TPU's WCG/BOINC Team

[mstenholm]

Still nothing as an update from WCG, but as its the end of the weekend, here we hope for tomorrow at some point I hope it can't be that much longer.....

They said, two weeks in a row, that early next week we would start, later changed to hear something . And I just made a Ubuntu disk for my more or less untested 5950X. Got a new floating point record btw, haven’t seen higher in the CPU listing. Gonna love Linux, 1,54 times higher than Win10 under similar settings. OK WCG don’t care much but Rosetta does.

 

[phill]

They said, two weeks in a row, that early next week we would start, later changed to hear something . And I just made a Ubuntu disk for my more or less untested 5950X. Got a new floating point record btw, haven’t seen higher in the CPU listing. Gonna love Linux, 1,54 times higher than Win10 under similar settings. OK WCG don’t care much but Rosetta does.

Its getting very frustrating that's for sure... Here's hoping its within the next two weeks......

 

[Quigly]

I moved to f@h for now. I wouldn't be surprised if they lose a lot of crunchers over these delays.

 

[phill]

I agree, its been a bit of a mess and with them trying to add new things to the site its making it even worse. I don't know why they haven't got the bugs out before adding things to the site.. Seems madness to me

 

[mstenholm]

Since my machines aren’t busy these days I decided to do a BIOS update on my X570 GB Master. Normally I don’t fix things that aren’t broken but since I have 16 GB incoming one of these days and I might swap CPUs I decided that today was the day. Its a dual boot and the first two time it went to Windows bypassing the boot manager or what’s it called. Finally I got into Linux and noticed that the temperature was 50 degree C and it had a power uptake of 140 W. F**k did something go wrong?

No, I got four Rosetta jobs . 140 W isn’t going to make this very energy efficient points/W wise but at least I get to test the first 16 GB Viper Steel and get some pie if they complete. 4360 MHz, not bad for a 3900X at stock settings. Yes I know it’s only four threads.

Edit: I powered up my 5950X and it picked up five Rosetta jobs, 115 W and so potential much better points/W. This machine I run at a fixed 4200 GHz @ 1.06V to curb the heat, small heatsink…..

 

[phill]

What are your temps like @mstenholm when you have it 100% loaded?

4.20GHz @ 1.06vcore is very good. Have you set it in the bios for a fixed multiplier or just the voltage?

 

[mstenholm]

What are your temps like @mstenholm when you have it 100% loaded?

4.20GHz @ 1.06vcore is very good. Have you set it in the bios for a fixed multiplier or just the voltage?

The 5950X havn’t seen anything worse than Cinebench23 10 minutes and that is 66-68 degree C which is fine by me. That‘s with 220 W at the wall so I believe that’s the worst I will see for WCG and Rosetta. The Noctua heatsink has be upgraded with a NF-A12x25, the new 2000 rpm version and it’s not maxed out, but close
I really haven’t figure out what setting I did in bios but I set -15 and 1100 somewhere at some point. Since running under Linux is important no Windows programs has been involved. The 1.06V is read by HWINFO64, so not quite true but I trust it’s about there. The multiplier is fixed.

My 3900X never sees more then 68 degree C but that’s what a good pump, heatsink and 480 mm rad do for you.

The result from my run was 89,15 points/hr for the 3900X (four jobs) and 94,38 for the 5950X (five jobs). The current Rosetta jobs need cache it seems. The full loaded 3900x and 5950X is doing 35-40 points/hr, not mine but the top-100 ones.

 

[Zachary85]

WCG website and forums are back on line.

 

[phill]

Thank you @Zachary85 for spreading the great news!! I've even managed to change my email address now so I can finally cancel off my old ISP!! Thank god for that.........

Now, wonder when they are going to start sending out some work.......

 

[FordGT90Concept]

Yup, finally able to log in again using BOINC but no work has been queued.

 

[debs3759]

They're teasing us!

 

[mstenholm]

They're teasing us!

At least I managed to add WCG on one machine that had a new install. That was yesterday. I had another machine that needed the same treatment so I tried and failed, twice today. Well, I guess that I will not miss out on work if I postpone my third try to tomorrow

 

[Zachary85]

I can't find the post in the WCG forums right off hand, but the post I saw this morning did mention they wanted to get the website and forum up and running first. They wanted to make sure the forum and website are stable in real time before they start to release work units to the members.

 

[debs3759]

It's in this thread: https://www.worldcommunitygrid.org/forums/wcg/viewthread_thread,44100

 

[HammerON]

No updates, no crunching, disappointing to say the least.

 

[phill]

Its certainly pretty crap of them being over 4 months late/behind what they had said but I don't understand what could possibly be the issues with what they have been doing..

Hopefully soon though @HammerON my crunchers are getting restless....

 

[Quigly]

there's always F@H

 

[NastyHabits]

I just got a notice from World Community Grid to change the project from:
"https://www.worldcommunitygrid.org" to "https://master.worldcommunitygrid.org"
Don't use the quote marks.
You can use your existing password. I'm wait to see if I get some tasks. No such luck.

 

[Zachary85]

I just got 5 WCG OpenPandemic work units this morning.

 

[mstenholm]

I just got 5 WCG OpenPandemic work units this morning.

Got a “few” as well. 235, 263, spilt on three machines, all OPN1. No GPU jobs.

Edit: last job recieved 12:48 UTC. 22 uploaded and plenty waiting for the server to free up space. Yes that is the error-message.

 

[Zachary85]

That didn't last long. Only got 10 work units and they are finished already. Had some trouble getting them to upload after they finished, had to click retry a few times, but they did upload. No new work yet. It might have been a limited run to see how the system is working and to check for system bugs.

 

[mstenholm]

That didn't last long. Only got 10 work units and they are finished already. Had some trouble getting them to upload after they finished, had to click retry a few times, but they did upload. No new work yet. It might have been a limited run to see how the system is working and to check for system bugs.

Correct, thats what they informed us in the forum WCG forum

The points are all over, mostly on the high side.

 

[phill]

I've noticed a few jobs come in on one of my rigs but returning the work was a little painful... Got all but one transfer done but will set that going in the morning. Guess they are still testing the system... Here's hoping we see it back in swing soon!

 

[mstenholm]

I've noticed a few jobs come in on one of my rigs but returning the work was a little painful... Got all but one transfer done but will set that going in the morning. Guess they are still testing the system... Here's hoping we see it back in swing soon!

I got tired of trying to get all of them sent off as well, all three machines are now down for the night with 27 unsent jobs. No rush on my part, that just means points for tomorrow as well

 

[phill]

Works wonders that doesn't it?!