Posts by tazzduke

1) Message boards : News : SETI@home and COVID-19 (Message 2040303)
Posted 25 Mar 2020 by Profile tazzduke
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Greetings

In regards to SU, thankyou but no thankyou.

My computers and my choice as to what projects I crunch.

Why the duplication though????

Running WCG and GPUGRID, with the odd FOLDING@HOME (When I can get work though).

Cheers
2) Message boards : Number crunching : SETI orphans (Message 2036208)
Posted 6 Mar 2020 by Profile tazzduke
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Well I aint shutting up shop now that Seti is sleeping as they say, already over at Einstein, testing the NVIDIA cards and doing okay.

Will give GPUGRID a go, its medical research so thats a good thing.

Might give Milkway a go, but really should get a couple of 2nd hand RX570s - maybe

Just for kicks and a bit of fun - Primegrid - Like maths a bit lol.

Happy Crunching and Cheerio :-)
3) Message boards : Number crunching : SETI toasted my RTX 2060 in a few days! (Message 2036206)
Posted 6 Mar 2020 by Profile tazzduke
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Well seeing how SETI is going into hibernation, I thought I would also put this adventure to bed as well.

I couldn't let this beat me, so I went away and did some more research and ask a few questions from a few teammates.

Well it was staring at me in the face, the answer that is, invoked a powerlimit on the RTX 2060

used nvidia-smi -i 0 -pl 130

Now with an ambient temp around 27c this beast is running around 74c which is way better than 80c

Also fan speed is around 1800 rpm and the side of the case is off as well,

Well its a road that I can now travel down, just doing Einstein so not as intense, but I now have things to look at if I do some GPUGRID or PRIMEGRID lol.

Thanks for the memories and Happy Crunching whereever your rigs may end up.s

Alas some might have the proverbial fire sales via different second hand markets though.
4) Message boards : Number crunching : SETI toasted my RTX 2060 in a few days! (Message 2034564)
Posted 29 Feb 2020 by Profile tazzduke
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I put up a side fan, blowing air directly onto the GPU as well, well now at least I stopped it going above 80 degrees celsius.
Will be interesting to see how it goes when things start getting warm again.


Well our forecast for this week is averaging around min 18c - max 31 deg c.

Might see how it goes during the night

Cheers
5) Message boards : Number crunching : SETI toasted my RTX 2060 in a few days! (Message 2034549)
Posted 29 Feb 2020 by Profile tazzduke
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Hi Grant

Yes, could have been worse though, could I have gotten those single fan ones, I knew to stay away from those ones.

Yes a three fan GPU would have been better, outside ambient temp is around 27 degrees celsius.

I put up a side fan, blowing air directly onto the GPU as well, well now at least I stopped it going above 80 degrees celsius.

Cheers
6) Message boards : Number crunching : SETI toasted my RTX 2060 in a few days! (Message 2034533)
Posted 29 Feb 2020 by Profile tazzduke
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Running in PC case in a room of ambiet temp of around 26C, with side cover off, it still manages to get to around 77c - 80c.

Well thats not good, but then I did the websearch on this model, turns out, its very common for this model of card, cheap cooling solution.
What is it's fan speed?
If it's/they're not running very fast, give MSI Afterburner a go to crank up the fan speed.
The BIOSes in many video cards tend to be rather conservative when it comes to noise- many GPUs are rated for 90°c or more maximum temperature, and often the BIOS fan control will let it get up to that before really cranking up the fans.
Also if you have a spare 140mm case fan & motherboard header, or just a small desk fan to blow some cooler air in to the case that should make a big difference (a 5° to 7° drop).


Greetings

Well its a mild start to the day, with a slight breeze outside, so this cruncher with RTX 2060 is now sitting outside on top of a fridge (at least its not in it - Fridge still works) and its shaded.

Current state is - Side panel off, fan speed at 60% (2041rpm) and sitting around 73 degrees Celsius.

Regards
7) Message boards : Number crunching : SETI toasted my RTX 2060 in a few days! (Message 2034396)
Posted 28 Feb 2020 by Profile tazzduke
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While the finger test can be good, it can be somewhat misleading :-(
GPU temperature sensors tend to be well buried within the chips themselves and so the surface temperature will be somewhat lower than that where the probes are.

Book your passage to Antarctica ;-)


After looking into Antarctica, its way to cold, will look at another solution, the fridge is no good, to much condensation lol.

Oh well, will have to look at other options.

Cheers
8) Message boards : Number crunching : SETI toasted my RTX 2060 in a few days! (Message 2034393)
Posted 28 Feb 2020 by Profile tazzduke
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Well I have the following

MSI RTX 2060 Ventus XS 6GB

Running in PC case in a room of ambiet temp of around 26C, with side cover off, it still manages to get to around 77c - 80c.

Well thats not good, but then I did the websearch on this model, turns out, its very common for this model of card, cheap cooling solution.

Even checked on the MSI forums, where a couple of respondents have said that is still okay to run.

Ummm, its still a hard pill to swallow after paying so much for them here in Australia.

Well looks like either I stick this cruncher in the back fridge or move to the South Pole lol.

Still to do some more troubleshooting tips, just in case there is a dodgy temp sensor, last time I touched it, it didnt feel that hot though.

Cheers
9) Message boards : Number crunching : SETI toasted my RTX 2060 in a few days! (Message 2034102)
Posted 26 Feb 2020 by Profile tazzduke
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My 2060 has been running continuously, except for the occasional re-boot since I updated this computer on 27th April 2019.

As suggested RMA it and get replacement.


Might I ask as to what temps your are getting on your RTX 2060????

Regards

52C (126F) with fan on auto. It is only air cooled, I haven't seen need to put the fan to max.

I hate fan noise and and case it close enough I can reach far side without moving.
I also hate water cooling, used to work on high power radio transmitters with water at 300psi, radiator as big a a large bed.

Edit] forgot to say I use Silverstone FHP141 case fans where possible, they are 38mm (1½" depth)


Thankyou for that, gives me food for thought with my 2060.
10) Message boards : Number crunching : SETI toasted my RTX 2060 in a few days! (Message 2034084)
Posted 26 Feb 2020 by Profile tazzduke
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My 2060 has been running continuously, except for the occasional re-boot since I updated this computer on 27th April 2019.

As suggested RMA it and get replacement.


Might I ask as to what temps your are getting on your RTX 2060????

Regards
11) Message boards : Number crunching : Linux Dual Boot With Windows How To, Problems, Fixes (Message 2032214)
Posted 13 Feb 2020 by Profile tazzduke
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I checked and I don't have Grub Customizer in my distro. I scanned the other Grub software and didn't see anything that resembles doing any kind of editing of the Grub menu.

Strange, you mean you couldn't install the ppa? Is Linux Mint so different from Ubuntu and Debian it is not considered a derivative?


Greetings Keith

You certainly can use PPA's on Linux Mint, as it is built off Ubuntu 18.04 LTS base.

On a clean install, added the NVIDIA PPA, and then installed the lastest (444.48.02) NVIDIA Drivers through Driver Manager.

I even added a 1060 to my pc with an 1660 and didnt even miss a beat.

Cheers
12) Message boards : Number crunching : Setting up Linux to crunch CUDA90 and above for Windows users (Message 2031411)
Posted 8 Feb 2020 by Profile tazzduke
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Greetings All

I can confirm that I used the 19.04 boinc (AIO folder) on a Kubuntu 19.10 and also a Lubuntu 19.10 and noticed no problems, well there was no errors in the event log at BOINC startup.

Completed a fair few tasks with no know errors as well.

I was using these versions of Ubuntu back in November, but have now gone back to running Linux Mint 19.3 on my 2 x Linux crunchers.

Turns out I still like the Mint lol.

Regards
13) Message boards : Number crunching : Don't know where it should go? Stick it here! (Message 2028737)
Posted 21 Jan 2020 by Profile tazzduke
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Well the leaks are out about the NVIDIA RTX 3070/3080

Now to see how long before they are officially out on the web.

Cheers
14) Message boards : Number crunching : Bitcoin GPU-based Mining Machines good for BOINC / SETI? (Message 2027535)
Posted 13 Jan 2020 by Profile tazzduke
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I am currently running an Amd 3950x and have managed to push it up to 7 gpus (so far).
I own 13 NVIDIA gpus that will all run Tbar's AIO application under Linux. And I already have DDR4 memory.
I want any Boinc cruncher I own to be able to do cpu crunching which rules out a 19 slot, 6th/7th gen (cheaper) solution (4c/8t).

So it looks like a "MSI b360-f pro" MB is in the $90 range (or the newer upgrade) on NewEgg. (18 gpu slots and 8th/9th generation Lga 1151 cpu)
A "Intel Core i9-9900K Coffee Lake 8-Core, 16-Thread, 3.6 GHz (5.0 GHz Turbo) LGA 1151" goes for about $500.
Would need a cpu cooler like maybe a "Corsair Hydro Series, H150i PRO RGB, 360mm. 3 X 120mm ML PWM Fans" @$174 or maybe the "Noctua NH-U14S " I already have. And a mining rack that supports upto 18 gpus (in case I get MORE ambitious while penny pinching)@$119 on Walmart.

So there are two questions.
1) Can I really afford to run 13 gpus all on one box? (Electricity) (Yes I have 2 EVGA 1600 watt PSU's and if the motherboard supports it I can always throw on another 850 watt PSU.
2) I am taking pleasure with my AMD 2600/2700/2700x/3900x/3950x cpu's. I probably would have to sell one or more (Amd cpus [3900x, 2700x?) to finance this experiment. Maybe even an Asus MB.

13 X 40,000 is an estimated ~ 520,000+ RAC. Probably more since I can count on gtx 1060's to run the 40,000~ and I only have 6 of those. The rest are Gtx 1070's(3), Gtx 1660 Supers(3) and a Gtx 1660 non-Super all of which run at least 40,000~ / gpu and usually more.
That might move me up to 8th place (temporarily) until some other machine with more high end gpus comes along.
And what would it do to my power bill....

Hmmmm.....

Tom


Greetings Tom

My thoughts only Tom, but if I had the opportunity I would offload your 1060s and 1070s as quick as possible and replace with either 1660 supers, 1660ti's or even RTX 2060 Super's.

My line of reasoning is that I would rather 7 cards that could output what 13 cards do (Better on the power bill)

But currently with the way the Seti Server is behaving, RAC's are taking longer to hit their max.

My single 1660 super just got to 40k RAC, then I had to stop (now is falling like a brick lol) due to some very warm weather this way.

I am sure they can get to 60K RAC, but I wont know till I give it a proper run.

Reckon the RTX 2060 Supers are good for at least 80K onwards.

So have fun and happy crunching.

Cheers
Mark
15) Message boards : Number crunching : The Server Issues / Outages Thread - Panic Mode On! (118) (Message 2027110)
Posted 10 Jan 2020 by Profile tazzduke
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Well here is a few numbers to keep in mind

Results out in the field - 7,536,318

Results returned and awaiting validation - 7,240,993

First time this year I have seen the returns past 7 million.

Results received in last hour - 195,093

Cheers
16) Message boards : Number crunching : Ryzen and Threadripper (Message 2026779)
Posted 8 Jan 2020 by Profile tazzduke
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I hope that nobody was shocked by the price. After all, it is commensurate with an Epyc workstation/server processor.


Its got me to wondering. If a version 1 EPYC 1 socket cpu with a "workstation" motherboard might do just as good a job running an out-sized load of gpu's? It is clear it would process the cpu tasks slower...

Tom


Well now you got me thinking and well got my head doing some calculations,

Bugger my brain hurts now, going to do some chores lol.

Regards

PS. What age do you become a member of the OFA lol.
17) Message boards : Number crunching : GPU FLOPS: Theory vs Reality (Message 2026355)
Posted 5 Jan 2020 by Profile tazzduke
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I have googled "multiProcs" and for some reason Google hasn't extracted anything. Exactly what is "multiProcs" supposed to represent?
---pause-----google some more and.....-----------
I think I see. It appears to be related to the number of parallel processes that a GPU can run? If so, that would be a major descriptive parameter. A higher # implies being able to run more processes in parallel. Since this is the basis for the gpu app speed up over the cpu app processing speed....

Tom


Well there you go then, learnt something new. I found the mulitProcs number in the stderr.txt for the workunits either awaiting validated or validated. I thought the higher the number the better the card went lol.

Thats why I picked a 1660 super over a 2nd hand 1070 lol.

Cheers
Mark


And Thank you for bringing it up. Just made the change a few minutes ago.

Tom


:-)
18) Message boards : Number crunching : GPU FLOPS: Theory vs Reality (Message 2026267)
Posted 4 Jan 2020 by Profile tazzduke
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Well a few minutes ago I dropped the new Gtx 1660 Supers into my "box" and fired it up.

The only question I have left is to swap a gtx 1070 for a gtx 1660 or not?
I accidentally acquired a gtx 1660 when the listing said "Gtx 1660 Super" for an unheard of low price. No luck on the Super but it is a perfectly good Gtx 1660 that has been (previously) in the "box".

Opinions welcomed.

Tom


Give it a run, uses less energy than the 1070 and should be about the same or close to in RAC.

Is the multiprocs number important as well????

GTX 1660 TI = multiProcs 24
GTX 1660 Super = multiProcs 22
GTX 1660 = multiProcs 22
GTX 1070 = multiProcs 15

No harm in trying and finding out though?

Regards
Mark

PS. I am impressed with my GTX 1660 Super, intend to get another one, so I dont have to use the GTX 970.


I have googled "multiProcs" and for some reason Google hasn't extracted anything. Exactly what is "multiProcs" supposed to represent?
---pause-----google some more and.....-----------
I think I see. It appears to be related to the number of parallel processes that a GPU can run? If so, that would be a major descriptive parameter. A higher # implies being able to run more processes in parallel. Since this is the basis for the gpu app speed up over the cpu app processing speed....

Tom


Well there you go then, learnt something new. I found the mulitProcs number in the stderr.txt for the workunits either awaiting validated or validated. I thought the higher the number the better the card went lol.

Thats why I picked a 1660 super over a 2nd hand 1070 lol.

Cheers
Mark
19) Message boards : Number crunching : GPU FLOPS: Theory vs Reality (Message 2026201)
Posted 4 Jan 2020 by Profile tazzduke
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Well a few minutes ago I dropped the new Gtx 1660 Supers into my "box" and fired it up.

The only question I have left is to swap a gtx 1070 for a gtx 1660 or not?
I accidentally acquired a gtx 1660 when the listing said "Gtx 1660 Super" for an unheard of low price. No luck on the Super but it is a perfectly good Gtx 1660 that has been (previously) in the "box".

Opinions welcomed.

Tom


Give it a run, uses less energy than the 1070 and should be about the same or close to in RAC.

Is the multiprocs number important as well????

GTX 1660 TI = multiProcs 24
GTX 1660 Super = multiProcs 22
GTX 1660 = multiProcs 22
GTX 1070 = multiProcs 15

No harm in trying and finding out though?

Regards
Mark

PS. I am impressed with my GTX 1660 Super, intend to get another one, so I dont have to use the GTX 970.
20) Message boards : Number crunching : Don't know where it should go? Stick it here! (Message 2026068)
Posted 3 Jan 2020 by Profile tazzduke
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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


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