Posts by Borged by MGP

1) Message boards : Number crunching : Boinc Stats Team Challenge 31/10/15 to 7/11/15 - Is Denis Ready for Us? (Message 657) Posted 7 Nov 2015 by Borged by MGP Post: Congrats to all participants in the challenge, and particularly to the winners Seti.usa who showed an awesome display of power to come from nowhere mid-mid challenge and yet wipe the floor with all. Stats show gigaFLOPS rose to over 97k so almost doubling the Denis power. That is some "stress test". Well done to the Denis team for building a system that coped, you can go enjoy a stiff drink and leave the results analysis for a day or two.
2) Message boards : Number crunching : Boinc Stats Team Challenge 31/10/15 to 7/11/15 - Is Denis Ready for Us? (Message 652) Posted 7 Nov 2015 by Borged by MGP Post: Incredible. GigaFlops is now some 93k compared to just a week ago before the challenge started at just about 50k. So well over 80% extra power. Inevitably once the team challenge ends a lot of that extra power will drift away. Meanwhile it is to be hoped that the Denis admins have enjoyed the extra pace, seen that their servers can cope, and most importantly have gained a better understanding of the science the project hoped to reveal. It must be hoped that Denis has enjoyed having this team challenge, as much as the teams enjoyed pitting their hardware against each other. There have been some awesome displays of technology deployed.
3) Message boards : Number crunching : Boinc Stats Team Challenge 31/10/15 to 7/11/15 - Is Denis Ready for Us? (Message 645) Posted 4 Nov 2015 by Borged by MGP Post: Hello, I think that the most chruncher are very disappointed ... If most crunchers are very disappointed they would move on to other projects. A project like Denis doesn't need whizzy graphics like a progress meter (whatever that is supposed to achieve). Accurate stats may be nice, but they aren't essential, albeit that they are the historic method by which crunchers get recognition, but even that process (established by Boinc, not denis) is flawed as you return a year later with higher powered hardware and find you take far less time to get the same stats reward. At the moment there is an interteam challenge that has provided the incentive for many to come to the project for the first time, and put in a lot of resources. It will be interesting to see how many remain once the challenge ends. The really important bit, irrelevant of statistics and stuff, is to know that the results that are being returned are increasing the projects understanding in the field, and whether this is ultimately leading towards their medical aim. As Denis is young, I suspect it may still be some time before the results analysis is in to be able to then report progress back to contributors. In the meantime, with a small project, the admins must concentrate on the fundamentals, and not be encouraged to divert into peripheral bells and whistles if that would get in the way of the science.
4) Message boards : Number crunching : Boinc Stats Team Challenge 31/10/15 to 7/11/15 - Is Denis Ready for Us? (Message 644) Posted 4 Nov 2015 by Borged by MGP Post: Hi! As you said, we are looking a lot at the system and that give us less time to answer in the forum. We are looking how could be the best way to manage that increases of load and the high number of results. We are also working on a new system of generating tasks and manage entire projects that we will show to you soon. Best regards, Joel. Thanks, I thought we might be keeping you all a bit busy :)
5) Message boards : Number crunching : Boinc Stats Team Challenge 31/10/15 to 7/11/15 - Is Denis Ready for Us? (Message 635) Posted 4 Nov 2015 by Borged by MGP Post: GigaFLOPS now over 73.5k. That's a big increase since the challenge started from around 50k. But the Denis site is definitely slower with all the extra traffic. Importantly work hasn't dried up. But some of the stats do seem to be struggling. My credit reported on here seems to be the same as yesterday, however when I look at Boincstats (who can be blamed for this challenge) scores are still rising. A bit weird. Interesting that the Denis admins haven't said anything of whether this challenge is welcome or not, whether they expected to cope or otherwise. Or maybe they haven't got time to look in here whilst they nurse their systems.
6) Message boards : Number crunching : Boinc Stats Team Challenge 31/10/15 to 7/11/15 - Is Denis Ready for Us? (Message 629) Posted 2 Nov 2015 by Borged by MGP Post: GigaFlops now over 63k, but WUs to be issued at the lowest I've yet seen of just over 4k. The next couple of hours will tell if we break Denis ....
7) Message boards : Number crunching : Boinc Stats Team Challenge 31/10/15 to 7/11/15 - Is Denis Ready for Us? (Message 627) Posted 1 Nov 2015 by Borged by MGP Post: Before the challenge started, GigaFLOPS was at around 50k according to this site's server status. Now it's over 60k. That's a big jump :)
8) Message boards : Number crunching : Boinc Stats Team Challenge 31/10/15 to 7/11/15 - Is Denis Ready for Us? (Message 605) Posted 29 Oct 2015 by Borged by MGP Post: I'm sure most will find out about the optimised client stuff and apply it. Their fellow team mates will let them know about it. Mine did. It makes such a difference using the optimized client. For the purposes of the team challenge it's all about who gets the most points. That is good for the science too. But whether Denis can keep up, I think we will find out soon.
9) Message boards : Number crunching : Boinc Stats Team Challenge 31/10/15 to 7/11/15 - Is Denis Ready for Us? (Message 602) Posted 29 Oct 2015 by Borged by MGP Post: I'm a newbie to Denis, drawn here as a member of the fine Distributed Computing Team that is Overclockers UK (not that at the moment anything I have is worthy of overclocking, but never mind about that). A challenge has been issued, over on BoincStats for Denis. This could draw a lot of extra computing power to Denis, even if only for a short period. Over the last 24 hours I've seen the server status WUs ready to send reduce from well over 200k to less than 35k. I'm sure some fluctuation is normal, but without prior experience of Denis, I don't know if that is within tolerance and there is a whole new batch of WUs waiting in the wings?