BRP5 very fast host

Vortac
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Topic 197361

Please can somebody knowledgeable check out this tasks:
http://einsteinathome.org/host/10242690/tasks

That host is managing some suspiciously fast runtimes with BRP5, but good deal of them eventually turn up with validation errors. What could be wrong? Is GPU reporting false runtimes?

ExtraTerrestrial Apes
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BRP5 very fast host

Due to the validation errors it surely looks like he's pushing his GPU too hard. But the runtimes alone are not alarming: he's using Tahiti, which is almost AMDs fastest chip. The top 3 hosts are using them as well, and are showing longer runtimes. But we don't know how many WUs they run in parallel.

Quick estimate: the 2nd fastest host achieved an RAC of 250k with 2 GPUs. Let's neglect the CPU credits, since it won't significantly exceed 10k RAC even he's crunching 24/7 Einstein on them. That's 125k credits per GPU per day. Or returning one finished WU on average every 2280s, independent of how many are run in parallel. He'S reporting runtimes around 6400s, so he's likely running 3 WUs in parallel.

Anyway, the host in question shows runtimes around 3700s - which could well be, depending on his configuration.

MrS

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mountkidd
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RE: Anyway, the host in

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Anyway, the host in question shows runtimes around 3700s - which could well be, depending on his configuration.

MrS


With a little digging... This PCIe2 host is ruuning x1 on the GPU which appears to be clocked at 1.1GHz.

Run times of 2500s/wu are possible with this host/card combo and a bit of config.

Gord

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