TAS-member thread for February 2009: Ibercivis and Magnetism@Home:

[petrusbroder]

The poll over at TAS seems to be quite clear:

The TeAm Mates want to crunch two projects this month: Ibercivis and Magnetism@Home and to reach more than a million credits in both.
Here are some links: Ibercivis and Magnetism@home.

I have collected the stats and will post the starting stats within a day or two.

These projects are still quite new and TeAm AnandTech is way way down the lists: there are more than 125 teams ahead of us in both projects.

The rules are simple:

1. Each TAS:er crunches the projects of his/her choice: either Ibercivis or Magnetism @home or both.
2. The stats-master keeps track of the whole caboodle.
3. If TAS reaches the 1 million credits goal before the month is over, we may choose a third project for "The Million".

Please remember, that February is a short month and that it may be better for the TeAm to rise in the ranks (especially considering the stats in the DC-vault, where the team's ranking matters most ...)

Lets get crunching! :thumbsup:

Edit Feb. 02: Added stats ...
Edit Feb. 09: Added stats ...
Edit Feb. 17: Added stats ...

 

[petrusbroder]

Hmmmm, I know I have crunched some Magnetics-WU, but nothing is in the stats ...


Edit: Checked again ... now the numbers came. It seems to me that the site updates the numbers once every 8 - 12 hours. Well, probably often enough for most of the crunchers, but way too slow for the TAS- och TeAm crunchers.

 

[Rudy Toody]

Originally posted by: petrusbroder
Hmmmm, I know I have crunched some Magnetics-WU, but nothing is in the stats ...


Edit: Checked again ... now the numbers came. It seems to me that the site updates the numbers once every 8 - 12 hours. Well, probably often enough for most of the crunchers, but way too slow for the TAS- och TeAm crunchers.

They have a quorum of 2, so your numbers might be hiding!

 

[petrusbroder]

jonesthewine has joined TAS! Very welcome!

 

[jonesthewine]

Originally posted by: petrusbroder
jonesthewine has joined TAS! Very welcome!

Thank you...I'll add what I can to the team and it's projects. Does Ibercivis have CUDA enabled projects, or is it CPU only?

 

[petrusbroder]

Originally posted by: jonesthewine

Originally posted by: petrusbroder
jonesthewine has joined TAS! Very welcome!

Thank you...I'll add what I can to the team and it's projects. Does Ibercivis have CUDA enabled projects, or is it CPU only?

Both of the projects are CPU only. And these projects are quite new, so I do expect some snags ... and I'll be happy if they stay away.

 

[winr]

Hey jonesthewine


Glad you are here.





EDIT: I cant find Team AnandTech in the rankings on the Ibercivis website ???

 

[petrusbroder]

Originally posted by: winr

EDIT: I cant find Team AnandTech in the rankings on the Ibercivis website ???

Here is the link to their stats!

 

[imported_Sofa King]

Hmmm... I think I ran into my first snag with Magnetism. :frown:

Anyone else noticing Magnetism using an inordinate amount of RAM?

It seems to like to use from 280Mb to 340Mb per process as I look at a bunch of my rigs. A little alarming, and I'm seeing some of those comps running a little more sluggish. However, they still run.

The problem is with my most productive rig. It's a dual Xeon E5410 (8 cores) running XP with 4Gb (so 3.5Gb avail.). Between 8 instances of Magnetism and OS overhead, all physical RAM is used up and it's barely responsive. I'm thinking of dropping another 4Gb RAM in it, if I can find it in the basement somewhere, and doing a separate install of Win2K Advanced Server (can address 8Gb RAM) to alleviate the problem. I don't have Vista-64 available to me right now or anything else that can use more than 4Gb.

Anyone else seeing this? Any suggestions?

Cheers,
Sofa King

 

[Neurodog]

I haven't started the project switch yet! I'm just being lazy this fine sunday afternoon.

 

[biodoc]

Originally posted by: Sofa King
Hmmm... I think I ran into my first snag with Magnetism. :frown:

Anyone else noticing Magnetism using an inordinate amount of RAM?

It seems to like to use from 280Mb to 340Mb per process as I look at a bunch of my rigs. A little alarming, and I'm seeing some of those comps running a little more sluggish. However, they still run.

The problem is with my most productive rig. It's a dual Xeon E5410 (8 cores) running XP with 4Gb (so 3.5Gb avail.). Between 8 instances of Magnetism and OS overhead, all physical RAM is used up and it's barely responsive. I'm thinking of dropping another 4Gb RAM in it, if I can find it in the basement somewhere, and doing a separate install of Win2K Advanced Server (can address 8Gb RAM) to alleviate the problem. I don't have Vista-64 available to me right now or anything else that can use more than 4Gb.

Anyone else seeing this? Any suggestions?

Cheers,
Sofa King

Yes, each Magnetism process uses about 300 MB RAM on my linux quads. Since I have 4 GB RAM on each box, it's not an issue for me though.

I just ran out of work on Ibercivis though so now all 3 are crunching Magnetism.

Welcome to TAS jonesthewine!!:beer:

 

[petrusbroder]

PCTC2 has joined TAS.
Here is the welcome thread!
Welcome and good to see you around!

 

[petrusbroder]

Originally posted by: biodoc

Originally posted by: Sofa King
Hmmm... I think I ran into my first snag with Magnetism. :frown:

Anyone else noticing Magnetism using an inordinate amount of RAM?

It seems to like to use from 280Mb to 340Mb per process as I look at a bunch of my rigs. A little alarming, and I'm seeing some of those comps running a little more sluggish. However, they still run.

The problem is with my most productive rig. It's a dual Xeon E5410 (8 cores) running XP with 4Gb (so 3.5Gb avail.). Between 8 instances of Magnetism and OS overhead, all physical RAM is used up and it's barely responsive. I'm thinking of dropping another 4Gb RAM in it, if I can find it in the basement somewhere, and doing a separate install of Win2K Advanced Server (can address 8Gb RAM) to alleviate the problem. I don't have Vista-64 available to me right now or anything else that can use more than 4Gb.

Anyone else seeing this? Any suggestions?

Cheers,
Sofa King

Yes, each Magnetism process uses about 300 MB RAM on my linux quads. Since I have 4 GB RAM on each box, it's not an issue for me though.

I just ran out of work on Ibercivis though so now all 3 are crunching Magnetism.

Welcome to TAS jonesthewine!!:beer:

In my rig the process uses 344 050 kbytes RAM, i.e. with 4 processes that is approx 1.4 GByte RAM. I have 3 GBytes which is sufficient ...

 

[biodoc]

Originally posted by: petrusbroder
PCTC2 has joined TAS.
Here is the welcome thread!
Welcome and good to see you around!

Welcome to TAS PCTC2!!:beer:

 

[Neurodog]

I'm having a few Ibercivis WU crash and I also notice a few BSOD. But then again, it's my crapy AMD Phenom 9500!

 

[PCTC2]

Originally posted by: biodoc

Originally posted by: petrusbroder
PCTC2 has joined TAS.
Here is the welcome thread!
Welcome and good to see you around!

Welcome to TAS PCTC2!!:beer:

Thanks guys. I'll get to crunching in March when I move. Right now I'm in hole but after I move I'll be better off. I'll be all set up for the March projects.

 

[winr]

Hey PCTC2 !!

 

[rise]

Originally posted by: Neurodog
I'm having a few Ibercivis WU crash and I also notice a few BSOD. But then again, it's my crapy AMD Phenom 9500!

i've had a few hung units, 3 or 4. no other problems with this rig.

 

[winr]

Hey guys....


I cant attach to Magnetism@home on one of my PCs...I get a message the service is unavailable or something of that sort...


..and..sometimes I can get no work from Ibercivis...


Anyone else having problems ??

 

[rise]

i had an issue attahcing to mangetism the first time but it went right thru the second try...

i seem to get plenty of wu's from ibercivis but the hung units are a concern

 

[Fardringle]

I have all of my computers on Magnetism right now, but I don't know if I'll be able to leave them there. Using 340MB per process isn't normally a problem since all of the computers are set to only run BOINC when the systems are idle so they don't interfere with the people using the computers. Unfortunately, it looks like the Magnetism client is staying in memory (and reserving that 350MB of RAM) even when it's supposed to be suspended, and that will cause problems for my users. The systems have 2GB of RAM, but one of the main programs that they run uses more than 1GB by itself so I can't have BOINC stealing that much RAM when it isn't supposed to be running.

This is particularly a problem for my quad Xeon server. It is "idle" most of the time so it runs BOINC even when people are accessing databases and other services on it. This isn't normally a problem even with four BOINC clients running and using 340MB each since the server has lots of RAM. The problem is that for some reason BOINC is starting Magnetism the normal four work units, then suspends them as "Waiting for memory" and then proceeds to start another set of work units and reserves another 1360MB (340x4) for that new set of work units. The server ran out of memory very quickly even with 8GB of RAM. I'm not sure why it's doing this, but I'll have to switch my systems over to a different project if I can't get it to behave...

 

[lizardth]

NOOOOOOOOOOOO! *falls to her knees and tugs her hair* I missed the voting!!!

Anyway I'm sure FMC already has them switched...

 

[petrusbroder]

Some quick and short stats:

Ibercivis:
Date _____ Rank _____ credits _________ RAC
Feb 01 ____ 121 ______ 13 140 _______ _ 443
Feb 02 _____ 69 ______ 51 415 _______ 3 634

Diff: ____ __ 52 ______ 38 275 _______ 3 191


Magnetism@Home:
Date _____ Rank _____ credits _________ RAC
Feb 01 ____ 154 ______ __ 737 _______ __ 25
Feb 02 _____ 37 ______ 34 570 _______ 3 178

Diff: ____ _ 117 ______ 33 833 _______ 3 153

Very nice in less than 48 hours ...

Please do crunch on! :thumbsup:

 

[TurtleBlue]

Ok petrusbroder, since my teen years I have been devoid of Magnetism I'll give this a go and see what I have been missing!

You guys (and dolls) weren't kidding about this putting a dent in my Quad-Core's memory - thankfully it has 8gigs, of which 3.99gigs is being allocated to Magnatism and FatH on the vid card. 'bout time a project is working da muscles in my pc box!

TurtleBlue

 

[winr]

Way to go people.. :thumbsup:



I found I needed to put use this to attatch to magnatism@home

http://kinetic.dnsalias.org/magnetism/



I was trying to use this http://kinetic.dnsalias.org/magnetism/index.php