TPU's WCG/BOINC Team

[[Ion]]

Congrats dude. I assume he knows what the impact on the utility bill will be. Also, will you be able to monitor and restart the systems if necessary? If not, you might want to consider installing an auto-restart utility on the rigs so that they reboot themselves every couple of days.

He's living in university housing over the summer (he too is taking summer classes, but his parents are two hours away vs the 40 minutes that mine are). So, again, free electricity

The auto-restart script is a good idea. Not sure how to do it on the Linux ones, but the Windows ones is easy. Although, they've also been rather remarkably stable (uptime of a couple months on some of them).
And as far as monitoring goes--I do intend to set up port forwarding so that I can RDC or SSH in to at least a couple of them. And he said if I put a label on each with the hostname he's willing to unplug/replug them if there's an issue and I can tell him which is messed up.

 

[twilyth]

I've done that in the past with X10 controllers but that tech is on the way out. Anyway, I had a telephone controller that I could dial into, enter a code and it would turn off the appliance switch that had that code. Wait a few seconds, and then turn it back on again. It was a hard reboot but it generally worked.

Of course you had to invest in the controllers which worked on signals sent over the power lines. That didn't always work if the transmitter and receiver weren't on the same circuit. Plus it was prone to interference. That's the problem I have now and why I'm trying to switch over zwave controllers.

 

[[Ion]]

Yeah that's starting to seem like quite a lot of trouble. As-is I can reuse all of the networking equipment I have (consumer-class routers and some 8/24 port switches) and just transfer things over. This might not be the *optimal* situation, but it'll do. Even if I end up losing one due to HW failure the first week it'll still be a far shot better than running nothing at all. And particularly the HPs are really just very easy to repair, so I suspect I could drop by with spare bits and do just that

 

[ChristTheGreat]

since there is no GPU for WCG since a long time, my friends decides to make a F@H team for our french forum overcloqc, so I might put a core dedicated with my GPU for this team.

 

[hat]

Is it possible to connect a smartphone to a computer via USB, then share that smartphone's WiFi connection with the computer to connect to my WiFi that way? I may be bringing another computer online, but I have no more WiFi adapters. I have more ethernet cables but I really don't want to run any more cable. My carrier is running a deal on a phone for $14 and I've been eyeballing it. I will probably use my current phone to crunch WCG dedicated (what else to do with it??) and may as well use that to push some crappy boondoggled WiFi to the would-be additional cruncher rig if possible. The phone needs a power source, anyway.

 

[[Ion]]

Is it possible to connect a smartphone to a computer via USB, then share that smartphone's WiFi connection with the computer to connect to my WiFi that way? I may be bringing another computer online, but I have no more WiFi adapters. I have more ethernet cables but I really don't want to run any more cable. My carrier is running a deal on a phone for $14 and I've been eyeballing it. I will probably use my current phone to crunch WCG dedicated (what else to do with it??) and may as well use that to push some crappy boondoggled WiFi to the would-be additional cruncher rig if possible. The phone needs a power source, anyway.

Yes. Android phones (since 4.0, I think) support native USB tethering. I'd look up whatever model you have to see. I don't know about iCrap or Windows Mobile though. I tethered through my Droid to the SR-2 system for about two weeks until I got a USB WiFi adapter.

 

[bubbleawsome]

iOS doesn't do it without a jailbreak.

 

[Nordic]

Windows phone tethers pretty easily.

 

[hat]

It's Android 4.1.2. Sounds like a perfect ghetto synergistic solution. The computer provides power to the phone, while the phone in turn provides an Internet connection to the computer, so they both can crunch.

The phone's worth about 400PPD I think. Better than sitting somewhere just rotting away! Nice cheap upgrade for me too on the phone side. I will lose 4G/LTE, which isn't too big of a deal for me anyway since I get by fine on 3G (I think the new phone has HSDPA connectivity anyway, which I have some experience with and it was pretty damn fast IMO), but everything else is better.

 

[bubbleawsome]

I would watch out. Some old usb ports don't mix with newer phones. I've seen a few burn out when constantly supplying galaxy tabs with power.
Probably pretty rare though.

 

[[Ion]]

It's Android 4.1.2. Sounds like a perfect ghetto synergistic solution. The computer provides power to the phone, while the phone in turn provides an Internet connection to the computer, so they both can crunch.

Should work just fine, but I'd test it out before I bought a new phone
What OS is on the computer? Windows 7 and later and Linux 3 and later (IIRC) work fine with the Android USB tether....not sure about older stuff

 

[hat]

Well, the phone in a ZTE Force. The computer isn't even together yet, I need RAM. It would be a dedicated cruncher, so I was thinking of loading it up with some flavor of Linux, since Linux seems to do better than Windows at crunching (at least older versions of Windows anyway). I don't know a lot about Linux, but I used Lubuntu before for crunching I believe.

 

[[Ion]]

Well, the phone in a ZTE Force. The computer isn't even together yet, I need RAM. It would be a dedicated cruncher, so I was thinking of loading it up with some flavor of Linux, since Linux seems to do better than Windows at crunching (at least older versions of Windows anyway). I don't know a lot about Linux, but I used Lubuntu before for crunching I believe.

Definitely Linux. I'm getting far better PPD from it than Windows. the dual-E5620s are outperforming the dual-X5672 despite being 900MHz slower and the Linux i5-2400 is doing like 50% better than the Windows ones
Linux Mint is my preferred version--just make sure to switch to the gtk login screen because the HTML5 one sucks up far too much CPU

 

[ChristTheGreat]

It's Android 4.1.2. Sounds like a perfect ghetto synergistic solution. The computer provides power to the phone, while the phone in turn provides an Internet connection to the computer, so they both can crunch.

The phone's worth about 400PPD I think. Better than sitting somewhere just rotting away! Nice cheap upgrade for me too on the phone side. I will lose 4G/LTE, which isn't too big of a deal for me anyway since I get by fine on 3G (I think the new phone has HSDPA connectivity anyway, which I have some experience with and it was pretty damn fast IMO), but everything else is better.

could be nice sicne smatphone power consumption is low, you buy all those powerful phone with cracked screen, low price and make a crunching table, xD

 

[[Ion]]

The FX8350 is down for the time being; the HDD seems to have mostly gone out some time since last night. I think I have a spare 500GB so I can try and clone it over this evening after exams.

 

[twilyth]

I'm thinking about resurrecting the SR2 board with the 2 5645 chips I retired. One looked like it was running hot and fried the thermal paste so I'm going to put those chips in the SR2 with new paste and see what happens.

If I wanted to try out linux, which is the absolute easiest distro to use which will recognize the HD7xxx gpu?

 

[[Ion]]

I'm thinking about resurrecting the SR2 board with the 2 5645 chips I retired. One looked like it was running hot and fried the thermal paste so I'm going to put those chips in the SR2 with new paste and see what happens.

If I wanted to try out linux, which is the absolute easiest distro to use which will recognize the HD7xxx gpu?

IMO Linux Mint is pretty much idiot-proof. Now, not saying tha tyou're an idiot, but still, it just works.
What do you mean by 'recognize'? IE, just *work* and give a display? Basically anything--Mint included--will do that. Hell, it even ought to have closed-source drivers available that'll let you play games if you want.

 

[twilyth]

I've had problems in years past with Linux working with video cards. I just want to be able to install, dl boinc and run.

 

[thebluebumblebee]

I was browsing the stats at FDC and wanted to know how many TPU'ers are in the top 1000. That's when I noticed that @Chicken Patty is currently our 23rd member of the top 1000 club, but he is exactly #1000 and most likely won't be by the end of the day.
On the bright side, @gobuuku has reached the top 100!

 

[ThE_MaD_ShOt]

I've had problems in years past with Linux working with video cards. I just want to be able to install, dl boinc and run.

This is my method with my linux installs using Ubuntu. Install, dl boinc and let it eat. I have used both nvidia and Amd gpu's and both work fine out of the box.

 

[[Ion]]

I've had problems in years past with Linux working with video cards. I just want to be able to install, dl boinc and run.

I can't imagine you'll have an issue with that. My 3770k is running Mint 17 IIRC with a Radeon X1600.

 

[xvi]

could be nice sicne smatphone power consumption is low, you buy all those powerful phone with cracked screen, low price and make a crunching table, xD

I'd bet you'd end up with an assortment of cats sleeping on them.

Is it possible to connect a smartphone to a computer via USB, then share that smartphone's WiFi connection with the computer to connect to my WiFi that way? I may be bringing another computer online, but I have no more WiFi adapters. I have more ethernet cables but I really don't want to run any more cable. My carrier is running a deal on a phone for $14 and I've been eyeballing it. I will probably use my current phone to crunch WCG dedicated (what else to do with it??) and may as well use that to push some crappy boondoggled WiFi to the would-be additional cruncher rig if possible. The phone needs a power source, anyway.

Not always. Some versions of Android will insist you disable WiFi before enabling the USB tether. I believe I was able to have both enabled when I was running CyanogenMod though.

 

[manofthem]

Hey fellers, I'm going to try to hang around more in these WCG threads and throw out my share of nonsense. Lately I've been extremely busy and tired from work that I've been actually going to bed early-ish, and thus I've been around a little less. This is the latest I've been up lately, but that's soon to change as I'm heading to bed.

IMO Linux Mint is pretty much idiot-proof.

I gave Mint a try and had a hard time with it, but it's because I had zero familiarity with Linux whatsoever. I had to Google and youtube just to figure out how to install it (alongside my windows partition), and then more of that along with asking people here to figure out how to do other stuff.

I switched back because I was expecting a bigger boost of ppd, and when I didn't see the huge jump, I figured I'd stay with Windows.

That said, I'd like to give it another try one day and see if I can get the hang of it.

 

[mstenholm]

I was browsing the stats at FDC and wanted to know how many TPU'ers are in the top 1000. That's when I noticed that @Chicken Patty is currently our 23rd member of the top 1000 club, but he is exactly #1000 and most likely won't be by the end of the day.
On the bright side, @gobuuku has reached the top 100!

and in four days time I will be out of top 100

 

[twilyth]

I gave Mint a try and had a hard time with it, but it's because I had zero familiarity with Linux whatsoever. I had to Google and youtube just to figure out how to install it (alongside my windows partition), and then more of that along with asking people here to figure out how to do other stuff.

I switched back because I was expecting a bigger boost of ppd, and when I didn't see the huge jump, I figured I'd stay with Windows.

That said, I'd like to give it another try one day and see if I can get the hang of it.

Yeah, that pretty much describes where I'm at too. I don't really feel like learning a new operating system, especially one that depends so much on the command line. Learning how to use android was pretty easy since it's pretty intuitive. Linux - not so much.