Solaris SPARC Beta Test App 4.68 available

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As promised I made a new Solaris SPARC App and put it on the Beta Test Page.

Short tests have shown it to be nearly exactly four times as fast as the current official 4.36 App. I'm eager to get some feedback on that.

Happy testing!

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Solaris SPARC Beta Test App 4.68 available

Started on this host.

Let's wait and see.

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Well then - see you in 16h

Well then - see you in 16h something...

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running the test app on this

running the test app on this host

had a small problem with switching over from old albert version, had to cancel 3 WU's

now its crunching happily , estimated unit completion in ~6 hours.

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RE: Well then - see you in

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Well then - see you in 16h something...


I hope before.
Current estimat is 14/06 11:08 for the first(means 16:12 to go and 03:45 already done (all in all ~20 hours)

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first WU with beta test

first WU with beta test complete, took 4 hours and 40 minutes

and that really is about 4..5 times faster, the host used to crunch WU in about 20h (thats really subjective as it worked on WU with some interruptions).

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Seems to work fine. I

Seems to work fine.

I already have two results validated this and this.

It is not 4.5 times faster, but "önly" 3.5 times, but I'm still vey happy.

I hope this will be the oficial app soon.
(I don't switch my other solaris boxes, so they will be faster as soon as this one s distributed by the project.)

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RE: It is not 4.5 times

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It is not 4.5 times faster, but "�nly" 3.5 times, but I'm still vey happy.


You got WUs from a different set (z1 vs. r1) for the new App, so it's not that easy to compare the run times. I'm inclined to think that it actually is 4x as fast, and the remaining differences come from the normal variation of the WUs.

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I hope this will be the oficial app soon.


It will be the official App for the S5 run, the few remaining WUs of S4 aren't worth the hazzle of distributing a new App.

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BTW. as I'm not very active

BTW. as I'm not very active here, I know there will be a S5, but I don't know when it will start. And S4 should be over quite soon, but before I'll start my two weeks holiday.

Can you help me with a timeframe for S5?

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This week we'll finish

This week we'll finish generating work for S4 data, though S4 WUs (i.e. S4 "work") will be around for some more weeks. We've already started to distribute some test WUs for S5 to make final adjustments, we'll start distributing them on a larger scale soon.

See this thread.

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I see that the anonymous

I see that the anonymous platform scheme we use for public Beta Test is badly prepared for the transition to S5R1 we're doing now.

With that transition I'd consider the Beta Test to be over - and successful. The Apps we will use for S5R1 are almost the same than the ones we had in public Beta Test, the improved science code is actually identical, thus the new Apps will be precisely as fast as the Beta Test Apps.

Thank you for all your help, this was incredibly useful!

Due to the rather late build of the Solaris App what I wrote about the other Beta Test Apps dosn't apply here - this Solaris App is indeed capable of processing both types of WUs and came with an app_info.xml that will also allow for getting both types. So in principle you don't need to change anything. You should, however, remove the app_info.xml at some point if you want to get back to the automatic update track again.

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