TPU's WCG/BOINC Team

[Nordic]

That cooler looks bigger than my megahelem stuffed inside an itx case.

 

[Toothless]

That cooler looks bigger than my megahelem stuffed inside an itx case.

I have a couple issues with it that make me want to go with an AIO cooler but then again, I like air cooling.

It indeed is massive.

 

[stinger608]

LOLOL, I know this is waaaaaaaaaay off subject but I just wanted to mention this:

Man, I so wish the nice weather season lasted longer here.

I have a home built VW trike that I purchased about a year and a half ago. I have done a ton of modifications to the trike and now finally have it about finished.
So, I had it licensed last year and was able to ride it bit, but not much........This year is a totally different story.
Its now sporting a 1935cc engine that has a full circle counter weighted crank, Engle 110 cam, Scat fully polished and ported heads, and dual Weber 44 IDF carbs with velocity stacks. This engine has been built by yours truly.
(Yes, for anyone wondering, it will do about 100mph in about a single city block with the front wheel off the ground! I know, I really need to put wheelie bars on the back. Overkill you ask? Oh hell yea!!!)

Now here is the crazy part; I took it down to my local Progressive insurance agent today and they insured the trike for a full year for $76!!! And the tags are $36.

My God, I wish I could tag and insure one of my 4 wheel vehicles for $112!!!!

Anyhow, as I said, I know this is way off topic but I just wanted to share the info.

And of course once I get it all cleaned up there will be pics to come.

 

[Caring1]

Ha ha ha, you just reminded me how shitty the brakes were on my Superbug, I built a 2.2L monster that flew but was a bugger to stop.

 

[librin.so.1]

I got a slice of this pie today

Spoiler

 

[librin.so.1]

P.S. Yes, that's a moon in the photo

Spoiler

The moon's in foreground.
...And the crescent is the sun, eclipsed by the said moon.

Photo taken by using a piece of glass meant for a welder's mask as a filter, slapped on the objective of my Nikkon D60
I bought that piece of glass for this kind of occasions two years ago. Finally came in handy, heh!

 

[mjkmike]

LOLOL, I know this is waaaaaaaaaay off subject.

Nice bike Bro. But please stay on topic with pics

 

[xvi]

Quoting a post from the Milestones thread over here just to keep that thread clean.

My numbers went down the tube today. Accidentally left WCG off after a reboot.

I've never noticed any significant performance loss when running BOINC during gaming or anything of that nature. The only time I pause it is if I need to reclaim a bit of memory (on low memory systems). Tasks generally run on low priority, so just about everything else shouldn't have to compete with it, right?
I assume others find running BOINC to give noticeable drops in performance? How many people pause it for gaming or other resource intensive applications?

 

[Nordic]

It pauses itself for me.

 

[Caring1]

If it is set correctly, it will pause while you continue gaming or *cough* working.

 

[bubbleawsome]

It doesn't pause for me, just keeps working. My CPU is nearly always at 100% load. Only games I have to turn it off for are star citizen and some NPC-crazy places in elite dangerous. Also when I am rendering. I can host a minecraft server and play on it and crunch and see a very small impact on game performance. Seems to be good at getting out of the way.

 

[librin.so.1]

I assume others find running BOINC to give noticeable drops in performance?

Running boinc as nice 19, I only ever needed to stop boinc on some (but far from "all" games); And with some games that would have stutter or serious performance issues, it often used to be enough to just set boinc to use 100% –> 50% cores, i.e. free up half the cores. And I I'd stop it if I had to compile something. (it appears boinc would only react to CPU load from processes with zero or negative niceness and ignore load from nice processes when it comes auto-stopping due to CPU load)

Note #1: it's all in past tense because I don't run boinc on my computer anymore due to prohibitively high power bill
Note #2: all of this observed on Linux

 

[BUCK NASTY]

My 4P rig is down Need to find some time to get a monitor over to it to see what happened.

It seems to start up ok so I'm hoping that it's something easy like a bad ethernet cable or wonky hard drive...

UPDATE!

The 4P is back up and running!

Think it just hung up on restart. All I had to do was hook up the monitor and turn it on... booted right up and went back to work. Temps are good at 38-40C and I finished around 80 wu's over the last 4 hours.

What happened?- idk

Will it happen again- idk

I have a KVM switch here somewhere and I'll be hooking that up soon so I can check on it once or twice a day.

My 4P's have always been very sensitive to fluctuations in the power grid. Even the slightest event would hang the servers, when other rigs would continue to run. They don't reboot, but just sit there until PSU is reset. Have to check them daily in the morning and at night. Thought about UPS's to smooth things out, but a real failure would deplete the small units within a few minutes.

 

[stinger608]

Nice bike Bro. But please stay on topic with pics

Yep, there will be pics!!!

 

[Heaven7]

I've never noticed any significant performance loss when running BOINC during gaming or anything of that nature. The only time I pause it is if I need to reclaim a bit of memory (on low memory systems). Tasks generally run on low priority, so just about everything else shouldn't have to compete with it, right?
I assume others find running BOINC to give noticeable drops in performance? How many people pause it for gaming or other resource intensive applications?

Well, I tried to increase the allowed CPU load to 95% and experienced serious lags even with everyday use. Back at 90%, there are absolutely no performance issues at all. Even started a VM today (8 cores / 12 GB RAM config), and it ran absolutely fine, save for just a very slight slowdown during boot. I'd say that BOINC really works great even with increased CPU load. Probably gaming will require to pause it, as I'm not a gamer I don't know.

 

[krusha03]

Well, I tried to increase the allowed CPU load to 95% and experienced serious lags even with everyday use. Back at 90%, there are absolutely no performance issues at all. Even started a VM today (8 cores / 12 GB RAM config), and it ran absolutely fine, save for just a very slight slowdown during boot. I'd say that BOINC really works great even with increased CPU load. Probably gaming will require to pause it, as I'm not a gamer I don't know.

I have experienced the same (games included) on my FX-6300. if it's at 100% it will lag on everyday use and sometimes not suspend when the CPU is needed so i keep it at 87% (5 cores) when working on the PC. The same thing happens with one of the i3 computers that I am using that streams camera feeds but the i5s and another i3 have no issues at all

 

[Heaven7]

I have experienced the same (games included) on my FX-6300. if it's at 100% it will lag on everyday use and sometimes not suspend when the CPU is needed so i keep it at 87% (5 cores) when working on the PC. The same thing happens with one of the i3 computers that I am using that streams camera feeds but the i5s and another i3 have no issues at all

You did add those resource intensive programs to the "exclusive applications" list, of course? Sorry, just wondering.

 

[krusha03]

You did add those resource intensive programs to the "exclusive applications" list, of course? Sorry, just wondering.

Nah when i leave 1 core available on both systems everything runs great so couldn't be bothered

 

[Norton]

I have experienced the same (games included) on my FX-6300. if it's at 100% it will lag on everyday use and sometimes not suspend when the CPU is needed so i keep it at 87% (5 cores) when working on the PC. The same thing happens with one of the i3 computers that I am using that streams camera feeds but the i5s and another i3 have no issues at all

An FX 8 core will generally experience no lag at all when crunching full load on all cores no matter what else you're doing

The only time I got a lag on mine was when it was running a backup while crunching.

 

[ThE_MaD_ShOt]

An FX 8 core will generally experience no lag at all when crunching full load on all cores no matter what else you're doing

The only time I got a lag on mine was when it was running a backup while crunching.

I concur. I game while crunching most of the time and don't see any slow down in my main rig.

 

[manofthem]

I concur. I game while crunching most of the time and don't see any slow down in my main rig.

Hmm, makes me want to give this a try. I've started gaming before which crunching because I forgot to turn it off, and I seem to remember some slow downs...not that I have an AMD CPU.

Yeah I'll have to try this out again today

 

[Norton]

Actually i am really interested in points/watt and points/$ figures

HP and Dell made 4P servers and I've seen them on ebay but the cost on many is pretty high. Like I was saying in the Crunchers Helping Crunchers thread- watch for folders to retire their 4P rigs

Points per watt? I get 20-22k ppd for 500w so that would be around 40-44 ppd/watt

 

[krusha03]

HP and Dell made 4P servers and I've seen them on ebay but the cost on many is pretty high. Like I was saying in the Crunchers Helping Crunchers thread- watch for folders to retire their 4P rigs

Points per watt? I get 20-22k ppd for 500w so that would be around 40-44 ppd/watt

You pull 500w from the wall? While that is much more efficient than my home rig (it uses around 235W for 3300PPD or about 14ppd/watt), for a dedicated cruncher @Knoxx29 xeons are much more efficient and are doing like 70-75ppd/watt

PS. I was thinking of doing the same (quoting your reply here) but since i saw the discussion was continuing there i continued the off-topic. sorry

 

[Norton]

You pull 500w from the wall? While that is much more efficient than my home rig (it uses around 235W for 3300PPD or about 14ppd/watt), for a dedicated cruncher @Knoxx29 xeons are much more efficient and are doing like 70-75ppd/watt

PS. I was thinking of doing the same (quoting your reply here) but since i saw the discussion was continuing there i continued the off-topic. sorry

An Opteron 4P may not be the most efficient in ppd/watt but there are 48 cores running in one machine meaning it only needs 1 psu, 1 HDD, etc... so there's a savings there too.

Also, here's a list of the highest output hosts on WCG:
http://boincstats.com/en/stats/15/host/list/16/0/0
Mine is #42 in the Top 100 atm but note this stats site got a little mixed up over the past week so I would watch it closely over the next week or two to see how the rigs stack up.

 

[theonedub]

Also, here's a list of the highest output hosts on WCG:
http://boincstats.com/en/stats/15/host/list/16/0/0
Mine is #42 in the Top 100

Very nice