A weekly summary of news and notes for MLC@Home
Summary GPU week(s), part 3. We took some time off this past week to focus on things other than academics, but still managed to get an updated Linux/CUDA client out that now works on at least some systems. Attempting to make a single application that runs on multiple OS, drivers, and CUDA versions is proving to be difficult. This is also a strange case where the Linux app is proving more difficult than Windows... 2020 is a really weird timeline.
News:
- You can follow GPU client progress on several forum threads like this one: https://www.mlcathome.org/mlcathome/forum_thread.php?id=111
We've set up a BOINC AppPlan to filter clients who can receive the cuda client to those that will work. You will need CUDA driver version 440 or higher, Windows 10 or LInux w/ GLIBC 2.27 or higher, and an nvidia card with compute capability 3.5 or greater.
We expect to have most CUDA issues ironed out and have them in general (non-beta) use by lastnextthis coming week. ROCm support would be next, but it is a lower priority.
Datasets 1,2 and 3 continue crunching away. GREAT progress so far!
GPU debugging continues to take too much time, we look forward to getting them released so we can focus on the science.
Project status snapshot:
(note these numbers are approximations)
Tasks Tasks ready to send 16536 Tasks in progress 22529 Users With credit 1134 Registered in past 24 hours 35 Hosts With recent credit 2097 Registered in past 24 hours 24 Current GigaFLOPS 26267.99
Dataset 1 and 2 progress:
SingleDirectMachine 10002/10004 EightBitMachine 10001/10006 SingleInvertMachine 10001/10003 SimpleXORMachine 10000/10002 ParityMachine 949/10005 ParityModified 308/10005 EightBitModified 6713/10006 SimpleXORModified 10005/10005 SingleDirectModified 10004/10004 SingleInvertModified 10002/10002
Dataset 3 progress:
Overall (so far): 49317/53359 Milestone 1, 100x100: 10000/10000 Milestone 2, 100x1000: 49317/100000 Milestone 3: 100x10000: 49317/1000000
Last week's TWIM Notes: Nov 2 2020
Thanks again to all our volunteers!
-- The MLC@Home Admins[/s]j
Source: https://www.mlcathome.org/mlcathome/for ... php?id=118