Weekly Stats-22JAN2017

[TennesseeTony]

edit: If you are looking for stats for 29JAN2017, there are none. Free-DC lost a pair of SSD's and is having to get the stats site back up and running.


Greetings to all!

I'm not fully awake yet, so I just wanted to make mention of a few things I noticed putting the stats together this morning.

• Participation in Folding at Home after December's race was quite steady until now, slowly dropping and then settling on about 20,000,000ppd, which is an impressive ppd for our TeAm. But the number of active folders is dropping quickly now, and so is the ppd.
• Pay particular attention to the number one spot in WCG. Absolutely incredible performance there, xii5ku! Well done.
• Last week we had LANMAN take the number one in the world position in RC5-72, and this week we have Markfw crossing the 2,000,000,000 milestone in Folding. After crunching away since about 2002, Mark only hit his first Billion 9 months ago, in April. And the second Billion in only 9 months!? Wow!

Tony.



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Thanks go, as always, to the folks responsible for Free-DC, who make this possible by keeping score for us.

In the event we have any non-crunching AnandTech readers who happen to wander into this thread:

Distributed Computing is where you allow your computing device (smartphones/tablets included) to work on things like medical research, mathematical stuff, sifting through telescope data to further the field of Astronomy, and many other 'citizen science' projects. It allows networked computers to band together to act as a supercomputer.

And you should join us.

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Asteroids@Home overall position - 28
TeAm total for the week - 565,440
TeAm rank for weekly production - 43

__Credit/week _ UserName
1_______265,920______[TA]Assimilator1
2_______180,000______Perry Maskell
3_______64,320_______geecee
4_______50,880_______10esseeTony
5_______4,320________Orange Kid


Citizen Science Grid overall position - 52
TeAm total for the week - 7,484
TeAm rank for weekly production - 79

__Credit/week _ UserName
1_______7,484________geecee


Climate Prediction overall position - 43
TeAm total for the week - 45,694
TeAm rank for weekly production - 48

__Credit/week _ UserName
1_______27,436_______Ingleside
2_______9,898________evergreencaw
3_______8,359________James C. Owens


Collatz Conjecture overall position - 36
TeAm total for the week - 41,535,386
TeAm rank for weekly production - 39

__Credit/week _ UserName
1_______30,730,628___Perry Maskell
2_______9,850,315____James C. Owens
3_______954,442______Thehive


DENIS@Home overall position - 51
TeAm total for the week - 82,102
TeAm rank for weekly production - 28

__Credit/week _ UserName
1_______54,755_______GLeeM
2_______19,206_______10esseeTony
3_______7,280________Fardringle
4_______860__________geecee


Enigma@Home overall position - 46
TeAm total for the week - 106,508
TeAm rank for weekly production - 43

__Credit/week _ UserName
1_______90,813_______Bremen
2_______9,016________jnj
3_______3,965________geecee
4_______2,714________GLeeM


Einstein@Home overall position - 38
TeAm total for the week - 6,414,829
TeAm rank for weekly production - 39

__Credit/week _ UserName
1_______2,869,815____scottLobster
2_______1,803,375____[TA]Assimilator1
3_______460,019______Prince Dakkar
4_______292,320______elawyn
5_______255,877______David
6_______254,163______mnelsonx
7_______133,420______waffleironhead
8_______106,989______James C. Owens
9_______77,203_______Alan J. Simpson
10______70,665_______Victor
11______51,326_______geecee
12______23,176_______Bruiser
13______13,014_______jnj


Folding@Home overall position - 21
TeAm total for the week - 120,618,606
TeAm rank for weekly production - 19

__Credit/week _ UserName
1_______33,077,956___Mark_F_Williams
2_______7,585,975____mike9o
3_______7,535,201____10esseetony
4_______6,955,133____crashtech
5_______6,689,228____Weiser
6_______6,518,628____theAnimal
7_______5,368,725____wingding
8_______4,458,426____Feets
9_______4,212,899____xii5ku
10______3,909,091____FoldingSolutions
11______3,799,140____HutchinsonJC
12______3,520,742____OrangeKid
13______2,485,086____Ken_g6
14______2,026,970____jro99
15______1,931,635____bds71
16______1,761,161____MrCommunistGen
17______1,633,661____Spungo
18______1,617,529____xcaliber219
19______1,569,791____Cmaxx
20______1,360,684____biodoc
21______1,240,223____Yojiq
22______1,022,971____Zetbo
23______998,528______VirtualLarry
24______966,055______Arlen
25______900,629______Orenj
26______818,459______TAS-petrusbroder
27______649,788______Brazos
28______600,289______HundredMetal
29______554,259______deninc66
30______545,796______Maverick2091
31______535,358______sk560
32______517,044______IJump
33______267,471______marksgii
34______247,271______vsteel
35______210,817______JohnnyBT
36______203,756______rrunswickjr
37______179,762______WarehouseMonkey
38______168,469______kbaikovs
39______142,424______Sheckmonster
40______132,244______warevs
41______129,183______DainBramaged
42______112,957______Murphant
43______103,982______Maximous
44______90,336_______mondrasek
45______87,391_______Viperoni
46______80,661_______wbkang
47______77,065_______Mike_F
48______73,730_______AnonPiglet
49______69,174_______TiO2
50______67,148_______kuruma
51______65,599_______Philip_Mourdjis
52______65,250_______Ryan
53______52,194_______dk02000
54______49,236_______AlteredCarbon
55______47,578_______slowbones
56______45,192_______underthefloor
57______42,489_______StefanLenz
58______42,295_______HappyCracker
59______41,809_______Anonymous
60______35,842_______Karsten_Silz
61______31,101_______ilikepigs
62______27,897_______ensignlee
63______26,503_______The_Honkey
64______24,800_______devgr
65______24,552_______knightspawn
66______24,307_______ANotSoGoodComputer
67______23,842_______Danielley86
68______19,273_______starjax1
69______14,361_______sduguid
70______13,833_______Greg
71______13,139_______uallas5
72______12,944_______nglessner
73______9,717________jkresh
74______8,446________Desslok
75______6,600________FSM
76______5,581________Michael_V._Jensen
77______4,761________TA_Smoke
78______4,676________ch1gz
79______4,001________mustache143
80______3,519________bak688
81______3,442________sartwell
82______3,058________Gizmo23
83______2,282________AtroposEngine
84______2,157________ghamilton2
85______1,449________Cyberu2
86______1,449________fhonyotski
87______828__________Aiba
88______807__________JohnnyWong1213
89______482__________ole-p
90______414__________T0Y69


GPUGrid overall position - 23
TeAm total for the week - 43,752,500
TeAm rank for weekly production - 14

__Credit/week _ UserName
1_______15,961,000___10esseeTony
2_______7,298,000____James C. Owens
3_______6,663,200____Kaebu
4_______3,936,000____Orange Kid
5_______3,229,800____kart17
6_______1,640,000____Bremen
7_______1,640,000____David
8_______1,416,500____CGI
9_______984,000______Viperoni
10______984,000______TurbineEngine


Leiden Classical overall position - 13
TeAm total for the week - 24,077
TeAm rank for weekly production - 19

__Credit/week _ UserName
1_______19,333_______petrusbroder
2_______4,743________geecee


LHC@Home 1.0 overall position - 30
TeAm total for the week - 58,371
TeAm rank for weekly production - 44

__Credit/week _ UserName
1_______40,684_______Sunny129
2_______7,796________[TA]Assimilator1
3_______3,294________Fardringle
4_______2,447________James C. Owens
5_______2,238________geecee
6_______616__________scottLobster
7_______531__________thecaptain07
8_______383__________zzuupp
9_______6____________Nick


MilkyWay@Home overall position - 17
TeAm total for the week - 16,033,969
TeAm rank for weekly production - 6

__Credit/week _ UserName
1_______7,696,774____10esseeTony
2_______2,644,809____iwajabitw
3_______2,059,895____salvorhardin
4_______1,049,633____crashtech
5_______1,000,475____Silverthorne
6_______557,440______Christopher
7_______324,669______waffleironhead
8_______262,472______LANMANTA
9_______170,555______Matt Nelson
10______94,366_______Edward
11______79,229_______James C. Owens
12______66,965_______geecee
13______14,260_______thecaptain07
14______8,182________IcefireQuickSilver
15______3,820________elfenix
16______935__________RussianSensation
17______33___________Ionstream


Moo! Wrapper overall position - 39
TeAm total for the week - 4,380,064
TeAm rank for weekly production - 20

__Credit/week _ UserName
1_______1,788,576____GLeeM
2_______1,547,848____Perry Maskell
3_______1,007,304____MANelson
4_______17,208_______Slawterr
5_______12,544_______drkicker
6_______6,584________waffleironhead


NFS@Home overall position - 17
TeAm total for the week - 23,182
TeAm rank for weekly production - 48

__Credit/week _ UserName
1_______23,052_______geecee


Primegrid overall position - 45
TeAm total for the week - 11,786,052
TeAm rank for weekly production - 34

__Credit/week _ UserName
1_______3,835,091____GLeeM
2_______3,766,751____xii5ku
3_______1,119,677____Orange Kid
4_______850,096______zzuupp
5_______775,330______Fardringle
6_______342,513______SlangNRox
7_______341,887______VirtualLarry
8_______281,002______waffleironhead
9_______207,870______Ken_g6
10______134,740______geecee
11______63,077_______mike656
12______48,059_______10esseeTony
13______20,405_______crashtech
14______600__________Smoke


Rosetta@Home overall position - 17
TeAm total for the week - 233,317
TeAm rank for weekly production - 28

__Credit/week _ UserName
1_______85,318_______BadThad
2_______49,166_______TA_TheReaper
3_______33,447_______uallas5
4_______17,269_______Wiz
5_______12,401_______Victor
6_______11,282_______David
7_______7,192________Viperoni
8_______6,053________kart17
9_______5,391________TeAm Enterprise
10______3,939________Bundyman
11______2,304________littletemple
12______1,477________cyost91
13______1,369________geecee
14______742__________scottLobster
15______253__________Bremen


RC5-72 overall position - 14
TeAm total for the week - 756,772
TeAm rank for weekly production - 6

__Credit/week _ UserName
1_______694,631______LANMAN
2_______46,883_______GSmith - Team Anandtech
3_______7,612________stefanlenz@hotmail.com
4_______4,559________Mad Pierre
5_______2,970________f00_devil@yahoo.com
6_______78___________boehm@nc.rr.com
7_______30___________iamwiz82@hotmail.com
8_______9____________richardbarnet


SkyNet POGS overall position - 36
TeAm total for the week - 76,624
TeAm rank for weekly production - 66

__Credit/week _ UserName
1_______63,279_______Orange Kid
2_______7,797________geecee
3_______5,151________GLeeM
4_______297__________iwajabitw
5_______198__________10esseeTony
6_______198__________Kiska


Seti@Home overall position - 23
TeAm total for the week - 4,697,862
TeAm rank for weekly production - 19

__Credit/week _ UserName
1_______1,248,608____Pokey
2_______901,503______Sidewinder
3_______541,991______baxsie
4_______220,160______TeAm Enterprise
5_______217,638______LANMAN
6_______180,129______uallas5
7_______116,740______Wayne S
8_______106,740______Astro-AL
9_______105,522______Wiz
10______92,639_______Esiuda
11______68,329_______James C. Owens
12______67,800_______cyost91
13______66,459_______kart17
14______64,750_______UlricT
15______64,037_______kwhited
16______60,399_______Dougal
17______53,364_______Sickle 584th
18______52,874_______QuietDad
19______50,811_______MGallik
20______50,098_______evergreencaw
21______40,424_______petrusbroder
22______37,771_______hymy
23______33,468_______Viperoni
24______30,795_______geecee
25______22,766_______mnelsonx
26______19,376_______Jalapeno
27______17,188_______VTrider
28______13,895_______Arlen - Team AnandTech
29______12,471_______Jack Whitmire
30______11,890_______Alan J. Simpson
31______11,092_______liquidsun
32______10,429_______RedFox1
33______10,072_______Carl A. Dimperio Jr.
34______8,741________Dragonslayere
35______7,237________Perry Maskell
36______6,429________asimperson
37______6,301________Don
38______6,073________Zeke
39______5,997________Shane
40______5,983________littletemple
41______5,184________David
42______4,442________DimensionX
43______4,307________Jeffe19007
44______4,166________ElFenix
45______4,139________Steve
46______3,912________jnj
47______3,875________Zim Hosein
48______3,456________tmp
49______3,226________IcefireQuickSilver
50______2,956________TeAm Tarca - bigwoofer - Douger
51______2,127________ericlp
52______1,999________thomsbrain
53______1,462________Mortimer
54______1,251________Kiska
55______1,078________Nick
56______409__________scottLobster
57______386__________Slawterr
58______370__________Steven
59______300__________Odette DORLING
60______263__________acheron
61______216__________Charlie22911
62______186__________Len
63______99___________[TA]Assimilator1
64______86___________DrKicker


Universe@Home overall position - 11
TeAm total for the week - 366,666
TeAm rank for weekly production - 13

__Credit/week _ UserName
1_______280,000______Fardringle
2_______54,666_______Silverthorne
3_______19,666_______geecee
4_______12,333_______GLeeM


World Community Grid overall position - 63
TeAm total for the week - 2,381,847
TeAm rank for weekly production - 36

__Credit/week _ UserName
1_______1,088,427____xii5ku
2_______329,217______10esseeTony
3_______140,987______ZipSpeed
4_______106,876______Kaebu
5_______83,002_______wayliff
6_______76,180_______kelemvor33
7_______73,491_______Arlen - Team AnandTech
8_______59,069_______Neurodog
9_______55,699_______Ingleside
10______46,575_______crashtech
11______44,849_______sangyup81
12______37,892_______James C. Owens
13______33,603_______Aegeon
14______32,583_______rainsford
15______30,211_______sukhoi_584th
16______17,941_______Rebel Alliance
17______17,406_______the_mastergee
18______15,877_______catavalon21
19______15,537_______nelsonlew
20______14,572_______Orange Kid
21______14,137_______geecee
22______8,365________Sheep221
23______8,188________zzuupp
24______7,666________EagleKeeper
25______6,481________TheHive
26______4,116________Elvenstar
27______3,679________djshindo
28______2,759________asimperson
29______2,425________IcefireQuickSilver
30______1,540________somethingsketchy
31______1,388________iwajabitw
32______1,141________thomsbrain


Yoyo@Home overall position - 31
TeAm total for the week - 13,547
TeAm rank for weekly production - 62

__Credit/week _ UserName
1_______8,891________MANelson
2_______4,655________geecee




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Alphabetical List of stat links to some TeAm Projects :

Asteroids

Citizen Science Grid

Climate Prediction

Collatz Conjecture

DENIS -Intermittent

DPAD

Enigma

Einstein

Fight Malaria -Inactive?

Folding@Home

Gerasim

GPU Grid

Leiden Classical

LHC

Malaria Control Project -Inactive?

Milkyway

Moo! Wrapper

NFS

Number Fields

PrimeGrid

Rosetta

RC5/72

POGS

SETI

Universe

WCG

YAFU

Yoyo

 

[GLeeM]

Thanks for the stats, Tony

 

[iwajabitw]

Thanks Tony!

 

[petrusbroder]

Big thanks, Tony.
I've stopped F@H and started my previous projects (Seti@Home, Leiden Classical and LHC) where I wqant to reach some milestones ...

 

[Markfw]

Notice also, we are going to be overtaken by Toms in 3 months ! WE have to step up a little at least.4 million ppd is all.

 

[Orange Kid]

Thanks for the stats.

 

[Smoke]

Great stats as always, Tony!

 

[LANMAN]

Well, not #1 in the world, just within Team Anandtech. (Wow.. I wish though.. the actual #1 person's stats are insane. Wish I knew who/how he/she was accomplishing that - 300k-400k per day back in 2015, that's quite the herd; he was sandbagging in there a few times, with 3-4 million block dumps, so it appears some classic sneakernet was going on.)

Thanks for the stats Tony!

BTW: I was able to get my hands on a Titan Z. Hate to say it, but outside of gaming, I wasn't really impressed; I know I had my hope set a little to high for a card that's been out for a while. (It does stand up to ANY game I can throw at it though! All graphics set to high and it doesn't even sweat.... steady 120-135fps) 42A on a single rail will definitely test most power supplies!

--LANMAN

 

[crashtech]

Thanks, Tony! These weekly threads help keep me inspired to do better!

 

[Kiska]

Thanks for the stats
*Goes back to lurking*

 

[Markfw]

well, I just had a 1070 go bad, so I replaced it with a 980 FTW, and its doing 490k ppd, so loosing 140k ppd, but the other 1070's are now in the 2683 rig, and I decided to turn on 24 cores to cpu mode, and they are getting 66k, so net loss of 74k, not bad.

 

[crashtech]

I wonder if a modern GPU would work okay in the X8DTL-i, and how many CPU cores I'd need to give it.

 

[VirtualLarry]

Thanks, Tony!

 

[Markfw]

@crashtech I never tried it, but shove one in there and see !

 

[uallas5]

Thanks for the stats Tony and congrats to Mark and xii5ku!!

 

[StefanR5R]

World Community Grid
[...]
__Credit/week _ UserName
1_______1,088,427____xii5ku

This is the result of all my gear at the peak of Primegrid Newton Challenge switched over to WCG/OpenZika in full racing mode. Which implies that this sort of output is not sustainable and will drop off soon.

Some more stats from Free-DC: Sorted by yesterday's output, xii5ku held rank 38 of the global WCG user stats, and the two 2P Xeons (hosts 3750287 and 3750289) ranked 17th and 15th of the global WCG hosts stats.

75 % of the sum of my WCG points over the last ten days were produced by these two 2P Xeons together (56 cores/ 112 threads in total, working 24/7 at WCG). The remaining 25 % of the production came from up to 9 PCs (up to 41 cores/ 64 threads in total, depending on weekday and time of day due to regular duties; only 4 of the PCs could work 24/7 at WCG).

Total production of this 10-day WCG challenge of xii5ku versus himself:

day       WCG points   WCG points / 7   Free-DC stats
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Sa 14      1,128,719        161,246        157,571
Su 15      1,212,639        173,234        174,362
Mo 16      1,071,880        153,126        153,349
Tu 17      1,085,153        155,022        154,485
We 18      1,084,740        154,963        155,848
Th 19      1,057,107        151,015        150,376
Fr 20      1,007,384        143,912        143,767
Sa 21      1,083,581        154,797        156,239
Su 22      1,124,482        160,640        160,004
Mo 23      1,029,947        147,135        146,839
-----------------------------------------------------
total     10,885,632      1,555,090      1,552,840

I'll see if I can produce as many WCG OpenZika credits as TennesseeTony's GCW Sieve credits from the Newton Challenge (converted 7:1 of course).

Race 1 practically-final stats:

Rank___Credits____Username
[...]
89_____2063849___10esseeTony

1.55 M credits down, only 0.51 M more to go!

 

[StefanR5R]

I wonder if a modern GPU would work okay in the X8DTL-i, and how many CPU cores I'd need to give it.

Folding@home's GPU feeder process is generally single-threaded, per each GPU. With my GTX 1070 and 1080 in a Windows 7 box with 4.0 GHz Broadwell-E with hyperthreading switched on, each feeder process almost always uses 100 % of one logical core, i.e. one hardware thread. Some GPU work units use less than that.

I wonder whether this high load of one CPU hardware thread is due to real work (meaning you need a really fast core for good utilization of the card), or just due to simple ineffective polling (meaning a slower core wouldn't reduce GPU utilization much, or not at all).

Besides, AMD GPUs apparently need a lot less CPU than NVidia GPUs in F@H.

Since mid December when I got these GPUs, I noticed a single occasion at which one feeder process shot up to a CPU utilization which corresponded to two hardware threads, for a blink of an eye. I am not sure whether this was for real or only a brief glitch in the Task Manager's bookkeeping. However, Markfw mentioned in Getting the most PPD out of your hardware for F@H that GPU-only F@H load exceeds 1 thread per GPU from time to time.

 

[crashtech]

My plan would be to give the GPU two HT cores at first, then see if it suffers when reducing to one. It may also be that one core should be left to the system for routine things as not to take cycles away from feeding the GPU, that's my reasoning for reserving two for the GPU slot. The HT implementation in Westmere is not quite as good as it's gotten in later models, I think.

 

[TennesseeTony]

I don't expect to provide stats this Sunday, but it's possible (likely to be tons of errors in the reporting if so). FreeDC is down due to hardware failure.

From FreeDC:
Friday January 27th 2017.
One of the SSD drives has failed completely and another is showing errors. I need to pull these drives, replace and rebuild the stats. Going to be a while.

Update 3:30EST : Ordered 2xSamsung 850EVO 250Gb SSD's for overnight delivery.

 

[crashtech]

Bummer. SSDs are great until they fail, most of the time they die they take all the data with them immediately. Anyone who can retrieve data from a wonky SSD should consider themselves lucky.

 

[VirtualLarry]

Hmm, maybe SSDs haven't totally made HDDs obsolete?

 

[StefanR5R]

One downside of SSDs vs. HDDs is the much more complex firmware of SSDs of course. Nevertheless, if only reliability and availability are considered, I think SSDs are at the very least on par with modern HDDs. In some usages, SSDs should be far superior, e.g. higher reliability in mobile use since SSDs are mechanically much more robust; higher availability in RAID use since recovery from degraded state is much faster and more likely to succeed.

Just speaking theoretically, for lack of anecdotal evidence (I experienced only few HDD failures and no SSD failures since I started using mass storage in the form of C= A590) and lack of useful statistical sources.

 

[bds71]

as far as reliability goes, I agree - I think SSD's are on par, if not superior, to HHD's. the real difference comes in recoverability should one of these drives fail. almost all HHD's data is recoverable since the data on an HHD is never really erased, only written over. but, with SSD's i believe the data is erased (rather than written over) and even the data that is currently on the drive is unrecoverable (?) in most cases.

 

[Smoke]

Just speaking theoretically, for lack of anecdotal evidence (I experienced only few HDD failures and no SSD failures since I started using mass storage in the form of C= A590) and lack of useful statistical sources.

Ok Stefan, I don't know what "C=A590" means. I know you are not referring to a "camera"? Give me a clue.

 

[StefanR5R]

Commodore A590, an expansion box for Amiga 500. Originally came with a 20 MB XT HDD; could also hold Fast RAM and external and internal SCSI devices. (Not my first mass storage in the wider sense, but my first HDD.)

...sorry for the off-topic talk, but with stats down, this is going to be a slooow weekend...