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Daniel made a great work again, the modifications he made are both efficient and elegant. Thanks a lot.
As usual, I will wait for some time before making the new optimized application 'official'. This will probably happen at the end of May (I'll be quite busy until then).
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This is a test run on my FX8320 with a real vv workunit kept from the project, the same for every app. Best time of 3 runs.
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Could someone recommend which version I should be using with Intel L7555 cpus? (4 of them)
Looks like 58 minutes using 1.03 sse2 (linux)
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Could someone recommend which version I should be using with Intel L7555 cpus? (4 of them)
Looks like 58 minutes using 1.03 sse2 (linux)
Looks like thats the best app version for you.
http://www.cpu-world.com/CPUs/Xeon/Intel-Xeon%20MP%20L7555%20-%20AT80604004875AA.html
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Thanks!
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Hi daniel, i have a question for you
on my i5-6400 win7 64bit i recieve both avx an sse2 WU
if i want instal your optimization v1.2 which version i need to copy in the project folder?
- TN-Grid.windows-x86-64-avx-v1.2
- TN-Grid.windows-x86-64-sse2-v1.2
can i install both?
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Hi daniel, i have a question for you
on my i5-6400 win7 64bit i recieve both avx an sse2 WU
if i want instal your optimization v1.2 which version i need to copy in the project folder?
- TN-Grid.windows-x86-64-avx-v1.2
- TN-Grid.windows-x86-64-sse2-v1.2
can i install both?
Your CPU also supports FMA instructions, so you can also try FMA app version: http://www.cpu-world.com/CPUs/Core_i5/Intel-Core%20i5-6400.html. In general FMA app version should be faster than AVX, which is faster than SSE one. However on some CPUs FMA versions for some reason is a bit slower than AVX one, so please try both.
It is possible to install few versions, but you would have to rename pc.exe files and modify app_info.xml to specify all app versions with proper plan classes. Files prepared by me are configured to run single app version only.
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Hi daniel, i have a question for you
on my i5-6400 win7 64bit i recieve both avx an sse2 WU
if i want instal your optimization v1.2 which version i need to copy in the project folder?
- TN-Grid.windows-x86-64-avx-v1.2
- TN-Grid.windows-x86-64-sse2-v1.2
can i install both?
Your CPU also supports FMA instructions, so you can also try FMA app version: http://www.cpu-world.com/CPUs/Core_i5/Intel-Core%20i5-6400.html. In general FMA app version should be faster than AVX, which is faster than SSE one. However on some CPUs FMA versions for some reason is a bit slower than AVX one, so please try both.
It is possible to install few versions, but you would have to rename pc.exe files and modify app_info.xml to specify all app versions with proper plan classes. Files prepared by me are configured to run single app version only.
ok i will try fma app too. i use the i5-6400 since yesterday (60 wu completed) and i haven't recieve any fma WU
i will try all 3 apps from tomorrow
for now, both sse2 and avx standard app are between 1220 - 1290s cpu time
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hi Daniel i have a problem installing the app on the i5-6400 pc
in 10 days (around 500wu completed) i haave recived equal number of sse and avx WU. no fma wu
both sse and avx standard app are around 1250s so i will try sse first
i copy both pc.exe and app_info.xml in C:\Users\All Users\BOINC\projects\gene.disi.unitn.it_test\ but it doesn't work
i have todelete some existing file first?
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Did you restart the BOINC Client after placing the files? Otherwise these won't be recognized...
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Hello and from me.
I am new in this project and want to ask one thing: how can i reduce which app was download to my BOINC? Iwant only FMA or only AVX but the client start download all app: avx, ss2 and fma. What cind of app_config file must i put to reduce only fma app?
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The server initially sends you all 3 flavors, after you return some results for each it decides which is the best for you and would usually send you WUs tagged for just one app version.
Please note, those are the default applications, not the latest updated ones by Daniel. Check back at http://gene.disi.unitn.it/test/forum_thread.php?id=135&postid=1031#1031 and download a copy from his link. If you have AVX or FMA capable CPUs, head straight for those apps. Each archive contains an app_info.xml, so once activated you get only WUs for that application.
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So....what is the difference between default app which i download automatic (for example gene_pcim_v1.02_win64__fma) and the same one fma from the link and the archive? If i saw right both are version 1.02? Which one i must use for better performance?
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I asked rattorosso [Marche] to create apps for remaining 3 ARM architectures: armv6_vfp, armv7_vfpv3 and aarch64. He send them to me, and I uploaded them in usual place: https://bitbucket.org/sirzooro/pc-boinc/downloads/. Feel free to download and test them too.
So....what is the difference between default app which i download automatic (for example gene_pcim_v1.02_win64__fma) and the same one fma from the link and the archive? If i saw right both are version 1.02? Which one i must use for better performance?
Both internally specify the same version 1.02, but version from this thread has extra optimizations so it runs faster than official one. Valterc is going to take it and release as a new version of official one at end of May.
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Both internally specify the same version 1.02, but version from this thread has extra optimizations so it runs faster than official one. Valterc is going to take it and release as a new version of official one at end of May.
I tested on my pc and there is the result (for some reason on my pc the SSE2 app is fastest app. CPU - i7 4790, 32GB RAM @1600MHz):
1. the official app SDSE2: Run time: 27 min 39 sec; CPU time: 27 min 30 sec;
2. the optimized app SSE2: Run time: 28 min 17 sec; CPU time: 27 min 43 sec;
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Hi
any news regarding the Mac OS version ?
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I tested 3x the same 16 WUs on a Ryzen 1700 @ 3,8 GHz with SMT on.
avx: 28:30 - 28:48
sse: 28:56 - 29:14
fma: 29:43 - 30:01
standard: ~35min.
i5-3570 (3,2 GHz) standard: ~28min.
So there is a difference of ~18% per WU on the Ryzen, what is pretty nice.
But I wonder why the Ryzen isn't faster than the old i5, even with the optimized app and 600 MHz more clock speed. I saw this also on other Projects.
Seems to be that most of the apps from all projects are optimized for Intel.
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But I wonder why the Ryzen isn't faster than the old i5, even with the optimized app and 600 MHz more clock speed. I saw this also on other Projects.
Seems to be that most of the apps from all projects are optimized for Intel.
It is more because with the i5-3570 you are using a full core, whereas with the Ryzen you are using a virtual core. So it is not bad at all, though you may be right that it is optimized for Intel.
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hi,
the FPU of the AMD processor is slow
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It appears that initially sse2 was downloaded then it switched over to avx when it realized that those run better, I have an i7-4770. However, now it seems that it has switched back to sse2? There also seems to be no sign of it running FMA...
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