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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 :)
 
@ Hanluc,

Thanks for the input. I've spent most of my last few hours reading all about multi socket boards and looking at pricing. Let's just say I've had my eyes opened quite wide when you consider the full cost of such a setup.
In your opinion would it be more feasible to go single socket but say increase the amount of gpu's from two to four with the appropriate motherboard? Does that help BOINC more with regards to output?

Considering I suppose that I can also use my current rig and add another gpu to it easily to increase output sooner rather than later. Well when I get back to the UK that is as I work abroad.
 
Obviously the more GPUs you have the better your output, most projects I know of use very little CPU, with poem@home being the exception.
 
hmm, most of the projects I seem to find are CPU, rather than GPU. I suppose that depends on your interest what you target.
 
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.
 
I would definitely avoid RNA world in that case. I had some of those WUs in the past, think I aborted them. Annoying that correlizer ran out of work just as we were getting close to some stomps :(
 
Guys can you just clarify something for me, I have BONIC Manager and FAH GPU Tracker V2 installed on my laptop.
Are you all primarily running FAH or BONIC ? How to you decide which one to use or do you run each on different pc/gpu ?
Obviously because I'm just on my laptop atm, I can only run one program and I've been running BONIC Manager the most with (Enigma, Asteroids and Seti).
Not sure I understand how FAH Tracker works, I like the idea of doing specific projects based on personal preference or of course helping the team meet a goal.
Sorry for the noob question, just trying to get my head round it all.
 
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.
 
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.
 
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 get around 2,700,000,000 keys a second on my over clocked 7870 Tahiti @ 1200Mhz.

I know about the core throught put console buy I chose to run the dos client instalead of the windows one as my gpu for some reason runs colder by about 5 degrees.

I do run my CPU but I do it for ogr but with or without that it still runs the same.
 
hanluc you out put on rc5 is insane at the rate we are going there are about another 200 places we can get through in just a few months.

god job man

I should be going up a bit higher too changed my tim on the gpu and it is running cooler os some higher clocks are coming and for longer too.
 
Thanks :)

But a few months!? ... I'm afraid I have a fairly short attention span :)

I do however have another 2 x 7950s I throw into the mix, see what the max I can produce just for the crack.
 
hanluc said:
Thanks :)

But a few months!? ... I'm afraid I have a fairly short attention span :)

I do however have another 2 x 7950s I throw into the mix, see what the max I can produce just for the crack.
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lol that is epic but I dread to see your electricity bill at the end of it all .
 
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