Superlink@Technion

[russkris]

http://cbl-boinc-server2.cs.technion.ac.il/superlinkattechnion/img/superlink_logo.gif

Superlink@Technion

Superlink@Technion helps geneticists all over the world find disease-provoking genes causing some types of diabetes, hypertension (high blood pressure), cancer, schizophrenia and many others. Press here to learn more (http://cbl-boinc-server2.cs.technion.ac.il/superlinkattechnion/download_all.php)

http://cbl-boinc-server2.cs.technion.ac.il/superlinkattechnion/

[umccullough]

Is this project active? Last I tried (pehaps several months ago) I don't think it was giving out any work...

Maybe I'm thinking of a different project - will go check it.

Edit: Nope, no work... Looks like they're still testing new applications with small chunks of work here and there.

I found this (amusing):

http://cbl-boinc-server2.cs.technion.ac.il/superlinkattechnion/forum_thread.php?id=155

[fractal]

I will have to try it again, but last time I tried it my results were similar to umccullough. No work, no work, site down, site down, no work, site down.

Infrequent but regular work is fine (aka simap) but site down so much was an issue. Maybe it has improved since then.

[fractal]

The site is more stable now but the lack of work is discouraging.

see http://boincstats.com/stats/project_graph.php?pr=superlink

[fractal]

It has been a month or so since my last post and Superlink@Technion has has a more or less steady flow of work since the beginning of march. It does tend to go away for hours/days at a time and the failure to connects do impact other projects, but there is indeed work flowing.

[KAMCOBILL]

Here are some stats (http://www.xgrubberskickass.com/php/Teams/Superlink@Technion.php) I've been running this project since June. There was a period of no work. After then it has been running steady. Today it started with some comp errors for the past 4 hours or so. Other than that work has been available. Of course, running 70+ BOINC projects does reflect with much credits. :D

[russkris]

So whats the story with this project... I read the forum thread posted on the official forum.. go to see the Vault getting talked about

So is it stable enough... Post your ups and downs

[fractal]

I have been running superlink off and on for a while now. It recently issued a bunch of buggy wu's that popped up appication errors that required a click for boinc to continue that the admins promptly resolved. It requires more resources (up to 1 gig of ram per core) than many other projects.

Even with those issues, the admins are responsive and work does flow.

[KAMCOBILL]

Been receiving work and has ben stable.

[opyrt]

Other members of my team (Team Norway) are giving this project thumbs up.

BTW: The admins have explained that this is a batch style project, so they need to analyse the finished batch of WUs before releasing a new batch. That explains why there are no WUs available every now and then.

[fractal]

I too have been getting steady work.

The good news is everything works fine on the most popular platform : 32 bit windows.

The bad news the project is 64 bit linux challenged. It has been reported and reported and reported and reported and then reported on their forums with no acknowledgment or response.

I would have no issue if they simply withdrew the linux 64 client until they can find the problem, but as the project stands. :thumbsdown:

[KAMCOBILL]

Looks like it's ready to add.

http://cbl-link02.cs.technion.ac.il/superlinkattechnion/

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[leavitron]

I recently gave this project another stab. In the time I watched a pair of WUs before aborting:
1) WUs failed to show any progress (checkpointing) in the 15 minutes they ran.
2) WUs failed to even show any CPU time, despite each having 48-49% of CPU utilization.

I don't think this one is ready.

[KAMCOBILL]

I recently gave this project another stab. In the time I watched a pair of WUs before aborting:
1) WUs failed to show any progress (checkpointing) in the 15 minutes they ran.
2) WUs failed to even show any CPU time, despite each having 48-49% of CPU utilization.

I don't think this one is ready.

In all fairness, 15 minutes is not a good try. Two hours would be better. Yoho@Home doesn't show progress either for some time. There must be a checkpoint, since I haven't lost any progress on WUs. I haven't checked progress lately, but it use to show progress every 10%. I have 4 running now, I'll check to see now and get back on ths issue.

Edited: It looks like the progress incrument has changed a little. The change is 14% now. (e.g. ~28% to ~42%). Recent WUs not under 5 hours to complete.

[fractal]

I am giving it a try again. I have one win 32 machine on it so far and the results are ... passable. The server is unavailable or the project is randomly almost every day. That test box is on three projects and I have had it go dry. They have had issues with cheaters and have been playing with a "credit cap" that when the WU is less, is ample, but sometimes gives 1/2 or 1/4 the credit for the work. They change work unit sizes often and never the estimates so it is easy to "far too much" with even the standard .25 day queue. I'll put it on a linux64 machine again once I get a few days to do a proper comparison, but it doesn't look like much has changed other than "the more things change the more they stay the same".

But, as I said earlier... It does usually have work .. and passes all the requirements for admission. I do just wish it were slightly better run.