Can Einstein@Home pass the 1 Petaflop (1000 Teraflop) barrier?
Submitted on 10 Dec 2012 18:51:53 UTC
The computing power of Einstein@Home has exceeded 950 Teraflops for the first time since the project was begun in 2005. Based on the rate that our computing power has been growing, I am hopeful that Einstein@Home will pass the 1 Petaflop barrier before the end of 2012. Einstein@Home volunteers: please keep your computers running over the holiday season, and please sign up any new ones that you might receive as a gift!
Bruce Allen
Director, Einstein@Home
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Overclock.net have added E@H
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Overclock.net have added E@H as one of their three "Projects of the month"...
Prepare for blast off, after BGB January 2013 is over...
dunx
RE: 965.7 TFLOPS and
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970.1 TFLOPS
That calculated/reported figure has been rising at a very steady 1 Tflop/hour since I posted it. Still on course for 22:00 UTC tomorrow?
976.8 as of now :)
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976.8 as of now :)
The only problem is that you
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The only problem is that you don't seem to have enough work lined up. I am only a small contributor, with a little less than 700k work units done, but I frequently find that you don't have work for my i7 computer.
RE: The only problem is
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See your Einstein@Home preferences, especially the row "Run only the selected applications", they must be set to "yes" (checked). And "If no work for selected applications is available, accept work from other applications?" must be checked. If you don't have GPU, you can "Run CPU versions of applications for which GPU versions are available" (check it, if it's not).
I agree, there must be
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I agree, there must be something with the settings.
I have five systems running here, all set to an additional workbuffer of 0.05 days and they never run dry.
RE: Hallo Vegard!RE: I
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Hi Martin,
just to be shure that I understood this right:
a RAC of 50.000 means 0.5 TFLOPS / day? Is there a definition for the 'Cobblestone'?
Hallo Alex! RE: a RAC of
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Hallo Alex!
The ratio would be 50.000 Cobblestone per day equals 0.5 TFLOPS (Terra Floatingpoint Operations per Seconde) That´s right. How these FLOPS have to be determined, I don´t know. I believe, one can find the definition somewhere in the literature describing, how to setup a BOINC project.
By the way: We may hit the 1 PFLOPS tomorrow, but at midnight it´s back below this line. But on Thursday it will be well above this line, hopefully. Today we had an increase of 17,1 TFLOPS and we need another 25,2 TFLOPS only.
A happy, healthy and wealthy year 2013 !!!!
Kind regards an happy crunching
Martin
yea seti is down again so I
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yea seti is down again so I guess i'm back with a paltry 4.2 terraflop
and I will leave it there until well after you get a petaflop.
good luck guy's it was at .974 pettaflop just before I posted.
For the record: 985.5
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For the record: 985.5
I've made a challenge over at
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I've made a challenge over at BOINCstats called "PetaFLOP Crunch" to celebrate the upcoming 1 PFLOP for Einstein@Home. I think we will reach the 1 PFLOP before the challenge's start (which is 5th jan 2013) but it doesn't matter... Anyone is welcome to participate in the challenge and late entrants are allowed as well.
Hallo! It will be hard up to
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Hallo!
It will be hard up to reach the 1 PFLOPS today.
At 14:45 we hat 989,2 TFLOPS with an increase of 1.3 TFLOPS/h. In princip that´s enough to reach 10001,1 TFLOPS at midnight (UTC) but very often, like yesterday, between 22:45 and 22:50 there occures a drop of about 5 TFLOPS. So we will have very likely the 1 PFLOPS within the early morning tomorrow.
Kind regrds and happy crunching
Martin
RE: Hi Martin, I believe
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FLOPS calculations are from credits (which should be proportional to the number of calculations in the job) from all users/hosts.
So for now project FLOPS estimate a slightly overrated due high credit value of FGRP2 WUs.
Reason for huge (usual x2) differences of FLOPS numbers on different BOINC webpages is usung different formulas to convert credits/day to FLOPS, which is a lot of confusion with it.
More on this, I wrote in this thread on Rosetta@Home forum: http://boinc.bakerlab.org/rosetta/forum_thread.php?id=6156&nowrap=true#74675
(from this post and to end of thread)
P.S.
New E@H record - 990.9 TFLOPS
RE: RE: RE: ...
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It turned out the download problems I was having were on my end (I had a hosts file specifying all Seti downloads to come from one server; I removed the entry and the backlog cleared in minutes). However, I haven't checked there in a couple of days; it sounds like you're saying there is a new problem I haven't heard of yet. Oh joy.
David
David
Miserable old git
Patiently waiting for the asteroid with my name on it.
FTR: 994.5 BM
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FTR: 994.5
BM
BM
996.6 TF !! :-) Cheers,
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996.6 TF !! :-)
Cheers, Mike.
I have made this letter longer than usual because I lack the time to make it shorter ...
... and my other CPU is a Ryzen 5950X :-) Blaise Pascal
RE: 996.6 TF !!
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Yes, that was the mark at 22:30 - so I lose the bet I made with myself:
But we're still climbing (996.9 as I type), and SETI are still struggling, so I'm sure y'all will have cracked it by the time I wake up tomorrow morning.
RE: FTR: 994.5 BM Now
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Now down to 993.6.
Yep, but rising again. There
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Yep, but rising again. There were some network problems @UWM which caused some interruption in the daemons' (e.g validators) work, roughly from 21:00 to 21:30 UTC. Needed some manual intervention to get some going again, but all should be working now. Just a little delay...
BM
BM
Hallo! Maximum today was
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Hallo!
Maximum today was 996,9 TFLOPS at 22:45. Then occured this mysterious drop back by 4.0 TFLOPS at 22:50. Its rising further now. Presumably will arrive at 1000 TFOLPS at 3:25 (all UTC).
Kind regards and happy crunching
Martin
just a thought I am running
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just a thought I am running about 4 tflops
and have at least 60 wu pending and while it would not change
the overall computation if say any one with a rac of 10,000 was to do only
validation it would make things more immediate for both the slower systems
and the faster ones as well shortening the time the wu are in the field.
Oh yeah - 997.7
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Oh yeah - 997.7 :-)
Cheers, Mike.
I have made this letter longer than usual because I lack the time to make it shorter ...
... and my other CPU is a Ryzen 5950X :-) Blaise Pascal
I just reported 202 completed
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I just reported 202 completed tasks from 7 hosts with GPUs.
After the 06:35:03 UTC server status update (which was just after all those were reported) the score is now 998.4 TFLOPS.
Looks like 200 extra tasks gives about 0.5 TFLOPS (if the whole 200 made it into the system in time for the update) :-).
EDIT: They must have made it in. The following update was 06:55:02 UTC and the score was little changed at 998.5.
EDIT2: Next update at 07:15:02 UTC. 998.9 TFLOPS.
Cheers,
Gary.
999.2 TFLOPS :)
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999.2 TFLOPS :)
999.6! Could be the next
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999.6! Could be the next update's the one.
I submitted this to Slashdot, who've run the news story.
edit: now 999.9 at 08:37 UTC
Congrats get your beers and
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Congrats get your beers and ciggars ready!
Floating point speed (from recent average credit of all users) 1000.0 TFLOPS
Page last updated 3 Jan 2013 8:40:02 UTC
Way to go E@H contributors,
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Way to go E@H contributors, massive epic effort !! :-) :-)
Cheers, Mike.
I have made this letter longer than usual because I lack the time to make it shorter ...
... and my other CPU is a Ryzen 5950X :-) Blaise Pascal
congratulations to all of us
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congratulations to all of us for hitting the petaflop.
Congrats us :D
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Congrats us :D
Good stuff everyone, let's
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Good stuff everyone, let's find some pulsars!!
RE: Can Einstein@Home pass the 1 Petaflop (1000 Teraflop) barrie
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now can you do 100 petaflops.
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now can you do 100 petaflops.
yayyyyy we reached it! :D
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yayyyyy we reached it! :D
I hate to put a damper on the
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I hate to put a damper on the celebrations but I don't think this is a real record. The RAC that is used to determine the 1 Petaflop barrier is currently inflated with the to high credit values for the FGRP2 results.
If the runtime and credit given for S6LV1 is taken as a baseline then the runtime for FGRP2 should yield about 75 to 80 credits not the current 337 leading to lower RAC numbers.
Sure, the whole thing is just
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Sure, the whole thing is just numerology, but it's still fun.
And she's still rising - 1001.4 TFLOPS at 10:30 (at least - the status page is a bit slow to update).
Somebody at slashdot was thinking we ought to be counting in base-2 rather than base-10, and gave us a new target of 1024 TFLOPS to aim for.
Or, if our existing Tflop is base-10 (as I suspect it might be), we'd need 1125.9 of them....
Congrats all!
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Congrats all!
RE: I hate to put a damper
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Lets just use FGRP2 as a baseline and increase the S6LV1 and BRP4 credits so we can break the 2 petaflop barrier ! :)
Good that I left my laptop
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Good that I left my laptop turned on overnight so we made it! :)
RE: I hate to put a damper
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There's always a party pooper...
RE: I hate to put a damper
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The same think i here to. On SETI i get in 24/7 30.000/33.000 RAC a day but here i get wit easily RAC of more then 60,000/day. But we get a PTERALOP from a RAC, that somene explain it before how, not from a real CPU/GPU Power. So, any chanche that someone explain it how can we manage to reach a real Pteraflom without a "cheating" of that sort computation?
Thanks and cheers
Hallo Henk! RE: The
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Hallo Henk!
I think, this is only correct in parts. You neglect the tremendous increase of crunching power of the BRP4 by a factor of 3 at minimum, within the last 4 month, as you can see here.
I feel sure, that BM will correct the earnage of FGRP2 soon. It´s a difficult task, as the crunching times do vary by a factor of 10. I had crunching times at minimum of 0.44 h and maximum of 4.5 h, with a mean value of 2.89 +/- 0,68 h ( derived from 320 tasks). That is much wider than in former projects.
Kind regards and happy crunching
Martin
Hallo
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Hallo dancer42!
Ok! If we can hold an daily increase of 1% in crunching power, we will reach this within 463 days, that is about 1,25 years. Today we will have an increase of about 1.5%. Sooo, what do we wait for ????? Best you start immediately.
Kind regards and happy crunching
Martin
It's a milestone thing.
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It's a milestone thing. Something we can celebrate for it's own sake. In and of itself ..... :-) :-)
The Petaflop target is of course an estimate as we have no sensible way of performing the more exacting types of benchmarks available to supercomputing clusters, say. Being a distributed platform ( that is : a world wide network across a huge variety of hardware and links between ) then such metrics may translate poorly.
I think Bruce Allen has compared E@H's power to that of a dumptruck - the huge yellow ones seen in open cut mining - rather than an F1 racecar. More volume than speed.
The fact remains that it is a computing service which has lent itself to relentless brute force crunching across enormous data sets that simply would not have been processed otherwise. This is using special techniques and strategies pioneered here at E@H. And we have found some diamonds within !! :-)
So we have an 'engine' that is under continual refinement, expansion and improvement. This progress is based upon experience gained and feedback rendered by an active group of very helpful volunteer participants interacting with quite talented and dedicated project staff. That dynamic will serve well for future searches. Roll on Advanced LIGO. :-)
Cheers, Mike.
( edit ) I've always wanted to drive one of those. I know a lady who does, over in the mines in Western Australia. She reckons she has the best job in the world.
I have made this letter longer than usual because I lack the time to make it shorter ...
... and my other CPU is a Ryzen 5950X :-) Blaise Pascal
RE: ... Bruce Allen has
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So if E@H is a dumptruck, are we going to be 100 dumptrucks in 463 days time? :-).
Anyone want to start a book on when we'll get to 2 dumptrucks? :-).
Cheers,
Gary.
RE: RE: ... Bruce Allen
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OK Gary, so be it! :-)
1 BYDT = 1 BigYellowDumpTruck = 1 Petaflop
I'll go for 2 BYDT's no later than Northern Summer Solstice* !! :-)
and then go for a fleet :
Cheers, Mike.
* June 21st 2013 at 05:04 UTC
I have made this letter longer than usual because I lack the time to make it shorter ...
... and my other CPU is a Ryzen 5950X :-) Blaise Pascal
next stop 2Peta Flops?
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next stop 2Peta Flops?
Einstein@home ya supero el
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Einstein@home ya supero el teraflop 1012,9Teraflops!!!!!!!
Hi! We will correct the
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Hi!
We will correct the granted credit for FGRP tasks today, so we will then see a decline in the FLOPS count again. So we'll most likely have a chance to celebrate 1 PetaFlops again in the not so distant future :-)
Cheers
HB
RE: I hate to put a damper
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IMO, the credit should represent more than raw FLOP count. The Fermi and Arecibo data has proven rather useful from a scientific POV, with numerous observational successes. That ought to count for something.
RE: Somebody at slashdot
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Done.
BM
BM