New livestock for the farm - duel xeon

Update on the farm and a bit of help needed to reach full potential.

Biggest 24h crunch yesterday at 1600+ points (average up to 1000 now )
been getting so many 56 pointers it's untrue, so theirs room for a higher max

in order of 'observered' crunching potential.

1x P4 1.7GHz / 512MB
1x P4 1.8GHz / 768MB
1x P4 2.0GHz / 512MB
1x P3 1.2GHz / 768MB (tualatin core oc to 1.5)
4x P4 2.7Ghz / 512MB
4x P4 3.0Ghz / 512MB
1x P4 3.2Ghz / 512MB

all the above are running well (most on 116 pointers )but I'm as yet unable to get the duel xeon server to crunch. could be a firewall issue, but don't know how to reconfigure it.

new rig - 805D on P5WD2 premium - I'll be happy with 3.6 but going for more

duel xeon up and running now. (I'll be keeping a close eye on it though)

4 thread-tastic

What are the Xeon rig's specs? What type of server is it?

dual xeon 2.4Ghz, Intel Harlingen E7501HG2 MoBo, 2Gb RAM, Seagate cheetahs (and lots of fans)

What's the FSB? When there are huuuuge Wus about you might find that running 4 processes can saturate the FSB trying to access main memory. At that point some systems can get laggy.

533Mhz

I'll run 4 over night dropping down to two 9-6

Keep an eye on it. At high CPU speeds my Xeon machine can get laggy with a 133MHz FSB when running 4 QMDs at 350 MiB physical memory and another 500 MiB virtual memory each.

It probably won't be a problem but you should be wary.

will do, thanks for the warning - gave the case a good hoover to - don't think it's ever run at 100% for more that an hour before but 'redundent' psu fan still not active so temps not that bad in case yet.

Mmmmm

Dual Xeon goodness

Dunc

yep - been sitting in the corner with very little work to do for to long now.
Time to but it to good use (especially over night )

Plus 1 borg this week end.

1x p3
13x p4
1x pdX

Baby came first this weekend - so new build due at end of week

Server (1x pdX) no longer folding

Plus one borg - P4 1.8
Plus one build - 805 currently installing windows

Dirty DC addict.

you got that right
But upgarde to 805 was always going to happen, my P3 just can't do XP or video editing on its agp card

new rig build, xp installed and updated (forgot how long that takes) currently testing, inital benchmarks etc, etc.

new rig up and running - in a rubbish old case (no fans except heatsink and PSU ) so as you can imagine I've not OC'ed yet in this heat.

Posted it's first WU this morning (9 hours crunch) and was half way through another WU on the other core

shadowscotland said:

new rig up and running - in a rubbish old case (no fans except heatsink and PSU ) so as you can imagine I've not OC'ed yet in this heat.

Posted it's first WU this morning (9 hours crunch) and was half way through another WU on the other core

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how do they do at stock? just out of interest?

what benchmarks and stuff or folding - first WU was 80ppd at 50%