TPU's WCG/BOINC Team

stinger608 · Oct 31, 2014

[Ion] said:
I now have a pair of Xeon X5672s on the way
Wasn't planning on it, but I got them at less than $80 for the pair off of someone on [H].

"What you talken bout Willis?" :laugh:

[Ion] · Oct 31, 2014

stinger608 said:
"What you talken bout Willis?"

stinger608 · Oct 31, 2014

[Ion] said:

Dbwillis?

[Ion] · Oct 31, 2014

stinger608 said:
Dbwillis?

Yup, he's the guy I got the Xeons from. Awesome price for quite nice chips :toast:

stinger608 · Oct 31, 2014

[Ion] said:
Yup, he's the guy I got the Xeons from. Awesome price for quite nice chips

Yep, and he is an awesome guy to work with. Ships very fast and packs great. You shouldn't have any issues dealing with him. :peace:

[Ion] · Oct 31, 2014

stinger608 said:
Yep, and he is an awesome guy to work with. Ships very fast and packs great. You shouldn't have any issues dealing with him.

Yup, I bought a dual-LGA771 quad setup (E5420, maybe?) that was cheap and crunched very nicely :toast:

thebluebumblebee · Oct 31, 2014

Newegg has a brand new HGST Travelstar 500GB 5400 RPM SATA 6.0Gb/s 2.5" Internal Notebook Hard Drive for $40 after Promo Code EMCWPGW28 with free shipping until 11/6.

stinger608 · Oct 31, 2014

thebluebumblebee said:
Newegg has a brand new HGST Travelstar 500GB 5400 RPM SATA 6.0Gb/s 2.5" Internal Notebook Hard Drive for $40 after Promo Code EMCWPGW28 with free shipping until 11/6.

That would be a great deal if it was a 7200 rpm drive.

thebluebumblebee · Oct 31, 2014

Does it matter for a DC box?

ThE_MaD_ShOt · Oct 31, 2014

thebluebumblebee said:
Does it matter for a DC box?

Actually nope. Also newegg does have some drives for like $20.

Nordic · Oct 31, 2014

Some ssd manufacturer needs to figure out how to mass produce low cost ssd's. They don't have to be the fastest. They just need to be really low cost and have a good price to longevity ratio. As crunchers if there were $25 slow 32-64gb ssd's I could see us using them a lot.

m&m's · Oct 31, 2014

james888 said:
Some ssd manufacturer needs to figure out how to mass produce low cost ssd's. They don't have to be the fastest. They just need to be really low cost and have a good price to longevity ratio. As crunchers if there were $25 slow 32-64gb ssd's I could see us using them a lot.

What came through my mind when I read your post is "Why not USB Flash drives"?

32GB, $15, 100 MB/s read, 50 MB/s write and lifetime warranty!
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820211670
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820211670
$28 for the 64GB
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820211730

Nordic · Oct 31, 2014

m&m's said:
What came through my mind when I read your post is "Why not USB Flash drives"?

32GB, $15, 100 MB/s read, 50 MB/s write and lifetime warranty!
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820211670
$28 for the 64GB
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820211730

We have tried it, and they get too many errors, and sometimes killed the drive.

m&m's · Oct 31, 2014

james888 said:
We have tried it, and they get too many errors, and sometimes killed the drive.

Cheapass sticks or good ones?

EDIT: They offer a lifetime warranty, I mean if it was unreliable wouldn't they lose money?

Nordic · Oct 31, 2014

m&m's said:
Cheapass sticks or good ones?

EDIT: They offer a lifetime warranty, I mean if it was unreliable wouldn't they lose money?

I personally used a usb 2.0 drive that was killed by it. I then bought a nicer 32gb usb 3.0 drive that still runs strong today, but my linux install got wonky and had errors. It doesn't work. I am not the only one to have tried it either on the team.

xvi · Oct 31, 2014

I have a 16GB USB3.0 drive that should be coming soon. I wanted to use it as an install medium, but I could see how it does with WCG instead.

Nordic · Oct 31, 2014

xvi said:
I have a 16GB USB3.0 drive that should be coming soon. I wanted to use it as an install medium, but I could see how it does with WCG instead.

It will work for a few weeks before subtly getting behaving strangely before getting bad.

thebluebumblebee · Oct 31, 2014

m&m's said:
EDIT: They offer a lifetime warranty, I mean if it was unreliable wouldn't they lose money?

There aren't that may people out there that put much wear on a thumb drive.
If a flash drive does not have wear leveling, it will fail doing something like WCG that downloads files over and over. Anything that does have wear leveling is as expensive as a HDD or SSD.
I'm hoping for some SSD's under $40 on Black Friday.

Nordic · Oct 31, 2014

thebluebumblebee said:
There aren't that may people out there that put much wear on a thumb drive.
If a flash drive does not have wear leveling, it will fail doing something like WCG that downloads files over and over. Anything that does have wear leveling is as expensive as a HDD or SSD.
I'm hoping for some SSD's under $40 on Black Friday.

I never knew what caused the issues but that sounds like it.

thebluebumblebee · Oct 31, 2014

Huh. I had looked into DOM's for my DC uses. It seems like Apacer, who I thought/think is a major player in this field, no longer calls them that. Now they just call them SSD's. http://us.apacer.com/business/industrial-ssd/sata/SATA Disk Module

xvi · Oct 31, 2014

thebluebumblebee said:
I'm hoping for some SSD's under $40 on Black Friday.

Ahcrap. Is that coming up? Here I was thinking I was doing a good job saving money.

agent00skid · Oct 31, 2014

Yeah. USB flash drives are known to not have high durability. Which is why I've run WCG in a ramdrive the times I've run it on linux on a USB drive.

Nordic · Nov 1, 2014

agent00skid said:
Yeah. USB flash drives are known to not have high durability. Which is why I've run WCG in a ramdrive the times I've run it on linux on a USB drive.

That might actually be the one way around it if you have plenty of ram.

agent00skid · Nov 1, 2014

Aside from CEP2, WCG doesn't actually seem to use all that much space, though I mostly run lower throughput processors at fairly low queues.

[Ion] · Nov 1, 2014

agent00skid said:
Aside from CEP2, WCG doesn't actually seem to use all that much space, though I mostly run lower throughput processors at fairly low queues.

Indeed, an 8GB USB disk will run Ubuntu + BOINC without difficulty, although it doesn't leave you much free space. Even 4GB ought to work, but that would be pushing it further than I would go for.

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TPU's WCG/BOINC Team

stinger608

Dedicated TPU Cruncher & Folder

[Ion]

WCG Team Assistant

stinger608

Dedicated TPU Cruncher & Folder

[Ion]

WCG Team Assistant

stinger608

Dedicated TPU Cruncher & Folder

[Ion]

WCG Team Assistant

thebluebumblebee

stinger608

Dedicated TPU Cruncher & Folder

thebluebumblebee

ThE_MaD_ShOt

Nordic

m&m's

Nordic

m&m's

Nordic

xvi

Nordic

thebluebumblebee

Nordic

thebluebumblebee

xvi

agent00skid

Nordic

agent00skid

[Ion]

WCG Team Assistant

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