8th Annual BOINC Pentathlon

[iwajabitw]

Oh crap, no option, let me dig a minute.

 

[iwajabitw]

Mark try this, the team page and see if you have an option to join. It gives me an option to leave so I hope this works.

https://einsteinathome.org/community/teams/172283

 

[Markfw]

I did a search, and found out where to join

 

[iwajabitw]

Team page just jumped to 279 members I think you are 24th.

https://einsteinathome.org/community/teams/172283/members

 

[TennesseeTony]

Glad you got that sorted, guys.



Whew, close call here. When I got the 8000VA UPS recently, it required a hard wired electrical supply, so I quickly chopped up a crappy old extension cord and wired her up to see if she worked. She did, so I started plugging in computers, right? Never imagined I'd get off my lazy butt and move all but 3 computers into that area, and hook them all into the UPS.

The whole time, I'm reminding myself, ok, you're on a 20 amp circuit, keep it well under 4800 watts (240V system). I check the display on the UPS: 4.31KW. Sheesh, the things we do to win races, but, cool, well under 4800 watts.

28 hours later (moments ago), I remembered the cord I used was a wimpy 16ga rated at 13A, and I'm pulling almost 18A !!!! She was warm fellas, really really warm.

I was fortunate. Be safe!

 

[iwajabitw]

Wow 279 members and only 18, now with Mark crunching according to FreeDC. Maybe next update there will be some more. Imagine one GPU for each member crunching.

 

[iwajabitw]

Glad you got that sorted, guys.



Whew, close call here. When I got the 8000VA UPS recently, it required a hard wired electrical supply, so I quickly chopped up a crappy old extension cord and wired her up to see if she worked. She did, so I started plugging in computers, right? Never imagined I'd get off my lazy butt and move all but 3 computers into that area, and hook them all into the UPS.

The whole time, I'm reminding myself, ok, you're on a 20 amp circuit, keep it well under 4800 watts (240V system). I check the display on the UPS: 4.31KW. Sheesh, the things we do to win races, but, cool, well under 4800 watts.

28 hours later (moments ago), I remembered the cord I used was a wimpy 16ga rated at 13A, and I'm pulling almost 18A !!!! She was warm fellas, really really warm.

I was fortunate. Be safe!

Ouch, you need 12guage minimum for a full 20amps, keep a fire extinguisher handy and a some smoke detectors, Seriously.

 

[TennesseeTony]

I've got it down to 11 amps now, but, yeah, I think I will go grab that 2nd extinguisher out of the boat. Better leave the one in the kitchen, the way I cook.

 

[iwajabitw]

Flushing out 1200 tasks.

 

[ocukguest]

wahoo good job guys winning is good, but trying to win for me is the exciting bit. either way a project has had a shed load of research done at the end of the day

 

[StefanR5R]

pschoefer at the Pentathlon shoutbox, 08:16 UTC:

"the top three [teams] already passed the score that was needed to win Cross Country at E@H two years ago

"​

 

[uallas5]

I'm a little late to the game. I've put one T7600 crunching Einstein but could only bunker about a days worth of work that I just uploaded. I'm having a lot of trouble getting my gaming computer to only run GPU tasks. It's got dual 280X's and an i5. I tried setting it up using the app_config way (the same way I have another computer running SETI GPU only) but that didn't work. Then I went into the project preferences and for "Work" I set every possible setting I could find for GPU only including the one very obvious setting at the top where I set it to NO for "Use CPU". I then moved that computer to that category. I reset the project I got the exact opposite, only CPU tasks. Twice. So I uninstalled BOINC and deleted all the remaining folders, rebooted, re-installed, and, got, the, exact, same, results. This time in the log though I did notice something about there being no GPU tasks available, but why it insists on grabbing CPU tasks I have no idea.

 

[iwajabitw]

On the same Einstein project preferences page toward the bottom there is another CPU setting, make sure it is set to NO also so you don't receive CPU tasks in place of gpu tasks that are available. Hope that will help.

 

[iwajabitw]

Going to attempt to set up LHC, which sub project should I attach to? VB is installed and turned on in Bios.

 

[StefanR5R]

[Swimming, LHC@Home]

Going to attempt to set up LHC, which sub project should I attach to? VB is installed and turned on in Bios.

emoga of OCN wrote:

"Run sixtrack if your ram is limited.
Atlas gives the best PPD with CMS a close second.
I was running Atlas with 4 cpu's per thread and had good results."​

I haven't attempted to verify this yet.

Edit: Be prepared that LHC is going to be a handful if you want to build appreciable bunkers. They have limits on tasks in progress per client, and sixtrack are very short WUs. (So I have read.)

 

[Ken g6]

Also, have you noticed that our rank in the marathon has been dropping? I won't be bunkering anything for LHC. Once the race starts, I'll consider doing some work.

 

[StefanR5R]

Due to constrained spare time, I won't be bunkering LHC either.

 

[iwajabitw]

I'm busting Einstein out as fast as I can so I won't bunker LHC, but do need to test run it. Hope it works better thwn Cos.

 

[TennesseeTony]

Also, have you noticed that our rank in the marathon has been dropping?.....

I'm all in for WCG at the moment, no time to lose there, plenty of time to make-up marathon points. Speaking of WCG, lol, nice multi-hour hour output you had going there R5R!

  136,700 (normal hour)    245,000    698,600    885,900    842,900    869,700    553,800    327,000    131,200 (and... back to a normal hour)

Guys if we push hard, we can surpass The French Telephone Company, suspend anything not WCG and get to it!! The stats say we will pass them in 7 hours, but that's 3 hours too late!

 

[TennesseeTony]

pschoefer: unfortunately, we won't know the final result (WCG) until a few hours after the finish line

pschoefer: the last numbers we get via our special update will be at 23:30 UTC, for the final numbers we have to wait until after WCG's daily main stats update

WCG page says it updated 7 hours ago. So...only one hour after the race finishes?

 

[crashtech]

I'm all in for WCG at the moment, no time to lose there, plenty of time to make-up marathon points. Speaking of WCG, lol, nice multi-hour hour output you had going there R5R!

  136,700 (normal hour)    245,000    698,600    885,900    842,900    869,700    553,800    327,000    131,200 (and... back to a normal hour)

Guys if we push hard, we can surpass The French Telephone Company, suspend anything not WCG and get to it!! The stats say we will pass them in 7 hours, but that's 3 hours too late!

Giving just a bit more, but my Ryzen isn't assembled yet, dang it!

 

[TennesseeTony]

Lol, I've got 3 more processors on WCG, a dual core Pentium of some sort, and a pair of core2duo laptops, so I'm probably going to squeeze in another 6 whole tasks.

 

[StefanR5R]

The stats say we will pass them in 7 hours, but that's 3 hours too late!

With 797,700 points difference, contact in 7 hours would require 114,000 points/hour difference of output rate. Yet our output is 125,000...155,000 p/h, theirs is 120,000...140,000 p/h.

Meaning that the "7 hours until contact" have been calculated with our unusual "production" during today's morning hours included. But I am certain we cannot reproduce this rate now.

Edit: In fact, those "7 hours until contact" were calculated based on the 24 hour output difference.

 

[Markfw]

well, I have 32 core I could add, but no zika ququed >?? Let me look

 

[Markfw]

I killed everything not Zika, only 6 tasks left, and I did an update, and it won't download any more.

Only 25% utilization. These tasks must be single threaded, since I have 32 cores. Interestingly its running them at 3 ghz ! I didn;t know turbo would go that high on these 6276's