My new rig and BOINCView question

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After getting back into boinc after a year or so away I decided that my main machine wasn't good enough. After seeing how cheap xeon machines could be i decided to make it a project and build a dual xeon computer solely for boinc, partly so i can get more work done and overtake some people as well as a plaything for overclocking. Well after a couple of weeks of getting components i've built it and its rearing to go having just sent its first 2 seti WU's!

So heres the spec:-

Pair of 1.6lv D1 xeons (£50)
Tagan 480w-U22
PCH-DL Mobo
30GB IDE HD
Pair of thermaltake A1608
3 Fans
1GB crucial value RAM (nicked from my other machine til 1GB geil ulta platinum arrives)

After doing a wire mod to the processor seats to get from the stock 1.3v to 1.5volts and playing a bit with the bios the 1.6's are now running at 2.62GHz. When the new RAM arrives i'm going to go for 3GHz.

As you may have noticed i have a thing about black tape. . I modded an old cheap case to get as much airflow as i can and at the moment the chips are at 41 degrees with 4 processes of seti running. Overall the whole project cost me just under £250. Bargain!

Now onto the BOINCView question. I have installed it on both machines and placed the remote_hosts.cfg file with the names and IP's of the machines in the boinc folders of both machines. The programs can find the boinc files on their own machines but I cant get them to access the statistics etcc on the other machines. I have opened the specified port on both machines (windows firewall). When i go into the location setup and choose network access it finds the other machine but comes up with a window saying "there is no boinc program behind port 1043" Im assuming its something to do with the "-allow_remote_gui_rpc" but i dont know what to do with it. can somebody help? Also is there any good software which i can use to monitor temps and shutdown and possibly startup the computer remotely?

The 2 computers are setup on their own seperate network with this computer (my main one) connected to the rest of the network in the house and the xeon computer connected by a crossover cable to this one via another port so it can access the internet etc.


Thanks

 

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Lookin' sharp there, man. You got that together amazingly fast.

You'll have to join in on the next Xeon-shootout-of-death.

Tis called impatience. I think of something and do it as quick as possible, I'm also a student and so have plenty of time on my hands.

I also found a couple of 1.6lv's for a cheap price as well as a cheap board so went for it. The rest of the stuff was easy to get or i already had it so it wasnt too difficult to get.

I may just take you up on that challenge depending on how fast i can get the computer running.

Fillado thanks for that, where did you get that from, I looked on the boincview website but couldnt find anything like that. It still doesnt solve the problem though unfortunatly as boincview still tells me "there is no boinc program behind port 1043" when i try to connect. I'll have a go at turning the firewalls off completly in a minute and see if that helps.

You have a nice rig like that and you're using it for Seti?

Joke Nice work getting that together! I'd imagine they'll reach 3Ghz easily, most of them seem to.

My main machine is an x2 4400 so its no slouch and at the moment even with hyperthreading the AMD still puts out a WU faster (although admittedly its only about 15 mins) than the 2.6 xeons although that could be because of the extra cache on the X2.

 

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Another way to do it would be to share the boinc folder in program files on your network, and then just point BOINCView to that folder

I think I may actually be blind. I've even read that before but it just didnt go in.

The sharing folder works, thanks but it still doesnt explain why i cant do it normally.

Can anyone fill me in on what the "-allow_remote_gui_rpc" does and what names etc i need to put in the remote_hosts.cfg file, i put in the name which the computer is regstered as on the seti computers page. I am assuming its right?

Thanks

 

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Lol yes you can,

The HSF's are thermaltake A1608's. They're not too bad, pretty noisy especially at bootup when they go to full power but at normal speed they're not too bad, no worse than a stock AMD HSF. They seem to be good coolers and are low profile and cheap to boot. Got both for £25 new. They are 70mm fans though so may be quite difficult to replace.

 

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You don't want to use the folder mode it doesn't allow you to control boinc it just allows you to see what its doing.

Two files in the boinc folder:
remote_hosts.cfg
gui_rpc_auth.cfg

You edit both of them in a text editor.

gui_rpc_auth.cfg is the password to access the boinc client and
remote_hosts.cfg is the list of machines that are allowed to use the password to access the boinc client.

Stop the Boinc service by going to Start -> Run and typing Services.msc and hitting enter. Locate BOINC, select and click stop.

Find out your machine name by holding the Windows Key and pressing Pause Break or by right clicking on My Computer and selecting Properties, then go to the Computer Name tab and copy the fulle computer name and paste it in the remote_hosts.cfg file and save.

Restart BOINC in the Services.msc page.

Assuming your firewall/s are setup correctly that should work.

If BOINCview still doesn't see them then go to the machine and restart the BOINC service. On 4 of my machines I have to manually restart the BOINC service before BOINCview can see them every time I start windows

Hope that helps

Yep thats done it thanks. it now works!

BilliytheImpaler that would be great if you could do that. I'd be very interested.

 

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I got the RAM about a week ago but i still cant get it above 2.8GHz. Im going to look around for another pair of 1.6's and see if its a problem with them or whether its the board. The capacitors ae the only things that obstruct the socket yes. Saying that there isnt too much space between the gfx and the HSF.

Im a little confused about the 9cm circumference disk. Do you mean stick 92mm fans on each? If so you may have a problem as i doubt they will fit.

 

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I get what you mean now

Its annoying as well as i almost bought another pair garenteed to do a min of 3GHz but i though nah, there will be another pair along soon if i need them

The HSF seup is actually 8cm (theyre 70mm fans) although it goes to 9cm when the plastic mobo clips are added. The heaatsink is 40mm above the board with the fan another 15mm on top of that.

If you want any pictres of certain positions just ask and ill do my best to get them.

 

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Ok let me rephrase that: If you want any pictures at certain angles of the HSF and cpu positions...

Dirty people, your no better than 15 year olds!


The spreader is 31x31mm.