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Bearcat
Master Cruncher USA Joined: Jan 6, 2007 Post Count: 2803 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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Happy Easter folks! Have a safe holiday.
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Crunching for humanity since 2007!
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Khyron
Advanced Cruncher Joined: Mar 17, 2006 Post Count: 103 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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"You can have a LOT of fun with people hopelessly mired in computer nuances."
Joel: Watch this. (Turns to Crow and Tom Servo) Hey! Has anyone seen the mouse to my Amiga?? Tom: Oh! Hahaha! Amiga!! Ha hah! Crow: Amiga? Oh come on! Both (hails of derisive laughter): Hahahaha!! Tom: Now THERE'S a machine for you...Hahah! Crow: Hey! Has anyone seen my FAT ANGUS drive?? Hahah! Joel: We'll be back. |
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Sgt.Joe
Ace Cruncher USA Joined: Jul 4, 2006 Post Count: 7695 Status: Recently Active Project Badges: 
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Has anyone seen my FAT ANGUS drive?? I liked it. A corruption of FAT AGNUS. Changing it from a semi-Latin phrase (Fat Lamb) to a description of a corpulent Scot. I even liked how they came up with name Agnus - Address GeNerator UnitS. Another MST3K classic. Cheers
Sgt. Joe
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Former Member
Cruncher Joined: May 22, 2018 Post Count: 0 Status: Offline |
Re: 25 days of work remaining for Help Conquer Cancer The hastening of the completion of the HCC project due to the introduction of GPU processing surprised me. Although the speedup provided by a GPU was as I expected, I thought that only a minority of members would have or acquire suitable GPUs so that the sheer numbers of CPUs crunching HCC would outweigh the contribution of the GPUs. WCG obviously now has a huge computing resource available in the form of GPUs. To be honest, the combined production of the GPU's surprised us as well. We had anticipated that with the launch of GPU we would double the daily output. instead it increased by a factor of 16-17 (before GPU we were completing ~60k/results per day with 1 image per job, we are now >500k/results per day with 2 images per job. This led to some great adventures in handling greater capacity (which we call a 'success' problem). A factor of 16-17 is absolutly mind boggling! And you all had a BIG part of this. Awesome, just awesome!  |
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Former Member
Cruncher Joined: May 22, 2018 Post Count: 0 Status: Offline |
To be honest, the combined production of the GPU's surprised us as well. We had anticipated that with the launch of GPU we would double the daily output. instead it increased by a factor of 16-17 (before GPU we were completing ~60k/results per day with 1 image per job, we are now >500k/results per day with 2 images per job. This led to some great adventures in handling greater capacity (which we call a 'success' problem). A factor of 16-17 is absolutly mind boggling! And you all had a BIG part of this. Awesome, just awesome! Now we just need the other WCG projects to add GPU support, otherwise there are going to be a lot of idle cards soon... or worse, people leaving WCG entirely for some other BOINC project that supports GPUs! |
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Sgt.Joe
Ace Cruncher USA Joined: Jul 4, 2006 Post Count: 7695 Status: Recently Active Project Badges:
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To be honest, the combined production of the GPU's surprised us as well. We had anticipated that with the launch of GPU we would double the daily output. instead it increased by a factor of 16-17 (before GPU we were completing ~60k/results per day with 1 image per job, we are now >500k/results per day with 2 images per job. This led to some great adventures in handling greater capacity (which we call a 'success' problem). A factor of 16-17 is absolutly mind boggling! And you all had a BIG part of this. Awesome, just awesome! Now we just need the other WCG projects to add GPU support, otherwise there are going to be a lot of idle cards soon... or worse, people leaving WCG entirely for some other BOINC project that supports GPUs! I think even those of us with no GPU cards would like to see other GPU projects. (It might prompt us to get a card or two.) However, there is still plenty of CPU work available. Given how fast the GPU applications run I am pretty sure IF the scientists can port their application to GPU they would do so. However, it has been noted in a couple of places that some applications can not presently be parallelized (a new word ?) to take advantage of the GPU. I hope if there is no GPU work for WCG that people would put their GPU's to work on other projects of their choosing and leave their CPU resources here. Cheers
Sgt. Joe
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kateiacy
Veteran Cruncher USA Joined: Jan 23, 2010 Post Count: 1027 Status: Offline Project Badges:
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I hope if there is no GPU work for WCG that people would put their GPU's to work on other projects of their choosing and leave their CPU resources here. Cheers That is my plan! But I sure hope WCG does get more GPU projects up and running soon.  |
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swiftmallard
Advanced Cruncher Joined: Apr 6, 2010 Post Count: 115 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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For anyone interested, the Asteroids@home challenge is on and Minnesota Crunchers are in!
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ultimaThule
Veteran Cruncher Joined: Apr 27, 2007 Post Count: 825 Status: Offline Project Badges:
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Hello fellows
---------------------------------------- Two inch snow rain here Thule today, perhaps white spring or something.  |
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Sgt.Joe
Ace Cruncher USA Joined: Jul 4, 2006 Post Count: 7695 Status: Recently Active Project Badges:
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Hello fellows Two inch snow rain here Thule today, perhaps white spring or something. I know a person by Finland, Minnesota and they had about 5 inches of snow yesterday. He taps about 20 maples for syrup and he says it has been too cold for the sap to run freely. Two Harbors (a city on Lake Superior about 20 miles from Finland got about 10 inches of snow. Spring is late this year. Cheers
Sgt. Joe
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