Skynet - what are you crunching with?

verbal · 21 Oct 2014 at 17:35

I can see everyone's stats but I'm curious how we've got such good output.

So if you're doing the Skynet challenge right now, what CPUs are you crunching with?

Pictures welcome too

I'm running a Haswell 4590S @ 3700mhz

Stan_Lite · 21 Oct 2014 at 17:53

I'm using the CPUs from both of my Folding rigs to help out for the challenge. Main rig has 2 x Xeon X5650s and the second rig has a lowly i3 3220. Both at stock as I haven't got around to sorting OCs yet.

GPUs on both rigs still Folding.

ozaudio · 21 Oct 2014 at 17:56

GenuineIntel
Intel(R) Pentium(R) CPU G630 @ 2.70GHz [Family 6 Model 42 Stepping 7]
(2 processors)

GenuineIntel
Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-3570K CPU @ 3.40GHz [Family 6 Model 58 Stepping 9]
(4 processors)

MGP · 21 Oct 2014 at 18:14

shhhh Do we want to let the competition know what they are up against :eek:

i7 2600K at stock
i5 something or other assimilated office thingy

And then there is the AMD based 4 CPU rig I've temporarily diverted from folding (haven't a clue what the actual CPUs are) offering a rather nice 64 cores

This has only been going since Sunday, and did crash last night so my potential has yet to be realised

None of them are wholly dedicated to skynet so I still have some reserve headroom if evga manage to find enough logs for a bonfire

hanluc · 21 Oct 2014 at 18:19

If you go to our team page and click on one of the members link at the bottom, you'll be able to see what machines members are running, unless they have them hidden, which are not by default.
Here are mine for e.g.

diogenese · 21 Oct 2014 at 18:53

ARM snapdragon 800 4 core at 2.26 Ghz and an i7 3770k at 4.4Ghz.
they don't even get me close to the top 10 in production

andy_taximan · 21 Oct 2014 at 20:47

Mine

http://pogs.theskynet.org/pogs/hosts_user.php?userid=11561

Work in progress, guess it will always be haha

Berserker · 21 Oct 2014 at 20:50

Samsung Galaxy Note 3

And some other stuff.

Biffa · 21 Oct 2014 at 22:22

1 x 4770K
1 x 3770K
1 x i7-2720QM

miniyazz · 22 Oct 2014 at 00:07

i7 4770k @ 4.4GHz
Not running skynet half the time due to no internets.

Texas_Connectio · 22 Oct 2014 at 01:33

ATM

i7 4770k
i7 3770k
i7 2600k
i5 2550k

chris182008 · 22 Oct 2014 at 20:15

i7 2700k at 4.7Ghz only just started though.

verbal · 23 Oct 2014 at 01:28

Welcome to the forum Texas Connection

and welcome to the team Chris

colinmcr · 24 Oct 2014 at 16:07

I'm using laptop i7-4710HQ so 8 cores at work / my gpu is on folding@home.

Also lads I need some advice. I've really got my interest peeked doing this and because of that I was doing some research and came across the Asus Z10PE-D8-WS dual socket motherboard.

Now this would be a monster upgrade to my Primo Midas build (even the right colour lol) using E5 v3's but is it worth it? Are the many cpu based projects out there or would the money be better spent on gpu's?

I'm basically trying to get you lot to talk me out of it

MGP · 24 Oct 2014 at 16:32

colinmcr said:
I'm basically trying to get you lot to talk me out of it

We are not silly enough to do that

Many of the DC projects are now using GPU, rather than CPU. In most cases the GPUs, if the project is correctly optimised, achieve more for the same output. These though tend to be of the number crunching and medical research type projects of which folding at home is probably the best known.

Folding at home is one of the few projects that can make use of the multicored / multithreading capabilities of modern CPUs. They refer to such work units as "SMP". Having two CPUs on a board will show some results. For a while folding did have special work units available, known as BigADV, which could only be run on specialist machines that operated 24/7 with 2 and sometimes 4 CPUs. Today those still exist but you need at least 24 cores. Don't buy a machine for such work now as this work type will cease by the end of January 2015.

But multicored, multi processor rigs are of value to many, many projects that use the Boinc platform. At present Boinc cpu work is single threaded. But the boinc manager platform will run multiple threads simultaneously. Thus if you have 8 cpu cores (say an intel i7 cpu that has 4 processors allowing each to hyperthread), you get to do up to 8 different work units at a time. That then also means that with boinc you can join more than one project at a time, and indeed even have the ability to change resources, so that perhaps one project takes 75% of resource and another the remaining 25%. There are many many boinc projects, skynet is one, and many others are astronomical, some medical or whatever. It's worth noting that some of us who have the 2p (2 cpu processor) and even 4p rigs available originally intended for folding are running boinc for the skynet, so in my case I have one machine, offering 64 simultaneous skynet processing threads. But you may have to use linux as most home windows versions cannot recognise all these cpu cores.

In theory the ratio of points awarded for a wu in boinc should correspond to different boinc projects. They won't correspond to other projects such as folding. Where projects offer cpu and gpu crunching there should be a relationship so you can for example judge by folding at home whether cpu or cpu is more efficient on a hardware cost v energy use basis.

Only you could decide if a specialist server type 2p (2 processor) rig is suited for the type of work you want to do, or if you would be better with a single cpu that can accommodate multiple gpu cards.

andy_taximan · 24 Oct 2014 at 19:15

Depending on budget.. x99 and a 5960x

plus 2x 980s would be a system

Biffa · 24 Oct 2014 at 19:33

Code:

Qty	Unit Price Ex VAT	 	 Description
					
2X	£1670.19	 Intel Xeon E5-2697 V3, S2011-3, 14 Core, 2.6GHz, 9.6GT/s, 35MB, 144W, Retail     	
2X	£40.92		 EK-Supremacy EVO - Acetal     	
1X	£333.10		 Asus Z10PE-D8 WS 2x S2011 v3 EEB Intel C612, VGA + U3 + 2GLN, SATA6GB / S, DDR4 IN                 	
4X	£88.80		 8GB Samsung Server RAM DDR4-2133 ECC Registered       	
4X	£349.98		 4GB ZOTAC GeForce GTX 980 AMP! Edition Graphics Card PCIe    


[B]Total (Inc VAT) £6624.02       	[/B]

diogenese · 24 Oct 2014 at 21:03

I have just dug another pc out of the shed, 2.6 ghz E6750 and I just bought a galaxy s5 so it's going on that too

that's 6 more cores!

ozaudio · 24 Oct 2014 at 21:11

Biffa said:

Code:

Qty	Unit Price Ex VAT	 	 Description
					
2X	£1670.19	 Intel Xeon E5-2697 V3, S2011-3, 14 Core, 2.6GHz, 9.6GT/s, 35MB, 144W, Retail     	
2X	£40.92		 EK-Supremacy EVO - Acetal     	
1X	£333.10		 Asus Z10PE-D8 WS 2x S2011 v3 EEB Intel C612, VGA + U3 + 2GLN, SATA6GB / S, DDR4 IN                 	
2X	£197.61		 16GB (4x4GB) Corsair DDR4 Vengeance LPX Black PC4-21300 (2666), Non-ECC Unbuffered, CAS 16-18-18-35, XMP 2.0, 1.2V      	
4X	£349.98		 4GB ZOTAC GeForce GTX 980 AMP! Edition Graphics Card PCIe    

Net Total £5550.46
Carriage £9.58
VAT £1112.01
[B]Total (Inc VAT) £6672.05       	[/B]

who would ever pay that much for pc parts lol

colinmcr · 24 Oct 2014 at 23:43

Biffa said:

Code:

Qty	Unit Price Ex VAT	 	 Description
					
2X	£1670.19	 Intel Xeon E5-2697 V3, S2011-3, 14 Core, 2.6GHz, 9.6GT/s, 35MB, 144W, Retail     	
2X	£40.92		 EK-Supremacy EVO - Acetal     	
1X	£333.10		 Asus Z10PE-D8 WS 2x S2011 v3 EEB Intel C612, VGA + U3 + 2GLN, SATA6GB / S, DDR4 IN                 	
2X	£197.61		 16GB (4x4GB) Corsair DDR4 Vengeance LPX Black PC4-21300 (2666), Non-ECC Unbuffered, CAS 16-18-18-35, XMP 2.0, 1.2V      	
4X	£349.98		 4GB ZOTAC GeForce GTX 980 AMP! Edition Graphics Card PCIe    

Net Total £5550.46
Carriage £9.58
VAT £1112.01
[B]Total (Inc VAT) £6672.05       	[/B]

Does that ram work with that board? Asus only list two modules in their QVL and each stick of that is 100 quid.

If that ram is compatible well that's a whole different ball game, I'd looked at the 8 core E5 2630 v3 for 510 quid. Price doesn't look so bad then.

Skynet - what are you crunching with?

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