SETI@Home Wow!-Event 2019

[Markfw]

OK< so I have one result so far on my 2060. Is 130 seconds good ? 1370 run time, 130 cpu time. The cpu client takes 4750 elapsed on a 3900x running over 4 ghz

 

[TennesseeTony]

To determine if a run time is good or not, we would have to also know which task was being run.

If running on Windows, go here to download and install lunatics ( click on " Lunatics Installer v0.45b6 (64-bit) "...just click click click until it gets to the Nvidia page, then select the bottom item, SoG, and click click click to the end. Restart, and you should only get SoG tasks, and let us know the run time on those tasks please.

 

[lane42]

Hey Mark, this is what you should be doing,
https://setiathome.berkeley.edu/result.php?resultid=7920625682
same w/u, blc33, same gpu, same os. You need the SOG app.
I don't use windows so I don't remember how to do it.

 

[Markfw]

OK< does the below look like its doing what its supposed to be doing ?

 

[burninatortech4]

Looks like my Vega 64 (Sapphire Reference) at:
1630mhz [1090mv core] and
1000mhz HBM
is completing [blc33_2bit_guppi_58643] in about 11min 16s

https://setiathome.berkeley.edu/result.php?resultid=7852588092

2700x PBO temp on 100% load is stable at 77 Celsius (30 Celsius ambient) with a Dark Rock Pro 4 at 1544 RPM - SETI runs hot!
GPU is comfortable at 57 Celsius Core and 66 Celsius HBM

 

[Markfw]

I think 8 minutes on my 2060 ?

 

[burninatortech4]

I think 8 minutes on my 2060 ?

That's a good deal better than the V64! Impressive.

 

[lane42]

SETI runs hot!.......You should run Folding@Home

 

[Markfw]

Well, now that I have 15 valid results, its very odd to me the credit/runtimes, very inconsistant., 14 seconds to 911 seconds. Points run from 1 to 79, but the 911 was only 65 points. Most appear to be in the 70 something points, but the run times are all over the place.

 

[Markfw]

SETI runs hot!.......You should run Folding@Home

Itsd only running 60c

 

[lane42]

Mark, those fast workunits with low credit are just what are called
Noise bombs, bad data in the workunits and this will pass.

 

[burninatortech4]

SETI@Home shows validation pending on 91 tasks. I'm not sure why its being so sluggish to provide credit. My dad's 2200g machine has more credit for the same time period than my 2700x/Vega 64 ???

 

[StefanR5R]

SETI@Home shows validation pending on 91 tasks. I'm not sure why its being so sluggish to provide credit.

Isn't this standard for SETI@home? (I run it only occasionally.)
You can look at the Work Unit of some of your pending results and try to get a picture of the computers of your wingmen.

I clicked through some of my own pending results as well as a handful of yours, and the wingmen had returned valid results generally very recently = hours or minutes ago (for other workunits than our pending ones). That is, all which I have seen are actively processing their work queue.

In other words, among the sample of pending results that I looked at, I haven't spotted a wingman who blocked the uploading of results (e.g. in order to release them after the Wow!-Event starts).

 

[Assimilator1]

So how much more efficient is a GPU for SETI these days?
And for my main rig, which would be better? (obviously both is better overall ).

Oh yea, and I'm in .

In this event we want to crunch what we can. Therefore, of course, the CPU should also count.

Err, that's not what he asked

 

[StefanR5R]

So how much more efficient is a GPU for SETI these days?

I don't know for AMD GPUs. But in case of Nvidia GPUs, their efficiency depends quite a lot on whether or not optimized application versions are installed. Especially those that are available for Linux make a difference.

Last year I posted PPD/Watt for 16nm Nvidia consumer GPUs and 14nm Intel server CPUs.
Edit: Found the post.
Edit 2: The post shows power consumption at the wall, hence includes the CPU overhead of the GPU application, and other overhead of the host hardware.

This showed a power efficiency (credits per second per Watt) of 2.4 points/kJ for the CPUs, and 3.1 points/kJ for the GPUs.

Meanwhile, I suspect credits per computational work may have eroded somewhat, while computational efficiency of CPU-only application versions presumably have remained the same. (I have yet to verify this.) On the other hand, Linux Nvidia CUDA application versions appear to have almost doubled their speed from spring 2018 to winter 2018/2019, at only slightly increased power consumption.

 

[lane42]

burninator34, ive got over 6 thousand pendings

https://setiathome.berkeley.edu/results.php?hostid=8498992&offset=0&show_names=0&state=2&appid=

 

[Modular]

I'm in. Currently trying to figure out how to get my 1070gtx and 1070ti working under Linux with the "special clients"...Looking forward to this!

 

[burninatortech4]

burninator34, ive got over 6 thousand pendings

https://setiathome.berkeley.edu/results.php?hostid=8498992&offset=0&show_names=0&state=2&appid=

SETI seems to take much longer to validate than Milkyway@Home. Interesting.

 

[ao_ika_red]

SETI seems to take much longer to validate than Milkyway@Home. Interesting.

Bear in mind that a lot of people are bunkering right now and seti user base is a lot larger than mw@h. For easy comparison, you can compare TeAm's seti and mw@h users on tony's weekly stats.

 

[burninatortech4]

Looks like my Vega 64 (Sapphire Reference) at:
1630mhz [1090mv core] and
1000mhz HBM
is completing [blc33_2bit_guppi_58643] in about 11min 16s

https://setiathome.berkeley.edu/result.php?resultid=7852588092

2700x PBO temp on 100% load is stable at 77 Celsius (30 Celsius ambient) with a Dark Rock Pro 4 at 1544 RPM - SETI runs hot!
GPU is comfortable at 57 Celsius Core and 66 Celsius HBM

I was able to reduce task time for my Vega 64 down to between 7 and 8 minutes (from over 11 min) by setting CPU to 90% max (leaves a core and 2 threads open). I'd read about doing this but hadn't tried it yet.

 

[TennesseeTony]

I will stick with the current PG challenge until the end......as a make-up for absolutely sucking at running SETI. I will have ONE 1080Ti running SoG for SETI (Winblows 10). I absolutely LOVE SETI as a project.....but HATE it due to not being optimized 'out of the box'.

Dear @Pokey......we hope 'retirement' from DC has treated you well friend!!!!!!!

 

[TennesseeTony]

I just msg'd Pokey.....I know he is retired from DC (same as biodoc, lol!) but I'd sure like to know he is still among the living. :-/ SETI was his favorite....

 

[lane42]

Tony, if you here from Pokey, make sure to show him this https://www.seti-germany.de/Wow/stats/teams/2012/30191/TeAm AnandTech

He got me the next year.

 

[StefanR5R]

The SETI WOW event is soon. If you're good with multiple clients and bunkering, that race started over a week ago!

I'm way behind the curve. I still haven't fixed the recently discovered trouble with the circuit to which the GPU-equipped computers are supposed to be attached. It's not something I want to deal with when tired from a workday...
I could run a long power chord across a couple rooms, but aesthetic concerns aside (feeling all nobby about that), it would introduce a tripping hazard at best, and at worst just shift the latent fire hazard to another circuit. :-(

 

[Modular]

I will stick with the current PG challenge until the end......as a make-up for absolutely sucking at running SETI. I will have ONE 1080Ti running SoG for SETI (Winblows 10). I absolutely LOVE SETI as a project.....but HATE it due to not being optimized 'out of the box'.

Dear @Pokey......we hope 'retirement' from DC has treated you well friend!!!!!!!

Those 1070s would scream in Seti on Linux. It's really easy too:

Install mint
Update
Install driver 430
Download the special linux client
Extract to Home folder
Change settings in .xml to cuda 101
Run boincmgr
Login to Seti

1min 30 second Wu's abound! I hope you relinuxify!!