8th Annual BOINC Pentathlon by SETI.Germany

main reason I can't put together a nice little farm is the electricity. Would if I had access to some free power. Thinking of setting up a bigass rack in my office and telling my boss "what? You like cancer?!" :p
 
He may say "What? You like unemployment?" lol Be careful as it has repercussions beyond the individual. When news breaks out about DC software running on work PC's without authorization it gives the community a bad name. There have been people in the news that ran it on school PC's and such and that never goes over well. Especially now that there is actual savings in letting a PC go into sleep mode.
 
Should we be worried about being clobbered in LHC or just ignore and focus on cosmo/yoyo?

p.s. Before I forget (and I would), a big thank you to Gilthanis for all the information and, most importantly, the helpful links in the op. A great help to me in starting to remember what the hell an app_config file is.
 
rgMekanic said:
main reason I can't put together a nice little farm is the electricity. Would if I had access to some free power. Thinking of setting up a bigass rack in my office and telling my boss "what? You like cancer?!" :p
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Run the farm during the Winter months to help keep the house warm. Shut them down during the summer like most of us do.
 
Skillz said:
Run the farm during the Winter months to help keep the house warm. Shut them down during the summer like most of us do.
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damn thats pretty clever. However I'm in Florida, I think I turned the heat on 1 day this year heh
 
Phoenicis, fastgeek has arrived to help us on Cosmology. We should be moving up those ranks a lot easier. At this point, run what you want but my goal was to see how far we could get in the Marathon since we have no chance at winning. And since the other 2 projects keep up the hit and miss getting work routine... you may find it a PITA. I'll leave that up to you. A few of us have some rigs just to get some scoring points...but if someone really wants to improve the overall score.. those two will be the most needed. (LHC and YoYo)
 
phoenicis said:
Should we be worried about being clobbered in LHC or just ignore and focus on cosmo/yoyo?

p.s. Before I forget (and I would), a big thank you to Gilthanis for all the information and, most importantly, the helpful links in the op. A great help to me in starting to remember what the hell an app_config file is.
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And its good to see you back in action. I found some of your posts in the earlier days of my DC'ing to be quite helpful.
 
I wish we could see a top 10 finish. Not too out of reach. We're currently 12th, but that's only because yoyo's first stats have been added. Pretty sure a few teams are bunkering so we'll probably fall down a little.
 
Guys...as a side note.... If you wouldn't mind.... when you create your account at [email protected] put [H] somewhere in your name. You can change your name directly at the project site after logging in. It will not screw up your scores nor will if flub up BAM/BOINCStats. It does however, help the team in one project's stats rankings that the H hasn't focused on in a long while. Muon1 has their own client but also is supported under BOINC through YoYo using the BOINC wrapper to run their work for them. By adding [H] into your name it will flag it as part of our team at Muon1's stats page outside of the BOINC world. Again, not important to some, but you never know when you will take interest.

Important note is that the project isn't working on anything significant anymore and thus for hobbyist's and one of the reasons it was pulled from DC-Vault. However, it is still active and someone may want to run it. YoYo has also lessened the priority of its work units being sent out. Badge hunters may still want to run the project to achieve goals.
Team listing:
http://stephenbrooks.org/muon1/stats/?optim=*&team=[H]&sortby=Mpts&user=*&oldness=0

And *ahem* Phoenicis still holds the number 1 spot on the team even after all these years...
 
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i moved 3 smaller boxes off cos to lhc to try to help out there.
 
Gilthanis said:
And its good to see you back in action. I found some of your posts in the earlier days of my DC'ing to be quite helpful.
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Thanks, that's edifying to know and will make me feel less guilty when I ask stupid questions. I suspect I've forgotten more than I will ever relearn.

It's good to be back ,,,, in my parting post I said I'd try to help out with challenges. Better late than never.
 
We moved up one place to 12th in overall team position. We are gaining in Yoyo, LHC and Cosmo.
 
this just popped up..

LHC@home 1.0: Notice from server
CMS Simulation needs 7629.39MB more disk space. You currently have 0.00 MB available and it needs 7629.39 MB.
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I have Boinc set to use no more than 50gb of my SSD

Think I'm gonna abandon LHC for a bit..

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Heh. They were talking about me over on AnandTech. :p Tony will be most disappointed to know business hours don't impact these systems at all. :D
 
Yes the virtualbox apps have to be watched as they don't always clean up after themselves. I try to put the BOINC data directory on a separate HDD than the OS to alleviate disk space issues and to eliminate heavy IO usage from bringing the OS down.
 
rgMekanic said:
your title needs to be changed to "That company" haha
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HAHAHAHA! That would be funny. :p

Just brought four more E5-2680's online; however Cosmology is returning the following when trying to get WU's - [error] No scheduler URLs found in master file.

Hopefully this is just a short glitch on their part and things will be back to normal soon.
 
OK, Cosmo is back up. I had to change my computers to hidden due to trying out some... ummm... unreleased hardware. :cool: :ninja:
 
Awesome fastgeek. You have helped us a ton. If anything else comes online, you may even want to attach it to LHC. However, that is up to you. You are doing really well for us and putting us on par for possibly 8th place in the Marathon event.
 
Now that I've finally gotten around to using BAM!, I can move things around if needed. Seemed like the biggest request was in Cosmo; but if the group would rather I try and hunt down AT in LHC, just let me know. :p
 
Let's keep the other teams guessing where you might turn next!

Fantastic run on cosmo fastgeek.
 
For whatever reason, my quad E7-8867 box won't max out all cores if HT is turned on. I've seen this happen in the past and not sure WTF is going on. Sometimes it would run at 100% and then drop down to some other number and stay there. It's not thermal, power, RAM or HDD space; all checked out fine. Sometimes I wonder if it's Server 2012 R2 related. Am tempted to upgrade it to 2016 or switch it to Ubuntu; but that would mean losing a lot of work units. Since it wants to sit at 70%, I've gone the conservative route and set BOINC to 89 CPUs.

Added a 4P E5-4640 v4 and, to the best of my knowledge, have all 96 cores humming along at 100%. :)
 
Server 2012 R2 Datacenter 6.3 build 9600. Some projects, like POGS, would sit at 100% on all cores; others do this odd 67-70% thing with HT turned on.

Oh, adding another system; a VM that'll be full use of the 2P E5-2680 v4 Host. (Doing this vs. wiping out ESXi 6... easier this way :p)
 
That is strange. I do use 2016 DC for my primary server but not on that kind of hardware.
 
fastgeek, IIRC BOINC may have a core/thread limitation. Also, I think Windows also has a problem with large amount of cores and such. Perhaps the NUMA thing. I have not kept up on that front sadly as not many people have rigs with that many threads....
 
*edit* Fixed the VM system; so that's two more 2680v4's online... hopefully at 100%.

No idea what's up with the E7 machine. Like I said, sometimes it's fine. Maybe I'll determine how many jobs it'll finish between now and tomorrow morning, then cancel all the rest and set it to no new WUs. Then I can either install 2016 or Ubuntu. Of course this is the box I might need to return any day now... so might just be a waste of time.
 
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Youve been talking about buying hardware for weeks now. You ain't gonna do it.
 
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