TPU's WCG/BOINC Team

[thebluebumblebee]

I hope it gets fixed nice and quickly!! Just think of all those uploads and the sheer points you'll get from all those work units going back

I don’t run with long queues. Normally only a half day.

 

[phill]

Myself included But it's surprising how fast that goes lol

 

[Arjai]

I run with...? 3.5 days, in the queue. I am a stand off, that way. Old School Boinc server stuff used to take days. There were times the servers were down all weekend.

That is rare now but, I haven't changed the queue.

 

[phill]

I think I might have set it differently depending on the PC I'm crunching with, but I don't mind if I have work there or not. None of the PC's run 24/7 so I don't have to worry so much about the server down time Kinda lucky like that..

Although I do wish I could now get my stars working properly!!

 

[thebluebumblebee]

Well, I'm back. Frontier found that it was their problem - they disconnected us! Took the tech all of 5 minutes and never entered the house. Only lost 2 WU's for being too late.

 

[HammerON]

Glad they got it figured out

 

[Caring1]

I've cut my cruncher back to 75% in an effort to reduce my power bills.
Last one a few days ago shows $600 per month, needless to say I called the power company money hungry so and so's for gouging it's customers.

 

[phill]

Ouch @Caring1 , that's a bit of cash for electric!! I'm grateful for the solar but that only really works decently when the sun is shining somewhat.. I think today is alright, if it can cover the crunchers then I'm happy

 

[Deleted member 178884]

Still working? I guess this will work well at an extreme oc on my x5650 with the alphacool eisbaer 360mm installed

Well I'm added - Time to run it on my web browsing pc everyday and I'll run my xeon later

I've cut my cruncher back to 75% in an effort to reduce my power bills.
Last one a few days ago shows $600 per month, needless to say I called the power company money hungry so and so's for gouging it's customers.

Ouch, That's greedy as hell.

 

[Boatvan]

I've cut my cruncher back to 75% in an effort to reduce my power bills.
Last one a few days ago shows $600 per month, needless to say I called the power company money hungry so and so's for gouging it's customers.

Holy moly! I thought my monthly $175 bill was high. I myself cut back to 86% because of noise from the servers/cooling/power consumption. I also changed my server farm from Xenserver to VMware. Maybe it is placebo effect, but the VM's that crunch seem to be more efficient. Apples and oranges though.

Also glad to see some familiar faces in this thread after I was away for a bit. After the great stats death of 2018 (GRDP killing WCG stats sites) I became unmotivated. But now I'm back.

 

[phill]

I've just been doing a little bit of testing with my crunchers this afternoon I'll be posting some results up tomorrow since I'm away this evening and tomorrow Apologises since the pie thread and daily total might be a little late

 

[NastyHabits]

You guys and gals need to check this out. Rumored 16 core Ryzen chips for AM4 boards in 2019.

16 core Ryzen chips for AM4

 

[Caring1]

Ok, they can stop with the cores now.
They need to concentrate on efficiency and performance.

 

[phill]

I've posted a few tests up in another thread, links here Testing 1, 2, 3....

 

[Deleted member 178884]

Ok, they can stop with the cores now.
They need to concentrate on efficiency and performance.

Yes and no, more cores for TR4, the quicker the x299 chipset gets screwed over the quicker I'll be finding cheap i9-7980xe's at around £400-500 hopefully. I expect to upgrade to one around 2021

 

[thebluebumblebee]

You guys and gals need to check this out. Rumored 16 core Ryzen chips for AM4 boards in 2019.

16 core Ryzen chips for AM4

IMHO:
16 cores on AM4 doesn't seem right. Moving from 2 CCX units to one does. Although we here would love to see an inexpensive 16C/32T system, AM4 is too limited. Think about who would be interested in doing what with a system like that and you quickly come up against AM4's 64 GB RAM limit. Adding more RAM channels just increases cost and cannibalizes Threadripper. But, maybe I'm wrong. Maybe AMD wouldn't mind hurting Threadripper if it hurts Intel's HEDT platform as well. And maybe, just maybe, AMD's trolling Intel with a rumor like this.

 

[phill]

I was just wondering gals and guys.. When you ever check your results points, do you get the below happening very often?

By which I mean more points granted than claimed for?? Is that very normal? I was just curious...

 

[thebluebumblebee]

Yep. Has to do with how quickly you finished the WU in comparison to how long it took someone else.

 

[phill]

That's interesting then.. I hopefully need a few more results like that and I'll be catching people up even faster!! Normally have all 7 PC's crunching away every day, sadly though, just about 14 hours of crunching a day.. Some I leave on as they don't use a lot of juice but.. It's all great fun!! I've not overclocked anything either so all running stock speeds but I will say that the Xeon CPUs are really impressing me of later.. Great temps, very good wattage efficiency and temps are brilliant in comparison.. Shame they are so expensive to buy!!

 

[Arjai]

I have a new toy coming, to add to my farm. I bought a T-3500 Dell workstation w/ a Xeon x5670, and 8GB ram and a 500GB 7200rpm spinner.

Then I bought a GPU, MSI GAMING GeForce GT 710 2GB GDRR3 64-bit HDCP Support DirectX 12 OpenGL 4.5 Single Fan Low Profile Graphics Card from Amazon, for 45 Bucks.

I am going to try and use Throttle Stop, inside Linux, to lock the cores to full boost clocks, just over 3GHz.

12 threads! Plus, I get to playaround in Linuz w/ a program that is designed for Windows. Should be fun and frustrating!

Should have everything up, running, in about a week. Then the process of locking the boost clocks will begin. If it works out, I will have one box out performing my 3 i3 boxes!

I am excited.

 

[Arjai]

Has our Captain, @Norton taken a Holiday? I have not seen his posts or his Icon around for a few days. I hope all is well.

 

[phill]

I think @Arjai, @Norton logged in about the 13th/14th of this month, same as @stinger608 as well, they've both been away.. I've dropped Norton a message to just say hi and hope all is well but not heard anything back just yet... I'm hoping both are ok

 

[Arjai]

My Dell T-3500 Workstation is in the basement office of my building. I will be unable to retrieve it, and the GPU for it, until Wednesday. So, Wednesday, hopefully by early afternoon, I will have it crunching 6c/12t on stock clocks in Linux. I will then be stalking a few members here and some Linux forums, to figure out how to lock the cores at full turbo boost. The CPU, a Xeon x5670, has locked multipliers but can boost to 3.3. If I can lock it there It would be nice!

 

[phill]

I'm not sure @Arjai but isn't it down to temps or something with the all CPU boost?? Or am I dreaming?? I think I might be wrong with that but if it's in a server board, just run CPU-Z type of program or check where it's going automatically think in Linux there's an option....? I'll have a check at some point for you

 

[Arjai]

I just picked up 'ze boxes. But, unfortunately, I have to buzz by work. It's only for an hour, or so, to help do the Oil and Supplies order, with my new boss. He is young and wants a hand. He has done it for the last store he was at but, is still unfamiliar with our store and it's layout, essentially a mirror of the last place in the bay but, everything else is different and more compact.

Point being, I will not get back to play with new box, and find a place for it on my computer shelf, until later this afternoon. But, I should have it going sometime after dinner time! Can't wait to see it's output, after it spools up!

Then, it will be time to get inside Linux and lock those cores at max turbo. That should cement my place in the TOP 20
on the daily numbers!