TPU's WCG/BOINC Team

mstenholm · Oct 27, 2010

NastyHabits said:
Although I'm a smart-phone owner, I would gladly exchange it for an old style phone that worked. I was really bummed when my 4 year-old razr finally gave up the ghost. (I once dropped it 3 stories onto concrete and it survived.) I can't stand it when I go to restaurant with friends, we sit down, and they all whip out their phones. What happened to conversation with friends?

It's been proven that constant smartphone use actually lowers your IQ up to 10%. We humans are social animals. Good conversation leads to increased brain function. Solitary staring at a screen makes you dumber.

There is a new medical problem known as 'blackberry neck" from constantly bending to look at your phone.

Enough ranting on my part. If you have a smart-phone, I hope you enjoy it. Please don't flame me.

+1 but I'm "old" too

scaminatrix · Oct 27, 2010

Gwaa, "Windows Desktop Manager has stopped working unexpectedly" killed my fun tonight!
Administering more NB volts now lol

Chicken Patty · Oct 27, 2010

scaminatrix said:
Gwaa, "Windows Desktop Manager has stopped working unexpectedly" killed my fun tonight!
Administering more NB volts now lol

Make sure your temps are in check bro. :toast:

Good luck.

scaminatrix · Oct 27, 2010

Chicken Patty said:
Make sure your temps are in check bro. Good luck.

Cheers, all seems good; 48 max on NB and 56 max on CPU. The Raven 2 helps the temps a lot, everything idles in the 30's.
Given one notch on the NB and it seems fine

Chicken Patty · Oct 28, 2010

scaminatrix said:
Cheers, all seems good; 48 max on NB and 56 max on CPU. The Raven 2 helps the temps a lot, everything idles in the 30's.
Given one notch on the NB and it seems fine

I would stop there as far as the CPU is concerned. :toast:

[Ion] · Oct 28, 2010

I dumped about 100 WUs from the i7, I finally got it to upload. Reinstalled BOINC and all was good

I'm going to talk to the school IT guy tomorrow, if all goes well, I'll be able to start rolling out WCG on the 30 C2Ds in the comp lab. Not all right away OFC, but maybe half a dozen for now. IIRC they're on ~10 hours a day :toast:

Chicken Patty · Oct 28, 2010

[Ion] said:
I dumped about 100 WUs from the i7, I finally got it to upload. Reinstalled BOINC and all was good

I'm going to talk to the school IT guy tomorrow, if all goes well, I'll be able to start rolling out WCG on the 30 C2Ds in the comp lab. Not all right away OFC, but maybe half a dozen for now. IIRC they're on ~10 hours a day

Holy crap!!!!!!! :respect:

ION has the school to back him up! 100k PPD?

[Ion] · Oct 28, 2010

I don't know yet if he'll let me, he just said it was a possibility

But 30 of those even @ ~300 PPD each would still be a force to be reckoned with

scaminatrix · Oct 28, 2010

Chicken Patty said:
I would stop there as far as the CPU is concerned.

Yea it's just the cold-boot issues I need to sort now, takes 2 boots to get into Windows.

[Ion] said:
But 30 of those even @ ~300 PPD each would still be a force to be reckoned with

All going to be under team TPU? That'd be nice lol

[Ion] · Oct 28, 2010

That would be the plan, under my account w/ TPU

Chicken Patty · Oct 28, 2010

That's 9,000 ppd Kai.

[Ion] · Oct 28, 2010

I just added 24 2ghz Pentium Dual Cores :rockout:

I have some pictures of all 20 that I'll upload when I get home (need cable for my phone).

Lab Admin was extremely supportive of this, said that it was a cool project. He's said I can have 'em run for the next week or two, if things are going poorly after that, then I may have to scale back, but he said that it was cool and that he would support me

Oh, and they're at 100% CPU usage 24/7. The few students using the computers ATM said that it doesn't change the usability at all. ~13.7k PPD! :eek:

Chicken Patty · Oct 28, 2010

my god!

mstenholm · Oct 28, 2010

[Ion] said:
I just added 24 2ghz Pentium Dual Cores

I have some pictures of all 20 that I'll upload when I get home (need cable for my phone).

Lab Admin was extremely supportive of this, said that it was a cool project. He's said I can have 'em run for the next week or two, if things are going poorly after that, then I may have to scale back, but he said that it was cool and that he would support me

Oh, and they're at 100% CPU usage 24/7. The few students using the computers ATM said that it doesn't change the usability at all. ~13.7k PPD!

How will I ever get pie :roll:

Nice job Ion

Chicken Patty · Oct 28, 2010

I know right? :shadedshu

That's a good sign though. Means people are stepping it up! :rockout:

[Ion] · Oct 28, 2010

Chicken Patty said:
my god!

mstenholm said:
How will I ever get pie

Nice job Ion

Thank you both

I'm really looking forward to this, within a few days the WUs should be coming in in full force, so I should be able to do in the range of 15-20k PPD (let's assume ~11-12k from the farm, although it can in theory do ~14k, then easily another 4-5k from the other setups I have going) :roll:

I forsee no troubles getting pie again as long as I have these going :cool:

mstenholm · Oct 28, 2010

Chicken Patty said:
I know right? :shadedshu

That's a good sign though. Means people are stepping it up!

Sure is a good thing. BTW I know how to get pie but then I will lose my folding pie. Can't have it all

[Ion] · Oct 28, 2010

Maybe do bigadv on your i7 sometimes and WCG sometimes?

I think I *may* finally be able to eliminate Mike as a threat....that would be awesome

Chicken Patty · Oct 28, 2010

You definitely shouldn't have an issue getting lie ION

Mstenholm
I know what you mean bro, nice to contribute evenly or so to both. :toast:

mstenholm · Oct 28, 2010

[Ion] said:
Maybe do bigadv on your i7 sometimes and WCG sometimes?

I think I *may* finally be able to eliminate Mike as a threat....that would be awesome

Mike is on a rampage but best of luck fighting him of. I just rolled over :laugh:

Running -bigadv/SMP now but will run one for WGC (i7-920) and one for the nice bonus points (W3670) starting in a few days. Got my visa for Iran and will be going there soon.

[Ion] · Oct 28, 2010

Sorry about the quality, but here are the 24 newest additions:

All Lenovos with 2GHZ PentDualCores running a slimmed-down XP x86. Untouched over the weekends and ~4PM-8AM daily :toast:

When they're used, it's just for internet browsing and word processing, so they rarely see over a 15% CPU usage.

I set 'em all up at lunch when very few other people were using them....it's a bit of a pain to set up BOINC on 24 individual computers in 50 minutes :shadedshu

EDIT: All 24 represented in my device manager

I've been told if I can figure out how to do a service install on Macs, I also have access to about a dozen Intel Macs

KieX · Oct 28, 2010

[Ion] said:
Sorry about the quality, but here are the 24 newest additions:
http://img.techpowerup.org/101028/IMG_20101028_132613.jpg
http://img.techpowerup.org/101028/IMG_20101028_132744.jpg
http://img.techpowerup.org/101028/IMG_20101028_132922.jpg

All Lenovos with 2GHZ PentDualCores running a slimmed-down XP x86. Untouched over the weekends and ~4PM-8AM daily
When they're used, it's just for internet browsing and word processing, so they rarely see over a 15% CPU usage.

I set 'em all up at lunch when very few other people were using them....it's a bit of a pain to set up BOINC on 24 individual computers in 50 minutes :shadedshu

EDIT: All 24 represented in my device manager
http://img.techpowerup.org/101028/devman1.png
http://img.techpowerup.org/101028/devman2.png

I've been told if I can figure out how to do a service install on Macs, I also have access to about a dozen Intel Macs

Nice farm you're getting there. mjmike is on a rampage, but looks like you're going to start your own little one :laugh:

On my sister's macbook once installed it automatically started at boot up and was hidden away from view (well did have a tray icon). No idea about running it as a service, but at least it will be inconspicous.

[Ion] · Oct 28, 2010

These computers spend 16+ hours a day with no one logged in. So I'd really like it to run when people aren't logged in....otherwise, not a lot of point :ohwell:

I figure about 30 systems should be enough to hold off Mike...15k PPD should be pretty easy w/ everything going, potentially a good bit more (especially w/ the Macs)

KieX · Oct 28, 2010

If I remember correctly it should still run with other people logged in. The only thing is that anyone who isn't the installer will get an error message if they try to run the Manager. But think it still runs. Gonna go look this up.

EDIT: Think you'll find this page useful: http://boinc.berkeley.edu/wiki/Tools_for_Mac_OS_X

Chicken Patty · Oct 28, 2010

Oh man, that's awesome. If only I was allowed to bring the 41 Core 2 Duo E8400s in my office online.

That would be this much PPD per day

!

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Video Card(s)	MSI Twin Frozr II GTX470 @ Stock w/CPU fan cable-tied on, as one of the GPU fans broke.
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Power Supply	Corsair HX650W
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Benchmark Scores	No benchies so making this space useful! Corsair M90, Logitech G19. Phobya FlexLight LED's (gawjus)

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Software	Windows 11 Pro

System Name	Benny
Processor	Phenom II 1055t @ 3.3GHz; 300x11; 1.380v; NB 2700; HT 2400
Motherboard	ASUS Crosshair IV Formula (2002 BIOS)
Cooling	Thermalright TRUE 120 Black + 2 Xilence Red Wing PWM 120mm (push/pull) + polycarbonate fan holders
Memory	8GB GeIL Ultra 2133MHZ C9 running at 1600MHz @ 7-7-7-21 1T 1.5v
Video Card(s)	MSI Twin Frozr II GTX470 @ Stock w/CPU fan cable-tied on, as one of the GPU fans broke.
Storage	60GB OCZ Agility3 (OS);500GB WDC Grn; 1x1TB WDC Blk (Backup)
Display(s)	ASUS PA823Q
Case	Silverstone Raven 2 (all cables custom sleeved with velcro mod on side panel...)
Audio Device(s)	X-Fi (Onboard) + Harmon Kardon HK6100 amp powering JVC HA-RX700's with Zalman mic
Power Supply	Corsair HX650W
Software	Win7 Pro x64
Benchmark Scores	No benchies so making this space useful! Corsair M90, Logitech G19. Phobya FlexLight LED's (gawjus)

Processor	AMD Ryzen 7 7800X3D
Motherboard	ASUS ROG Crosshair X670E Hero
Cooling	ARCTIC Liquid Freezer III 360 A-RGB // X12 Phanteks D30-120 D-RGB Fans
Memory	G.SKILL Trident Z5 Neo RGB Series (AMD Expo) DDR5 RAM 32GB (2x16GB) 6000MT/s CL30
Video Card(s)	ZOTAC Gaming GeForce RTX 4090 AMP Extreme AIRO
Storage	Samsung Pro 980 2TB NVMe (OS and Games) // WD Black 10TB HDD (Storage)
Display(s)	SAMSUNG 34-Inch Ultrawide 75Hz (Desk Games) // SAMSUNG 49-Inch Ultrawide 144Hz (Sim Racing Rig)
Case	Phanteks NV7
Power Supply	Seasonic Vertex GX-1200, 1200W 80+ Gold, ATX 3.0
Software	Windows 11 Pro

TPU's WCG/BOINC Team

mstenholm

scaminatrix

Chicken Patty

scaminatrix

Chicken Patty

[Ion]

WCG Team Assistant

Chicken Patty

[Ion]

WCG Team Assistant

scaminatrix

[Ion]

WCG Team Assistant

Chicken Patty

[Ion]

WCG Team Assistant

Chicken Patty

mstenholm

Chicken Patty

[Ion]

WCG Team Assistant

mstenholm

[Ion]

WCG Team Assistant

Chicken Patty

mstenholm

[Ion]

WCG Team Assistant

KieX

[Ion]

WCG Team Assistant

KieX

Chicken Patty

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Memory	1x8GB / 2x4GB / 4x4GB
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