[TBR] Viva La Roast! (Perpetual Thread V)

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    It looks like mrjackson is about to overtake his neighbor aEric in stats! Will aEric fend off the challenge?

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    Holy smokes, more than two years since the last post!
     
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    LeeF said:
    It looks like mrjackson is about to overtake his neighbor aEric in stats! Will aEric fend off the challenge?

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    Holy smokes, more than two years since the last post!
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    Oh, yeah I know..
    But the electric prices nearly trippled latety

    Got a new lappy anyway, an Acer Nitro 5 with AMD 2500U and good cooling that can run all cores silent over 3 GHz all night long, seems to be a good machine to run distributed on :)
    (a replacement for the thinkpad that ran around the clock for 15 years but finally gave up :D )
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    Thanks! And Brian should celebrate my anniversary by joining our team! ;)

    I thought it was time to drag this thread back from the dead again, and give some props to Aexoden, who seems to have found some cores between the couch cushions - #9 in the dailies yesterday, propelling TBR to #5 in the dailies! If you can keep up that rate, you'll pass me in about 147 days, and help TBR pass HardOCP in about 213 days.

    And to Ketchup, still steadily climbing the ranks, and the other folks who have stuck with us for the long haul. Lets see if we can finish this one in the top 20!
     
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    LeeF said:
    Thanks! And Brian should celebrate my anniversary by joining our team! ;)

    I thought it was time to drag this thread back from the dead again, and give some props to Aexoden, who seems to have found some cores between the couch cushions - #9 in the dailies yesterday, propelling TBR to #5 in the dailies! If you can keep up that rate, you'll pass me in about 147 days, and help TBR pass HardOCP in about 213 days.

    And to Ketchup, still steadily climbing the ranks, and the other folks who have stuck with us for the long haul. Lets see if we can finish this one in the top 20!
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    I'd been mostly away from DC for a few years, since I had my hardware in rooms that were very difficult to keep cool, even during the winter. That situation's been resolved, so we'll see how this goes. I don't have the electrical circuit to safely run GPUs at full blast, however, otherwise I could put up some interesting RC5 numbers. I kind of want that project to just finish so it can go away, though.

    I'm not quite done bringing hardware online, with one more machine that's finishing up some other work first. I'm not quite sure if I can crack 1 million a day, but we'll see. It actually feels kind of odd to be able to demolish anything I was able to do a few years ago with just a few CPUs now. (Admittedly, they're higher end workstation parts, but still.)
     
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    That'll be fun to watch!

    I know how that goes. With four computers in my office, I basically have to have my window open anytime the temperature gets above 20 degrees F. In the summer, crunchers get shut down.

    I just finally upgraded my main desktop and my server from the Nehalem-era CPUs they'd been running for ten years. The new i5-9400f in my server crunches d.net twice as fast as my i7-860, and the Ryzen 5 5600X I just put in my main box is 4x faster. These 12 cores are approaching the same output as that old 4x12-core Opteron box I played with back in 2015. CPUs have come a long way!
     
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    Between needing to do some personal computation on a couple of my machines and the weather getting slightly warmer, my output might fluctuate or go down a bit over the next few weeks. Just for curiosity's sake, here are the CPUs I currently do have on OGR, along with their recent average rates:

    • AMD Ryzen Threadripper 3960X [24 core] (~216 Tnodes/day)
    • AMD Ryzen 9 5950X [16 core] (~195 Tnodes/day)
    • AMD Ryzen 9 5950X [16 core] (~190 Tnodes/day)
    • AMD Ryzen Threadripper PRO 3955WX [16 core] (~158 Tnodes/day)
    • Intel Core i7-6700K [4 core] (~39 Tnodes/day)
    • Intel Xeon D-2123IT [4 core] (~20 Tnodes/day)

    The good news is that as the project gets closer to finishing, it seems like other people are ramping up slightly. Or maybe it's just random/seasonal fluctuation. There aren't any great stat sites that I know of for tracking these things. I was half working on one, but didn't get very far. It's a shame Free-DC seems to have stopped updating it a few years ago.
     
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    It's almost completely pointless to throw CPUs on RC5, that's for sure. GPUs are just so much more ridiculously efficient at it.

    EDIT: Just to make this a little more concrete, I compared a couple devices I have access to. The electric measurements are rough guesses from watching the numbers from my UPS.

    AMD Ryzen 9 5950X: ~1300 Mkeys/s, ~90 additional watts, ~14.4 Mkeys/s/W
    NVIDIA RTX A4000: ~9900 Mkeys/s, ~135 additional watts, ~73.3 Mkeys/s/W

    At one point, I tested a 3080 and it was somewhere between 16,000 and 20,000 Mkeys/s, but it also uses a bit more power. I suspect if someone wanted to play with reducing the voltage or clock speeds it might be possible to match the A4000's efficiency.
     
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    Yep. Purely just for load testing. D.net seems pretty dead lately so I'm not going to have much hope for OGR-29 showing up (and again as mentioned I don't plan to be competitive in OGR-29 due to electrical/cooling/environmental concerns).

    And yes, fun to see the GPU efficiency comparison! I do have a few I could throw at it but again not worth it to me...
     
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    Wow, my office was cold this morning, so I went to load the d.net client and it exited right away. I'm kind of in the same boat, I'm drifting away from distributed computing projects due to environmental concerns, and because it makes my office unbearably hot in the summer.

    I'm sad to see the end of an era, though, if d.net is winding down. Just a few days over 23 years since I submitted my first block in RC5-64 - I've been participating with d.net for more than half my life!
     
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    My understanding of the situation is that there are barely enough active people over there to keep the lights on, let alone do the work to wrangle a new project together. It seems some discussion of OGR-29 a few years ago suggested that it would be something like 10 times harder than OGR-28, and may need new cores or code to be written, so given the situation, it's even less likely to happen.
     
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    Congrats on passing me and taking #2 on the team BTW, Aexoden! That was a great push at the end! Also a great home-run push by Ketchup, too. It's a pity Hobbes isn't still around, he was always great at keeping track of everyone's participation.

    Personally I'm amazed I managed to stay in the top 200, what with scaling back my crunching through the summer months right at the end of the project.

    Brian - it's not too late! The project hasn't officially closed yet, you could still join TBR. :D LOL, your individual output exceeds that of the entire DPC team in this project.

    Well folks, it's been a pleasure crunching with you all! I can't remember exactly when I joined TBR now, I think it was around 2006? I remember there was a tempest around Windows Vista, and the Core 2 Duo was the new hotness at the time. Long time!
     
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    Yeah, I remember how much fun it was to try d.net on different hardware. Nothing too fancy here - a few G3s and G4s, a Sun box at my school... I think I tried it on my iPaq at one point, and later on a rooted Android phone, and both of those were unsatisfactory. A free Amazon cloud instance (I can't remember if it was AWS or EC2 now, but I never got much out of it, so I'm guessing the former). A 48-core server worth $12k that one of my customers abandoned, and I pulled out of the scrapheap. That thing noticeably heated my entire house, I ended up giving it to the local hackerspace. A Raspberry Pi 4 with a heatsink added to keep it from throttling. I think once in the early days I tried the DOS client on a 386, and gave up before it even finished one block.
     
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    .劉煒 said:
    Back on the Ars teams ... still earning gridcoin but not via the grcpool aggregator.

    Btw, if you guys are crunching BOINC, literally some people want to give you value for that effort.

    All you need is to have the wallet on one machine, which then will scrape BOINC stats to give you credit for crunching efforts.
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    Got a good primer to link to?
     
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    Baenwort said:
    Got a good primer to link to?
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    The TL;DR is you run the wallet on one machine that has all your projects listed on it. It's proof of stake and scrapes the projects to award coin based on 'magnitude'. The coins get awarded every time your wallet is chosen to be the staker. Takes a couple coins minimum to get started (beaconing costs coin) but I can send some over if you want.

    Gridcoin - Step 1: BOINC Installation

    Step 1 of the solo crunching guide; Introducing the user to BOINC, instructing them how to install the BOINC client then join BOINC projects.
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    Welp, my distributed.net days might be done. Latest AGESA for my X570 motherboard instantly black screens the system as soon as I try to run RC5, although I’ll see how my other X570 setups go.

    OTOH my heyday was OGR and when that died I never shifted to RC5 outside of my handful of daily drivers, so I’m not competitive in RC5… so not exactly something I’ve been stressing about either.
     
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    This brings back some good memories! I literally just got the 'someone asked for your stats password' email in my inbox today and I had to wonder what in the world was going on :). I now see that our team page links to a site that's been down for > 5 years, oops :(. Hope everyone is going well, and RAISE ONE FOR THE BEEF ROAST!
     
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