A weekly summary of news and notes for MLC@Home
Summary Only a short update this week, as we've been running analysis on the data collected so far in preparation for a paper, and it was a holiday weekend in our part of the world. The new Linux/CUDA client appears to be working well, so we can stop spamming the news feed with updated each week. More information in the news below.
News:
- More details on the updated Linux GPU support, both CUDA and ROCm, and it is here, including a recent discussion on disk usage of the new client: https://www.mlcathome.org/mlcathome/forum_thread.php?id=127.
DS1 and DS2 continue towards completion. We've modified some of the WUs to expire early if they don't appear to be converging, in the hopes of nudging our searches down more likely-to-converge-soon paths. EightBitModified is only a few thousand away from completion!
DS3 progress is approaching milestone 2, 1000x100.. 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!
Analyzing the DS3 data so far, we've discovered the dataset itself is very large (approx 100GB for just 500x100). This is slowing down analysis somewhat, but a good problem to have. We can trim that down significantly in a release, but sometimes dealing with that much data just takes time.
We've created the DS1-100, DS1-500, DS1-1000, DS2-100, DS3-100, DS3-500 datasets internally, and are cleaning them up and analyzing the results. We hope to have some (preliminary) results to share with the community, like we published before, within days.
Project status snapshot:
(note these numbers are approximations)
Tasks Tasks ready to send 45843 Tasks in progress 18569 Users With credit 1318 Registered in past 24 hours 43/b]
Hosts With recent credit 2228 Registered in past 24 hours 60 Current GigaFLOPS 37671.35
Dataset 1 and 2 progress:
SingleDirectMachine 10002/10004 EightBitMachine 10001/10006 SingleInvertMachine 10001/10003 SimpleXORMachine 10000/10002 ParityMachine 1091/10005 ParityModified 391/10005 EightBitModified 7750/10006 SimpleXORModified 10005/10005 SingleDirectModified 10004/10004 SingleInvertModified 10002/10002
Dataset 3 progress:
Overall (so far): 82873/101488 Milestone 1, 100x100: 10000/10000 Milestone 2, 100x1000: 82873/100000 Milestone 3: 100x10000: 82873/1000000
Last week's TWIM Notes: Nov 23 2020
Thanks again to all our volunteers!
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