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A non-believer's story.............
Geek@Play:
Ok.........I'll admit it...........I was a non believer! :o
During the long outage I became discouraged and since I didn't have any work going I deleted everything in the setiathome.berkeley.edu folder which effectively made Boinc revert to the Seti non-optimized apps. All 4 of my boxes!
Finally today when the project came back up my boxes downloaded some work. Not all the boxes got 609 work but they all got 603 work. Well the computer screen response was terrible! And I mean really, really bad!!! Even with some weird number something like (0.64 CPUs + 1.00 NVIDIA GPUs(device 1)) (forgot the actual decimal number but it was big) And using one full cpu core to service the GPU's. Totally unsatisfactory!
Ended up by installing the optimzed app's using Lunatics_Win32v0.36_AP505r409_AKv8b_Cuda.exe. Now everything is back to normal and have even downloaded more work.
You guy's keep up the excellent work. Berkeley's science app's are crapola. ;D
Jason G:
--- Quote from: Geek@Play on 16 Jun 2010, 10:54:33 pm ---Ok.........I'll admit it...........I was a non believer! :o
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Well I'd say that classifies you as a sceptic rather than an unbeliever ;), which is supposed to be the default scientific position anyway, so you're in good company here.
You've tested the theories & found what works for you , Good. Indeed be wary of knee-jerk reactions and FUD comments which seem to flourish in times of crisis. It's easy to blame the established 'third party' when things go awry, rather than accept the beloved project may be having some teething trouble introducing new code.
As always, we encourage the considerations 'Use At your Own risk' and 'Your mileage may vary' ... and by all means appreciate the feedback ;D.
Cheers for your support, and we hope to continue getting better over the coming months.
Jason
cristipurdel:
--- Quote from: Geek@Play on 16 Jun 2010, 10:54:33 pm --- Lunatics_Win32v0.36_AP505r409_AKv8b_Cuda.exe
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Where did you get this?
I also don't find the lunatics unified installer on the download page.
What is the difference between the above app, and the builds with vlar kill and no vlar kill?
Jason G:
--- Quote from: cristipurdel on 17 Jun 2010, 01:12:30 am ---Where did you get this?
I also don't find the lunatics unified installer on the download page.
What is the difference between the above app, and the builds with vlar kill and no vlar kill?
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Geek@Play is of course referring to the Unified Installer v0.36, found here http://lunatics.kwsn.net/index.php?module=Downloads;catd=9 , rather than some specific application. It contains the CUDA builds you mention, along with CPU applications.
Note, that this installer was considered a MINOR update, and so not released with the usual fanfare. If your system is already functioning you may not need to update, unless you process a lot of Astropulse, in which case it is recommended that you do for future build compatibility task migration reasons. (There was a checkpoint incompatibility for Astropulse tasks in progress, in the previous installer release, that is mitigated & corrected in this one.)
Jason
cristipurdel:
I just took a look 'inside' with...universal extractor :P...and all the files are there.
Apparently on my quadro 580, vlarkill is better than novlarkill, but not 100% perfect.
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