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by Dirk Broer
Fri Oct 27, 2023 11:19 pm
Forum: archive
Topic: FB Sprint 21: 27-Oct-2023 06:00 UTC - 30-Oct-2023 05:59 UTC Project SRBase
Replies: 3
Views: 497

Re: FB Sprint 21: 27-Oct-2023 06:00 UTC - 30-Oct-2023 05:59 UTC Project SRBase

Siepinski/Riesel Base - Short is so short that they're already gone! Now there are new, longer ones.
by Dirk Broer
Fri Oct 27, 2023 11:31 am
Forum: archive
Topic: FB Sprint 21: 27-Oct-2023 06:00 UTC - 30-Oct-2023 05:59 UTC Project SRBase
Replies: 3
Views: 497

Re: FB Sprint 21: 27-Oct-2023 06:00 UTC - 30-Oct-2023 05:59 UTC Project TBD

FB Sprint 21: 27-Oct-2023 06:00 UTC - 30-Oct-2023 05:59 UTC Project TBD https://formula-boinc.org/sprint_v3.py?sprint=21&lang=en&year=2023 The next sprint begins in less than 24 hours! SRBase it is, Siepinski/Riesel Base - Short to be precise (and TF for your GPU) -must be fun to watch on a...
by Dirk Broer
Wed Oct 25, 2023 2:34 pm
Forum: Fun and Games
Topic: This made me laugh
Replies: 46
Views: 22600

Re: This made me laugh

Progress (click on it to be able to read the actual progress from 1957 to 2015) https://i.postimg.cc/Jss5HxvT/116156030-109070934233857-613893520599983318-n.jpg Nowadays we have the quad-core Raspberry Pi Zero 2W, with four Cortex-A53 cores instead of the by now ancient single-core ARM11 of the orig...
by Dirk Broer
Sat Oct 21, 2023 3:54 pm
Forum: Badges? We don't need no stinkin' badges!
Topic: 1 million + projects
Replies: 226
Views: 235185

Re: 1 million + projects

DENIS@Home just became my 46th project to reach 1,000,000 credits, now on to a milestone that even Big Al hasn't reached yet: my 64th sub-project to reach 1,000,000 credits - NFS@Home's 15e. Took some time, but Gerasim@Home today became my 47th project to reach 1,000,000 credits...and at a right ti...
by Dirk Broer
Sat Oct 21, 2023 12:50 am
Forum: Microsoft Windows
Topic: Windows, the OS you love to hate
Replies: 0
Views: 1303

Windows, the OS you love to hate

Problems with virtual machines as of lately? Microsoft has enabled all features of their Hyper-V hypervisor last update, by default. :error:

And your latest super-fast M.2 SSD, bit sluggish around the same time? Microsoft has enabled encryption on SSD's last update, by default... :angryfire:
by Dirk Broer
Thu Oct 12, 2023 2:13 am
Forum: Fun and Games
Topic: This made me laugh
Replies: 46
Views: 22600

Re: This made me laugh

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by Dirk Broer
Sat Oct 07, 2023 2:09 am
Forum: Single-board Computers
Topic: Broadcom SOCs
Replies: 11
Views: 10227

Re: Broadcom SOCs

scole of TSBT wrote: Sat Sep 30, 2023 2:25 am A PCIe 2.0 x1 interface, 500 MB. No faster than USB 3.0. meh
Rumour has it that the CPU performance is between 200 and 300% of the level of the Pi 4, no slouch either -SBC-wise....My Pi 3's are about to be retired!
by Dirk Broer
Sun Oct 01, 2023 11:35 pm
Forum: Universe
Topic: Benchmarks
Replies: 15
Views: 12075

Re: Benchmarks

As the ASUS Tinker Board became redundant for WEP-M+2 (aka Wanless), the experimental department confiscated it to do 32-bit ARM apps and decided to make it a dedicated Universe@Home cruncher. Run Time CPU Time Credit Per day/proc Credit per kWH Application 22971.14 22865.85 667 10,030 44,937 Univer...
by Dirk Broer
Sun Oct 01, 2023 2:27 am
Forum: Single-board Computers
Topic: Broadcom SOCs
Replies: 11
Views: 10227

Re: Broadcom SOCs

A PCIe 2.0 x1 interface, 500 MB. No faster than USB 3.0. meh We must be able to think of things we want in a future Raspberry Pi 6 (or any other high-end ARM SBC) too, it seems... Let's kick of then! At least one PCIe 3.0 x4 interface, whether M.2 or PCIe. Replace the ancient SD card slot with eith...
by Dirk Broer
Fri Sep 29, 2023 2:29 pm
Forum: Single-board Computers
Topic: Broadcom SOCs
Replies: 11
Views: 10227

Re: Broadcom SOCs

So, if I now were to design the Raspberry Pi 5, I would.... Add an NVMe M.2 slot -at the backside- for added storage. Use an eMMC module, to either replace the Micro-SD slot or as an addition to it. Upgrade to the ARM Cortex-A73 -or even the A76, if feasible. Unlock the full power of ARMv8 instruct...
by Dirk Broer
Fri Sep 22, 2023 11:33 pm
Forum: archive
Topic: FB Sprint 18: 21-Sep-2023 15:00 UTC - 14-Sep-2023 14:59 UTC Project PrimeGrid
Replies: 12
Views: 796

Re: FB Sprint 18: 21-Sep-2023 15:00 UTC - 14-Sep-2023 14:59 UTC Project PrimeGrid

09/22/2023 22:00 (UTC)
1. TSBT
2. AMD Users
3. BOINC@Australia
4. SETI.USA
by Dirk Broer
Fri Sep 22, 2023 2:16 am
Forum: archive
Topic: FB Sprint 18: 21-Sep-2023 15:00 UTC - 14-Sep-2023 14:59 UTC Project PrimeGrid
Replies: 12
Views: 796

Re: FB Sprint 18: 21-Sep-2023 15:00 UTC - 14-Sep-2023 14:59 UTC Project PrimeGrid

A quite uncharacteristic energetic AMD Users team at work here, I didn't knew it lived under our members -if they are aware of it at all. Vaughan doing the main work as usual :flags-australia:
by Dirk Broer
Wed Sep 20, 2023 1:09 am
Forum: Badges? We don't need no stinkin' badges!
Topic: 1 million + projects
Replies: 226
Views: 235185

Re: 1 million + projects

Just bagged my 71st 1 million credits sub-project! (Yafu Small) Next in line is Ithena Measurements PERF, but that will take some time longer. Ithena's OONI Probe might be there even earlier... Of course I may win the lottery before that, and then I'll buy that 64-core Threadripper to be able to run...
by Dirk Broer
Sun Sep 17, 2023 1:35 am
Forum: Welcome
Topic: Greetings ... and welcome ...
Replies: 838
Views: 446432

Re: Greetings ... and welcome ...

scole of TSBT wrote: Sat Sep 16, 2023 5:22 pm Do you mean the graphic with your badges? If so, I can see it.
Perhaps Gregg's signature isn't cached and the signature supplier (Sebastian) was down?
by Dirk Broer
Wed Sep 13, 2023 5:47 pm
Forum: RADIOACTIVE
Topic: Radioactive@Home
Replies: 20
Views: 8805

Re: Radioactive@Home

Radioactive@Home is active again!
by Dirk Broer
Tue Sep 12, 2023 4:26 pm
Forum: Graphics Processing Unit (GPU)
Topic: What good is an Intel GPU?
Replies: 1
Views: 1939

Re: What good is an Intel GPU?

My Manjaro is at version 23.0.1 "Uranos" now, using kernel 6.5, but still the Intel Neo compute driver errors out at NumberFields@home . I will try to do the double driver trick again to see if it will work. Asrock-J5005-iTX 1 9/12/2023 4:22:44 PM Starting BOINC client version 7.22.1 for x...
by Dirk Broer
Tue Sep 12, 2023 2:29 pm
Forum: RADIOACTIVE
Topic: Radioactive@Home
Replies: 20
Views: 8805

Re: Radioactive@Home

The Radioactive@Home server has been offline for close to a week. It's been up and down recently. Does anyone know what's going on with the project? Polish Boinc Team website is also offline for a period of time ... so I cannot ask Administrator, krzyszp what is going on ... :shock: Gregg, But isn'...
by Dirk Broer
Thu Sep 07, 2023 12:06 am
Forum: Badges? We don't need no stinkin' badges!
Topic: 1 million + projects
Replies: 226
Views: 235185

Re: 1 million + projects

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. And now I am some hours past the moment that Privat...
by Dirk Broer
Tue Sep 05, 2023 11:26 pm
Forum: Badges? We don't need no stinkin' badges!
Topic: 1 million + projects
Replies: 226
Views: 235185

Re: 1 million + projects

@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...
by Dirk Broer
Sat Sep 02, 2023 11:32 pm
Forum: Fun and Games
Topic: Joke of the Day
Replies: 62
Views: 8669

Re: Joke of the Day

davidbam wrote: Sat Sep 02, 2023 10:47 pm "He lost 33 lbs. that week"
You don't say whether he was caught or not ... either might result in weight loss :lol:
A dirty mind is a joy forever...
by Dirk Broer
Sat Sep 02, 2023 8:55 pm
Forum: Benchmarking and Hardware
Topic: Low-Power War: AM1 vs Bay Trail-D
Replies: 43
Views: 14314

Re: Low-Power War: AM1 vs Bay Trail-D

Intel-wise there's a new king in low-powerland, with a 'fancy' name, too. No numbers (e.g 80486DX4-133) or names (e.g. 'Pentium', 'Celeron', or 'Core'), the Intel Marketing department has completely outdone itself and has come up with the name 'Processor'. Commercially the first offered to us is de ...
by Dirk Broer
Sat Sep 02, 2023 11:04 am
Forum: Fun and Games
Topic: Joke of the Day
Replies: 62
Views: 8669

Re: Joke of the Day

How to lose MASSIVE amounts of weight! We need to figure out a way to market this! Any ideas??? Worth reading to the end- I promise! A guy calls a company and orders their 5-day, 5lbs. weight loss program. The next day, there's a knock on the door and there stands before him a voluptuous, athletic, ...
by Dirk Broer
Sat Sep 02, 2023 10:58 am
Forum: Fun and Games
Topic: Cool Pics
Replies: 3
Views: 755

Re: Cool Pics

Moving pics, but pics
by Dirk Broer
Thu Aug 31, 2023 10:09 am
Forum: Fun and Games
Topic: Joke of the Day
Replies: 62
Views: 8669

Re: Joke of the Day

Three nuns died and visited St. Peter at the Pearly Gates. St. Peter said he would admit them if they each answered one question.He turned to the first nun and asked, "Who was the first man?""Adam," the nun confidently replied. The trumpets sounded and the angels sang as the gat...
by Dirk Broer
Tue Aug 29, 2023 8:48 pm
Forum: Benchmarking and Hardware
Topic: Small coolers, any good?
Replies: 3
Views: 593

Re: Small coolers, any good?

The NH-D9L (including one fan) weighs 531 gram, two additional NF-A9 PWM fans weigh 184 gram, so the triple fan cooler weighs 715 gram, 0.715 Kg. It looks far more massive than it is, on the picture. Mind you, the NH-D9 retail series is rated for 3U servers (max height 133 mm). A NH-D15 (with two fa...
by Dirk Broer
Tue Aug 29, 2023 4:09 pm
Forum: Benchmarking and Hardware
Topic: Small coolers, any good?
Replies: 3
Views: 593

Small coolers, any good?

When we discuss cooling here it is mainly whether (AIO) water-cooling is better than air cooling, where air cooling usually means: BIG air, e.g. the Noctua NH-D15 or likewise dual tower/twin fan coolers. But suppose such a cooler won't fit your case? You can usually find good performing 120mm cooler...
by Dirk Broer
Sun Aug 20, 2023 3:31 pm
Forum: Benchmarking and Hardware
Topic: "Drop-in" replacement
Replies: 24
Views: 4444

Re: "Drop-in" replacement

Much in accordance with the usual 'Baldric' plans this resulted in another boot-looping system -without even showing a BIOS screen, much as the other.... One of the problems has surfaced: a loose power cord in the laptop brick that powers the Antec iTX casing -the part that runs from the PC into the...
by Dirk Broer
Sun Aug 20, 2023 9:09 am
Forum: Benchmarking and Hardware
Topic: "Drop-in" replacement
Replies: 24
Views: 4444

Re: "Drop-in" replacement

Well, I didn't post in "Drop-in" replacement for nothing.... Only the Athlon-A12 9800GE in the A320M Pro 4 comes up at the moment.... The X370 refuses to boot at all and the B450 enters a boot loop, most likely due to too fast RAM (3600 MHz). The cunning plan (thanks, Baldric) is to put th...
by Dirk Broer
Sun Aug 20, 2023 8:54 am
Forum: Fun and Games
Topic: Joke of the Day
Replies: 62
Views: 8669

Re: Joke of the Day

One dismal rainy night in Sydney a taxi driver spotted an arm waving from the shadows of an alley. Even before he rolled to a stop at the curb, a figure leaped into the cab and slammed the door. Checking his rear view mirror as he pulled away, he was startled to see a dripping wet, naked woman sitt...
by Dirk Broer
Sun Aug 20, 2023 8:48 am
Forum: Fun and Games
Topic: Musical selection of the day...
Replies: 280
Views: 76318

Re: Musical selection of the day...

by Dirk Broer
Fri Aug 18, 2023 8:17 pm
Forum: Benchmarking and Hardware
Topic: "Drop-in" replacement
Replies: 24
Views: 4444

Re: "Drop-in" replacement

Yet another round in the "Drop-in" replacement story: I'll be changing the Ryzen 5 3400G in my ASRock B450 Pro4 for a Ryzen 7 5700G, while the Athlon-A12 9800GE in my ASRock Fatal1ty X370 Gaming-ITX/ac will be replaced with the Ryzen 5 3400G (the 3400G taking its RAM with it). The Athlon-A...
by Dirk Broer
Fri Aug 18, 2023 6:01 am
Forum: Fun and Games
Topic: Joke of the Day
Replies: 62
Views: 8669

Re: Joke of the Day

Another thermos joke: A woman walks into a sex shop looking for a dildo. She asks the clerk "How much for the white one?". He says "That one's $25." She asks "How much for the black one?" He says "That one's $45." She looks around for a bit then asks "Mmm...
by Dirk Broer
Wed Aug 16, 2023 5:34 pm
Forum: Badges? We don't need no stinkin' badges!
Topic: My signature has changed
Replies: 76
Views: 114020

Re: My signature has changed

Cruncher Pete -one of them- was user of the day today at https://signature.statseb.fr/next_badges.py

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by Dirk Broer
Tue Aug 15, 2023 6:19 am
Forum: Fun and Games
Topic: Musical selection of the day...
Replies: 280
Views: 76318

Re: Musical selection of the day...

French music can be so much better...
by Dirk Broer
Mon Aug 07, 2023 6:50 am
Forum: Fun and Games
Topic: Joke of the Day
Replies: 62
Views: 8669

Re: Joke of the Day

Megacruncher wrote: Sun Aug 06, 2023 4:09 pm A woman walks into a bar.
After reading the extensive cocktail menu she asks for an Innuendo.
So the barman gave her one.
Sex on the Beach? A Screaming Orgasm perhaps?
by Dirk Broer
Sat Aug 05, 2023 9:17 pm
Forum: Single-board Computers
Topic: BeagleV
Replies: 2
Views: 717

Re: BeagleV

A word of warning from my not-so-enthusiastic alter ego: :character-count: The latest RISC-V boards are, BOINC-wise, equipped with a non-functional CPU, a non-functional GPU and a dito non-functional NPU. They have much in common with the ARM SBC's, albeit that the CPU on those is at least supported...
by Dirk Broer
Mon Jul 31, 2023 1:42 pm
Forum: DENIS
Topic: Denis Applications
Replies: 3
Views: 6090

Re: Denis Applications

Denis is still active, and has new apps too -at least: expanded their range of BOINC-platforms, especially for ARM based systems.

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by Dirk Broer
Sun Jul 30, 2023 6:15 pm
Forum: Gerasim
Topic: gerasim@home project details
Replies: 3
Views: 5098

Re: gerasim@home project details

As Aristotelis "Telly" Savalas (better known to you as "Kojak") once sung "If a picture paints a thousands words'

Here's my picture:
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by Dirk Broer
Sat Jul 29, 2023 5:49 pm
Forum: archive
Topic: FB Sprint 14: 27-Jul-2023 23:00 UTC - 30-Jul-2023 22:59 UTC Project Gerasim
Replies: 4
Views: 518

Re: FB Sprint 14: 27-Jul-2023 23:00 UTC - 30-Jul-2023 22:59 UTC Project Gerasim

The project is Gerasim. They have Win64 CPU, Win64 GPU (nvidia and amd) and linux CPU apps. There are no linux GPU apps Let me refine that: Gerasim apps Application Platform version Device Get Decic Fields Windows_x86_64 400 CPU Get Decic Fields (Linux) Linux_x86_64 406 CPU Get Decic Fields (nVidia...
by Dirk Broer
Mon Jul 24, 2023 9:33 am
Forum: Benchmarking and Hardware
Topic: Zhaoxin, Via Cyrix: a WinChip story.
Replies: 0
Views: 702

Zhaoxin, Via Cyrix: a WinChip story.

No, this is not the title of the latest novel by the Chinese author Liu Cixin, but about a family of closely related x86 CPUs. It all started around 1997 when -quite accidentally and completely unrelated- I self-built my first PC, a Super Socket 7 system with VIA MVP3 chipset, able to have a 100 MHz...
by Dirk Broer
Sun Jul 23, 2023 9:28 am
Forum: Welcome
Topic: Greetings ... and welcome ...
Replies: 838
Views: 446432

Re: Greetings ... and welcome ...

scole of TSBT wrote: Fri Jul 21, 2023 7:23 pm The forum has slowed down quite a bit. We are a small team with around 50 regular active crunchers, few of which post on the forum any more. I try to post a little occasionally but I guess I've slowed down a bit also
It is more of the same at AMD Users..
by Dirk Broer
Fri Jul 21, 2023 8:54 am
Forum: Benchmarking and Hardware
Topic: Intel high-end desktop: Keeping up with the Joneses
Replies: 6
Views: 2786

Re: Intel high-end desktop: Keeping up with the Joneses

AMD has Dr. Lisa T. Su, but Intel has Patrick P. Gelsinger. Question: where is Jim Keller? (at Tenstorrent, a RISC-V startup)
by Dirk Broer
Fri Jul 21, 2023 8:49 am
Forum: Benchmarking and Hardware
Topic: AMD high-end desktop: where at least the logo is greener than at the other side
Replies: 3
Views: 1985

Re: AMD high-end desktop: where at least the logo is greener than at the other side

Do AMD still have any green in their logo's at all? At least the max Tdp values don't suggest so...
by Dirk Broer
Mon Jul 17, 2023 1:47 pm
Forum: Single-board Computers
Topic: BeagleV
Replies: 2
Views: 717

BeagleV

Remember the BeagleV ? The first affordable RISC-V computer designed to run Linux? https://i.postimg.cc/Q9Pkm6qh/s2-board.jpg BeagleV specifications : SoC : StarFive JH7100 Vision SoC with: RISC-V U74 dual-core with 2MB L2 cache @ 1.5 GHz Vision DSP Tensilica-VP6 for computing vision NVDLA Engine 1 ...
by Dirk Broer
Sat Jul 01, 2023 12:16 pm
Forum: Linux
Topic: Linux on ARM
Replies: 10
Views: 5768

Re: Linux on ARM

A word of warning: having ARM Applications on a project does not mean that you'll be able to run them on your board, -unless it is WEP-M+2. It looks like some developers test it on systems with either more RAM than 4GB, or only test it with one WU running and completing and then declare it OK for th...
by Dirk Broer
Sat Jul 01, 2023 11:59 am
Forum: Badges? We don't need no stinkin' badges!
Topic: My signature has changed
Replies: 76
Views: 114020

Re: My signature has changed

I just scored my 20th WUProp star. This, together with some earlier changes I reported earlier in this thread make me want to ask for an updated signature, so it looks like Image
by Dirk Broer
Tue Jun 27, 2023 9:11 am
Forum: Single-board Computers
Topic: Crunching on a Pi, why?
Replies: 4
Views: 588

Re: Crunching on a Pi, why?

The new Jetson AGX Orin variants have all you want and perhaps even more (275(!) TOPS AI performance), but indeed operate in a 15-60 Watt power range -and are as expensive as a good x86-64 box: 2,000 (32GB) or 2,600 (64GB) Euro's over here. The Orin NX variants may be more interesting, also having P...
by Dirk Broer
Tue Jun 27, 2023 1:51 am
Forum: Linux
Topic: Linux on ARM
Replies: 10
Views: 5768

Re: Linux on ARM

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...
by Dirk Broer
Mon Jun 26, 2023 12:02 am
Forum: Single-board Computers
Topic: Crunching on a Pi, why?
Replies: 4
Views: 588

Re: Crunching on a Pi, why?

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 ...

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