Focusing on World Community Grid

[Philippart]

As Zipspeed says, I am more in favor of a race where we maximize our crunching power in order to get the TeAm up the ranks. We could however do the member stats in terms of runtime or results. There is no direct relation between the 3 ways of scoring.To illustrate this look at this picture:

Name / Date registered / runtime / points / number of results

I have almost twice the runtime of Zipspeed and a lot more results, but in terms of points the difference is much lower

We just need to consider this for the more exotic ways to do the stats:

*if the criteria is runtime, it will favor old machines, or a maximum of cores or HT
*if the criteria is results, it will favor certain projects with small WUs, right now "sustainable water"

 

[ZipSpeed]

We just need to consider this for the more exotic ways to do the stats:

*if the criteria is runtime, it will favor old machines, or a maximum of cores or HT
*if the criteria is results, it will favor certain projects with small WUs, right now "sustainable water"

That's a very good point. Between the two, I'm more partial towards results. Perhaps the team can agree to crunch a couple specific projects?

 

[Philippart]

That's a very good point. Between the two, I'm more partial towards results. Perhaps the team can agree to crunch a couple specific projects?

sounds good to me, racing for a maximum of results in for example 3 projects will avoid running out of WUs.

 

[ZipSpeed]

#88 achieved! Feels nice to move up the charts as it seems we've been stuck at #90 for the longest time! Less than a month till fall but I can already see the seasons transitioning. Weather has allowed me to put a few more crunchers back online.

Top 20 producers based on yesterday's data:

Opportunities:

 

[ZipSpeed]

Looks like WCG is going be down for a bit. Hate to see my crunchers idle so might do some work on another project.

We experienced an outage that caused the website to be unavaible for about 30 minutes. The website and the forums are now back up. We are working towards getting the backend processes (which include BOINC uploads and downloads) up and running. There is not an ETA on this yet. We will let you know as soon as possible.

Thank you for your patience,
-Uplinger

Re: Website Outage and BOINC outage.
It is going to take awhile. During some testing of the SAN performance, a small portion of the GPFS file system was corrupted. We are taking the time to create a current copy of the filesystem now before we attempt any sort of repair activity.
Unfortunately when you are moving nearly a TB of data around it takes a lot of time.

Re: Website Outage and BOINC outage.
We are estimating at this point that with backups and restores and related work to recover it is going to take us 12-18 hours before we will be able to resume operations. We will advise and update as we go.

 

[blckgrffn]

Well, that sucks... I really feel for them. Been through similar, hellish.

:thumbsup: for keeping the fire alive through updates, Zip

My $.02 on a race - stick to BOINC credit earned for the duration. WCG does a good job of balancing the point value of the results, IMHO, and that way people can work on projects they identify with - and when you get that rare shotgun from all the different projects, it won't be such a bummer.

 

[ZipSpeed]

BETA Help Conquer Cancer GPU is up and running if anyone wants to give their GPU a workout or want to earn more credit towards the badge.

 

[ZipSpeed]

Rank #87! Keep on pushing those WUs!

Top 20 producers based on yesterday's data:

Opportunities:

 

[petrusbroder]

Thanks for the stats!

 

[somethingsketchy]

Holy cow DainBramaged, just about caught up with my daily output. I guess I will need to nerd another W510

 

[JeffCos]

Holy cow DainBramaged, just about caught up with my daily output. I guess I will need to nerd another W510

Already running:
4 core i5 imacs
2 core i7 Macbookpros which won't be on all the time
1 celeron (i forget the model designation, but it still has that new car smell)

What's not on yet:
core i7 920@4.0ghz which is due for a GPU upgrade...suggestions...gtx580?
another identical celeron
Core i3

 

[ZipSpeed]

Couple projects have reached their conclusion:

End of the Computing for Sustainable Water project

Summary
Thanks to the generous contribution of computing power from our members, the Computing for Sustainable Water project is concluding.

World Community Grid is pleased to announce, that thanks to the generous contribution of computing power from our members, the Computing for Sustainable Water project is concluding.

The Computing for Sustainable Water project was launched on April 17, 2012. While it was active, World Community Grid members processed over 24 million results which required nearly 4,200 years of computing power. This work would have taken about 90 years of time using the computing resources available to the researchers at the University of Virginia. Using World Community Grid, this research was completed in less than 6 months.

The next step for the scientists is to analyze the results of this project. They hope to discover which public policies might affect watershed health, publish these findings and possibly apply them to other important watersheds around the world.

You may read about these plans in this forum post by Dr. Gerard P. Learmonth, Sr., lead researcher on the Computing for Sustainable Water project.

If you contributed your runtime to the Computing for Sustainable Water research project, the staff at the University of Virginia, USA wish to express their sincere gratitude to you.

We still need your help with the other active research projects running on World Community Grid! All of these important projects need your computer time. If you had chosen to contribute only to the Computing for Sustainable Water project, please go to your My Projects page to review and update your project selection.

End of the Help Cure Muscular Dystrophy - Phase 2 project

Summary
As a result of the generous contribution of computing power from our members, the Help Cure Muscular Dystrophy - Phase 2 project is on the verge of finishing.

World Community Grid is pleased to announce, that as a result of the generous contribution of computing power from our members, the Help Cure Muscular Dystrophy - Phase 2 project is very close to being completed.

The Help Cure Muscular Dystrophy - Phase 2 project was launched on May 12, 2009. To date, World Community Grid members have processed over 113 million results which required nearly 53,000 years of computing power. This work would have taken too many years to even be attempted, using the computing resources available to the researchers at the Université Pierre et Marie Curie and joint research facilities. Using World Community Grid, this research was completed in less than 2.5 years.

The researchers are now working on analyzing the results data to determine the more detailed protein-to-protein interactions involved with neuromuscular diseases. They expect to publish their results in public databases, along with descriptive papers.

You may read about these plans in this forum post by Dr. Alessandra Carbone, the lead researcher on the Help Cure Muscular Dystrophy - Phase 2 project.

If you contributed your computer power to the Help Cure Muscular Dystrophy - Phase 2 research project, the staff at the Université Pierre et Marie Curie in Paris wish to express their sincere gratitude to you.

Don't forget - we still need your help with the other active research projects running on World Community Grid! All of these important projects need your computer time. If you had selected to only contribute to the Help Cure Muscular Dystrophy - Phase 2 project, please go to your My Projects page to review and update your project selection.

As well, we moved up another position now ranking #86 in the project.

Ranking of current producers based on yesterday's data:

Opportunities:

 

[ZipSpeed]

Launch of Graphics Processing Unit (GPU) capability for the Help Conquer Cancer Research Project

World Community Grid is pleased to announce the launch of Graphics Processing Unit (GPU) processing capability for the Help Conquer Cancer project. This will allow members to contribute to this project using their computer's graphics card. Please click here for more information about this exciting announcement.

Thank you to all of our members for your continued support!

10 Oct 2012


Launch of Graphics Processing Unit (GPU) capability for the Help Conquer Cancer Research Project

Category: Help Conquer Cancer
Tags: Events & Milestones , Project Update

Summary
We are excited to announce the release of GPU processing capability for the Help Conquer Cancer project!


This capability allows our members to contribute using their machines' graphics cards, thus giving our community of volunteers another avenue to advance the Help Conquer Cancer research project.

Earlier this year, the Help Conquer Cancer researchers published a paper explaining the reimplementation of their algorithms to take advantage of high-performing GPU hardware. You may review an abstract of the paper and access it here.

In addition, you may learn more about GPU processing by reviewing our FAQs and by visiting our GPU Forum.

We sincerely thank all of our members for the computing power that they donate to advance the Help Conquer Cancer research project.

 

[biodoc]

Thanks ZipSpeed!

Any more detailed information? Windows only apps? Are there linux apps? Are the apps OpenCL, Cuda? What GPUs are supported?

 

[ZipSpeed]

Thanks ZipSpeed!

Any more detailed information? Windows only apps? Are there linux apps? Are the apps OpenCL, Cuda? What GPUs are supported?

http://www.worldcommunitygrid.org/help/viewTopic.do?shortName=GPU

The above link has a list of cards that is excluded from participating. AMD and Nvidia cards works with the project. As for OS support, it might be Windows only but I'm not sure. I will have to do some digging.

 

[Rattledagger]

Any more detailed information? Windows only apps? Are there linux apps? Are the apps OpenCL, Cuda? What GPUs are supported?

For the moment windows-only, uses OpenCL, while v6-clients does get work v7.0.36 is highly recommended.

At start of task and the end (1 minute or more at end is common) the CPU is used, meaning a slow cpu will hurt production. Each task is fairly short, around 5 minutes on an Ati-HD5850.

Since it's OpenCL, Amd-cards has an advantage over Nvidia.

BTW, to get work, you'll need to have HCC selected, this unfortunately also means you can get cpu-work for HCC if haven't completely disabled all CPU-crunching for WCG.

 

[VirtualLarry]

I just installed BOINC on my G630 rig with GT430 card, and WCG is running GPU projects, and I am getting pretty bad GUI lag in Windows.

I never got GUI lag like this with PrimeGrid and my GTX460.

 

[Gs dewd]

You can set it to only use the gpu when the system is idle under the advance/preferance tab.



Right at 4 mins and crunching 2 units at a time with my Cfed 6850's. These thing will generate some serious points. I have already done close to 90 of them this evening at 50 points a pop. Now the points aren't as steady as they where with the betas. As in we got 56 points per wu. Now they can vary a little bit per wu.


I also have 7 rigs crunching and am looking for gpu's for some of them.

 

[biodoc]

Thanks for the link and details ZipSpeed and rattledagger. My only windows box has 2 x 4850s so I'd have to shuffle some hardware to give this a try.

 

[biodoc]

Ok, I rebooted my main rig (3930K) into windows 7 x64 and ran all the updates including updating boinc to ver 7.0.28. With no cpu load from WCG or other boinc projects, my GTX570 is completing the GPU WUs in about 3 minutes. Looks like I'm getting 30-32 points per WU. That works out to about 15-16K ppd which is about 10-fold less that I'm getting on GPUgrid.

I'm also seeing graphics performance lag. As soon as I finish the 3 WUs in my que, I'm booting back into linux and continue SIMAP/GPUGrid work.

 

[Smartazz]

I've returned to WCG today. It's been cold so it's time to break out the DC!

 

[somethingsketchy]

I've returned to WCG today. It's been cold so it's time to break out the DC!

Amen brother!

 

[blckgrffn]

well, glad I made 2.5M milestone while it was just CPU and it meant something

I am waiting on my 6770 from the Defense Grid 2 Kickstarter to show up, it'll be dedicated to this for a while. I was too slow for 6850's or 2x 6770 (on the Kickstarter)

Bummed the 4770 didn't make the cut. I suppose that POEM will continue to get some loving when I get back around to setting it up... I totally forgot to grab the config file before formatting the box

It may get harder (or easier?) to keep our Top 100 spot now. Time will tell... exciting

Ok, I rebooted my main rig (3930K) into windows 7 x64 and ran all the updates including updating boinc to ver 7.0.28. With no cpu load from WCG or other boinc projects, my GTX570 is completing the GPU WUs in about 3 minutes. Looks like I'm getting 30-32 points per WU. That works out to about 15-16K ppd which is about 10-fold less that I'm getting on GPUgrid.

I'm also seeing graphics performance lag. As soon as I finish the 3 WUs in my que, I'm booting back into linux and continue SIMAP/GPUGrid work.

PPD wise, that is almost what I am getting out of an IVB Xeon, 2600k, 2500k, i3-2100 and a Thuban at ~3.3 Ghz. So, I'd say its not too shabby

BTW, to get work, you'll need to have HCC selected, this unfortunately also means you can get cpu-work for HCC if haven't completely disabled all CPU-crunching for WCG.

That's sort of ridiculous. If I am doing GPU work for them (HCC), I want to put the CPUs to work elsewhere within WCG. It doesn't make sense to blow the CPU cycles when a GPU is going to destroy it so much faster.

 

[Rattledagger]

That's sort of ridiculous. If I am doing GPU work for them (HCC), I want to put the CPUs to work elsewhere within WCG. It doesn't make sense to blow the CPU cycles when a GPU is going to destroy it so much faster.

Well, appart for using app_info.xml, a work-around possibly doing the trick can be to de-select HCC but select to "get other work if none available".

 

[Plimogz]

These HCC GPU WUs result in pretty impressive PPD :

My 6950 @ 880 core with unlocked shaders chews through a WU in roughly 2m30s. It also takes up an entire core of my 2500K while doing it though, so there's that small caveat.

At 32 points per WU this amounts to a little more than 18K PPD.

Just for reference I checked up on one of my CPU HCC WUs: running that occupied one core 40 minutes and ostensibly yields about the same number of points.

What I'd like to have is a better picture of what GPU HW does best in this particular project. To that end I invite folks also running HCC GPU WUs to chime in with their times and such. Or a link with info regarding this would also be very welcome; I haven't been able to turn up much by searching around for a while.