Gravitational Wave S6 Directed Search (CasA) v. 1.06 Beta Test

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There's a new app version 1.06 of the S6CasA search. For the first time (in years), we will run the Beta test on Einstein@Home (instead of Albert). To participate in this (and future) Bete test, please set "Run beta/test application versions?" in your Einstein@Home preferences to "yes".

This App version reserves the last 1% of progress for the last step that we thought to take only minutes (toplist parameter reconstruction), but on some computers apparently leads to tasks sticking at 100% for hours with no apparent progress.

As you may have noticed from the Applications page, there will also be an OpenCL (GPU) version for this application later, but that will be a separate announcement. In any case this will also require you to set "run Beta test app versions" in your preferences.

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Gravitational Wave S6 Directed Search (CasA) v. 1.06 Beta Test

Hi Bernd.

The (ALTIVEC-Beta) version is listed on the Applications page as running "on Intel".

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Well spotted! Fixed. Yep,

Well spotted! Fixed. Yep, also a Beta test for our Beta test...

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I tried to get 1.06 Beta

I tried to get 1.06 Beta work, But the scheduler sent me the v1.05 (X64) app and work:

http://einsteinathome.org/host/10224316/tasks

The host is on the work venue, the work venue only has Use CPU, CasA, Run beta/test application versions, and Run CPU versions of applications for which GPU versions are available selected to 'yes'.

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2014-04-10 12:01:25.6655 [PID=23772] Request: [USER#xxxxx] [HOST#10224316] [IP xxx.xxx.xxx.119] client 7.2.44
2014-04-10 12:01:25.7916 [PID=23772] [send] effective_ncpus 2 max_jobs_on_host_cpu 999999 max_jobs_on_host 999999
2014-04-10 12:01:25.7917 [PID=23772] [send] effective_ngpus 1 max_jobs_on_host_gpu 999999
2014-04-10 12:01:25.7917 [PID=23772] [send] Not using matchmaker scheduling; Not using EDF sim
2014-04-10 12:01:25.7917 [PID=23772] [send] CPU: req 9812.65 sec, 0.00 instances; est delay 0.00
2014-04-10 12:01:25.7917 [PID=23772] [send] CUDA: req 0.00 sec, 0.00 instances; est delay 0.00
2014-04-10 12:01:25.7917 [PID=23772] [send] work_req_seconds: 9812.65 secs
2014-04-10 12:01:25.7917 [PID=23772] [send] available disk 9.76 GB, work_buf_min 108000
2014-04-10 12:01:25.7917 [PID=23772] [send] active_frac 0.974359 on_frac 0.939265 DCF 1.057578
2014-04-10 12:01:25.7927 [PID=23772] [send] [HOST#10224316] is reliable
2014-04-10 12:01:25.7929 [PID=23772] [send] set_trust: random choice for error rate 0.027737: yes
2014-04-10 12:01:25.7929 [PID=23772] [mixed] sending non-locality work first (0.4544)
2014-04-10 12:01:25.8183 [PID=23772] [mixed] sending locality work second
2014-04-10 12:01:25.9008 [PID=23772] [version] Checking plan class 'X64'
2014-04-10 12:01:25.9055 [PID=23772] [version] reading plan classes from file '/BOINC/projects/EinsteinAtHome/plan_class_spec.xml'
2014-04-10 12:01:25.9057 [PID=23772] [version] plan class ok
2014-04-10 12:01:25.9057 [PID=23772] [version] Checking plan class 'Beta'
2014-04-10 12:01:25.9057 [PID=23772] [version] plan class ok
2014-04-10 12:01:25.9057 [PID=23772] [version] Checking plan class 'GWopencl-ati-Beta'
2014-04-10 12:01:25.9057 [PID=23772] [version] Plan class disabled
2014-04-10 12:01:25.9057 [PID=23772] [version] Checking plan class 'GWopencl-nvidia-Beta'
2014-04-10 12:01:25.9057 [PID=23772] [version] Plan class disabled
2014-04-10 12:01:25.9057 [PID=23772] [version] Checking plan class 'X64-Beta'
2014-04-10 12:01:25.9057 [PID=23772] [version] plan class ok
2014-04-10 12:01:25.9057 [PID=23772] [version] Checking plan class 'SSE2'
2014-04-10 12:01:25.9058 [PID=23772] [version] plan class ok
2014-04-10 12:01:25.9058 [PID=23772] [version] Checking plan class 'SSE2-Beta'
2014-04-10 12:01:25.9058 [PID=23772] [version] plan class ok
2014-04-10 12:01:25.9058 [PID=23772] [version] Best version of app einstein_S6CasA is ID 473 (3.78 GFLOPS)
2014-04-10 12:01:25.9070 [PID=23772] [debug] Sorted list of URLs follows [host timezone: UTC+3600]
2014-04-10 12:01:25.9070 [PID=23772] [debug] zone=+03600 url=http://einstein2.aei.uni-hannover.de
2014-04-10 12:01:25.9070 [PID=23772] [debug] zone=-18900 url=http://einstein2.aei.uni-hannover.de
2014-04-10 12:01:25.9070 [PID=23772] [debug] zone=-21600 url=http://einstein-dl2.phys.uwm.edu
2014-04-10 12:01:25.9070 [PID=23772] [debug] zone=-21600 url=http://einstein-dl3.phys.uwm.edu
2014-04-10 12:01:25.9070 [PID=23772] [debug] zone=-28800 url=http://einstein.ligo.caltech.edu
2014-04-10 12:01:25.9074 [PID=23772] [send] [HOST#10224316] Sending app_version 473 einstein_S6CasA 7 105 X64; 3.78 GFLOPS
2014-04-10 12:01:25.9199 [PID=23772] [send] est. duration for WU 187559145: unscaled 26699.62 scaled 30853.92
2014-04-10 12:01:25.9199 [PID=23772] [HOST#10224316] Sending [RESULT#430559864 h1_0990.50_S6Directed__S6CasAf40a_990.7Hz_1310_0] (est. dur. 30853.92 seconds)
2014-04-10 12:01:25.9220 [PID=23772] [send] don't need more work
2014-04-10 12:01:25.9220 [PID=23772] [send] don't need more work
2014-04-10 12:01:25.9220 [PID=23772] [send] don't need more work
2014-04-10 12:01:25.9233 [PID=23772] Sending reply to [HOST#10224316]: 1 results, delay req 60.00
2014-04-10 12:01:25.9236 [PID=23772] Scheduler ran 0.266 seconds

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Thanks for reporting, try

Thanks for reporting, try again, please.

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RE: Thanks for reporting,

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Thanks for reporting, try again, please.

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O.K, i have a v1.06 (X64-Beta) task now, took a couple of scheduler contacts to get it through, But i'm on a relatively poor WiFi connection through a public hotspot so that is probably the reason,

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RE: As you may have noticed

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As you may have noticed from the Applications page, there will also be an OpenCL (GPU) version for this application later, but that will be a separate announcement. In any case this will also require you to set "run Beta test app versions" in your preferences.

How much of an improvement do you guys think the GPU GW application is over the CPU app?

Are we talking 2-3 times faster, or an order of magnitude?

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Depends on your card, a bit

Depends on your card, a bit on double precision performance and a lot on GPU memory bandwidth. I saw it doing an ordinary S6CasA task in about 1000s on an ATI 6970.

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So about 3x faster on average

So about 3x faster on average compared to my i7 4771...

Not bad.

And I'm assuming these will run on iGPUs?

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RE: So about 3x faster on

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So about 3x faster on average compared to my i7 4770...

You run a S6CasA task in less than an hour (3600s)?

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Yes. According to you it

Yes.

According to you it takes about 1000s to complete one GW unit on a 6970, and on my 4771, it takes 24000s to complete a unit *per thread*, meaning on average I compute one unit every 3000s (24000s/8 cores).

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