Merlin Cluster rested for a while

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Anonymous
10 Sep 2005 17:20:58 UTC
Topic 13120
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    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.

    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.

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    Merlin Cluster rested for a while

    13 Sep 2005 9:46:15 UTC
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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.

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      RE: RE: Might be

      15 Sep 2005 21:05:45 UTC
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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.
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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.


        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).

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        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?


        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.

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