TPU's WCG/BOINC Team

phill · May 19, 2023

80-watt Hamster said:
I'm on a bit of a pause while I sort out my PC situation for summer. There's other stuff that's going to take priority for the next couple of weeks.

Completely understand sir, take your time but I can't see us going anywhere when your ready to come back

80-watt Hamster · May 20, 2023

Got a bug up me bum to investigate WCG power scaling. What I found was interesting, at least at first blush and on my 5600G. Efficiency increases with number of active threads, to the degree that if I run 50% of threads, I may as well run them all. Something that did occur to me was that I forgot to look at estimated completion time, but that may be meaningless since sample duration was significantly shorter than WU duration. Frequencies were around 4.2 regardless, though, so that may not even matter. Power numbers grabbed from CPU Package Power via HWINFO64.

debs3759 · May 30, 2023

Have mostly not been crunching lately, due to the insane energy prices here in the UK (we're supposedly one of the richest countries in the world, but our energy prices have been the highest in the world). Cost is going down about 20% in July (still too high), and combined with no longer needing the heating on (it was on very low over the winter, all I could afford), I hope to soon be crunching again. Might do a day on and a day off, see how that goes.

phill · May 30, 2023

debs3759 said:
Have mostly not been crunching lately, due to the insane energy prices here in the UK (we're supposedly one of the richest countries in the world, but our energy prices have been the highest in the world). Cost is going down about 20% in July (still too high), and combined with no longer needing the heating on (it was on very low over the winter, all I could afford), I hope to soon be crunching again. Might do a day on and a day off, see how that goes.

Cannot say I blame you at all, prices are high and the only time I do my crunching now is whenever the solar is producing enough to help with the rising costs... I believe the cap from June or is it July, is 30p/kW for electric and 8p/kW for gas.. Not a massive saving I don't think and I don't believe its the best they could do but opinions aside, I am very grateful for anyone crunching, however much they do, as I've always said

Hope to see you back again soon @debs3759 !!

debs3759 · May 30, 2023

phill said:
Cannot say I blame you at all, prices are high and the only time I do my crunching now is whenever the solar is producing enough to help with the rising costs... I believe the cap from June or is it July, is 30p/kW for electric and 8p/kW for gas.. Not a massive saving I don't think and I don't believe its the best they could do but opinions aside, I am very grateful for anyone crunching, however much they do, as I've always said

Hope to see you back again soon @debs3759 !!

The price goes down on July 1. Standing charges aren't going down significantly, but unit prices are. For a typical user, costs will reduce by around 20%, but we all use more than a typical amount

Use more energy, you save more compared to today, use less you save less. I'm topping up my prepayment meters ready for another bad winter, not going to freeze again!

phill · May 30, 2023

debs3759 said:
The price goes down on July 1. Standing charges aren't going down significantly, but unit prices are. For a typical user, costs will reduce by around 20%, but we all use more than a typical amount Use more energy, you save more compared to today, use less you save less. I'm topping up my prepayment meters ready for another bad winter, not going to freeze again!

I believe we won't notice that big of a drop since they have capped it for us that said, from what it should be to what it is, is a bit different.
I'm lucky to have meters and not pre payment ones, I know the rates are slightly different and a little more expensive

windwhirl · May 30, 2023

debs3759 said:
Use more energy, you save more compared to today, use less you save less.

... Is this a subtle Nvidia advertisement?

debs3759 · Jun 1, 2023

windwhirl said:
... Is this a subtle Nvidia advertisement?

Did it make you want to buy an RTX 4090 (or two)?

thebluebumblebee · Jun 3, 2023

Anyone else with errors on SCCs?

stinger608 · Jun 3, 2023

thebluebumblebee said:
Anyone else with errors on SCCs?

Haven't seen any so far. However, one of my crunchers was down.

Zachary85 · Jun 3, 2023

Yes, SCC has been having error issues for a while now.

World Community Grid - View Thread - Defective Batch

World Community Grid - View Thread - [Error] ATOM syntax incorrect: "62 " is not a valid atom number

The problem was bad enough that I removed SCC from my project list for now.

NastyHabits · Jun 3, 2023

@thebluebumblebee I just had everything fail on one PC. Computational errors on all WU's.

phill · Jun 4, 2023

I've not seen anything that I'm aware of guys, I'll see if I can check my valid points/work units in a bit

phill · Jun 25, 2023

Apparently, there's a new version of Boinc out!

Download linky for Boinc update 7.22.2

Anyone had any results not uploaded yet?? Today they said about it being off for any updates??...

mstenholm · Jun 25, 2023

phill said:
Apparently, there's a new version of Boinc out!

Download linky for Boinc update 7.22.2

Anyone had any results not uploaded yet?? Today they said about it being off for any updates??...

July, not June

phill · Jun 28, 2023

mstenholm said:
July, not June

Well I was 50% right then... At least I got the first two letters right in the month!! :laugh:

Canned Noodles · Jul 21, 2023

Is anyone else having issues with uploading right now? I have nearly 30 completed Mapping Cancer Markers tasks that are stuck on "Ready to report" or "Uploading".

phill · Jul 22, 2023

Sadly so @Canned Noodles ... Both my rigs have got nowhere returning the work they have completed and I don't think they are getting anything sent down to them either... From what I've seen, its a data center issue... According to the post on Facebook....

I think I posted something up in the daily thread but here is it again for the moment. I don't use Facebook anymore so I don't log in but that's all the page is said, was a day ago now... I couldn't see anything on Twitter without signing up and I'm not going to do that lol

mstenholm · Jul 22, 2023

phill said:
Sadly so @Canned Noodles ... Both my rigs have got nowhere returning the work they have completed and I don't think they are getting anything sent down to them either... From what I've seen, its a data center issue... According to the post on Facebook....

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I think I posted something up in the daily thread but here is it again for the moment. I don't use Facebook anymore so I don't log in but that's all the page is said, was a day ago now... I couldn't see anything on Twitter without signing up and I'm not going to do that lol

I had a few jobs left on my Linux PC that I completed and uploaded some hours ago so something is working. But they still sit as completed and still no new jobs are issued.

Canned Noodles · Jul 23, 2023

Hopefully it gets fixed soon

phill · Jul 23, 2023

I've not been able to upload any stats for todays WCG daily totals or the stats so I'm guessing it'll be a massive upload when it starts back up again...

I've been getting some uploaded, but they are still showing in my list of work to do as they've not moved from the 100% ready to report or whatever stage it is

Arjai · Jul 26, 2023

OK, found some time and posted 2 new News items from WCG.

HERE and HERE, in WCG News and Talking Points.

phill · Jul 27, 2023

It seems that the stats pages are working again but as to when the work will hopefully start to flow again... I'm not sure....

Zachary85 · Jul 27, 2023

Website for WCG is back up. Uploads finally went home and also downloaded new work just now.

phill · Jul 27, 2023

Just got home from hospital with the Mrs's and noticed that I had a massive load of Smash child Cancer work, so I've put on the other PC in hope that I might get some more work sent down

Has everyone else been fairly lucky too?? Even had a few GPU work units as well I saw!! :eek:

System Name	Not so complete or overkill - There are others!! Just no room to put! :D
Processor	Ryzen Threadripper 3970X
Motherboard	Asus Zenith 2 Extreme Alpha
Cooling	Lots!! Dual GTX 560 rads with D5 pumps for each rad. One rad for each component
Memory	Viper Steel 4 x 16GB DDR4 3600MHz not sure on the timings... Probably still at 2667!! :(
Video Card(s)	Asus Strix 3090 with front and rear active full cover water blocks
Storage	I'm bound to forget something here - 250GB OS, 2 x 1TB NVME, 2 x 1TB SSD, 4TB SSD, 2 x 8TB HD etc...
Display(s)	3 x Dell 27" S2721DGFA @ 7680 x 1440P @ 144Hz or 165Hz - working on it!!
Case	The big Thermaltake that looks like a Case Mods
Audio Device(s)	Onboard
Power Supply	EVGA 1600W T2
Mouse	Corsair thingy
Keyboard	Razer something or other....
VR HMD	No headset yet
Software	Windows 11 OS... Not a fan!!
Benchmark Scores	I've actually never benched it!! Too busy with WCG and FAH and not gaming! :( :( Not OC'd it!! :(

System Name	Office
Processor	Ryzen 5600G
Motherboard	ASUS B450M-A II
Cooling	be quiet! Shadow Rock LP
Memory	16GB Patriot Viper Steel DDR4-3200
Video Card(s)	Gigabyte RX 5600 XT
Storage	PNY CS1030 250GB, Crucial MX500 2TB
Display(s)	Dell S2719DGF
Case	Fractal Define 7 Compact
Power Supply	EVGA 550 G3
Mouse	Logitech M705 Marthon
Keyboard	Logitech G410
Software	Windows 10 Pro 22H2

System Name	Not so complete or overkill - There are others!! Just no room to put! :D
Processor	Ryzen Threadripper 3970X
Motherboard	Asus Zenith 2 Extreme Alpha
Cooling	Lots!! Dual GTX 560 rads with D5 pumps for each rad. One rad for each component
Memory	Viper Steel 4 x 16GB DDR4 3600MHz not sure on the timings... Probably still at 2667!! :(
Video Card(s)	Asus Strix 3090 with front and rear active full cover water blocks
Storage	I'm bound to forget something here - 250GB OS, 2 x 1TB NVME, 2 x 1TB SSD, 4TB SSD, 2 x 8TB HD etc...
Display(s)	3 x Dell 27" S2721DGFA @ 7680 x 1440P @ 144Hz or 165Hz - working on it!!
Case	The big Thermaltake that looks like a Case Mods
Audio Device(s)	Onboard
Power Supply	EVGA 1600W T2
Mouse	Corsair thingy
Keyboard	Razer something or other....
VR HMD	No headset yet
Software	Windows 11 OS... Not a fan!!
Benchmark Scores	I've actually never benched it!! Too busy with WCG and FAH and not gaming! :( :( Not OC'd it!! :(

System Name	Not so complete or overkill - There are others!! Just no room to put! :D
Processor	Ryzen Threadripper 3970X
Motherboard	Asus Zenith 2 Extreme Alpha
Cooling	Lots!! Dual GTX 560 rads with D5 pumps for each rad. One rad for each component
Memory	Viper Steel 4 x 16GB DDR4 3600MHz not sure on the timings... Probably still at 2667!! :(
Video Card(s)	Asus Strix 3090 with front and rear active full cover water blocks
Storage	I'm bound to forget something here - 250GB OS, 2 x 1TB NVME, 2 x 1TB SSD, 4TB SSD, 2 x 8TB HD etc...
Display(s)	3 x Dell 27" S2721DGFA @ 7680 x 1440P @ 144Hz or 165Hz - working on it!!
Case	The big Thermaltake that looks like a Case Mods
Audio Device(s)	Onboard
Power Supply	EVGA 1600W T2
Mouse	Corsair thingy
Keyboard	Razer something or other....
VR HMD	No headset yet
Software	Windows 11 OS... Not a fan!!
Benchmark Scores	I've actually never benched it!! Too busy with WCG and FAH and not gaming! :( :( Not OC'd it!! :(

System Name	System V
Processor	AMD Ryzen 5 3600
Motherboard	Asus Prime X570-P
Cooling	Cooler Master Hyper 212 // a bunch of 120 mm Xigmatek 1500 RPM fans (2 ins, 3 outs)
Memory	2x8GB Ballistix Sport LT 3200 MHz (BLS8G4D32AESCK.M8FE) (CL16-18-18-36)
Video Card(s)	Gigabyte AORUS Radeon RX 580 8 GB
Storage	SHFS37A240G / DT01ACA200 / ST10000VN0008 / ST8000VN004 / SA400S37960G / SNV21000G / NM620 2TB
Display(s)	LG 22MP55 IPS Display
Case	NZXT Source 210
Audio Device(s)	Logitech G430 Headset
Power Supply	Corsair CX650M
Software	Whatever build of Windows 11 is being served in Canary channel at the time.
Benchmark Scores	Corona 1.3: 3120620 r/s Cinebench R20: 3355 FireStrike: 12490 TimeSpy: 4624

TPU's WCG/BOINC Team

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windwhirl

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thebluebumblebee

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NastyHabits

phill

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phill

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mstenholm

phill

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Canned Noodles

phill

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mstenholm

Canned Noodles

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Arjai

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Zachary85

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Cooling	Phanteks PH-TC14CS/H80
Memory	Crucial Ballistix Sport 16GB (2 x 8GB) LP /4GB Kingston DDR3 1600
Video Card(s)	Asus GTX 660 Ti/MSI HD7770
Storage	Crucial MX100 256GB/120GB Samsung 830 & Seagate 2TB(died)
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Case	P100/Antec P280 It's huge!
Audio Device(s)	on board
Power Supply	SeaSonic SS-660XP2/Seasonic SS-760XP2
Software	Win 7 Home Premiun 64 Bit

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Processor	Intel 4790K/AMD Ryzen 5800X
Motherboard	MSI 1150 Gaming mATX/Asus ROG STRIX B550-F Gaming Wifi
Cooling	Cooler Master Hyper 212 LED/SilverStone AH240 AIO
Memory	16 gigs Crucial Ballistix Tactical Tracer/32 gigs G.Skill TridentZ NEO DDR4
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Storage	Crucial SSD 256 and 2TB spinner/Dual Samsung 980 Pro M2 NVME 4.0
Display(s)	Overlord 27" 2560 x 1440
Case	Corsair Air 540
Audio Device(s)	On board
Power Supply	Seasonic modular 850 watt Platinum/EVGA T2-850 Titanium
Software	Windows 10 Pro/Windows 10 Pro

System Name	Rex
Processor	Ryzen 2600
Motherboard	GigaByte B450M DS3H
Cooling	Wraith
Memory	16 GB Corsair Vengence 3000
Video Card(s)	Evga GTX 1660 SC
Storage	XPG M.2, Samsung 860 SSD, WD Black 1 TB
Display(s)	ASUS VG248
Case	Corsair mATX cube. (Alas they don't make it anymore)
Power Supply	Corsair HX 600 Watt
Mouse	Microsoft
Keyboard	Logitech
Software	Windows 10 64 ibit

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Processor	3900X stock/ 2700x stock/ 5950x 4200 MHz fixed @ 1,056-1,08V
Motherboard	Gigabyte AORUS Master X570/2xMSI X470 M7 AC
Cooling	Custom WC XSPC RX480, Laing DDC, XSPC Laing DDC Top V3 and EK Velocity/NH15/NH-U12S SE
Memory	32 GB Viper 3600/14 /16 GB Trident Z F4-4000C18D-16GTZSW 3600 /32 GB G Skill Flare CL14 3400
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Storage	1 TB SSD+500 GB NVMe / 500 GB SSD/ 2 TB 990 Pro
Display(s)	Dell UltraSharp U2518D/2408WFP
Case	Corsair 800D / Lian test bench/NZXT 500
Power Supply	AX 850 Titanium/AX 860i/AX 760
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Power Supply	Corsair RM1000x
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Memory	2GB/ 4GB/ 12 GB 3 chan/ 4GB sammy/T-Force 16GB 3200/XPG 16GB 3000/Ballistic 3600 16GB
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Keyboard	Dynex, 2 no name, SYX and a Logitech. All full sized and USB. MX900 kit for Grey
Software	Mint 18 Sylvia/ Opti-Con Mint KDE/ T3500's on Kubuntu/HP 3770 is Win 10/Win 10 Pro/Win 10 Pro/Win10
Benchmark Scores	World Community Grid is my benchmark!!