And what was the answer to this Question? Setiathome for anonymous platform is still crippled for hosts not using flops values in their app_info's,
Claggy ----- Original Message ----- fFrom: "Richard Haselgrove" <[email protected]> To: "BOINC Developers Mailing List" <[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, October 13, 2011 11:50 AM Subject: [boinc_dev] Job runtime estimation - GPUs and anonymous platform > Not being a skilled code reader, may I ask if changeset 24385's "improve the accuracy of FLOPS estimation for GPU apps" applies to anonymous platform? > > In the original job runtime estimation whitepaper > http://boinc.berkeley.edu/trac/wiki/RuntimeEstimation, it still says, for new hosts and new app_versions without a host_app_version record or insufficient samples, > > "we use the estimate supplied by the client. ... the current client passes the peak FLOPS." > > That turned out to be over-optimistic, and in > http://boinc.berkeley.edu/trac/changeset/19282 it was changed to "if app_info.xml doesn't specify FLOPS for a GPU app, assume that it runs at CPU peak speed rather than GPU peak speed." > > Now that GPU computing is more mature, more widespread, and faster, I'd argue that using CPU speed here is over-pessimistic. Could we have some way of deriving a realistic 'first estimate' of effective GPU speed from the client GPU peak speed report and the project-wide experience of GPU application efficiency, please? > _______________________________________________ > boinc_dev mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.ssl.berkeley.edu/mailman/listinfo/boinc_dev > To unsubscribe, visit the above URL and > (near bottom of page) enter your email address. _______________________________________________ boinc_dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.ssl.berkeley.edu/mailman/listinfo/boinc_dev To unsubscribe, visit the above URL and (near bottom of page) enter your email address.
