TPU's WCG/BOINC Team

[Dinnercore]

The Postal service has yet to not deliver to me, UPS even does a nice job of that. I THOUGHT FedEx was decent, also. But I have had some issues with them that are now coming to mind as maybe there is a pattern here of poor training, or possibly FedEx has become the WalMart of delivery services (i.e. low pay, low morale).

Heh I can tell you a story about FedEx here in Germany... Had something ordered from US and shipped to me through customs via FedEx. They are supposed to take care of everything and hand over the fee to me, that´s the service I paid for atleast.
So far so good, it landed at the airport, passed customs and was in delivery. Then I get the note it has been delivered and guess what? Not to me. I did get the invoice for costums tho.
The signature of the one that received it only said: 'Company'
I had no idea where it was, called FedEx and they told me they couldn´t figure out either since it was marked to have been delivered at my address. Two days later I get a call from a company in a town some km away from my place, that FedEx dropped every package in the van at their door and left. So now they had to go through the names on there and phone up the people. Atleast they were nice about it and I could just drive there and get it. But f*** FedEx man. I can not always avoid them with sellers from US, but I try my best to go for UPS when I can. They deliver and do customs, only the driver is very grumpy and openly hates his underpaid and tough job, but he does his work nonetheless.

 

[Norton]

Signed us up for a couple of challenges.

Details later today but you can check out the team pages on the WCG site if you want a sneak peek

 

[Arjai]

I got both T3500's up and running. The Opticon-390 is up and running on KDE 18.3, and won't connect via TV with my laptop, but it will connect via TV on any of the farm machines...?

The i3's are crunching away, no problems.

And the i5 box that FedEx effed up is still AWOL.

Gotta get ready for work then call those effen-hiemer's and find my computer!!

Dude, Where's my Computer?


EDIT: Another thing, I found out I know nothing about Wine. For some reason I thought it just opened up a window, like a mini VM and you could just run anything in it. don't know why I thought that but,it is not the case. Looks like it will be a bit before I can learn it and then lock the Xeon's at max clock.

I find it weird that it is so difficult to adjust clocks in Linux. Being that it is a very popular OS, I thought there would be an app developed by now. Or, if there is, I can't find it!

 

[Arjai]

I'm getting MASSIVE PPD from OET on Linux on my 2600K's. My OC'd 4.4 GHz 2600K did 16,848 points yesterday with the stock 2600K got 13,545!

How did you OC in Linux? Is it a simple Bios setting?
I have been wanting to lock my xeons at max boost but, aside from possibly using Wine, and trying to learn it, what did you do? I have yet to find anything here about Linux OC-ing...

 

[thebluebumblebee]

P67 motherboard. There's no in OS OC'ing with that. I just bumped the max clock to 44 for all cores.

 

[Norton]

https://www.techpowerup.com/forums/...werup-fall-warmup-crunching-challenge.248073/

 

[hat]

What are the requirements for the badge these days? I've been back at it for a little while now, yet no badge.

 

[Arjai]

I found the pakage w/ my i5 computer!! Turns out my EBay address was from the Mission! It has been over 3 years since I lived there, or apparently used EBay! So, if all works as planned, new plan, I will try to retrieve it tonight after work. Then contact the seller to let him know.

If that doesn't work out, I asked him to contact FedEx and have it sent here. So, I eventually WILL get the computer. Good News!



@thebluebumblebee I went into my Bios on the T3500's and switched ON Intel Speed Step. I am hoping that will boost the clocks some. I have no way of telling though, except seeing if my number's creep up a little. lshw command just displays the stock core clock.

?

 

[phill]

@Arjai I think you'll have more crunchers than I will soon!!

 

[Norton]

My ppd will be bouncing around for a while as I start moving some systems around for the upcoming crunching season.

Expect to see a solid 100k+ coming from me after completion

 

[Arjai]

Well, my apartment is quite toasty, now. I also think my Wifi router may be overheating, because I am now dropping signal quite a bit. So, I just ordered a USB fan to attach to the rack, underneath it. The bottom of it is all perforated and that is were I am going to place it, to start.

Hopefully that will cure my router issues.


Tomorrow, or the next day, I am also going to buy a small silent oscillating fan, Rowenta, to blow from the window towards the rack. The air in this building is dead and my A/C unit is trash. I am going to have them fix it correctly, next year...It barely held 72 degrees!! I am gone so much it didn't really matter but, I want it to function properly, it just runs 24/7 blowing 70 degree air around...

Anyway, the new fan should make it nice in here for me and the Farm!!

OK, got the box. Just installed the 3770 and I am going to take the heatsink to work, and blow it out. Tonight I will put it all together and hopefully have it running and crunching!!

Also, it is not an UltraSlim, like I thought. It is an 8300 that had a 3570 i5 and is a SFF, so, little larger than my UltraSlims. No worries, it'll work.

Anybody need an i5 3570?

 

[Norton]

Super combo FS here:
https://www.techpowerup.com/forums/...-980x-3x2gb-ddr3-2250-phanteks-cooler.248182/

TPU cruncher/folder discount is active

 

[phill]

My ppd will be bouncing around for a while as I start moving some systems around for the upcoming crunching season.

Expect to see a solid 100k+ coming from me after completion

That's what I'd call a massive commitment from you @Norton , respect and hats off to you Dedication at its best!!

Well, my apartment is quite toasty, now. I also think my Wifi router may be overheating, because I am now dropping signal quite a bit. So, I just ordered a USB fan to attach to the rack, underneath it. The bottom of it is all perforated and that is were I am going to place it, to start.

Hopefully that will cure my router issues.


Tomorrow, or the next day, I am also going to buy a small silent oscillating fan, Rowenta, to blow from the window towards the rack. The air in this building is dead and my A/C unit is trash. I am going to have them fix it correctly, next year...It barely held 72 degrees!! I am gone so much it didn't really matter but, I want it to function properly, it just runs 24/7 blowing 70 degree air around...

Anyway, the new fan should make it nice in here for me and the Farm!!

OK, got the box. Just installed the 3770 and I am going to take the heatsink to work, and blow it out. Tonight I will put it all together and hopefully have it running and crunching!!

Also, it is not an UltraSlim, like I thought. It is an 8300 that had a 3570 i5 and is a SFF, so, little larger than my UltraSlims. No worries, it'll work.

Anybody need an i5 3570?

Sounds like you're getting everything sorted @Arjai I am very impressed with all the crunchers and the throughput!! You'll soon be overtaking me I'm sure

Super combo FS here:
https://www.techpowerup.com/forums/...-980x-3x2gb-ddr3-2250-phanteks-cooler.248182/

TPU cruncher/folder discount is active

@Norton please don't post porn, it's not fair and I've already bought more hardware that I shouldn't have I can't wait to see an update of what your up to with your crunchers

 

[Arjai]

I have got the HP3770 running WCG just now. Not sure how many points it will get but, it will help.

 

[phill]

I found that my 2600k was idle for the day yesterday so that was a shame!! About 7.5k lost but meh Ran it overnight to help bump up my scores a little, probably not enough to catch you up for tomorrow Arjai Maybe today will be a better day

 

[Arjai]

So far, since midnight, the HP3770 has churned through 40 WU's in 10 1/2 hours. Not bad for the first half-ish day! On Win 10, even.

First look at Win10 on any of my machines. So far, so good. Still need to clean it up some, which means spending time in the Win 10 thread picking up pointers...that may take a while.

Also, in about an hour, or less, I should finish 4 more on the HP3500! I am going to leave this one on Win 10 for a bit. Then, sometime this winter, I will switch it over to some Linux distro, thinking to try Manjaro, or maybe something else...we'll see. I have been using Mint on all of them, so far, with a small stint with Ubuntu a few years ago.

 

[thebluebumblebee]

Anybody need an i5 3570?

Can you upgrade any of the i3's???? (here we go again?)

 

[Nordic]

Hello team. How's it been?

 

[thebluebumblebee]

Hello team. How's it been?

Can't complain. You?
BTW: https://www.techpowerup.com/forums/...werup-fall-warmup-crunching-challenge.248073/

 

[phill]

Hello team. How's it been?

Pretty good I think I hope you've been well??

 

[stinger608]

Trying to get a little mITX system up and running with my i5-4690K chip. I have found that I don't seem to have the little antenna's that mount to the wireless card mounted to the motherboard.
Wondering if anyone has a pair of them little puppies they wish to part with?
Would prefer the 2.4/5 ghz antenna's

 

[Dinnercore]

I hope I can get crunching on my 1950X again soon, currently holding back since I´m still investigating the power issue. I got a replacement PSU that I will try next and see if anything changes.

 

[thebluebumblebee]

For your consideration. Does faster RAM and dual channel matter for crunching on Ryzen?

1700 with one 8 GB stick of DDR4-2400 (OC'd 2133):

Same exact system but with 2 x 4 GB sticks of DDR4-2666:

Don't know if a 2.8% gain is actually something.

 

[phill]

Sometimes I see the points vary a bit but I do believe setting the ram timings would be a load better for Ryzen, as I have found out with my 5960X I'll see if I can post up a few screenies tonight after work

 

[Arjai]

Well, I went to switch the Kill-A-Watt to T3500-2. When I rebooted, after switching the power cables around, I could not get BOINC to launch. So, rather than reload Mint, my USB stick had already been changed to boot Mint KDE ( on the OptiCon ), I decided to try Manjaro.

I am now downloading BOINC and will see how it goes.... Pamac is having trouble with the image in the repository. Gonna try a web download...hmmm.....Gonna go think, for a while....Then come back and rethink this.

Well, it did not take long to find out, via the Manjaro Forums, that BOINC is not plug and play. Perhaps, if I were a Linux Arch geek, I could fiddle around and get it. But, read through a post, with multiple Q's and A's, with links and everything. It is pretty much a no go by the OP, and he is obviously more Linux Knowledgeable than me.

So, next stop Kubuntu, which should be plug and play, on the KDE Plasma desktop enviro. It is primarily based on Ubuntu, but better on all accounts. I am downloading the .iso now. Hopefully, I can get it up and running tonight, before bed.