Punchy
Oh no, not the 48-core system!   So sorry.
 

Thanks Punchy, still not giving up....

Punchy
Oh no, not the 48-core system!   So sorry.
 
Bcav, your system has so many threads it's hard to see the scheduling behavior.  Not that too many threads is a problem... On my dual 8-core system, it's a little easier to see.  In task manager the two threads of a physical core are together in left-right pairs.
 
On my system, the highest numbered cores don't swap between threads too much, for example the CPU 1 Core 7 pair.  You can see how the two threads are taking turns, so one's peaks are the other's valleys, on CPU 0 Core 6, and even CPU 0 Core 0 where you have to look closer.  The more often they switch, the harder it is to see.
 
I'm not sure why your system is showing 56% utilization.  Are you folding at the same time?  Whatever that 6% extra load is might be making things a little harder for the scheduler.
 
 
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Not sure why, I am running 48% that is 26 Tasks. Two CPUs 14 Cores or 28 Threads Each.
If I change it to 50% or 28 Tasks then it takes 60%.
Time wise with HT off my times were 3900 to 4100 and now they are 4200 to 4400 with HT on and running 48% CPUs.
I am not running any other application on this server. I pulled my GTX 1080 Cards out a month or so ago.
Idle goes between 52% and 54% Also this is Windows Server 2012 R2
 
 2*26 is 52% and 2*28 is 56%

After three days:

Challenge: Isaac Newton's Birthday
App: 29 (GCW-Sieve)
(As of 2017-01-06 18:25:23 UTC)

592025 tasks have been sent out. [CPU/GPU/anonymous_platform: 586467 (99%) / 0 (0%) / 5558 (1%)]

Of those tasks that have been sent out:

9115 (2%) came back with some kind of an error. [9016 (2%) / 0 (0%) / 99 (0%)]
403028 (68%) have returned a successful result. [397868 (67%) / 0 (0%) / 5163 (1%)]
179924 (30%) are still in progress. [179629 (30%) / 0 (0%) / 296 (0%)]

Of the tasks that have been returned successfully:

110287 (27%) are pending validation. [108916 (27%) / 0 (0%) / 1374 (0%)]
292727 (73%) have been successfully validated. [288942 (72%) / 0 (0%) / 3785 (1%)]
8 (0%) were invalid. [5 (0%) / 0 (0%) / 3 (0%)]
6 (0%) are inconclusive. [5 (0%) / 0 (0%) / 1 (0%)]


Participation in this challenge is incredible. At the start of the challenge, the leading edges of the GCW sieves varied from 8T to 20T, depending on the base. The leading edges, after three days of the challenge, are at 13T to 34T.

bcavnaugh
What is this "fastgeek's cc_config methods" can you post it?

It's just a few posts up http://forums.evga.com/FindPost/2602244, setting the ncpus value in cc_config, which has the same effect as setting the percentage of CPUs to use in BOINC manager, but leaves no room for doubt in case BOINC didn't read the CPU count correctly.

Punchy

bcavnaugh
What is this "fastgeek's cc_config methods" can you post it?

It's just a few posts up http://forums.evga.com/FindPost/2602244, setting the ncpus value in cc_config, which has the same effect as setting the percentage of CPUs to use in BOINC manager, but leaves no room for doubt in case BOINC didn't read the CPU count correctly.

Ok I will set my T630 and see if it shows only 50% usage in Task Manager.
Thanks.
 
Added:
Setting to use 26 CPU's still shows 56%. Not sure I like the term simulate with using <ncpus>26</ncpus>
 
06-Jan-17 14:19:31 |  | Re-reading cc_config.xml
06-Jan-17 14:19:31 |  | Config: simulate 26 CPUs
06-Jan-17 14:19:31 |  | Config: report completed tasks immediately

Strategy question for EVGA Crunchers in this challenge:
 
It looks like Sicituradastra is slowly catching us - perhaps Steve's loss of 48 cores is part of the reason.  I have access to a few systems at work that will be idle over the weekend.  How do people feel about me adding them to the mix?  It might change my individual position within the team, which would be unfair to others that are using only their own resources.  I know some of us have strong feelings about competing against corporate hardware.  If you are against it but don't want to post, send me a PM.

Punchy
Strategy question for EVGA Crunchers in this challenge:
 
It looks like Sicituradastra is slowly catching us - perhaps Steve's loss of 48 cores is part of the reason.  I have access to a few systems at work that will be idle over the weekend.  How do people feel about me adding them to the mix?  It might change my individual position within the team, which would be unfair to others that are using only their own resources.  I know some of us have strong feelings about competing against corporate hardware.  If you are against it but don't want to post, send me a PM.

As long as you will NOT get into Trouble at Work it is ok with me.
But Please Do Not Take The Change Of Getting Fired For Doing This.......

wizanhi

bcavnaugh

Punchy
Strategy question for EVGA Crunchers in this challenge:
 
It looks like Sicituradastra is slowly catching us - perhaps Steve's loss of 48 cores is part of the reason.  I have access to a few systems at work that will be idle over the weekend.  How do people feel about me adding them to the mix?  It might change my individual position within the team, which would be unfair to others that are using only their own resources.  I know some of us have strong feelings about competing against corporate hardware.  If you are against it but don't want to post, send me a PM.

As long as you will NOT get into Trouble at Work it is ok with me.
But Please Do Not Take The Change Of Getting Fired For Doing This.......

agreed there please dont get into any sort of trouble.  This is not worth it.  At the end of the day we're benefiting further scientific research in some field regardless of which project we crunch for and how little were able to contribute or how much shouldn't matter as long as we have fun and continue to do it ^_^.

I agree, long as there is no trouble involved for you bring it in to the mix.

yatz10
all right - i managed to get the boinc-client and -manager installed and i think it's working:) i did something and it went all crazy the first time i installed, had to purge it. but it looks to be downloading something now for the challenge... fingers crossed.

Did you join our team Crunching@EVGA ?
And Welcome Aboard too!

yatz10
thanks:) yip i did join Crunching@EVGA
after ~1/2 an hour i'm still getting the below message -- is this normal for this project?
Downloading work form the server.
Independent
Mathematics
Primegrid has multiple projects searching for different forms of very large prime numbers, including searching for the largest prime number.
 
edit:
i guess it's doing something, all 8 cores are being fully utilized... e.g.
27884 boinc     39  19    9304   8228   1428 R 100.0  0.1  21:48.48 primegrid_+

Yep Generalized Cullen/Woodall (Sieve) v1.00 Show running on your computer so you are set.

Punchy
Strategy question for EVGA Crunchers in this challenge:
 
It looks like Sicituradastra is slowly catching us - perhaps Steve's loss of 48 cores is part of the reason.  I have access to a few systems at work that will be idle over the weekend.  How do people feel about me adding them to the mix?  It might change my individual position within the team, which would be unfair to others that are using only their own resources.  I know some of us have strong feelings about competing against corporate hardware.  If you are against it but don't want to post, send me a PM.

PM you? How about I pm you my email and password?

howdy2u2

wizanhi

bcavnaugh

Punchy
Strategy question for EVGA Crunchers in this challenge:
 
It looks like Sicituradastra is slowly catching us - perhaps Steve's loss of 48 cores is part of the reason.  I have access to a few systems at work that will be idle over the weekend.  How do people feel about me adding them to the mix?  It might change my individual position within the team, which would be unfair to others that are using only their own resources.  I know some of us have strong feelings about competing against corporate hardware.  If you are against it but don't want to post, send me a PM.

As long as you will NOT get into Trouble at Work it is ok with me.
But Please Do Not Take The Change Of Getting Fired For Doing This.......

agreed there please dont get into any sort of trouble.  This is not worth it.  At the end of the day we're benefiting further scientific research in some field regardless of which project we crunch for and how little were able to contribute or how much shouldn't matter as long as we have fun and continue to do it ^_^.

I agree, long as there is no trouble involved for you bring it in to the mix.

+ 4 or 5 what ever we're up to.
Get those puppies crunching and do it yesterday!!

Yatz10 also turn hyperthread on if your CPU supports it.
The x58 with do 2 times the work in 1.6 times the time, so HT on is a good thing.

yatz10
hey howdy2u2 thanks for the settings! the boinc manager (or at least the one i installed) on ubuntu is apparently much more limited in it's functionality -- i have no such things as advanced tabs or options:) i believe i can set all those online though.

Yup, in the computing preferences @ your Prime Grid log in.
 
Make sure you set it to 0.01 not 0.1
 
Like I did and wonder why I still had a ton of WUs waiting in the wings....................
 
Pretty much looks the same in the PG settings menu ----------- The ones in the circle come in handy if you run multiple rigs.

yatz10

bill1024
Welcome aboard, X58 do well i this challenge, I have a few of them running.
3 dual socket 1366 and 5 single socket 1366, although I am running Xeons in them.
Sieve does not seem to take advantage of AVX or the other new instructions so they still hold their own.

well that's good to hear, although all those cores put me to shame:p all i've got running is i7-960 at stock... i might have to get my other machines working on this as well.

Don't feel alone     running i7 870 a i7 875k and a i7 4790k.................Most of these folks have more cores in one rig than I have total in 3!!!!