Download - Milkyway@home rcos presentation_4_8_2011
Milkyway@Home
• Distributed computing project
• Work on structure of Milkyway
• Tidal streams
• N-body simulation
Friday, April 8, 2011
Milkyway iOS
• Run 1 of 5 (sort of) fake workunits 1000x smaller than normal
• 10s desktop test takes 20 minutes, 8% battery
• E-mails me the results at [email protected]
• 143 people sent results, some many
Friday, April 8, 2011
Milkyway4iOS
• Get it from Peter’s Cydia repository
• “I haven’t looked at the Milkyway yet, cause that just came out”
• “Milkyway! What is it? What can I do with it?”
• “I don’t even know what this is for? Hope it helped you, and please update mobile notifier! So much potential for the best notification system!!”
Friday, April 8, 2011
What I’m doing
• Last presentation I forgot to mention my main goal for the semester
• (Still haven’t started that though, so it doesn’t matter)
Friday, April 8, 2011
CAL++
• Finally as fast (for the main part anyway)
• Apparently I was as fast for a long time and I’m just dumb
• (Well actually likelihood not done + other stuff, so a couple of extra seconds at the end)
• Need something besides a 5870 to test it
Friday, April 8, 2011
I broke the server
• All I wanted was a few minor scheduler fixes
• Now running SVN trunk server and everything is at least partially broken
• Slowly getting better
Friday, April 8, 2011
Lua
• Arbitrary initial distributions
• Less gross other configuration
• Better N-body tests
Friday, April 8, 2011
GPU N-body
• O (n log n) N-body much harder than the canonical GPU programming example
• Useless papers with no code (why are these publishable exactly?)
• Found a starting point
Friday, April 8, 2011
Questions?
• milkyway.cs.rpi.edu
• https://github.com/Milkyway-at-home/milkywayathome_client
Friday, April 8, 2011