[franz]

Should I download the client with Virtualbox for my Windows rig? Up to this point I was only using my ubuntu rig for BOINC, which I switched over to [email protected] today.

 

[franz]

So I was wondering around the interwebs and found this https://universeathome.pl/universe/team_members.php?teamid=1028&offset=0&sort_by=expavg_credit

Just out of curiosity, what kind of hardware are you guys using? Especially interested in the top 5 average producers. Trying to get ideas for my next dedicated BOINC rig.

 

[franz]

Yeah my ULX projects were just as bad 19 attempts 2 valid, 2 pending, 3 invalid, 12 error....I never ran this project before and my OCs have been 100% solid on all other BOINC projects and [email protected]

Thanks for the input on your setups. I have been not done any major upgrades on my PCs in quite some time and my BOINC/[email protected] rigs are usually just hand me down parts or stuff I can grab for a steal. Its pretty amazing the progress AMD has made since I built this Sandy Bridge rig. Now I have to decide if I am going to build a couple cheap rigs and keep my sigrig for a bit or go all in on a new sigrig. Thanks

 

[franz]

Sweet we are in the points!

Looking over the AMD chipsets today and determined I would probably go with the X470 for a dedicated rig unless I find a really good deal on the B450s. I feel the B450s would really bottleneck a second GPU at PCIE 2.0x4 and for efficiency I would like to run at least 2 GPUs per system.

 

[franz]

Well that sucks....not a lot of positive comments in this thread http://formula-boinc.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=156&start=40 and I cant find a reason for the cancellation.

 

[franz]

The poll is up for the next sprint, hopefully this one stays on schedule.

 

[franz]

Well I have [email protected] ready to go. Lets see what happens this event. I would rather not take my GPUs off [email protected] but I will figure that out as I see how the points are.

 

[franz]

Is anyone getting nvidia GPU projects on a linux(ubuntu) rig? My windows rig is getting them and they both have the same GPU and latest drivers for both. Double checked that allow GPU compute was enabled.

 

[franz]

Well ironically my GTX1070, started crunching shortly after I started running [email protected] on it.....

I noticed the points were the same for either CPU or GPU. The 3 cores on my Sandy Bridge are basically producing as much as my other 1070.

Another question, for ubuntu users, why does the BOINC manager allow new tasks for projects I told it to stop crunching? I turned off Rosetta and WCG, but came home today and had projects running for them while asteroids was on standby. Did the same on my Win10 rig and it hasnt pulled any other projects.

 

[franz]

@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.

 

[franz]

That was a pretty good fight for 11th. I was able to crunch around 850 projects. I have some new hardware coming in, so I should be able to step it up a bit for the next sprint.

 

[franz]

Did we put in a vote for the next Formula BOINC project? Starting in 2 days

 

[franz]

It starts tomorrow, Collatz was chosen.

EDIT: I dont really care which project we run, I still dont know enough about them to know what we might be competitive in. I currently have an i5 2500K, i5 4790K, and now a Ryzen 1700X. I have 2 GTX1070 and a RTX2060 to go along with those setups.

 

[franz]

Collatz is a GPU project that gives out pretty high points. I ran the crap out of it every BGB, which is pretty much how I got so many points in Collatz.

I will throw a few GPUs at it, since I don't think I've ran Collatz in quite some time. :thumb:

Running it on my GPUs and CPUs, but just noticed CPU projects are super slow...2 projects with 3-4 day estimated completion lol

 

[franz]

The config file is still used, and I actually had to remove and then re-add Collatz since I haven't ran it since they updated the app after the cheating shenanigans.

What is the config file? I did a new setup since I haven't run this project before. I also disabled CPU processing, because too slow.

 

[franz]

The config file is a blank file that will ship with the rest of the project files. The config file can be used to tune the application for maximum performance. Word of warning, that is you max out the performance your GPU will run very hot and be under a very heavy load.

I just crashed my system, because I used my normal max performance config and didn't think about the fact that my 5700XT is running on the stock blower cooler. Needless to say it rapidly warmed up to throttling temps, and then crashed the driver. :doh:

Here is a link to the thread on the Collatz forum with example configs. https://boinc.thesonntags.com/collatz/forum_thread.php?id=8
There are also quite a few examples in the last few pages of our Collatz thread: https://www.overclock.net/forum/180...ollatz-conjecture-project-support-thread.html

+ virtual rep

Finally found the file on the ubuntu rig, I will have to play with this tomorrow when I have more time to monitor temps and usage.

 

[franz]

I plugged in the recommended values for the 1070s in my ubuntu rigs. I saw a decrease in project time from around 14-15 minutes to 8-9 minutes, with little impact on GPU temps. Its actually throttling a bit because its hitting the power limit, so temps dropped 1-2c.

I used the same values for my 2060, but Im tweaking it here and there to see if it can push a little harder with the extra L2 cache and improved turing architecture. FYI dont try to run threads=9 on a 2060.........

 

[franz]

I didn't know WEP-M+2 was still around. It is a pretty long running BOINC project, but it is a one man show running on limited hardware so it could be interesting.

Looks like its Linux only, so Im guessing VM in windows would work?

 

[franz]

oh no... it appears their servers have crashed & my finished tasks aren't uploading

Sounds about right lol. They probably got hit with a few thousand uploads at once.