David; You are asking a great deal from a 400 pentium II. Today's machines run at least 5 times faster. A number of my rigs do a WU in about 5 hours. My congratulations to you in volunteering this old warhorse for the project. Depending on the type of computer you have it may be possible to rebuild it with some relativly inexpensive components. Some Dell, Gateway, Compaq etc machines of that era came with proprietary case/components that did not allow updating. Can You give us some more detail?
David; One other suggestion, I see you are using Linux. Others report less than stellar performance of the Einstein applications under Linux. You might try the WINE/Windows combination discussed here:
David,
I would guess that your 400 MHz PII running linux would take about 3 days for an Einstein wu. Take a look at your "client_state.xml" file in your boinc folder. You will find the tag near the end of the file.
You can also >grep "fraction_done" client_state.xml.
tweakster's advice about using wine is on the money. My wu time on one machine went from 42000 seconds down to 26000 seconds when I started using the windows client running under wine.
> 400 MHz
> Dual 600 MHz
> 866 MHz
>
> Would the latter two machines be useful for Einstein@home?
> Or go with LHC and SETIboinc after SETIclassic shuts
> down?
>
I stopped using my PIII 500 for Einstein. It would get WU's done on time, but not regularly. (I ran all the other projects too). I imagine any of your puters would finish an Einstein WU if you dedicate it to Einstein alone.
Rather than having to run WINE under Linux, I would *cough* appreciate someone from the Project to take their Linux Code back to the drawing board and fix it :/
Trying to get a handle on WU time
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David; You are asking a great deal from a 400 pentium II. Today's machines run at least 5 times faster. A number of my rigs do a WU in about 5 hours. My congratulations to you in volunteering this old warhorse for the project. Depending on the type of computer you have it may be possible to rebuild it with some relativly inexpensive components. Some Dell, Gateway, Compaq etc machines of that era came with proprietary case/components that did not allow updating. Can You give us some more detail?
I would suggest that this
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I would suggest that this machine would be more appropriately used with Predictor@Home or SETI@Home.
David; One other suggestion,
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David; One other suggestion, I see you are using Linux. Others report less than stellar performance of the Einstein applications under Linux. You might try the WINE/Windows combination discussed here:
http://einsteinathome.org/node/188222
David, I would guess that
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David,
I would guess that your 400 MHz PII running linux would take about 3 days for an Einstein wu. Take a look at your "client_state.xml" file in your boinc folder. You will find the tag near the end of the file.
You can also >grep "fraction_done" client_state.xml.
tweakster's advice about using wine is on the money. My wu time on one machine went from 42000 seconds down to 26000 seconds when I started using the windows client running under wine.
Thanks for the
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Thanks for the suggestions.
The machine had been crunching workunits at CERN
until the recent hiatus.
I didn't want to let it go idle.
Looks like SETI would have been a more logical
choice of alternate project.
The computer is one of several that were for sale
at a low price in a neighborhood shop.
400 MHz
Dual 600 MHz
866 MHz
Would the latter two machines be useful for Einstein@home?
Or go with LHC and SETIboinc after SETIclassic shuts
down?
> 400 MHz > Dual 600 MHz >
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> 400 MHz
> Dual 600 MHz
> 866 MHz
>
> Would the latter two machines be useful for Einstein@home?
> Or go with LHC and SETIboinc after SETIclassic shuts
> down?
>
I stopped using my PIII 500 for Einstein. It would get WU's done on time, but not regularly. (I ran all the other projects too). I imagine any of your puters would finish an Einstein WU if you dedicate it to Einstein alone.
tony
Rather than having to run
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Rather than having to run WINE under Linux, I would *cough* appreciate someone from the Project to take their Linux Code back to the drawing board and fix it :/
The WU finished in 94 hours
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The WU finished in 94 hours or so.
Einstein@home now has a resource share
of 150 on the computer in question.
Live long and crunch.