TPU's WCG/BOINC Team

[manofthem]

So I had a goof up...

Somehow one of my pcs got shut down, and I don't know how long it's been down; it must have been the little one that likes to push buttons. Oh well, it's back up now

And just got on my main rig, and it had no tasks! I thought HST ran low on work or something, no idea. but changed the profile and got some UGM, then one more HST. Now i changed it back to HST again so let's see if more HST keep coming.

 

[4x4n]

Have the new Xeon running, just in time for the challenge.

It's a 12 core 24 thread ES running at 2.3ghz using only 128 watts! Picked it up on ebay for $190. Trying out windows 10 with this as well. Curious as to what the ppd will be. MY 2683 (14 core at 2.5ghz) does around 14k.

 

[manofthem]

Have the new Xeon running, just in time for the challenge.

It's a 12 core 24 thread ES running at 2.3ghz using only 128 watts! Picked it up on ebay for $190. Trying out windows 10 with this as well. Curious as to what the ppd will be. MY 2683 (14 core at 2.5ghz) does around 14k.

Oh that is a pretty sight to see, all those threads!

 

[jboydgolfer]

Have the new Xeon running, just in time for the challenge.

It's a 12 core 24 thread ES running at 2.3ghz using only 128 watts! Picked it up on ebay for $190. Trying out windows 10 with this as well. Curious as to what the ppd will be. MY 2683 (14 core at 2.5ghz) does around 14k.

Damn....iirc,yesterday i hit 50k,and im only @56'ish now dunno, must be a slow day i suppose.nice score tho. Good work

 

[thebluebumblebee]

So, Saturday morning I had the house to myself and I decided to move a crunching system out of one case and into another so I could start building the 4790K that I picked up for my son. (should only take a few hours, right?) Thought I'd use an old PSU I have. echo "how old is it?" echo I'm so glad you asked. It's a Seasonic SS-380HB that has SATA power connectors but no PCI-e and only a 4 pin EPS. Motherboard that I'm moving needs an 8 pin EPS. echo "So what'd ya do?" echo Again, so glad you asked. I tore apart 4 other systems, including the other 2 crunchers and moved parts around. I'm ending up with one motherboard in the case it started in, but everything else has changed. The cruncher's HDD's stayed with their original CPU's and the RAM stayed on the same motherboards, but everything else is zip bang moved.

Damn....iirc,yesterday i hit 50k,and im only @56'ish now dunno, must be a slow day i suppose.nice score tho. Good work

It all depends on the projects that you have WU's from and how long it takes for someone to validate your work. So you can have completed WU's sitting there for days waiting for that validation. The FAAH2 WU's are instantly validated.

 

[manofthem]

So, Saturday morning I had the house to myself and I decided to move a crunching system out of one case and into another so I could start building the 4790K that I picked up for my son. (should only take a few hours, right?) Thought I'd use an old PSU I have. echo "how old is it?" echo I'm so glad you asked. It's a Seasonic SS-380HB that has SATA power connectors but no PCI-e and only a 4 pin EPS. Motherboard that I'm moving needs an 8 pin EPS. echo "So what'd ya do?" echo Again, so glad you asked. I tore apart 4 other systems, including the other 2 crunchers and moved parts around. I'm ending up with one motherboard in the case it started in, but everything else has changed. The cruncher's HDD's stayed with their original CPU's and the RAM stayed on the same motherboards, but everything else is zip bang moved.


It all depends on the projects that you have WU's from and how long it takes for someone to validate your work. So you can have completed WU's sitting there for days waiting for that validation. The FAAH2 WU's are instantly validated.

I applaud you for getting everything sorted out and running. I never would have made it if I had been in your position

 

[jboydgolfer]

you can have completed WU's sitting there for days waiting for that validation

based on that, i have 3 pages of work not validated as of 6pm, i must have well over 10,000 from the 16th(today) alone.

 

[thebluebumblebee]

I never would have made it if I had been in your position

um, I'm really slow, especially with so many changes. Took me about 12 hours of work to get it all done and I only "finished" about a half an hour ago. I have to figure out why one of the system resets when I hit the power button. (messed up front panel connections)

 

[manofthem]

um, I'm really slow, especially with so many changes. Took me about 12 hours of work to get it all done and I only "finished" about a half an hour ago. I have to figure out why one of the system resets when I hit the power button. (messed up front panel connections)

Still, I would have crapped out somewhere down the line: tired, frustrated, kids, wife, something... That took you some dedication to push through, I mean 12hrs is nothing to scoff at in the least.

And those front panel connections, you gave me an Idea. My little girl has been pressing the buttons on 2 machines here, shutting them down. I may unplug the power button and wire the reset for power. Might save me a bit of headache.

 

[thebluebumblebee]

It was like:
Saturday: wahoo.....whistle while you work....(wait......what....shoot.....darn.....oh......no......you don't mean.....well crap)x4....there's golf on TV?
Sunday: eh, Golf?
Monday: Must. Get. This. Done. Looking forward to seeing what the 4790K can do. It has 16GB of RAM so I wanted to experiment with doing a RAMDISK Linux install. Don't have time for that now.

 

[Caring1]

Have the new Xeon running, just in time for the challenge.

It's a 12 core 24 thread ES running at 2.3ghz using only 128 watts! Picked it up on ebay for $190. Trying out windows 10 with this as well. Curious as to what the ppd will be. MY 2683 (14 core at 2.5ghz) does around 14k.

Good to see so many threads running, now if only that beast was overclocked to give it a boost.
Looking at the "remaining time" column the W.U.'s seem to take a fair bit longer than the same ones run on my little machine with faster clocks. FAH2 takes around 7.5 to 8.5 hours on mine, yours is basically double the time.

 

[stevorob]

Good to see so many threads running, now if only that beast was overclocked to give it a boost.
Looking at the "remaining time" column the W.U.'s seem to take a fair bit longer than the same ones run on my little machine with faster clocks. FAH2 takes around 7.5 to 8.5 hours on mine, yours is basically double the time.

Seems to be the nature of how crunching works with HT chips - they can run alot of tasks concurrently, but take alot more time per task compared to a chip with less cores/threads at faster clocks... but I agree, clock it a bit and it'll be even more beastly, since ppd scales nicely with increased clock speeds.

 

[ThE_MaD_ShOt]

Guys I have placed up my F/s thread for some of my rigs. Crunchers and folders will get a great discount just for the fact of keeping the rigs in the team.

http://www.techpowerup.com/forums/threads/rigs-and-combos.222544/

 

[4x4n]

Would love to clock up the Xeon, but these are locked. Too bad because they run cool and probably have lots of room to go higher. And yes the lower clock speed make the work units take longer to complete, but the number of units running at the same time more than make up for it, especially when you consider the power usage.

 

[Jstn7477]

I've been eyeballing the Xeon V4 ES processors as well since the prices are nice, but I think I'll just overhaul my X99 rig and get a retail Broadwell-E, a better motherboard with an OC socket and probably a GTX 1080 when they appear soon.

Also, sorry I've been gone from the forums for a while, but most of my stuff is still running as usual and I've just been busy with school and work. I really should get this FX-8150 back online sometime since my parents returned it last year after upgrading their home machines with 6700Ks last year (and get BOINC on them too, perhaps, but I've not wanted any complaints about the machines considering mom's Gigabyte Z170MX Gaming 5 board that wasn't even overclocked managed to destroy its BIOS a week and I had to recover that).

 

[thebluebumblebee]

News: New project - OpenZika

 

[manofthem]

News: New project - OpenZika

Oh this is awesome news! Thanks for sharing!

 

[Caring1]

I just checked my projects, and it automatically signed me up.

 

[manofthem]

I just checked my projects, and it automatically signed me up.

Same here, forgot I ticked that box to automatically sign up for new projects. I had a whole bunch on my main rig, which brings me to my next point.

I'm glad this project had plenty of work out of the gate. HST WUs were like drips from a dead tap in a desert, but these OZ seem much more promising

 

[manofthem]

Was wondering what most on the team do for new projects...

Do you start new projects as soon as they come out? Do you wait for a particular badge on current project then switch? Or do you only switch if the new project interests you?

 

[Jstn7477]

Was wondering what most on the team do for new projects...

Do you start new projects as soon as they come out? Do you wait for a particular badge on current project then switch? Or do you only switch if the new project interests you?

I just have the automatic opt-in option checked in my WCG control panel, I don't discriminate on research causes for higher PPD or whatnot, plus I don't check on my machines too much beyond whether they are frozen or turned off.

 

[thebluebumblebee]

So, how hot can I expect a 4790K to get with a X-31? I just set it up, and the motherboard (Z97-A) OC'd it a bit. I watched the temps in Psensor and paused it when it got to 85. The stock 2600K that I had under this cooler normally ran under 50! Should I make sure the CPU is running at stock?

Edit: Just saw that the review temps were much better, on a 4770K.

 

[manofthem]

So, how hot can I expect a 4790K to get with a X-31? I just set it up, and the motherboard (Z97-A) OC'd it a bit. I watched the temps in Psensor and paused it when it got to 85. The stock 2600K that I had under this cooler normally ran under 50! Should I make sure the CPU is running at stock?

Edit: Just saw that the review temps were much better, on a 4770K.

I thought the 4790k was supposed to be cooler than the 4770k...? All I know is that my 4790 ran hot before the H80i, and. Y 4770k was very hot under custom water before delidding.

Sounds like your temp of 85c isn't too far off from what I've experienced

 

[ThE_MaD_ShOt]

Was wondering what most on the team do for new projects...

Do you start new projects as soon as they come out? Do you wait for a particular badge on current project then switch? Or do you only switch if the new project interests you?

Mine are set to automatically opt in on new projects.





Okay fellow teammates, I know some of you have got to be wanting to increase your fleet size. I will give very good discounts to fellow teammates just to keep this stuff in the team. So make some offers and buy some crunching power.

http://www.techpowerup.com/forums/threads/rigs-and-combos.222544/

 

[Norton]

Was wondering what most on the team do for new projects...

Do you start new projects as soon as they come out? Do you wait for a particular badge on current project then switch? Or do you only switch if the new project interests you?

I do as @Jstn7477 does- All projects and opt in to new stuff when/if it appears.

Nice to have a bunch of new projects recently! Remember having extended conversations a year or so ago about WCG running out of new projects?

EDIT- BUY @ThE_MaD_ShOt 's GOODS!!! Nice stuff- some of it used to be in my farm iirc