Aqua

[Zydor]

Struggled a bit as to which Forum for this one - if its wrong one, move away with apologies ....

Worth keeping an eye on Aqua if you are not already there. There have been dramas re credits et al - usual Alpha hassles - they appear to be settling, and they put huge effort into fixing that side of life when putting together the latest WU batch.

I'm impressed so far, the WUs are rocksolid, and things are ticking along well. They have issues trying to get CUDA to work for their science side of life, so CUDA not as fast as elsewhere.

There have been recent changes to the credit scheme (like about an hour ago ...) where they have triple the credit awards. It is going to give my Phenom2 quad - when all cores are on Aqua - about 28,000 credits a day which is pretty chunky for four cpus. An i7 would probebly end up with circa 60,000 - 80,000 a day ...... even higher if the i7 is running 64bit as the WUs for 64 bit are the most optimised. Their optimisations are very very good across all op sys ranges, and its fair its reflected in the new award levels.

If that award level sticks for good, its worthy of putting the project way high on the list any of you mega crunchers wishing to push up RAC - worth a snif around over there if not there already.

See: http://aqua.dwavesys.com/forum_thread.php?id=269

Regards
Zy

[Zydor]

More results in on new scheme - I'll up the figures above ....

Phenom2 quad is going to come out at about 34,000 to 38,000 a day (may even hit 40,000 with a following wind .....), and the i7s will get above 100,000 day.

For you mega crunchers - it really is worth a look now ......

Regards
Zy

[Anchula-Mark]

Thanks for the info Zy.

I ran a cuda WU about a month ago that took about 10 days to complete but I was quite happy with the 75,000 credits it "paid" as the cpus were earning credit as well.
With summer high temperatures upon us I am not risking overheating by running cuda apps (out of the box pc no extra cooling) but I will see what I can do with the 64bit quad.

Regards Mark

[Zydor]

Gets more interesting as the new credits they applied tonight take hold ..... I just got 9,000 credits for a cpu WU that took 4.5hrs wallclock time to complete using all four cores (Aqua apps are now fully optimised multi-threaded multi-cpu tasks - they fly !).

If that level is maintained, my estimates go up yet again ..... at that rate I would get 48,000 a day for the Phenom2 - the i7s would be a guess, but based on past comparitive performance they have to be close on 140,000+ a day for each box and would not surprise me to find the reality is above 150,000 a box.

They may well tweek them down a little, but the effect of new credits has been monitored carefully tonight and there are no panic signals yet re credit levels, so even if they tweek down a little, its looking more and more like a good long term deal.

The real plus is the full use of four cores on full genuine multi-threading crunching one WU - it flys

To anyone reading this, I would upgrade Aqua now to at least a "Must Visit" to see if it works for you.

If you want to see comparitive credit awards as time goes by to watch whats happening and you have no Aqua account, click the link below. Its my Aqua summary page (I have 3 types of cpu setups a Phenom2 quad, a dual FX60, and a dual laptop)

http://aqua.dwavesys.com/results.php?userid=17010

Note that Aqua no longer support single cpu, minimum requirement is dual cores. Best performance is gained by using Windows 64bit - its the most optimised. 32bit is absolutely fine, runs very fast - its just that 64bit doesnt just run, it flys rofl:)


Regards
Zy