BOINC Pentathlon 2019

[Egg-Roll]

And to think I just bought a dual L5640 server that will show up a week into the event not knowing this... Canon RP would have come first anyways tho

 

Now to get my CPU mad at me... On the plus side tho I can still fold 

[Beowulff83]

15 minutes ago, Ben Quigley said:

17 minutes ago, Egg-Roll said:

Dumb question is Bionic only CPU? Because it's whining about my CPU being busy...

The current projects are CPU only, but some GPU projects shout come up later in the event.

I am assuming we should drop the cpu % usage slightly if we are to fire up our gpu's during that event or does it matter?

[GOTSpectrum]

19 minutes ago, Beowulff83 said:

I am assuming we should drop the cpu % usage slightly if we are to fire up our gpu's during that event or does it matter?

If you are running AMD GPUs then no, if you are running green team you need one free core per GPU when you are crunching. This is due to the way the NV drivers work.

[Windows7ge]

@porina So I did some digging. There is a web profile setting that's set to 32 max concurrent threads however when I increase that nothing changes on the server even after I verify that that profile was successfully set to the server. Checking the event log it sees 32 cores not all 64 threads. My other dual socket server it does register both CPU's and all 32 threads.

 

So I think what I'm dealing with here is a software limitation. It isn't capable of using more than 32 threads per BOINC instance.

 

So I setup Hyper-V, installed Ubuntu, gave it 32 cores, told it to use at most 97% of the CPU allowing for Hyper-V and the host and we're currently working good. Better than just leaving those 32 threads sitting idle.

[GOTSpectrum]

1 hour ago, Beowulff83 said:

I am assuming we should drop the cpu % usage slightly if we are to fire up our gpu's during that event or does it matter?

Just to clarify, it's one free logical processor per card, so one thread, not one physical core.

[GOTSpectrum]

Day one report is out!

 

https://www.seti-germany.de/forum/content/1041-BOINC-Pentathlon-2019-Day-1

 

We really need to find some more cores to throw at this, tell your friends, post status updates, invite people across the forum, get your laptops burning... just do... ANYTHING! 

 

WE NEED MORE POWER! 

 

As previously said I will be bringing 20-24 thread online tonight, if any of you can please do, if not invite people! 

[GOTSpectrum]

@Gorgon Are you on-board here? 

[Zep]

Off to a nice start but more power needed to beat last years showing.

[GOTSpectrum]

2 minutes ago, Zep said:

Off to a nice start but more power needed to beat last years showing.

agreed! unfortunately I don't see that happening

[Zep]

12 minutes ago, Ben Quigley said:

agreed! unfortunately I don't see that happening

Early Days Ben, time will tell.

[GOTSpectrum]

2 minutes ago, Zep said:

Early Days Ben, time will tell.

Lets hope @jakkuh_t gets that shout-out sorted asap. 

[Windows7ge]

1 hour ago, Ben Quigley said:

WE NEED MORE POWER! 

 

Seriously my landlord is going to hate me enough as it is when she sees the electric bill. I don't have too much more I can add. I have a old 3930K but that'd be a while to get running.

[denjo]

where is the passion @ LTT

greetings from p3d ^^

[GOTSpectrum]

1 minute ago, denjo said:

where is the passion @ LTT

greetings from p3d ^^

 

7 minutes ago, Windows7ge said:

 

Seriously my landlord is going to hate me enough as it is when she sees the electric bill. I don't have too much more I can add. I have a old 3930K but that'd be a while to get running.

My third rig just blew up... quite literally.... 

[Windows7ge]

6 minutes ago, Ben Quigley said:

My third rig just blew up... quite literally.... 

As my best friend use to tell me back in high-school: Pics or it didn't happen.

 

Seriously though that's why I'm keeping a close eye on my servers. Checking cables, temps, making sure I don't smell anything burning. Contributing to science is great and all but if I have to blow up a multi-thousand dollar server or two in the process...

 

I would like pics if you find out what let out the magic smoke.

[GOTSpectrum]

1 minute ago, Windows7ge said:

As my best friend use to tell me back in high-school: Pics or it didn't happen.

 

Seriously though that's why I'm keeping a close eye on my servers. Checking cables, temps, making sure I don't smell anything burning. Contributing to science is great and all but if I have to blow up a multi-thousand dollar server or two in the process...

 

I would like pics if you find out what let out the magic smoke.

i'm not going anywhere near that PSU... 

 

Luckily it was only an old athlon x4 system 

[Windows7ge]

2 minutes ago, Ben Quigley said:

i'm not going anywhere near that PSU... 

 

Luckily it was only an old athlon x4 system 

Wow when you said everything you really mean't everything.

[GOTSpectrum]

@Windows7ge

 

I was on VC when it happened... I had my finger on the PSU but felt nothing, it was as I switched it on,,, brand new PSU too... Very very cheap though... now i know why....

 

 

And yes, I mean EVERYTHING 

[porina]

Off to bed soon but just turned on the taps for the TWO new projects. Even if not pushing javelin, I'd like to throw a few units in so we're above zero. I'll NNW that tomorrow and focus on city then.

[Egg-Roll]

34 minutes ago, Windows7ge said:

Seriously though that's why I'm keeping a close eye on my servers. Checking cables, temps, making sure I don't smell anything burning. Contributing to science is great and all but if I have to blow up a multi-thousand dollar server or two in the process...

 

 

On a side note wtf: (I have 0 points for WCG)

 

anyway of fixing this?, I've not done Boinc in about or longer than 10 years so...

[GOTSpectrum]

2 minutes ago, Egg-Roll said:

 

On a side note wtf: (I have 0 points for WCG)

 

anyway of fixing this?, I've not done Boinc in about or longer than 10 years so...

what you trying to fix? 

[Egg-Roll]

Just now, Ben Quigley said:

what you trying to fix? 

Boinc is currently only doing NFS is that ok? in my settings it is to swap projects every 120 minutes but I would have expected it to have at least finished them first, unless there are settings I'm missing. The program couldn't let WCG finish the 5 minute item?

 

Does boosting CPU frequency do any good for this or would it be a waste? I currently have mine with a 200mhz increase should be able to push the 6600K to 4.2 w/o stability issues

[GOTSpectrum]

1 minute ago, Egg-Roll said:

Boinc is currently only doing NFS is that ok? in my settings it is to swap projects every 120 minutes but I would have expected it to have at least finished them first, unless there are settings I'm missing. The program couldn't let WCG finish the 5 minute item?

 

Does boosting CPU frequency do any good for this or would it be a waste? I currently have mine with a 200mhz increase should be able to push the 6600K to 4.2 w/o stability issues

Higher clocks = more WUs

 

also there is a weight system for how what should be done, try upping the priority for the WCG, btw I'd suggest dropping NFS and doing yoyo 

[Windows7ge]

14 minutes ago, Egg-Roll said:

anyway of fixing this?, I've not done Boinc in about or longer than 10 years so...

Get outta here with your fancy unlocked multiplier. We only deal in locked multipliers here.

[Egg-Roll]

3 minutes ago, Ben Quigley said:

Higher clocks = more WUs

 

also there is a weight system for how what should be done, try upping the priority for the WCG, btw I'd suggest dropping NFS and doing yoyo 

You mean the Resource share bar correct? I was trying to figure out how to do that before I went out but only was able to find something like that on one of 3 projects.

 

1 minute ago, Windows7ge said:

Get outta here with your fancy unlocked multiplier. We only deal in locked multipliers here.

What about my 5.2Ghz P4 threw Linus (bad fingers, windows only allowed 4.8Ghz), or my old P4 that saw 20+Ghz before it either killed the board or itself  I would run my P4 but I kinda ripped everything out leaving it with nothing but empty usb ports and no network connectivity, getting it working wouldn't be time beneficial either for this week.