The UDStats page
Statistical monitoring of the grid.org distributed computing programme
Grid.org (formerly United Devices) is a distributed computing company.
It's most well-known project is the cancer project, which was conduced in co-operation with the University of Oxford.
Unfortunately, there is a... well flaw is too harsh a word... an imperfection in the grid.org programme.
The grid.org programme, which I will refer to a 'the agent', only saves the processed data every once in a while, at so-called checkpoints.
These checkpoints can be seconds apart, but also hours. In the early days, days between checkpoints were also reported.
Of course, this depends on your CPU power at your disposal, but also on the so called work unit the grid.org agent is currently processing. This programme is for people who are curious about the inner workings of the beast, but also you who are control freaks who want to know everything that goes on in the black box that's the grid.org agent.
The UDStats is a windows programme that can run in the taskbar and monitors the time between checkpoints.
It can also do some statistics on that data.
In the Server/Client version, you can access this data over the network.
You don't need to find out the URL or IP-number of the clients, the name mentioned in the "network neighborhood" is enough!
Important: I try to keep the CPU power of this programme as low as possible, however it cannot be avoided that the time between checkpoints is slightly increased by using this programme.
Screenshots:
UDStats in action - 49 kb
UDTabStats in action - 21 kb
UDStatsServer and UDStatsClient in action - 72 kb
Download:
UDStats version 0.2.1 (508 kb) - statistics without network gizmo's.
UDStatsServer and UStatsClient version 0.2 (1.00 Mb) - statistics with network gizmo's (9 July: QUICK BUGFIX UPDATE).
Installing: Unzip the file and read the readme.txt (web version)
N.B.:
New in version 0.2.1:
- The UDStats and UDTabStats programmes have been merged. The UDStats programme can now display the graphs both stacked AND tabbed.
- Some minor bugfixes. (Added fixes to UDStatsClient but didn't change number yet).
New in version 0.2:
- To keep in the spirit of "less-is-more":
- A lot of options have been removed, these functions can be done much better by the UDMonitor and UDShutdowner.
- The UDStats programme no longer starts/stop the grid.org program.
This will prevent the "Another instance of the UD Agent is running" error.
- Confirmation dialog when clearing statistics.
- More Statistix goodies (standard deviation and subsequent 68% and 95% ranges)
- Configurable Histogram graph (WAHOO!)
- In UDStatsServer can the graphs of all clients are now merged in one graph.
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