Climate Prediction on slow computer

[[XC] flat-four]

Is it worth running climate prediction on a slow celeron? The time to completion on the current work unit is around 75 days. I have it at 33% on my 165, but thought I would try it out on the celeron too.

[LP_]

Is it worth running climate prediction on a slow celeron? The time to completion on the current work unit is around 75 days. I have it at 33% on my 165, but thought I would try it out on the celeron too.

I don't think it could hurt. All points add up.
Put it on a machine that you can just let chug along, and it will trickle in points.

[[XC] flat-four]

Do you get points throughout the work unit, or only at the end?

[LP_]

Do you get points throughout the work unit, or only at the end?

Through out, because the work units are so big.

[[XC]melymel]

Through out, because the work units are so big.

Is this one of the projects that gives points based on hours done rather than on processing power? I may set a p3 on to this if so.

[Rinsewand]

I havent been able to work out so far if its hours done, or percentage of the work unit done. I believe percentage of the work unit (227 points per 1% i think...) else the speed of the pc wouldnt matter. fancy trying it for us mel?

RwD

[[XC] flat-four]

Wow. A boinc project where the benchmarks don't mean anything. Now if rosetta would figure out a way to do this...

[[XC]melymel]

I havent been able to work out so far if its hours done, or percentage of the work unit done. I believe percentage of the work unit (227 points per 1% i think...) else the speed of the pc wouldnt matter. fancy trying it for us mel?

RwD

I'll give it a blast on one rig see how it is, but it says one wu for this a64 is 1145 hours :eek: 1% will take 11hours and at 227 per one percent means it will only get 454 ppd which seems a bit tight considering this pulls a rac of about 700 in rosetta :confused: o well at least this project helps a good cause. :toast:

hmm have been running this and after about 0.01% done i got this message in the messages and the wu reset and stopped :(.

27/06/2006 12:18:10|climateprediction.net|Unrecoverable error for result hadcm3lbm_37sc_05106201_0

[LP_]

You might read through the CP forum. CP is very different from other Boinc projects.
I don't know if using the Optimized Boinc version makes a difference in whether it errors out, but I know in it's crediting system, opti does not matter.
It's seeming to me that running it on optimized makes it error out? Maybe some one else can experiment on it?
I had it on an optimized rig and it errored. I installed on a rig running the vanilla Boinc version and it's humming along.
Since Einstein also doesn't like optimized Boinc, I set it up to share the same tower with CPDN. So far, so good.

[[XC]melymel]

ok im now running it on the un-optimized 5.4.9. It now says it will take 2183 hours :p: i'll leave it run see if it errors.

[Rinsewand]

hmmm my CPDN runs on an optimised client fine.. might be down to luck i guess!

RwD

[[XC]melymel]

mine hasn't errored out yet after 22mins so i guess optimized clients can make it error. However i'm not waiting an entire day to do 1%. I think i need to search for a new short wu project. I'm need quick stats fixes :p: