Posts by James Lee*

1) Message boards : Number crunching : What are your tips for new Rosetta@home users? (Message 92997) Posted 1 Apr 2020 by James Lee* Post: The "Store at least" is the primary. The "Store up to an additional" is the secondary. Also the "Switch between tasks" should be set to 9999. Also, as backup of work done, change checkpoints from 60 seconds to 120 seconds, if you are running more than 4 threads/cores or you do not have an SSD. This will keep up processing optimally. The CPU has to wait for disc IOs. James
2) Message boards : Number crunching : What are your tips for new Rosetta@home users? (Message 92976) Posted 1 Apr 2020 by James Lee* Post: After the last post by the Admin, I want to make sure that everyone here knows the value of two IMPORTANT values that need to be set correctly. The first is "Resource Share", and the second, that causes the most angst here, is the "primary and secondary Buffers" for days of work. SInce I have over a dozen machines, all different and all custom built, and combined with over a hundred threads and each have at least one high performance GPU, I CANNOT be bothered by constant checks on their performance, workload, etc. With my gained experience in working with and on multiple projects, the following are my recommendations. First, if this the project you really want to run the most, set your resource share to 999999. That way, when WUs are available, BOINC will look here first. Set your secondary favorite project to 5000, and your 3rd favorite to 100. This way you will NEVER have an iidle processor or thread. Next, for your buffers.... Set your primary buffer to ".21" and your second to 0(zero). This allows boinc to always go thru its sequence of resource share to get your next WU. DO NOT BUFFER FOR DAYS - ONLY BUFFER FOR HOURS! This is IMPORTANT, for when a project first starts up after a lag in WUs, it does not have to do such a flood of requests, and as a project goes thru a series of WUs for collection, there are not days of WUs that have to be waited on. If you use the optimal number of .21, BOINC will take care of everything. A smaller number will give you a wait period, and a larger number is not healthy for the project. THIS WILL MAKE THE PROJECT RUN A LOT SMOOTHER AND REDUCE THE ADMINS FRETS! DO NOT COMPLAIN about the lack of WUs during software or hardware changeovers. Let your other projects fill in the CPU time while this one is doing what they can do in order to continue. If you do not have the smarts to follow this advice, then do NOT bother to post!
3) Message boards : News : Rosetta's role in fighting coronavirus (Message 92708) Posted 31 Mar 2020 by James Lee* Post: It is good to see such interest in this project that we can actually deplete the queue. My WU buffers are only set for 2 hours (instead of days) so when I run out of WUs, I just have another project that will pick up the slack until there is work available. I just set the priority of this project 100 times greater than the secondary project, and my computers will always stay running, but with this project as my main priority. Please keep us posted on if and when GPU tasks become available. I have about 14 GPUs that would love to run this project as well. Thanks, James
4) Message boards : News : Rosetta's role in fighting coronavirus (Message 92187) Posted 24 Mar 2020 by James Lee* Post: Having moved a few machines over for "testing" to see if I would get any COVID19 WUs, there were some acquired. And cruncher dcdc made a good point in their post. Moving all machines over. :) James
5) Message boards : News : Rosetta's role in fighting coronavirus (Message 92147) Posted 23 Mar 2020 by James Lee* Post: Currently, I have 14 machines with 80+ cores and 14+ GPUs. When I switched over to run one of them to Rosetta, from cancer research (WCG), I did NOT receive anything related to covid19. Whenever I would receive ALL WUs for covid19, I will switch over... Till then I will stick with cancer research. Let me know when covid19 is the priority here. I am NOT going to download the fold@home app. If it is not thru BOINC, I do not run it. James