TPU's WCG/BOINC Team

[stinger608]

I have a 3220T running - on Linux - OZ and HST only. System pulls less than 50 watts.

Not wondering what the wattage is, more concerned with the PPD.

 

[thebluebumblebee]

Re-check my previous post. I'd suggest just trying it.

 

[manofthem]

Not wondering what the wattage is, more concerned with the PPD.

Re-check my previous post. I'd suggest just trying it.

Looks about a 3k ppd, sounds right for an i3. I think that's about what I got when I was running the i3 2100, ~3k. (doesn't sound too bad, considering my 2600k doesn't get much better than averaging 4k. While it's running 7 threads now, I never was able to get that beast performing better. )

 

[infrared]

Well, I've switched my CPU over to WCG

I'm a bit confused with cpu usage spiking although I'm guessing it's probably normal, what do you think?
I need 20-25% free to feed the GPU's, although I'm thinking I might be able to set the core priority higher for the folding cores and then tell WCG to run at 100%, would this be the best option?



Cheers

Edit: changed WCG to use 100% and core priority is "slightly higher" in the f@h config, looking at the gpu usage it seems to be working as I want, I'll keep an eye on the PPD of the gpu's and see if it drops.

 

[manofthem]

Well, I've switched my CPU over to WCG

I'm a bit confused with cpu usage spiking although I'm guessing it's probably normal, what do you think?
I need 20-25% free to feed the GPU's, although I'm thinking I might be able to set the core priority higher for the folding cores and then tell WCG to run at 100%, would this be the best option?

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Cheers

Edit: changed WCG to use 100% and core priority is "slightly higher" in the f@h config, looking at the gpu usage it seems to be working as I want, I'll keep an eye on the PPD of the gpu's and see if it drops.

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Thank you for the crunching threads! It's been recommended to leave at least one thread open for the folding gpu(s) if you're going to be crunching as well on cpu. This is what I did on my i7 with the gpu folding, drop it so 7 threads crunch instead of 8.

If you set boinc to 100%, keep an eye on it because it may affect f@h. A folding wu will still require courses usage particularly at the check points and when it's completed, and if the CPU is tied up, it will slow you down some. But let us know for sure what works best for you!

 

[infrared]

Thank you for the crunching threads! It's been recommended to leave at least one thread open for the folding gpu(s) if you're going to be crunching as well on cpu. This is what I did on my i7 with the gpu folding, drop it so 7 threads crunch instead of 8.

If you set boinc to 100%, keep an eye on it because it may affect f@h. A folding wu will still require courses usage particularly at the check points and when it's completed, and if the CPU is tied up, it will slow you down some. But let us know for sure what works best for you!

No worries, it's keeping my room lovely and warm!

Thanks for the tips , I'll have a play around and report back.

 

[twilyth]

Don't forget to go into preferences and enter your wcg and folding user names so you can get your crunching and folding badges in your sig.

 

[infrared]

Thanks twilyth! I got the folding badge now, I guess it might take a day or two to get enough WCG points for the other badge.

 

[manofthem]

Thanks twilyth! I got the folding badge now, I guess it might take a day or two to get enough WCG points for the other badge.

Indeed it is based on points. Cruncher Badge is earned at the 100k mark.

 

[infrared]

Hmm, another WU just loaded on a gpu with the old f@h core 18 and it's not so happy about having WCG running as well. How do I go about reserving a core in WCG? The CPU time% box in the options doesn't seem to work that great.

 

[thebluebumblebee]

tools - computing preferences - processor usage and change the % of the processors. I would suggest 75% for your setup.

 

[infrared]

tools - computing preferences - processor usage and change the % of the processors. I would suggest 75% for your setup.

Nice one, 75% worked perfectly I was going about it all the wrong way using the % cpu time option (which pulses) and then gave up on that and was trying to limit number of concurrent tasks with app_config.xml files. *facepalm!*

 

[manofthem]

Looks like @Jstn7477 just passed his 7 year crunching anniversary yesterday, Nov 8th. Pretty amazing, good sir!

 

[infrared]

Thanks to @thebluebumblebee for PM'ing me to see how I'm getting on... turns out I was a dumbass (again!) and haven't joined a team.

Points were building up steadily though, was up to 56,226. I probably wouldn't have realized something was wrong until 100k so that was a good catch.

 

[xvi]

Thanks to @thebluebumblebee for PM'ing me to see how I'm getting on... turns out I was a dumbass (again!) and haven't joined a team.

Points were building up steadily though, was up to 56,226. I probably wouldn't have realized something was wrong until 100k so that was a good catch.

Great to have you! Internet high-five to @thebluebumblebee!

 

[manofthem]

Thanks to @thebluebumblebee for PM'ing me to see how I'm getting on... turns out I was a dumbass (again!) and haven't joined a team.

Points were building up steadily though, was up to 56,226. I probably wouldn't have realized something was wrong until 100k so that was a good catch.

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Great work! And thanks to @thebluebumblebee on being awesome too. I may have missed it, but what hardware are you crunching on?


And I just wanted to throw something else out there for you to keep in mind:

In our threads and usage, we use BOINC points and we use WCG points; 1 BOINC point = 7 WCG points.

This means that your numbers on your WCG profile will be roughly 7 times higher than what Free-DC and/or Boincstats show.

WCG points = points seen in your WCG profile and the Daily Numbers post by @xvi.

BOINC points = used in Pie posts by @Norton/@thebluebumblebee and the Milestones. The badge at 100k also is based on these boinc points.

I bring it out because it's not that obvious when we start out, and hopefully it'll make sense of some things.

 

[T.R.]

A beta of FAH2 appeared.

 

[Doc41]

Hey guys, after a long break of bad stuff happening and moving to a new house i should be somewhat back crunching numbers ( while not gaming atleast ) since my rig is stable now as 4.6 is the highest i can go apparently...

dem cores, one day i'll build myself a "home server" and have it crunch when nobody is looking

 

[stevorob]

So I have had an 1156 rig that I obtained from a coworker who was getting rid of stuff from his garage up and running as a dedicated box for about a month now, and last night, the motherboard gave out...

Swapped CPUs, PSUs, cleared CMOS, get nothing from it when the 4pin EPS is plugged in, but when I unplug it, I get fans spinning on the board. No beep codes to go by... I guess she's toast... not sure what else to do to bring it back to life.

 

[Ferrum Master]

I am back on track also. My old opteron board died at last month ago.

Set up a cheap pegatron x58 with 2.7GHz quad Xeon... should be stable and crunching 24/7 again.

 

[thebluebumblebee]

So I have had an 1156 rig that I obtained from a coworker who was getting rid of stuff from his garage up and running as a dedicated box for about a month now, and last night, the motherboard gave out...

Swapped CPUs, PSUs, cleared CMOS, get nothing from it when the 4pin EPS is plugged in, but when I unplug it, I get fans spinning on the board. No beep codes to go by... I guess she's toast... not sure what else to do to bring it back to life.

What CPU was that?

 

[infrared]

Great work! And thanks to @thebluebumblebee on being awesome too. I may have missed it, but what hardware are you crunching on?

@manofthem Only my gaming rig at the moment, it's got 2 f@h slots running as well so I can only crunch with 75% of the 6700k @ 4.6. I tried getting the family pc going with WCG too but the little i3 wasn't helping much and the cooler is loud. If I had the space I'd have loved to do a multi cpu xeon or opteron crunching machine. Maybe one day

 

[stevorob]

What CPU was that?

Was running a Xeon x3440

Swapped in an i3 530 and and i5 750, neither would power up.

 

[thebluebumblebee]

FYI:
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[t_ski]

I am down on one of my 2P rigs. It took Windows updates last night and rebooted, and this one has been giving me trouble on reboots. I woke up and found it was stuck on the Windows loading screen, and resetting it of shutting it off and back on would only make it get stuck again. If it didn't get stuck it wanted to do an automatic repair, which says either reboot or it didn't fix anything, or it would give me an ACPI BIOS error blue screen. Googling that said reset the CMOS, and not the damn thing won't finish posting either.

I'm tired of working on it, so it's going to sit for the night. Maybe I'll clean it up tomorrow and pull some parts out and try again.

Stupid rig is at it again. I'm pretty certain it is a driver issue, as the Win10 boot screen loads, does a flash/flicker, then starts loading a little more before it locks up. It hink the part before the flash/flicker is the generic driver parts, and then specific drivers get loaded after the flash/flicker.

Just not sure what it is, and there are no Win10 drivers available on the Supermicro site for this board. :\