Project Update

[Dingo]

I am getting

26-Apr-13 18:40:53 | fightmalaria@home | Project is temporarily shut down for maintenance

so just have to wait I guess.

[JugNut]

Ring the dinner bell lunch is back on,  dig in.  biggrin (there's work again)   I'll see if a larger cache can helps get through the odd rough patch.   Can't hurt I guess?


EDIT: This is the response kevin gave to my query about lack of work.

QUOTE:
Sorry about that. I'm working on getting things moving a bit faster at the moment. The work generator is running but there are lots of clients.

I'll keep you posted but it's possible that we are at the limits of what our hardware can handle and there is little chance of getting new hardware. I'll keep trying to speed things up but I can't make any promises.
Kevin

[kashi]

Yes, at an average of about 2 minutes per task, cache runs out quite quickly. I'll increase it to 800, that gives me about 4 hours grace if there is an outage.

If the validator keeps up, at 2am I will have a better idea of how much faster the optimised application is. Previous optimised app daily totals on BOINCstats were boosted by the validator delay going from 13 hours to zero. Currently heading towards about 12,000, previous best with default app was 8,284 so it looks to be around 50% speed up.
Big thanks to Sesef for his skilful wizardry.




                               

[tazzduke]

Woohoo, crunching, crunching, ohhh feed me, yes feed me, I shall till I hit 50K :-)

Regards
Tazzduke

[JugNut]

Way to go Tazz,  actually the teams doing great,  still in 2nd place with a big lead over the next placed team,  and it seems we are slowly gaining again.  Not enough to win ATM, but all we'd need is for one or two extra crunchers with a good amount of fire power to help us out & we "could" still win.     When you consider how few of us there are crunching this challenge each one of us is doing flippen awesome.



PS Big thanks again to Kashi for finding the app, it's quicker than the old one that's for sure.

[tazzduke]

Thanks JN, but look out for Ian W, I think thats his surname initial, from out the blue is cranking up the turbo lol, oh he's team Boinc@Australia as well lol.

Regards
Tazzduke

[JugNut]

No worries Tazz,  & that's great mate the more cruncher's the merrier.    Are you using the app that Kashi found?  The link can be found in an earlier post by Kashi if you wish to give it a try.

Crunch-on JN

[kashi]

Mozzed myself trying to get a daily optimised total, my line turned to a mess of crackly static late Friday night. Constant dropouts, the only way to get it to synch is to have the phone "off hook". Grrr, that's so annoying, the line has been fine for the last 9-12 months since a tech swapped me to another pair. Even my mum was disappointed as I couldn't stream any old episodes of Poirot for her all weekend. Line was starting to get a little ornery earlier on Friday, wonder if someone's pinched my good line? NBN due here in October, only have to restrain myself from doing my nana for another 6 months.

Team is going great, Ian's 24 cores have boosted our firepower nicely even on the default app.

I'm doing the best I can with this unreliable connection. Downloaded lots of tasks into my cache on Saturday to tide me over when there was no connection, unfortunately many were longies and there were few high paying shorties.

[JugNut]

I've got everything on this now, Macs, PCs, Calculators, IPhones, Abacus,  Tap Timers, absolutely everything.   Lets's see if we can catch the leader

Also to show my complete ignorance I had to google Sod's Law & when I did I found a few more goodies..

http://www.heretical.com/miscellx/sodslaws.html

EDIT: @ Kashi: Mozzed myself..   biggrin  Not to worry Kashi read the above laws, they may (or may not) comfort you some.

[kashi]

Well done everyone for the FightMalaria@Home challenge.       

During the challenge the team zoomed up 5 places in BOINC and is now in 7th place. We were 14th this time last month.

I averaged about 11,500 per day for the challenge so the optimised app certainly worked a treat.



BOINC Pentathlon is starting in a few days.
I'll be running SIMAP for the full 2 weeks as it's the first time it is included. Good excuse for me to give SIMAP a go as I often ignore it because of its inconsistent work availability/duration. If theSkyNet POGS is selected of course I will swap to that for the duration of Taekwondo.;D

[JugNut]

Yep well done indeed,  we put in a awesome effort especially when there was only a hand full of us involved. 
Special thanks to Ian who put in an great effort & helped bolster our score towards the end.   



PS  If there's enough interest in the Pentathlon maybe we could chat about a good strategy that may be beneficial to the team?

EDIT: The next discipline after SIMAP is WCG The Clean Energy Project - Phase 2 followed by Einstein.

[Hurricane]

Oops I didn't even know there was the FightMalaria@Home challenge on.  

Good excuse for me to give SIMAP a go as I often ignore it because of its inconsistent work availability/duration.

There's been non stop work with SIMAP for quite some time now.

Project status: running
Hosts active:   9,663
Work distributed:   32 %
Remaining:   69 days

[kashi]

That's different to the monthly scramble I'm used to, they've been doing some meta units I see.

I've just attached and downloaded some work. FM@H is out of work today and internet is acting ornery again so no more Volpex for me either; that means SIMAP is the go. Haha, I'll work up a little pending for the Pentathlon. ;D

[JugNut]

After an a long hiatus FightMalaria@Home has reopened it's doors but is now called FiND@Home (stands.. for FightNeglectedDiseases@Home).

This time the Neglected disease is Tuberculosis I believe.  Definatly a neglected disease.

To get work I had to detach from FightMalaria@Home and re-attach to  findah.ucd.ie (FiND@Home) using same log in ID & password info as before.

More info here... http://findah.ucd.ie/

One problem is the app is now MT (multithreaded) & therefore by design uses 100% of all CPU cores. *Not good for GPU crunchers as I found out the hard way*
The good new is the tasks are very small & the more cores you have the faster it goes.

For a while now there's been a limiting feature that can be applied through an app_config that can limit the amount of cores used in MT apps but for the life of me I can't remember where I put that info with the exact syntax.  I'll post later once(if) I find it. (*LOL*it seems my brain is in desperate need of a RAM upgrade)

Happy crunching.


EDIT: At the moment they have stopped work to fix a few bugs. It seems the multithreading needs a tune up.

[JugNut]

Anyone interested in FiND@home now is a good time to get into them. They just released 8,000,000 WU's and they are crediting exceptionally well at this point in time. They are no longer Multithreaded & usually run between 1 - 5 mins.

Kashi & me are getting stuck into them boots & all so if your interested come & get some.

Crunch-on

PS: They released this batch a day or two ago & had to recall them due to a bug at which time I lost many hours worth of crunched tasked.  But such is life & there more than making up for it now.