TPU's WCG/BOINC Team

[manofthem]

I'm tempted to throw Linux Mint back on the rig it was on before. It's the only rig that can have it and not be a nuisance since it just sits and crunches.

It was fun to mess with before but it was a lot to learn. Having had zero Linux knowledge, it was a pain to have to work so hard to do simple things

 

[[Ion]]

My Supermicro dual LGA2011-3 board, heatsinks, and RAM got here today. The case, PSU, and HDD I already have. CPUs should be here tomorrow and then you can expect some pics

 

[[Ion]]

CPUs got here while I was off at work--but new build is now up and going

Installing Linux Mint now--BOINC should be going within half an hour.

Specs are:
2x Xeon E5-4667 V3
Supermicro X10DRI
2x4GB Crucial DDR4
250GB WD Blue drive
Supermicro 465W PSU
XFX 9500GT

Functionally identical to the one I build in September so it should be good for 45k PPD on VINA WUs as well


EDIT: More pics!

 

[Recca29]

Oc'd the Phenom II from 3.0 to 3.6GHz. lets see how much difference it makes.

 

[[Ion]]

Probably right about 20%
WCG after all scales linearly with clockspeed

 

[thebluebumblebee]

@[Ion] , 500K is right there. You're 85% of the way there!

 

[[Ion]]

@[Ion] , 500K is right there. You're 85% of the way there!

Well, part of the boost is due to an uncommonly good batch of OET WUs right now, which is boosting up my PPD quite a bit. Come late winter it's possible though. I still have a number more systems that could go part time -> full time come January, and six more Dells that need upgrading to six-core CPUs. And I can't help but notice how cheap the eight-core Sandy Bridge-E CPUs are

 

[stevorob]

Well, part of the boost is due to an uncommonly good batch of OET WUs right now, which is boosting up my PPD quite a bit. Come late winter it's possible though. I still have a number more systems that could go part time -> full time come January, and six more Dells that need upgrading to six-core CPUs. And I can't help but notice how cheap the eight-core Sandy Bridge-E CPUs are

So much gear... lol

 

[[Ion]]

So much gear... lol

A source of VERY cheap hardware (even if mostly oldish stuff) and ready access to free electricity does wonders

 

[[Ion]]

The particularly good batch of OET WUs seems to have ended again--runtime is remaining mostly constant but WUs completed and points are in freefall. Ahh well, Science is still getting done

 

[mstenholm]

The particularly good batch of OET WUs seems to have ended again--runtime is remaining mostly constant but WUs completed and points are in freefall. Ahh well, Science is still getting done

1543 has been fairly good to my WIN7 4790 (45 points/hour)

 

[stevorob]

The particularly good batch of OET WUs seems to have ended again--runtime is remaining mostly constant but WUs completed and points are in freefall. Ahh well, Science is still getting done

I noticed that last night when PPD seemed to have taken a dive across the board for the top 20, but my runtime has gone up on WUs.

I've got 1551 OET WUs on the Ubunutu box and they're completing in 1:20-1:30 now. I have 1556 and 1557 on the 750 and 4690 and those are now taking 1hr+.

 

[stevorob]

Grabbed a Xeon x3440 to replace the i5 750 - got a hell of a deal on a matched pair.

 

[manofthem]

This thread needs more talk

 

[Silvertigo]

This thread needs more talk

Well I am in the process of switching over to Linux, which instantly found a driver for my pcie wifi adapter.

I spent hours messing with drivers on Win7 for this particular old adapter a while back with no luck, an old school adapter salvaged from a HP or dell.

Linux instantly found a driver ands its working, hopefully the same will happen with the other rigs and random adapters when I complete the rest of the installs.

I`m liking Linux already

 

[Recca29]

The loaned 960T system is going away; so i am thinking of buying a i5-6500 with an Asus H170 board for a 24x7 crunching rig.
may do some gaming on it as well.

 

[thebluebumblebee]

The loaned 960T system is going away; so i am thinking of buying a i5-6500 with an Asus H170 board for a 24x7 crunching rig.
may do some gaming on it as well.

I sure like i7's. More work done for the same electricity.

 

[manofthem]

I sure like i7's. More work done for the same electricity.

I think you have some magic i7's running in your rigs because their PPD is insane!

 

[mstenholm]

I think you have some magic i7's running in your rigs because their PPD is insane!

These 2600K sure are insane. Forget about Skylake get a 2600K and let BBB help you set it up

 

[Nordic]

Well I am in the process of switching over to Linux, which instantly found a driver for my pcie wifi adapter.

I spent hours messing with drivers on Win7 for this particular old adapter a while back with no luck, an old school adapter salvaged from a HP or dell.

Linux instantly found a driver ands its working, hopefully the same will happen with the other rigs and random adapters when I complete the rest of the installs.

I`m liking Linux already

That is one of the nice things about linux. It almost always has drivers for any hardware you throw at it. The drivers are automatically found, stable, and in my experience work very well. The one thing I have not found drivers for on linux is an old TV tuner card, which I can't find windows drivers for either.

 

[thebluebumblebee]

Those 2600K's are running a standard install of Mint which I didn't even update. Standard install of BOINC. I DON'T have the immediate upload cfg, because I think the newer client uploads fast enough. I haven't done the tweaks that @james888 suggested because I'm just too lazy. They are, however, running 100% OET at this time and that is why their PPD is so high, IMHO. If there's anything that's helped with the PPD, it might be that I have the minimum work buffer set to 1 day. This might help when they get into those really high PPD OET's by being able to grab a bunch when they come through, but, there is the risk of running out of work with that setting.

 

[mstenholm]

Those 2600K's are running a standard install of Mint which I didn't even update. Standard install of BOINC. I DON'T have the immediate upload cfg, because I think the newer client uploads fast enough. I haven't done the tweaks that @james888 suggested because I'm just too lazy. They are, however, running 100% OET at this time and that is why their PPD is so high, IMHO. If there's anything that's helped with the PPD, it might be that I have the minimum work buffer set to 1 day. This might help when they get into those really high PPD OET's by being able to grab a bunch when they come through, but, there is the risk of running out of work with that setting.

I have slowly emtied my buffer on my one and only Linux rig to only OET. I wonder if it ever will return to the 2K PPD it had in it's Windows days. It was down to 1300 which is low for a dual with HT runing 3 GHz. It works for some...and I did my small part for the OET project. Wth it's a 35 W lappy heating my feets so be it.

 

[stevorob]

Looks like the good OET WUs are coming in - I've got a ton of 1485/86 WUs that are running much quicker than the previous batch of WUs.

Fire em up!

 

[xvi]

Looks like my little Gigabyte Brix Pro box is coming in at about 3000 PPD.

Edit: It has a 4500 PPD day!

 

[thebluebumblebee]

Looks like my little Gigabyte Brix Pro box is coming in at about 3000 PPD.

Cool
I'd still like to see what an i7-3770T in a Zotac Zbox-ID90-Plus would do, or similar i7-xxxxT units.