Hey Folks this is not a Alpha Test its more Stable Then
Anonymous
15 Nov 2004 13:16:16 UTC
Topic 12243
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Thanks for the kind words! If only you could see the chaos, sleepless nights and coffee consumption behind the scenes... !!
We still have a number of things to do. We are still making changes to the validator. Right now, some valid results are actually being marked 'invalid'. We are tracking down the reasons. We think there may be a small problem with 'unordered floating point comparisons' in our application, rather than with the validator.
Another important thing is that we want to modify our application to do twice as much work. Instead of simply searching the output from a single interferometer, as currently, we want to search the output of two different interferometers and then only return the 'candidates' that appear in BOTH.
We also want to compress our return files to make them smaller.
Finally, we need to make a linux executable that runs more efficiently. Our key routine (LALDemod) is faster in Win32 than Linux. We need to find the compiler switches and other options that will make this faster.
So I expect that we'll still be doing 'alpha testing' for another few weeks while we get these things sorted out. I intend to add another bunch of users once we have these things done. But I want to proceed with caution and not 'open up' Einstein@home to the general public until we are really 100% ready to do science with hit. Hopefully this will be sooner rather than later!
Hey Folks this is not a Alpha Test its more Stable Then
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> Thanks for the kind words! If only you could see the chaos, sleepless nights
> and coffee consumption behind the scenes... !!
A great project non the less in spite of the fact that boinc is still bleading edge.
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> We also want to compress our return files to make them smaller.
I am wondering if you should also look at using the boinc zip library to compress the download stream as well.
I did a test compress of the E@H boinc files and most compress very well.
This may start to help with the low speed modem issues.
The other issue with low speed users is that boinc opens a numuber of downlado connections, i have seen 6 open tranfers which is bad on low speed modem links.
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> Finally, we need to make a linux executable that runs more efficiently. Our
> key routine (LALDemod) is faster in Win32 than Linux. We need to find the
> compiler switches and other options that will make this faster.
Good, the linxu crunchers will eb happy with better performance of the linux side.
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> So I expect that we'll still be doing 'alpha testing' for another few weeks
> while we get these things sorted out. I intend to add another bunch of users
> once we have these things done. But I want to proceed with caution and not
> 'open up' Einstein@home to the general public until we are really 100% ready
> to do science with hit. Hopefully this will be sooner rather than later!
>
As one might say, i little change then a look back...
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