TPU's WCG/BOINC Team

[t_ski]

IDK, I might switch "Karen" over, this weekend. I believe it will mostly benefit my HDD space, and if it boosts my crunching...Why not.

My biggest fear is having WIN10 mess with my 7850 and the Catalyst I have, finally gotten to work. But, it might also be good enough to allow me OpenCL, which I've been unable to get working in WIN7, which will boost my Folding.

Any troubles with GPU Drivers? Any ATI's in the two rigs you switched? Got any Heroine?

One rig has an Nvidia Quadro card in it: no issues, but it's not folding. The other rig is using an on-board video that is using the Microsoft standard VGA driver. I have thought about adding a basic video card to the second one (video is just laggy due to CPU load), and I have a couple ATI cards that I would probably choose from, but I just never got around to it yet.

No heroine though - this is my favorite drug

 

[theonedub]

Utility company had the power off for 8hrs today while they replaced a transformer, installed a new utility pole, and did some other work- no WCG all day. Of course they did it right after we bought groceries, too -_- Back online now, and everything made it.

 

[hat]

Some changes are coming to camp hat. I'm getting better DDR3 for my main machine "Starlifter". The RAM I already have will be used to go into an AMD AM3 motherboard, paired with an Athlon II x4 640. Those parts will replace the current parts in my second machine "Dragonfly", so the Athlon will replace the Q6600. This is a somewhat of a decent upgrade, as the Q6600 cannot overclock, and I've had the Athlon up to 3.6GHz I think when I used it before. I'll also (try) moving to Windows 10 on Dragonfly, which should raise output a little more. It should also help some with power consumption and heat output here, though things like that aren't so evident when looking at WCG stats...

-ed Well, after looking at the chip I found it's a 630, not a 640. I might have ran it at 3.5GHz (250x14) or 3.64GHz (260x14)... Probably gonna run at 3.5 for lower power draw and heat, since it'll be a 24/7 cruncher. If it was my main machine I'd push for more, but I'm not gonna redline a secondary system.

 

[manofthem]

Finally got to install Win 10 on my main rig. I kicked around the idea of waiting since I felt I was going to run into issues, but I didn't wait....

...and I should have. I'm having trouble updating AMD driver on this rig, and of course it has to be the rig with CFX. I've tried to install the latest AMD driver, and it failed. I tried uninstalling what I had, and it gave me errors and failed.

Ultimately it said AMD driver uninstalled, but it's not; it's not showing up in Control Panel's Add/Remove, but gpuz reads it fine and the game I play seems to be fine. So not sure what's going on just yet...




On the plus side, the Win10 upgrade went very quickly



Edit: well I think I finally got it worked out, after a bit more fiddling and some help from my friend Tito (@t_ski ). Haven't tested in game yet, but everything seems alright as of yet

 

[t_ski]

Edit: well I think I finally got it worked out, after a bit more fiddling and some help from my friend Tito (@t_ski ). Haven't tested in game yet, but everything seems alright as of yet

I was like "wait, what? I didn't help you any..." But then I saw the link and I understood the connection. Is that stuff any good?

I did my two crunchers first, because I knew they were more basic hardware, and I knew if I messed them up I'd be upset, but I could get over it easier. I plan to wait a little while more on my main rig due to still having to test some things out on Win10, like access to my work through VPN, etc.

 

[manofthem]

I was like "wait, what? I didn't help you any..." But then I saw the link and I understood the connection. Is that stuff any good?

Oh yeah, it's very good. For me, it's either that or Stoli as my preference (and usually Tito > Stoli), both better than the likes of Ketel or Goose

I did my two crunchers first, because I knew they were more basic hardware, and I knew if I messed them up I'd be upset, but I could get over it easier. I plan to wait a little while more on my main rig due to still having to test some things out on Win10, like access to my work through VPN, etc.

This makes very good sense and kind of what I did too, except the wait on the main rig. Did the wife's pc first, as a guinea pig run.

 

[Bow]

Hot again this week with high humidity. Going to be shutting down during the day.

 

[twilyth]

Yeah. Today it got up to 99F. I had to fill up the swamp cooler finally. The squirrel cage fan was stuck so had to give it a little push.

I have central a/c but the house is a bilevel and the 2.5 rooms on the upper level get really warm. If I set the a/c to try to keep that area cool, you can hang meat in the rest of the house. So I use a small window a/c to help out but that's only 5k btu so on really hot days it doesn't do the job. I also have an 8k which I should have used but I don't think it's as energy efficient. So I add the swamp cooler in.

The central a/c and window unit remove the extra moisture so it doesn't get sticky and the only juice the swampie uses is for the fan. I think it's rated at 5k btu as well.

It's really weird how much of a difference of about 2 feet makes. I think it's probably due more to the fact that the attic above the higher part is much smaller than the rest of the attic so it gets a lot hotter up there.

 

[Arjai]

One rig has an Nvidia Quadro card in it: no issues, but it's not folding. The other rig is using an on-board video that is using the Microsoft standard VGA driver. I have thought about adding a basic video card to the second one (video is just laggy due to CPU load), and I have a couple ATI cards that I would probably choose from, but I just never got around to it yet.

No heroine though - this is my favorite drug

Karen is up and running on 10. No problems. The catalyst is still there running things AND(!!) Magically, I now have OPENCL!!!!!

I was hoping 10 would fix that! I am going to monitor the single core crunching averages over the next week. If I end up anywhere close to a 30% Jump, This Laptop is gonna be next!

BTW, that song sucks.

I am gonna lose internet on the 22nd. I need someone to help me do the Daily Numbers until, at least the 27th. I may, or may not be able to afford to renew my internet. If it is longer I will go to the library and let you all know. The rent at my apartment is still flocked up!! They keep using last years inflated numbers for my income! I don't make nearly as much now, and they are taking 46.3% of my takehome pay!! They are supposed to only take 33% of my pay! That 13.3 % means I can't eat. I have lost over 25 pounds since moving here last month! 25 POUNDS!!

Next Tuesday, I am parking my ass in her office until we get a face to face!! I am going to either end up in the hospital with exhaustion or lose this place and end up three steps back!!!

Or BOTH!!

Sorry, /Rant

I do need someone to step up and do numbers for a little while, Starting on the 22nd, Please!

 

[twilyth]

My stats are down today since 2687w hasn't returned any results since Sat. Somehow it got disconnected from the project. I have no idea how since I never use that machine. Thought I reattached yesterday but apparently not. Will have to check later to see if it's dl'ing new work.

 

[twilyth]

Damn. Pretty slow around here lately.

Anyway, the dual octo seems to be developing some problems. Keep getting bsod's. Plus there was the issue with getting detached from the project. Not sure what's going on there. To do some diagnostics I will need to find a keyboard. Think I'll get a wired usb model from amazon basic.

 

[stinger608]

Damn. Pretty slow around here lately.

That was kind of my thoughts the last few days.

 

[Norton]

The heat/humidity and my work schedule have been wearing me out lately- fell asleep in front of my PC for at least an hour almost every night over the past week

 

[manofthem]

Damn. Pretty slow around here lately.

Times are tough lately for me, haven't been as active myself due to everything going on. Life, stress, family, business, etc...

Anyway, the dual octo seems to be developing some problems. Keep getting bsod's. Plus there was the issue with getting detached from the project. Not sure what's going on there. To do some diagnostics I will need to find a keyboard. Think I'll get a wired usb model from amazon basic.

I bought a crap USB kb for the wife's pc for like $10 or $12 at Staples (or Office Max or Office Depot or somewhere like that), and it's worked fine. In fact, the wife preferred that to the Quickfire mech board

 

[twilyth]

Well, I ordered the new kb last night, so we'll see how it goes. The octo has been stable since last night although I did have to do a restore. I hope it's not some software update that causing the issue.

 

[manofthem]

I still haven't gotten my one rig back up yet because of the issue with the gpu heatsink. Amazing how quickly time goes. I've been meaning to take care of it but I've just been top busy/tired/preoccupied to finally get it taken care of.

But I hope to get it fixed in short order.

Well, I ordered the new kb last night, so we'll see how it goes. The octo has been stable since last night although I did have to do a restore. I hope it's not some software update that causing the issue.

I hope for the best stability for the octopus rig.


Edit: octo =fun for the kids too

 

[twilyth]

Edit: octo =fun for the kids too

Not always.

 

[manofthem]

Not always.

Oh man I LOL'd so hard with that! Well done

 

[hat]

Currently running a 24h prime95 test on both machines. I got the RAM in Starlifter, and testing my settings for it. Dreagonfly has been updated, and I'm testing my settings 3.5GHz on its athlon II x4. When it's all over I'll come back a little stronger...

Also replaced Windows 8.1 with Windows 10 on Dragonfly. I've read about Windows 10 running better than 8.1 so that could help some as well.

 

[hat]

Dragonfly had a BSOD 4.5hr in the test :-( raised cpu voltage tried again...

 

[[Ion]]

Bought something new today:
4x AMD Opteron 6376 CPUs
H8QG7+-LN4F motherboard (still sells for $985 on Amazon! )
1400watt gold certified psu
Onboard LSI 2208 RAID controller with 1Gb cache!
3 hotswap bays ( comes with 2x 60gb Kingston SSDs installed)
QUAD Intel i350 gigabit LAN
IPMI 2.0 with remote media
No RAM.

That's right, a 64 core rackmount server. I've made obscenely good money this summer selling computers, so I decided to spend a fraction of the profits on something fun. This ought to crush Kiev and Budapest combined.

 

[manofthem]

I've made obscenely good money this summer selling computers,

And people dare to say the desktop pc is dead

Congrats on the purchase, good to see you again

 

[Norton]

No RAM

Can't crush anything til' that part is fixed

Congrats on the purchase, good to see you again

^^^ This!

Are you back at school now or getting ready to go back soon?

 

[xvi]

Bought something new today:

If you don't mind my asking, what's the total on something like that? I know it's outside my budget, I'm just curious to know how far outside it is.

 

[peche]

Boinc manager is so weird on all 3 of my machines,
it takes like 30 min to report tasks ... i have to manually click on "update" Command ... for getting reported i guess... forgot to take a screenshot about all done tasks there being ready to report...