The long queue for validation will certainly affect everyone's RAC. For most people the number of tasks in-hand will have very little impact as they are working pretty much on one-return = one-supplied now. But there have been a quite a number of major server issues which have slowed/stalled the actual rate of validation and that's what hits our RACs. There may of course be some peole who hear that the servers are "down" and decide to turn off their hosts until the servers are up, and so aren't processing or returning work.

Thankyou

Any rumors on S@H beta? I have a couple of machines with backed up Beta tasks. Wondering if I should abort them or what?

Tom

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Unless you ran them using "anonymous" do not abort them, the server will sort them out once it comes back.
As for news - well, it was said in the early days that being a hardware failure it was going to be some time, possibly weeks, before Beta would be back on line, so, like the rest of us you will just have to wait. Remember we've had an effective two-week shutdown over the Christmas holidays, so I wouldn't expect to see Beta back until the end of next week at the soonest.

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Bob Smith
Member of Seti PIPPS (Pluto is a Planet Protest Society)
Somewhere in the (un)known Universe?

I wonder. I am showing maybe 346,000 RAC on the leader board and usually there is upto 1,000 RAC higher on the current RAC but how did I manage to get almost 9,000 RAC higher in the current #'s since the last Leaderboard update?
What's screwed up now?

Tom

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I wonder... current #'s since the last Leaderboard update? What's screwed up now?Tom

I've noticed a lot of weirdness in the leader-board of late. Been playing tag with Joe Stateson for the bottom position of the top page, for example, and for the last few weeks there were numerous times when Joe had both positions 20 and 21, with the same numbers, and I was totally missing.
No clue what the update schedule is on those pages, but I suspect it has to be a pretty low priority and drawn off the backup db (currently ~15 minutes behind the master).
For example, right now my RAC is 5k higher on the Account page than on the Stats page. {shrugs}

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so I just installed Lunatics Win64 0.45
and honestly it feels almost the same as the regular version. if not a bit slower.
is there any optimisation to be made?

For GPU applications, it is the same as the regular versions (except it won't have the new one just released as v8.24 for AND cards). There's a big ReadMe in the docs folder explaining all the command line options you can use for optimisation.

The CPU applications are substantially optimised above stock already.

so I just installed Lunatics Win64 0.45
and honestly it feels almost the same as the regular version. if not a bit slower.
is there any optimisation to be made?

You can find lots of examples of tuning parameters that speed the apps up in the Windows 8.22 app thread.
https://setiathome.berkeley.edu/forum_thread.php?id=80859

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so I just installed Lunatics Win64 0.45
and honestly it feels almost the same as the regular version. if not a bit slower.
is there any optimisation to be made?

You can find lots of examples of tuning parameters that speed the apps up in the Windows 8.22 app thread.
https://setiathome.berkeley.edu/forum_thread.php?id=80859

ok, thank you !

Hey, my RAC has finally started up again :)

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Clearly, I've had too much time on my hands, so I guess I needed a project for the evening.
Decided it would be a good idea to monitor all those GPUs crunching in the basement.
Good fun to put together, even given my limited html and linux skills.
Feel free to peek , try not to laugh too hard at the results. I had fun.

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Actually pretty cool and a simple way to present the status of the basement crunchers. Time well spent I would state.

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Seti@Home classic workunits:20,676 CPU time:74,226 hours

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pretty simple layout.

you might want to modify your fan control though, several of your cards are bumping up on thermal limits and likely throttling themselves.

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Seti@Home classic workunits: 29,492 CPU time: 134,419 hours

pretty simple layout.

you might want to modify your fan control though, several of your cards are bumping up on thermal limits and likely throttling themselves.

Probably true. Tried to tackle cool bits once before, with no success. Guess it's time to take another peek. Wish there was something like Precision X1 on the Ux side.

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are you running these systems headless and/or with a "server" OS install? or do you have them on a normal Ubuntu desktop GUI install.

you need X-server running to be able to use fan control on linux.

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Seti@Home classic workunits: 29,492 CPU time: 134,419 hours

Actually pretty cool and a simple way to present the status of the basement crunchers. Time well spent I would state.

Ended up thinking up another complete approach while trying to get to sleep, so I'll probably have a redo later. Really need to grab stats on the CPUs as well, not just the GPUs, and for that I imagine one page per machine is the better approach. A tool like HWInfo for ux would be really great, but so haven't found one ...

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There are ways to set fan speeds. Either through the normal method nvidia-settings and a X11 server, and then killing the X server. Or in spoofing an X display and setting the fan speeds.
I found several mentions of this method. Have a look at this solution.
Controlling Nvidia GPU fan speed on a headless linux computer

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Seti@Home classic workunits:20,676 CPU time:74,226 hours

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Clearly, I've had too much time on my hands, so I guess I needed a project for the evening.
Decided it would be a good idea to monitor all those GPUs crunching in the basement.
Good fun to put together, even given my limited html and linux skills.
Feel free to peek , try not to laugh too hard at the results. I had fun.

Ultimately, this approach probably makes more sense.

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Ultimately, this approach probably makes more sense.

Or stick it all on the one page so you don't have to scroll up & down or click left & right.

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Grant
Darwin NT

What is a "P102-100 mining card"?

It is "basically" a Gtx 1080Ti without any video outputs. You can get this on ebay (2 left) for $214. Who knows where else you might be able to find these?

A "real" Gtx 1080Ti runs 2 to 5 times more than that.

I strapped on a couple of cheap after market fans and it is running cooler than most of my other gpus are.

Yes, it looks ugly. Yes it runs Tbar's/petri's AIO gpu speed up under Linux.

Tom

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