enigma@home - Boinc stats team challenge

ozaudio · 19 Feb 2016 at 21:38

ill be running some tasks for it, but im also going to keep an eye on a couple of other projects im running which I think may get snatched from under our feet while all efforts are diverted to enigma and sat.

cadmunkey · 21 Feb 2016 at 13:55

Subbed and ready to go.

B1ng · 21 Feb 2016 at 14:07

Challenge accepted!

cadmunkey · 21 Feb 2016 at 14:40

Why's the optimised app got such an old version number?

CaptainUnlikely · 21 Feb 2016 at 15:27

Is there a worthwhile optimised app for Linux?
I saw this post but reading "http://tjm.boo.pl/enigma/test.tgz - pack of execs compiled with gcc 3.2" the link gives me a 503 error, not sure if it's down temporarily or what.

ozaudio · 21 Feb 2016 at 15:45

Baba said Linux without the app is just as fast as Windows using the app so I wouldn't worry if there isn't a Linux app.
Last of my universe units are completing now and I'll be running all enigma units shortly.

CaptainUnlikely · 21 Feb 2016 at 16:00

Cool, I'll not worry about my Linux box then.
Windows box is crunching using the Haswell app now. I ran the benchmark referenced in one of the threads on the Enigma forum to benchmark the stock app against the C2D app and against the Haswell app, it was around 21 seconds/17 seconds/14 seconds respectively so a decent improvement from the looks of things.

cadmunkey · 21 Feb 2016 at 16:04

I cant get this to go any higher than 85% cpu load, any reason?

CaptainUnlikely · 21 Feb 2016 at 16:34

Remembered why I haven't run Enigma on my Linux box before...it's never managed to pull any work for Enigma for some reason. Trawling the forums now to try and find out what's going on.

ozaudio · 21 Feb 2016 at 16:41

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cadmunkey said:
I cant get this to go any higher than 85% cpu load, any reason?

What do you have your computing preference set to.

Captain. I know hanluc had problems getting work with Linux aswell, if no luck how about setting up a windows virtualmachine on your Linux system

Swapped the 12 core cpus for 16 cores of baba's that need testing, so a couple of extra cores

CaptainUnlikely · 21 Feb 2016 at 16:57

It's a possibility but something I'd rather not mess around with . I'm going to try a different flavour of Linux and see how that goes, it's probably about time I reinstalled this box anyway as I've probably broken something with my incessant tinkering and lack of Linux knowledge

I will be retiring this machine in the near future anyway in favour of another X99 build.

cadmunkey · 21 Feb 2016 at 17:03

ozaudio said:
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What do you have your computing preference set to.

That was embarrasing, for some reason it had defaulted back to 90%, DOH!

Berserker · 21 Feb 2016 at 17:51

Memorandum acknowledged. On time, for once!

CaptainUnlikely said:
Remembered why I haven't run Enigma on my Linux box before...it's never managed to pull any work for Enigma for some reason. Trawling the forums now to try and find out what's going on.

Mine failed to get any as well (stock app), but it's on anyway so I'll leave it trying. Windows VM isn't an option.

ozaudio · 21 Feb 2016 at 18:10

hmmm. time to ask Ba how he got work on his Linux machine

if you guys cant get any work at all on Linux then how about joining in with the other challenge which is currently going on, the sat@home thread next to this one. ocuk is 2nd but currently catching Russia up!

CaptainUnlikely · 21 Feb 2016 at 18:34

Currently installing Ubuntu 15.whatever on my Linux box to see if it works any better, it was on Debian 8.something. I read a post along the lines of Ubuntu Server not getting any work but Ubuntu Desktop being able to, not entirely sure if that was accurate or if it was, whether there should be something in the BOINC Event log to indicate this, but meh, figured it was worth a shot. I did remember why I didn't install Ubuntu in the first place, though - by default it created a ridiculously sized swap partition and then failed to install because there was no disk space left (28GB swap partition on a 30GB SSD...good work Ubuntu!). Restarted the install and created partitions manually, seems to be going better so far.

Will update with results

Berserker · 21 Feb 2016 at 18:55

Anyone know of a 32-bit optimised app as I have a 32-bit OS on one machine (I found out that the optimised one was 64-bit after several crashes - oops!).

PS - Linux client seems to need a desktop operating system, not a server one, which is why mine doesn't work. Reinstall isn't an option, so that one's out. Shame.

ozaudio · 21 Feb 2016 at 18:58

berserker , on the Linux pc see if you can get work for sat@home, that currently on going and has 3 days left

http://boincstats.com/en/stats/challenge/team/chat/747

which app did you download and use? as there is a couple

http://www.enigmaathome.net/forum_thread.php?id=17

" Intel C2D executable for Win32 " http://dl.getdropbox.com/u/1912652/c2d.zip

CaptainUnlikely · 21 Feb 2016 at 19:05

I've installed Ubuntu 15.10, not the server version, and still no Enigma work, which is odd. Anyone here using Linux and able to get work, and if so, what version of Linux are you using?

Berserker · 21 Feb 2016 at 19:15

ozaudio said:
berserker , on the Linux pc see if you can get work for sat@home, that currently on going and has 3 days left

I only have command-line access so switching projects is tricky. I'll pass on that one.

ozaudio said:
" Intel C2D executable for Win32 " http://dl.getdropbox.com/u/1912652/c2d.zip

This one worked and even rescued half the work I'd already downloaded. Thanks.

Edit: I can hear one cruncher from the other end of the house. It's a rackmount box I got with the intention to run as a server and then discovered just how loud it was under load, so abandoned that idea. I probably ought to sell it.

BaBa · 21 Feb 2016 at 19:34

I'm running 12.04 x64 and don't seem to be having any trouble getting work.