Jeremiah.Schorn

@GOTSpectrum
 
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It only bothers me when I'm sober

The main problem with older HEDT or Xeons is not really the CPU prices, those can be very cheap, it's the motherboard prices. You can actually put Xeons in the HEDT motherboards and the HEDT CPUs in Xeon motherboards as long as they are the same generation/arch but the motherboards are either rare, broken, or expensive.
 
It's why for the most part I have LGA1366 servers at home but those don't have PCIe lanes from the CPU, that hadn't happened yet. LGA2011 has that (X79/C602) but even then there is an additional problem.
 
If you go with a server board they typically don't have many, or any x16 slots, but they do have a lot of x8 slots. You still end up having to use risers and the like so the main difference is you can just get more GPUs on to a single system so if the base system costs double then you need to have double the GPUs on it to make it work cost wise.
 
I've not actually done any cost calculations or anything but personally I'm sticking with servers and only a couple of GPUs each but I have other purposes for them beyond folding, and BOINC, so that is why I'll stick to that path for me.

Short answer - floating point math specialization and massive parallelization. Folding uses floating point math. But if I can provide a more technical example:
 
An AMD ZEN 2 core has 2 floating point adders and two floating point multipliers. In a perfect world where you could keep these 4 FP units functional all the time, using a Ryzen 3700x the math would look like:
4 floating point units per core x 8 CPU cores x 4,000,000,000 Hz (4 GHz) = 128,000,000,000 Floating Point Operations per Second - 128 GFLOPS.
 
In reality, it is unlikely that the FPUs can be fed with a suitable workload 100% of the time, so this GFLOP number will be much lower. Also, as the FPUs is part of a general purpose CPU, they are constrained by available resources within the CPU. (Other functional unit requirements, memory bandwidth, power consumption, temperature, etc) It should be noted what most of what CPUs do is executing instructions involving integer math, not floating point.
 
Now looking at one of Den-Fi's RX580 graphics cards, this GPU has 2,304 unified shaders. Each shader is capable of 2 single-precision floating point operations per clock cycle (measured in Hz). So:
2 floating point operations x 2,304 unified shaders x 1,340,000,000 Hz (1,340 MHz) = 6,174,720,000,000 Floating Point Operations per Second - 6,175 GFLOPS.
 
As much less general purpose than a CPU, a GPU is optimized to perform floating-point math calculations (heavily used in 3D graphics) very efficiently. GPUs can execute a lot of integer instructions too, but their raison detre is floating point power.
 
Does this explanation help?

Well as I thought, AWS didn't stick at it long

Right so time for dinner then on with the post!

The problem is you can automatically message on the forum and I don't want to be asking for emails as standard whenever it can be helped.
 
 

Coming from a guy who loves dumpsters

I am pleased to announce that build went well with no problems and the new system is now crunching it's 1st lot of WU's for the team.
 
 

The world will still be spinning in 6 months. think you could use some good scotch
 

by folding month my plan is to have minimum 2x 2060, 2070, 2x 1080. 
 
Honestly considering upgrading my main rigs 1080 to a turing card for better folding points, but that all depends on how the world ends up looking in 6 months.

I will be writing the awards ceremony this afternoon, it is currently 1030 here so expect it in the next 12 hours or so. 
 
I'm still trying to work out the best way to deal with 250+ prizes, as in distribution. I will probably do what I always do and ask people to DM me. 
 
EDIT: No idea where I got 700+ from, thats what I get for not paying attention!
 
Can't wait for a nice break

You're not really correct here...
Ignore the 10 billion and 8 Billion as these were stat corrections.
 

 
And the last 24 hours as of last update, 
 

 
We will see a production drop, that is normal, but yeah, not seeing a 50% decrease as you are indicating...

Sadly, mine is almost empty but it's usually too hot here for me to really enjoy scotch...  Cheers!

The sheet is done, can I please get sloshed sir?

Thanks for fighting against corona-chan!!!!!

Possibly like GOTSpectrum, medical issues constrain my consumption.

just got a chonker
13:50:52:WU01:FS01:Downloading 79.12MiB

If people fold for the competition who otherwise would not have folded at all then isn't it still a positive gain even if they stop folding after the competition ends?
 
^ This
Also in addition to this the Northern Hemisphere will soon be going in to summer weather when a lot of people wind back or stop folding.

This is amazons folding account that they use in their datacentres. 

WOO!!!!!!
 
No issues with them folding for any team, all folds are good folds!

Boinc installed, setup and Projects selected using current Forum Name and all attached to LTT teams

I'll also be having to release a few of these soon, my free credits are running low 😢
 

I don't know how that would have happened.
 

I don't know how that would have happened.