- longer deadline for the Py wsus. Only 23 hours is too little time, especially when the predicted runtime is two days

Or maybe just a better prediction of the runtime, which appears to be around 2.5hrs for an average system, 4.5hrs for a more basic one.

The deadlines are 2 days. If it takes more than 2 days to do 8 hours of work (the default runtime) then Rosetta just isn't the project for you.

- longer deadline for the Py wsus. Only 23 hours is too little time, especially when the predicted runtime is two days

WTF is going on here. I've never had a SPAM popup from BOINC before. Intentional or not, it is the definition of SPAM. Seems like the only likely solution is to detach Rosetta.

No, because it's a one off by accident, you're overreacting. Once you delete the message, you won't see it again.

But yes, we want GPUs just as bad as you do. And while we are making progress with the GPU Rosetta, they've only recreated about 1% of the whole infrastructure so far.

I just rebuilt the windows version with SSE2 and see a minor improvement (1.6%) from a really quick test. I'll push it out to ralph soon. Thanks for the helpful input and suggestions for optimizations etc.

agree with mod sense that it may be a feature of more recent server codes

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All the original poster asks for is to include that page as can be found on the FreeDC site. For me that would be http://stats.free-dc.org/stats.php?page=userbycpid&cpid=76d20230028d9ceee3a1aa52fcf14dd4

Milkyway just added badges.
http://milkyway.cs.rpi.edu/milkyway/forum_thread.php?id=3423
If you want to increase your crunchers, you need to listen to them!

Over 95% of Boinc users are cpu only users, that only leaves 5% of us that use our gpu's to crunch with.

I personally could care less about using a graphics card for... graphics.

Personally, I only care about its ability to crunch for science, as a gp-gpu.

I don't know the answer for certain, but suspect it is "No.": Can "ATI's leading card" handle double precision floating point as well as Fermi?

Still couldn't beat ATI's leading card. Although, I don't know whether it's easier to code for an Nvidia video card or an ATI one.

A project must spend its money wisely or it will run out, to put money into something that they already KNOW will not benefit them, they really did do some research into it already, is not cost effective and just plain silly!

You can also make a smaller application for the GPU to use it efficiently.

That was the point of my post, yes you can, BUT it won't do as much work in the time that a cpu can! You would have to do 3 or 4 times as many units to do the same amount of work as the cpu units do now, and there goes your time savings by using the gpu!

They REALLY HAVE thought this out and we REALLY ARE doing it the best way for now.

My soldering are not good enough to get my Radeon 5450 up to 2 gigs of ram (haha), and i don't think anyone else here would be willing to give it a shot.

yes you are correct that Rosetta does not have a gpu app. It is because the current app is waaaaay too big to fit onto a gpu, it can easily take more than 2 gig of memory, and if you start swapping memory on a gpu all efficiency is lost. They have tested it and said when/if it becomes a viable alternative they will introduce one.

Sure it would be practical. Why wouldn't it. Web sites are remotely hosted all the time.

Maybe because it's part of the BOINC server suite and puts things like the user's RAC on their posts? I don't know how closely the two are tied together...

Hi!

I was wondering, whether it is possible to use GPU (3D card) to crunch Rosetta@home packets, is it? At least, GPUs have very much computing power...

Just to complete the thought - the problem is that GPUs only have single precision floating point capability. The Boinc projects usually need at least double precision floating point. So it's a no-go for GPU crunching for now.