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tayunz atp1916 phoenicis

I wish I had systems like you!
 
I just have the right cards for MW. Nothing crazy on my end. Now stoneageman on XS, I'd definitely like to know what those rigs look like. Maybe the XS crew can chime in on that...
 
Sadly, my Nvidia 1070/1070 Ti /1080s are all very bad at FP64 - i just happen to have quite a few of them!

McCHillin if you were able to get a couple 280xs off ebay (like 100 bucks), you'd have some serious firepower in MW.

Check out the GFlops table here.

A single 280x is worth ~4/5 1070/1070 Ti in MW.
 
I stopped running my 1080 after a day and switched to collatz. Not worth wasting the electricity. I'm getting a third of the output from the 7970. 280x or 7970 should perform about the same.
 
I just have the right cards for MW. Nothing crazy on my end. Now stoneageman on XS, I'd definitely like to know what those rigs look like. Maybe the XS crew can chime in on that...
We lost count on his machines lol. I just know one thing, he can easily triple my output on any project, GPU or CPU. Only thing can slow him down is the heat :)

Sadly, my Nvidia 1070/1070 Ti /1080s are all very bad at FP64 - i just happen to have quite a few of them!

McCHillin if you were able to get a couple 280xs off ebay (like 100 bucks), you'd have some serious firepower in MW.

Check out the GFlops table here.

A single 280x is worth ~4/5 1070/1070 Ti in MW.

The 1070ti ain't bad, the 1070 sux balls though .. on this project of course. I wonder what your output gonna looks like on Collatz
 
VietOZ Let's find out! :D

The only thing stopping me on these GPU projects is PCIe lane bandwidth requirements. Pretty sure there is at least 1 project that exceeds PCIe 3.0 x1 bandwidth, but in general most don't.

Need to check up on Collatz though. Last time i ran it i had gimpy Celerons behind these things.

Edit: HWMon is reporting ~50% util on the 3.0 x1 lane. We're in business. :sneaky::couchpotato:
 
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I've tested RX 570 x 4 on the celeron and they ran fine on Collatz .. so with your 7700k should have enough juice for 8 cards
 
I need a better Mobo for my 7700 and another 2011-3 CPU.
Then I'll be in business
I'm thinking about buying a used mining rig set up, and parting it out for use as soon as I have a few checks roll in from Dell :)
 
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Dont know about full lanes, but full slots for sure. Probably 8x lanes.
 
Didn't want to start a new thread but hope I don't hijack. Just started. Wanted to share I added another machine. I currently run my sig rig now all the time except when gaming (it's running now while watching a movie and typing this)

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Just need to wait for update.. Not sure if the slow clock speed will hurt the points. Either way the host wasn't doing much in my little lab.

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Outlaw85 Glad to have you aboard the team. (y)

Thanks! Happy to contribute to science. I know I won't be able to get the points you peeps do.. Crazy.

Here's the best I have for my "rig"
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Top server even though they are both the same. Bottom one is vcsa and plex. Both share MSA in the middle.
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Outlaw85 Please feel no pressure to 'up the ante' with any of this.

You do what you want to do to contribute. FB, F@H, other projects - makes no difference.

The [H]orde is just a shapeless mass of crunching madness in every direction :D
 
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Outlaw85 Please feel no pressure to 'up the ante' with any of this.

You do what you want to do to contribute. FB, F@H, other projects - makes no difference.

The [H]orde is just a shapeless mass of crunching madness in every direction :D

Thanks. I don't feel any pressure to up your ante, I don't have the funds for that so it's an easy decision lol. I'd be a more efficient contributor with a newer spec though. But that is just fact.
I have no issues letting my always on PC crunch some data, although, it may push me to purchase a new PSU sooner. lol That little CX430 is a champ! (see sig rig)

Nothing wrong with a shapless mass of crunching madness. At least at the surface [H] is using its powers for good :)


I'm not sure it will be worth me running the 12core. Looks like the speed makes a huge difference. I'd have to check its power pull at the outlet but isn't making many credits. :(
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I'll switch to whatever challenge is needed. Just seemed my 2Ghz cpu's are slacking.. Which I can understand compared to a 4.2Ghz.. just sucks lol

I'll try to check here/subsection often for whatever challenge is needed.
 
The next sprint is on the 13th. It will be announced 24 hours in advance.

  • 09/13/2018 16:00 (UTC) - 09/16/2018 15:59 (UTC)
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So, you should check back in for sure on the 12th as you may be able to bunker up an extra days worth of work.
 
I'll switch to whatever challenge is needed. Just seemed my 2Ghz cpu's are slacking.. Which I can understand compared to a 4.2Ghz.. just sucks lol

I'll try to check here/subsection often for whatever challenge is needed.

Outlaw85 I have a strong suspicion that the difference you are seeing between the points is because Milkyway is using your Nvidia 980 GTX gpu. My recommendation is to embrace that and use your PCs to their strengths by doing a few things. One suggestion would be to change Milkway to use just the GPU, and run a different CPU only project at the same time on that PC. Screenshot below of the Milkway project preference screen. Second suggestion is to pick a 2 or even 3rd project that runs on CPUs only. We as a team participate in a handful of different projects and we try and make this fun by racing other teams in year long marathons and all this is encapsulated in a nice webpage here (click on the tab for 1 or 3 day averages). Right now the team XtremeSystems is giving us a good strong fight.

Rosetta@Home is a project that simulates protein folding for the advancement of medicines, clean energy and materials sciences. We are in 3rd place right now, and it doesn't have many of our team members crunching on it, and we area few million points away from the next team. It is CPU only. Maybe you'd find that project interesting and worthy of your support. The team to join after creating your new users is [H]ard|OCP. If I remember right, this project doesn't award huge daily points (points aren't even between the projects, just due to the types of calculations, cpu instruction support, gpus etc).

WCG is also a favorite that is CPU only right now. The project has a bunch of interesting internal subprojects that you can select from. The team name there is HardOCP

You could add Rosetta to your 12 core, and WCG to your 4770k. Or opposite, or pick something else, or keep going with Milkway. :) Maybe the other members have suggestions.

My Milkway prefference page, to use just the Nvidia GPU. The Resource share at the top is a number that you decide based on the proportion of time you want it to run compared to all the other BOINC projects you might have enabled on your PC.

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Rosetta will want more RAM than WCG will. So, factor that into your DC "budget". Both projects are extremely popular in the DC world but also tend to both be low scoring projects.
 

Thanks, I, for some reason, couldn't figure out the "mention" feature so I quoted. I will try to change the 12core tonight to WCG. If it will help more over there, just makes sense. And I must have been in the wrong menu because I don't remember seeing those options at all. I'll poke around the menu's to see where I missed them.


Rosetta will want more RAM than WCG will. So, factor that into your DC "budget". Both projects are extremely popular in the DC world but also tend to both be low scoring projects.


Same as above.. brain is fried already. Thanks for the heads up. This host only has 72GB max. I'd assume that would be OK :) For this one, do you keep allocating til it stops maxing out or is there a ratio? Or the ole.. just throw infra at it, it'll use it? lol That's always the answer at work.
 
Thanks, I, for some reason, couldn't figure out the "mention" feature so I quoted. I will try to change the 12core tonight to WCG. If it will help more over there, just makes sense. And I must have been in the wrong menu because I don't remember seeing those options at all. I'll poke around the menu's to see where I missed them.





Same as above.. brain is fried already. Thanks for the heads up. This host only has 72GB max. I'd assume that would be OK :) For this one, do you keep allocating til it stops maxing out or is there a ratio? Or the ole.. just throw infra at it, it'll use it? lol That's always the answer at work.

You can change the MW preferences in the picture at the end of this post.

MW runs slow on CPU's and the points it produces are blah. So you're better off running a cpu only project with the cores and the 980 on a GPU project you feel happy to contribute to.

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Each project website has preferences that can be tweaked at the project level. Then there are preferences within the BOINC client as well. If you use an account manager like BOINCStats BAM!, you can configure some settings there but I personally find individual PC settings best tailored locally.

72GB would be waaaay more ram for either of the boxes listed above to need at most projects. The only one right now I would be concerned with would be if you were running YoYo@home and had ECM sub project selected as some of those work units can have monster RAM requirements that aren't always obvious. For Rosetta and/or WCG it would be overkill. Most projects are fine with 1GB per thread. That is typically my recommendation for when planning RAM in DC boxes. However, the more the merrier and even the faster the better at some of the math projects. When the next sprint is announced, we can address your in
 
I think I got it now.

Set the GPU to 50% because it's still a daily user but should net a few more points to MW.
VM is now working on WCG. I think it's doing it's thing.. Just waiting to get some time on it to see the points.
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I think I got it now.

Set the GPU to 50% because it's still a daily user but should net a few more points to MW.
VM is now working on WCG. I think it's doing it's thing.. Just waiting to get some time on it to see the points.
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Which WCG tasks are you running? I find Ebola gave me the best PPD, but I liked running Mapping Cancer Markers.
 
Hey man, if research is your end goal, that's the way to do things.

If i'm going to waste compute cycles, I might as well put them to work. But I don't have a problem putting to compete either. That's just a win win. I'm for changing it to whatever the team needs.
 
Go to the Formula-BOINC site and take a look at all the projects. Not all at once, but every few days sign up to one of those projects and see how she runs for a couple days.

Best way is with both feet. Just jump on in.
 
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