Posts by rebirther

1) (Message 2645)
Posted 4 Mar 2014 by rebirther
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Yes, it has. BOINC client contacted server at that time and was innformed about canceling these workunits.


There is an option in _ops where you can cancel all WUs which they are not in progress.
2) (Message 1855)
Posted 30 Sep 2013 by rebirther
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About the detection - scheduler works as it should. The problem is that the current version of BOINC manager doesn't detect avx on all processors that support it. Updated detection is already implemented in BOINC source codes (I don't know if it is already in branch) so when new version of BOINC manager is out it should detect avx on all processors (no related to version of os).


Could be a problem, here is a i5 snippet from 7.2.16

Processor features: fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss htt tm pni ssse3 cx16 sse4_1 sse4_2 popcnt aes syscall nx lm vmx tm2 pbe
3) (Message 1854)
Posted 30 Sep 2013 by rebirther
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Temps were normal? Are you mixing French and English here? French "temps" translates to English "times" so I think you meant to say "the times were still normal".

@k3ack3r

It's possible to know the times would be normal even without testing. We know IB and SB don't have AVX therefore they cannot benefit from code designed to use AVX. At this time only Haswell CPUs have AVX therefore only Haswell CPUs will run the code faster.


temps = temperatures ;)

SB and Ivy have of course AVX instructions and can be used very efficient with primegrid's llr.
4) (Message 1846)
Posted 30 Sep 2013 by rebirther
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So it is only for Haswell, not SB or IB? Have you tested it? Assuming you have, I guess.


Sandy Bridge is not affected. The temps were still normal.
5) (Message 1841)
Posted 29 Sep 2013 by rebirther
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I have built an app_info file for those who want only crunch on avx on windows 64bit until a solution is found by admins. Before you use it download "period_search_10210_windows_x86_64__avx.exe" file.

<app_info>
<app>
    <name>period_search</name>
    <user_friendly_name>Period Search Application</user_friendly_name>
</app>
	<file_info>
		<name>period_search_10210_windows_x86_64__avx.exe</name>
		<executable/>
	</file_info>
	<app_version>
		<app_name>period_search</app_name>
		<version_num>1021</version_num>
  	    <avg_ncpus>1.00</avg_ncpus>
		<max_ncpus>1.00</max_ncpus> 
		<plan_class>avx</plan_class> 
		<file_ref>
			<file_name>period_search_10210_windows_x86_64__avx.exe</file_name>
			<main_program/>
		</file_ref>
	</app_version>
</app_info>


Lets see if its faster on an i5 than SSE3.

Edit:
Seems to be as fast as SSE3. Good luck if anyone has a Haswell CPU ;)
6) (Message 1826)
Posted 29 Sep 2013 by rebirther
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With the last WUs I never got any avx app, only SSE2/3. I have 7.2.16 that should support this feature. Is there a problem with the scheduler?
7) (Message 1564)
Posted 23 Aug 2013 by rebirther
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@Kyong:

The account should only be display one badge per level not all at once. Can you fix this pls?
8) (Message 1456)
Posted 8 Aug 2013 by rebirther
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Snow Crash: I will change it but the estimates times will have affect on new batch in the queue.

zombie67: In the apps, just update you project and the new application will be downloaded.

rebirther: The top host optimized app uses AVX optimizations, these apps have the basic code optimized without SSE, SSE2 etc. so that computation is faster on processors without these instructions, especially ARM. More optimized applications that use these instructions are in preparation.


Good to hear. I need AVX ;)
9) (Message 1453)
Posted 8 Aug 2013 by rebirther
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Against the top host optimized app 4 times slower.
10) (Message 348)
Posted 2 Nov 2012 by rebirther
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Can you post a full list and how much we need to get it?