This morning I am pleased to "announce" (gloat/giggle/mutter...) that the Intel i9-9900 (8c/16t) that arrived yesterday was successfully installed. I now have a rig with 9 discrete video cards crunching via an MSI B360-F Pro MB (18 gpu slots).
Announce that a known cranky XFX Rx 570 GPU has been "laid to rest" (or at least is getting ready to be sold for "not playing well with others").
The i9 CPU is running with Turbo disabled for two reasons. I have it being cooled by a generic CPU cooler that probably would have thermal throttling if I had turbo enabled. And I don't have any CPU tasks crunching right now.
Other notes include the two bios settings that allow PCIe to run on "auto" instead of "gen1" have been toggled on. I used this the last time I had this make/model/CPU MB running and did not see any stability issues. And hopefully it does speed up the data transfers on the PCIe bus.
This system is running 2 XFX Rx 580's, 4 XFX Rx 570 (All 8 GB video ram) in putative "mining mode" (aka quiet setting on the switch on the top of the card). And 3 P106-90 (cut down Gtx 1060 3GB) cards. These cards maybe slower than a regular Gtx 1060 3Gb card.
The current target apps are Gravity Wave GPU. It will take a while to see if this thing is going to join the top 50 club or not.
Tom M
A Proud member of the O.F.A. (Old Farts Association). Be well, do good work, and keep in touch.® (Garrison Keillor)
Just so you are aware, you will not see any credits for GW S3 WU's for an unknown period.
The new S3 WU's don't have any validator installed yet. They are just piling up in backlogs.
So you will not see any movement at all in your RAC. In fact your RAC should drop as your existing S2 WU pendings drop. Mine has done so.
The new S3 WU's will cause an extreme amount of downloads on your network connection.
Watch out on your ISP account limit.
That would explain the RAC not going up that I have noticed.
But now the GW uploads are stalling. The backoffs haven't hit the Sunday dry spell on the GR's yet but maybe I was the straw that broke the camel's back...
Sigh,
Tom M
A Proud member of the O.F.A. (Old Farts Association). Be well, do good work, and keep in touch.® (Garrison Keillor)
Tom M
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CPU crunching only Universe@home, and TN-Grid as a 0-resource backup.
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Ian&Steve C. wrote: Tom M
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Sorry. Tennessee grid?
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Tom M wrote: Ian&Steve C.
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http://gene.disi.unitn.it/test/
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TN-Grid
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TN-Grid = https://gene.disi.unitn.it/test/index.php
Another biologic molecular-modeling, gene-expression project.
Keith Myers wrote:TN-Grid
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Ah. Thank you Keith, Ian&SteveC.
Tom M
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https://einsteinathome.org/ho
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https://einsteinathome.org/host/12866757
This morning I am pleased to "announce" (gloat/giggle/mutter...) that the Intel i9-9900 (8c/16t) that arrived yesterday was successfully installed. I now have a rig with 9 discrete video cards crunching via an MSI B360-F Pro MB (18 gpu slots).
Announce that a known cranky XFX Rx 570 GPU has been "laid to rest" (or at least is getting ready to be sold for "not playing well with others").
The i9 CPU is running with Turbo disabled for two reasons. I have it being cooled by a generic CPU cooler that probably would have thermal throttling if I had turbo enabled. And I don't have any CPU tasks crunching right now.
Other notes include the two bios settings that allow PCIe to run on "auto" instead of "gen1" have been toggled on. I used this the last time I had this make/model/CPU MB running and did not see any stability issues. And hopefully it does speed up the data transfers on the PCIe bus.
This system is running 2 XFX Rx 580's, 4 XFX Rx 570 (All 8 GB video ram) in putative "mining mode" (aka quiet setting on the switch on the top of the card). And 3 P106-90 (cut down Gtx 1060 3GB) cards. These cards maybe slower than a regular Gtx 1060 3Gb card.
The current target apps are Gravity Wave GPU. It will take a while to see if this thing is going to join the top 50 club or not.
Tom M
A Proud member of the O.F.A. (Old Farts Association). Be well, do good work, and keep in touch.® (Garrison Keillor)
Just so you are aware, you
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Just so you are aware, you will not see any credits for GW S3 WU's for an unknown period.
The new S3 WU's don't have any validator installed yet. They are just piling up in backlogs.
So you will not see any movement at all in your RAC. In fact your RAC should drop as your existing S2 WU pendings drop. Mine has done so.
The new S3 WU's will cause an extreme amount of downloads on your network connection.
Watch out on your ISP account limit.
Keith Myers wrote: Just so
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That would explain the RAC not going up that I have noticed.
But now the GW uploads are stalling. The backoffs haven't hit the Sunday dry spell on the GR's yet but maybe I was the straw that broke the camel's back...
Sigh,
Tom M
A Proud member of the O.F.A. (Old Farts Association). Be well, do good work, and keep in touch.® (Garrison Keillor)
update Ian&Steve C.
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update
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Ian&Steve C.
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Are you re-deploying because of the GW upload stall or because you want to see how high a GR rac you can manage?
Tom M
A Proud member of the O.F.A. (Old Farts Association). Be well, do good work, and keep in touch.® (Garrison Keillor)