MS Windows Beta Test App 4.24 available

Bernd Machenschalk
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RE: Hi everyone, first of

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Hi everyone, first of all it's great to see betas coming early in the science run, the days remaining should start to melt away.


Well, I promised to work on that...

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Looks like the two beta apps are running neck and neck,


That's good news.

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great job guys!


Thanks!

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RE: RenaudKener......I know

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RenaudKener......I know I am off topic here, but I wanted to know if...

Am I reading your Latin phrase as;

Entia, they are not multipying beyond necessity....if wrong, please correct me

thks in advance...


Hello Stan Pleban.
The classic translation is: Entities must not be multiplied beyond necessity.
Webster's unabriged dictionary (2nd edition) defines Occam's razor as such:
"the maxim that assumptions introduced to explain a thing must not be multiplied beyond necessity". Also know as principle of simplest explanation.

Interesting enough, Albert Einstein himself phrased it like that:
"Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler" [I quote from memory, forgive me if I made an error].

Yes, Occam's (or Ockam's) razor is an "axiom" of modern science. Nobel prize Richard P. Feynman wrote wonderfull pages about it in his lectures and also in his famous "Feynman lectures on physics".

Engineers sumarize it with this acronym: KISS
Keep It Simple Stupid :-)

"Entia non sunt multiplicandam praeter necessitatem"
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RenaudKener.....Appreciate...

RenaudKener.....Appreciate...

It was 2 AM in the morning and I was having trouble translating the word "Entia". I knew it was off topic, but oh well...thks again....Stan
and yes, KISS was popular with us way back then..

now to the topic at hand.. I am saving ~ 5 hrs per WU and getting good results

WU
app 4.24
WU
app 4.02

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I have downloaded two WUs

I have downloaded two WUs this morning. No problem until now. The first Wu is at 28% in 3h15'. That's ~ 11.5 hours per WU.
Good job.

Win XP pro sp2
Pentium 4 3.0 HT.

[pre] [/pre]
Intel I7 930 - GTX 480 - Windows 7 64

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My A64x2 2.55gig has gone

My A64x2 2.55gig has gone from 22credit/hour to 26credit/hour, which is only a 15% speedup. OTOH my box had a DCF of .5 using the stock app, which would imply that it's limitations hurt p4's more severely to begin with.

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My first unit has been

My first unit has been validated. Intel P4 3.4 Prescott SSE3 WinXP.

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Hi DanNeely, RE: My

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Hi DanNeely,

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My A64x2 2.55gig has gone from 22credit/hour to 26credit/hour, which is only a 15% speedup. OTOH my box had a DCF of .5 using the stock app, which would imply that it's limitations hurt p4's more severely to begin with.


I checked your results and i saw that all of them was produced by 4.02, perhaps your measurement wasn't perfect.

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RE: Hi DanNeely,RE: My

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Hi DanNeely,
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My A64x2 2.55gig has gone from 22credit/hour to 26credit/hour, which is only a 15% speedup. OTOH my box had a DCF of .5 using the stock app, which would imply that it's limitations hurt p4's more severely to begin with.

I checked your results and i saw that all of them was produced by 4.02, perhaps your measurement wasn't perfect.

Hi Akos,

great to see you here again!

Seems to as if DanNeely used the new app.

2006-08-05 09:42:04.0814 [normal]: Start of BOINC application 'projects/einstein.phys.uwm.edu/einstein_S5R1_4.02_windows_intelx86.exe'.
2006-08-05 09:42:04.0814 [normal]: Started search at lalDebugLevel = 0
2006-08-05 09:42:04.8939 [normal]: Checkpoint-file 'Fstat.out.ckp' not found.
2006-08-05 09:42:04.9096 [normal]: No usable checkpoint found, starting from beginning.
Detected CPU type 1
small x
small x
small x

Although it says 4.02 it was processed with the new app. ( small x stuff)
URL ---> http://einsteinathome.org/task/38111505

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OK, after waiting a few days,

OK, after waiting a few days, I got it installed.

Dual Xeon 2.4HT, 2G memory
short units
4.02 - ~2:28
4.24 - ~1:33

WOW!

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RE: Seems to as if

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Seems to as if DanNeely used the new app.

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Although it says 4.02 it was processed with the new app. ( small x stuff)
URL ---> http://einsteinathome.org/task/38111505

Correct. I keep a 3day cache due to occasional weekend ISP outages, so I used the rename the app technique described below to start using the new app immediately.

http://einsteinathome.org/node/191256

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