TPU's WCG/BOINC Team

[p_o_s_pc]

Problem is that the AMD cards that we've been buying are pretty inefficient for folding, and the GF100 cards are just too hot. Oh well, if it looks like there will be no more WCG projects I'll probably sell the AMD cards come June.

this is the reason why i bought the 8 core,its for the extra crunching power once the GPU WUs are gone.

 

[[Ion]]

this is the reason why i bought the 8 core,its for the extra crunching power once the GPU WUs are gone.

Certainly, I love my i7s for that, and come next fall I'll presumably once again build up a fleet of eight or ten C2Ds for crunching

 

[okidna]

Requesting new tasks and got this message instead of new tasks :

2/18/2013 20:58:04 | World Community Grid | Tasks are committed to other platforms

What does this mean?

 

[TRWOV]

http://boinc.berkeley.edu/trac/wiki/HomogeneousRedundancy#Schedulingconsiderations

Nothing you can do about it, it's up to the project whenever to use HR or not.

 

[ChristTheGreat]

Certainly, I love my i7s for that, and come next fall I'll presumably once again build up a fleet of eight or ten C2Ds for crunching

ifI could get an i7 for 200$, I guess I would upgrade, cause I don't see why I should upgrade to a 300$ CPU, since my 2500k @ 4.7ghz is doing good xD

in the other case, I'll just add a couple of rig to Crunch xD

 

[okidna]

http://boinc.berkeley.edu/trac/wiki/HomogeneousRedundancy#Schedulingconsiderations

Nothing you can do about it, it's up to the project whenever to use HR or not.

Ah, thanks for the link, still confused but at least there's an official explanation.

The good news is the problem is now solved itself.
I got new tasks after my GPU WUs nearly depleted (just 20 or 25 WUs remained).

 

[Jstn7477]

I am shutting down some old machines and putting them in storage this week. I already took down my ASRock 775Xfire-VSTA/P4 3.0GHz and ASUS A8N32-SLI, and plan on taking down the ECS nForce4-A939 as well as the Dell Dimension 8300 (P4 3GHz s478). The first two systems were running a pair of GTS 450s and GTX 460s for Folding@Home, but I am relocating the 460s to my dad's office X6 1045T machine, and the GTS 460s will be split up and one will be added to the 7970 cruncher and the 7950 cruncher. Construction is underway at our new facility, and I figured I would start cutting the bottom producers/power wasters out of my farm and keeping them around as spares. I know that every point counts, but when you have a group of rigs that collectively take about 350-500w yet produce ~3K PPD total, it just makes no sense keeping them online.

 

[Norton]

I am shutting down some old machines and putting them in storage this week. I already took down my ASRock 775Xfire-VSTA/P4 3.0GHz and ASUS A8N32-SLI, and plan on taking down the ECS nForce4-A939 as well as the Dell Dimension 8300 (P4 3GHz s478). The first two systems were running a pair of GTS 450s and GTX 460s for Folding@Home, but I am relocating the 460s to my dad's office X6 1045T machine, and the GTS 460s will be split up and one will be added to the 7970 cruncher and the 7950 cruncher. Construction is underway at our new facility, and I figured I would start cutting the bottom producers/power wasters out of my farm and keeping them around as spares. I know that every point counts, but when you have a group of rigs that collectively take about 350-500w yet produce ~3K PPD total, it just makes no sense keeping them online.

More efficient rigs means less greenhouse gases from the power plant supplying the power....would be different if they were running on solar power but in this case the power savings is in balance with a minor loss of output

 

[Jstn7477]

Absolutely. I've been pushing for rig efficiency ever since I sold 2 Phenom II systems and purchased a pair of 3770K rigs. Unfortunately, I am still stuck with an abundance of original 80Plus and 80Plus Bronze power supplies, but maybe I can change that sometime soon when Golds and Platinums come down in price. I figured that condensing the systems would help reduce losses by removing redundant items such as extra hard drives, power supplies, fans, old CPUs and motherboards, etc. and would also push most of my PSUs into their more efficient 50%-75% usage ranges. Plus, it's nice having that many less systems requiring periodic maintenance such as updates and whatever, and I won't have to scroll down my Teamviewer list anymore.

 

[t_ski]

I have a use for a decent S775 mobo if you decide to part & sell them.

 

[[Ion]]

I have a use for a decent S775 mobo if you decide to part & sell them.

I may be willing to part with an Asus P5B Deluxe
If not, I can probably get a G3x board on Wednesday--I dunno if that's interesting?

 

[t_ski]

If either will support a Q9300 and I can get it for an awesome [Ion] price, yes

 

[[Ion]]

If either will support a Q9300 and I can get it for an awesome [Ion] price, yes

The G3x board certainly should--I'm less sure about the P5B Deluxe, as it's a 965-based board. I'll let you know what I can find

I have the i7-860 going again--I robbed the PSU out of the AMD X2

 

[Jstn7477]

I have a use for a decent S775 mobo if you decide to part & sell them.

My last "good" 775 board died a few days ago (the ASUS P5W DH Deluxe 975X board that the Q9300 you have came with). My ASRock 775Xfire-VSTA is a 925X board that only supports single core Prescotts or Cedar Mill processors, my Dell Dimension E520 runs my X3210 at stock, and my ASRock 4CoreDual-SATA2 runs a C2E X6800 @ 3.2GHz. The Dimension 8300 is a socket 478/875P affair with a P4 3GHz HT, and I have a pair of 939 dual core chips (4400+ and de-lidded Opteron 170) with a broken ASUS A8N32-SLI and an ECS nForce4-A939.

 

[t_ski]

The G3x board certainly should--I'm less sure about the P5B Deluxe, as it's a 965-based board. I'll let you know what I can find

Thanks

The Asus site says that the Q9300 is supported with a BETA BIOS, but since this is crunching it needs to be very stable.

 

[[Ion]]

Thanks

The Asus site says that the Q9300 is supported with a BETA BIOS, but since this is crunching it needs to be very stable.

I'd rather not sell this board anyways--it's running two of my FAH GPUs.

 

[p_o_s_pc]

Today i got a low price on 2x5770s, and a am3 board, so i now have the following crunching
Amd 8130
Amd a6 apu
Amd aii x2 240
Intel i7 3700k
Intel celly dual x2
Intel c2d t6400
Amd 7770
2x5770
Gtx 460
Gtx465

 

[Norton]

Today i got a low price on 2x5770s, and a am3 board, so i now have the following crunching
Amd 8130
Amd a6 apu
Amd aii x2 240
Intel i7 3700k
Intel celly dual x2
Intel c2d t6400
Amd 7770
2x5770
Gtx 460
Gtx465

You're building up quite a farm there!

 

[p_o_s_pc]

T hI used to be into folding and crunching a lot a couple of years ago, then things got hard so i sold the hardware and stopped for awhile, now that things are stable again I'm.building my farm up again, slowly.

Thanks to ion for helping me setup the multi-gpu setup.,via teamviewer.
It wad just a simple mistake that i was making but i would have spent a lot longer figuring it out if it wasnt for.him.
Ion i took your advice and set 2 task to each gpu but.i gave them.727% CPU. Seems.to.be completing task at a decent time (8min each on 5770 and a bit over 5min each.on 7770) all gpus are overclocked if anyone is wondering.
Will give clocks if anyone ask for them. On smartphone now or woulda just posted them.

 

[[Ion]]

T hI used to be into folding and crunching a lot a couple of years ago, then things got hard so i sold the hardware and stopped for awhile, now that things are stable again I'm.building my farm up again, slowly.

Thanks to ion for helping me setup the multi-gpu setup.,via teamviewer.
It wad just a simple mistake that i was making but i would have spent a lot longer figuring it out if it wasnt for.him.
Ion i took your advice and set 2 task to each gpu but.i gave them.727% CPU. Seems.to.be completing task at a decent time (8min each on 5770 and a bit over 5min each.on 7770) all gpus are overclocked if anyone is wondering.
Will give clocks if anyone ask for them. On smartphone now or woulda just posted them.

I'm always glad to help a fellow cruncher out

It's great to see you adding more hardware again.

 

[Chicken Patty]

Nice to have you back Tim.

 

[Jstn7477]

Took some Kill-A-Watt readings recently of a few machines, and I figured I would share them with you guys that are interested in your farm's power consumption.

System 1: i7-870 @ 3.7GHz/1.35v crunching 90%, 2x GTX 460 800/2000/0.975v +GTX 465 default/0.975v all Folding@Home, LEPA G900 80Plus Gold - 650w average
System 2: Phenom II X6 1045T @ 3.25GHz/1.35v, 2x GTX 460 800/2000 1.0v, Corsair TX750 80Plus original - 575w average
System 3: i7-2600K 4.2GHz/~1.3v, Gigabyte 7950 1175/1500/~1.2v crunching load only, Palit GTS 450 Folding@Home, Rosewill RG530 80Plus original - 360-420w depending on WU progress
System 4: Dell Dimension E520, stock Xeon X3210, integrated 965G, Dell 305w ~70% efficiency? - 130w average

With all my machines currently running (at work and home) after shutting down the old ones, I loosely estimate that I am consuming between 3000-4000 watts of electricity 24/7. Now that's a lot of energy.

 

[Nordic]

I get similar power readings from my killawat for your system 3. I use 420w.

 

[TRWOV]

Took some Kill-A-Watt readings recently of a few machines, and I figured I would share them with you guys that are interested in your farm's power consumption.

System 1: i7-870 @ 3.7GHz/1.35v crunching 90%, 2x GTX 460 800/2000/0.975v +GTX 465 default/0.975v all Folding@Home, LEPA G900 80Plus Gold - 650w average

I find this an eye opener. So really 500w is enogh for 95% of people then, heck, this info suggests most people would get by with a 350w PSU I think I'll get one of those kill-thingmajig, pretty interesting results.

 

[[Ion]]

I have an i7-3770k and Z77 board sitting in boxes hopefully to get crunching tonight