TPU's Winter's End WCG Challenge (2/26 thru 3/6/2015)- join us to crunch/fold/win stuff

Caring1 · Feb 28, 2015

bubbleawsome said:
My poor chip has been bouncing around 90-100c for the past 48 hours. I didn't keep a close eye on it because my temp sensors didn't go off, I didn't feel throttle, and the fan didn't ramp up much.

Where did you see those temps?
Are you sure that's not just the CPU usage being shown?

manofthem · Feb 28, 2015

bubbleawsome said:
My poor chip has been bouncing around 90-100c for the past 48 hours. I didn't keep a close eye on it because my temp sensors didn't go off, I didn't feel throttle, and the fan didn't ramp up much.

It's not dead, but daaaaaaannnngggggg.
I'm going to clean out the machine, but I think I need more fans as I only have one blowing air through the entire case.
Last time I ran it this hard it was only about a month ago and it was in the high 70's, but that is to be expected with a 1.3v OC and the crappiest $40 air cooler ever. (seriously, look at the TPU charts. The NZXT T40 isn't great)

I'll try to keep returning points, but I'm not sure if I will be able to.

Is that the 4670k? I wouldn't worry too much about it, those things are resilient

Same thing happened to my 4790 after messing with the AIO cooler, fans werne't spinning and the chip was maxed out at like 95. It's still kicking

But it sounds like a little drop in OC or at least voltage is in order. With these cpus, a decent cooler is necessary for a decent OC.

bubbleawsome · Feb 28, 2015

Caring1 said:
Where did you see those temps?
Are you sure that's not just the CPU usage being shown?

Afterburner. Positive it was temps.

manofthem said:
Is that the 4670k? I wouldn't worry too much about it, those things are resilient Same thing happened to my 4790 after messing with the AIO cooler, fans werne't spinning and the chip was maxed out at like 95. It's still kicking

But it sounds like a little drop in OC or at least voltage is in order. With these cpus, a decent cooler is necessary for a decent OC.

It is the 4670k. I dropped from 4.2@1.285v to stock@1.120v. It's fast enough for me at stock anyway.
Still going to clean it though.

I have to wonder what my power usage was. Games using ~60% were going to 60w. 100c and 1.285v along with full load and possibly AVX. I wouldn't be surprised if I was hitting the 110w limit I set.

manofthem · Feb 28, 2015

This is what SNURK and Friends team is saying right now:

krusha03 · Feb 28, 2015

Norton said:
@krusha03 a new setup only gets a small batch of work initially. Once that work is done the buffer will load up with work properly.

Also, if you're manually updating in your BOINC Manager you need to wait for the communication deferred timer to time out first- takes 2 minutes to do that

Well i had all 8 task being 4 hours and finishing after the maintainance would start so i did a project reset and made the profile get only FAAH hoping that enough tasks would be sent before 03:00 UTC and what do you know... This morning I wake up and 300 FAAH tasks in the buffer so I guess I am good

mauriek · Feb 28, 2015

well as always for the past few month, 4 cores/thread my 4770K is crunching for TPU 24/7..and the rest of the thread are working for server duty to help cover their running cost so it will be self sustain WCG Rig and hope it helps.

Caring1 · Feb 28, 2015

Is anyone else having problems submitting completed tasks?
Mine keeps saying communication deferred and tasks have been building up for a while, even hitting update does nothing, it returns to the deferred message.
I checked the WCG site and that is functional.

krusha03 · Feb 28, 2015

Caring1 said:
Is anyone else having problems submitting completed tasks?
Mine keeps saying communication deferred and tasks have been building up for a while, even hitting update does nothing, it returns to the deferred message.
I checked the WCG site and that is functional.

It has been said about 20 times that there will be maintainance today from 03:00 UTC for 16 hours meaning you wont be able to download or submit tasks in that time slot. Check the notices tab in your boinc client

I hope that you have increased your buffer otherwise you may run out of tasks to do :/

Caring1 · Feb 28, 2015

I'm aware of that and it had stopped earlier for me for a few hours, then restarted.
The whole WCG site was unable to be accessed at that time too.
Now I can access the site but tasks are not uploading.

If it is still maintenance then there isn't an issue, I have a couple of days of tasks waiting.

Norton · Feb 28, 2015

Updates for the WCG shutdown can be found here:

https://secure.worldcommunitygrid.org/forums/wcg/viewthread_thread,37793_lastpage,yes#lastpost

I'm guessing that we should be back to normal within 3-4 hrs

SirKeldon · Feb 28, 2015

I went out of WU's in the Xeon server, hope they're back soon cause the last thread is being processed, just one hour remaining and after that all my cores will be stopped till they reopen the DB. A real shame I couldn't find the "buffer" stuff for it

At least, 3 of the 4 computers are still doing computational work, not a big drama

@Knoxx29 congrats on your badge!!! :toast:

.... now what's happening with the non-star ones that are not updating correctly @Norton? :rolleyes:

krusha03 · Feb 28, 2015

SirKeldon said:
I went out of WU's in the Xeon server, hope they're back soon cause the last thread is being processed, just one hour remaining and after that all my cores will be stopped till they reopen the DB. A real shame I couldn't find the "buffer" stuff for it

Have you tried changing the profile settings from the wcg website itself? it should automatically download them to boinc if you don't override them

SirKeldon · Feb 28, 2015

krusha03 said:
Have you tried changing the profile settings from the wcg website itself? it should automatically download them to boinc if you don't override them

Nope, I just augmented manually on both Windows clients the amount of buffer to be downloaded, to avoid the lack of work during the outage ... unfortunately I couldn't find any option for "boinccmd" tool to accomplish same thing in Linux (as stated here and here)

I think in the profile page for WCG there's no such option (rechecked) and neither under your Devices Profiles, where you can set up this amount of max/min work buffer thing from the WCG website?

Para_Franck · Feb 28, 2015

Hey guys, I tried joining the challenge when I got up this morning. Got Boinc Installed but I get an error massage saying that there is no work available? Am I missing something? I am to late to join the crunching fest?
I guess I'll just continue folding for now.

krusha03 · Feb 28, 2015

SirKeldon said:
Nope, I just augmented manually on both Windows clients the amount of buffer to be downloaded, to avoid the lack of work during the outage ... unfortunately I couldn't find any option for "boinccmd" tool to accomplish same thing in Linux (as stated here and here)

I think in the profile page for WCG there's no such option (rechecked) and neither under your Devices Profiles, where you can set up this amount of max/min work buffer thing from the WCG website?

If you log in, you go to settings device manager, see the profile your system is using, then devide profiles, you choose custom profile and you scroll down to the work unit cache settings. See photos:

Para_Franck said:
Hey guys, I tried joining the challenge when I got up this morning. Got Boinc Installed but I get an error massage saying that there is no work available? Am I missing something? I am to late to join the crunching fest?
I guess I'll just continue folding for now.

The servers are undergoing maintainance at the moment. You should be able to get work later today

Para_Franck · Feb 28, 2015

OO yeah! I'm happy to join you guys with this one, I have been thinking about it for a while now. I am sure those 4,2Ghz of awesomeness will help you out.

SirKeldon · Feb 28, 2015

krusha03 said:
If you log in, you go to settings device manager, see the profile your system is using, then devide profiles, you choose custom profile and you scroll down to the work unit cache settings. See photos:

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Oh ok, I didn't realized under "Custom" you could specify that same amount of info as in advanced settings ... as I told you in previous post I rechecked it and as it was on "Maximum output" and didn't see the options over there, thought it wasn't possible. Now I see it is, guess I know what to do for the next outage on Linux servers, very appreciated help @krusha03

krusha03 · Feb 28, 2015

Para_Franck said:
OO yeah! I'm happy to join you guys with this one, I have been thinking about it for a while now. I am sure those 4,2Ghz of awesomeness will help you out.

That i7 with HT will crunch 8 WUs at the same time like there is no tomorrow

SirKeldon said:
Oh ok, I didn't realized under "Custom" you could specify that same amount of info as in advanced settings ... as I told you in previous post I rechecked it and as it was on "Maximum output" and didn't see the options over there, thought it wasn't possible. Now I see it is, guess I know what to do for the next outage on Linux servers, very appreciated help @krusha03

No problem, glad i could help

Norton · Feb 28, 2015

WCG maintenance is completed- uploads and downloads of work seems to be doing fine atm

st2000 · Feb 28, 2015

is this ok?cause tasks dont update

and yea, got no problems with internet

Para_Franck · Feb 28, 2015

Norton said:
WCG maintenance is completed- uploads and downloads of work seems to be doing fine atm

Confirmed, working well here. It's time to turn on the case fans.

krusha03 · Feb 28, 2015

krusha03 said:
Doesn't matter if they are 3M team, we should take them over tomorrow

BUCK NASTY said:
2 days ago, Mr Kermit transferred over from University Of Illinois-Champlaign to SNURK and Friends and he is a heavy hitter. Looks like he just freelances and bounces around(Trolling Challenge's along the way). 1.3M Boinc Points(9M+ WCG PPD) per day is something to be reckoned with.

I guess they are a 13M team now

SirKeldon · Feb 28, 2015

Norton said:
WCG maintenance is completed- uploads and downloads of work seems to be doing fine atm

52 WU's uploaded, getting new tasks on the Xeon now! :toast:

Norton · Feb 28, 2015

Prize post updated!
http://www.techpowerup.com/forums/t...to-crunch-fold-win-stuff.210158/#post-3244957

Added the details and requirements for the Newbie rig Grand prize and a couple of additional hardware prizes. Check em' out!

I've been going a little nuts trying to keep up lately so please let me know if I missed a prize or owe you a PM to discuss a donation that you pledged.

ThE_MaD_ShOt · Feb 28, 2015

Crunching rig prize requirement edit:
- earn and display the WCG-TPU Cruncher badge (i.e. have 100k FreeDC points)*
* rig will not be shipped to the winner until this requirement is met
or accumulate 100k FreeDc points, whatever comes first just in case you get trolled for your badge like @Knoxx29 did. :laugh:

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TPU's Winter's End WCG Challenge (2/26 thru 3/6/2015)- join us to crunch/fold/win stuff

Caring1

manofthem

WCG-TPU Team All-Star!

bubbleawsome

manofthem

WCG-TPU Team All-Star!

krusha03

mauriek

Caring1

krusha03

Caring1

Norton

Moderator - Returning from the Darkness

SirKeldon

krusha03

SirKeldon

Para_Franck

krusha03

Para_Franck

SirKeldon

krusha03

Norton

Moderator - Returning from the Darkness

st2000

Para_Franck

krusha03

SirKeldon

Norton

Moderator - Returning from the Darkness

ThE_MaD_ShOt

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