The Scottish Boinc Team

$452 here ... quite a bit cheaper.

Well I won't be retiring 48 threads on Dec 10 it'll be 72! I scored an ASUS Zenith Extreme MB on Amazon this morning so doing a 2nd 2990WX build. :dance: Parts should be here Friday. So the 3 dual Xeon X5675 machines will be moving on. The 2990WX produces more credits than all 3 of them combined.

Megacruncher wrote: ↑Tue Nov 13, 2018 10:47 pm Your 75% gain claim does seem rather conservative, however.

When I was working we always said to under commit and over deliver

[mention]Megacruncher[/mention]

Run this command to add OpenCL support. My 1080Ti runs both PG (Cuda) and Collatz (OpenCL)

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sudo apt-get install ocl-icd-libopencl1

STOP/RESTART BOINC and in the messages you should then see Cuda and OpenCL listed.

Yes sir ... I think AMD calls it SMT instead of HT but there are 64 threads.

Not to be outdone, I ordered a 2990WX a few minutes ago and I should receive it in a couple of days. Fantastic Pete ... it'll do about 50% more credits than ANY of your E5 V4 Xeon machines :shock: I tried to order the parts for a 2nd 2990WX this morning but no one has either ASUS or MSI motherboard...

BTW, if you have to or want to switch projects and you aren't trusted the best way is to either set WCG to ZERO resource or better is to set an individual machine to .01/.02 in your Boinc Client Preferences. That way it will only give you enough WU to match the number of threads the machine has. Onc...

[mention]Megacruncher[/mention] - your timing is perfect. The 2990WX ran out of OET WU and I've transitioned to Zika. It's too early to tell what the reduction will be. I was getting 100k/day on OET. Within 24 hours all machines will have to make the move to Zika. None of the machines are trusted so...

Hmmmm, did anyone bother to read post 156 in this thread?

It is that way on all machines not just the 2990WX.

Avoid MIPs ... it pays very poorly.

Pete for creating ISO images on a USB stick I use a program called "ISO to USB". I've never had a problem with it. When you have the ISO on the USB stick you will need to either go into BIOS at boot or press the correct function key" to get into the boot menu. Then you select the USB ...

Alez wrote: ↑Mon Nov 12, 2018 12:01 am @Bryan Jeez, you really are the chieftain of the awkward clan You're sig is different from all the others on sebs site.

See I keep telling you that I'm "special" but you don't believe me

Hello test 1, 2,3,4

Changed to cached sig.

EDIT: mine didn't work - Hey Pete is okay if I use yours?

[mention]davidBAM[/mention] - on most projects aborting WU is no big deal. Most projects immediately put them at the front of the queue and they get resent quickly. So even if they have a wingman it won't delay them that long. [mention]Cruncher Pete[/mention] - Don't run the MIPs WU, they pay very p...

He also runs the LaF forums. He is one busy boy!

Within a few days my WCG is going to drop. OET pays about 15-20% better than the other projects but it is finished. My machines will run out of OET cache over the next 3-4 days. None are trusted on any other app so what I produce will go into pending for a while. I also need to start getting ready f...

Your graph is very surprising. My 1080Ti runs about 60% load with 1 WU and 100% loading with 2. As Alez says, be sure you have enough CPU reserved to service the GPU. Try suspending the CPU WU and see what happens to your graph. If you don't have enough CPU reserved -or- you are trying to run too ma...

That is the only project that comes to mind concerning optimization and I can't think of any that have "optimized" apps available. But I don't do much GPU crunching so that isn't necessarily the definite answer :oops: One thing to watch is the loading on the GPU. On some projects you need ...

When you start running Collatz, don't forget to "optimize" for your card

davidBAM wrote: ↑Sat Nov 10, 2018 8:43 am
(Yes, have now progressed to sourcing hardware especially for crunching. Previously it was a case of putting existing idle systems to work )

All I can do is laugh ... addictive isn't it

Welcome aboard!

114th

In less than 4 days we'll move up 2 more spots

We're doing quite well

The one nice thing is that it is 32F - 0C outside so I have the window open slightly in the computer room

I'll have a look but I'm certain there is no easy way to adjust clock speeds in Linux. Wish we could just run afterburner .... you can use --coolbits=12 and it will give you the ability to control the clock speed from the Nvidia xserver app. I haven't done it but that is how it done. BTW the 2990WX...

As much as it pains me to say this; "You're a friggin genius!" :lol: That gave me OpenCL and Collatz gives me work now. I'll finish a single WU and then start running PG full time. I'm a happy camper. The only thing left is to figure out how to adjust the GPU clock although that isn't that...

Thanks Alez. As long as it is running Cuda I'm content for the moment. It calculates to 1.8M/day and I can live with that. If I get the fan speed up to 100% I should gain about 150MHz clock rate. The only thing I need to do now is start bringing up the CPUs on WCG and see how many threads I need res...

Shoved the 1080Ti into the 2990WX. Looked at the Driver Manager (Mint 19) and it suggested Nvidia 390 so I selected that. It did its thing and said to restart which I did. It came up and I looked at BOINC and it was showing the card - kinda. It shows CUDA capability but it doesn't mention OpenCL. Sh...

It looks like OET is over since i'm getting the "no work available for OET" message on all machines. I should burn through in my cache in 5-7 days and then I'll have to change over to ZIka. I think that will be a big hit on credits plus I have to get all machines "trusted". When ...

Yes, the speed of the CPU can affect the results a GPU gets. As you mentioned the PCI lanes etc but it is more the processing speed. Most GPU projects also use the CPU. The CPU gets things ready and then passes it to the GPU to crunch. When the GPU finishes crunching that batch it contacts the CPU t...

I hear it is difficult to get multiple GPUs that aren't identical to run in Linux. I can't speak from experience on this. If you can get it working where BOINC recognizes both cards then you can setup 2 BOINC instances with a instance controlling only a single card. Then you can have 2 config files ...

They run separate and independent. On one you enable your CPU project and on the other you enable GPU. If you attach to the same project, ie PG, then the project will see it as two different computers with both having the same name. The method for setting up multiple BOINC clients is on TSBT somewhe...

There is a VERY fast mover, Neumannium Labs, coming from behind. They are outgunning us by 700k/day. They are currently 25M behind.

I rarely run my GPUs but when I do, I setup a 2nd instance of BOINC. One runs the CPUs and the other for the GPUs. That way the BOINC scheduler doesn't have to actually try to think ... it isn't very good at that

As long as WCG doesn't stop ByteBall I don't care about the rest

I'm pretty sure that that is showing the number "validated" because for a while you'll show something there even when you haven't turned anything in. My numbers may drop tomorrow since I have a machine that overloaded itself. I expect when the WU get cancelled by the server for being too l...

I was looking at the stats on WCG yesterday and TSBT is in position 100 for the number of results returned

Our numbers continue to climb on WCG. According to Bstats, TSBT did 834k yesterday!

OET is still issuing work and it pays the best - by far IIRC.

I think the Sprint starts in 5 days. While you guys go forth and kick butt I'll hold down the fort on WCG

I heard somebody mentioning that it is not worth going past 64 threads for some reason or other on windows. I think Bryan might be able to shed some light on this, I am only going from memory and I am known to have pensioner moments.. :doh: Hey Pete, it works fine if you know the secret handshake a...

Wait until you download 2 days of WU for the next bunker operation. You'll have many many pages listing them in boincmgr :D :D I have a 44 thread xeon e5-2696v4 and that certainly gets plenty. Same mobo can take a second processor so I might put it on my Santa list WCG will give a max of 1100 WU to...

Speaking of 2990WX, I notice you have a GTX 1080Ti in yours. What wattage of PSU are you using for it? I had originally planned on moving one of my 1080Ti GPUs to the new machine (haven't done it yet) which has a 1000W supply. I haven't had the opportunity to play with it to see if that is enough PS...

Right! Sounds like a rainy-day project to get that optimised. Many thanks for the link You're more than welcome ... good luck with it :-) We've got to keep in mind that you are tilling new soil. Some of this stuff is 2nd nature to us old farts and we don't necessarily think to pass on the knowledge...

I was editing my previous message and you replied so you may not have seen this: I don't know about AMD cards, but on Nvidias there is no way that PG gives higher credits than Collatz. My GTX 1080Ti does a little over 3M/day on PG and 10M/day on Collatz. The highest paying project on PG is PPS Sieve...

Oh!! Primegrid pays over double what Collatz pays !! A stupid question, are you aware that you can optimize your card on Collatz and usually dramatically increase your credits? I don't know about AMD cards, but there is no way that PG gives higher credits on outpay Collatz on Nvidias. My GTX 1080Ti...

davidBAM wrote: ↑Wed Oct 31, 2018 5:50 pm Oh!! Primegrid pays over double what Collatz pays !!

I have regained the will to live

And Nvidia will blow the doors off of AMD on either project

I don't know if this is pertinent information or not. Mumps, a huge cruncher for SUSA, is a big time Linux user. I know that he has had problems with older AMD cards and the newer Linux kernels. Apparently there were "hooks" in the older linux distributions that the driver relied upon to m...

ChristianVirtual wrote: ↑Tue Oct 30, 2018 1:01 pm Can someone please change my diaper and feed me some pudding ? Feel like a 51 year old baby here

Still wet behind the ears

Dang, all you "old" people :lol: I'll be 70 in a couple of weeks and I've been retired for 15 years now. A lot of what was in Pete's post I can relate to ... in fact, most of it. My wife and I go to antique stores and quite a bit of what they are selling as "antiques" I remember ...

We'll jump 2 positions tomorrow - 118th. 3M to position 117. No fast movers behind us at least in the 100-200 positions. Well, there is 1 team 6M behind doing a little under 500k/day.

ETA : Wowsers - how many cores have you got to be doing 360K per day :notworthy: :notworthy: I've got a few :lol: 360k - that's what I was saying, my numbers are down. They should improve by tomorrow at least while OET continues. I don't know how far down it'll go when I have to switch to Zika but ...

Okay folks, OFF YOUR BUTTS . Time to hit WCG :lol: BTW, with the exception of MIPs ALL other apps run about 75% faster using LInux . The order of payout: OET - going away in a few days Zika - pays a little better than SCC SCC - pays a little less that Zika MIPs - way down / pays poorly NOTE: my cred...

In your PG preferences you can setup different locations ie default, home, school, work etc. In each of those you can set what you want for preferences. You assign machines to those locations. When you click on "Computers on this account" and you see the list then just click on DETAILS. To...

I recently got a new one too - DBN Upper Bound

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