Competitions

currob · 26 Oct 2015 at 04:12

colinmcr said:
I might be able to do the DENIS challenge wife seems happy to let me have the big rig on 24/7

Fantastic !

chris182008 · 26 Oct 2015 at 20:13

Okay I caved and ordered a dual 5650 server. It should be here Wednesday so will have it set up in time for the competition. The question is should I just put Windows 10 on it or try out Windows server?

hanluc · 26 Oct 2015 at 20:34

chris182008 said:
Okay I caved and ordered a dual 5650 server. It should be here Wednesday so will have it set up in time for the competition. The question is should I just put Windows 10 on it or try out Windows server?

I have never used either of those OS but what I can tell you with Win10 is you'll need either professional, enterprise or ultimate in order to recognise both processors, I believe Colinmcr fell foul of this buying Win10 home which only recognised 1 proc.

andy_taximan · 26 Oct 2015 at 21:44

Nice, another 24 threads crunching then

PDW · 26 Oct 2015 at 22:09

chris182008 said:
Okay I caved and ordered a dual 5650 server. It should be here Wednesday so will have it set up in time for the competition. The question is should I just put Windows 10 on it or try out Windows server?

Couldn't you get another one and then run each OS to see which one is faster over the challenge ?

ozaudio · 27 Oct 2015 at 06:28

texas connection seems to of added a few cores there !

hanluc · 27 Oct 2015 at 07:30

ozaudio said:
texas connection seems to of added a few cores there !

I don't know why he has HT turned off on all his machines, nonetheless a welcomed addition.

chris182008 · 27 Oct 2015 at 19:07

Would love to get a 2nd but this will have to do me for now

I'll go for Windows 10 pro for now as I know my way round it maybe try some linux distros after the competition.

ozaudio · 28 Oct 2015 at 07:32

hanluc said:
I don't know why he has HT turned off on all his machines, nonetheless a welcomed addition.

and now hes added a load more lol

he did ask last time in the POGS thread if hyper threading makes any difference but theres no way to contact him to let him know unless he reads this, hopefully he'll see it

Senture · 28 Oct 2015 at 08:19

From what I've seen on DENIS from accidentally having HT off for a few days, it significantly helps having it on.

Unit processing times were about 16 minutes with HT off and rose to 21 minutes with HT on, but ofcourse the number of units running doubled.

andy_taximan · 28 Oct 2015 at 14:24

Senture said:
From what I've seen on DENIS from accidentally having HT off for a few days, it significantly helps having it on.

Unit processing times were about 16 minutes with HT off and rose to 21 minutes with HT on, but ofcourse the number of units running doubled.

Be carefull with the times, they are sending so many different wu`s with different times, from 3 mins to 21 mins might be easy to get confused lol , im doing a batch of 8 min wu`s atm but this will change

Senture · 28 Oct 2015 at 17:22

andy_taximan said:
Be carefull with the times, they are sending so many different wu`s with different times, from 3 mins to 21 mins might be easy to get confused lol , im doing a batch of 8 min wu`s atm but this will change

You can tell from looking at the tasks name. The WU's start 3XP_XXXXXXXXX_600_XXXXX_X. The 600 part is the important one for length. 600 is the shortest which usually take about 3 minutes, then you have 1000, 1200, 1800, 2400 and 3600 with the latter taking about 29 minutes depending on your CPU speed. I looked at WU processing times for 2400's which is what I posted

andy_taximan · 8 Nov 2015 at 08:21

Well that was fun

tho i wouldnt want to do them too often

but anybody want to do another 1 sometime?
Shall we have a vote how often, which project, make our own or join in on 1 etc?

currob · 8 Nov 2015 at 08:28

andy_taximan said:
Well that was fun tho i wouldnt want to do them too often but anybody want to do another 1 sometime?
Shall we have a vote how often, which project, make our own or join in on 1 etc?

Great idea, I would be up for it whenever :cool:

ozaudio · 8 Nov 2015 at 08:34

if its a cpu one and theres a few weeks notice, a few people will be scrabbling around to find cheap xeon / opteron cpus with lots of cores, and to be fair you can probably build something from ebay for the same price as building an i7 pc lol
infact the amd g34 cpus are cheap, its finding a board that's cheap aswell

andy_taximan · 8 Nov 2015 at 08:54

yer cpu are prob best, cheaper to run if you turn off folding at the same time as well

I just wish intel would let us use more then 1 5960x per pc but it aint gona happen , my 1 was up there with the big boys with just its lil 16 threads hehe

ozaudio · 8 Nov 2015 at 09:22

best time is to wait till BaBa feels like doing some boinc related stuff again as he will be the back bone with his hundeds on cores lol

colinmcr · 8 Nov 2015 at 10:13

andy_taximan said:
yer cpu are prob best, cheaper to run if you turn off folding at the same time as well
I just wish intel would let us use more then 1 5960x per pc but it aint gona happen , my 1 was up there with the big boys with just its lil 16 threads hehe

Your cpu did very well, I'd be tempted to change my 5930k for a high core count Xeon in my sabertooth board.

chris182008 · 8 Nov 2015 at 17:44

I know it's pretty old tech but I got my dual 5650 server for £190 really can't complain at that price plus I've got a massively op media server now.

currob · 8 Nov 2015 at 17:54

chris182008 said:
I know it's pretty old tech but I got my dual 5650 server for £190 really can't complain at that price plus I've got a massively op media server now.

Wow, that was a great buy !!