Long runs (8-12 hours on fastest card) 1,265 Ready to Run over on GPUGRID
Note: Note for RTX Graphics Cards and Linux OS Rigs.

bill1024
WCG has a new project.
https://www.worldcommunit...earch/arp1/overview.do

Thanks Bill
Running some now*, been waiting a long time for this one to go live.
*As soon as I can get some tasks that is

Odd this Thread did not Post ""Approval Pending"

This is part of what the Team at Crunching @ EVGA does with their Computing Power.
Whether it is One Computer or 10 Computers.
 
Dear Team EVGA
We're thrilled to announce the launch of our first partnership with The Weather Company: The Africa Rainfall Project.
Most farmers in Africa depend on rainfall to water their crops, which makes accurate rain forecasts absolutely crucial. This project will use the massive computing power of World Community Grid-donated by volunteers like you-along with data from The Weather Company to help provide forecasts that are more accurate for the types of small rainstorms that are found in sub-Saharan Africa.
We hope you'll sign up to support the Africa Rainfall Project!
         Contribute to this Project  (This link will set ALL your Device Manager Profiles and add The Africa Rainfall Project
Thanks for your support,
The World Community Grid team
 
Africa Rainfall Project
    
What if your computer could run simulations of rainstorms in sub-Saharan Africa, and these simulations could be used to help farmers successfully raise their crops?
            
Catch up on the Latest News        

Problem

In sub-Saharan Africa, 95 percent of agriculture depends on rainfall, which makes accurate weather forecasts absolutely crucial. However, because rainfall in this area is often localized—sometimes almost at the level of one farm—it's difficult to forecast accurately with satellite data, which show larger weather patterns.

Proposed Solution

Through the Africa Rainfall Project, researchers at Delft University of Technology will create high-resolution computer simulations of localized rainstorms in sub-Saharan Africa. Because they'll use massive, crowdsourced computing power from World Community Grid, they'll be able run simulations at a much higher resolution—exactly what's needed for localized rainstorms. This has never been done for rainstorms in this region.
As the researchers for the Africa Rainfall Project receive the results of these simulations, they'll be compared with rainfall data from The Weather Company, satellite data, and ground observations. This will help scientists better understand these storms and improve forecasting models. Ultimately, this can lead to more accurate rainfall forecasts for sub-Saharan Africa. In turn, this could give farmers more timely information about when to plant, help them obtain insurance, and become more resilient in the face of climate change.

How You Can Help

As a World Community Grid volunteer, you download a secure software program to your computer. And when your computer is idle or not using its full computing power, it will run a simulated experiment in the background. Then, your computer contacts the World Community Grid server to let it know that it has completed the simulation, which is then uploaded to our server. All of this happens unobtrusively, while you are going about your regular activities such as typing an email, browsing the internet, or while your computer is idle but left on.
World Community Grid receives the results you send back (often called work units or research tasks), combines them with hundreds of thousands of results from other volunteers all over the world, and sends them to the Delft research team. The researchers then begin the difficult work of analyzing the data. While this process can take years, it accelerates that would otherwise take decades, or might even be impossible.
"This is the first time we'll be able to map most of Africa for a whole rainy season, which has never been done before at this level of resolution," says Professor Nick van de Giesen, principal investigator for the Africa Rainfall Project.

STR1D3R_2
14 hrs 47 minutes into the first Africa Rainfall Project wu, 14 hrs 39 minute remaining. May just have to fire up a few more rigs.

a Short job
 
Dang - what are you using to do that thing

Seems to only give one of those tasks at a time on each box.
8.5hr at 28% on an Intel e52670 Sandybridge eight core CPU on a 2P board

You can set it to get the new tasks then set it to give you other tasks is those are not available.
Rather than them sitting idle.

Holding All the Top Apps ATM
https://www.gpugrid.net/performance.php 

 
I'm interested in seeing AMD's upcoming GPUs, to see if they've learned something from Nvidia.
Nvidia is a generation ahead of AMD, not because of RTX, but because they've managed to optimize dataflow (prevent data from swapping too much between cores), causing a much lower TDP than their traditional Pascal or before gen cards.
AMD must have noticed this (since Nvidia basically does what AMD does at 60% of the power consumption)...

ipkha
AMD has certain advantages in cards with HBM memory and pcie4 for memory bandwidth constrained workloads. They went wide with their architecture and are suffering the consequences. Nvidia has spent a long time optimizing for parallel compute workloads due to their enterprise and supercomputer businesses. Especially now that they made separate fp and integer pipelines.
Even 7nm couldn't save AMDs navi. Only Apple and their hatred of Nvidia really keeps AMD graphics in business.

Not going to be Gaming or Benchmarking on this card only Crunching BOINC and I might Fold on it but mostly Crunching.
Want to see how many MilkyWay Tasks I can run on it to compare to my Titan Card running 10 Tasks using DP X299 Dark i9-7920X
Generalized Fermat Prime Search n=21 (GFN-21 or Genefer 2097152) b^2097152+1 (or b²²¹+1) To Compare Runtimes to my RTX 2080 Ti FTW3 Cards
Generalized Fermat Prime Search n=22 (GFN-22 or Genefer 4194304) b^4194304+1 (or b²²²+1) To Compare Runtimes to my RTX 2080 Ti FTW3 Cards
1.(1.000) GeForce RTX 2080 Ti
2.(0.935) AMD Radeon VII (Must have Double Precision floating point hardware for n=21 and n=22)
3.(0.858) GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER
4.(0.696) GeForce RTX 2080
5.(0.676) GeForce RTX 2070
6.(0.527) GeForce RTX 2060
7.(0.515) GeForce GTX 1080 Ti
8.(0.452) Radeon RX Vega
It gives me something to do over the Cold Winter Months and is Not NVIDIA This and NVIDIA That and Not Saving Power Here and Saving Power There.
I Need the Extra Heat to Heat my Home

I am running 5 tasks on my VII and doing them in 52 seconds. That is 10.02 seconds per task.
We are all over the place here lol 
 
I can run more with no performance hit, but no gain either. So 5 seems to work well enough.
 

STR1D3R_2
14 hrs 47 minutes into the first Africa Rainfall Project wu, 14 hrs 39 minute remaining. May just have to fire up a few more rigs.

Talk about an endless money pit.
Unfortunately, the Africa weather project, as Noble as it is, needs constant resources like this.
 
If I ever have a 50 to 100fold crunching capacity in the future, I won't mind lending some resources to this project.
For now the demand of projects closer to home is more pressing.

ProDigit
Talk about an endless money pit.
Unfortunately, the Africa weather project, as Noble as it is, needs constant resources like this.
 
If I ever have a 50 to 100fold crunching capacity in the future, I won't mind lending some resources to this project.
For now the demand of projects closer to home is more pressing.

It is NOT about Money.

bcavnaugh

ProDigit
Talk about an endless money pit.
Unfortunately, the Africa weather project, as Noble as it is, needs constant resources like this.
 
If I ever have a 50 to 100fold crunching capacity in the future, I won't mind lending some resources to this project.
For now the demand of projects closer to home is more pressing.

It is NOT about Money.

This is not mining for dollars or folding for coin
It is about making other peoples lives better; and at times friendly competition between teams and or people on own their own team.

bcavnaugh

ProDigit
Talk about an endless money pit.
Unfortunately, the Africa weather project, as Noble as it is, needs constant resources like this.
 
If I ever have a 50 to 100fold crunching capacity in the future, I won't mind lending some resources to this project.
For now the demand of projects closer to home is more pressing.

It is NOT about Money.

But it is.
Who is paying for the hardware, and the running cost you think?