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TPU's WCG/BOINC Team

I setup bionic on my dual E5520 server and it got so hot that it shut off (killing our internet and the Domain) so I have turned it off for now until I can repaste the CPU's
 
brandonwh64 said:
I setup bionic on my dual E5520 server and it got so hot that it shut off (killing our internet and the Domain) so I have turned it off for now until I can repaste the CPU's
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How hot is that? My E5540 is running 90C under load but has for months so w/e.

And the WCG site is indeed back up now. Good to see :)
 
[Ion] said:
How hot is that? My E5540 is running 90C under load but has for months so w/e.

And the WCG site is indeed back up now. Good to see :)
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I didn't get a temp read from it but it got so hot it shut down while I was at work and I could not remote back into my home network.
 
brandonwh64 said:
I didn't get a temp read from it but it got so hot it shut down while I was at work and I could not remote back into my home network.
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Well that's no good. You sure it's heat related and not something else? I've run a bunch of CPUs (Intel at least) into the mid 90s and they've been fine.
 
Is there any way to see how much PPD an android device (like a phone) produces? I have my old Motorola Moto G still (have LG Volt now). Only reason I replaced it was cause I dropped it and broke the glass. I ordered a new screen cover thing off ebay for $2, so it should be fine once I replace it. It will take a long time to get here though, but I'm in no rush for that.
 
hat said:
Is there any way to see how much PPD an android device (like a phone) produces? I have my old Motorola Moto G still (have LG Volt now). Only reason I replaced it was cause I dropped it and broke the glass. I ordered a new screen cover thing off ebay for $2, so it should be fine once I replace it. It will take a long time to get here though, but I'm in no rush for that.
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Can't you just monitor it through the Device Statistics page?
 
[Ion] said:
Can't you just monitor it through the Device Statistics page?
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Maybe just a preemptive question, getting an idea of estimated ppd to see if it's even worth it?

hat said:
Is there any way to see how much PPD an android device (like a phone) produces? I have my old Motorola Moto G still (have LG Volt now). Only reason I replaced it was cause I dropped it and broke the glass. I ordered a new screen cover thing off ebay for $2, so it should be fine once I replace it. It will take a long time to get here though, but I'm in no rush for that.
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I personally am not into android phone crunching. Last time I tried on my Galaxy s4 I got maybe 500-700ppd, just not worth it. I don't think I'd expect much more than that, unless I'm way off :laugh:
 
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manofthem said:
Maybe just a preemptive question, getting an idea of estimated ppd to see if it's even worth it?



I personally am not into android phone crunching. Last time I tried on my Galaxy s4 I got maybe 500-700ppd, just not worth it. I don't think I'd expect much more than that, unless I'm way off :laugh:
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I think that Jstn4777 said somewhere around 400 or 500 on his Android tablet, but I have no idea what model it was.
 
[Ion] said:
Well that's no good. You sure it's heat related and not something else? I've run a bunch of CPUs (Intel at least) into the mid 90s and they've been fine.
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I don't think it could be anything else. The setup is not that old but could possibly be something. I am running two 650W PSUs in it.
 
[Ion] said:
Can't you just monitor it through the Device Statistics page?
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correct.
Mine is listed as Android device and generates about 200ppd but i dont routinely plug it in and it isnt ever plugged in through the night.

My S4 generates approximately 50 pts per hour e.g. on 1st July it was plugged to the wall for 10.5 hours and generated 539 pts
 
CAPSLOCKSTUCK said:
correct.
Mine is listed as Android device and generates about 200ppd but i dont routinely plug it in and it isnt ever plugged in through the night.

My S4 generates approximately 50 pts per hour e.g. on 1st July it was plugged to the wall for 10.5 hours and generated 539 pts
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Very good info here, thanks for sharing it with us. :respect:


I struck up folding again recently on the 7770 since it's such a low wattage gpu, but it means I lose a thread for WCG. Not sure what I'm going to do about that but I may just try to maximize WCG instead :rolleyes:
 
I wonder what the best ppd/$ android system would be.

If an S4 can get 500-700 ppd as manofthem said, 10 s4 equivalent systems would do very well on ppd/watt. They would be small also.

Just looking at the top 10 of this chart,
http://www.androidbenchmark.net/cpumark_chart.html

All the ones at the top are octocores. One of the top 10 was cheap. The Lenovo K50 stuck out with a price of just over $150.
http://www.androidbenchmark.net/phone.php?phone=Lenovo+K50-T5

Otherwise known as the Lenovo Lemon K3 Note.
http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00VYDWC4E/?tag=tec06d-20


Still though, asking over $150 for a crunching android system is a bit much in my opinion. If there were some older but very fast phones for around $25-50 I think we might have an interesting set of crunchers.
 
Bought myself three six-core Xeons from [H]. Gonna stick one of them in the Gigabyte X58 board to see how well I can OC it and use the other two to upgrade from the dual-E5520s in one of the T5500s :toast:
 
I am down to just my main machine. Not sure yet what the problem is with the other one, but when I turn it on sometime later it shuts down. Have not had time to look at it, but hope to this weekend.
 
Bow said:
I am down to just my main machine. Not sure yet what the problem is with the other one, but when I turn it on sometime later it shuts down. Have not had time to look at it, but hope to this weekend.
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Let me know what you find when you check it out- I may be able to assist with parts for it ;)
 
I doubt it's worth it to buy Android devices for crunching (phones, tablets etc). As I mentioned before, battery problems can happen easily. I'm only thinking about doing it with my old Moto G because I feel it would be a waste to have a nice quad core chip laying around doing nothing when it could so easily be crunching (and it's the best, actually only device I can do it with)... But I am wary of the battery. I recall raising the maximum battery temp with my ZTE Force... Won't be doing that again, may even lower it.

I might just end up throwing my old ZTE Force out, it has too many problems. The place I worked at when I had it ruined it (the speaker), and now the battery is messed up. Unless I can run it without the battery...
 
Norton said:
Let me know what you find when you check it out- I may be able to assist with parts for it ;)
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Thanks I will. I noticed that it was off the other day and I hit the button before leaving for work. When I got home it was off again. Before I went to bed I turned it on again and it was up and running, but the next morning it was off again. Not even sure how long it stays up and running.
About 2 weeks ago I updated drivers and Win7 updates,ran CCCleaner, the basics so I am not sure whats going on.
 
Bow said:
Thanks I will. I noticed that it was off the other day and I hit the button before leaving for work. When I got home it was off again. Before I went to bed I turned it on again and it was up and running, but the next morning it was off again. Not even sure how long it stays up and running.
About 2 weeks ago I updated drivers and Win7 updates,ran CCCleaner, the basics so I am not sure whats going on.
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Any chance that the power saving settings got changed?
 
I think I may have figured out some of the inconsistencies in PPD I've been seeing lately: MCM WUs are not on either machine and there's nothing left but OET and CEP2. Did MCM project end?
 
t_ski said:
I think I may have figured out some of the inconsistencies in PPD I've been seeing lately: MCM WUs are not on either machine and there's nothing left but OET and CEP2. Did MCM project end?
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Nah I got a bunch of MCM WUs downloaded to one of the Nehalem DP systems half an hour ago.
 
Pretty much my entire log is for MCM work.
 
Bow said:
Not even sure how long it stays up and running.
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Event Viewer should give you an idea since it'll be logging everything so you should be able to pick out boot up time and power off time. I hope you get it fixed and working. :)
 
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Well, the last of my i7-9xx-based systems has now been sold off. Still have a lot (like 18) of Nehalem and Westmere quads left, but those are more efficient at least (80w vs 130w) and I'll be gradually phasing them out and replacing them with Westmere hexs.
 
I have all MCM
 
james888 said:
I wonder what the best ppd/$ android system would be.
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My sub $100 ARM based media PC does about 800 ppd. It has a rk3288 chip in it. I was pretty impressed.
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All the ones at the top are octocores.
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Is that a true symmetrical 8-core design? I suppose the numbers are there, so perhaps so.

I'm working on getting results in from an Atom Z3735F PC, but am having trouble keeping the battery charged while it runs. Those PCs can be found for sub $100 too, assuming it stays charged. If so, I suspect they'll have the best PPD/watt and possibly PPD/$ for new systems.

Edit: Rockchip has an A53 based RK3368 SoC that looks pretty interesting. Looks like it's going for sub-100 as well.
 
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