Hello!

In the past of Crunch3rs homepage, I had read that he suggested to take his optimized apps only on "normal" PCs not on an overclocked PC.

Now I heard that somebody take the optmized apps on overclocked systems.

What�s correct?
What are you doing?

And what will be in the future with the new optimized apps?

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I've ranked #1 in RAC on the team for a few weeks now. That RAC list includes other Classic hold-outs near the top: Santiago E. Diaz, David1339, Jack Gulley, and flwrchld53 all appear along with me on the first page (top 20 RAC on a team with 2,240 members). We've been chastised for not bringing our resources over to the BOINC side sooner, but our goals were clear, we stuck with them, and now we're making our marks here. And yes, it is more fun coming up from behind![/color]

Here is a link to someone else's thread that was having a memory leak problem.

I think Boinc 5.2.13 has a memory leak on XP (Home edition)

Maybe it will help.

As I recall, several months ago BOINC/Seti had about 125,000 Active users, while Seti Classic still had about 330,000 Active users. Now there are about 210,000 Active BOINC/Seti users. Even if you allow that all of the BOINC/Seti users were also still active Seti Classic users at the same time, that still leaves 120,000 active Seti crunchers (or many more and their systems) MIA.

I would change the site I'd check the numbers at, if I were you. ;)
BOINCStats.com claims 347,497 users.
BS Stats claims 346,592 users.

Both of them are then well over your claims with MIA added.

In this case, you've already installed the client, and it appears to be exactly the _correct_ client for your system - if you were using Crunch3r's optimized application as well. Please, as soon as you can, install that. You'll be doing twice as much work in the same time, your claimed credits will be "midrange", and your _granted_ credits should not fall by very much, if at all, on each result. So you'll be getting almost twice the credits per day.

'Your Opt. Version, BOINC v5.2.13 SSE)'... <snip>

Went from 2:52 per WU, to 2:18 per WU!

Just one point to help avoid confusion... while this optimized BOINC client obviously raises the benchmarks and claimed credits, and may (by taking less CPU time from the science applications when it does rescheduling, etc.) improve the "results per day" figure by a _tiny_ bit, it _cannot_ have any effect on the CPU time required to actually process a result. The science application simply doesn't "sit and wait", with the clock running, for anything the BOINC Core Client might be doing.

Whatever improved your average times is more likely to be a string of slightly-shorter WUs from SETI, or a couple of extremely short ones, and not the change in Client. Looking at your results, you are now claiming around 50 credits/result, which is quite high. So I looked deeper, and it appears that you are NOT running an optimized Science Application.

If you were to install the correct optimized SETI application for your processor, your times could be cut in half - to just over _one_ hour per result. And your claimed credits would then also be much more realistic.

...while this optimized BOINC client obviously raises the benchmarks and claimed credits, and may (by taking less CPU time from the science applications when it does rescheduling, etc.) improve the "results per day" figure by a _tiny_ bit, it _cannot_ have any effect on the CPU time required to actually process a result.

I guess nothing beats intels math implementation (mathimf.h). It seems as if the intel compiler is the best you can get if your concerned about speed.
(except Pathscales EKOPath compiler for 64 bit linux which is even faster than intels icc at 64 bit code)

I got some error messages in "Your Account"

"token TOTAL_CREDIT missing from language interface.token EXPAVG_CREDIT missing from language interface."

"[MISSING TEXT] 1,066,464.03" (should be Total credit)
"[MISSING TEXT] 5,670.59" (should be RAC)

anyone else noticed this ?

A part of this is:

Both development and public versions will be tested. The BOINC download page doesn't show versions that are being tested. To see these versions, go to the Test download page, which shows all versions, including those in test.

As for v5.2.14, my recommendation is to stay on v5.2.13 or wait for next build...

pot luck, eh? ;-D
In old times with the classic seti@home application those were called "sweet workunits", because they took very short time to compute but you got the full 1 wu count for it.

Andy

I don't mind the outages too much, it's having to look through the forums after looking at the server status page to find out if the problem is on my end or Berkeley's.
The server status page should update itself and 1 minute of someone's time to update the technical news on the front page would be nice, I don't think That's asking for too much....

Do invest in a good PSU. "El-cheapo" PSUs have been known to cause system instability and in worse cases, blow up, taking out the rest of your components with it.

Does anyone have information on or experience with the impact to CPU life of long-term running at 100% load?

Tx,

Robert

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What is the fastest that you have a returned a WU?

Just for fun this is probably the fastest I have returned a WU: 28 minutes, it was a noisey WU but anybody returned one quicker?

Here are my temps:

AMD 2600+ (2.1Ghz) = 116F (46.7C) [12 WU/Day]
Dual Intel 450mhz's = 109F (43C) [4 WU/Day]

I really do not know what is too hot and if I need more cooling?