Not exactly brand new news but I see GPU crunching coming to asteroids@home. :dance: didn't notice that before?
See link.. http://asteroidsathome.net/boinc/forum_thread.php?id=131&postid=1913 (http://asteroidsathome.net/boinc/forum_thread.php?id=131&postid=1913)
Of course not available as yet, so it's just some more tempting news & another great reason to get a good GPU. As far as i'm concerned any news about GPU app development is good news. At least the app has already been built & is now being tested.
As I mentioned before in another thread AMD R9 290x & R9 290 next gen cards have been released as well as Nvidia GTX 780 ti's but unfortunately they all share one thing in common stripped down fp64 support. Which of course is needed for the aseroid@home's app being tested.
Early looks show these new cards offer great gains in projects where double precision math is not a requirement(most of them), so it's not as bad as is sounds but it ticks me off that they cripple these cards on purpose so they can sell the un-crippled versions to industry & scientists as high end data center/workstation cards & of course charge them at 4 or 5 times the price for the privilege. Both AMD & Nvidia do the same thing but AMD in the past didn't totally cripple them as badly as Nvidia did. (until now at least) Any thoughts?
The Asteroids@Home team have published a progress report (Progress Report #01 - September 2015) which talks about what they have achieved so far and their future plans ...
http://asteroidsathome.net/progress01.html (http://asteroidsathome.net/progress01.html)
I completely missed this paper when they published in July. Interesting. A link to the Abstract is here:
https://arxiv.org/abs/1807.02083
One can download the entire paper as a PDF at the top right.
:greet
http://asteroidsathome.net/boinc/forum_thread.php?id=772#6358
Holy Moly...... Tim B has just added 3 x 2990WX to his crunching collection :faint:
Someone have a lotto win? :jester:
All these larger core CPU's is a real win for science and BOINC :thumbsup:
Congrats on your new babies Tim :worship They are a welcome addition to the BOINC@Australia family :rocks
Yesterday the admin announced that they have released a new CUDA application ...
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New CUDA application for Windows x64 Release
What's improved?
- We've Added support for latest Compute Capabilities (CC). Application was built with latest CUDA SDK v10.2 adding support for latest NVIDIA devices with Compute Capabilities (CC). This build supports CC 3.0, 3.5, 3.7, 5.0, 5.2, 6.0, 6.1, 7.0, & 7.5 from Kepler, Maxwell, Pascal, Volta & Turing architectures and their GeForce, Quadro, NVS and Tesla series, but does NOT supports Tegra and Jetson SoC Series devices (CC 3.2, 5.3, 6.2 & 7.2) which are not subject of interest for this project.
- Fixed issue with special Light curves which has more than 1000 points.
There is more information here ...
http://asteroidsathome.net/boinc/forum_thread.php?id=791 (http://asteroidsathome.net/boinc/forum_thread.php?id=791)
New paper from Asteroids. Tough read but one can look at the pictures Figures. :wink
https://arxiv.org/pdf/2010.01820.pdf
:greet
FYI, the site is back up but the feeder is not yet running.
http://asteroidsathome.net/boinc/server_status.php
Hopefully they will release work soon.
:fingers
everything is go (except the certificate has expired, that being said they haven't even announced they are back in action)
Quote from: shift on February 17, 2021, 07:35:17 AM
everything is go (except the certificate has expired, that being said they haven't even announced they are back in action)
Yes, they seem to be back. I finally reported the 7 wu's on two RPi's that were stuck there since they blew up.
I got about 40 GPU wu's today but all are in the PV jail. I think the validator is not running.
I hope they got a better server rather than fixed the inadequate one they had. Strange they have not announced anything but they have never been very communicative.
Yes, they are notoriously bad at communicating, and their servers always fall over, at the moment the servers page lists the hosts as
project1: IBM x3550 M4 (1 x Intel Xeon E5-2620 2.00 GHz, 96 (12 x 8) GB RAM (1333 MHz) 8 x 600 GB IBM SAS 10000 rpm (RAID5) OS Debian Jessie)
project2: IBM x3550 M4 (1 x Intel Xeon E5-2620 2.00 GHz, 64 (4 x 16) GB RAM (1333 MHz) 3 x 600 GB IBM SAS 10000 rpm (RAID5) OS Debian Jessie)
I'm not sure if they are new or if they are the same ones they have been using for a while.
I'll start back on asteroids after the boinc stats challenge with quchem.
Quote from: shift on February 17, 2021, 01:24:34 PM
project1: IBM x3550 M4 (1 x Intel Xeon E5-2620 2.00 GHz, 96 (12 x 8) GB RAM (1333 MHz) 8 x 600 GB IBM SAS 10000 rpm (RAID5) OS Debian Jessie)
project2: IBM x3550 M4 (1 x Intel Xeon E5-2620 2.00 GHz, 64 (4 x 16) GB RAM (1333 MHz) 3 x 600 GB IBM SAS 10000 rpm (RAID5) OS Debian Jessie)
I'm not sure if they are new or if they are the same ones they have been using for a while.
These are the same processors & RAIDS and the same antiquated version of BOINC for the website. Looks like they just fixed what broke. A missed opportunity in my never-humble opinion. :wink
That's disappointing.
Agree. What I do not know is if that information comes directly from the server or just text entered on the server status page. I would post the question on their forum but they seldom respond to such questions.
And... their website is down now.
Last time I checked, they said Asteroids would be down until some major change could occur. It was a new datacentre or bunch of servers and was expected to take a long time.
Does anybody have any news about this project ?
This project has been retired.
According to us, boinc, or the admin of asteroids?
http://asteroidsathome.net/project.html
Quote from: shift on March 14, 2022, 07:57:18 AM
According to us, boinc, or the admin of asteroids?
http://asteroidsathome.net/project.html
BOINCStats.
Been a bit of news from Asteroids that I missed and a new GPU application.
QuoteNew asteroid models - corrigendum
After a while, let me announce our paper based on the Asteroids@home project. It was published last year in the Frontiers in Astronomy and Space Sciences: https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/link_gateway/2022FrASS...909771D/PUB_HTML. We used ATLAS photometry and its bootstrap samples to derive rotation periods (no shape) for about 5000 asteroids.
The A@H project is currently processing data from ATLAS and Gaia together - that's what you are computing now.
Thank you all for your contribution!
P.S. Please ignore the previous news about the paper published in Astronomy and Astrophysics - its results were not based on A@H because, at that time, the server was down due to COVID and hardware issues. Sorry for the confusion.
22 Sep 2023, 11:53:53 UTC | Josef Durech | Discuss
New OpenCL application for AMD GPUs
Hi everyone,
We are proud to announce our new OpenCL applications for AMD GPUs!
Development process took some time but we finally managed to build it.
There are still many rough edges to be polished but thanks to you guys and to your feedback we'll continue to improve the code.
Linux application requires 64 bit OS with GLIBC v2.31 or higher and will run on most AMD Radeon GPU cards and some AMD Integrated Graphics with support of OpenCL 1.1 or higher.
Windows application requres 64bit Windows 10 or 11 and will run on most AMD Radeon cards and some AMD Integrated Graphics with support of OpenCL 1.2 or higher.
Happy crunching and thank you for your support!
Asteroids@home team
16 Sep 2023, 15:15:42 UTC
QuoteAsteroids@home: New AVX512 application released
We are very proud to announce our new set of optimized applications that will utilize AVX512 instruction set capable engines or to be precise those, which support AVX512dq instructions!
These applications are built to support both Linux and Windows 64bit architecture OS. The development of this version was possible thanks to the great help provided by ahorek's team! (https://asteroidsathome.net/boinc/show_user.php?userid=3496)
Unfortunately it turns out that BOINC client applications for Windows still do not report all processor options to the server correctly. It is because of a known bug and even after a lot of discussions in BOINC's channels it's still there. The good news is that thanks to ahorek's team a bugfix was already accepted and merged into the BOINC's repository and the fix will be applied when client version 7.26.0 is released. Till then in order to run the AVX512 application you might need to switch to the Anonymous platform.
We'd like to remind you that while the Boinc server is capable of finding the best performing application for every particular system taking into account multiple factors, after a while it will start sending the right one for every particular system. Which means that even if your CPU supports AVX512dq instructions it still might receive FMA or AVX tasks and there is nothing to be concerned about. In such a case you might want to give a try to the so-called Anonymous platform where your client will explicitly request the AVX512 application.
Happy crunching and thank you for your support!
Asteroids@home's team
10/12/2023 7:03:07 PM 1-parliamenthillottawa more... (https://asteroidsathome.net/boinc/forum_thread.php?id=988)