TPU's WCG/BOINC Team

[[Ion]]

I joined today.

Yup that's what it looked like
Good to have you onboard
Willkommen bei den Mannschaft TPU!

 

[FireFox]

Yup that's what it looked like
Good to have you onboard
Willkommen bei den Mannschaft TPU!

Vielen Dank

 

[hat]

I'm messing around with my 660 ti, with a little bit of an overclock. Currently running +70 offset, and forced 80% fan speed. The DCII cooler is pretty quiet! I can't hear anything out of this computer over the other one sitting by it. For some reason I want my main machine to be cool and quiet, and the noise from the other one doesn't bother me at all, even that rattling fan... so long as it's not my main machine.

The second machine was down for a while. I think the CMOS battery is bad or something; I accidentally unplugged it from my surge protector and I had to re set up the CMOS (stuck on press F1 to continue blah blah blah).

I found a new job too. I'm now working at a plastic plant. It's clean and warm in there... much better than my last job. I'm on 12 hour night shifts, but we go a few days on and a few days off so I have a lot more time off. 36 hours one week, 48 the next, then 36 again and so on. I'm making a little bit more money, but not much. Weekly pay though, and direct deposit... the last place didn't do that. That'll save me trips to the bank and a $7 monthly charge from my bank (having direct deposit is one way of eliminating that charge). I'm also signed up for labor ready, as I decided one day not to go into my job anymore and find a new place, and signed up with them in the meantime. I still haven't been on a job with them yet, despite offers (couldn't go due to lack of gas, or something coming up when they wanted me to go). I might stay signed up with them so I can make extra money on my time off, but I just get offers when I get them and so far it hasn't lined up yet for me to do so.

 

[FireFox]

I've decided to go for Crunching.
Today I've joined and so far it's working great, thanks guy for the suggestion, now i feel i am doing something helpful with my Machine, btw in a few months i will build a new Machine and will be use for Crunching too, unfortunately this month and next i can't leave my Machine 24/7 becasue I am flying for a week and when I come back I have many things going on but mean while I can leave it running for 12 hours.

Special thanks to:

@ThE_MaD_ShOt
@TRWOV
@Norton
@CAPSLOCKSTUCK
@Caring1

How many Machines can I run with the same account?

 

[Norton]

Many thanks @Knoxx29

As to your question- you can run as many machines as you like.... all you need to do for the machine is to install the Boinc Manager software, attach to the World Community Grid project, and enter your user name/password

 

[ThE_MaD_ShOt]

I've decided to go for Crunching.
Today I've joined and so far it's working great, thanks guy for the suggestion, now i feel i am doing something helpful with my Machine, btw in a few months i will build a new Machine and will be use for Crunching too, unfortunately this month and next i can't leave my Machine 24/7 becasue I am flying for a week and when I come back I have many things going on but mean while I can leave it running for 12 hours.

Special thanks to:

@ThE_MaD_ShOt
@TRWOV
@Norton
@CAPSLOCKSTUCK
@Caring1

How many Machines can I run with the same account?
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That's great buddy. You can run as many machine as you like. There is no cap. Like I said I am running 11 right now with a couple more in the works. Also I will warn you that there is a strong chance the bug will hit. Meaning you will get the crunching fever and want to build up your fleet. Try not to got past your means with it and it is easy to go beyond. I am paying an average of somewhere between $15 to $18 per month per rig in electric to run them.


Norton the ninja poster beat me to it.

 

[FireFox]

Thanks for the advice @ThE_MaD_ShOt,
Btw I am planning to run just 2/3 Machines and that's enough.

I have one more question:
When I run more than one Machine Does the works in progress are the same or separately per each Machine?

 

[ThE_MaD_ShOt]

@Knoxx29 they way it works with multiple machines is each machine is independent of each other. If one goes down it does not effect the others at all. Each machine has it's own buffer of work the is for that machine.

 

[TRWOV]

If you ever decide to build a fleet of dedicated crunchers take it slow, build one at a time and see how it impacts on your power bill.

I'd recommend you to go for i5s, they have the best PDD/watt/price ratio right now. FX 83xx CPUs could be an alternative if your electricity rates are low, they offer good PPD for the price, the new 8320e would be a good option.

For PSUs 80+Bronze will suffice and 80+ Gold would be ideal. Platinum and Titanium are fine but have too much of a price premium. SSDs aren't good for crunchers because it involves a lot of writes. For 4 threads laptop drives are fine IMO, if you ever build a dual CPU cruncher with >6 threads (some of us have dual 1366s and quad G34s) go with 3.5" hard drives instead. Stick with regular 1.5v or even 1.35v memory, memory speed doesn't affect PPD much so no point in going for 1.65v 2400Mhz memory, you can even get by with a single stick.


edit. forgot to add "Gold" after 80+.

 

[FireFox]

If you ever decide to build a fleet of dedicated crunchers take it slow, build one at a time and see how it impacts on your power bill.

I'd recommend you to go for i5s, they have the best PDD/watt/price ratio right now. FX 83xx CPUs could be an alternative if your electricity rates are low, they offer good PPD for the price, the new 8320e would be a good option.

For PSUs 80+Bronze will suffice and 80+ would be ideal. Platinum and Titanium are fine but have too much of a price premium. SSDs aren't good for crunchers because it involves a lot of writes. For 4 threads laptop drives are fine IMO, if you ever build a dual CPU cruncher with >6 threads (some of us have dual 1366s and quad G34s) go with 3.5" hard drives instead. Stick with regular 1.5v or even 1.35v memory, memory speed doesn't affect PPD much so no point in going for 1.65v 2400Mhz memory, you can even get by with a single stick.

Thanks for the advices once again.
That's what I was thinking to buy an i5.

This is the configuration that i am planning:

Intel Quad Core Prozessor (Intel Core i5-2400, 3,1GHz, 6MB Cache, 1155 Sockel)

Asus P8P67 Deluxe Rev.3.0 Mainboard Sockel 1155 Intel P67 DDR3 Speicher ATX

Seagate ST1000DM003 interne Festplatte (8,9 cm (3,5 Zoll), 7200rpm, 64MB Cache, SATA) - 1 TB

Enermax EPM600AWT Platimax 80Plus Platinum PC-Netzteil (600 Watt, ATX 2.4)
What do you think about it?

 

[ThE_MaD_ShOt]

Most of my rigs came from used parts I got from people here on this forum. My last rig I built cost me $400 for the complete rig with all new parts from newegg and is based around a Fx8350. For a dedicated cruncher matx is the way to go unless you go for a 2p or 4p setup. All my psu's are 80+ bronze or gold and atleast 200 watt more then the rigs actually need. Also low end no extra power plug needed gpu's are your friend for dedicated crunchers. Also for hdd you can use small drives. I also run Linux on a lot of my dedicated rigs. Free os = win.

 

[stinger608]

Welcome to the team @Knoxx29 !!!

 

[FireFox]

Most of my rigs came from used parts I got from people here on this forum. My last rig I built cost me $400 for the complete rig with all new parts from newegg and is based around a Fx8350. For a dedicated cruncher matx is the way to go unless you go for a 2p or 4p setup. All my psu's are 80+ bronze or gold and atleast 200 watt more then the rigs actually need. Also low end no extra power plug needed gpu's are your friend for dedicated crunchers. Also for hdd you can use small drives. I also run Linux on a lot of my dedicated rigs. Free os = win.

I did some modifications:
Seagate Barracuda ST250DM000 Interne Festplatte 250GB (8,9 cm (3,5 Zoll), 7200 rpm, 16MB Cache, SATA III)
42€

Enermax EPM500AWT Platimax 80Plus Platinum PC-Netzteil (500 Watt, ATX 2.3)
105€

Intel Quad Core Prozessor (Intel Core i5-2400, 3,1GHz, 6MB Cache, 1155 Sockel)
125€

Asus P8P67 Deluxe Rev.3.0 Mainboard Sockel 1155 Intel P67 DDR3 Speicher ATX
60€
Total: 332€
I know I could get a PSU for less price but I like the enermax and the cheaper one Platimax cost 105€ maybe I could get the Enermax Revolution and cost almost the half price.

Thanks @stinger608

 

[ThE_MaD_ShOt]

@Knoxx29 Looks good.

 

[FireFox]

Can someone tell me what are the credits for?

 

[xvi]

Can someone tell me what are the credits for?

Bragging rights, basically.

 

[FireFox]

Right now i am running my main Machine plus another one, on my main Machine everything is working great so far but on the secondary Machine i got just 2 Works, why is that?

 

[xvi]

Right now i am running my main Machine plus another one, on my main Machine everything is working great so far but on the secondary Machine i got just 2 Works, why is that?

Is that the Intel Pentium 4 2.8 GHz machine? I'm guessing it has HyperThreading enabled. BOINC will run one task per logical core it sees. When you first fire up BOINC on a machine, I've noticed it only downloads enough workunits to start on all the cores it sees (and no extra "ready to run" workunits). I think this is because the workunit buffer is measured in days and when you first install BOINC, it has no idea how many it can do per day, so it just defaults to zero or something until it has enough data to guess how many workunits to buffer up on.

Edit: We're on page 1111. Make a wish! (Did anyone else do that at school at 11:11 AM just before lunch? ..or am I the only crazy one around here?)

 

[VulkanBros]

Edit: We're on page 1111. Make a wish! (Did anyone else do that at school at 11:11 AM just before lunch? ..or am I the only crazy one around here?)

Naah.... you live in the US, and they have the most wierd oddities......(or maybe the tiny little country Denmark is odd)

 

[FireFox]

Is that the Intel Pentium 4 2.8 GHz machine?

Yes that's the Intel Pentium 4 2.8 GHz,
Is there any way how to disable
HyperThreading or should I leave it.

 

[VulkanBros]

Yes that's the Intel Pentium 4 2.8 GHz,
Is there any way how to disable
HyperThreading or should I leave it.

My Intel machines runs with HT on.....they take 4 jobs instead of 2. The 4 jobs are a little bit slower, core by core than without HT,
but in the end more jobs are crunched.....

 

[Toothless]

Job interview went well today and I'll find out tomorrow if I get it or not.

 

[mjkmike]

@stinger608 sorry about you're mum, PM Me if I can Help.

@xvi the number 11 rocks.

 

[[Ion]]

Yes that's the Intel Pentium 4 2.8 GHz,
Is there any way how to disable
HyperThreading or should I leave it.

Leave HT on....yes you can disable it, but it's not a good idea. My (extensive) experimentation has confirmed that Hyperthreading improves performance in WCG by about 15-20%....not a lot but not bad either

 

[Nordic]

Leave HT on....yes you can disable it, but it's not a good idea. My (extensive) experimentation has confirmed that Hyperthreading improves performance in WCG by about 15-20%....not a lot but not bad either

That is a pentium 4 though, with oldschool hyperthreading. Modern hyperthreading is much more efficient. Still though, I don't see why not leave it on.