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Raistmer Send message Joined: 16 Jun 01 Posts: 6325 Credit: 106,370,077 RAC: 121 |
It seems my own favorite backup project, Einstein@home, can't be considered as reliable. Second time already it has server crash simultaneous with SETI problems. What backup projects do you use? (please, with one sentence aim description if possible). |
CryptokiD Send message Joined: 2 Dec 00 Posts: 150 Credit: 3,216,632 RAC: 0 |
power button |
Vid Vidmar* Send message Joined: 19 Aug 99 Posts: 136 Credit: 1,830,317 RAC: 0 |
Primegrid, ABC and MilkyWay, however I run them at equal resource shares. PG and ABC because they have efficient 64bit apps, MW because it runs on my ATI card. PG and ABC are reliable. BR, |
Chelski Send message Joined: 3 Jan 00 Posts: 121 Credit: 8,979,050 RAC: 0 |
My first backup is an additional 7 days cache of Seti. Unfortunately the second backup is Einstein. Cosmology sits at 3rd, but definitely not that reliable. I suppose my backup projects tend to be ad-hoc, attached only when turbulence expected at S@H. |
Ianab Send message Joined: 11 Jun 08 Posts: 732 Credit: 20,635,586 RAC: 5 |
Primegrid seems pretty relaible. You may get the fame of finding some huge Prime number. Spinhenge - reliable and nice small work units make for a good backup. Otherwise, take your pick. You can channel surf and pick what takes your fancy. Ian |
[B^S] madmac Send message Joined: 9 Feb 04 Posts: 1175 Credit: 4,754,897 RAC: 0 |
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Bill Walker Send message Joined: 4 Sep 99 Posts: 3868 Credit: 2,697,267 RAC: 0 |
Climate Prediction. Tasks take hundreds of days, with points received for intermediate reports. Plus, the graphics are kind of cool. |
Ingleside Send message Joined: 4 Feb 03 Posts: 1546 Credit: 15,832,022 RAC: 13 |
Einstein, Rosetta and WCG on all, and for the fastest computer also includes CPDN. "I make so many mistakes. But then just think of all the mistakes I don't make, although I might." |
tullio Send message Joined: 9 Apr 04 Posts: 8797 Credit: 2,930,782 RAC: 1 |
AQUA, QMC, CPDN and CPDN Beta, Einstein, LHC. This last is practically dead.AQUA simulates a quantum computer, QMC is about quantum chemistry via MonteCarlo method, CPDNs are climate models, Einstein searches gravitational waves but uses also Arecibo radio data to hunt double pulsars. LHC used to model particle trajectories in the CERN collider. AQUA also uses CUDA. Tullio |
walle Send message Joined: 9 Apr 99 Posts: 5 Credit: 10,823,631 RAC: 32 |
Einstein, primegrid and poem.. |
skildude Send message Joined: 4 Oct 00 Posts: 9541 Credit: 50,759,529 RAC: 60 |
I recommend Yoyo and primegrid. If you are going to do Primegrid I would suggest picking projects that have short WU's Some of their WU's take longer than an Astropulse WU! SO be careful what you pick. They do show the average run time for each project so it's pretty easy to see which are long and short Yoyo is a great project and always has available work. I recommend the ECM project on YoYo. Its WU's can run from a couple minutes to 5-6 hours. In a rich man's house there is no place to spit but his face. Diogenes Of Sinope |
Reuben Gathright Send message Joined: 8 Mar 01 Posts: 213 Credit: 14,594,579 RAC: 0 |
Climate Prediction. Tasks take hundreds of days, with points received for intermediate reports. Plus, the graphics are kind of cool. Yep, gotta love those graphics in CPDN! Overclock with the MSI G31M3-L and Intel E8600 3.33Ghz Intel D865GLC Socket 478 Motherboard ~How To Overclock The Eee ASUS 1005HA Netbook To 1.9Ghz~ |
mr.mac52 Send message Joined: 18 Mar 03 Posts: 67 Credit: 245,882,461 RAC: 0 |
The set I work on for times such as this: Cosmology Einstein Milkyway Rosetta I can't tell you when the last time I ran out of work with this set of applications. I do set the shares to favor SETI above all else so that when SETI is down, I still keep all four cores running flat out. YMMV John |
Dirk Villarreal Wittich Send message Joined: 25 Apr 00 Posts: 2098 Credit: 434,834 RAC: 0 |
Climate Prediction. Tasks take hundreds of days, with points received for intermediate reports. Plus, the graphics are kind of cool. Of course, it depends on your PC´s performances and capabilities to calculate the time needed for each chunk of data..... but mine takes about one week to crunch the packages, when crunching all the time (24/7). The report/deadline is quite long, usually one year ahead, so you have plenty of time if you have a slow PC or not too much time available. One thing that makes me wonder is the date shown on the screensaver: it shows a past date (two or three decades ago), which makes not too much sense, since this project tries to figure out climate predictions (of the past?).... |
arkayn Send message Joined: 14 May 99 Posts: 4438 Credit: 55,006,323 RAC: 0 |
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Gundolf Jahn Send message Joined: 19 Sep 00 Posts: 3184 Credit: 446,358 RAC: 0 |
One thing that makes me wonder is the date shown on the screensaver: If I recall correctly, yes, they predict the past (at least partly) to see if the calculations match reality. Gruß, Gundolf |
tullio Send message Joined: 9 Apr 04 Posts: 8797 Credit: 2,930,782 RAC: 1 |
I think that it checks the correctness of the model. The input data are known from the past meteorological records. If the model is correct it should give as a result today's data and then predict the future data. Tullio |
lemonade lucy Send message Joined: 23 Sep 99 Posts: 73 Credit: 1,454,014 RAC: 0 |
Raistmer, as skildude noted, yoyo; has cool things going on (golumb ruler, evolution, particle accel design, and elliptic curve factorization), very dependable as backup, and if you care about these things you get neat virtual badges; good forum support as well. http://www.rechenkraft.net/yoyo/ and in case you have a ps3 looking for work, their cruncher ogr utilizes the SPEs. those running their ps3 247 have rac @ ~2500. I get ~2200 rac. pretty good for $399. |
Rick B Send message Joined: 6 Mar 01 Posts: 299 Credit: 1,532,791 RAC: 0 |
One thing that makes me wonder is the date shown on the screensaver: Climate Prediction is my alternate project as well. Depending on the models run they can range from 1 to 2 year analysis to 180 year analysis. I think the dates shown on some of the models are used to compare to historicals actuals to see how the models compared to actual history. This way models prove there viability in future forecasting? (Dont quote me on that - I may be way off base there) Other Models run a 45 year spin up with very little changes in enviromental conditions then the model increases the CO2 amounts (or other pollutants) and run another 45 years to see the temperature and precipitation differences. I'm currently running one that stretches over 180 years and also includes ocean temperature variances. It has 1887:49:15 elapsed time and 877:25:10 to completion. Credits are awarded virtually daily based on amount completed and this particular model will probably award between 45000 and 50000 credits when done. Edit: Oh and BTW: They to are working through some server issues but hopefully are near the end of them as I understand a new server is on order. Rick ************************** |
1mp0£173 Send message Joined: 3 Apr 99 Posts: 8423 Credit: 356,897 RAC: 0 |
I've not found a project that interested me enough to be a backup project. I crunch SETI and SETI Beta and that's about it. I'm also more like the average cruncher than the majority of posters: I don't turn computers on just for crunching, I run BOINC on computers that are on because they're needed for other purposes. If you do have some project as a backup, you do have a small obligation to that project to do some work -- and complete what you get. "Reliable" is relative. From the project side, one of the goals is to avoid the high costs of high-reliability (redundant servers, redundant connections, etc.). The BOINC client gets around that by supporting multiple projects. If two projects aren't enough to keep you crunching full-time, add a third (or a fourth). |
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