[astro] Re: boinc update

[Boleslaw Szymanski]

this is impressive indeed and exciting!


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On Mon, 19 Nov 2007, Travis Desell wrote:

> Date: Mon, 19 Nov 2007 16:04:52 -0500
> From: Travis Desell <deselt at cs.rpi.edu>
> Reply-To: astro at cs.rpi.edu
> To: astro at cs.rpi.edu
> Subject: [astro] boinc update
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> Just an update on how things are going on the boinc server.  I ran 5
> different genetic searches over
> the weekend with an increased volume (700,1600,80) which is about 8
> times more than what's usually used, and
> getting over 3.5 work units returned a second.  Compared to using the
> large 1024 processor partition of the bluegene,
> on the smaller volume, which does approximately 2 work units a second -
> this is pretty impressive.
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> The next set of searches i'm running are using a volume of 700,800,80,
> so we'll be able to compare if increasing the
> volume size has any effect on the convergence rate of the search.  I'm
> working on getting asynchronous particle swarm
> and simulated annealing searches up and running on boinc as well.   I
> should also have a that will create new searches
> from the command line on the milkyway server so Nate and Heidi should be
> able to create their own searches easily as
> well if needed.
>
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