Posts by Bird-Dog

1) Message boards : Number crunching : Credit system not fair (Message 44696) Posted 5 Aug 2007 by Bird-Dog Post: The benchmarks are way down on your No1 computer. Measured floating point speed 1063.4 million ops/sec Measured integer speed 962.82 million ops/sec Something wrong for an XP6000+ Also you`ve only 255mb RAM.
2) Message boards : Number crunching : credit/hour how much is possible?? (Message 26129) Posted 5 Sep 2006 by Bird-Dog Post: Except that you have a little process called CCAPP.EXE in your Windows task manager that will grow very large if you run Rosetta straight for a couple of days, or even a week. Then you will get a nice little message saying that your virtual memory is too low and you need to end some programs to free up memory, and you won't be able to open other programs. I found that before I changed my virtual memory settings, I had to reboot my computer every two days just to clear the memory. Yes, I have one of those. After 14 days and a bit [we had a power-cut in my office 14 days ago], the size of it is 208KB, which isnt'a cause for concern. It's part of Symantec Antivirus, and I guess if it grows to large size quickly, then it's a problem in Symantec Antivirus, and may be a good reason to use a different version of SAV, or use a differet AV solution altogether [I have no choice in the matter if I wish to connect my machine to the corporate network - but then I don't seem to have the problem you're seeing either... I'm using version 9.0.2.1, if tha'ts of any use to you]. -- Mats Whats this CCAPP.EXE thing all about. In the task manager its 68300kb and using no cpu. Is this ok. thx
3) Message boards : Number crunching : credit/hour how much is possible?? (Message 26046) Posted 4 Sep 2006 by Bird-Dog Post: Bird-Dog, you are running WUs for 1 hour which gives you a lot of overhead for initialization especially on WUs with bigger proteins. Longer runtimes will surely increase your output if you have your PC on for several hours. However, if you only have it on shorter then initialization will take place each time you start up the machine and will cost time. Longer runtimes per WU will only help you little in that case. But they will save you online time/volume. --Christoph [/quote] My computers on 24/7 and crunch other projects. Does the initialization take place every time its preempted then starts again. thx
4) Message boards : Number crunching : credit/hour how much is possible?? (Message 25852) Posted 1 Sep 2006 by Bird-Dog Post: AMD Athalon XP 2400+ (2.0 GHZ) 768 MB DDR 2100 Windows XP Home My WU time is set to 10 hours Without typing all of the info, 90.34 hours and credits and stuff, I am getting 8.185 credits/hour You seem to be doing better than me with the same system although you have more RAM and longer wu pref. Do either af these make any differance.
5) Message boards : Number crunching : Suggestions for Future Rosetta Science Apps (Message 25777) Posted 31 Aug 2006 by Bird-Dog Post: Since larger computer systems (or complexes) require ongoing maintenance and reboots, I was trying to find the option on the boinc manager to toggle auto-start for the app. There is that option on the initial boinc manager install, but not later. Anyone know if it's there, and handy? Otherwise will try: - suspend boinc - reinstall boinc - accept autostart Found this on seti q+a, Add BOINCMGR.EXE to your Startup folder in Windows. The BOINC Manager will then be loaded each time you start.
6) Message boards : Number crunching : Putting a Bell on the Cat (Message 25766) Posted 31 Aug 2006 by Bird-Dog Post: How about the whole of the 'Name & Picture & Stats' (authorcol ?) becomes a different colour, much harder to fake.. (and it it flashes you'd cetrtainly notice ;-)) Not sure about the flashing bit, tends to distract.
7) Message boards : Number crunching : credit/hour how much is possible?? (Message 25522) Posted 29 Aug 2006 by Bird-Dog Post: 10 wu`s 28549.67 secs (1hr pref) Credit granted 62.12 Credit/hr 7.833 Athlon XP 2400+ WinXP pro SP2
8) Message boards : Cafe Rosetta : Word link 3 (Message 25336) Posted 28 Aug 2006 by Bird-Dog Post: pacifier
9) Message boards : Number crunching : How to fake out the new credit system (Message 25130) Posted 27 Aug 2006 by Bird-Dog Post: All of mine apart from 1 or 2 are granted less than claimed. Stock everything. (edit) Does it make any difference if you increase the target run time? Increasing the time has made no differance, same average /hr
10) Message boards : Number crunching : How to fake out the new credit system (Message 25115) Posted 27 Aug 2006 by Bird-Dog Post: All of mine apart from 1 or 2 are granted less than claimed. Stock everything. (edit) Does it make any difference if you increase the target run time? I`ll increase it to 2hrs for now when the one its doing is finished. Can`t put it up longer just yet because of other projects. Will increase it more later.
11) Message boards : Number crunching : How to fake out the new credit system (Message 25110) Posted 27 Aug 2006 by Bird-Dog Post: Are there any hosts that run a standard client and unmodified xml benchmarks that are getting less granted than claimed? Yes, I have some WU's. click here Cheers It will be interesting to keep an eye on how the results pan out for this box. Any others? All of mine apart from 1 or 2 are granted less than claimed. Stock everything. (edit)
12) Message boards : Cafe Rosetta : Word link 3 (Message 25089) Posted 27 Aug 2006 by Bird-Dog Post: plausible
13) Message boards : Cafe Rosetta : Word link 3 (Message 24857) Posted 25 Aug 2006 by Bird-Dog Post: Island
14) Message boards : Cafe Rosetta : Word link 3 (Message 24683) Posted 24 Aug 2006 by Bird-Dog Post: Taxman
15) Message boards : Cafe Rosetta : Word link 3 (Message 24432) Posted 23 Aug 2006 by Bird-Dog Post: election
16) Message boards : Cafe Rosetta : Word link 3 (Message 24259) Posted 22 Aug 2006 by Bird-Dog Post: Shaman
17) Message boards : Cafe Rosetta : Word link 3 (Message 23539) Posted 19 Aug 2006 by Bird-Dog Post: horror
18) Message boards : Cafe Rosetta : Word link 3 (Message 23052) Posted 18 Aug 2006 by Bird-Dog Post: Loss
19) Message boards : Cafe Rosetta : Word link 3 (Message 22787) Posted 17 Aug 2006 by Bird-Dog Post: spiders (cross post)
20) Message boards : Cafe Rosetta : Word link 2 (Message 20675) Posted 19 Jul 2006 by Bird-Dog Post: (Stephen)King

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