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DC Vault

The new computer is assembled and running.



I overclocked to 3.4GHz with no stability issues, and it's extremely quiet. There's about 9C temp difference between core 0 and core 2 under load that makes me uncomfortable. I still haven't stuffed the GTX 285 in yet. I also need to upgrade to the BIOS.
 
SazanEyes said:
The new computer is assembled and running.



I overclocked to 3.4GHz with no stability issues, and it's extremely quiet. There's about 9C temp difference between core 0 and core 2 under load that makes me uncomfortable. I still haven't stuffed the GTX 285 in yet. I also need to upgrade to the BIOS.
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Rig looks nice. I would not be to concerned about the temp difference. I have similar spreads on both my quads and they are fine. Since you running water though, double check the block is seated right..... but the Client will throw EUEs before the chip will hit temps that will damage it.
 
Kendrak said:
Rig looks nice. I would not be to concerned about the temp difference. I have similar spreads on both my quads and they are fine. Since you running water though, double check the block is seated right..... but the Client will throw EUEs before the chip will hit temps that will damage it.
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My temps look like this under load:
core 0 = 62C
core 1 = 58C
core 2 = 54C
core 3 = 56C

I was worried that maybe something was pushing against the water block and pump and lifting it off one corner of the CPU. However, I pushed it in various directions while the computer was running, and I could make the temps go up but not down. I guess it's just the design of the CPU.
 
I am going to leave my 2 duals on 2 projects climate prediction and yoyo. Well see if I can help out climate since it is such a long project.
 
etothe3ric said:
I am going to leave my 2 duals on 2 projects climate prediction and yoyo. Well see if I can help out climate since it is such a long project.
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You have some help on climate. The WHS is rocking that and is 10% with two WU so far.
 
metallicafan said:
If it were me, I would go with multiple BOINC projects for some redundancy. I would install BOINC on both boxen and then start two projects on each one. It will be like having 2 cores on two different projects but if you start both projects on both machines then if one project runs out of work your cores dont go idle. ;)

Since the Biological and Medical Science category is our weakest by rank it might not hurt to work on a couple of those projects. Maybe say Docking and POEM. Or maybe one we dont have 9K in yet. Like POEM and yoyo.

Good luck with classes man. :)
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Best of luck on the schooling, man!

I'd say +1 to the above, and would also throw Cosmology in there, as our lowest BOINC project, but with the caveat that it isn't always the most stable of projects...
 
The GTX 285 is installed:



My temps now range from 70C to 63C, and the GPU is at 78C at default fan speed. The rad fan seems to run relatively slowly by default (it's 4-pin mobo controlled) so if it gets too hot I can bump up the fans.

I'm moving one box over to ABC, but everything else is still on W@H or Malaria.

Edit 2: got out the Killawatt, and I'm pulling about 280W between the UPS and the wall. Since the PSU is 80+, I think that means the PC components are using around 225W. That's only 75% capacity, so that's not too bad.
 
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I'm just going slow and steady in cosmology@home atm, just keeping the points going and slowly pushing it to 9k. Only have 2 dual cores on it and 1 of them only runs maybe 12 hours a day.
 
Just switched my duals over to climate and yoyo. Hopefully we can make some good points in Yoyo because I got my i7 on it as well until it hits 9k.
 
I don't know much about GIMPS, why are we getting our butts handed to us in there?
 
Kendrak said:
I don't know much about GIMPS, why are we getting our butts handed to us in there?
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1. GIMPS is one of the original if not the first DC projects. Most of the teams ahead of us have a decade or more head start.
2. If it were BOINC based, I could just add it in with what I'm already working on, but its not so I can't right now. Other people's boxen in the same situation have the same problem.
3. Each rank in the standings appears to account for a huge number of Vault points. But because of 1 and 2, those rankings are hard to come by. Look at the two Prime Sierpinski Problem projects and their rank to Vault point ratio.


cliffs:
We need more "D."


Edit: Less than a year ago we didn't even have a team in 2/3 of the vault projects. Today we're top 100 in most and top 50 in quite a few. Have a little patience grasshopper, we're getting there. :)
 
So If I moved 2, E2140's over to that project, and just left them on it (for months) would that make an impact?

I have a 2nd Q6600, but I was hoping to run 2x VMs on notfred's for F@H on it since the E2140's can't run VMs I'm happy to put them on other things.
 
SazanEyes said:
The GTX 285 is installed:



My temps now range from 70C to 63C, and the GPU is at 78C at default fan speed. The rad fan seems to run relatively slowly by default (it's 4-pin mobo controlled) so if it gets too hot I can bump up the fans.

I'm moving one box over to ABC, but everything else is still on W@H or Malaria.

Edit 2: got out the Killawatt, and I'm pulling about 280W between the UPS and the wall. Since the PSU is 80+, I think that means the PC components are using around 225W. That's only 75% capacity, so that's not too bad.
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So putting the 280 in raised your CPU temps by 10°C+? Thanks for sharing the pics. Looks like a challenging build. :)

Oh and thanks for the help on ABC. We are rocking that one right now. :D
 
Kendrak said:
So If I moved 2, E2140's over to that project, and just left them on it (for months) would that make an impact?

I have a 2nd Q6600, but I was hoping to run 2x VMs on notfred's for F@H on it since the E2140's can't run VMs I'm happy to put them on other things.
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According to this we're 33rd in daily production. It also appears that no team is all that active right now, so I think that we could make a run.
 
alan2308 said:
According to this we're 33rd in daily production. It also appears that no team is all that active right now, so I think that we could make a run.
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The problem with GIMPS is that teams can drop a ton of points all at once. I started running an LL job a day or two ago. It will take a month to complete on an i7, which will then give us about 300 GHz-days. Assuming scores are relatively the same a month from now, we would move up 6 spots. Most people run LL, so you tend to see occasional big jumps in points.

If you only want to run GIMPS for a short time, you can run Trial Factoring only. Those tend to run for less than a day.
 
I'm looking at running GIMPS for a few months on end and just letting it run. The systems are 2ndary systems with little need of CPU cycles.

From the sound of it though, it might take a couple months just to do one WU.
 
The TF work should give about the same points as LL, because the points are just based on GHz-days. I think people run LL because they want to find primes. TF doesn't support hyperthreading, which is annoying on a processor that does.
 
ok i had to break my silence in this thread and congratulate Mfl0p for finding the record AP24 number in Primegrid. here is the news post...

Another record AP24 (Arithmetic Progression of 24 primes) found by a PS3. It is the largest known AP24. It has an ending term of 81531202836675089 surpassing the old record of 60739320360456407. The finder is Bryan Little (mfl0p) of the United Kingdom. He is a member of the [H]ard|OCP team. The progression is written as 13678065943093049+13223804*23#*n for n=0..23. It was found in the AP26 Search.For more details on this find and the AP26 search, please see this forum post.


http://www.primegrid.com//all_news.php#194


nice work man.. keep it up..
 
Hey, thanks for noticing!

It's actually my second AP24, but this one is a record one.

This one was found using a Playstation 3, and I created the application port to PS3 platform for PrimeGrid if anyone has been following the forum / news on their website.

Also, I did PM an admin at PrimeGrid about the news post about me being from the UK, I'm here in the US! They got it right in the forum post about the AP24, though. No biggie. They got a ton of stuff going on with the challenge series they are running right now.

And, the server is down at this moment:

We will be having multiple short network outages tonight to upgrade network hardware in the datacenter.

sirmonkey1985 said:
ok i had to break my silence in this thread and congratulate Mfl0p for finding the record AP24 number in Primegrid. here is the news post...

Another record AP24 (Arithmetic Progression of 24 primes) found by a PS3. It is the largest known AP24. It has an ending term of 81531202836675089 surpassing the old record of 60739320360456407. The finder is Bryan Little (mfl0p) of the United Kingdom. He is a member of the [H]ard|OCP team. The progression is written as 13678065943093049+13223804*23#*n for n=0..23. It was found in the AP26 Search.For more details on this find and the AP26 search, please see this forum post.


http://www.primegrid.com//all_news.php#194


nice work man.. keep it up..
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mfl0p said:
Hey, thanks for noticing!

It's actually my second AP24, but this one is a record one.

This one was found using a Playstation 3, and I created the application port to PS3 platform for PrimeGrid if anyone has been following the forum / news on their website.

Also, I did PM an admin at PrimeGrid about the news post about me being from the UK, I'm here in the US! They got it right in the forum post about the AP24, though. No biggie. They got a ton of stuff going on with the challenge series they are running right now.

And, the server is down at this moment:

We will be having multiple short network outages tonight to upgrade network hardware in the datacenter.
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yeah when i saw the PS3 thing i was like WTF?!?! theres no ps3 boinc application for primegrid.. though i really dont pay much attention to the project forums.. so nice work..
 
Congrats to Kendrak. Looks you have pushed past that 350K mark sometime last night. Good challenge man! Looks like you put up over 125K points in not quite two weeks. :cool: Maybe once I get a quad machine in the coming months, then we can have another dual.
 
metallicafan said:
Congrats to Kendrak. Looks you have pushed past that 350K mark sometime last night. Good challenge man! Looks like you put up over 125K points in not quite two weeks. :cool: Maybe once I get a quad machine in the coming months, then we can have another dual.
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I'll gladly take you up on it. When I get home I'm going to see what I can do with GIMPS and putting the quads back on F@H in VMs.

Are you going to leave a box on ABC? I'm thinking we should leave something there.
 
I haven't seen it mentioned yet, but there's SIMAP work again if anyone's interested. I only noticed myself when I saw we lost a position this morning on the DC-Vault stats. We're already two days into this batch, get it while it lasts!
 
alan2308 said:
I haven't seen it mentioned yet, but there's SIMAP work again if anyone's interested. I only noticed myself when I saw we lost a position this morning on the DC-Vault stats. We're already two days into this batch, get it while it lasts!
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Added, just need to join the team.

Edit, done.

Got a few WU's
 
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Tomorrow is the big move-in to college for me. Should be fun. :) I know I am addicted to DC because I don't want to take my rig down for that long. Even though it is only a 15 minute drive. haha.

If everything pans out and my parents don't realize the computers in the basement are on ( :p ) they will both stay on Climate Prediction and Yoyo@home. The i7 I am taking with me to college and I am gonna run on Yoyo@home until it reaches 9k.
 
Kendrak said:
I'll gladly take you up on it. When I get home I'm going to see what I can do with GIMPS and putting the quads back on F@H in VMs.

Are you going to leave a box on ABC? I'm thinking we should leave something there.
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Yeah I'll leave a box or two on it. See if I can keep us from losing any of the spots we have gained. :)
 
etothe3ric said:
Tomorrow is the big move-in to college for me. Should be fun. :) I know I am addicted to DC because I don't want to take my rig down for that long. Even though it is only a 15 minute drive. haha.

If everything pans out and my parents don't realize the computers in the basement are on ( :p ) they will both stay on Climate Prediction and Yoyo@home. The i7 I am taking with me to college and I am gonna run on Yoyo@home until it reaches 9k.
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If you got a big UPS and could somehow . . . Ah - nevermind. :D 15 min of downtime is acceptable I suppose. Good luck on yoyo. Bring the rain.
 
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etothe3ric said:
Tomorrow is the big move-in to college for me. Should be fun. :) I know I am addicted to DC because I don't want to take my rig down for that long. Even though it is only a 15 minute drive. haha.
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I have one of these: http://www.xantrex.com/web/id/17/p/1/pt/29/product.asp
I've used it to power my laptop (running BOINC) during the three-hour drive to my parents' house. :eek:

Lately I think the heat is getting to my PCs. The gaming i7 system didn't want to boot last night, so I removed the overclock. My new Shuttle has also been blue-screening during the day, so I think I need to tweak the voltages.

I plan to keep one system on ABC for a while. I also put two boxes on SIMAP along with Malaria. I don't know if or when Malaria will be added to DC Vault, but I think we're in decent shape. We should reach the top 200 in a week or so.
 
I'll put a couple CUDA GPU's on Milkyway to try and keep our position while my ATI's are working on another project.
 
Were the Nvidia GPUs any easier to setup than the ATI ones on MW@home? Looks like your ATI cards are doing some pretty nice work, btw. :)
 
CUDA Milkyway is set up like any normal CUDA project like GPUGRID.
You can turn off CPU work in the Milkyway preferences under your account. (they added the GPU and CPU options)
I don't think the CUDA app runs as fast as the ATI Milkyway app does, I'll have a better idea later today as to how well it runs.

Yeah the ATI's are doing some pretty nice work, I'll be leaving them on there for the foreseeable future.
 
Looks like CUDA Milkyway is much slower than ATI.
75 point units took ~65 seconds on HD4870 and 75 point unit takes ~325 seconds on GTX260. :(
Looks like I wont be doing many CUDA Milkyway work units. Bad thing is that the new Einstein CUDA is worse (250 points for more than 5 hours of GTX260 time).

Well if we get beat up to bad in Milkyway I'm sure tr0ach won't mind hitting it a couple days a week with me to help hold our position.
 
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Hmmm . . . Too bad it wasnt closer in performance. I will turn on the 4850 for the weekend. Its supposed to be fairly cool here over the next few days. Maybe it will run without blue screening. :D
 
I turn my ATI GPU memory all the way down that it can go in Catalyst Control Panel to save energy and keep the card much cooler with no difference in crunch times.
This has worked for me on all ATI GPU projects and on all ATI GPU's.
I shaved off 100 watts at the wall and 15c on my 2x4870's and they just crunch right along like I hadn't turned them down at all.
 
metallicafan said:
Hmmm . . . Too bad it wasnt closer in performance. I will turn on the 4850 for the weekend. Its supposed to be fairly cool here over the next few days. Maybe it will run without blue screening. :D
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Yeah, we went to the state fair yesterday, forgot to turn the AC back on for the day before leaving, and it hit 103, giving me my first BSOD since I fired up my 4850 about a month ago. Apparently an ambient room temp of 88 degrees is a bit much that box - but at least it didn't blue screen until late afternoon, only losing me about 3 hours or so of runtime! Forecast are for upper 80's next week, so I'm hoping to dial my overclocks back up for the winter very soon... :D
 
There's currently more SIMAP work, or at least I got some a little while ago.
 
SIMAP is officially out of work until October. I've switched my BOINC machines over to QMC, but I'm going to keep running a little bit of ABC too.

There's a new PSP Proth app, and I started running that on the machine that had been sieving. It uses very little RAM, so it seems nice for an older machine even though a WU takes about 5 days on a 2GHz core (that's about 500 PPD). There's no activity in that project, so with my current output we should move up one spot in about 9 months. :rolleyes:
 
SazanEyes could I get the link to the new PSP Proth app please?
Thanks
 
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