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Number crunching :
Too long calculation for the Sierpinski/Riesel Bases - long
(Message 795)
Posted 29 Jan 2015 by Neo
That's a huge part of it. If you have a AMD cpu that is newer than the Phenom II, it only has half the number of FPU's as it does cores. Try running BOINC at 50% cpu usage. That should dramatically help your crunch times. I remember when the "Bulldozer" first came out... about 2010-2011?? I went out and bought the new CPU and a new mobo.. only to discover that it was 200% slower than my Phenom II 555.... Neo AtP |
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News :
releasing primes
(Message 785)
Posted 28 Jan 2015 by Neo Rebirther, I would rather crunch w/u's that ONLY have the possibility of being in the TOP 5000 primes list... Albeit, I'm glad to crunch whatever... The website has come a long way since it's start! Neo AtP |
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Number crunching :
Error on long - but it finished the llr
(Message 654)
Posted 16 Jan 2015 by Neo MAJOR UPDATE: :) Ok... got home from work and still no SRBase w/u's downloaded.... So, I reset my modem and router, and bingo! I was able to download SRbase work units... I have "Dishnet" or "hughesnet" (satellite internet) because I live so far away from civilization... I hope this information helps others.. I don't know for the life of me why that makes a difference, but it apparently did. After reboot of both, I was immediately able to start crunching SRbase w/u's. :) Go me! Go AtP! Neo |
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Message boards :
Number crunching :
Error on long - but it finished the llr
(Message 641)
Posted 15 Jan 2015 by Neo This sounds similar to a problem that's been observed at PrimeGrid and is actually a problem that will affect ALL BOINC projects. Thanks guys for your responses... I am not using a proxy. I have no problem receiving workunits from SRBase nor Primegrid, and I've crunched a fair number of SRbase workunits without problem, before and after Rebirther started keeping stats. I'm not using AVG. I use Microsoft Security Essentials. The only thing I can think of is that I upgraded BOINC to the newest version on the rig that had these two errors. However, I've returned a decent number of w/u's to SRbase after this upgrade... I only upgraded to get a more accurate estimated time of completion.. I do have a modified config file but the only thing I did was set BOINC to use my two GPUS... nothing else. I got my instructions on how to do that from Gary Craig. With respect to those two workunits (which were LONG Btw ;) ... BOINC wouldn't let me abort them to clear them out of BOINC... I had to "reset project" for SRBase to get BOINC to clear them out. A bigger issue is that I have set my preferences for "Resource Shares" to 99% for SRBase and 1% for Primegrid. (this was back when Rebirther was having trouble keeping the server full of work, so I figured I would get all I could from SR Base and crunch Primegrid until Rebirther got the server reloaded)... Both of my systems will crunch Primegrid, and continue to crunch Primegrid despite this resource share allocation, and despite SRBase server having work to send, unless I say "No New Tasks" for Primegrid in BOINC. My initial thought was Rebirther's internet connection was just over burdened by sending and receiving a bunch of short workunits... but I tried over and over during a 10 hour span... Woke up this morning and both of my rigs are crunching Primegrid Mega Proths... I have to goto work soon... when I get home I will force my rigs to grab SRBase w/u's and see if this problem happens again. Neo AtP |
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Message boards :
Number crunching :
Error on long - but it finished the llr
(Message 638)
Posted 15 Jan 2015 by Neo I just checked the BOINC event log.. It says (after identifying the w/u) "Transient HTTP error" Neo AtP |
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Message boards :
Number crunching :
Error on long - but it finished the llr
(Message 637)
Posted 15 Jan 2015 by Neo I had a similar problem with: Work Units: S185_800-900K_wu_4908_0_0 S185_800-900K_wu_4976_0_0 Crunched 100%... System not acknowledging receipt of the workunits, BOINC can't send them to SR Base.... Been done for 10+ hours now. Tried resending the w/u's numerous times over the 10+ hour stretch. There is no error from my system; it's DOWNCLOCKED, not overclocked.. Been crunching Primegrid because BOINC isn't getting w/u's from SR Base. :( Neo AtP |
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News :
Decreasing deadlines
(Message 498)
Posted 3 Jan 2015 by Neo You haven't come close to explaining why a short deadline is needed. Good summary. :) Neo AtP |
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News :
Decreasing deadlines
(Message 495)
Posted 3 Jan 2015 by Neo Unless you have MANUALLY started a S/R base yourself, you will never really understand why all the work has to be returned back to the server. After the results are returned (ALL OF THEM), Rebirther has to remove all the K's from the sieve file for each K that was prime. It's not just one K... for each K there is, for example, 20,000 w/u's for that K depending on the range of N. After that's done, the sieve file (which is the LLR candidate file) is then sieved to a deeper N in preparation for further LLR testing. God only knows what Rebirther has to do in order to make all of this work with BOINC and to get us a steady stream of work. Which, BTW, has been increasingly more and more steady. The process is fun, if you're doing it for the first time, and only working on one (1) base.... Rebirther: If I oversimplified the above, my apologies. Neo AtP |
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Number crunching :
Work available??
(Message 482)
Posted 3 Jan 2015 by Neo Robert, I crunched all those w/u's... Server empty.. :P Neo |
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Message boards :
Number crunching :
Too long calculation for the Sierpinski/Riesel Bases - long
(Message 472)
Posted 3 Jan 2015 by Neo The massive difference is due to the AVX instruction set in the intel cpu's. You will see the same result if you crunch on Primegrid. Neo AtP |
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Number crunching :
Work available??
(Message 424)
Posted 1 Jan 2015 by Neo Happy new year and now it´s startin to roll :-) Yeppers, for the last 24 hours there's been plenty of w/u's to crunch!! Thanks Rebirther! Neo AtP |
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Number crunching :
Sieving
(Message 396)
Posted 31 Dec 2014 by Neo There's a challenge on Primegrid fast approaching. My cores will be dedicated to crunching for that challenge... After that challenge though, I will take two bases significantly deeper... I will P/M Rebirther for his recommendation on which two bases he thinks we have a good chance of knocking 'out of the park'. It's a good way to bring a TOP 5000 prime to the 'surface' :) -Neo AtP |
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Number crunching :
Raspberry Pi
(Message 391)
Posted 31 Dec 2014 by Neo Do enlighten me.... Frank, I've seen your type on Mersenne before, and so have others on this project; assholes aren't tolerated for long. You made a smart ass comment regarding a good faith question that I made in a different msg thread re: work unit times, and now your just being a dick to one of my teammates who asked a good faith question in order to utilize equipment that he has in order to benefit this project. I don't know jack shit about mathematics; I got an "A" in college algebra, and that's about it. But I am really really fascinated with the science behind PrimeGrid and SRBase. I think this project KICKS ASS. All my questions, and FURTHERMORE, AND FOR YOUR INFORMATION, NOW AND IN THE FUTURE, any question by anyone of my teammates, IS FOR THE SOLE BENEFIT OF FURTHERING THE GOALS OF THIS PROJECT. Don't ever mistake it. There's a reason why the processing power behind this project tripled in the last three days, or work now runs out in mere hours. Surely you're smart enough to figure that out. P/M Rebirther if you need further explanation. AtP brings it hard, whether it be crunching workunits, or developing all the SOFTWARE BEHIND crunching the workunits. Are you aware of that? Go ahead and run your mouth now... better yet, go dust off your systems from 1990. IF YOU ARE NOT DOWN FOR THE CAUSE, GET OFF THIS PROJECT. Neo AtP |
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Number crunching :
Work available??
(Message 370)
Posted 30 Dec 2014 by Neo What is the point in waiting to send out new WUs, until the processed ones are returned? They are not depending on each other, are they? When a prime is found for a certain base, those additional w/u's for that specific K for which the prime was found can be removed from the LLR candidate file. When N gets larger this becomes far more important. No nobody wants to crunch w/u's that have no importance... As for those hosts that have "slower" computers.... Perhaps they should modify their preferences to crunch the shorter tasks? Primegrid forbids people with Pentium D processors from crunching SoB and GenferWR w/u's... I know this project is expected to "last years" for all the bases up to 1030, but I am hopefully foolish that we can start knocking down bases within 2-3 days... We just need the work and deeper sieves. Rebirther & all the guys over at Mersenne Forum who made this project possible - THANK YOU. This project kicks ass! GIVE US MORE WORK!!!!! Neo AtP |
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Number crunching :
Sieving
(Message 368)
Posted 30 Dec 2014 by Neo Rebirther, Ok, I can/will do that. Are there any bases in particular that we are working on here at SRbase that you feel need to be taken significantly deeper? Again, I was thinking of those bases where five or less K's remain (i.e., where N is above 500K) Neo AtP |
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Number crunching :
Work available??
(Message 363)
Posted 30 Dec 2014 by Neo Why is there a 24 hour deadline for S873 (n-50-100K)? when R663 has a 4 hour deadline for the same range of N? If users can only get 2 w/u's per core, why the huge time period to return a work-unit. I read in another thread that no new work is loaded until all w/u's are returned.... Why not just set a 30 minute deadline? Neo AtP |
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Message boards :
Number crunching :
Sieving
(Message 361)
Posted 30 Dec 2014 by Neo Rebirther, I fear to speculate how difficult it would be to set up a sieving effort via boinc, but ... there's been a TON of computing power added just within the last 3 days to this project .... but, I think it a worthy endeavor to start eliminating bases outright... and hence my question as to what is being done on the bases with 5k's or less in regards to sieving since N is getting larger and tests are taking longer?? If BOINC sieving isn't feasible at this time, I am familiar with SRsieve and can do some manual sieving; I have a couple of i5 cores to donate... Neo AtP |
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Message boards :
Number crunching :
Very long download times
(Message 331)
Posted 28 Dec 2014 by Neo 35+ minutes to download a 5 mb file is pretty unacceptable. (srbase2_x64_00001.zip). Waiting to crunch workunits... but still waiting for download to finish. Neo |