On Fri, 15 May 2020 at 10:29, Hamish McIntyre-Bhatty <hamis...@live.co.uk> wrote: > I'm going to have one last go at getting GPU computing to work for > Folding soon, but if I can't make it work, does anyone think it's worth > doing CPU folding, or are the contributions so small as to be pointless?
The CPU folding is important. Some of the simulations are only made available for CPU work. > Tim, I'd be interested to see how your KVM computing is going - you said > it was very slow over the call, but hoping it will speed up. I probably > won't do it, but I'm interested to see how well it works. Well, it's hard to say because of the estimated time remaining being so broken. But some tasks have completed so we can compare. Here is the 'bare metal' version, actually running inside a podman container: https://boinc.ibercivis.es/ibercivis/show_host_detail.php?hostid=2288 The measured floating point and integer speeds are 6.53b and 136.5b ops/s, and the tasks generally take about 30,000s for v0.01 and 3,500s for v0.02. Here's a VM I was using: https://boinc.ibercivis.es/ibercivis/show_host_detail.php?hostid=3505 and the measured floating point and integer speeds don't seem to have been filled in yet; they are still the default you get before you've even submitted a completed task. The tasks generally take about the same amount of time! But the credit received for them is much lower -- I have no idea why that is. I reconnected that VM using the correct project URL (oops) so now it shows up here: https://boinc.ibercivis.es/ibercivis/show_host_detail.php?hostid=4223 I'll leave it going for a bit to compare some more. Tim. */ -- Next meeting: Online, Jitsi, Tuesday, 2020-06-02 20:00 Check to whom you are replying Meetings, mailing list, IRC, ... http://dorset.lug.org.uk New thread, don't hijack: mailto:dorset@mailman.lug.org.uk
