BOINC Pentathlon 2019

[GOTSpectrum]

1 minute ago, leadeater said:

I've moved all but 1 server off Marathon to Sprint bunker, been that we for an hour or so. My work PC is still also doing Marathon (8700 non k).

 

And everything is 'fine'.

Good to hear!

 

 

[leadeater]

4 minutes ago, Ben Quigley said:

Good to hear!

 

 

Oh crap forgot about Javelin. Ahh we need to address that big time or we've lost all our work.

[GOTSpectrum]

Just now, leadeater said:

Oh crap forgot about Javelin. Ahh we need to address that big time or we've lost all our work.

Aim for that 600k per event if you can. Collaborate with @Ithanul and @Windows7ge to try to even out the the load. 

 

To try to listen to the doctor's I'm just going to leave my systems as is.

[leadeater]

3 minutes ago, Ben Quigley said:

Aim for that 600k per event if you can. Collaborate with @Ithanul and @Windows7ge to try to even out the the load. 

I'm going to bunker with the same server I did last time plus one extra. That should cover us on both projects reasonably well.

[GOTSpectrum]

1 minute ago, leadeater said:

I'm going to bunker with the same server I did last time plus one extra. That should cover us on both projects reasonably well.

Id like to hit hard in the sprint, we really have the chance to make some points there.

[Gorgon]

On 5/5/2019 at 3:51 PM, Ben Quigley said:

@Gorgon Are you on-board here? 

Ok,  finished building the new AMD system, rearranging cards and profiling the systems. What’s the easiest thing for me to get setup and 6 GPUs running quickly to be of most benefit?

[leadeater]

13 minutes ago, Ben Quigley said:

Id like to hit hard in the sprint, we really have the chance to make some points there.

Issue we're going to have is Sprint and the last Javelin over lap, we kind of messed up and should have done better on one of the first two. Now we have to do well on the last 3 to get a good 3rd best throw.

 

I've got 16 servers bunkering for Sprint, all 12 or 16 cores so roughly 224 cores total. 3 servers are bunkering Javelin, 1 96 core and 2 12 core so 120 cores total.

[Windows7ge]

55 minutes ago, Egg-Roll said:

unless someone can think of some crazy crap I could try

Using the top of the box the motherboard came in? Not that crazy.

[Egg-Roll]

4 minutes ago, Windows7ge said:

Using the top of the box the motherboard came in? Not that crazy.

Heat will become a problem I would expect, using the box for a test run is fine but for long term and unattended? Could mount it on the standoffs by taking the ones from my P4 and letting it sit on top of the cases cover or on concrete, that could work. I don't know the movement if any that the board can do w/o it being locked down. I might also be able to reverse screw the stand offs on my P4s case if at least 2/3 holes match up. Reason for might is due to a lip on the top and front part.

 

Plus the box they sent has peanuts in it which seem to have some amount of static charge to them (I used a Amazon box to install the heat sinks), it's now a after work tomorrow thing due to the time.

[Windows7ge]

54 minutes ago, Egg-Roll said:

Heat will become a problem I would expect, using the box for a test run is fine but for long term and unattended? Could mount it on the standoffs by taking the ones from my P4 and letting it sit on top of the cases cover or on concrete, that could work. I don't know the movement if any that the board can do w/o it being locked down. I might also be able to reverse screw the stand offs on my P4s case if at least 2/3 holes match up. Reason for might is due to a lip on the top and front part.

 

Plus the box they sent has peanuts in it which seem to have some amount of static charge to them (I used a Amazon box to install the heat sinks), it's now a after work tomorrow thing due to the time.

In that case like you considered I'd install the standoffs onto the board outside of any enclosure then just stand the board on a non-flammable surface. When it's like this moving it would be ill-advised but it'd get you up and running. The marathon is more than 1/2 over so just pick a spot you can sacrifice for 6 days and Frankenstein it up. Point some fans at the CPU VRM and any other controllers on the board, or if you have a box fan just point that at the board.

[Gorgon]

On 5/7/2019 at 8:15 PM, Ben Quigley said:

I have no need for such things, I'm a folder. Think it runs on an old SATA II HDD.... should probably grab a cheap SSD but they takes money away from my cards... I mean the case I literally found in a skip and has had the internals gutted, the front has two 140mm holes milled into it for fans .. I'm cheap okay...

DM me your snail-mail address and I'll send you some 64 & 128GB SSDs that i've replaced in systems with NVMEs

[Gorgon]

3 hours ago, Gorgon said:

Ok,  finished building the new AMD system, rearranging cards and profiling the systems. What’s the easiest thing for me to get setup and 6 GPUs running quickly to be of most benefit?

Have Zika running on 7/8 threads of my e3-1231v3 and 2 of the 4 cores/threads on my folding rigs and Einstien@home running on a single thread and GPU on the folding rigs.

 

Can't seem to get Einstein to run a second instance. Been dicking around with the preferences to no avail

 

nevermind ...

 

editing /etc/boinc-client/cc_config.xml adding:

 <options>
   <use_all_gpus>1</use_all_gpus>
 </options>

and restarting the BOINC client did the trick

[porina]

9 hours ago, Windows7ge said:

As great a cooler as the NH-D9L is the fan it comes with just doesn't move enough air for a 16 core Xeon. I'm currently looking into industrial fans like from Delta. For the future I can't have my server all opened up when it's under load.

I have one on a 14 core Xeon and it's doing fine  Which specific CPU? Mine is an E5-2683v3 ES. It's even got an RX 580 running Einstein in the same case dumping more heat into there.

[leadeater]

We're about 4.2mil behind L'Alliance Francophone, catching up well.

[porina]

I keep thinking about putting more power on, but the heat is killing me at home. Looking forward to when this is over...

[GOTSpectrum]

1 hour ago, porina said:

I keep thinking about putting more power on, but the heat is killing me at home. Looking forward to when this is over...

I'm in the same boat

[leadeater]

1 minute ago, Ben Quigley said:

I'm in the same boat

You should be takin it easy 

[GOTSpectrum]

Just now, leadeater said:

You should be takin it easy 

Oh I am, that's why I'm just letting my machines do their thing, been in bed since I got home, just going to get up now.

[porina]

I just got something from Amazon that will allow me to do something that'll be either really great or really stupid. I'll update this evening (UK time).

[leadeater]

Just now, porina said:

I just got something from Amazon that will allow me to do something that'll be either really great or really stupid. I'll update this evening (UK time).

Both outcomes sounds great to me 

[Gorgon]

7 hours ago, Egg-Roll said:

Heat will become a problem I would expect, using the box for a test run is fine but for long term and unattended? Could mount it on the standoffs by taking the ones from my P4 and letting it sit on top of the cases cover or on concrete, that could work. I don't know the movement if any that the board can do w/o it being locked down. I might also be able to reverse screw the stand offs on my P4s case if at least 2/3 holes match up. Reason for might is due to a lip on the top and front part.

 

Plus the box they sent has peanuts in it which seem to have some amount of static charge to them (I used a Amazon box to install the heat sinks), it's now a after work tomorrow thing due to the time.

Sit it on top of some strategically placed pencil erasers. Just get a 10-pack from Office Depot and not the dollar store ones.

[Egg-Roll]

1 hour ago, Gorgon said:

Sit it on top of some strategically placed pencil erasers. Just get a 10-pack from Office Depot and not the dollar store ones.

Staples is a 50 minute walk (taking the bus would be just as long), tho that is a brilliant idea, if you don't mind me asking why not dollar store ones?

 

7 hours ago, Windows7ge said:

In that case like you considered I'd install the standoffs onto the board outside of any enclosure then just stand the board on a non-flammable surface. When it's like this moving it would be ill-advised but it'd get you up and running. The marathon is more than 1/2 over so just pick a spot you can sacrifice for 6 days and Frankenstein it up. Point some fans at the CPU VRM and any other controllers on the board, or if you have a box fan just point that at the board.

That I can do, I just hope the stupid fan still works. if not I'll try thinking of something else.

 

On 5/11/2019 at 10:36 PM, Beowulff83 said:

Don't forget about your phones and tablets,  I have 11 budget android devices crunching away

I found out you have to activate the other cores on your phones  all phones are now running 75% of their cores, one ran 100% but slowly killed the battery 20% in 8 hours.

 

Edit: If it actually gets here (or in time) I have plenty of HDD's just lying around (and other heavy junk)

 

Edit 2: Sorry but Unicorn barf... Never knew RGB could get uglier.

https://www.amazon.ca/gp/product/B07CPY316M

[Gorgon]

35 minutes ago, Egg-Roll said:

Staples is a 50 minute walk (taking the bus would be just as long), tho that is a brilliant idea, if you don't mind me asking why not dollar store ones?

...

India rubber erasers are less likely to soften as much if they get warm.

 

If your worried about the underside of the mobo getting hot then you’ll likely want to raise it a little higher than 1/4” stand-offs and I’ve used erasers in a pinch while working on PCBs in the past and they’re nice as they have a bit of grip and keep it from sliding around while soldering.

 

You could also use 6/32 or 4/40 machine screws. Put the head of the screw on the floor or cardboard, add a nut at the underside height and another on top.

 

Or, double up on the stand-offs. The chassis thread is often the same gauge as the socket.

 

My dad was a child of the depression and had buckets of miscellaneous screws. When I used to go down to the workshop as a kid he used to put me to work sorting them and putting them in the correct cabinet drawer. It was only years later I realized that this was so I’d shut up and not ask so many questions.

 

Dad’s gone but I still have every screw from every computer I’ve ever owned.

[Egg-Roll]

25 minutes ago, Gorgon said:

India rubber erasers are less likely to soften as much if they get warm.

 

If your worried about the underside of the mobo getting hot then you’ll likely want to raise it a little higher than 1/4” stand-offs and I’ve used erasers in a pinch while working on PCBs in the past and they’re nice as they have a bit of grip and keep it from sliding around while soldering.

 

You could also use 6/32 or 4/40 machine screws. Put the head of the screw on the floor or cardboard, add a nut at the underside height and another on top.

 

Or, double up on the stand-offs. The chassis thread is often the same gauge as the socket.

 

My dad was a child of the depression and had buckets of miscellaneous screws. When I used to go down to the workshop as a kid he used to put me to work sorting them and putting them in the correct cabinet drawer. It was only years later I realized that this was so I’d shut up and not ask so many questions.

 

Dad’s gone but I still have every screw from every computer I’ve ever owned.

Would Wal-Mart have them? I might go there today it's a hour round trip sometimes less.

 

I have 2 80MM fans that I can use for under board cooling.

 

I don't think it's so much the depression but more along the lines of how people did stuff back then, more willing too get their hands dirty it was like that till the 80's then things changed. Because of my father I'm more willing to do stuff with my hands instead of getting a contractor to do it, with the added benefit of Google, tho nothing beats books.

[GOTSpectrum]

11 minutes ago, Egg-Roll said:

Would Wal-Mart have them? I might go there today it's a hour round trip sometimes less.

 

I have 2 80MM fans that I can use for under board cooling.

 

I don't think it's so much the depression but more along the lines of how people did stuff back then, more willing too get their hands dirty it was like that till the 80's then things changed. Because of my father I'm more willing to do stuff with my hands instead of getting a contractor to do it, with the added benefit of Google, tho nothing beats books.

I too do as many things as I can myself, it just makes sense. 

 

The whole teach a man to fish kinda deal.