TPU's WCG/BOINC Team

[Norton]

Breaking down my 2600k rig today to get shipped off to @hat later this week.

Keep an eye out for my next cruncher to Ryze-on up in its place... hopefully sometime tonight

 

[hat]

The suspense is real. Looking forward to it!

 

[Norton]

The suspense is real. Looking forward to it!

Board is out and boxed up- will be packed up and ready to ship tomorrow morning

Started up a new Ryzen 1700X setup in Ubuntu a few hours ago- should be up to full output for the birthday challenge

My current crunching farm updated through this month:

 

[hat]

Full output? I thought they were always full output from the get to, and it just took the stats server a while to catch up with what your "average PPD" actually is...

Of course, the 2600k system will be assembled ASAP along with moving the 2400.

 

[Norton]

Full output? I thought they were always full output from the get to, and it just took the stats server a while to catch up with what your "average PPD" actually is...

Takes a few days to balance out valid work with work pending verification/pending validation- output is usually pretty stable after about a week.

UPDATE- FreeDC is back up!

 

[hat]

So, in addition to upgrading the i5 2400 to a 2600k, and also continuing to run the i5 2400, there's a strong possibility I might be upgrading my Athlon II x4 to a Phenom II x6. That's 50% more cores and a little more power per core coming from that system. The way I see it, I already won a nice system thanks to our most recent WCG challenge, so this is one thing I can do to give back a little bit.

And then, I'm hearing talk from the guy who's getting the i5 2400 about wanting to upgrade to a full tower case. I dunno when, or if it will happen, and if it does it'll probably be a ways off... but anyway, that would mean there'd be a lonely chassis laying around that I could put either the old Q6600 in, or the Athlon II x4 that I'm currently planning on upgrading. Again, though, that's a ways off...

 

[phill]

Board is out and boxed up- will be packed up and ready to ship tomorrow morning

Started up a new Ryzen 1700X setup in Ubuntu a few hours ago- should be up to full output for the birthday challenge

My current crunching farm updated through this month:

I think you need some more systems there @Norton Impressive setup there sir
With your Ryzen's Norton, do you do one particular type of work unit you do all the time with them or do you do most/all of the work units? I'm curious as I have two 1700X's here that I'd love to get setup and running Have you noticed any difference in performance for the Ryzen setups with the faster ram at all?

With Free-DC back up and running I've got the details from the last few days, I'll be updating the threads tonight

 

[Nordic]

I have always preferred boinc stats layout

 

[thebluebumblebee]

Have you noticed any difference in performance for the Ryzen setups with the faster ram at all?

Maybe this will help?:https://www.techpowerup.com/forums/threads/tpus-wcg-boinc-team.85784/post-3919138

 

[phill]

Maybe this will help?:https://www.techpowerup.com/forums/threads/tpus-wcg-boinc-team.85784/post-3919138

I remember the post @thebluebumblebee but I was wondering if @Norton had noticed much of a difference as well I do believe that it helps but I'm not sure if it would help by much.. Will have to find out and see

 

[Norton]

With your Ryzen's Norton, do you do one particular type of work unit you do all the time with them or do you do most/all of the work units?

I have my Ryzen rigs setup to run OZ, SCC, and OET since they seemed to run those jobs best when I set them up- ymmv though

Have you noticed any difference in performance for the Ryzen setups with the faster ram at all?

I've got ram running between 2400 and 3200 and not really seeing any significant ppd differences. With that said, I don't monitor the rigs too closely once I set them up so there might be some benefit but likely a small one

 

[hat]

Memory has never been very important for WCG. I recall a post about setting up cheap crunchers that went so far as to recommend using only one stick of RAM, meaning single channel. That's crap performance in a lot of things, but not WCG... Though I wonder if it might finally make a difference these days where running 16 projects at once isn't uncommon... But then RAM today, even in single channel, is also much faster than it was when that post was written.

 

[phill]

I have my Ryzen rigs setup to run OZ, SCC, and OET since they seemed to run those jobs best when I set them up- ymmv though

I've got ram running between 2400 and 3200 and not really seeing any significant ppd differences. With that said, I don't monitor the rigs too closely once I set them up so there might be some benefit but likely a small one

You run most of your crunchers with just Linux don't you @Norton ?? I noticed there was a big difference between Linux and Window's from your sheet, about half the performance.. That's a massive difference!

I'm really hoping to be grabbing a few servers from work but I've kept being promised things and nothing is happening.. It's getting a little boring and frustrating since nothing seems to be materialising, I feel it's such a waste with it just being sat there...

 

[Norton]

You run most of your crunchers with just Linux don't you @Norton ?? I noticed there was a big difference between Linux and Window's from your sheet, about half the performance.. That's a massive difference!

Yessir- BIG difference with Linux... double the output at a minimum compared to Windows!

 

[phill]

Also makes me think that my daughter and girl friend should start running linux to help with the daily numbers

 

[hat]

This is a good week. In addition to the 2600k combo coming my way, I've also finally got my car fixed. Had to replace pads, rotors and calipers. I let the pads go for so long that I ruined my rotors and calipers because I didn't know how to change pads, and I couldn't pay someone for it... so I wound up with a larger repair cost in the end... but I did it myself, so I feel a little accomplished about that. I think next time I'll just change the pads. While working on it I saw how simple it would have been to just change the pads when they needed changed in the first place... could have kicked myself. I've also got a phone coming my way that won't be torture to use. My current phone is unreliable beyond belief, and the battery is ass garbage.

I think I'll try to run the 2600k at a flat even 4GHz. It's still 800MHz faster than what I've got, plus a little from the additional cache. 4GHz should be good for nice and cool operation, maybe even with a little undervolt? I'm interested to see how well it handles 7 Days to Die. It would chug with my i5 2400 at times... but that chip wasn't overclockable!

Even as my main/gaming rig, though, it's still gonna see far more time running WCG than anything else, once the initial setup/OC/testing is out of the way. It'll run as I sleep, as I work, and even when I'm home most of the time. I've been playing a lot of my PS2, so the chip will be free to run WCG 95% of the time.

 

[phill]

Firstly congrats on the car It's never fun trying to keep a car running.. I've just had to spend £650 on mine, this was just for front and rear brakes! A touch expensive but... I need brakes lol

I used to use the same CPU and it'll be fine If you game with WCG working as well, you will have a slight performance drop but not masses, just depends on what you're used too in game If your going to use dual 1070's, then you'll have great fun

 

[jboydgolfer]

I've also finally got my car fixed.

I know exactly how you feel. Had to replace the starter for my Hyundai sonata a week or so back, ugh. Raplacing pads is easier
Than you might think. feels good to be rid of the problem though

Enjoy the new goodies

 

[phill]

Well guys, it looks like something actually happened.. I was helping the boss at work make a clear out pile for our recycling and he said about these.....

Now I'm wondering what I can do with these.....

 

[mstenholm]

Heads up for SCC and OET badge hunters - Running out soon
I noticed that my only Linux machine stopped getting OET which is the most point rewarding and found out that now it is only re-sends. SCC is also drying out fast it seems. I wonder how bad that will hit the Linux people?

 

[thebluebumblebee]

I'm off ~9,000 PPD because of OET, or nearly 20%.

 

[jboydgolfer]

anyone able to help with this?

is there a new version of WCG or Boinc for windows 10? i dont always have the capability to Crunch, but a few times a year, i might join in on challenges , etc. Unfortunately, as of the last 2 times ive tried, i cant get bonic or WCG programs to work. they install, and seem okay, but i am unable to connect, or do much of anything. the interface is SUPER sluggish, and laggy, and my CPU usage jumps to 80-100%, even though no crunching is occurring. I dont experience this if i dont have BOINCE or WCG apps installed/running, only if i try to crunch. im out of ideas, & thought id ask if there was something obvious im missing that others might know. its not a huge deal, as i only have a single PC to add, but i like to do it, but im not gonna spend a bunch of time trying if its a hassle.

im on Win10 pro, am fairly knowledgable about these apps, as ive been using them over a few years, but something is just not working

 

[hat]

That sounds really odd. I'm not sure what you're trying to run, but I just download the BOINC client from here (without virtualbox, not sure why I'd need that or what it even is)

https://boinc.berkeley.edu/download.php

 

[phill]

If you just download Boinc as normal and install it as you would, there's no specific Windows 10 version. it just works

All of my Windows PC's run Windows 10, I've not had any issues with it other than the difference in performance compared to Linux..

 

[jboydgolfer]

That sounds really odd. I'm not sure what you're trying to run, but I just download the BOINC client from here (without virtualbox, not sure why I'd need that or what it even is)

https://boinc.berkeley.edu/download.php

i was also wondering why VRbox was included .

Ill have to record whats going on, maybe someone here will know WTF is up with it. Ive actually done a fresh Win10 install since the first time it happened too, which is why i was so surprised it happened again. ill try it again, and see if i can desktop capture, or atleast screencap what i am encountering.