The Scottish Boinc Team

scole250 wrote:I think you pay a lot more for it than I do. How much is your electricity per kwh? Here in North Carolina, it's around 9.7 cents per kwh, which I think is around .06 pounds per kwh.

We are charged around double your rate

We already have a relatively high electric bill. We have more junk plugged in than I could ever hope to keep track of. I'm waiting for Seymour Johnson Air Force Base to stop by and tell us to back it down because it's jamming their radar.

Janos wrote:

scole250 wrote:I think you pay a lot more for it than I do. How much is your electricity per kwh? Here in North Carolina, it's around 9.7 cents per kwh, which I think is around .06 pounds per kwh.

We are charged around double your rate

I am with British gas for dual fuel (electricity & Gas) and its 16.69 pence per KW 27.9 cents for you 3 x as much damn it.

I seriously don't want to know what the electricity bill is

Well, here's the updated fleet cruising the coast of the Carolinas ...

Intel i5-2540M, Win7 32 (1 core, laptop and she runs hot)
Phenom II X3 B75, Win7 64
Phenom II X3 B75, Win7 64
Xeon E5-2603, Win7 64, GTX 460
i7-3770 (hydro cooled), Win7 64, HD 7970, R9 270X
i7-3770K (hydro cooled), Win8.1 64, HD 7970x2
i3-3240, Win8.1 64, HD 7990

Had to retire a couple systems. My Droid was not much good for anything else while crunching, but I need it to monitor work email. That and the battery drained faster than my bank account during this arms race Had to let go of a AMD Phenom II system. Was a co-worker's system and BOINC had not been playing nice on it.

Well, batten down the hatches! There be a storm brew'n off the coast of Florida and it be heading this way. Time to find a safe port. I'm an hour inland and in no threat from this one, but it is hurricane season, so it's time to tune up the generator.

3 7970's and a 7990 no wonder you did so well on the MW challenge. That's quite the display of firepower

Another wee barge added to the fleet. Another Dell Optiplex, a dinky little SFF 755 with a core 2 duo E4700 called Hermes. I will probably stick the long suffering but always short lived GT640 in it until I order another GTX 760Ti to fill the slot. Being stuck offshore with access to ebay is a very bad combination

I am just waiting for the moment when I hear that the police raided your barn to see what was growing in there. All that electric and heat, on site fertiliser and a shed within a shed? Oh and he does a lot of international travel. Hmm...

Just realised that the only thing missing is a dodgy mustache, and of course, the ill gotten gains

Judging by the stats I would hazard a guess that a certain colonial pirate just plugged in a 30 GHs ASIC in a bid for domination
By sheer coincidence, it appears to have been at the same time as I ' may ' have expanded my fleet with a small device from Butterfly labs

:pirate: I 'may' have 'a' r-box...I mean arrr-box...

A good pirate always carries an extra pistol...

me thinks there may be a back up yarr box as well

Alez wrote:me thinks there may be a back up yarr box as well

Aye :pirate:

Just so folks know what kind of numbers can be grabbed, there's a 2 x Rockerminer r-boxes @ 32-37Gh/s each and 2 separate 6 x Bitmain Antminer U2 1.6-2.0 Gh/s ant farm rigs (soon to be eBayed) @ 9.6 Gh/s each, all together cranking out 75,000,000/day. No GPUs. Results vary based on the mining pool issues or lack of. It's an arms race for sure. Evil or not, every other team is going for it or they will be soon. My goal is to keep our team moving ahead. I respect the others who choose not to crunch Bitcoin Utopia, but please don't pass judgement one me too quickly. I figure the same issues came up when GPUs started crunching. As for moving up the team board, I wish everyone in the top 10, 20, 30, whatever, were all crunching the same numbers. We'd make a run for #3 at least. Don't know where this is going, but it's a rush riding the wave.

Pass judgement ? I'm waiting for my yarR-box to be delivered from Germany with extreme impatience
AMDusers will be on us soon and as you said every other team that matters are doing the same. Just now we are catching UBT but they are probably jumping on this soon enough. Timbo has already been all over the Bitcoin forum. I have no qualms about this. If they are offering the credit I will take it with a big pirates grin. SetiUSA and Sici etc have no qualms about taking what's on offer, so why should we and as I said using the ASIC's has freed my GPU's to do only the science I want without chasing credit. Win win I say

Actually, after MUCH though about this, I remembered an earlier thread, which was in one of the memorial challenges I think for Merlyn TSBT. I believe the question was what would Merlyn have done and the answer was buy more top end computers and crunch till the fuses blew or similar. On that basis hand wringers on the bitcoin forum be damned.
Remember, standing down range is inherently dangerous ... incoming, fast mover and danger close, gentlemen, watch the fireworks display. Alpha Lima Echo Zulu, engage. .
Love it or hate it, until the broken credit system is fixed, simply , INCOMING.

Time for shameless bragging...
Earned a 3rd wuprop star and finally figured out how to earn those yoyo badges. I'm smart like that.

Ok, here's me pirate fleet hiding out in the Outer Banks... :pirate:
http://www.dunadd.co.uk/seti/forum/view ... 270#p20457
See what happens when an IT person w/OCD picks up a hobby centered around computers.

Well i've got 5 stars on WProp ( actually 7 if they had more space ) and if I ever get out of this hell hole I should have a new mobo and cpu waiting to finally bring Loki into the 21st century. I have plans for more shelves in the shed over xmas when I am off and of course I guess I will need something to put on those shelves. Think roof vents in the tech shed are now a must as well.
And I'm not an IT person so I really have no excuses

Loki has now been upgraded and is now Loki2 with a shiny Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU E7400 @ 2.80GHz [Family 6 Model 23 Stepping 10] and running the GTX660 TI under Ubuntu 14. Not sure if the original Loki will be retired or re-tasked to run my unwilling to run 7970 under Linux. Think that could be a day or 2 of head scratching. AMD and Linux have never been a happy hunting ground pour moi and not sure if the board is defective or the memory has gone bad. 1 memory slot has been DOE for quite a while now, not sure if the other has followed it into the electronic afterlife. Might be an Ebay purchase to resurrect ....

Updated fleet info above...

Loki is dead. Mobo seems to have multiple niggling failures. An Asus striker board with 3 pcie slots winging it's way towards me for the resurrection. Loki will ride again as a fleet without a Loki is like a dog without a bone In the mean time Loki 2 will have to continue to fly the flag for the brand.
Should I now hex myself and state that I have managed to destroy ever single Gigabyte or MSI board I have owned, but never an Asus. I've also managed to kill every CiT PSu I've deployed but not a single corsair.
Fate has been tempted and poked, time to hide from the consequences.

Now that's either a very brave or foolish fate tempting post there Alez
Fingers crossed your equipment backs up your proclamations but maybe have the CO2 extinguisher on stand by

Do the CiT PSUs have a single 12v rail? (You pointed that issue out to me a while back)

Some do, some are twin rail. They are just not suitable for crunching, too cheap and the output rating on them seems to be absolute short term maximum rating rather than constant supply. I guess they are just a case of you get what you pay for.

Loki 2 running Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU E7400 @ 2.80GHz [Family 6 Model 23 Stepping 10] with nVidia GTX 660 ti.
New mobo for Loki arrived. Building time

current herd :

intel 3770k win 7 2 x HD 7970. gt610 Orac
intel 3770k win 7 3 x gtx660ti 1 x gtx650 Caro
intel i7 920 win 7 HD6970 2 x HD7770 Aroc
intel q6600 win 7 1 x HD6990 1 x HD6950 ( bios flashed to another 6970 :) ) Chronos
intel dual xeon E5450 win 7 1 x HD7750 1x HD r9 270x Heimdal
( intel pent 4 linux gtx660ti Loki ) - currently subject to testing / rebuild / retirment
intel core duo E6600 win 7 gtx750 ti Perses
intel core duo E4600 win 7 ATI Radeon HD 5450 Hermes
intel core2duo T7100 linux Phoebe
intel dual xeon @ 2.8 mhz Win XP professional Freyja
Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU E7400 @ 2.80GHz linux gtx660ti Loki 2
intel pent T4500 ( laptop )
intel i3-2370M ( laptop )
intel i5-2520M ( laptop )
6 x ARMv7 Processor ( Droid boxes ) android Orca Droids #1 - 6
4 x ARMv7 Processor ( Ordroid U3 ) android mjolnir droid #1 - 4
Ramos i7s 3G Intel Z3735G Quad Core 1.83GHz 7 Inch Tablet PC Android 4.4 OS
miners -
4 x R-box R2 ( 100 GHs ), 3 x R-Box ( 32 GHs ), 1 x BFL 30 GHs, 2 x BFL 60 GHs, 1 x BFL jalapeno ( 7 GHs )

another yarr box2 added to the fleet after being found behind the sofa Loki is now a Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU E7400 @ 2.80GHz in an Asus striker mobo with a HD6770 which so far refuses to be recognised by Boinc under Linux.If I manage to get the drivers to function it will also have a Gigabyte 7970 provided it is not dead to crunching. Why is AMD / Linux such a PITA ?

The battle to resurrect Loki continues. Board is now refusing to post. Think it's bad, though with a search seems that Asus striker extreme boards are notorious for failing to boot out of Bios. Guess I should have done a bit more research before buying.

Does it have an IGPU? If so, have you tried it without PCIe GPUs installed?

nope, quite a few gaming ASUS boards have no inbuilt graphics, I have 3 of them like this. It has an LCD display for the POST error message, unfortunately it's bust. The Board will boot every now and then and will fire up the GPU, but only gets as far as the ASUS splash screen and hangs on press DEL to enter BIOS. Have some more tests to run tonight but suspect it's DOA. Have tested the GPU's ( a 6770, 7970 and gt410 ) the PSU and the IDE drive with Loki's old motherboard and they work. I did get it to work for a day or so but it kept randomly freezing or shuting down and I would have to leave the power off for 10 mins or so then reboot. Now it doesn't boot.

Going to have to send the striker back ( provided the seller is honorable ). Post's 5% of the time. Back on the hunt for a decent board to resurrect Loki. Might be an new AMD combo. Loki2 continues to fly the flag for Linux in a workman like fashion.

So the new addition has been added to the list. Beagle ( named after the Mars lander that actually made it there, then forgot to phone home ) AMD FX(tm)-6300 Six-Core Processor [Family 21 Model 2 Stepping 0] on win 7 with a HD6770 as the gygabyte HD 7970 has been declared dead pending major and probably pointless surgery.
Loki is back up and running with a GT410 until I decide what to do with a dying Mobo that refuses to finally expire. I feel sorry for the wee fellow and just keep resurrecting him. Maybe time he gets a new Mobo combo to carry his name on proudly.

The update is that the striker board is back. Hopefully issues down to a knackered CPU heatsink. Testing is in progress. Should it be good then it will need an nVidea or 2 to fill the slots. The GHz edition 7970 appears to have been resurrected and is currently in Beagle. it would appear that another 100 GHs R box appeared from behind the sofa. I have another 7970 which now needs a home ( probabily Caro with the GTX650 going to Loki ) so will have to do some swapping around and on order is a HP ProLiant Server DL360 G5 | 2 x Quad Core Xeon E5450 3.0Ghz 16GB RAM. Hopefully here in the next day or so.

The fleet now consists of

intel 3770k win 7 2 x HD 7970. gt610 Orac
intel 3770k win 7 3 x gtx660ti 1 x gtx650 Caro
intel i7 920 win 7 HD6970 2 x HD7770 Aroc
intel q6600 win 7 1 x HD6990 1 x HD6950 ( bios flashed to 6970 :) ) Chronos
intel dual xeon quad core E5450 win 7 1 x HD7750 1x HD r9 270x Heimdal
Intel Core2 duo E7400 @ 2.80GHz Linux Loki - currently subject to testing / rebuild / retirment - card to be confirmed
intel core duo E6600 win 7 gtx750 ti Perses
intel core duo E4600 win 7 ATI Radeon HD 5450 Hermes
intel core2 duo T7100 linux Phoebe
intel dual xeon @ 2.8 mhz Win XP professional Freyja
Intel Core2 duo E7400 @ 2.80GHz linux gtx660ti Loki 2
AMD FX(tm)-6300 Six-Core win 7 AMD HD7970 Beagle
intel pent T4500 ( laptop )
intel i3-2370M ( laptop )
intel i5-2520M ( laptop )
6 x ARMv7 Processor ( Droid boxes ) android Orca Droids #1 - 6
4 x ARMv7 Processor ( Ordroid U3 ) android mjolnir droid #1 - 4
Ramos i7s 3G Intel Z3735G Quad Core 1.83GHz 7 Inch Tablet PC Android 4.4 OS
miners -
6 x R-box R2 ( 100 GHs ), 3 x R-Box ( 32 GHs ), 1 x BFL 30 GHs, 2 x BFL 60 GHs, 1 x BFL jalapeno ( 7 GHs )

I've temporarily added an 8 core and 12 core system, but now have to find a perm home for them. Wife won't let them in. Currently in spare office at work. Hope they let me keep them.

You need a shed ( wives not allowed ) for ' storing ' stuff, (my wife ventures into the shed to warm her hands whilst dealing with the horses but swears she keeps her eyes shut ). Think I've managed to snag a cheap system to give Anguillan Pirates a permanent presences on boinc.

Another 7970 added , this one in Chronos. The 6970 from there now in Aroc and so I have a 7790 looking for a home. The striker board still gives issues, final decision to be made when I get some new SATA drives and a PSU delivered.
A Fujitsu ESPRIMO E5730 on it's way to be the home port of Anguillan Pirates as having admin for 2 teams on the same computer is ' challenging ' and hopefully my HP ProLiant Server DL360 G5 | 2 x Quad Core Xeon E5450 3.0Ghz 16GB RAM 2 x 36GB will be here tomorrow. Just need to come up with a name for it. Answers on a postcard or a post will be accepted. Needs to be cool and either Norse / Greek mythology based or Space probe / mission / system based or just really cool.

We need pics of the shed with all this gear in it!

Odysseus or Ulysses!

I'm going to suggest 'Dave' everyone knows a Dave, a great guy, dependable and entertaining, always has a funny story to tell.

If that doesn't float your boat then my second suggestion is 'Bifröst' which i'm sure you all know is the burning rainbow bridge between our world and Asgard, the realm of the gods. Its also the name of my hifi dac and it sounds cool

What do I win

The HP ProLiant Server DL360 G5 finally turned up and my IT guy ( the boy ) changed all the thermal paste etc and got it up and running before I even knew it had arrived ( not that I can do much from a few hundred miles away. ) I got no say in the naming. It's called Saturn-V as both he and the wife agreed that when he first fired it up and all the fans went to 100% it sounded like it was about to attempt orbit of perhaps the moon. The one thing I never counted on when I grabbed it was the sheer size of the thing. Apparently you could stick a few legs on it and call it a coffee table. No idea where I am going to put it in the tech shed but will have to think of something as I believe it's currently occupying most of the dining room table

The fleet and droid herd as is now ...

intel 3770k win 7 2 x HD 7970. gt610 Orac
intel 3770k win 7 3 x gtx660ti 1 x gtx650 Caro
intel i7 920 win 7 HD6970 HD7770 HD6950 ( bios flashed to another 6970 ) Aroc
intel q6600 win 7 1 x HD6990 1 x HD7970 Chronos
intel dual xeon E5450 win 7 1 x HD7750 1x HD r9 270x Heimdal
Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU E7400 @ 2.80GHz Linux Loki - currently subject to testing / rebuild / retirment - card to be confirmed
intel core duo E6600 win 7 gtx750 ti Perses
intel core duo E4600 win 7 ATI Radeon HD 5450 Hermes
intel core2duo T7100 linux Phoebe
intel dual xeon @ 2.8 mhz Win XP professional Freyja
Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU E7400 @ 2.80GHz linux gtx660ti Loki 2
AMD FX(tm)-6300 Six-Core Processor [Family 21 Model 2 Stepping 0] win 7 AMD HD7770 Beagle
HP ProLiant Server DL360 G5 | 2 x Quad Core Xeon E5450 3.0Ghz 16GB RAM Win 2012 server
ATI fireGL 5600 Saturn-V
intel pent T4500 ( laptop )
intel i3-2370M ( laptop )
intel i5-2520M ( laptop )
6 x ARMv7 Processor ( Droid boxes ) android Orca Droids #1 - 6
4 x ARMv7 Processor ( Ordroid U3 ) android mjolnir droid #1 - 4
Ramos i7s 3G Intel Z3735G Quad Core 1.83GHz 7 Inch Tablet PC Android 4.4 OS
miners -
6 x R-box R2 ( 100 GHs ), 3 x R-Box ( 32 GHs ), 1 x BFL 30 GHs, 2 x BFL 60 GHs, 1 x BFL jalapeno ( 7 GHs )

Alez wrote:The one thing I never counted on when I grabbed it was the sheer size of the thing. Apparently you could stick a few legs on it and call it a coffee table. No idea where I am going to put it in the tech shed but will have to think of something as I believe it's currently occupying most of the dining room table

I think that you have just answered your own question Alez.
HP Proliant coffee table/tech shelf Saturn-V

Has a bit of grandeur to it does that name .... bet microsoft doesn't let you have that many characters the meanies .......

Set it on it's side against the wall?

I must say I'm impressed your son replaced the thermal paste and got it running. How old is he? Did he install the OS and BOINC as well?

Yes he did. He's 14 so either 4 or 40 depending on the mood

Couldn't stand it. Sprung for a RK3288 1.8Ghz quad core android tv box. Only had a few Ebola WUs finish so far, but it seems to perform even better than the 2.0 Ghz S802, which performs better than the RK3188s and Odroid U2. It's all relative though. Same $/credits. It performs twice as fast as an RK3188, but cost twice as much. Only 1 unit to manage instead of 2 though.

Never have to manage my rk3188's though, unsung hero's of boinc. Need to uodate the fleet status as almost finished the spring cleaning. Job for tomorrow after I take Caro apart again and find out what went bang

I'm not knockin' the 3188s. I have 3 of them. But real estate is an issue for me, so for the same crunching/$ I try to get the most crunching per sq foot (or 1/2 foot). Now for the "Never have to manage...", I'd like your son's opinion about that Are they wired or wireless? All mine are wired and have been stable.

scole250 wrote: Now for the "Never have to manage...", I'd like your son's opinion about that

I rest my case
Wired through USB - RJ45 converters. The Wifi on them is $hite. Rip off the cases and install them in a toast rack, it's the technological breakthrough they require
Windows is completely cratered on Caro , again. Looks like another Linux candidate. I am so sick of microsoft at the moment. Seems every update they push breaks something

Alez wrote:Wired through USB - RJ45 converters.

Are they android tv boxes and don't have an RJ45 ethernet port? I had one tv box come with a USB-RJ45 ethernet adapter, but don't use it. The built in RJ45 ethernet works fine.

Yes tv boxes, no rj 45 ports. I use an OTG to USB cable with a USB to RJ45 converter.

Rejigging of the fleet and droid herd is complete for now. Cards moved around etc for better performance and cooling. Loki currently retired. Caro now on Linux again.

Acquired a Fujitsu ESPRIMO E5730 with a Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU E8400 @ 3.00GHz for £30. Stuck 4GB of DDR2 in it and a HDD with Linux and now Anguillan Pirates have a home in Nautilus

intel 3770k win 7 2 x HD 7970. Orac
intel 3770k Linux 3 x gtx660ti Caro
intel i7 920 win 7 HD6970 HD7770 HD6950 ( bios flashed to another 6970 ) Aroc
intel q6600 win 7 1 x HD6990 1 x HD7770 Chronos
intel dual xeon E5450 win 7 1 x HD7750 1x HD r9 270x Heimdal
no cpu Linux Loki - currently subject to testing / rebuild / retirment - card to be confirmed
intel core duo E6600 win 7 gtx750 ti Perses
intel core duo E4600 win 7 ATI Radeon HD 5450 Hermes
intel core2duo T7100 linux Phoebe
intel dual xeon @ 2.8 mhz Win XP professional Freyja
Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU E7400 @ 2.80GHz linux gtx660ti Loki 2
AMD FX(tm)-6300 Six-Core Processor [Family 21 Model 2 Stepping 0] win 7 AMD HD7970 Beagle
HP ProLiant Server DL360 G5 | 2 x Quad Core Xeon E5450 3.0Ghz 16GB RAM Win 2012 server ATI fireGL 5600 Saturn-V
intel pent T4500 ( laptop )
intel i3-2370M ( laptop )
intel i5-2520M ( laptop )
6 x ARMv7 Processor ( Droid boxes ) android Orca Droids #1 - 6
4 x ARMv7 Processor ( Ordroid U3 ) android mjolnir droid #1 - 4
Ramos i7s 3G Intel Z3735G Quad Core 1.83GHz 7 Inch Tablet PC Android 4.4 OS
miners -
6 x R-box R2 ( 100 GHs ), 3 x R-Box ( 32 GHs ), 1 x BFL 30 GHs, 2 x BFL 60 GHs, 1 x BFL jalapeno ( 7 GHs )

Anguillan Pirates
Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU E8400 @ 3.00GHz Linux GT430 Nautilus

Nothing like a challenge to get you in the buying mood :drunken:

On Alez's advice, slapped a 750 Ti in a couple rigs.

The current fleet...

http://www.dunadd.co.uk/seti/forum/view ... 270#p20457