bcavnaugh

yodap
Anyone notice Scott Brown joined a team.
Olddanit and planetclown are on the board as of this post.

 
I though Brown was in at Team? His Team!
WOW! my first task will not be done for another 6 days.
yodap is on the page as well now
 
Well the RYZEN 7 1800X is not well liked on PrimeGrid (Completed, marked as invalid)
 

Scott Brown left his old team last challenge of last year. He went to A.T.P.
Scot said that his old team was kind of dead on his old Duke team, and liked the guys at A.T.P. so he joined them. Pretty much how I read what he said.
That is a lot of crunching CPU power on that team now. More than we are able to produce I believe
We will see how well they do come the next GPU challenge.
I don't think it matters, if I remember we only beat A.T.P. in GPU challenges and only once or twice.
It makes no difference to me, I will still do the PG challenges and try to keep 5th place ours!!

Opolis
My first batch should be done today. Time to get some points up on the board!
Running on my 3930k only.

4 Hours till at least 3 are dropped.

We are up to 8th place in the team standing... WOOT.
 
The multithread seems to be working out well.

bcavnaugh

bill1024
We are up to 8th place in the team standing... WOOT.
 
The multithread seems to be working out well.

Are you using "multithread"?

Yes I am, it makes a big difference. You can add the app_config file even if you have already started sungle thread tasks.
Just read the files, best way is to exit BOINC and end all tasks and restart BOINC, then I had 2 tasks running, not 16
And the others that were started were waiting to run with 8 cores so no time was really lost.
It starts with 8 threads right where it left off running with one.
 
Here is my app_config for my dual 8 core e5-2570
I use the number 8 so I run 2 tasks with 8 cores to use all 16 cores.
 
Just change all the the number 8s to how many cores you want to use per task
 
My hexcore 3930K I use the number 6
 
if you have a quad core use the number 4 to run 1 task with 4 cores.
 
<app_config>
   <app>
      <name>llrPSP</name>
      <fraction_done_exact/>
    </app>
   <app_version>
       <app_name>llrPSP</app_name>
       <cmdline>-t 8</cmdline>
       <avg_ncpus>8</avg_ncpus>
       <max_ncpus>8</max_ncpus>
   </app_version>
</app_config>
 
<app_config>
   <app>
      <name>llrPSP</name>
      <fraction_done_exact/>
    </app>
   <app_version>
       <app_name>llrPSP</app_name>
       <cmdline>-t 6</cmdline>
       <avg_ncpus>6</avg_ncpus>
       <max_ncpus>6</max_ncpus>
   </app_version>
</app_config>
 
<app_config>
   <app>
      <name>llrPSP</name>
      <fraction_done_exact/>
    </app>
   <app_version>
       <app_name>llrPSP</app_name>
       <cmdline>-t 4</cmdline>
       <avg_ncpus>4</avg_ncpus>
       <max_ncpus>4</max_ncpus>
   </app_version>
</app_config>
 

So with HT off I have 26 Cores to setup, I now have 25 in progress ATM with 6 Days to 8 Days left
Would the below work and would run 3 Tasks at once?
 
<app_config>
   <app>
      <name>llrPSP</name>
      <fraction_done_exact/>
    </app>
   <app_version>
       <app_name>llrPSP</app_name>
       <cmdline>-t 8</cmdline>
       <avg_ncpus>8</avg_ncpus>
       <max_ncpus>8</max_ncpus>
   </app_version>
</app_config>
 

bcavnaugh
So with HT off I have 26 Cores to setup, I now have 25 in progress ATM with 6 Days to 8 Days left
Would the below work and would run 3 Tasks at once?
 
<app_config>
  <app>
     <name>llrPSP</name>
     <fraction_done_exact/>
   </app>
  <app_version>
      <app_name>llrPSP</app_name>
      <cmdline>-t 8</cmdline>
      <avg_ncpus>8</avg_ncpus>
      <max_ncpus>8</max_ncpus>
  </app_version>
</app_config>
 

1 processor or two? and how much L3 cache per processor?
If you have 26 cores and do 3 tasks with 8= 24 cores. The other 2 cores will download a task each. ( I Believe, not 100% sure.)
You would want to have 30mb total of L3 cache, or very fast system ram to make up for the task not staying in cach
Maybe do 2 tasks with 12 processors and set the BOINC to only use 99% of CPUs so a core or two will not run a single thread????
May have to do some testing Bill.

bcavnaugh
I Like multithread it is working, Thank You Bill
Now to see if it reduces the time to complete and not miss my deadlines.

How did I get your answer in before you posted again, go back and check my post!

bill1024

bcavnaugh
I Like multithread it is working, Thank You Bill
Now to see if it reduces the time to complete and not miss my deadlines.

How did I get your answer in before you posted again, go back and check my post!

Funny,
I have BOINC Set to 96% Giving me 26 of the 28 Cores and RNA running with no single Cores running PG.
 
PS This is on my T630 with 2 Intel Xeon E5-2680 v4 2.4GHz,3 5M Cache,9.60GT/s QPI,Turbo,HT ,14C/28T CPUs

I will add this to my config file to be safe.
  <max_concurrent>3</max_concurrent>
 
<app_config>
  <app>
     <name>llrPSP</name>
  <max_concurrent>3</max_concurrent>
     <fraction_done_exact/>
   </app>
  <app_version>
      <app_name>llrPSP</app_name>
      <cmdline>-t 8</cmdline>
      <avg_ncpus>8</avg_ncpus>
      <max_ncpus>8</max_ncpus>
  </app_version>
</app_config>
 

Couple things I do want to mention.
When you look at your tasks and you're done, even if you min, the page, click projects or notices.
Do not leave it on tasks, it eats CPU time keeping all those numbers up to date.
 
Also turn off windows update in services and disable the service, at least until this is done.
Close all the stuff that starts with windows that you're not using.
These things use memory and CPU that make a difference on these large tasks.
 
Good luck, I am out of here for a while. Have fun.
 

woops, mised the start day..oh well..im now =D. Only have one rig up and running doing anything, had to move the server rack around and reorganize so the others sytems will be offline for a bit.  No biggie.  I'll just have a lot to do after finals lol.

bill1024
E5-2680v4 Level 3 cache size35 MB. That processor has 35mb of L3 cach, so you should be able to do 3 tasks per CPU. Nice!
 

Just read this, so I should run a total of 6 total tasks?
 
I will give this a try next *RNA Still running
 
<app_config>
   <app>
      <name>llrPSP</name>
      <max_concurrent>4</max_concurrent>
      <fraction_done_exact/>
    </app>
   <app_version>
       <app_name>llrPSP</app_name>
       <cmdline>-t 6</cmdline>
       <avg_ncpus>6</avg_ncpus>
       <max_ncpus>6</max_ncpus>
   </app_version>
</app_config>

Thanks, Checking now!

One more thing! Sorry.
When you first set it up to use 6,8 or how ever many, it will down load a bunch of extra tasks that will just sit there.
You can go ahead and delete them, in BOINC it does not hurt to delete tasks, they get resent right away.
Just do not delete the ones you already started.

We have another sprint in a few days.
 
I just found a few good deals on the forums for parts,  xfx/seasonic 1050G PSU, and 4 sticks of Corsair Vengeance ram, and ordered a refurb hydro series 115i AIO
Maybe I'll get another Asus x79Ws e5-1650 going this week