TPU's WCG/BOINC Team

[[Ion]]

So, I undervoltaged my CPU a bit, thus it runs cooler now.
Now I can run BOINK while on higher clocks. Had tune down the clocks a bit before, as the sucka was getting a bit too hot.
Hope that will yield me / us a bit more points over time.

Also, is it normal that the GPU WU does nothing half the time? My GPU WU alternates between running normally for a few minutes and then having no GPU activity for about a minute. Like this, it takes ~ 10 minutes for each one to complete. And it spends around four minutes without any GPU activity through the time it finishes.
So yeah, is that normal, or do I have a problem here?

This is normal--the GPU WUs run mostly on the GPU, but also have some CPU-only work. What you're seeing is that. This is part of the reason that many of us will run multiple WUs on a single GPU--that way they can overlap and we don't lose as much to this on/off eccentricity.

 

[Norton]

Some activity from the FreeDC site:

Repairs under way....

Will give them time to get the site back so tonight's Milestone's and Pie will be a little late*

*will use backup data source if FreeDC remains out past 11pm Eastern

 

[manofthem]

I miss my free-dc updates and pie

Lets hope it gets back up and running soon

 

[[Ion]]

I miss my free-dc updates and pie

Lets hope it gets back up and running soon

Well, BOINCStats isn't bad either

 

[sabre23]

Voila....I am in Top 10 in my country. But it is nothing to be proud about as it is only 1.8 million fr top 10.

 

[Nordic]

Note- it may take a few days running for the rig to spool up at each setting so be patient with it.

Alas, ye was right. It has fallen down to 13 minutes average wu time from 20 minutes.

 

[librin.so.1]

I started experimenting with running multiple GPU WUs
I am pleased with the results - I get a sweet increase in overall performance of ~10%

But I have a bit of a problem: to make it work, I had to upgrade to BOINC 7.0.60
On it, my GPU WUs tend to hang randomly. I have to suspend & unsuspended GPU activity to restart it. This happens both when I run a single GPU WU and when I run two WUs. Any ideas how to fix this?

P.S. I lost almost a whole night's worth of GPU work because of this - when I left it for the night and went to sleep, it hanged after completing 4 GPU jobs. Of course, I only unclogged it when I got up...

 

[Norton]

I started experimenting with running multiple GPU WUs
I am pleased with the results - I get a sweet increase in overall performance of ~10%

But I have a bit of a problem: to make it work, I had to upgrade to BOINC 7.0.60
On it, my GPU WUs tend to hang randomly. I have to suspend & unsuspended GPU activity to restart it. This happens both when I run a single GPU WU and when I run two WUs. Any ideas how to fix this?

P.S. I lost almost a whole night's worth of GPU work because of this - when I left it for the night and went to sleep, it hanged after completing 4 GPU jobs. Of course, I only unclogged it when I got up...

One of my rigs was doing that (7.0.52 I think). I did a few resets/aborts and it seems to have corrected itself for now. I was going to try to find BOINC 7.0.42 and install but it's ok now.

7.0.42 is the version I've had the best luck with- try it if your problem persists....

 

[librin.so.1]

Having odd issues: when running two GPU WUs at the same time, they alternate to the pair finishing surprisingly fast to surprisingly slow. I decided to go 1 WU, because that at least works consistently.
Also, my computer is much more responsive with only one WU, so the choice was easy.
(one WU takes ~10 minutes. While a WU pair takes from 14 to 27 minutes of working parallel.)

 

[t_ski]

...Also, my computer is much more responsive with only one WU, so the choice was easy.
(one WU takes ~10 minutes. While a WU pair takes from 14 to 27 minutes of working parallel.)

Was that the immediate results, or average after running it that way for several hours? Sometimes it takes quite a while to settle down.

 

[manofthem]

Well, BOINCStats isn't bad either

Oh I'm not saying its bad. I've just been accustomed to free-dc's format and numbers, and their pretty pies. I've noticed that BOINCstats is sometimes different than free-dc's, which isn't a big deal to me, but since I just added the other system this week, I've been trying to get an idea of what it's capable of, according to numbers that I'm used to.

Either way, it's all good.

 

[Norton]

Oh I'm not saying its bad. I've just been accustomed to free-dc's format and numbers, and their pretty pies. I've noticed that BOINCstats is sometimes different than free-dc's, which isn't a big deal to me, but since I just added the other system this week, I've been trying to get an idea of what it's capable of, according to numbers that I'm used to.

Either way, it's all good.

The point totals are the same between the two sites but BOINCStats seems to use a different ppd start/end point..... It seems to be off by 12 hours but am not completely sure

** EDIT- there appears to be a 9 hour difference in closing times for ppd reporting between BOINCStats and FreeDC (see below)

At 15:00GMT each day all new info from the XML files is imported into the BOINCstats database. New users/teams/countries are inserted at this point, and daily/weekly/monthly numbers are calculated. When there is no new XML file for more then a day, the stats will show zero credits for those days.

The numbers from this update are used to display the numbers on the frontpage and the detailed stats pages.

http://boincstats.com/en/page/faq#9

 

[Nordic]

Boinc stats doesn't seem to pick up my points as quickly.

 

[librin.so.1]

I noticed everyone lost their crunching badges.
Because that coincided with Free-DC.org crash, I guess the badges depend on its stats. Is my guess correct?

 

[Norton]

I noticed everyone lost their crunching badges.
Because that coincided with Free-DC.org crash, I guess the badges depend on its stats. Is my guess correct?

Correct! The source for the badges is FreeDC

** EDIT- looks like FreeDC is back up! But the badges haven't returned yet **

** EDIT(2)- Badges are back now!

 

[librin.so.1]

OH SNAP I have 4 stars!
That was unexpected.

 

[AlienIsGOD]

i love my badges

 

[librin.so.1]

Okay, I decided I should make a headless [almost] dedicated cruncher of my spare FX-8120
Just gotta buy some cheap-ass mobo and some RAM. Gonna make it network booted and make it store data on my main machine through NFS, to save cash.
This might take a while to configure properly, though. As I never made a network booted computer / config before.

 

[[Ion]]

Okay, I decided I should make a headless [almost] dedicated cruncher of my spare FX-8120
Just gotta buy some cheap-ass mobo and some RAM. Gonna make it network booted and make it store data on my main machine through NFS, to save cash.
This might take a while to configure properly, though. As I never made a network booted computer / config before.

I'd suggest against that TBH. Even a 4 or 8GB USB drive with Ubuntu or Linux Mint x64 would be a better solution--then it isn't dependent on the network and the configuration is much easier. Or something like a 20GB HDD would even work...

 

[librin.so.1]

I'd suggest against that TBH. Even a 4 or 8GB USB drive with Ubuntu or Linux Mint x64 would be a better solution--then it isn't dependent on the network and the configuration is much easier. Or something like a 20GB HDD would even work...

Thanks for whipping some sense into me!
But since the machine will also have to do a little bit of other work once in a while, NFS still stays. That is still much simpler overall

 

[[Ion]]

Thanks for whipping some sense into me!
But since the machine will also have to do a little bit of other work once in a while, NFS still stays. That is still much simpler overall

Well, if you insist, but if something goes wrong I can't offer any help whatsoever

 

[librin.so.1]

something goes wrong

That's my "normal mode of operation", so I'll be fine

 

[librin.so.1]

I noticed something just now and could not resist from pointing it out.
My current today's score is OVER NINE THOUSAND!

I know, I know - double post. But the two are separated by several hours and cover different topics, thus I made a another post.

 

[Norton]

New case for the X58/3x7770 cruncher

* the X58/2x GTX580 folding rig is getting closer to getting finished

 

[[Ion]]

That's my "normal mode of operation", so I'll be fine

New case for the X58/3x7770 cruncher

* the X58/2x GTX580 folding rig is getting closer to getting finished

http://img.techpowerup.org/130407/Ella 1.jpg

Awesome!

If you take out the top HDD cage your cards might get a bit more airflow