FormulaBOINC

[Kiska]

Woot, we are 3x the 2nd place position

 

[indydude345]

I want to participate in Asteroids@home, but for some reason, I cannot get it running on either of my machines. Can someone help me with this? Btw, I'm wanting to run [a] GPU app because none of my CPU's are powerful enough.

 

[Kiska]

I want to participate in Asteroids@home, but for some reason, I cannot get it running on either of my machines. Can someone help me with this? Btw, I'm wanting to run [a] GPU app because none of my CPU's are powerful enough.

For GPU you need to have an nvidia gpu

Also due to the people who bunker, the server is working as fast as possible to generate new workunits

 

[indydude345]

My dad told me about the Nvidia GPU, I have 2 of them. Still can't get it to go.

 

[Kiska]

Can you post the first 30 lines of the event log?

 

[indydude345]

Can you post the first 30 lines of the event log?

Strange. As soon as I copied the log... the project started running... yesterday I tried for 2 hours to get it going.

 

[Kiska]

Strange. As soon as I copied the log... the project started running... yesterday I tried for 2 hours to get it going.

lol, really?

Well as I said, the project is going in and out of having work and not having work, because everyone is trying to get units, and the server is generating them as fast as possible

 

[crashtech]

Work for the project has been scarce due to the sprint.

 

[Kiska]

Work for the project has been scarce due to the sprint.

Extremely scarce, I believe the generation is 6 tasks per second

EDIT: I stand corrected, there are 115k units ready to send

 

[indydude345]

Is there some special configuration I need to do? I have the GPU selected in my preferences and not CPU and the CPU is doing all the work. I'm very confused.

 

[Kiska]

Does it say cuda55?

 

[indydude345]

Does it say cuda55?

I found cudart64_55 in the log.

 

[Kiska]

I found cudart64_55 in the log.

 

[indydude345]

Ah. Yes, I see it now. At first I didn't think it was working because of how much time it would take to finish the project, but I was mistaken. All is well now, thanks for your help.

 

[TennesseeTony]

Nearly half a million fresh new tasks available for Asteroids, finally I have some running. I expect many 'pending' until that half million gets crunched and returned.

 

[crashtech]

I think Stefan might be making it too easy for us!

 

[Kiska]

Stats as of 19:47 Australian Eastern Standard time, on the 15th of July 2017
Sprint
Asteroids@home..................Sprint....................Day Two
1 TeAm AnandTech..............25.........................2,572,800
2 OcUK - Overclockers UK .18.........................1,655,040
3 Overclock.net.....................15.......................1,073,760
4 Sicituradastra.....................12.......................178,080
5 U.S.Air Force.....................10........................144,000
6 Crunching@EVGA.............8..........................122,400
7 France................................6..........................86,400
8 US NAVY............................4..........................78,240
9 LinusTechTips_Team..........2..........................74,880
10 BOINC RUSSIA................1...........................73,440
Marathon
Asteroids@home....................Marathon....................Day Two
1 Overclock.net.......................25..............................69,546,720
2 Sicituradastra.......................18..............................46,496,160
3 LinusTechTips_Team............15.............................27,739,200
4 BOINC.SK.............................12.............................25,416,960
5 team.se.................................10.............................22,822,080
6 U.S.Air Force.........................8..............................19,042,080
7 TeAm AnandTech..................6...............................18,420,960
8 OcUK - Overclockers UK.......4...............................16,893,120
9 US NAVY................................2..............................15,445,440
10 France..................................1..............................14,790,240

 

[Kiska]

As of 20:53 Australian Eastern Standard time, on the 16th of July 2017
Marathon
Asteroids@home.....................Marathon............Day Three
1 Overclock.net........................25........................71,703,360
2 Sicituradastra.........................18.......................46,748,160
3 LinusTechTips_Team.............15........................27,865,440
4 BOINC.SK..............................12.......................25,487,520
5 TeAm AnandTech...................10........................23,340,000
6 team.se...................................8..........................22,886,400
7 OcUK - Overclockers UK........6..........................19,976,160
8 U.S.Air Force..........................4..........................19,208,640
9 US NAVY................................2...........................15,647,520
10 France..................................1...........................14,958,240
Sprint
Asteroids@home......................Sprint....................Day Three
1 TeAm AnandTech...................25.........................5,899,200
2 OcUK - Overclockers UK.......18..........................3,401,280
3 Overclock.net.........................15..........................2,488,800
4 Crunching@EVGA.................12..........................841,440
5 meisterkuehler.de Team..........10..........................348,960
6 Sicituradastra..........................8............................317,280
7 US NAVY.................................6............................227,520
8 U.S.Air Force...........................4............................217,440
9 France......................................2............................199,200
10 LinusTechTips_Team..............1...........................155,520
Final stats will be retrieved around at about 11:00 Australian Eastern Standard time

 

[TennesseeTony]

Although I missed more than a day due to no tasks, I am still perplexed by my low output in Asteroids (CPU only). I should be contributing about 450k per day (minus the pending validation, of course).

EDIT: Last stats update came in. I guess I was out of tasks longer than I remember.

Anyway, way to go Stefan!

 

[StefanR5R]

Back home, and back to an Internet connected terminal...
@Kiska, thanks for the stats.

I think Stefan might be making it too easy for us!

Uh oh. I see I need to apologize big time, for being a spoiler.

By the way, a Windows box with one E5-2696v4, 2 GTX 1080Ti, and one GTX 1080 is producing about as many Asteroids points as a Linux box with two E5-2696v4. And that means credits/Joule is a lot higher on Broadwell-EP than on Pascal. (The three GPUs of the Windows box are set to 90 % power target, with the intention of operating them somewhat nearer to their energy efficiency sweet spot.)

Before the SETI@home sprint I thought there was no use engaging a CPU in a project which offers GPU applications. Learned quickly that my CPUs do quite well in SETI too, compared to my GPUs. Or the other way around, the GPU application is not as effective as in some other GPU enabled projects.

And now with Asteroids@home it's obviously the same, or even more pronounced as with SETI@home.

 

[Kiska]

By the way, a Windows box with one E5-2696v4, 2 GTX 1080Ti, and one GTX 1080 is producing about as many Asteroids points as a Linux box with two E5-2696v4. And that means credits/Joule is a lot higher on Broadwell-EP than on Pascal. (The three GPUs of the Windows box are set to 90 % power target, with the intention of operating them somewhat nearer to their energy efficiency sweet spot.)

Same with my i5-6200u + 940mx, where the 940mx uses 35w/hr to complete A@H in 1.5hrs,and my 6200u uses 15w/hr to them in 2.5hrs

And now with Asteroids@home it's obviously the same, or even more pronounced as with SETI@home.

That is because this project is double precision based, and nvidia cards are nerfed

 

[crashtech]

If Asteroids is DP, I wonder why haven't they made an AMD GPU version?

 

[StefanR5R]

this project is double precision based, and nvidia cards are nerfed

I wonder how a Quadro GP100 would fare. Or a Quadro K6000.

https://asteroidsathome.net/boinc/gpu_list.php doesn't list any Quadros or Teslas, except for a K20c, but surprisingly way down (sandwiched between GTX 750Ti and 660Ti). Tesla K20c is supposed to have 1/3 DP, and 1.17 TFLOPS theoretical peak DP throughput. --- Edit: Maybe the Asteroids@home CUDA application runs some sort of DP-emulated-by-SP code, and is doing so on GForces, Quadros, and Teslas alike irrespective of actual available DP hardware.

 

[Ken g6]

Well we've cruised to another gold medal, thanks in part to Stefan. And we are just ahead of SETI USA at #3 overall.

 

[StefanR5R]

My luck getting tasks early and steadily must have pushed my scores quite a bit, especially considering the validation lag. Time zones played a role; did internet topology matter too? I'm located nearer the project server than you, and nearer than our UK friends too who won Silver.

And we are just ahead of SETI USA at #3 overall.

Just by a hair, but it shows once more that we still may win the occasional medal if we get transferred into 1st league next year.