Doh!!! Stanford stats server updates...

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...this may or may not screw up the CSO2 stats and maybe even the weekly news :eek:


We are working on updating the stats server for v6. We will need to take the web interface to the stats down for several days. We will therefore not do this all at once, but starting Monday, we will have the stats update down a bit so our update can catch up. The actual stats will be updating, just the web interface for people to check their stats will be down.
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http://forum.folding-community.org/viewtopic.php?t=15515

It's not all bad news though - It does at least mean that the v6 client must be progressing (at last) :)
 
much better CPU ID for a start, currently it's down to the cores themselves to question the CPU as to what optimisations it supports - if the client identified the CPU itself then you could get work best suited to your chip rather than wasting time on unsuitable work

also I think some pentium mobile chips weren't able to get QMD work as they couldn't be identified as Intel chips by the current method
 
Hmm thats quite interesting, would that mean that cpus with sse2 for example only got work that benefited from sse2, surely this would be better for the science as well as WUs can be returned more quickly?
Is any more QMD work coming out?
 
yes that's exactly what it could mean - save wasting a load of power on doing the wrong work or wasting a powerful chip doing work that an older chip could do in about the same time

as for QMDs there's been no more news recently - I think they're concentrating on the v6 client and testing the GPU client as the QMD results didn't come out as expected
 
Mikey1280 said:
Any idea when the v6 and GPU clients will be coming out, weeks, months, years?
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Last I heard v6 was expected Q1 2007 but if they're futzing with the stats server now it might indicate that it'll be much sooner than that.
Mikey1280 said:
Wont the gpu client be pretty lame, even 7900/x1900s wont crunch through WUs quickly will they?
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What makes you say that?
 
graphics processors are INCREDABLY good at maths stuff, (having to work out angles etc) so therfore could OUTPERFORM normal CPUs on a per GHz-GHz
anyway, even if its only 1 extra WU every 3-4 days wouldn't that be better than a kick in the *** button?
 
you can see the process of all the advanced clients here

the GPU seems to be the furthest advanced of the three so far

May 2006 We have started building a GPU cluster to test the GPU port of FAH/Gromacs and to get some initial results to make sure that everything is working well. Before putting this into FAH, we need to make sure that both the science is validated (we get the right answers, only quicker!) and that the GPUs are up to being run 24x7 on FAH. I'm most concerned about the latter point and so this "burn in" test will be important. Assuming all goes well, we'll start the porting to FAH, with the hope (but not an official release date) to release this by the end of the 2006 calendar year.
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there's always several new things in the pipeline - it's just the waiting for them bit that gets a bit annoying :o
 
A.N.Other said:
The EOC Stats are still working, so it doesn't really matter that Stanfords are down.
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It's not due to happen until Monday - the EOC stats should run off the main text file anyway so if they can keep those going you won't notice any difference in the EOC stats

However the CSO2 and the Weekly News use the team stats page so that could cause problems
If we can still get stats from that text file then it'll just mean the news/CSO2 production figures will be a few hours down on the usual

Hopefully it won't take too long and won't disrupt anything too much - just wanted to give a heads-up really :)
 
i fear for x1900 owners and crossfire x1900 owners who try the gpu client, the core with all units in use would almost NEED watercooling!

v6 sounds good, looking forward too it.
 
I think to make it viable for high end cards they would have to! My X1900XT is at 52 degrees now at idle. It would probably melt if I threw a GPU WU at it lol.

Temps wouldn't be an issue in cooler weather but even so, not sure I could stand my fan buzzing away at 100% 24/7.

SiriusB
 
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