TPU's WCG/BOINC Team

[Arjai]

This is from the http://www.molecularspace.org/faq/cep-faq/ website for CEP.

What makes of this all possible?
The dedication of our volunteers. Our crunchers donate their spare computer time using IBM’s World Community Grid. Using this high-throughput, distributed resource, we have been able to collect over 17,000 CPU years worth of data over the course of the project.

17,000 years!! WOW!

 

[theonedub]

Another project....

12 more threads running tonight if all goes well

I was wondering who picked that up- was eying it myself

 

[Norton]

I was tempted by this, $150 seemed like a nice deal. I think it's better in your hands though since you have other X58 gear, and I have been facing some electricity cost limitations, though the best parts of my farm are still online.

That cpu is supposed to pull 60w at stock so power shouldn't be too bad.

 

[[Ion]]

Checking in on things all the time was getting tiresome, so I finally got around to setting up monitoring:

Only things not here are my roommate's i7-920, the work laptop (2720QM) and another friend's computer (4670k). But now I can easily monitor everything else.

I also replaced the SSD in Kiev today; it was wearing out and giving issues. Sadly, none of the work was saved---and somehow, setting stuff up created two new device profiles on the WCG site (ugh) but it's back in operation again after an unexpectedly difficult OS reinstall.

 

[Nordic]

Checking in on things all the time was getting tiresome, so I finally got around to setting up monitoring:

Only things not here are my roommate's i7-920, the work laptop (2720QM) and another friend's computer (4670k). But now I can easily monitor everything else.

I also replaced the SSD in Kiev today; it was wearing out and giving issues. Sadly, none of the work was saved---and somehow, setting stuff up created two new device profiles on the WCG site (ugh) but it's back in operation again after an unexpectedly difficult OS reinstall.

Did you write that? That is an interesting software any cruncher with lots of systems might like.

 

[[Ion]]

Did you write that? That is an interesting software any cruncher with lots of systems might like.

lol hell no. My coding skills are not nearly that good. Not even close. It's BOINCTasks

 

[Nordic]

Have not seen that program so highly interested.

 

[[Ion]]

Have not seen that program so highly interested.

It's like BOINCView, which I wrote a setup guide for a while back, but it's been updated more recently (& seems to work better--fewer inexplicably failed connections) and is lighter on the system resources.

 

[ThE_MaD_ShOt]

I may try it out just for a new program to play wiff. Nice find Ion

 

[[Ion]]

I may try it out just for a new program to play wiff. Nice find Ion

I'm very happy with it. BOINCView would somehow consume an entire thread just on its own, which is obviously a pain. Basically just do steps 1-9 from my BOINCView Guide and the rest ought to be mostly self-explanatory.

OMG AND IT'S EVEN WEB ACCESSIBLE!

With port forwarding on the router I can now access it anywhere

 

[hat]

I clocked down to 3GHz and dropped my voltages a bit. The heat in here gets bad. No ventilation in this room :-s

 

[Dicfylac]

Checking in on things all the time was getting tiresome, so I finally got around to setting up monitoring:

Only things not here are my roommate's i7-920, the work laptop (2720QM) and another friend's computer (4670k). But now I can easily monitor everything else.

I also replaced the SSD in Kiev today; it was wearing out and giving issues. Sadly, none of the work was saved---and somehow, setting stuff up created two new device profiles on the WCG site (ugh) but it's back in operation again after an unexpectedly difficult OS reinstall.

Thanks [Ion] for the tip, works good on my pc.

 

[manofthem]

Any body else notice power draw running UGM wus? My main rig seems to be reporting 15-20w less than what it used to with the other wus, mainly MCM.

 

[xvi]

Break out the cigars! Another crunching rig is born!
Gigabyte ga-p45t-es3g, Xeon E5450. I need suggestions for a name and a LGA775 overclocking guide.
Edit: Just bumping FSB to 370 x 9 seems to be stable. Still moving my way up.

 

[[Ion]]

Break out the cigars! Another crunching rig is born!
Gigabyte ga-p45t-es3g, Xeon E5450. I need suggestions for a name and a LGA775 overclocking guide.
Edit: Just bumping FSB to 370 x 9 seems to be stable. Still moving my way up.

Awesome!
Do you have a pattern that you name your systems along? I name mine after places in Europe, so I think the next one will be Warsaw, but that would be a bit out of place if you name yours after famous singers or whatever.

Any body else notice power draw running UGM wus? My main rig seems to be reporting 15-20w less than what it used to with the other wus, mainly MCM.

Well, I don't have a Kill-a-watt or anything, so I just have to make do with software stuff--and I'm noticing the opposite, actually. Running a mix of MCM and FAAH WUs, the CPU in my 3930k was right about 146-150w or so (as reported by CPUID HW Monitor). Same settings (4.8GHz, 1.36V) and it's right about 163-166w for just the CPU on exclusively UGM WUs. Might be an anomaly; this is the only system where I've paid attention to the CPU power consumption so I can't compare on anything else.

 

[stinger608]

I don't know how may of you look at the "deals" forum, but I just posted a smoking deal on the pre-order for Amazon Fire TV Stick:
http://www.techpowerup.com/forums/t...at-19-for-prime-members-two-days-only.206661/

If your a Amazon Prime member you can get in on this for $19 including the 2 day free shipping!

 

[xvi]

Do you have a pattern that you name your systems along?

Nothing yet, they just get nicknames. The X2 rig in sig is named "Phoenix" because when I first got it, I only managed to make it POST once. I let it sit for a week and it fired right up and I haven't had any issues since. It had a bit of a rebirth.
The C2D is "HAL9000" because it glows red.
Sig rig is "Hydro" because it's the first (seriously) watercooled machine I've had.
"LilCrunchy" got its name partially from a vehicle in the game Jetpack Joyride (really fun game, btw), and partially because when I got it, I had a Scarface moment when I unpacked it. "Say hello to my little friend!"

 

[ChristTheGreat]

Dowmtime for main rig, on Wednesday or thursday, for a week or so, selling my 2700k + board and some ram, and will waint the next week for my Z87/4770k.

so a good drop on PPD, will runs the server 2500k and Pentium at 100% to keep almost the same PPD

 

[[Ion]]

Well that should be a very solid upgrade when the new setup comes in

 

[ChristTheGreat]

Oh yes, more PPD' and from what I've heard, the CPU can handle 4.5ghz @ 1.25v or something like this.

 

[[Ion]]

Oh yes, more PPD' and from what I've heard, the CPU can handle 4.5ghz @ 1.25v or something like this.

My 4770-non K at stock does just under 6k PPD on a mix of MCM and FAAH WUs so yours may even be able to do 7k at those speeds. Quite close to the output of my 3930k (~9.5k or so).

 

[ChristTheGreat]

You can't see my saliva right now, like Homer simpson haha, just want to see the CPU running and get nice PPD

 

[TRWOV]

Soon...

Spoiler: MUAHAHAHAHAHAAA

 

[[Ion]]

Does anyone have a HDD that they'd be willing to sell me? My only requirement is that it's SATA. Don't care the capacity or physical size. As long as it's 40GB or more it'll do--just something to get a cruncher going. The 100GB drive I was going to use turns out to not work (click of death, yay!) so I just need something that will get a system operational. Cheap is more important than anything else.

 

[ThE_MaD_ShOt]

Does anyone have a HDD that they'd be willing to sell me? My only requirement is that it's SATA. Don't care the capacity or physical size. As long as it's 40GB or more it'll do--just something to get a cruncher going. The 100GB drive I was going to use turns out to not work (click of death, yay!) so I just need something that will get a system operational. Cheap is more important than anything else.

Hey Ion check on newegg. They have drives for like $15 to $20.