WCG-TPU 9th Birthday Challenge (11/16-11/22/2013)- Join us/Crunch/Win Stuff

[stinger608]

i recieved my 32" but its a TV primary

is it a 720 or a 1080?

 

[GreiverBlade]

is it a 720 or a 1080?

1080p 100hz but i use HDMI atm so 60hz max 8ms G to G well thats worse than my P243W 2ms or my VS247H 5ms but at last its not 10ms

ohhh i just noticed it has 2 USB port with media capability :
USB FeaturesPicture (USB) : JPEG Base / JPEG Progressive / PNG non interlace / PNG interlace / BMP
Audio (USB) : MPEG1 layer 2 MP3 / MPEG1 layer 3 MP3 / AC3 / ASF / LPCM (video files only) / IMA-ADPCM/MS-ADPCM (video files only) / LBR (video files only) / WAV
Video (USB) : dat / mpg / mpeg / vob / mp4 / mkv / Xvid / asf / 3gp / flv

raising more!

 

[stinger608]

1080p 100hz but i use HDMI atm so 60hz max 8ms G to G well thats worse than my P243W 2ms or my VS247H 5ms but at last its not 10ms

Cool. I actually am using a 32" Panasonic 1080 for a monitor. Was the cheapest solution at the time. I would like to get a killer deal on a 27" or 30" high end monitor........Don't see that happening any time soon.

 

[GreiverBlade]

well its a Toshiba with a deal on it original price 329.90chf, if taken directly at the shop 299chf 30.90 less oh well better than nothing and 6chf taxes for card payment + 15-20chf delivery

 

[Arjai]

PUSH IT!!!!

I wish I had my farm up and running!!

 

[15th Warlock]

Well, you can just click on reply to both posts and then they show up quoted--like this!
What sort of PPD are the Android devices doing?

Not much, 97 points on the Galaxy S4, 123 on the Fire HDx and the Shield, which was crunching much faster than the two others had its BOINC client crash and all finished tasks were erased when that happened before they got reported, so I restarted it a moment ago and it's still going at it, probably not worth it I figure we need all the help we can get...

 

[d1nky]

well 2 days left, ive stopped all new tasks as I have more than 2 days of tasks ahead!

beers this Friday celebrate TPU coming 3rd

 

[[Ion]]

Not much, 97 points on the Galaxy S4, 123 on the Fire HDx and the Shield, which was crunching much faster than the two others had its BOINC client crash and all finished tasks were erased when that happened before they got reported, so I restarted it a moment ago and it's still going at it, probably not worth it I figure we need all the help we can get...

Yeah, that's not so good, that makes even an Atom seem impressive. And my 1.6GHz Core 2 Duo gets nearly 500 PPD even though I carry it around everywhere...

 

[librin.so.1]

okay so, I didn't get those 16x Pentium 4. But I did occupy another computer class at the university and scored 12x A8-5500! As before, one of them is dead, blah blah blah, so I am left with 11x of those.
And I just got back from a BOINC'ing mission and those APUs are already crunching!

And thus, I am currently crunching for team TPU with 132 cores / 136 threads!

will update siggy shortly already done

 

[stinger608]

Okay team;

As an appetizer for the hardware give away, I am including a retail key for.......................................Wait for it......................................Battlefield 4!!!!!

Norton will hash out the details sometime today or this evening. It will be given away prior to the hardware give away's so stay tuned.

 

[[Ion]]

okay so, I didn't get those 16x Pentium 4. But I did occupy another computer class at the university and scored 12x A8-5500! As before, one of them is dead, blah blah blah, so I am left with 11x of those.
And I just got back from a BOINC'ing mission and those APUs are already crunching!

And thus, I am currently crunching for team TPU with 132 cores / 136 threads!

will update siggy shortly already done

Damn, that's incredible! I think that Buck and I may have a new challenge for Cherry Pie over the coming days

Are these also only going for the duration of the challenge?

How do you find computer labs that you can set up like this at university...?

 

[librin.so.1]

How do you find computer labs that you can set up like this at university...?

Actually, it's the same "lab" - I just occupied its second of three parts. Those two computer classes I occupied are technically in the same [large] room, just separated with semi-permanent aluminum+glass "wall" + door. I just had to arrange them to allow me to use those, too.
Heh, that "wall" & door is there for as long as I remember. And I've been hanging around that place for 19 years now.

Are these also only going for the duration of the challenge?

Don't know. Depends on how well I roll my dice on my upcoming diplomacy skill checks, if You catch my drift

P.S. those A8-5500 are whisper-silent. It can be clearly heard when those phenoms are busy crunching, as their coolers start sounding something close to a thing called "Nvidia lealfblower". Meanwhile, those APUs are super-silent when idle. And I can't tell a difference in the noise level when they are busy crunching. I was friggin' mindblown. The only explanation I can think of is that they all got aftermarket coolers. But who the hell puts those on simple generic university computers?

 

[[Ion]]

Well, I wish you very good luck in getting those going permanently (or at least semi-so). More crunching is sweet, particularly when you don't have to foot the bill
A new challenger would be good fun for everyone, I think.

 

[thebluebumblebee]

I'm taking delivery of a special PC tomorrow and will have it fired up shortly thereafter. Details and pictures tomorrow

ehm

 

[theonedub]

Last week I won a PC at OCN that was built as a tribute to Adam Wilson (aka Erakith) who passed away last year. He was a father and husband, a reviewer for Thinkcomputers.org, and passed away way too young.

This is the PC:

CaseLabs SM8
Gigabyte Z77X-UP4 TH
Intel 3570K
8GB Samsung Green Ram
Inno3d GTX680 4GB
Plextor PX-128M3 128 GB SSD
Mayhems Pastel - Sunset Yellow 250 ml
NZXT Hale90-1000-M
NZXT Sentry 2
NZXT Extensions
EK H30 360 HFX Rad x 2
EK Compression Fittings
EK FC680 GTX+
EK Supremacy
EK-DCP 4.0
Yate Loon medium speed fans x 13
XSPC Photon 270 Tube Reservoir

I will be getting the loop filled this afternoon and will have the rig running shortly thereafter. It's a special PC and I plan to have it live a productive life of F@H and WCG for the duration of its life.

 

[stinger608]

Wow, that is so awesome Dub!!!!!!!

 

[d1nky]

Last week I won a PC at OCN that was built as a tribute to Adam Wilson (aka Erakith) who passed away last year. He was a father and husband, a reviewer for Thinkcomputers.org, and passed away way too young.

Spoiler

This is the PC:

CaseLabs SM8
Gigabyte Z77X-UP4 TH
Intel 3570K
8GB Samsung Green Ram
Inno3d GTX680 4GB
Plextor PX-128M3 128 GB SSD
Mayhems Pastel - Sunset Yellow 250 ml
NZXT Hale90-1000-M
NZXT Sentry 2
NZXT Extensions
EK H30 360 HFX Rad x 2
EK Compression Fittings
EK FC680 GTX+
EK Supremacy
EK-DCP 4.0
Yate Loon medium speed fans x 13
XSPC Photon 270 Tube Reservoir

I will be getting the loop filled this afternoon and will have the rig running shortly thereafter. It's a special PC and I plan to have it live a productive life of F@H and WCG for the duration of its life.

that's truly epic! I missed that on ocn, im just reading up on it now. and the guy and family is british?! and he's same age as me! wow!

crunching/folding in memory of Erakith, that is special!

 

[manofthem]

@theonedub: that's truly awesome, congrats on the prize and for your plans with it!

 

[librin.so.1]

Just had a talk with another friend, and he's joying TPU on WCG, too! So You should soon see jjkinas in the new member list.

@theonedub I only say one thing: HOLY SH*T, DOC!


EDIT: OH DARN! I Just realized I forgot to check the power saving settings on those A8-5500 crunchers. It is possible they are set to go to sleep mode after some time. DARN! DARN! DARN! Most of the phenoms were set to sleep after 30 minutes of inactivity, so I set them to not do that. But totally slipped my mind for those A8-5500. It's too late to head over to the university today (22:00 now). So I am going to hop there 1st thing in the morning to check on them. I do HOPE these have power saving options set differently and won't fall asleep as fast or at all. But I just don't know...

 

[d1nky]

EDIT: OH DARN! I Just realized I forgot to check the power saving settings on those A8-5500 crunchers. It is possible they are set to go to sleep mode after some time. DARN! DARN! DARN! Most of the phenoms were set to sleep after 30 minutes of inactivity, so I set them to not do that. But totally slipped my mind for those A8-5500. It's too late to head over to the university today (22:00 now). So I am going to hop there 1st thing in the morning to check on them. I do HOPE these have power saving options set differently and won't fall asleep as fast or at all. But I just don't know...

does that still happen at full load?!

on the other rig the power savings is on, and it hasn't changed modes!

 

[librin.so.1]

does that still happen at full load?!

on the other rig the power savings is on, and it hasn't changed modes!

Aye, since I took much longer with the phenoms, I saw the first ones go into sleep mode while I was still working on the last ones. And this was the thing which prompted me to turn it off for them in the first place. Meanwhile, due to my experience on the phenoms, I was much faster on these APU ones. And it completely escaped my mind. Darn. Well, gonna wait for the last updates for the day (they come at 04:00 in the morning here) and see if they report any significant numbers. Going to university to double check first thing in the morning o matter what the updates show me.

*sigh*

 

[Norton]

@ Vinska- nice job on locating those systems -

@theonedub- Wow! that's a beautiful rig!!! Sorry to hear about the circumstances surrounding how you won it

 

[t_ski]

Yep, I don't like it AT ALL!!! I didn't find a thing wrong with the original style. W1zz should include a way to switch back if the user wishes.

Completely different programming. Not compatible with the old vBulletin. I don't like it either.

 

[stinger608]

Completely different programming. Not compatible with the old vBulletin. I don't like it either.

True. The old forums were Vbulletin and this is XenForo. Waaaay different scripting languages.

 

[librin.so.1]

Okay, so it turns out all those boxen with those APUs were set to sleep after 30 mins. And that is what I found them doing when I got there before classes start.
Got there ~15 mins before the the first morning classes start (those start at 8:30) and managed to look into that misbehaving phenom and set up three of the APU boxen. But then it went like this "why the f*** would people get on a morning class 10 minutes early!?" –my mind
Had to wait 1.5 hours for the next break. BAH.

That one misbehaving phenom, when I installed BOINC on it back then, it took much, much longer than normal. Looking at both BOINC and Windows event logs, it appears some of the required permissions were corrupt / set up improperly. So I ran a installation repair. Hope that fixes it...

P.S. in that misbehaving Phenom, I noticed it had some FAAH beta WUs. Anyone else got those?