DC Vault

I have DPAD on my media machine, it's in the startup folder so whenever it's on it will crunch that project, I'll leave it that way and maybe add more machines if possible. I didn't do much on that project in Aug after suggesting it :o but in my defense I was on defensive duties on other projects.

As what to go for next I'm easy, currently I'm cruching NFS, Eon & Asteroids to try and maintain our positions there and trying to make gains in leiden and RNA world, though i have just two cores on RNA as they only have those horrible monster WU left.
 
swiftmetal said:
just on the enigma@home thing is there a standalone client to use and if not is there anyway to get more than one thread to work at once because no matter what I do with boinc it will only let me do one wu at a time.
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Strange, by default it should use all cores.

Check in the boinc client /tools/computer preferences/processor usage/on multiprocessor systems use at most/ .. should be on the default 0 which is 100%

also check /tools/computer preferences/disk and memory usage/use at most when in use/idle .. if it's too low that might be causing it.

finally check those same two settings above on the enigma site preferences too http://www.enigmaathome.net/prefs.php?subset=global
 
Asteroids is acting up, lots of "download failed", some get through but the problem is the boinc client backs off for 24 hrs, only constantly manually updating will give a consistent supply of work units. The admins are aware of the problem however.
 
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colinmcr said:
hey guys I'd do some enigma on my lowly i3 laptop. Just trying to get a feel what you guys are working on and trying to contribute what I can.
I'm seriously considering building something other than the rig in my signature. Might open a new thread though to ask about that, as I was considering using the Asus Z9PE-D8 WS Dual Socket motherboard.
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Welcome to the team Colin :)

I don't own a multi socket board myself, but I'd say one thing to consider weighing up the cost would be that pretty much all BOINC projects are single threaded (unlike folding) so 2 x 2600K machines for e.g. would give just as good a performance as a dual socket board with the two equivalent CPUs in it, but of course there is the matter of space saving and the potential of having 32 threads in one machine :)
 
Biffa said:
Ok I've freed up two quad core CPU's whats the best project to point them at to help out the cause :)
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It's a case of take your pick :) Docking is still our worst scoring boinc project and OGR-27 is out worse scoring project overall, but there are plenty of points to be had on so many others.

For Boinc, ones that don't require lots of RAM and/or don't have long runtimes, I'd say either: docking, cosmology, sztaki, enigma, eon (linux) leiden or malaria control.
 
PhilthyPhil said:
OGR-27 is lowest scoring atm, or if you wanted a BOINC project Docking or RNA world
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A health warning with RNA world :) They only have the XXL work units at the moment, I picked up two, did one in 11 days and the other is still going 17 days later :eek: if the boinc client crashes for whatever reason it's game over and back to square one, the WUs have no checkpoints.
 
Whether you run FAH, BOINC or both is up to you. BOINC software is a wrapper that many different projects use, FAH uses its own software as does OGR-27, DPAD, Dimes and many more.

For the sake of the DC Vault FAH is not worth concentrating on because we have such a good dedicated FAH team, and subsequently our position in the Vault for FAH is very high.

I don't run FAH at all, but some who do help out here too.
 
swiftmetal said:
hanluc how did you manage to get around 85,000 blocks done in rc5 lol that is insane. Please say you where using many gpus at very high overclocks and running for 24 hours as my 7870 tahiti can only manage around 15 to 18 thousand in any 18 hour period.

Very nice work though as it earned us 4 places.
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Sort of multiple, one 7970 ran for 24Hrs, and last night I added another 2 x 7950s so I'm not quite up to speed yet.

Are you running your CPU as well? it's worth seeing what impact it has on your production if you are. I can run the CPU with my 7970 machine no problem, but even one CPU core on the 2 x 7950s drastically reduces my output.
As a reference i'm getting:

+3,000,000,000 keys/sec on the 7970 (@1080mhz)
+5,000,000,000 keys/sec on the 2 x 7950s (@1025mhz)

In case you don't know you can view your output through the dnet client (view|core throughput)
 
I've been having a good run on Poem but now they've ran out of work, will switch to GIMPS while it's down, it will at least free more cores up for asteroids and I have a RNA WU still running .. 1288 hrs so far :rolleyes:
 
I've worked out that if the skynet pogs was added to the vault tomorrow each position would be worth 27.93 vault pts, we're currently in 58th, but Seti.Germany are in 4th meaning that they would just overtake us in the overall vault standings. Hopefully when/if the skynet is added we'll be further ahead.
 
We're now less than 300 pts behind cracking the top ten :)
I'm going to have to stop/tone down my poem output at some point, as much as I like crunching it, it demands one CPU core per task, and several tasks per card to get the most out of it, so I've been unable to do any CPU crunching.
 
We could do with some defensive action on Asteroids, we've lost 3 spots on that recently and 2 more stomps against us are imminent.

I going to stay on poem for a week more then just leave a card ticking over on it, I'll have more free CPU cores then and I'll use the other cards for GIMPs, some easy pickings on there to push us into that 10th spot :cool:
 
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