TPU's WCG/BOINC Team

[[Ion]]

HASWELL-EP IN THE HOUSE!!!!

Terrible picture I know

Awww yeah 64 threads in a standard ATX-sized system

System itself. Specs:
2x Xeon E5 4667 V3 (16c/32t; 2.0->2.9GHz, 140w)
Supermicro X10DAL-I-O dual-socket 2011-3 motherboard
Antec 1200 v3 case
Antec CP850 CPX power supply
EVGA 8800GT 512 (going to replace it with something more efficient this weekend)
2x4GB DDR4--no idea what speed, it was cheap
128GB SSD

Should be VERY fast and it's not too loud. Heat output surprisingly manageable too.



These 92mm Supermicro heatsinks are amazing. 50c at full load on 140w CPUs from a (pretty quiet) not-even-120mm heatsink? Well worth the $40 each!

Going to take it down for a bit this weekend to tidy things up--none of the front panel IO/buttons are hooked up and the SSD is sitting on the floor outside the case. Want to replace the video card with a spare Geforce 210 too.

 

[Nordic]

That is amazing. That could not be cheap. What is the power usage of the whole system?

 

[[Ion]]

That is amazing. That could not be cheap. What is the power usage of the whole system?

Correct you are. These are Intel's second-fastest LGA2011-3 CPUs, and they charge $5700 each for them. Fortunately there's someone on [H] with "connections" so I bought ES CPUs. About a tenth of that cost.

Don't have a power meter so don't know the usage there.

 

[Nordic]

How often does the free-dc page update. My 2 linux systems are on boinc 7.7 and it doesn't show yet. http://stats.free-dc.org/stats.php?page=host&proj=bwcg&hostid=3385931

 

[FireFox]

Every 6 Hours.

here in Europe: 16:00pm/22:00pm and 4:00am

 

[[Ion]]

Got the other two T5500s going. One's a 2x E5620 and the other a 2x X5650. Eventually want to upgrade them all to hexes but that's another 20c/40t going

 

[Nordic]

Every 6 Hours.

here in Europe: 16:00pm/22:00pm and 4:00am

Hmm. Then why is it not updating the version then.

 

[[Ion]]

For anyone who hasn't seen it, FAAH-Phase 2 is coming: https://secure.worldcommunitygrid.org/forums/wcg/viewthread_thread,38451
According to the WCG tech we should see WUs starting to roll out today! Hopefully it's VINA too--my Linux systems LOVE those WUs.

 

[manofthem]

For anyone who hasn't seen it, FAAH-Phase 2 is coming: https://secure.worldcommunitygrid.org/forums/wcg/viewthread_thread,38451
According to the WCG tech we should see WUs starting to roll out today! Hopefully it's VINA too--my Linux systems LOVE those WUs.

I... smell... BADGES!

 

[thebluebumblebee]

http://www.worldcommunitygrid.org/research/fahb/overview.do
Also, very interesting:

Unlike many of our research projects, FightAIDS@Home – Phase 2 does not require redundancy, where the same research task is sent to two devices and the results are compared for consistency. Instead, this project will be using various processing metrics during the computation of a research task to validate that the task is progressing without errors.

And a new way to handle WU's:

The simulations researchers need to carry out are typically very long running and complex, each of which would take several months to run on a single device. Instead, researchers split up each simulation for a given drug candidate into shorter running research tasks: much smaller and more manageable pieces. These pieces of work can be run independently and simultaneously on a volunteer devices.

However for FightAIDS@Home – Phase 2, the research tasks within a single drug candidate simulation are dependent on each other where the output of one task is used as the input to the next. This means longer research tasks within each drug candidate simulation which can’t be run simultaneously.

To handle this complexity, we are using two different, but related mechanisms called trickle messaging and intermediate uploads to allow us to track your progress through a research task and manage the handover of that task from one volunteer to the next to get it completed in the shortest time possible. This way, we can track the progress of the long simulations to ensure that computations are not delayed or lost, while the researchers get the valuable results back as quickly as possible. In addition, volunteers acquire their credits sooner too.

 

[[Ion]]

Added FAAH2 into the mix for all of my systems. Looking forward to seeing how it does

 

[thebluebumblebee]

Added FAAH2 into the mix for all of my systems. Looking forward to seeing how it does

I'm interested in seeing how long these take and how quickly credit is given.

 

[[Ion]]

I'm interested in seeing how long these take and how quickly credit is given.

Me too! The Beta WUs have been taking about 24 hours each on the FX8 system; I hope that the final ones are shorter (I like them being in the 2 to 6 hour range). Interested in seeing how PPD stacks up too.

 

[[Ion]]

Two observations so far:
The Xeon E5 V3 system is doing just shy of 36k PPD., running mostly MCM and some OET WUs. Will be interesting to see how it does just doing OET and FAAH2.

The FAAH2 WUs are LONG. 16 hours so far for 55% on the E5 system. Something higher clocked should be able to do them faster, at least. Secondly, based on the (only partially submitted) results, PPD is awful. 20k on the same system. Will have to see how things end up once a few WUs are actually handed in.

 

[manofthem]

he FAAH2 WUs are LONG. 16 hours so far for 55% on the E5 system. Something higher clocked should be able to do them faster, at least. Secondly, based on the (only partially submitted) results, PPD is awful. 20k on the same system. Will have to see how things end up once a few WUs are actually handed in.

Yeah, I'm seeing similar. It looks to be about 11.5-12.5hrs/wu on my 4790. The earlier reported ones were 11.5 and the ones that just uploaded were 12.5

On the plus side, they're immediately reported and validated on WCG site. And the longer ones did pull more points.

 

[thebluebumblebee]

On the plus side, they're immediately reported and validated on WCG site.

Which brings up 2 points:
1.)These will be great to run during a challenge.
2.)I would not happen to "lose Internet connection" these WU's. Would not be surprised if the WU's are taken away from those who try. If your Internet connection happens to accidentally disconnect...., make sure you're full of other projects. Maybe switch over at ~ T-12 hours?

 

[manofthem]

Now they're running on my 4770k, and I noticed a slight temperature drop compared to the OETs. It looks like a 3-4*C across all cores.

Which brings up 2 points:
1.)These will be great to run during a challenge.
2.)I would not happen to "lose Internet connection" these WU's. Would not be surprised if the WU's are taken away from those who try. If your Internet connection happens to accidentally disconnect...., make sure you're full of other projects. Maybe switch over at ~ T-12 hours?

Yup good for a challenge. and yes, important to consider internet connection... So iffy these days when Challenges come around

 

[ChristTheGreat]

HASWELL-EP IN THE HOUSE!!!!

Terrible picture I know

Awww yeah 64 threads in a standard ATX-sized system

System itself. Specs:
2x Xeon E5 4667 V3 (16c/32t; 2.0->2.9GHz, 140w)
Supermicro X10DAL-I-O dual-socket 2011-3 motherboard
Antec 1200 v3 case
Antec CP850 CPX power supply
EVGA 8800GT 512 (going to replace it with something more efficient this weekend)
2x4GB DDR4--no idea what speed, it was cheap
128GB SSD

Should be VERY fast and it's not too loud. Heat output surprisingly manageable too.



These 92mm Supermicro heatsinks are amazing. 50c at full load on 140w CPUs from a (pretty quiet) not-even-120mm heatsink? Well worth the $40 each!

Going to take it down for a bit this weekend to tidy things up--none of the front panel IO/buttons are hooked up and the SSD is sitting on the floor outside the case. Want to replace the video card with a spare Geforce 210 too.

OMG



I'm like...

 

[[Ion]]

I am curious to see how it does on computers with an unstable internet connection

OMG



I'm like...

It's not as fast as the 4P setup (or doesn't seem to be) but the format/noise/power draw are MUCH better

 

[ChristTheGreat]

I would like a server like that

 

[[Ion]]

I would like a server like that

So did I, so I saw a great deal on one and pounced. It does 50k PPD running FAAH-1 when slightly overclocked. Not sure about a broad mix of projects; it's running OET now for the badge.

 

[FireFox]

Can each Machine be configured to do specific works?

 

[manofthem]

Can each Machine be configured to do specific works?

Yes, you can set your profiles on the WCG site so that each machine does a different project if you'd like


Login to your WCG account, click Settings in top right, then click Device Manager, and there you can create different Profiles and choose which rig runs which profile.

 

[Toothless]

My netbook is being a POS right now; won't start crunching at all. More work for meeeee.

 

[[Ion]]

Interestingly FAAH2 WU time seems highly dependent on OS. My Windows systems seem to be taking about half as long on these WUs as the Linux ones