MLC@home [TWIM Notes] Nov 23 2020

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#1 MLC@home [TWIM Notes] Nov 23 2020

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This Week in MLC@Home Notes for Nov 23 2020
A weekly summary of news and notes for MLC@Home

Summary
BoincNetwork did a podcast introducing MLC@Home! You can listen to the episode, including some comments from your MLC Admins, at https://www.boinc.network/episode/mlchome. Thanks to all those at BoincNetwork for taking an interest in us.

Last week we pivoted towards analysis and writing. However, we did take one last crack at Linux/CUDA support, and surprisingly that seems to have done the trick. We've released Linux/CUDA support to the main mlds-gpu queue. There are some trade-offs with the new client though, especially with regards to disk space required.

We're also released Linux/ROCm AMD GPU support to mldstest, but it is currently only enabled for VEGA 56/64 GPUs, and requires a Linux 5.0.0 kernel or greater. Please see the link in the News section below for more details.

We also spent some time overhauling the MLDS Dataset page on the main website. It's still not done, but a little less outdated than it was, and is preparing for more releasing the first rounds of datasets. With that and some more analysis, we're working towards our first Dataset paper. More news below:

News:
  • More details on the updated Linux GPU support, both CUDA and ROCm, and it is here: https://www.mlcathome.org/mlcathome/forum_thread.php?id=127.
    The latest GPU clients drop the AppImage requirement. CPU clients still use it, but it may make sense to drop it there too. See the above thread for the associated trade-offs.
    DS1+DS2 continue to march towards completion. Only Parity and EightBit workunits left! Keep it up!
    DS3 progress is approaching milestone 2, 1000x100.. approaching 100000 DS3 networks trained. That will definitely help with our ongoing analysis. It's nice to see the scoreboard at the bottom of https://www.mlcathome.org/ turning from yellow to green!
    Updates MLDS Dataset page here: https://www.mlcathome.org/mlds.html, you can see how we're currently planning to split up the datasets for release.
    We've starting writing a dataset paper this week, and hope to get back to preparing dataset 4 this week.


Project status snapshot:
(note these numbers are approximations)

Tasks
Tasks ready to send 28803 Tasks in progress 19629 Users With credit 1251 Registered in past 24 hours 57 Hosts With recent credit 2156 Registered in past 24 hours 19 Current GigaFLOPS 36126.42

Dataset 1 and 2 progress:
SingleDirectMachine 10002/10004 EightBitMachine 10001/10006 SingleInvertMachine 10001/10003 SimpleXORMachine 10000/10002 ParityMachine 1031/10005 ParityModified 348/10005 EightBitModified 6910/10006 SimpleXORModified 10005/10005 SingleDirectModified 10004/10004 SingleInvertModified 10002/10002
Dataset 3 progress:
Overall (so far): 75935/84376 Milestone 1, 100x100: 10000/10000 Milestone 2, 100x1000: 75935/100000 Milestone 3: 100x10000: 75935/1000000

Last week's TWIM Notes: Nov 17 2020

Thanks again to all our volunteers!

-- The MLC@Home Admins(s)
Homepage: https://www.mlcathome.org/
Twitter: @MLCHome2

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