Merlin Cluster rested for a while
10 Sep 2005 17:20:58 UTC
Topic 189869
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I´d like to thank Einstein@Work and Steffen Grunewald for giving us, the Team "special: off topic" the chance to reach the No.1 in RAC list for some days. We had a lot of fun!
But I´m curious: What happend to the cluster the last day´s? I couldn´t find a hint. Did you do some tuning?
Es gr
Merlin Cluster rested for a while
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FYI: There are Ganglia graphs available for the Merlin cluster at http://pandora.aei.mpg.de/ganglia-webfrontend
It does indeed look like the cluster was doing some non-BOINC stuff in the last weeks. BOINC time is most likely the yellow "nice" load in the diagrams.
RE: It does indeed look
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Fully true. It's running Einstein@Home only in its "spare time", i.e. on those CPUs which are not used for current jobs. In the past weeks we had quite some other data analysis jobs running there.
BM
BM
Dear echoray and
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Dear echoray and Bernd,
thanks a lot for your kind reply.
I have already looked at the pandora page but I couldn´t figure out what was Einstein@Home and what was not. As I learned that The Merlin cluster does only analyse Geo600 and Ligo data, I thought this refered to E@H only.
Now I see this was a misapprehension.
Es gr
RE: I´d like to thank
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It's so great to see such positive working-together for the betterment of science!
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Intelelctual property law: [URL="http://www.davidcthompson.com"]David Thompson[/URL]
Might be interesting to know
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Might be interesting to know that Merlin was originally designed and built to a large part for running precisely the software we are now using on Einstein@Home.
BM
BM
RE: Might be interesting to
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Yes, that’s exactly what I learned. So I thought Merlin would still run E@H only, because the RAC of about 50.000 is enormous. It´s quite more astonishing to hear that this is done in its idle time only.
For the reason of competition, you should do more scientific work with this cluster and not keep him idle for such a long time :-))
But sooner or later (I hope sooner) the Team “special: off topic” will reach the RAC of 50.000, also. I’m sure.
Looking forward to the day…
BTW: We`re currently working on a German translation of Bruce Allens` status report. We are at present at chapter 11. Should we post it at E@H when it`s finished?
Es gr
RE: RE: Might be
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Despite my earlier post "idle time" is not fully correct. The search for gravity wave signals from continous sources (like pulsars) is still its purpose, but (as planned) it does this not only with the method we now have extended to Einstein@Home. It does run Einstein@Home on purpose as long as there is no other search program running (or not using the whole cluster).
Sounds quite good to me! Post it here, or send a link to Reinhard Prix or to me if you want us to read over it first.
BM
BM
RE: RE: BTW: We`re
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Sure, this work should definitely been read first by someone who is familiar with the stuff. Here is the link:
http://www.heise.de/foren/go.shtml?read=1&msg_id=8811100&forum_id=74338
I hope you`ll get access with no difficulties. Please choose: "Threadanzeige einschalten" this will make it a lot easier for you to find the chapters, because we did it one by one.
And don´t laugh!!! :-)
Es gr