TPU's WCG/BOINC Team

Arjai · May 21, 2019

Hi everybody!!
I have some questions for the team, unrelated to Crunching.

I have a need for a Laptop ans Tablet. They need to be able to handle a construction site and travel in a work truck. The Laptop needs a big HDD, to store work site photos. The Tablet needs to be able to do quickbooks and Facebook. The business site is on Facebook, for now, and they won't need a web site for a while.

If anyone here has experience with construction site laptops and tablets, I would love to hear your advice.

https://www.techpowerup.com/forums/threads/wtb-us-rugged-laptop.255800/#post-4051709

https://www.techpowerup.com/forums/threads/looking-for-a-tablet-that-is-rugged.255799/#post-4051705

xvi · May 23, 2019

I had to decommission a server a bit ago so to make up for it ever so slightly, I looked into the AWS EC2 Free Tier and I'm happy to say that I've got it running and have some numbers to report back.
Without the free tier promo, my "t2.micro" instance it looks like it costs $0.31 per day or roughly $9 a month. I'm not sure if I ran out of the trial since I played with this a number of years ago or if this is going to be comped at the end of the month. I suppose I'll find out.
Edit: That server might be back temporarily.

I figured I would document my numbers here just in case anyone else was curious to know what a single core AWS EC2 machine could do.

Code:

5/22/2019 10:36:28 PM |  | Processor: 1 GenuineIntel Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2676 v3 @ 2.40GHz [Family 6 Model 63 Stepping 2]
5/22/2019 10:57:43 PM |  | Running CPU benchmarks
5/22/2019 10:57:43 PM |  | Suspending computation - CPU benchmarks in progress
5/22/2019 10:58:15 PM |  | Benchmark results:
5/22/2019 10:58:15 PM |  | Number of CPUs: 1
5/22/2019 10:58:15 PM |  | 354 floating point MIPS (Whetstone) per CPU
5/22/2019 10:58:15 PM |  | 6203 integer MIPS (Dhrystone) per CPU
5/22/2019 10:58:16 PM |  | Resuming computation

Arjai said:
If anyone here has experience with construction site laptops and tablets, I would love to hear your advice.

A ~~Toshiba~~ Panasonic Toughbook (or the Dell Rugged series) comes to mind, although I'm not sure it'd do too much in the way of large storage as they tend to use SSDs instead. You may be able to swap that out with a large mechanical drive though.

Arjai · Jun 5, 2019

Dammit! I was at work ALL day, left at 5:40am this morning. Just got home to find my computers were all off. I checked the breakers and sure enough, something tripped it. Not sure what, or when. But now, I have to move an HDMI cable all around along with a VGA cable for a couple of boxes...Damn it, I am tired, too!

Oh well, guess I better get at it!

phill · Jun 5, 2019

Arjai said:
Dammit! I was at work ALL day, left at 5:40am this morning. Just got home to find my computers were all off. I checked the breakers and sure enough, something tripped it. Not sure what, or when. But now, I have to move an HDMI cable all around along with a VGA cable for a couple of boxes...Damn it, I am tired, too!

Oh well, guess I better get at it!

I hope all went ok @Arjai !!

phill · Jun 13, 2019

Has anyone else had a few issues over night where work units haven't been downloaded/uploaded at all? Was there any maintenance going on over night? I don't remember seeing anything.....?

mstenholm · Jun 13, 2019

phill said:
Has anyone else had a few issues over night where work units haven't been downloaded/uploaded at all? Was there any maintenance going on over night? I don't remember seeing anything.....?

Network Issues - Not Sending or Receiving Work

Hello everyone,

We're currently experiencing a serious issue with the network in the data center where our system resides. While this is going on, we are unable to send or receive work units. Support is working on the issue.

Our tech team (as always!!!) is hard at work doing what they can on their end, but we'll post updates here as they become available.

Thanks to everyone for their support and patience.

Caiti

phill · Jun 13, 2019

mstenholm said:
Network Issues - Not Sending or Receiving Work

Hello everyone,

We're currently experiencing a serious issue with the network in the data center where our system resides. While this is going on, we are unable to send or receive work units. Support is working on the issue.

Our tech team (as always!!!) is hard at work doing what they can on their end, but we'll post updates here as they become available.

Thanks to everyone for their support and patience.

Caiti

Thanks @mstenholm

Was that on the Boinc or World Grid site again? :banghead:

mstenholm · Jun 13, 2019

phill said:
Thanks @mstenholm Was that on the Boinc or World Grid site again?

phill · Jun 13, 2019

I normally see updates in the Notices tab on the program but nothing showed up.. Hopefully it'll be sort out soon

EDIT - I can't even see anything on the World Grid site saying that it's got issues... I must be blind and daft!!

thebluebumblebee · Jun 20, 2019

phill · Jun 20, 2019

thebluebumblebee said:

I'm only about 200 million points behind you mate!! :laugh:

Give me 125798 days to catch up!! :laugh:

thebluebumblebee · Jun 22, 2019

Anyone running WCG on a 9900K? Your input is requested: https://www.techpowerup.com/forums/threads/i9-9900k-causes-noises-when-running-primegrid.256735/

HammerON · Jun 26, 2019

I finally got around to installing Ubuntu on another SSD as I was disappointed in my numbers while crunching under Windows 10 (averaging about 14,000 ppd). So I should see the numbers go back to around 26,000 ppd again with the E5 2683 v3...

phill · Jun 26, 2019

HammerON said:
I finally got around to installing Ubuntu on another SSD as I was disappointed in my numbers while crunching under Windows 10 (averaging about 14,000 ppd). So I should see the numbers go back to around 26,000 ppd again with the E5 2683 v3...

What sort of power draw do you see for the CPU @HammerON ?

I'm after some V3's for my two R730's and wondering what to put in them...

mstenholm · Jun 26, 2019

phill said:
What sort of power draw do you see for the CPU @HammerON ? I'm after some V3's for my two R730's and wondering what to put in them...

The ES models are dirt cheap - 110 £, even the normal is only 300 £. For this amount of crunching power

. Come on Phill the sun is shinning.

phill · Jun 26, 2019

mstenholm said:
The ES models are dirt cheap - 110 £, even the normal is only 300 £. For this amount of crunching power . Come on Phill the sun is shinning.

I wish it was here!! :laugh:

It's very dull today for some reason, not even making 160w at the moment

Would there be any reasons for an ES CPU to not work in a Dell server??

HammerON · Jun 26, 2019

phill said:
What sort of power draw do you see for the CPU @HammerON ? I'm after some V3's for my two R730's and wondering what to put in them...

Checked last year and posted in the other WCG thread:

How efficient is your cruncher?

I've been playing with a XEON system I've recently cobbled together and was looking to replace my current system in my specs with. After running both for 24 hours on a power meter the 16 thread XEON looks to be my favoured choice at 2.7Kw for that period, compared to the 2.35Kw for the 4 thread...

www.techpowerup.com

mstenholm · Jun 26, 2019

HammerON said:
Checked last year and posted in the other WCG thread:

How efficient is your cruncher?

I've been playing with a XEON system I've recently cobbled together and was looking to replace my current system in my specs with. After running both for 24 hours on a power meter the 16 thread XEON looks to be my favoured choice at 2.7Kw for that period, compared to the 2.35Kw for the 4 thread...

www.techpowerup.com

@phill so what are you waiting for?

phill · Jun 27, 2019

mstenholm said:
@phill so what are you waiting for?

Money

mstenholm · Jun 29, 2019

Counting down to +15 % / core improvement 3900x Geekbench
I didn't run Geekbench on my own systems but I found a base 2700x system with slow RAM (scored 33757). Going by Integer score for Multi-core each core is 15 % faster on the 3900x. Add the extra 50% cores. Sweet.

phill · Jun 29, 2019

I think the new Ryzen CPUs will be brilliant for crunching on.. I just hope that one day I'll be able to afford a new one lol

thebluebumblebee · Jun 29, 2019

I'm just wondering how the IPC uplift, the large L3 cache and the doubled floating point performance will all add up.

mstenholm · Jun 29, 2019

thebluebumblebee said:
I'm just wondering how the IPC uplift, the large L3 cache and the doubled floating point performance will all add up.

3900x on a OpenZika diet and 4200 MHz RAM will do 42k PPD stock :cool:

. Let's hope that they put OpenZika on hold too long Pause

phill · Jul 3, 2019

It seems today that Free-DC has a bit of an issue with WCG as it's not updated since the 1st...

World Community Grid - TechPowerUp! Overview
Last Checked : Wed Jul 03, 07:57:27 2019 BST
Data Updated : Mon Jul 01, 22:10:18 2019 BST
Current Time: Wed Jul 03, 12:56:53 2019 BST

Is anyone else having the same problems?

mstenholm · Jul 3, 2019

phill said:
It seems today that Free-DC has a bit of an issue with WCG as it's not updated since the 1st...

World Community Grid - TechPowerUp! Overview
Last Checked : Wed Jul 03, 07:57:27 2019 BST
Data Updated : Mon Jul 01, 22:10:18 2019 BST
Current Time: Wed Jul 03, 12:56:53 2019 BST

Is anyone else having the same problems?

Yes, seems like a general Free-DC problem.

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System Name	Not so complete or overkill - There are others!! Just no room to put! :D
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