TPU's WCG/BOINC Team

[Toothless]

FTFY

Enjoy the card!

Radio Shack? Kinda like applying for a job to sell VCR's ain't it? j/k .... hope you find something decent!

Any job is a good job. Saving up for a 960 for an upgrade. If I'm lucky then I'll go for a 970 or 960/SLI

 

[hat]

Is there any work available for WCG on Android? I have a Venue 7 sitting mostly unused, could plug it up and run WCG on it. The BOINC app only shows Collatz Conjecture.

 

[64K]

@Toothless if Radio Shack offers you a job then take it but I would consider it a temporary job

http://www.tomshardware.com/news/radio-shack-money-bankruptcy-holidays,28409.html

I believe they will fold. I remember when they were the go-to store for electronics (pre-internet) but now they are no longer relevant for the most part but if worse comes to worst you will still get a few paychecks in.

 

[manofthem]

Is there any work available for WCG on Android? I have a Venue 7 sitting mostly unused, could plug it up and run WCG on it. The BOINC app only shows Collatz Conjecture.

Yes, I think mostly it's FAAH wus for Android. I haven't tried it since giving it a go on my Galaxy s4 a while back, and that was such a headache that it left me pretty turned off to the idea.

However, my experience is a little dated now so you should give it a go and see how it works out, and of course then let us know

 

[AlienIsGOD]

so was browsing local buy/sell and seen a i7 2600 for $200 OBO. is that a good price for it? should i try for 180?

 

[stinger608]

so was browsing local buy/sell and seen a i7 2600 for $200 OBO. is that a good price for it? should i try for 180?

$200 is just a tad high these days. Don't get me wrong, I have seen them sell for that on several forums, but I have seen the majority going in the $175 to $185 range.

Take the middle and offer up the $180. That would make it a decent deal.

 

[Nordic]

Reinstalled linux to get the g1620 crunching. I have been experimenting with Ubuntu minimal to have a tiny distro with out a lot of unnecessary software. You don't have to install a desktop, or a lighter desktop than cinnamon which you can see is using 1%. My install is only 4.71GB.

One thing the team might be interested in, I toyed getting a more useful conky setup. Let me know if you want the config file for that.

 

[Caring1]

I was wondering if anyone had tried or thought of using their FPGA's for crunching after retiring them from mining cryptocurrency?
They are a step above GPU crunching but below an ASIC for efficiency. From what I have found, an ASIC can't be used but an FPGA might be able to be programmed to run, by someone with the know how.

 

[Nordic]

I was wondering if anyone had tried or thought of using their FPGA's for crunching after retiring them from mining cryptocurrency?
They are a step above GPU crunching but below an ASIC for efficiency. From what I have found, an ASIC can't be used but an FPGA might be able to be programmed to run, by someone with the know how.

No one has tried because they would not work. WCG has not made any work units for fgpa's which afaik is the limiting factor.

 

[Caring1]

I was hoping they would be seen as CoProcessors .... shrugs

 

[Nordic]

I was hoping they would be seen as CoProcessors .... shrugs

We would simply like gpu work to return at the moment. AFAIK it is difficult to code for, so they haven't made a project recently that utilizes it. Team TPU was unstoppable with how many points we put out with gpu's.

 

[Toothless]

We would simply like gpu work to return at the moment. AFAIK it is difficult to code for, so they haven't made a project recently that utilizes it. Team TPU was unstoppable with how many points we put out with gpu's.

I know I'd toss in my GPU for WCG work.

 

[twilyth]

OET has hired a PhD computer science person to work on a future phase of the project. I posted in their thread on WCG about how adapting that part of the project to use GPUs, if possible, would speed up their work by at least a couple times but just as important, would stimulate a lot of interest and enthusiasm. I'm sure the guy knows the benefits of using GPUs in high performance computing and didn't need to be told. Still, we've been jonesing for something like that for so long now, I wanted to ask. He said they would consider it so whether it actually happens or not will probably depend mostly on whether it's practical for the work they want done. I'm sure this person is more than qualified to write the code if it is. So we'll just have to wait and see, but there's hope.

 

[xvi]

I know I'd toss in my GPU for WCG work.

A hearty chunk of my hardware purchases are due to WCG. I'd probably toss my current GPUs out for better GPUs. Right now, I just tell myself that 20 FPS on low is good enough (slight exaggeration).

 

[Nordic]

A hearty chunk of my hardware purchases are due to WCG. I'd probably toss my current GPUs out for better GPUs. Right now, I just tell myself that 20 FPS on low is good enough (slight exaggeration).

We all know its for you to play with new toys. WCG is just the excuse that justifies new toys. No? Maybe that is just me. I like toys.

How many of us use more than 1 or 2 of the many rigs we have. They are toys with a purpose.

 

[xvi]

We all know its for you to play with new toys. WCG is just the excuse that justifies new toys. No? Maybe that is just me. I like toys.

This is also true.
"Yep, I definitely need this server. How many drives? Uh.. Lets load up all eight. I can RAID them all and that will, um, make, erm, WUs and swapfile faster. Yeah. It's completely necessary."

How many of us use more than 1 or 2 of the many rigs we have. They are toys with a purpose.

Desktop, laptop and x86_64 tablet see frequent use. The server, workstation, HAL, Steambox, are almost completely all WCG toys. Steambox sees a little bit of use from time to time. Been dragging my feet on my second dual socket build due to not being able to find a good place to put it.

 

[AlienIsGOD]

long overdue pic of Kraken x41 in use nvm the dust on my CPU HSF

 

[Toothless]

The dust is a new breed of dust. Hows the temps with that cooler?

 

[AlienIsGOD]

The dust is a new breed of dust

i used to have my PC in my bedroom where i smoked just need to get the motivation to pull the fans off and clean the HSF.

The x41 keeps my 680 at 30C idle 51C tops while gaming.

 

[Toothless]

i used to have my PC in my bedroom where i smoked just need to get the motivation to pull the fans off and clean the HSF.

The x41 keeps my 680 at 30C idle 51C tops while gaming.

Overclocked?

 

[AlienIsGOD]

Not yet. I want to grab some vram heatsinks to stick on the vrms before I over clock it. Mind you I could always just go up 50 MHz or so ☺

Edit: 54mhz O/C honestly for the games I play I dont even need to o/c but i can now say its overclocked

 

[xvi]

AMD's CCC tried to trick me today.

 

[Toothless]

AMD's CCC tried to trick me today.

View attachment 61902

 

[xvi]

Quick! Crossfire them all before they disappear!

 

[Toothless]

Quick! Crossfire them all before they disappear!

GTX2640 x4OC Edition, and yes it can play Solitaire 30fps 320x240.