The Scottish Boinc Team

Linux on ARM/Aarch64: The June 2023 completely overhauled overview: what to do with your ARM/Aarch64 SBCs Project Application Status ARM/32 Application? Aarch/64 Application? Albert@Home Not active Binary Radio Pulsar Search 1.06 Binary Radio Pulsar Search 1.42 (NEON) None Amicable Numbers Active N...

SATA right away on the board presently offers hardly an advantage as opposed to piggy-back via USB 3.0, while NVMe speed on the CM4 is restricted to PCIe 2.0 x1 speed. Jeff Geerling reports that the CM4 maxes out at 420 MB/sec, while Christopher Barnatt's piggy-back experiments with the Pi 4 mostly ...

Crunching on a Raspberry Pi began more than 10 years ago when a -then- young Australian, Daniel Carrion , decided that it would be fun to be able to crunch by means of a Raspberry Pi This project aims to have the Raspberry Pi running a BOINC project. Raspberry Pi runs an ARMv6 processor, which makes...

There's a new Radxa Rock 5, the Model A. As is often with Radxa, the A model is without WiFi. It also exchanges the regular RK3855 with a RK3588S, without IHS (Integrated Heat Shield), a bit less I/O and all this compressed on a board the size of a Raspberry Pi -creditcard format. Reason enough for ...

Forgotten how to set it up show in my posts? You can ask Seb of https://signature.statseb.fr/ to combine these id's with this one via a merge CPID request, for starters. It's up to you how your signature actually looks like. Another tip: replace < and > with [ and ] in <IMG>https://signature.statseb...

As my Odroid-M1 lost connection when the Tinker Board was decommissioned, I grabbed the chance to measure the M1. Run Time CPU Time Credit Per day/proc Credit per kWH Application 5437.58 5399.97 33 2,109 12,208 Random-base WEP Factorization v1.16 5439.70 5400.91 33 2,093 12,115 Random-base WEP Facto...

Argh! -As the pirate p4 said-, they're not gonna like me at ASUS headquarters...The power consumption of their Tinker Board S negates its otherwise good (32-bit-wise) daily scores. Their marketing department claimed 1A was all that was needed, which coupled to a 5V PSU would give 5 Watt (Volt x Ampè...

Let's start with the ultra-fast Watt burners: The fastest sequential readers (12.400MB/s) and writers (11.800MB/s) are the 2 and 4 TB versions of the Crucial T700 series. Neither their random read/write speeds, nor their energy consumption figures were given, but I found the random speeds at this re...

When we buy hard disks, whether they are HDDs or SSDs, we want them to be fast and have as much GBs as possible, -for the money we spend. But how fast is fast enough, and what about your lecky bill? If and when you have a crunching farm -and I would swear I didn't have one, until a quick look in BOI...

AI (artificial Intelligence) and ML (Machine Learning) are quite big in IT nowadays and can be found on various hardware platforms. But what are these DPUs, IPUs, NPUs, QPUs, TPUs and VPUs, and what are they good for in BOINC? TL, DR: No, they don't work with BOINC -yet. DPU DPUs, or data processing...

Weezer, of WIndows 95 fame -this clip is on the install CD

A brand-new graphic version of present yoyo-apps per BOINC platform: https://i.postimg.cc/nj1ztDPm/Yoyo-as-per-05-05-2023.jpg (click to make bigger) The now retired Cruncher OGR even had apps for Solaris 2.8 or later running on a SPARC-compatible CPU, Sony Playstation 3 running Linux and Android run...

scole of TSBT wrote: ↑Sun Apr 16, 2023 1:09 pmWhat were the symptoms, system unresponsive? They use the AVX optimization extension for intel systems. Do they use an optimization extension for ARM systems?

None that I am aware off...

Dirk Broer wrote: ↑Tue Nov 15, 2022 2:54 pm
Dirk Broer wrote: ↑Thu Feb 24, 2022 9:49 am My signature is not up to date anymore, as you can see when you compare these two

Some changes with PrimeGrid, NFS, SRBase and Yoyo, mostly. And an extra row with Rake search.

At a certain moment earlier this week WEP-M+2 -a.k.a. Wanless- ran out of WUs for me, I just had piles of WUs to upload so I looked at the table in this thread and thought: :think: ........"I might as well shift them to Asteroids"....... :whistle: Well, three days later and just as many AR...

scole of TSBT wrote: ↑Fri Apr 14, 2023 6:37 pm We finished 1st on day 1 but it was close. p3dn came a shootin'

They even haven't brought out the big guns (p3d-cluster) yet, so hold your breath....

The Odroid-C1, with its Amlogic-S805 eating ~3.8 Watt from the wall, running both BOINC and 5V 80mm Noctua fan cooling its four threads. How efficient is it? Run Time CPU Time Credit Per day/proc Credit per kWH Application 18961.97 18898.08 31 556 6,101 Random-base WEP Factorization v1.15 18963.76 1...

scole of TSBT wrote: ↑Thu Apr 06, 2023 12:06 am
Dirk Broer wrote: ↑Wed Apr 05, 2023 10:37 am milkyway.cs.rpi.edu refuses the connection ATM...
Looks like it's up now. Not sure if it's issuing WUs

Receiving WUs again too!

milkyway.cs.rpi.edu refuses the connection ATM...

I've started a new chapter in benchmarking: I bought myself a power consumption meter, to be able to have the exact wattage that a system runs on. https://www.brennenstuhl.nl/temp/explorer/files/shop_articles/nl-NL/images/4007123598083_1506600_A008_others.jpg A Brennenstuhl PM 231 E So far we had th...

So then, what's RISC-V? It is a 64-bit reduced instruction set computer (RISC) instruction set architecture (ISA), and some claim the '-V' suffix means that it is the fifth. The fifth? The name RISC-V would then have been chosen to represent the fifth major RISC ISA design from UC Berkeley (RISC-I, ...

No, I'm actually running two drivers on the one IGP of my Ryzen 5 2400G, both the opensource LLVM and the AMD GPU PRO driver. I'll post the startup log tomorrow.... Is there a "How To" for installing the AMD Pro drivers on linux, a Debian version? There are several, and while trying them ...

No, I'm actually running two drivers on the one IGP of my Ryzen 5 2400G, both the opensource LLVM and the AMD GPU PRO driver. I'll post the startup log tomorrow.... 3/17/2023 10:46:14 AM Starting BOINC client version 7.9.3 for x86_64-pc-linux-gnu 3/17/2023 10:46:14 AM log flags: file_xfer, sched_ops...

scole of TSBT wrote: ↑Thu Mar 16, 2023 9:01 pmThe project is milkyway! Let's get crackin'

You won't believe it: I have my Ryzen 5 2400G running Milkyway under Linux Mint at the moment, two WU's at a time -on two different drivers even!
All the Linux Mint Guru's say it can't be done.....running OpenCL on the Ryzen 5 2400G -but I'm doing it.

davidbam wrote: ↑Thu Mar 16, 2023 2:46 pm
Megacruncher wrote: ↑Mon Mar 06, 2023 9:13 am The rest of us are mainly credit focused generalists
Is that the same as a points whore? Guilty as charged (especially with our leccy prices)

I guess that I, being obsessed by my Badges and my Clank- and subClank scores, am guilty too.

Tuesday-Wednesday?

Presently the Bitfenix Prodigy iTX case holds an Asrock B550 Phantom Gaming-ITX/ax, rocking a Ryzen 7 5700G supported by 2x 32GB 3600 DDR4 sticks, cooled with a Noctua NH-U12S -Yes, it has the space for that. It is one of two replacements for my three AM1 systems -the other being an Asrock Fatal1ty ...

Cruncher Pete wrote: ↑Sun Mar 05, 2023 1:53 pm How does one enlarge his signature so that the writing is readable?

I can read your signature (22 inch screen, 1920x1080) pretty well -better than my own.

Overview of apps per BOINC-platform (or lack of it)

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Graphical update: https://i.postimg.cc/KkMh8zbf/Rosetta-2024-03-02-021123.jpg (Click to make bigger. No, you don't need new glasses. The no's are indeed hazy, thanks to the compression algorithm) Updated as per 2024-March-02. Note that the virtual box app requires a really huge download -each time. ...

A visual update by yours truly

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As you might know, a BOINC-platform is a combination of hardware (the CPU-architecture) and software (the OS running it) https://i.postimg.cc/gn3dqKX8/NFS-2023-02-09-184441.jpg (Click to make bigger) All in all a x86 and x86-64 whitewash. But with the Apple ARM silicon (Apple M1, M2 & M3) and th...

Things have hardly been changed, Moo!-wise, since 2018:

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Nice compact LHC@Home app overview, made by yours truly

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@Dirk Broer -> Hopefully I've set the bar a little lower than Al. Good luck! 10 million Gibson Praise: 36 (4) Big Al: 27 (16) Dirk: 22 (36) 5 million Gibson Praise: 40 (6) Dirk: 34 (18) Big Al: 29 (27) 2.5 million Gibson Praise: 60 (5) Dirk: 46 (10) Big Al: 41 (14) 1 million Big Al: 81 (3) Gibson P...

Just made my 18th star silver

The costs of overclocking: Go big, or go home. I decided not only to let my 8GB Pi4 run from an SSD, but also to overclock it to 2200MHz, AND to upgrade the kernel to 6.1 via sudo rpi-update next. I was greeted by a black screen that was cured with un-commenting the lines in /boot/config.txt hdmi_fo...

Denis@Home latest app overview

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scole of TSBT wrote: ↑Thu Jan 19, 2023 2:48 amIf you WUProp star whores need a new project app, DENIS has Beta of DENIS-myocyte WUs

I appear to be such a WUProp star whore that I already have 8,829.15 hours on said app -so it can't be new...

Dirk Broer wrote: ↑Tue Jan 10, 2023 11:15 pmNew PRIVATE GFN SERVER Sub-project: PRST testing

And both Gibson Praise (76, surpassing Mumps [MM]) and Big Al (80, catching STE\/E) are in the race for yet another million mark!

Big Al wrote: ↑Tue Jan 10, 2023 1:13 am just hit 1 million on yafu 16t sub-project, #79

You might have had a time-out during submitting, and pressed [F5]...
Meanwhile I am counting the minutes till Private GFN Server's LLR2 Testing becomes my 69th subproject to reach the 1 million mark.

New PRIVATE GFN SERVER Sub-project: PRST testing

The nVidia Jetson Xavier NX is a beast, and the yet-to-come-out Jetson Orin NX will be even better: Run Time CPU Time Credit Per day/proc Credit per kWH Application 2550.03 2373.05 28 5,741 23,921 Random-base WEP Factorization v1.16 2550.81 2373.10 28 5,619 23,414 Random-base WEP Factorization v1.16...

The Raspberry Pi 400 proved to be a huge success. Not only is it available, it still can be bought for the old price (at least: I didn't have to pay more at Elektor ), unlike its stable brothers (Model B's) and sisters (CM4). The direct install to SSD, straight from the net during the first bootup, ...

iThena Measurements' CNode just became my 68th subproject to reach the 1 million mark. That's a pretty impressive one! The last time I ran CNode it fubared my entire network. I've avoided it since then. Congrats! edit: yafu just became my 78th 1 million sub-project. You may have made yourself unrea...

Updated with the latest multi-threaded apps (up to 128 threads!)

iThena Measurements' CNode just became my 68th subproject to reach the 1 million mark.

There's even more good news from Einstein@Home for those wo run Aarch64 (ARMv8) boards from nVidia (a.k.a. "The Jetsons": Nano, Xavier NX and AGX Xavier -and their dog, TX2) A developer named Gaurav Khanna , a gravitational physicist (theory and computational) at the University of Massachu...

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