Stephen Brooks 2002-07-09 08:31:33 | I was thinking it would be interesting to have a project-average-GHz report on the stats page like there was for the version 3.x project. However I need a few people to be able to tell me how many results their v4.1x programs get in a certain period of time. The three figures I need are R (number of results calculated), T (time taken to calculate them) and S (speed of computer in GHz). It may also be useful if you say whether you've got an Athlon or P4 or whatever. I'll first calculate a "GHz-seconds per result" figure for each person, which will be X=S*T/(R+0.5) where the 0.5 is because the program might have been part-way through a unit when the run finished, and on average half-way. Then I'll average all those figures together to get an overall indicator of the number of seconds at 1GHz it takes to do a muon unit. Alternatively I could evaluate X=sum{S*T}/sum{R+0.5} with sums over all people, which would be a bit more accurate I think. Anyway, once I've got that I'll look at the number of results returned in the last (e.g.) 7 days and work out (results returned in that time period)*X/(seconds in 7 days). ...to give the average speed in GHz. "As every 11-year-old kid knows, if you concentrate enough Van-der-Graff generators and expensive special effects in one place, you create a spiral space-time whirly thing, AND an interesting plotline" [This message was edited by Stephen Brooks on 2002-Jul-16 at 12:16.] |
Pascal 2002-07-09 09:32:50 | Hi Stephen, on my first computer (Athlon Thunderbird C (1,2 GC/s, 256 MB DDR-RAM, Via Apollo 266 Pro)the client version 4.1 needed 16 minutes for one work unit (i.e. 20936 particles). On my second PC (Intel Pentium 3, 600 MC/s, 256 MB SDRAM, Intel BX Chipset) the client - version 3.11 - needed 27 minutes for one work unit (i.e. 20936 particles). This week I'll have a look at version 4.12 on my PCs. Perhaps later or tomorrow I'll tell you more. ___________________________ 1: Athlon TB-C, 1.2 GC/s, 256 MB DDR-RAM, Erazor x², ADSL-Flatrate, NIC Intel, Win 98 SE Mainboard MSI-6380 Rev. 1 2: Pentium III, 600 MC/s, 256 MB RAM, NIC Intel, Win 98 SE |
Frank 2002-07-09 11:23:49 | Hi Stephen, on my computer (Dual Athlon MP (1,6 GHz (1900+), 1024 MB DDR-RAM, ASUS A7M266) the client version 4.1 needed app.11 minutes for two work units . (2xMuon1_background.exe ) There is something wrong with my results: 13 Frank von Siebenthal 6538 Units 93`814`359 Particles? 136'879'568 is correct. Perhaps you can correct this. Greetings from Switzerland My System: DualAthlon MP 1900+, 1024 MB DDR-RAM, Gforce3 Ti500, ADSL-Flatrate, Win XP Pro, Mainboard ASUS A7M266D, Promise Raid 280GB (CPU's & GPU Watercooled ) |
Pascal 2002-07-09 11:34:03 | Hi Frank, where ecatly do you come from? Soon I want to start a job in Switzerland. Tell me your location and perhaps your email address. Thx. ___________________________ 1: Athlon TB-C, 1.2 GC/s, 256 MB DDR-RAM, Erazor x², ADSL-Flatrate, NIC Intel, Win 98 SE Mainboard MSI-6380 Rev. 1 2: Pentium III, 600 MC/s, 256 MB RAM, NIC Intel, Win 98 SE |
gogomaus 2002-07-09 13:32:48 | I´m using the famous ALDI-PC edition autumn 2000. Intel P-III 900 MHz; 128 MB SDRAM; OS WinMe. Overnight measurements of muon1v411 background.exe lead to 28 minutes per result run. (v412 seems to operate at same rate since yesterday). Looks like I have chances for getting the "slow moving award"... As I stop muon-calculations while manualsending, enjoying PC-games or during longer absences, calculations from last 7 days results coming in, will lead to lower "effective" speed. |
Stephen Brooks 2002-07-09 14:25:33 | I've removed the rot from Frank's results so they should be OK next tim I upload the stats. gogomaus, can you tell me the total number of units you did overnight and the total amount of time? That way I get a more accurate figure. Current figures are about 1100 GC/result (GC=gigacycles, as per Pascal's sig). gogomaus is an outlier at 1512 GC/result whereas Pascal's 2nd machine got the lowest with 972 GC/result. I'd like more information on overnight runs though - i.e. total time and total number of results. "As every 11-year-old kid knows, if you concentrate enough Van-der-Graff generators and expensive special effects in one place, you create a spiral space-time whirly thing, AND an interesting plotline" |
kruemi [Swissteam.NET] 2002-07-10 01:05:16 | quote: Wow, one more from switzerland... But arn't you in the swissteam? Just visit http://www.swissteam.net and join us. bye kruemi -- Don't read this. And neither this! |
masel 2002-07-10 09:21:17 | On my PC i need 13-14 min per Workunit(20936 Particles). PC: XP 1600+ (1.4 GHz), Win 98SE, 512 MB DDR-Ram, K7S5a |
gogomaus 2002-07-10 14:52:31 | I did those calculations repeatedly in the past, but unfortunately that sheet with my notes has been abused by my daughter meanwhile; she definitely needed it much more than me... Depending on parameter sets I had minimum record at 14 minutes and maximum of 34 minutes (if my memory is working o.k.) But I have a perfect protocol of last night : Starting at 00:10 (my PC clock) background-v412 ran for 37 unit (time stamp of explorer, so no 0.5 units have to be added) at 18:31. My poor brain would calculate 29.5 minutes per unit. I just manualsent them in. Those were computed without any other task running on the PC, config set to L. I will try another day with priority Normal/High. |
kruemi [Swissteam.NET] 2002-07-10 23:11:35 | Ok: using the timestams and the real-calculating-time (from the taskmanager) my muon1_background made 14 Units in 13h50min (timestamp of file, no 0.5 units needed to add) It's a PentiumII 450MHz, about 1 unit per hour bye kruemi -- Don't read this. And neither this! |
Stephen Brooks 2002-07-11 09:14:14 | A pattern is emerging I've just realised that Pascal's 600MHz machine figure was quoted with v3.11, which is substantially faster than 4.1x because it is calculating a different thing. With that removed, the Athlon results in gigacycles/unit are Pascal's 1st machine: 1152 Frank's dual processors: 1056 masel's result: 1134 The remaining valid P-III results for 4.x are gogomaus run #1: 1512 gogomaus run #2: 1607 kruemi's benchmark: 1601 (actually a P-II) So the Athlons appear to get about 40% more numerical calculation out of each clockcycle than the pentiums! (1100 vs. 1550ish Gcycles needed) "As every 11-year-old kid knows, if you concentrate enough Van-der-Graff generators and expensive special effects in one place, you create a spiral space-time whirly thing, AND an interesting plotline" |
gogomaus 2002-07-11 11:59:31 | And here is another confirmation from todays measurement. V412-background with config = N(ormal) crunched 45 units in 20h 36min. If I´m right, this would mean 27.5 minutes per unit or in your GC-world : 1236*60/45*0.9 = 1483 GC per unit. Next shopping time I should prefer Athlon processor !?! |
pben 2002-07-11 15:42:48 | I did 70 trials in 8hours 38 on a Dual Athlon 1.2Ghz, (two copies of the backgound progam). I am have major problems with Win2k right now, either the new video card, the warm weather, or the phase of the moon. Good thing I got SuSE 8.0 installed, so I know it is Bill G fault and not my hardware. |
Mikeydz 2002-07-15 17:38:34 | 17 hours, 50 minutes 73 results Athlon 1.4gh |
Pascal 2002-07-18 08:40:53 | Client V4.13 background on 1st machine (Athlon TB-C, 1,2 GC/s, FSB 266 GC/s, 256 MB DDR-RAM) 41 results in 630 min that is 15,4 min per result ___________________________ 1: Athlon TB-C, 1.2 GC/s, 256 MB DDR-RAM, Erazor x², ADSL-Flatrate, NIC Intel, Win 98 SE Mainboard MSI-6380 Rev. 1 2: Pentium III, 600 MC/s, 256 MB RAM, NIC Intel, Win 98 SE |
HETTATLONGUN 2002-07-19 10:20:27 | R (results calculated, 12 hour period): 36. T (time taken to calculate): 12 hours. S (speed of processor): 900MHz Athlon. AMD Athlon 900MHz (200MHz FS (Socket A), 512MB PC133 SDRAM, Windows ME. I am using version 4.13. I started the muon_1 background program at 18 July 2002, 21:05 hrs and ended the program at 19 July 2002, 09:05 Hours. Only application running was muon 1. A total of 36 results were produced. |