TPU's WCG/BOINC Team

[manofthem]

Well, power DOES matter. These CPUs run a bit hot too...with the 2U coolers and 120mm fans on top they're in the upper 60s. Looking forward to getting a PPD estimate come tonight's update

How about some hardcore watercooling?

 

[[Ion]]

How about some hardcore watercooling?

Well, meant to say upper 50s, which isn't so bad. But I've had bad luck with custom WC so I'm done with it.

 

[Norton]

Well, meant to say upper 50s, which isn't so bad. But I've had bad luck with custom WC so I'm done with it.

Water cooling requires much more attention and maintenance- great benefits but the high costs if problems develop

Hard to beat air cooling for turnkey reliability

 

[[Ion]]

Water cooling requires much more attention and maintenance- great benefits but the high costs if problems develop

Hard to beat air cooling for turnkey reliability

Yeah. It's just a lot of trouble. And with this many systems I just don't have the time for it. I'll put on some higher-RPM fans and that ought to keep them around 55C

 

[[Ion]]

On a credit/week basis, my Haswell Xeon setup is coming in #2 in the world:

I dunno how the 2699V3 setup is doing so better....even with the higher clockspeed and extra cores it shouldn't be THAT much. Those unfortunately aren't my Opteron 6376 systems, but it should do at least as well as those are once running full time.

 

[[Ion]]

For anyone in the market for hardware, Newegg is selling a Lenovo C20 for $330 right now. Very similar to the Dell T5500s I've had such luck with. Link: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produ...cm_re=Thinkstation-_-9SIA7RB2YY8600-_-Product

 

[stevorob]

For anyone in the market for hardware, Newegg is selling a Lenovo C20 for $330 right now. Very similar to the Dell T5500s I've had such luck with. Link: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produ...cm_re=Thinkstation-_-9SIA7RB2YY8600-_-Product

Oh man makes wish I had $300 to drop - that seems like a solid deal.

 

[[Ion]]

2P E5 V3 setup has been moved offsite to the land of free electricity. Might need to shut down / relocate one of the DP E5520 systems to keep heat in check but not sure yet.

 

[thebluebumblebee]

Anyone else having troubles getting FAAHII WU's? (Linux system)

Wed 14 Oct 2015 11:28:10 PM PDT | World Community Grid | No tasks are available for FightAIDS@Home - Phase 2

 

[hat]

Rewired my network yesterday. Got Dragonfly off of the crappy USB wifi-N adapter, and now it's on gigabit LAN. Copying files is like 50x faster now. While on wifi it struggled to maintain not even 2MB/s... also shortened my coax line to the modem a bit and removed a splitter (that was merely acting as a coupler, because the cable wasn't long enough). Drilled a hole in the wall and got my cables going straight through to the modem instead of running across the floors to it and held down with staples. The really fun part was running a cable through my hole, only to have to pull it out later and run a different one because I realized later needed that cable (my longest) to run to where my magicjack box is.

Took a while but it was worth it... since I'm having to use Dragonfly's 500GB hard drive as storage space, for now. It's much better on gigabit LAN than with that crappy adapter... and the place looks cleaner now too.

 

[[Ion]]

Just bought four more six-core Xeons to upgrade the Dells. Two X5670s and two X5650s to replace the E5520s. Should give a VERY nice performance boost.

 

[manofthem]

Anyone else having troubles getting FAAHII WU's? (Linux system)

My pcs all have those wus and seem to be stocked up OK. Will keep an eye on it though


Edit: I don't run a large buffer though, <1 day, not sure if that has anything to do with it.

 

[Nordic]

I got a tablet for free because it was thought to be broken. So I started in on crunching because I don't have much use for it otherwise.
It has a NVIDIA Tegra 2 CPU with dual cores at 1000mhz. I don't expect much.

 

[Norton]

NewEgg has Corsair GS700 refurb psu's for $69.99 w/free shipping (1 yr warranty)... that's an ok price but not a steal.

Here's the better deal....

Buy 2 of them and the volume discount drops the price to $42.94 each!

Check it out:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817139087

 

[manofthem]

Buy 2 of them and the volume discount drops the price to $42.94 each!

Check it out:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817139087

Wow, that's a deal alright. What a price drop when buying 2!

 

[FordGT90Concept]

Uh, my server is sitting on a ton of work that is 100% completed, scheduler request pending, but no network transactions are occurring. It does have internet access.

Uh, report deadline: July 2015. Has my server not been doing any BOINC work since then? I swear I looked at it since then and nothing looked out of the ordinary. Resetting the project doesn't appear to be working (got rid of the 100% jobs but not getting anymore).

Edit: Logs say "SSL connect error."


On a related note, my computer isn't going to be doing any BOINC work until the SSD is replaced (I hope a week). All of the jobs that weren't submitted when the SSD ate dirt were lost.

 

[Norton]

Resetting the project doesn't appear to be working

Time and date correct on the rig?

Sorry to hear about the dead SSD

 

[FordGT90Concept]

10/16/2015, correct. It's a time server, so it better be.


Edit: I detached/attached. See if it helps but I suspect it won't...


Edit: Nope, "communication deferred" and seeing the same errors as before. Did they stop supporting the 5.10.45 client? It's a domain controller and, last time I checked, newer versions won't work.


Edit: https://secure.worldcommunitygrid.org/forums/wcg/viewthread_thread,38484

That appears to be the case. If there's no new client for domain controllers, I'm permanently down a man.


Edit: Posted here: https://secure.worldcommunitygrid.org/forums/wcg/viewthread_thread,38551_lastpage,yes#505358

 

[FordGT90Concept]

Here's the solution that worked:
https://secure.worldcommunitygrid.org/forums/wcg/viewthread_thread,38551_offset,0#505472

Basically copy DLLs + CRT from a newer install and paste it in the BOINC 5.10.45 install path.

 

[Recca29]

Good new: Got a Phenom II 960(stock) system running 24x7. .
Bad News: don't know how long i can keep it. its a borrowed system.

 

[thebluebumblebee]

SURPRISE! There goes my plan for diamond badges for all current projects. (or did I somehow miss how far along this was?)

Edit: Nevermind

 

[FordGT90Concept]

You should be happy! What is a little picture worth...compared to SCIENCE!?!


Server is still chugging along, yay. My computer is still out of commission though; Crucial received the defective SSD today.

 

[thebluebumblebee]

Had a feeling that I should have waited to post about UGM. It's now at 5%.

 

[[Ion]]

My PPD is going to be down pretty considerably--the 48C Opteron 6176 SE system is down for the indefinite future (probably until January 5th or so). That's about 30 or 33k PPD, but it was also ~800W, and it had outrun its welcome. This was the plan all along-0-buy it now because the deal was great, and then not really run it until January--but still a shame :/

 

[T-Bob]

I'm starting to get occasional computation error on my 2p system. Now the errors are becoming more frequent. I know you're all gonna say that it's related to the OC but hear me out first. Before the challenge, I set everything in the BIOS to the recommended defaults for a few weeks, to try and eliminate the issue. During that time I still experienced the errors.

I'm open to suggestions, though I think that I know what the culprit is... and that is the system drive which happens to be an SSD. Not long before the WCG Computation Errors started to appear, Windows started giving me errors stating that "Windows was temporarily unable to access the system drive" or something very similar. So my thinking is that either the sata cable or connection is bad or the drive is failing. What do you guys think?

It appears that its failing most every OET unit but not the others?