Recent content by Holdolin

Yaay me. Thanks for the votes all :)

So, just about a day in, we're #11 as a team; neck in neck with SETI.USA for the #10 spot. Nice start all (y)

Hehe, any chance of trash talking? I guess you haven't met me...retired sailor that other sailors repeatedly said 'just aint right'. Yep, I'll trash talk ya, right after I trash ya in whatever computational contest we have :P

I'll second colinstu

I hear that. It's almost like these systems can think and are like 'oh goodie, he's away, let's bugger off'. Makes me not wanna even leave the house when a competition is going on. Don't it suck having responsibilities? :P

So, any of y'all planning on participating in the Einstein challenge in Prime Grid? I'll be sending my Threadripper 7960X and Ryzen 9 7950X3D at it. I the only question I have is how to set my CPU. I mean I *can* set it to 4 and both CPUs will have enough cache to run them fully in-cache but...

Nice, Gratz!!

To add, with the smaller tasks in PG ya, I was running 3 concurrent tasks. Once I started on GFN-18 it was set back to 1.

Ya, for PG tasks it makes little difference. If i run 2 concurrent it takes twice as long. On Einstein, I found the sweet spot to be 4 concurrent tasks on the current cards. I have an Instinct Mi100 due in tomorrow I'll be experimenting on.

Aye. It adds up quickly. I hate having to 'retire' hardware, but the build cost is a one-time thing. The electric bill is an on going every month thing. I realized how much my old Xeons are holding me back when I compared my Einstein crunchers. One is a Xeon 1697A v4 with dual Radeon Pro...

Got the same with my 7950x3d. 16 concurrent tasks getting done in under 8 minutes each. That's a lotta work getting done. Also tested it on my 7960x Threadripper and got the same results. This got me to thinking: gee, this is only a 24 core cpu. What about the 64 core which then got me...

I was mostly doing the GFNs on the GPUs, but I tossed some PPSE runs in when I wasn't using my dev box to actually work on. Amazing how many PPSE tasks a modern CPU can chew through.

5, and 2 little ones. I'm happy with that. Well, not really but it is what is is 🤣

Yup, great showing all. Great fun and lots of really, REALLY big primes found.

Yup, feeling a bit like I'm in the middle of the Sahara right now. What a dry spell indeed. Ah well, I found a few and if I can find at least one more in this last leg I'll be happy.