Denis@home team challenge: 31st Oct - 7th Nov

ozaudio · 2 Nov 2015 at 20:43

hanluc said:
You have to crunch for the Gridcoin team to get them, I'm not sure what they're worth, I know they aren't on the major exchanges, or at least they weren't.

Cool, our production now is about the same as Sic's, we just need to tip the balance. Have you spoken to Ba recently? I remember you saying he was taking a break.

once he has his linux set up online that's over 100 extra cores, that should stop us falling behind even more.

PDW · 2 Nov 2015 at 20:49

BaBa said:
OK running the optimized app on the windows rigs will try and sort the linux rig later

Welcome aboard saah

I turned a Windows machine back to Ubuntu as it is only 32 bit to run the SSE41 app from Crunch3r...

I used the instructions from m4gu5 on the DENIS forum but after pasting the linux (32 bit) SSE41 link into the browser I let Ubuntu Package Manager download and extract the files for me, then

1. Opened up a terminal (Ctrl-Alt-T)
2. Change to the directory where the downloaded/extracted files are

3. Open a root shell to be able to access the BOINC data directory
$ sudo -s

4. Move the files to your BOINC data directory
# mv * /var/lib/boinc-client/projects/denis.usj.es_denisathome/

5. Change owner of files to user and group boinc to enable access for BOINC
# chown -R boinc:boinc /var/lib/boinc-client/projects/denis.usj.es_denisathome

6. Restart BOINC
# /etc/init.d/boinc-client restart

7. Exit the shell
# exit

$ exit

If you don't have a package manager that offers to download/extract then you'll need to download and use the tar command according to the instructions given in the link MGP posted

colinmcr · 2 Nov 2015 at 21:18

Nice additions to the output, good effort.

PDW · 2 Nov 2015 at 21:28

colinmcr said:
Nice additions to the output, good effort.

I see your good lady wife left the 5930K on till last night but it hasn't contacted the DENIS servers since then (22:46)

I'm sure she must appreciate how wonderful we all think she is in letting them run till the end of the challenge, just 5 more days, not just for the team but for the science that they are contributing to. What sort of flowers does she like ?

hanluc · 3 Nov 2015 at 05:18

Biffa said:
Yes but cant find a damn thing, must be hiding it to pertekt me from meself

Came across someone else discussing this, and this directory was mentioned: /users/boinc_master/library/application_support/boinc/data

ozaudio · 3 Nov 2015 at 06:15

hey guys, lets all chip in and cover Ba's electric and he can fire all his big rigs up

lol

if you have any more Ba I would help cover the electric costs for the next few days as I know it wouldn't be cheap running loads of monsters

ozaudio · 3 Nov 2015 at 09:46

is any body on speaking terms with stan lite? he has an SR2 aswell as other stuff.

PDW · 3 Nov 2015 at 10:25

ozaudio said:
is any body on speaking terms with stan lite? he has an SR2 aswell as other stuff.

I've seen him in this sub-forum reading

Other news, we need a sailor with his whistle as unlikely as it sounds a captain is coming aboard

ozaudio · 3 Nov 2015 at 10:44

after a quick message to calum aka captain unlikey yes

one Haswell-E 14 core Xeon and 2xL5639

hanluc · 3 Nov 2015 at 10:50

PDW said:
Other news, we need a sailor with his whistle as unlikely as it sounds a captain is coming aboard

Glad to have him onboard (no pun intended) but he currently is running the stock app.

Captain Unlikely, I assume that's an extra spicy E5-2683v3 you have there on your Win machine :cool:

so you want to replace the stock app with the AVX2 optisimed one.

Copy & pasted from an earlier post:

download: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/...1.6.1_avx2.zip and extract the contents to your C:\ProgramData\BOINC\projects\denis.usj.es_denisat home directory. Fully shut down the Boinc client (File/exit Boinc) restart and you should be good to go.

For the linux machime you need this one: linux:

Code:

http://www.boincunited.org/opt_apps/denis/denis_1.05_x86_64-pc-linux-gnu__sse41_v3.tar.bz2

HOWTO

hanluc · 3 Nov 2015 at 10:51

ozaudio said:
after a quick message to calum aka captain unlikey yes

one Haswell-E 14 core Xeon and 2xL5639

The master recruiter strikes again!

ozaudio · 3 Nov 2015 at 10:56

he knows

, he said he will do it when he gets home tonight

just ashame loudbob isn't around any more either, he has some monster 64 core xeons like Ba

hanluc · 3 Nov 2015 at 11:07

According to FreeDC we were the top last 24hr producers :cool:

but not by much, and Seti.USA have woken up.

2015-11-03%2010_59_07-DENISHome%20Project%20Stats.png

ozaudio · 3 Nov 2015 at 11:11

well, lets hope the others reply to my message and start rolling in time

Senture · 3 Nov 2015 at 11:18

Managed to bump my Xeon's output slightly. Forgot about a feature on the board that lets the system use the turbo frequency all the time (previously wasn't using turbo with the AVX2 app). And gave the CPU a slight overclock so its now at 2.7Ghz with 24 running threads

CaptainUnlikely · 3 Nov 2015 at 11:44

hanluc said:
Captain Unlikely, I assume that's an extra spicy E5-2683v3 you have there on your Win machine so you want to replace the stock app with the AVX2 optisimed one.

Hot and spicy, correct

as ozaudio says I'll update the app when I get home tonight. Thanks for the Linux instructions as I'm a massive noob as far as Linux goes, I use it on whatever rigs are dedicated for crunching (just one right now) but I generally have no idea what I'm doing with it so I'd have struggled with that.

picnic · 3 Nov 2015 at 11:54

ozaudio said:
well, lets hope the others reply to my message and start rolling in time

Haven't done any of this sort of stuff for ages, however just to make ozaudio's day I've set up a PC to help with this task. Nothing special but as they say every bit helps

Good luck peeps for the last few days of this.

PDW · 3 Nov 2015 at 11:59

picnic said:
Haven't done any of this sort of stuff for ages, however just to make ozaudio's day I've set up a PC to help with this task. Nothing special but as they say every bit helps Good luck peeps for the last few days of this.

Welcome aboard

I'm guessing you have installed the AVX2 optimised app because all your tasks are failing ?

You need to download and use the SSE41 app from Crunch3r (for Win 64) instead of Sesef's.

ozaudio · 3 Nov 2015 at 12:55

picnic said:
Haven't done any of this sort of stuff for ages, however just to make ozaudio's day I've set up a PC to help with this task. Nothing special but as they say every bit helps Good luck peeps for the last few days of this.

haha, yep you joining does sorta make my day so far lol

picnic · 3 Nov 2015 at 12:59

I spotted the AVX2 problem and installed Sesef's SSR3 one. I'll download the Crunch3r one and move on to that