Seti@Home optimized science apps and information
Optimized Seti@Home apps => Discussion Forum => Topic started by: Raistmer on 03 Aug 2014, 04:03:59 pm
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Today I replaced single 4GB memory module with 2x4GB more faster ones (also working in dual-channel config).
Tests were done on fresh rebooted system before and after memory replacement:
Data from one of instances (all cores and iGPU are loaded with AP v7 apps)L
before:
WU : 0_Clean_01LC.wu
astropulse_7.00_windows_x86_64__sse2.exe :
Elapsed 244.998 secs
CPU 240.710 secs
WU : 1_Clean_20LC.wu
astropulse_7.00_windows_x86_64__sse2.exe :
Elapsed 4490.125 secs
CPU 4456.761 secs
WU : 2_Clean_01LC.wu
astropulse_7.00_windows_x86_64__sse2.exe :
Elapsed 193.284 secs
CPU 190.836 secs
after:
WU : 0_Clean_01LC.wu
astropulse_7.00_windows_x86_64__sse2.exe :
Elapsed 189.099 secs
CPU 185.033 secs
WU : 1_Clean_20LC.wu
astropulse_7.00_windows_x86_64__sse2.exe :
Elapsed 3602.254 secs
CPU 3571.393 secs
WU : 2_Clean_01LC.wu
astropulse_7.00_windows_x86_64__sse2.exe :
Elapsed 181.718 secs
CPU 176.780 secs
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I remember that when I bought my trusty 8-core machine (host 2901600 (http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/show_host_detail.php?hostid=2901600) - crunching for seti since, as it says, November 2006), memory speed was a problem.
It was originally running on Windows XP, 32-bit, with 2GB of RAM. But it's a workstation-class machine, built on a server motherboard, and wants to run memory in 4-channel mode. Adding two 1GB RAM modules to the two I already had enabled that mode, and increased throughput by some 25%. There are graphs somewhere in Number Crunching - we spent some time talking about it at the time. In particular, running 8 shorties - 'VHAR' - at a time really bogged it down.