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DC Vault 2

With our current RAC, we should be able to take about a dozen spots this month at POGS. We currently have the 9th highes RAC and are in position 38.
 
Yay! Hopefully we can pull ahead even further this month. Moar cores please.
 
Hmmph when I looked we actually have the 5th highest production just the RAC has not caught up with us yet :) And I have a feeling we will soon be #4 :D
 
I was basing my statement from the project itself. I have no idea how quick they update it.
 
I think once it normalizes, we should be up there fairly big. 4th or maybe even 3rd.
 
I don't think it will normalize anytime soon. Grandpa just checked another pony into the race.:D

Genuine Intel(R) CPU @ 2.70GHz [Family 6 Model 45 Stepping 5] (64 processors) 4 Feb 2014, 3:08:06 UTC
 
KMac said:
I don't think it will normalize anytime soon. Grandpa just checked another pony into the race.:D

Genuine Intel(R) CPU @ 2.70GHz [Family 6 Model 45 Stepping 5] (64 processors) 4 Feb 2014, 3:08:06 UTC
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Boom goes the dynomite! :eek:
 
That one taint no poney, it is a full grown Throughbread running 64 cores at 3.175Ghz :D
 
That thing must be blasting through those workunits in no time!
 
Grandpa_01 said:
That one taint no poney, it is a full grown Throughbread running 64 cores at 3.175Ghz :D
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Yeah, baby! How many I4P's have you got running BOINC? I've got 3 still folding and 3 on BOINC plus my 4P G34 is running BOINC as well. 27 clients on BOINC, 13 left folding for now.
 
I have 2 of the I4P's and 2 G34 4P's running boinc and 2 i4P's and 1 G34 running F@H
 
Double position jump in Docking and a position jump at POGS. Lots of points this AM!
 
Three more POGS positions today and a SIMAP. Looking good team. :)
 
Just attached to Leiden Classical this morning to hopefully make a small push there with smaller systems I've got.
 
POGS - We are now currently 7th for RAC. I'm guessing at that rate we will probably be in the top 25 for total points by the end of the month. That is ~10 more positions gained.
 
I think you have underestimated Dookey and Grandpa's ramp-ups. I bet we gain 11 more places and are in the yop 25 teams by the 15th of the month.:D
 
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KMac...I'm not underestimating anything. Just stating where we stand today. As Grandpa continues to ramp up that 64 core, I'm sure the numbers will continue to shift.
 
No offence intended Gilthanis, your numbers are solid. I am just extrapolating current production rather than using RAC and passing along kudos. A bit of cheerleading may have been involved as well.
 
Don't forget to credit yourself. You are putting up quite a few cobblestones yourself. Hopefully soon I will have my 2P up and running an additional 24 cores. I still need a good PSU and have decided it needs to go into a durable case to prevent the young one from losing her fingers.
 
Gilthanis said:
tjmagneto, are you aware that you have like 3 accounts listed?
http://stats.free-dc.org/stats.php?page=team&proj=dimes&team=[H]ard|OCP
http://stats.free-dc.org/stats.php?page=user&proj=dimes&name=tjmagneto2
http://stats.free-dc.org/stats.php?page=user&proj=dimes&name=tjmagneto
http://stats.free-dc.org/stats.php?page=user&proj=dimes&name=tjmagneto3
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zzzzzzzz wut? I'm cleaning up that issue with DIMES and then I'm going to go kill off my evil clones. The lesson here is to document passwords. lol.

PS: I'm making a killing at GPUGRID with my 780ti.

Update: I'm not using tj2 and 3 anymore. All DIMES work is back to tjmagneto.
 
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Team 33 is in the 33rd place for POGS!
 
According to the POGS website, we are already in 31st place.
 
Now if only some old fart would spend some of that retirement money on some rigs...j/k :D

Good job guys.
 
Grandpa_01 said:
That one taint no poney, it is a full grown Throughbread running 64 cores at 3.175Ghz :D
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It's a pony. :eek: Thoroughbreds are stabled in closely matched pairs to drive each other harder, faster and stronger. While your G34 is another fine pony, it is past it's prime and is being kept only for the stud fees collected. It is hardly a match for the Intel.

Now if another 4P E5-4650 were to somehow join the stable, they would then both qualify as thoroughbreds, and damn fine ones at that. ;)
 
Gilthanis said:
Now if only some old fart would spend some of that retirement money on some rigs...j/k :D

Good job guys.
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KMac said:
It's a pony. :eek: Thoroughbreds are stabled in closely matched pairs to drive each other harder, faster and stronger. While your G34 is another fine pony, it is past it's prime and is being kept only for the stud fees collected. It is hardly a match for the Intel.

Now if another 4P E5-4650 were to somehow join the stable, they would then both qualify as thoroughbreds, and damn fine ones at that. ;)
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Oh sure make fun of the old farts, that there G34 can still hold it's own against those fancy pants thoroughbred Intels it just needs a little more juice to do it. I am pretty sure that if all things being = those G34 61xx series ponies will still out run them Intel thoroughbreds. At least the last time I checked they would. :eek:

But damn they are hungry fellas when you make them do it. :D
 
We hit 30th place today at POGS and will probably be a couple days to take 29th. We also took a spot at SIMAP.
 
In my efforts to see if there happened to be any info in the forums over at DIMES (and there wasn't) in regards to the missing stats over the last few days, I did read someone point out that the version 1 app only receives about half of the points as the version .5.5.3

http://www.netdimes.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=7005

DooKey, good to have you back up and running. You were making Grandpa look too good in your absence....lol
 
Gilthanis said:
In my efforts to see if there happened to be any info in the forums over at DIMES (and there wasn't) in regards to the missing stats over the last few days, I did read someone point out that the version 1 app only receives about half of the points as the version .5.5.3

http://www.netdimes.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=7005

DooKey, good to have you back up and running. You were making Grandpa look too good in your absence....lol
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I wasn't gone, I was just running underpowered. AMD 4p, and 2x i2p kicking a little ass now.
 
You know, I'm starting to get a bit depressed over here not being in the 24+ core server club... :( Anyone have an idea how I can convince my wife to stop spending so much money on her pet home improvement projects so I can at least get a damn Socket F?! :D
 
Jathanis said:
You know, I'm starting to get a bit depressed over here not being in the 24+ core server club... :( Anyone have an idea how I can convince my wife to stop spending so much money on her pet home improvement projects so I can at least get a damn Socket F?! :D
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That is easy just say, Dear we need a new space heater, women love heat :)
 
Fully automate the home and tell her it all runs off of the Socket F or better setup. Just close the door on that little dual core in the closet. ;)
 
Guys, for a AMD GPU-supported BOINC project, where do we need the most help? I prefer the Medical field, but I might consider Math or another field. I don't really want to help search for aliens though. ;)
 
Unfortunately, there are NO bio/medical projects for AMD just yet outside of FAH. POEM is working on it and just mentioned today that it is taking longer than planned.

Hi Rick, and all others who are waiting desperately...

it's been a sobering week for me... every solved problem brought up a new one, and the application is still not running properly.
I'm now at a point where the standalone executable runs fine, but when started by the BOINC client, it fails immediately. So it's still useless to start the beta test.
This is kind of the worst case situation, because it's hell to debug that.
I did my best to get the thing running in time, but I'm not able to solve that problem in a night shift.

Sorry for the delay. I'll give you an update on Monday.
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So, math is about it unless you want to do SETI or do work for Milkyway or Einstein. Milkyway of course requires the card to be dual precision.

Einstein is .97 points per position we take
Milkyway is 2.67 per position
Collatz is 6.87 per position but they just got back up and going and have some new OpenCL apps that come with their own bugs right now.
PrimeGrid is 3.7 points per position
SETI ( I know you aren't interested) is .17 points per position

Now if you were willing to run something other than BOINC, GIMP has AMD support and is worth 19.53 points per position. I however have no experience with that one. So, you would need to talk to some of the others about it.
The other thing to keep in mind is to look at how much effort it will take to move up the ranks for each position.

Since this is the DC-Vault thread, I wont bring up any of the others potentials. Perhaps in the general BOINC thread if you aren't looking for Vault specifically.

With the Vault broken down into 4 categories, the Physical Sciences is our second weakest link. Bio/Medical is the weakest category out of the four.
 
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Guys, for a AMD GPU-supported BOINC project, where do we need the most help? I prefer the Medical field, but I might consider Math or another field. I don't really want to help search for aliens though. ;)
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And I didn't fully address your question... as far as the Vault goes, we just lost a position in PrimeGrid, but for the resources needed (not knowing what kind of points you can crank out), Collatz would probably be easier and generate more points in the Vault for us between those two.

Einstein would be more beneficial for Vault points right now over Milkyway based on resources needed and how far we could go for the same efforts. Even if interested in SETI, it would require a ton of resources to gain any ground there.
 
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Hmm, I found the source for the pogs program and recompiled it (AMD Opteron 6234, Win 8.0 x64) using PGI Fortran compilers and Intel Fortran compilers. I ended up getting about the same performance from each. So I selected the Intel version since it probably doesn't end in 2 weeks like the PGI trial program will. About 55% of the original run time (5:50 vs 10:45 per step). Output files matched original and I am waiting to validate one WU so far... http://pogs.theskynet.org/pogs/workunit.php?wuid=6410604

I figure this is pretty safe to the project since they do full WU validation...

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/123993183/skynet_pogs_win64.zip

I include the source program if someone wants to try to compile it for linux using open64
probably (openf95 -exten-source -Ofast -mavx -mfma4 -mcpu=bdver1 -mtune=bdver1)
 
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NickOfTime said:
Hmm, I found the source for the pogs program and recompiled it (AMD Opteron 6234, Win 8.0 x64) using PGI Fortran compilers and Intel Fortran compilers. I ended up getting about the same performance from each. So I selected the Intel version since it probably doesn't end in 2 weeks like the PGI trial program will. About 55% of the original run time (5:50 vs 10:45). Output files matched original and I am waiting to validate one WU so far... http://pogs.theskynet.org/pogs/workunit.php?wuid=6410604

I figure this is pretty safe to the project since they do full WU validation...

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/123993183/skynet_pogs_win64.zip

I include the source program if someone wants to try to compile it for linux using open64
probably (openf95 -exten-source -Ofast -mavx -mfma4 -mcpu=bdver1 -mtune=bdver1)
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I would recommend running it by the Admins at POGS first to make sure they are cool with it. There have been projects in the past that didn't care for people running anything but stock apps. However, they may give you the green light and possibly even appreciate the help.

If they give the green light...that could be a huge points bump.
 
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Well, I found links to the github source in the forums since he was Ok with people compiling it for alternate platforms back in 2012... Looks like they are converting the program to run opencl...
 
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