TPU's WCG/BOINC Team

[theonedub]

Guess it's time for loop maintenance, down til April is crazy.

 

[thebluebumblebee]

down til April is crazy.

So, what do you think, Zip or CD-R?

 

[theonedub]

So, what do you think, Zip or CD-R?

Definitely the tape

 

[mstenholm]

So, what do you think, Zip or CD-R?

If I read my mail before checking the WCG forum on TPU I could have saved myself a lot of wondering.

 

[agent00skid]

Just started up a new PC for boinc. Gonna be a while before I get a feel for it's output.
Might need to spin up something else to keep the heat going during downtime.

 

[stinger608]

Yeah, it's crazy that it's going to be down for about a month and a half.

 

[windwhirl]

Yeah, it's crazy that it's going to be down for about a month and a half.

Well, I sure hope that means they're taking this extremely seriously.

 

[phill]

Didn't know if anyone has seen the link??

But as I've been a little tied up since being home, I thought I'd post it up just in case

So, more so for the big crunchers, what are you going to do with all the spare electric cash you'll be saving!??! This is taken from the link above -

As part of preparing for the final phase of WCG migration, we want to make volunteers aware of the following important dates:

• World Community Grid pauses sending out work units: February 14, 2022.
• World Community Grid pauses receiving work units: February 27, 2022.
• Website and forum will be offline: from February 28 until April 22, 2022. A simplified version of the website will act as a sign post during the transition, to share updates and communicate our progress and roadmap for the World Community Grid in 2022.

Any ideas on who will save the most cash??!

 

[stinger608]

So, is all the work units that members have just going to sit idle?

I've got a ton of work units and I'm assuming they will cease to run come Monday. Or if they actually run, are they not going to upload to the servers?

 

[windwhirl]

So, is all the work units that members have just going to sit idle?

I've got a ton of work units and I'm assuming they will cease to run come Monday. Or if they actually run, are they not going to upload to the servers?

There will be no new work units after 14/02. You have until 27/02 to finish whatever you may still have. From then you'll have to wait until 22/04 for WCG to resume sending out work

 

[stinger608]

There will be no new work units after 14/02. You have until 27/02 to finish whatever you may still have. From then you'll have to wait until 22/04 for WCG to resume sending out work

Oh, well that's good. At least a person is able to finish all the work units he or she has prior to being idle.

 

[HammerON]

Looks like we might have to start folding for a bit!

 

[thebluebumblebee]

Oh, well that's good. At least a person is able to finish all the work units he or she has prior to being idle.

I'm actually thinking of maxing out my queue instead of the 1/2 day I normally run.

 

[HammerON]

I'm actually thinking of maxing out my queue instead of the 1/2 day I normally run.

I might do the same as well.

 

[stinger608]

I'm actually thinking of maxing out my queue instead of the 1/2 day I normally run.

I've had mine set to 2 days forever. That should keep em busy for a bit.

 

[mstenholm]

Looks like we might have to start folding for a bit!

I will have to, at least one or two jobs in the mornings to heat up my office. I sold most of my better GPUs so I’m down to one 2070 S. OPNG runs fine on the lower end stuff but the Quick Return Bonus with a 7770 isn’t that great . That GPU is the most productive today, OK it normally isn’t.

 

[80-watt Hamster]

OK so two Ks. I have switched my glasses and now I can see that is what you wrote Then I would take the older brother with more threads.

In order to make a decent test you need to run them a week before the points are correct but yes if you have the time and energy please test.

With 99% certainty, the 10700K will out produce an 11600k for WCG. It will use less power and run cooler doing so. Rocket Lake is hot n' hungry. Excellent choice on the Z490 A-Pro. Have one myself that's run both a 10900 and a 10400 (both non-K). It's rock solid.

Everyone's predictions appear to be correct, with some minor caveats. I've only run an eyeball analysis, the runtime is probably too short for "good" data, and the two chips weren't running on exactly the same platform. If anyone's interested, I can elaborate on all of that further. Short version is that the 10700K outproduces the 11600K by somewhere in the range of 10-20,000 ppd. The 11600K smokes my 9700K by about that same amount. Guess it's time to watch for deals on an 11700K. You know, for science.

Bad news on the Z490-A PRO, though, @weekendgeek. The refurb I got was apparently faulty, and would happily run the i5, but choked on the i7. So back it went, replaced by a GB Z590 Aorus Ultra, which has thankfully been trouble-free.

EDIT: On a whim, I checked on 11700Ks at Microcenter. Pretty good deal, but not good enough:

I need better cooling first, anyway.

 

[windwhirl]

Figured I could grab some extra tasks along the way.

 

[80-watt Hamster]

If you're a charitable sort, you could describe me as curious. Less charitably, that characterization could be "nosy" instead. Either way, imma call roll: what are folks crunching on? For myself:

Xeon X5670 @ 3.0
Xeon X5670 @ 4.0
i7 9700K @ 4.2
i7 10700K @ 4.6

Both i7s are hamstrung by insufficient cooling. Pretty sure the 3.0 Xeon is being held back by a lame board. Disclaimer: I'm not chasing perf/W atm. It's COLD here in the winter.

 

[mstenholm]

If you're a charitable sort, you could describe me as curious. Less charitably, that characterization could be "nosy" instead. Either way, imma call roll: what are folks crunching on? For myself:

Xeon X5670 @ 3.0
Xeon X5670 @ 4.0
i7 9700K @ 4.2
i7 10700K @ 4.6

Both i7s are hamstrung by insufficient cooling. Pretty sure the 3.0 Xeon is being held back by a lame board. Disclaimer: I'm not chasing perf/W atm. It's COLD here in the winter.

The team overall breakdown is here BoincStats CPU for team TPU
The listing is for CPUs that has been active the past 60 days as far as I remember and it’s not complete since the owners has to tick show my CPUs somewhere in the settings.
I’m in the same situation as you, and that’s the reason my +150W W3670 has been running until now. Your 4 GHz Xeon is at least up there as well.

 

[phill]

If you're a charitable sort, you could describe me as curious. Less charitably, that characterization could be "nosy" instead. Either way, imma call roll: what are folks crunching on? For myself:

Xeon X5670 @ 3.0
Xeon X5670 @ 4.0
i7 9700K @ 4.2
i7 10700K @ 4.6

Both i7s are hamstrung by insufficient cooling. Pretty sure the 3.0 Xeon is being held back by a lame board. Disclaimer: I'm not chasing perf/W atm. It's COLD here in the winter.

Pretty much anything that's efficient to do so to be honest... Which is something like this if the sun is out and everything is working....

Ryzen 1700X x 2/2700/2700X/3900X x 2/3950X/5950X
Then the dual Xeons in the servers - I think E5-2658 V2 and then if I can get the sun out long enough dual Xeons in two others E5-2683 V4...

I do have a few Intel CPUs here now that I could get involved as well - the 6700k runs on Rosetta for the most part... But I've a E5-1680 V2, 8086k and a 7980XE I could try and get running too...

I do still have the X58 era of Xeon's here too, so the L5640's, they are in the older couple of servers here but they might be lower powered than the normal models of the X58 kit but they are still heavy on the juice and due to their age, I stopped crunching with them a little while ago..

Sadly if I was running this lot with all the costs of the electric over here, my months wages would go on just the electric... Have to be a little careful....

 

[windwhirl]

what are folks crunching on

A single Ryzen 5 3600 for WCG and ye ol' RX 580 for FAH (though I cut FAH off during summer due to summer being hot as hell). I leave the computer on nearly 16 hours daily anyway, so letting it crunch while I'm not using it felt like a good idea. Electricity bills are not a concern due to ridiculous low cost.

 

[80-watt Hamster]

Forty-eight minutes until the long(-ish) sleep...

 

[HammerON]

Both crunchers are now out of work

@80-watt Hamster - I am (was) crunching on two 3960X rigs @ 3.8GHz. One rig has a 3080 and the other has a 6700XT.

 

[mstenholm]

2190 units in queue and then it’s time to BIOS updates on the three AMDs, update Ubuntu to 20.04 LTS on the one with a partly corrupted 18.04 LTS and adding 16 GB Die B to the pool.