Posts by John P. Myers

1) Message boards : Number crunching : invalid results; 24 hours wasted (Message 88894) Posted 14 May 2018 by John P. Myers Post: The issue may not be with Ryzen itself but with the number of threads it has. It seems anything with 16 or more threads was getting crazy high error rates, including Opterons and Xeons. I took my Xeon rig off of Rosetta for this exact reason about 2 hours after the project was announced due to the errors.
2) Message boards : Number crunching : BOINC Pentathlon (Message 66179) Posted 17 May 2010 by John P. Myers Post: Would just like to point out that SETI.USA will hit the 100,000,000 credit milestone with Rosetta sometime early in the morning. We are quite proud of this accomplishment and welcome anyone and everyone to join our team :)
3) Message boards : Number crunching : BOINC Pentathlon (Message 66126) Posted 15 May 2010 by John P. Myers Post: :D
4) Message boards : Number crunching : BOINC Pentathlon (Message 66061) Posted 10 May 2010 by John P. Myers Post: This is great news. Did you plan to hit Rosetta during the CASP9 event, or is it purely coincidental? It was half planned, half luck. Before the Pentathlon began at 8PM EDT May 4th (it doesn't end until 8PM EDT May 18th so join up!), all participating teams voted on which 5 projects (one from each category) we were going to crunch. The Biology & Medicine category really came down to being between Rosetta and Docking. One of the criteria that had to be met in order for a project to be nominated was that it must be known for stability and have plenty of work available for everyone. Because of CASP9, Rosetta was an easy choice for many :) Rosetta received 11 votes while Docking only obtained 4. Also, it should be mentioned that bunkering/hoarding/stockpiling completed WUs is an allowed strategy for this event. Only credits received during the times mentioned in the first post count, so there will be a few hundred people who will perform a massive dump of completed WUs during the night of May 13th.
5) Message boards : Number crunching : BOINC Pentathlon (Message 66046) Posted 10 May 2010 by John P. Myers Post: From May 13th 8PM EDT until May 18th 8PM EDT, the 5th leg of the BOINC Pentathlon will be crunching Rosetta mercilously (we nearly crashed Einstein in the first leg of this race) as the final part of this worldwide race (we are currently running Milkyway and FreeHAL. Collatz is next, then Rosetta) :D You must be on a team to participate in this event. Everyone is welcome to join SETI.USA and you may view full details of this event on our forums at www.setiusa.net My current best estimate is that Rosetta will have about 44,000,000 cobblestones of computation done during these 5 days by the 31 teams involved in this event alone. We apologize for any server hiccups that may occur :)