Milkyway@home News Q1 2011

[derk]

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Team Admin News

The following inactives have been terminated

Kris has been removed
Momo786 has been removed
Snedie has been removed
Weegill has been removed
BarksS has been removed
Shand Stewart has been removed
Stuart Potts has been removed
TiMeSliDeR has been removed

28/01/2011

neil has been removed
Kieran has been removed
HeX.OCUK has been removed
edmund89 has been removed
ShaggyRS6 has been removed
Deacalion has been removed
Stephen has been removed
Princeofdevils has been removed
workpc has been removed
Victors has been removed
Dean has been removed
pete has been removed
blackshuck13 has been removed

For your information all the above had mostly joined years ago and not returned any results.
They are welcome back as of course, it just makes doing the stats a little bit easier.


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* Milkyway@home runs a lot faster on ATI GPU's, it does work on nvidia GPU's (min. GTX260) but you would be better off running SETi@Home
on that hardware if you want to get the very best out of it, having said that a new application could be released at any
time that could change that situation.

Milkyway@Home requires a GPU supporting Double Precision arithmetic.

NVIDIA:
Compute Capability 1.3 and Above
Geforce GTX 295
Geforce GTX 285
Geforce GTX 280
Geforce GTX 275
Geforce GTX 260
Tesla S1070
Tesla C1060
Quadro Plex 2200 D2
Quadro FX 5800
Quadro FX 4800
(Based on GT200 GPU)

ATI:
ATI HD Radeon 5970
ATI HD Radeon 4870x2
ATI HD Radeon 5870
ATI HD Radeon 4850x2
ATI HD Radeon 5850
ATI HD Radeon 5830
ATI HD Radeon 4890
ATI HD Radeon 4870
ATI HD Radeon 4850
ATI HD Radeon 4770
ATI HD Radeon 4830
ATI HD Radeon 38x0

ATI Firestream 9270
ATI Firestream 9250
ATI Firestream 9170

If you only have an AGP graphics slot the Radeon HD3850 AGP will also do double precision, RAC approx. 25K to 30K

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[derk]

First off, my apologies for my extended news outage , you may have noticed Q1 in the title - in future there will be 4 issue's of the news per year.
With the amount of forum traffic that Milkyway generates I think thats sufficient as things stand.

Well I will kick things off with .............

H'onwards and upwards

 

[derk]

Slacker

Thanks for the news halz, much appreciated. Oh, and congrats on the hoooooge tiffy!

Cannot argue with you mate

Just noticed I missed off the World teams bit - added

 

[derk]

Thanks for the news Mr Halz

It seems the postie got fed up with me after 100Mil

Nice tiffie sah but i see a guy named Phil coming up in your rear view

Sorry mate about the Tiffy, sorted now - check your mail

Yes....I have my eye on Phil, not decided yet if I will defend my position......too many choices

But outstanding output Phil none the less

Team Wallpaper added..............cant you tell I have nothing to do today

In fact I'm so bored I may do the news for Einstein@home

 

[derk]

Einstein news would be great, im running the new cuda app as of yesterday to see how it goes but its going to hurt my seti output.

Didn't know about the new app till you mentioned it the other day, will be interested in your observations.

Hopefully it does'nt still eat cpu resources as it was a tad ridiculous for what you got out of it.

I think its the hardest Boinc project out there for credit so any improvements would be more than welcome.

 

[derk]

The new app loads up the GPU's im running G92's to between 50 and 60% i think CPU is about 20% of one core.

You can now use an app info file to run multiple tasks per core (not tried this yet) getting GPU load into the low 90's

You see this is why we need Einstein news

Well I might give it a shot but as you say it will hurt my Seti output also, or maybe Milkyway

........damn it I cant cover em all choices choices

Alright already, Einstein news is now in production

 

[derk]

Now that the MilkyWay have fixed their database and the stats have updated, I can post this

More to come soon I hope. Especially if I can get the box with my 5970 in to stop BSODing

Stats sorted but now no work ..............aaaaaaaaaaaaaaargh

Great tiffy but your gettin a tad to close for comfort, these remote bsod transmitters are awesome

 

[derk]

Ba and Phil

You RAC has been dropping all day, the downloads borked in the early hours.
Trouble is Boinc manager just backs off for ages - you need to give it a poke

 

[derk]

Thanks Mr Halz doing just that now

Anytime mate

OOh I've just joined upto this as I realised it had an ATi client. One 4870 to add to the crunching for OcUK. I'm amazed at how quick it is at crunching I've got 1543 credit for about 30 minutes crunching!! woohoooooo.

Thanks for joining, I have a couple of 4870's too

 

[derk]

Wooohoo

Put a cuda rig on this using the new app but the temps are sky high.

 

[derk]

Lovely tiffy I hope to have one myself very soon

You certainly will, I wont go down without a fight though , put a cuda pc on milky as I'm giving seti a rest.
Output is hardly startling on cuda but I'll hold you off a tad longer

Glad you sorted your bsod situation out though.

 

[derk]

For anyone that hasnt seen this already, a message from the project staff

Nvidia OpenCL updated

I've updated the Nvidia/OpenCL application to 0.52 which should fix the failures on the 23* tasks.

8 Feb 2011 1:00:11 UTC

Shame there is no work available until the servers are back online

 

[derk]

Parp warning to Peter-B, stats say 18 days for the number 2 spot

Trouble is I get stomped in 10 days ..........so no number 2 spot then .......damn it

 

[derk]

Congrats Mr Halz, due to financial restraints I can’t offer any resistance!

Hope your residence in the No 2 spot is comfortable.

I guess if you want to keep it or go for No1

You’re going to have to win the lottery!

I know what you are saying on the financial side, I think its not just us either at the moment mate.

As I said before mate, wont get the chance to try the No.2 spot due to some geezer called Phil using his size 12's

Even if I plug the other gpu back in it wont be enough to hold him back, still its not doing the teams RAC any harm

As for Ba......................forgetaboutit