TPU's WCG/BOINC Team

[80-watt Hamster]

I was empty, but now I have work again.

 

[Toothless]

BOINC is doing the dumb again for me. Project backoff all over the place for WCG.

 

[80-watt Hamster]

BOINC is doing the dumb again for me. Project backoff all over the place for WCG.

Yeah, same here. C'mon, Krembil, it's getting cold. How am I going to keep my bedroom warm?

In seriousness, though, might need to add another project or two.

 

[Toothless]

Yeah no, can't even adjust settings for WCG. This is getting real old real quick.

 

[phill]

Am so sorry guys for the lack of updates last few days, got to see my eldest daughter for the first time in 3 months the weekend and have just about got some time to update everything now, so I'll get things sorted today Massive apologies for being crap!!

Oh and I've noticed the fun with no downloads working again?? Machines are starting to run like Rosetta work units But at least they download... I would love to know what the heck they are doing or not doing!!

 

[Nordic]

Life should take priority. Enjoy the time with your daughter

 

[80-watt Hamster]

Am so sorry guys for the lack of updates last few days, got to see my eldest daughter for the first time in 3 months the weekend and have just about got some time to update everything now, so I'll get things sorted today Massive apologies for being crap!!

Oh and I've noticed the fun with no downloads working again?? Machines are starting to run like Rosetta work units But at least they download... I would love to know what the heck they are doing or not doing!!

I tried adding Rosetta, and got bupkis. So now I'm on Einstein@home instead. Even F@H's giving me issues; my 1060 won't run at full chat for some reason.

 

[phill]

Life should take priority. Enjoy the time with your daughter

It flew by, just one full day and a 320 mile around trip to go pick her up and take her back... Was worth it, wish she was back again real soon but here's hoping!! Thank you for the kind words

I tried adding Rosetta, and got bupkis. So now I'm on Einstein@home instead. Even F@H's giving me issues; my 1060 won't run at full chat for some reason.

Rosetta's flow of work isn't always as constant as you'd like it to be and sometimes sadly WCG just has too many problems for it to be very helpful or good either. Most of my machines are having issues with downloading the work units but otherwise, the uploads are working generally OK.. Wish they would fix it, its sooo frustrating without being able to get on with the work they try to give you out.....

EDIT - WCG website seems to be down again... God only knows what they are doing over there about 1030am UK time

 

[NastyHabits]

After a frustrating week, both my machines are back to normal. I hope all is the same for the rest of the crew.

 

[thebluebumblebee]

I had my systems set at 3 .5 days before this started, and as far as I can see, they chugged right along all week.

 

[80-watt Hamster]

After a frustrating week, both my machines are back to normal. I hope all is the same for the rest of the crew.

Mixed bag. Transfers have been hanging on the reg, and one box has a dry queue atm.

 

[phill]

I think the download issues today have been better, a few retires needed but otherwise I think I've been alright... I've set my machines to a day for the moment, with winter months here and not much sun, I don't think I'll get that much work done each of them but I'll do my best to run them every day if I can Does everyone else run their machines 24/7??

 

[NastyHabits]

Does everyone else run their machines 24/7??

@phill Nope. I run my "auxiliary" machine 19 hours a day running WCG and FAH. Put it to sleep between 4-9 PM when rates are higher (due solar farms not working). I also run WCG on my "daily driver" PC, which basically on from morning 'til I go to bed, unless I head out for a bike ride, visit friends, or leave my home for whatever. I've found that WCG has little to no effect on whatever I do on my PC be it gaming, streaming, surfing the web, etc.

 

[Nordic]

I currently have mine set to run unless specific applications are run.

 

[HammerON]

I let mine run 24/7, but the download issue has been causing issues still.

 

[Toothless]

24/7 with three projects up for the test bench, because heat.

 

[xtreemchaos]

i had a few hours yesterday with no work but i have loads to do today with 50/50 cancer markers/ covid pandemics, i try to do 12hr a day so will do 15hr today to make up for yesterday.

 

[debs3759]

Does everyone else run their machines 24/7??

I run mine 24/7, and still use less electric that the energy payment the government are giving us. Will soon have 2 more PCs crunching. An E5-2697V3 (14C28T) and an X370 with an ES chip (no production equivalent).

The power they use will be part of my heating this winter, cheaper than gas and enough heat to keep my office area warm.

 

[phill]

I run mine 24/7, and still use less electric that the energy payment the government are giving us. Will soon have 2 more PCs crunching. An E5-2697V3 (14C28T) and an X370 with an ES chip (no production equivalent).

The power they use will be part of my heating this winter, cheaper than gas and enough heat to keep my office area warm.

I wish I could do that lol
Today with the cooking and the PCs being on, even with the solar I've managed to burn through £7 in electric and about £1.50 in gas.. Damn smart meter... Maybe I wasn't so smart having one fitted!

Still it is funny when the sun goes in and you have the PCs on, they are happily crunching and folding away and you see your drawing 2kW+ from the grid... Funnily enough about 800w of that is just the Threadripper rig!! Maybe I should get my 5950X back up and running again...... I really hope electric and gas prices come down and by down I mean, by a lot!!

 

[Bow]

Back up and running. Any GPU work that I can use this RTX3090 on.

 

[phill]

Guys and gals I'm very sorry I've completely forgot to mention it...

Who fancies another challenge or two??

Guys and gals, I've also mentioned in a couple of other threads that we will be looking to do a giveaway before Christmas, I've linked the Kreij thread there, so if there's anything anyone would like to add or make aware of or anything else I can't remember, please do head there and post away!! Kreij thread here too

I was hoping to do a possible combo give away, GPU (I was wondering about a GTX 1080 or AMD equal or better .... depending on how funds go!) and I've got some Unreal Tournament codes to use up as well, so I'd like to give those away, especially to whoever gets a combo or the GPU

Has anyone got anything they wish to add or think I should do or we as a community could do otherwise? I'm not expecting miracles but I do appreciate hand on heart, everything that everyone will do for this. I know it means a lot for a lot of the members here and I'm sad I was not here sooner to even have done something more back then... Still, here we go for now!!

 

[Bow]

I am heading out of town for a couple weeks, going to shut down. Be safe everyone.

 

[HammerON]

Started having downloading issues again

 

[NastyHabits]

Started having downloading issues again

@HammerON I noticed it too.

 

[thebluebumblebee]