple points. 1. Deflationary schemes - he and the developers seem heck-bent on developing deflationary schemes whenever they look at the credit issue. The original design was to tie to an "ideal machine" and calculate work as compared to that machine. As we know the mechanism do do that is fatally flawed. We also know that, as he rightly pointed out, improvements in efficiency currently lead (wrongly) to less payment. Yet his proposals all lead to the same type of deflationary system. 2. All developer led proposals inevitably start from the proposition that some are being paid too much and therefore credit adjustments must always be downwards to some "ideal". Why aren't any proposals to find the top, and adjust *UP*? 3. There are more issues with credit across projects including what to do about tasks that fail. In the early days the idea was that there would be no payment regardless of cause. Well, CPDN ignored that because they recognized that their models have a high failure rate and that many models would crash through no fault of the participant. Most other projects the penalty of an occasional dead task was just a cost of doing business. Yet, more and more projects are running longer and longer tasks and the stability of the models are not that hot. 4. A comment by someone else said that the possibility of cross-project parity was impossible. Well, at the moment it is difficult to believe that it is possible. But, if you look at the history, there has been virtually no effort to achieve parity, other than by fiat and edict. And I will submit that the cost to the projects has been high in that this is still one of the most contentious issues because of its importance to so many people. Eric rightly noted that the economy is we do tasks and get paid credits. I don't select projects based solely on the payment rate, some do, but I think most don't ... Ramsey@Home is planning to go credit free and hopefully he will get enough pure science types to contribute that he can get the work done. But, I won't be doing any, because, well, I won't get paid at all ... The idea of using a standardized machine to measure production is a good one. The only problem is that Eric's proposal of using the standardized machine was that as time went on he wanted the definition of what constitues a standard machine to change. The point of the Cobblestone was that it would be fixed. We pick a machine today that we call "average", pick a target earning (and I would suggest to avoid issue it be to adjust up ... and run projects on it to establish the adjustments. Make those adjustments ... then we either keep the machine in perpetuity working on calculating what the credit issue rate should be ... or ... we just calculate rates from extension ... What the heck, it has been a year since he wrote that ... and we have had no progress ... time to start the conversation over again ... this is still probably the most talked about issue on the minds of participants ... |
Dr. C.E.T.I. Send message Joined: 29 Feb 00 Posts: 16019 Credit: 794,685 RAC: 0 |
from: Paul D. Buck to: Eric J Korpela cc: Boinc Projects date: Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 12:30 AM subject: Re: [boinc_projects] credit for GPU applications
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