Cruncher application updated

[yoyo]

Hello,
I updated all cruncher applications to the latest 509 version of the distributed.net client. Here are the detailed changes:

Windows and PS3 versions are updated from 508->509:
2.9103-509
imp: x86: Intel Atom (#4080)
imp: x86: Pentium III detection (#4121)
imp: x86: Intel Core i7 detection (#4118)
fix: x86: Various AMD CPU Detections (#4074 & #4120)
fix: all: Fix OGR-NG middle mark limit miscalculation on odd rulers
fix: all: OGR-NG state restored properly after a restart
fix: linux: Improved OGR-NG cache management (#4076)
imp: all: Print combined OGR-NG stubs with more details (#4082)
fix: all: Combined OGR-NG stubs no longer appear to restart (#4083)

Mac PPC/Intel, Linux 32/64, Solaris are updated from 507->509 and contains now also the new up to 30% faster MMX core and these changes:
2.9102-508
new: x86: OGR-NG mmx core
imp: x86: Identify AMD "Unknown" processors (#4106)
fix: x86: Pentium M naming (#4075)
They are now also increase there progress bar by 14,3% steps.

If there is any problem, please report them.
yoyo

[Liuqyn]

I just started running this again on my PS3, after running a couple days it slows way down and takes forever to finish a WU(if at all), when I check the task monitor it show 10-20 dnets apps running while after a reboot it only has 5-6. is this a known problem or something goofy while my machine?

Thanks,

[yoyo]

This is not known.
I know that sometimes dnet keeps hanging in memory if Boinc switches the project or Boinc is stopped. In this cases it can lead to multiple dnet processes hanging around.
yoyo

[Liuqyn]

well, it's not a project switching problem since I disconnected from other project when I run here(and vise-versa). and the only time boinc stops(that I'm aware of) is to run it's periodical benchmarks.

[Seversen]

I received the message below when I downloaded a new cruncher wu. It appears I do not have enough memory to run the job. Have the memory requirements been increased with the new application?

Thanks for the help.


22-Apr-2009 09:30:47 [yoyo@home] Sending scheduler request: To fetch work. Requesting 48585 seconds of work, reporting 0 completed tasks
22-Apr-2009 09:30:52 [yoyo@home] Scheduler request completed: got 1 new tasks
22-Apr-2009 09:30:52 [yoyo@home] Message from server: Your computer has 1518.73MB of memory, and a job requires 2284.32MB
22-Apr-2009 09:30:55 [yoyo@home] Started download of wrapper_2.12_windows_intelx86.exe
22-Apr-2009 09:30:55 [yoyo@home] Started download of dnet_1.00_mask.jpg
22-Apr-2009 09:30:57 [yoyo@home] Finished download of dnet_1.00_mask.jpg
22-Apr-2009 09:30:57 [yoyo@home] Started download of yoyo_graphics_2.00_windows_intelx86.exe
22-Apr-2009 09:31:00 [yoyo@home] Finished download of wrapper_2.12_windows_intelx86.exe
22-Apr-2009 09:31:00 [yoyo@home] Started download of Helvetica.txf
22-Apr-2009 09:31:02 [yoyo@home] Finished download of yoyo_graphics_2.00_windows_intelx86.exe
22-Apr-2009 09:31:02 [yoyo@home] Started download of job_2.02_windows_intelx86.xml
22-Apr-2009 09:31:03 [yoyo@home] Finished download of Helvetica.txf
22-Apr-2009 09:31:03 [yoyo@home] Finished download of job_2.02_windows_intelx86.xml
22-Apr-2009 09:31:03 [yoyo@home] Started download of dnetc509-win32-x86.exe
22-Apr-2009 09:31:03 [yoyo@home] Started download of dnet_1.00_logo.jpg
22-Apr-2009 09:31:06 [yoyo@home] Finished download of dnet_1.00_logo.jpg
22-Apr-2009 09:31:06 [yoyo@home] Started download of ogr_090422103504_27-in.og2
22-Apr-2009 09:31:07 [yoyo@home] Finished download of dnetc509-win32-x86.exe
22-Apr-2009 09:31:07 [yoyo@home] Finished download of ogr_090422103504_27-in.og2

[yoyo]

Hello,
the ecm subproject has sometimes work units with such high memory requirements.
yoyo

[sam]

last night I joined yoyo with ydl/ps3 using dotsch app, http://www.dotsch.de/boinc/BOINC%20Clients.html and have WUs crunching. I get a similar message: 5/1/2009 7:45:14 AM|yoyo@home|Message from server: Your computer has 210.08MB of memory, and a job requires 1716.61MB

besides the obvious coming up just a bit short, what does this mean?

I am new to this project and ps3--I have no idea how a ps3 works, yet, not sure what I can do about the memory shortage unless this a swap matter. not knowing any better with a ps3 I went with the recommended swap for ydl6.1 which I believe was 512.

recommendations needed.

thanks.

[Ananas]

Only certain Yoyo workunits have such huge memory requirements (afaik. only a subset of the ECM workunits is affected).

You can choose which Yoyo subproject you want to crunch on this page :

http://www.rechenkraft.net/yoyo/prefs.p ... et=project

For a PS3, the distributed.net client probably will have the highest thoughput, so you might want to try the OGR workunits (optimal golumb ruler) - it is optimized to use all cores of a PS3

[sam]

my apologies for not seeing this message sooner, Ananas. Thanks for the help.

[MirecY]

New Distributed.net clients, even Windows 64bit:
http://www.distributed.net/download/clients.php

[yoyo]

Hello,

I updated the cruncher applications to the latest distributed.net clients.
win32: dnetc 5.11b -> 5.15
win64: NEW -> 5.16
lin32: 5.10 -> 5.14
lin64: 5.09 -> 5.14
PS3/cell: 5.11b -> 5.15
Mac Intel/PPC, Sparc: no update

This is the list of changes related to OGR:

2.9107-516 imp: add cpu/os id to client request packets
for improved client control
2.9107-515 imp: cellbe: faster OGR-NG SPU ASM core
2.9106-514 fix: all: cannot run test or bench if OS doesn't support
cpu count detection.
imp: x86: Via C7-D/M Model D detection.
fix: some: one thread stays asleep in 'pause when running' (#4248)
2.9106-513 new: amd64: two new asm ogr64 cores added and selected
as default (#4183)
fix: amd64: ogr core selection for Athlon (#4214)
fix: some: busy loop in polling subsystem while paused (#4148)
2.9105-511 fix: ppc: Fixed scalar and hybrid OGR-NG cores (#4187)
imp: cellbe: detect linux kernel SPU scheduler (spufs) bugs
new: linux: runs-on-battery-power detection via sysfs
2.9104-510 new: x86: three OGR-NG SSE2 ASM cores from Craig Johnston (#4177)
imp: cellbe: faster OGR-NG SPU ASM core

yoyo

[MirecY]

New clients: http://www.distributed.net/Download_clients