[mmonnin]

I am very surprised the 1st sprint is not SETI has the voting came out after the shut down news. It is WCG though. SETI might be it next week.

03/12/2020 13:00 (UTC) - 03/15/2020 12:59 (UTC)
World Community Grid

 

[mmonnin]

Don't dump yet. There are issues getting stats for FB
http://formula-boinc.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=157&start=10#p1239

 

[mmonnin]

The next Sprint project will be announced at 21:00 (UTC) today.

 

[mmonnin]

I am surprised at that. There is plenty of work. There are several teams with SETI in their name. Figured SETI would get some votes.

There are even ULX tasks available at Universe.

 

[mmonnin]

There are some bad ulx tasks that have a disk limit error at the end of processing. Watch out for _2, _3 tasks with a lower batch ulx_500_#### vs ulx_500_#####.

 

[mmonnin]

Yeah several rounds of bad batches. But check the FB stats before uploading. It should have had stats for several hours but still nothing.

 

[mmonnin]

VBox can always be installed later if needed so either option (with or without vbox) is ok.

Looks like davidBAM was banking up Universe tasks again as he dumped 34m. That crap doesn't help the bandwidth issues.

 

[mmonnin]

They were slowly gaining on our 9th place all of yesterday but now we're 500k behind in 11th. I've been able to keep the PCs busy with work but I'll be idling out of [email protected] tasks.

 

[mmonnin]

All my CPUs include 1950x, 2700x, 2x 2670v1, 3770k and 3570k. the 2670s were not running Universe and the RAC isn't as high it could be if running all the time without upload issue.

AMD Zen CPU all the way for BOINC only rig. The CPU performance per $ is just better than Intel offerings.

 

[mmonnin]

Wow, we pulled back into 9th. scole and stoneageman dumped on the last day. They must have been our wingman.

 

[mmonnin]

Suggestions?

 

[mmonnin]

I didn't see it was [email protected] until this morning. I paused uploads until now. A bunch verified during the day.

 

[mmonnin]

Per watt, CPUs give better points at [email protected] I've only been running CPUs.

11xx/2xxx NV GPUs aren't supported in Linux yet. They are very slow at providing support for new GPUs.

 

[mmonnin]

@bfromcolo I guess I never looked at the projects that closely before. I assumed that the projects that showed up as pending, in manager, were the only ones that were pre downloaded, but these had been pulled days ago and are due tomorrow, so that's probably why they showed up today. Thanks for the info.

I guess 2xxx are supported. Min driver version is 440.33 which is pretty recent.
http://asteroidsathome.net/boinc/forum_thread.php?id=800

 

[mmonnin]

Not for this week. What's a suggestion?

 

[mmonnin]

You'll need the config file too if the project still uses that. It's been a long time since I've ran collatz.

 

[mmonnin]

MW is the FB Sprint event.

Fire up those FP64 GPUs.

 

[mmonnin]

GPUGrid this week.

 

[mmonnin]

There is plenty of GPUGrid work now and its pretty stable. We could get a point with some more users.

WEPM2 event was canceled.

 

[mmonnin]

Running what I have, is there any benefit messing with multiple WU per GPU?

Na, these should provide high GPU util as long as there is a CPU to feed it. No need for any kind of swan_sync environment variable any more. I think there's still a 24hr bonus so def don't want to run over that to get a bit higher util. These are much smaller than the Long tasks GPUGrid used to have.

Still NV/Cuda only and there has been no CPU work for awhile.