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There are ups and downs in volume to be sure. Nothing to worry about :-) Summer is here (well, *almost*, by the astronomical definition). And often "life" intrudes.
We have a new subproject, ESP, as of this morning. I got a few units completed and returned within the first hour! So there's a new badge to chase for those interested in that. And I think the admins are going to re-activate one of the old sieve projects sometime soon.
OK, I'm headed out for a run...
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& I'm relocating very soon. After 30 years in the same town.
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I'm still around, just been really busy at work. I teach English and we've got a lot of tests coming up this week and some new courses starting so I've been running around trying to get everything organised! Focusing on ESP to get my bronze badge and then I think I'll head back to SR5 in preparation for the forthcoming challenge.
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Yes, summer. Kids, yard work, grandchildren, honey-dos (not as easy as this guy's), other grandchildren, more yard work; you see the pattern...
I have a machine that died (with a GTX-465) for an as yet undiagnosed reason. Son #1 is going to use the parts for something other than a home theater machine and I now use a Chromecast in its place. It probably wouldn't do much good as a cruncher.
The machine under my desk at home now sits a little closer to my legs (other "stuff" is now in it's old location) and the heat blowing under there is annoying so my GPU no longer crunches while I'm using the machine. Added to that is the fact that I now use this machine as a DVR for a couple of IP cameras I installed at the house and I'm down a couple of cores to allow it to keep up.
Like some others, I've become less apt to participate in all of the various challenges lately due primarily to the lazy genes which were dormant in my parents and somehow became dominant when they were forced together in me. More and more, I'd rather run projects that don't require much upkeep.
Last, the physical machines I used to run on at work (with permission) are slowly getting absorbed into our internal virtual cloud to better distribute the compute load further reducing my crunching capacity.
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Summer is here also. Today was 30°C , but for this weekend prognoses is: 10°C lower and with showers. So that is not to bad... Sea is around 20°C ( to cold for my taste)
Next month I am back to "my"highest peak - around 2520 meters, so new pictures will come.
In mean time, I frozen my rep-digit search over mega ( because math is not on my side) and now I mining coins. Just for fun...
That is short sentence from me :)
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And I'm off on a "road trip", or rather "rail trip", on Wednesday. I have to retrieve my car from a repair shop where I was forced to leave it (Ventura) about 2.5 weeks ago to rebuild the transmission, about 75 miles away from home. This has cost almost as much as the car is worth, but I'm not ready to let go of it. Fortunately I've had another vehicle (trusty 4wd Ford Explorer) to get me around in the meantime. That machine is *tough*... I've driven it on hideous desert dirt roads for days on end, and has never failed me. Good old "Detroit Iron".
Crazy thing is that I will actually be riding Amtrak to get there. Riding a train in SoCal just isn't done. :-) I'm not claiming that's a good thing; it's just the reality... the rail network here only works well in certain specific cases. The logistics of the "first mile" and "last mile" are the toughest part. Well, anyway, I'm sure it will all work out.
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I'm set up for this PRPnet challenge on the GFN262144 port, starting in a few hours. Running already with geneferocl on both "big" GPUs, so I may get a bit of a head start. Hopefully Aggie will find a nice prime.
Running geneferocl on both cards. On the 570, genefercuda might be a slightly better option, but I'd have to update the video driver to run that and it is very late and I'm getting on an airplane tomorrow, so I just bagged it. The difference is small on a 570 if I recall correctly. May tackle that issue in a couple of days upon my return. Cheers!
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On vacation in gulf shores so wont be able to join the prp fray for a couple more days
I was 6 hours late. For some reason my smooth brain thought it started at 5:00 PM my time. <sigh> |
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I'm on it too now, I was running GFN on BOINC.
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How can I configure prpnet to use both GPUs?
What is options for genefer.ini file?
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Use two different prpnet instances/directories, and set "gpuaffinity=0" in one and "gpuaffinity=1" in the other. Should work for both CUDA and OCL.
The genefer app should just have the one with "geneferocl" uncommented. All of the other genefer apps should be commented out with two slashes "//" at the start of the line.
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Can anyone post a link for the latest prpnet programs other than the one on the main thread? For some reason my pc's are unable to access the download site even though my ipad can. |
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https://www.dropbox.com/s/u8wkpaxl7tsyuyo/prpclient-5.3.1-windows.7z |
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https://www.dropbox.com/s/u8wkpaxl7tsyuyo/prpclient-5.3.1-windows.7z
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https://www.dropbox.com/s/u8wkpaxl7tsyuyo/prpclient-5.3.1-windows.7z
Tks again G, got my 660ti going. My 770 is on a wr gfn with 2 days left.
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Yeah, when I was on it for my puny 6 WUs, it was about 32 mins on my 580.
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All my gpu are now getting the max error thing.
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I can't work out what the problem is, last night my GPU did 6 WUs in about 32 mins [each], and then I got the maxerr messsage repeatedly. But now I've started it up on the GPU again, it's not complaining... at least after one and a half WUs. Very strange. |
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I have a GTX 770, 470, and a ATI 7970 and I can't use any of them now on this challenge.
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I'm not participating as I have life priorities atm & cannot babysit a GPU PRPNet challenge. Is it bombing the clients out so eventually the machine just sits there doing nothing? I had this during the last PRPNet GPU challenge. Couldn't sit there stirring. Continuing with ESP plan until SR5 (if poss). |
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Is it bombing the clients out so eventually the machine just sits there doing nothing?.
Yup. Idle GPU. It does not recover when it uses the GPU like the CPU can.
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Ahhh right, bugger that. You actually do have to babysit it, bloody hell. |
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I tried again and got one unit to finish on GPU and the second one error out half through. So I'm done with GPU on this challenge. CPU only now for me.
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I've only just realised that our team's founder has left, which is a bit saddening.
D: Seems he's not participating in primegrid anymore... Will the founder in the team details change? Or will it always be Tim. Because if he left, then who can change admins, etc?
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A couple of things.
1) I'm not able to run the prpnet challenge anymore due to the GPU maxerr issue. So you high powered cpu folks will have to hang onto our lead.
2) Not sure about Tim as I've not heard from him but for now I'm not worried about managing the team stuff. If/when I hear or if he decides to post a note I will let everyone know.
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On my 2006 era xeon the work units are about 6.5 hours.
i7 950 (no avx), 4.2 hours, i7 3820 (avx) 1.8 hours.
All of the team are in the same boat so put your CPUs to work you vermin hoard!
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Use two different prpnet instances/directories, and set "gpuaffinity=0" in one and "gpuaffinity=1" in the other. Should work for both CUDA and OCL.
The genefer app should just have the one with "geneferocl" uncommented. All of the other genefer apps should be commented out with two slashes "//" at the start of the line.
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Thanks it solved that problem!
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According to MG in one of the main boards, if you're getting maxErr on GPUs now (either OCL or CUDA) and still want to participate on CPU, you should *uncomment* the genefercuda line, so that it will failover to something geneferAVX when the GPU try fails. You should also comment out the LLR and PFGW lines.
I started getting maxErr last evening. I didn't have the above tweaks in place, and so it was failing over to PFGW, which was looking to be hideously slow.
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According to MG in one of the main boards, if you're getting maxErr on GPUs now (either OCL or CUDA) and still want to participate on CPU, you should *uncomment* the genefercuda line, so that it will failover to something geneferAVX when the GPU try fails. You should also comment out the LLR and PFGW lines.
I started getting maxErr last evening. I didn't have the above tweaks in place, and so it was failing over to PFGW, which was looking to be hideously slow.
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p/s: I've been quiet for the last few days due to being away from home.
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According to MG in one of the main boards, if you're getting maxErr on GPUs now (either OCL or CUDA) and still want to participate on CPU, you should *uncomment* the genefercuda line, so that it will failover to something geneferAVX when the GPU try fails. You should also comment out the LLR and PFGW lines.
I started getting maxErr last evening. I didn't have the above tweaks in place, and so it was failing over to PFGW, which was looking to be hideously slow.
--Gary
p/s: I've been quiet for the last few days due to being away from home.
Just got maxErr so back to WR and BOINC
Yes, I'm still having trouble with this too now, even after updating OS, driver versions, and so on. I'm on prpclient 5.3.1, from the standard distribution... I can only seem to get units to run using pfgw64, which is very slow. I think I'm headed back to BOINC work for the time being.
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I've only just realised that our team's founder has left, which is a bit saddening.
Our founder will always be with us, deep in the furry heart of this team.
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I'm bailing on this gnf144 challenge on most of my rigs. Going on a road trip.
I will leave 1 rig on gfn144 and move the rest to SR5 LLR, the next challenge.
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Hi All,
To prepare for the upcoming challenge some SR5-wu's: were completed on my i7-3770, for instance :
Computation for task llr_sr5_221594971_1 finished in 3:16
Has somebody maybe got a couple of CPU / DDR3 tuning tips for SR5 in particular ?
(BIOS/UEFI -settings etc)
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I don't know that it's specific to SR5, but I just crank the multiplier up as far as is consistent with reasonable temperatures, and I leave BCLK at 100. Memory is running on "XMP 1" profile... my chips are rated at 9-9-9-24, 1600. Faster memory would help but that means spending money. HT is *off*. For toggles like C1E and other power-saving stuff, I just leave it at default, since it won't come into play anyway. If you can't change the multiplier, then you're left with changing BCLK, which I would do in very small increments (101, 102,...) as long as the box is stable and you're generating valid work.
SR5 has tests with different 'k' values, so the run-times of individual work units tends to vary somewhat... not as predictable as say Sophie Germain. Your 3:16 time seems about right.
We'll have to start a new thread for this upcoming challenge soon!
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I just noticed this - Doug is double checking one of my gfn's - cool
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I just noticed this - Doug is double checking one of my gfn's - cool
https://www.primegrid.com/workunit.php?wuid=396936687
Points have been awarded! Congrats!
Hey Rick, are you able to use the integrated graphics on that chip for GPU crunching? My 3770K has a HD4000 graphics unit but Intel apparently has no interest in releasing OpenCL drivers for Linux for it. So, it is worthless from that standpoint. I have it shut off in BIOS. There's supposed to be some sort of open-source project to fill that gap (I don't remember the name), but it seems pretty iffy. I believe there are drivers for Windows, so if I booted that way it might work, but rumor is it's pretty slow. So, no big loss, but still it is nice to get stuff working when possible if only as an academic exercise.
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Hey Rick, are you able to use the integrated graphics on that chip for GPU crunching?
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Not sure what chip you mean. I have one on my laptop but I don't use it because it's too slow. For GPU I only use my GTX cards. Not sure if that was an answer to your question or not.
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I just looked at the computer running that task that you posted, and it describes itself as a A6-3600 with Radeon 6530 graphics. Some boinc projects support crunching on IGP's in addition to discrete cards (like your 660). I've never had luck getting that working on PG though due to lack of Intel driver support on Linux. I was just wondering if you'd ever explored that.
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I just looked at the computer running that task that you posted, and it describes itself as a A6-3600 with Radeon 6530 graphics. Some boinc projects support crunching on IGP's in addition to discrete cards (like your 660). I've never had luck getting that working on PG though due to lack of Intel driver support on Linux. I was just wondering if you'd ever explored that.
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No I've never even tried and doubt I will. All 3 of my "home" pc's are old so I just let them run as is.
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For Ivy Bridge and Haswell, you have to have both the latest Intel OpenCL drivers installed, and also the Intel OpenCL Runtime/SDK. I tried it once (for my Haswell) after reading about it, and couldn't get BOINC to use it properly. Apparently there's no hope for Sandy Bridge. |
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Anyone running the re-opened PSP sieve project? My recollection from the "legacy" work is that the tasks were very short and so didn't grant much credit each. From my stats on free-dc, they were about 30 credits each. I'm amused to have gotten one (lonely) "hit" though.
I think I'll leave my old PSP-sieve bronze badge alone for now and do either SR5 or ESP. Also have one of those GFN-WR jobs running now. When I turn back to CPU sieving, it will be for the TRP sieve challenge in August.
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Anyone running the re-opened PSP sieve project? My recollection from the "legacy" work is that the tasks were very short and so didn't grant much credit each. From my stats on free-dc, they were about 30 credits each. I'm amused to have gotten one (lonely) "hit" though.
I have been. About 150 credits per task and taking between 40-50 minutes on an Intel B960 @ 2.2 GHz. So yeah, not great.
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I'm going to push PSP sieve to ruby I think. Try to get all projects to ruby.
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Back a couple of years (whenever) when wwww and wwwwcl first hit the scene, there was a lot of discussion about the magic "threads" and "blocksize" parameters. Several of us ran tests at the time, compared notes, and picked our own best setup. Time has passed and many of us have upgraded CPU, GPU, or both. Anyone run the same kind of experiment, on the new gear, to see if the tuniing answers are the same as before? I ran some Wieferich on my new-ish 770 with the old values, tonight, and it looked good, but I wonder if I can do better. I'll try that in the next couple of days (getting late here) but would be interested in any other data.
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Name ESP_sieve_37995066_7
Workunit 398722155
Created 11 Jul 2014 | 20:13:40 UTC
Sent 11 Jul 2014 | 20:14:18 UTC
Received 11 Jul 2014 | 20:35:49 UTC
Server state Over
Outcome Success
Client state Done
Exit status 0 (0x0)
Computer ID 430908
Report deadline 14 Jul 2014 | 21:14:18 UTC
Run time 1,265.86
CPU time 1,224.34
Validate state Valid
Credit 151.79
Application version Sierpinski Problem ESP/PSP/SoB (Sieve) v1.12
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Gary, I'm running WFS right now with 5 threads and 4000 blocks hyper-threading on.
One instance with no other project going, boinc is shut off.
I'm doing one WFS every 49 to 51 seconds with my EVGA 770 with an old i7-950.
I've tried every config I could think of and this is the fastest I can squeeze out.
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If you look at the user standings for the PRPnet MEGA project, down around 20th place or so, there are *six* rats all one right after the other... what a strange coincidence!
I see from the main boards that this port is being closed. It looks like Tarmo is the top-scorer for AtP, with brinktastee the runner-up. Good job to all for getting the team to 2nd place.
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What a strange day...
http://www.holidayinsights.com/moreholidays/July/cowappreciationday.htm
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Anyone running the re-opened PSP sieve project? My recollection from the "legacy" work is that the tasks were very short and so didn't grant much credit each. From my stats on free-dc, they were about 30 credits each.
I've just remembered that you asked this question - I've been running the sieve for the last few days (after scraping silver when it re-opened before having to do the last challenge, I think...) in order to get my gold badge. The answer is (as Daniel has said) that at the moment it's about 152 credits per WU, but on a 4770K@4.3 with HT on, each WU takes a few seconds over 30 minutes to complete. So it's nothing compared to a GPU app of course, but not bad if you throw your newer CPUs at it.
I'm amused to have gotten one (lonely) "hit" though.
Heh, I got to the GCW sieve a bit later than most people - I've done 4025 tasks and found 4 factors. On the re-opened PSP sieve, I've done 2509 tasks and found 891. When I jumped on it as it first re-opened, the hit-rate was nearly 0.5 per task. Much sieving needed, then... |
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ESP Sieve works more credit with HT *on*, per some tests I just ran. This is not surprising as it is the same software as TRP Sieve, and that's been the common wisdom there for a while now.
Rough, eyeball averages:
2600K: 3 cores, HT off: 1450s
2600K: 6 cores, HT on: 2000s
3770K: 4 cores, HT off: 1305s
3770K: 8 cores, HT on: 2020s
Both boxes had a GPU sieve task running alongside. My 2600K I don't run at full load due to heat issues. The clocks are not set the same on the two boxes, so this really just compares HT on vs. off, not the two processors vs. each other.
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To state the obvious: SoB tasks still take aaaaaaaaages, no matter what hardware you use. I can't imagine how long it would take an old mobile AMD CPU, there should probably be some minimum requirements for SoB. I know that doesn't really sound to be in the spirit of PG but essentially we already have that sort of enforcement in place, i.e. I could do a GFN-WR WU on CPU within the time limit (probably two at once, possibly three) but it's not allowed. I might post in the SoB thread later. |
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I thought that there is some mechanism to force BOINC to run more GPU tasks than you have actual GPUs at the same time. I think it involves editing one of those .xml files in the BOINC data directory, but for the life of me I can't remember which one or what specific edits are required. I believe this works only for fairly recent versions of BOINC. One thing that does *not* work is to try to run two completely separate instances of BOINC simultaneously... the first instance grabs some unique resource (like open a specific TCP socket or grab a file lock or something similar), then the second instance sees that and immediately bails. One could set up a VM and run a second instance there, but that is a fuss and will incur a performance penalty.
As for SoB, the older (pre-March or so) units used to take about 3 days on my fastest box. But we're in a new range now where they're 50% (or more?) longer. I ran exactly one of the older/smaller units on my Macbook (C2D) and I think it took something close to 2 weeks of full-time crunching... I wouldn't do that again!
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Yeah, I'm chasing an amethyst badge, but the WU size did surprise me. Haswell @ 4.3, Ram @ 2133, HT off, only using 3 cores apart from occasional browsing:
Those are huge WUs, Genefers are similar numbers but much faster (on CPU). Genefer isn't even FMA3-compatible on BOINC yet which is annoying, and also, will make it almost twice as fast as SoB on CPU. |
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I have 1 more SoB to do until amethyst after my 1st 6-day long task finally validated as inconclusive on the 18th. I'm not feeding that final unit in until got ESP, PPS LLR + PSP LLR amethysts.
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GCW prpnet challenge for anyone? A week-long one starts in about 8 hours, as I type this. This will be a true challenge for me as it's going to be really hot around here starting this weekend, and I have no a/c. I may shut of GPU crunching just to save on the heat. What I wish I could do is transport the machines to work for a few days and let them crunch in the huge air-conditioned bays. But that's not allowed, and I'd probably never be allowed to remove them even if it were :-)
I need to shut down for a bit to turn HT back off (have had it on for PSP Sieve), so I'll take the time to blast out the fans again.
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The star team where they all seem to worship the woman because she's a woman seem to be winning, I think I might stick on this for a little longer. |
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I put in 2 cores of my i5 on gcw. around 2.5 hours per task.
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Just for reference, performance on a 4770K seems far better with 3 cores active (and HT off). Seems annoying when Intel constantly say "Improved multi-threading performance", etc, each year; but... what can you do? I assume the same may be true for Sandy and Ivy. |
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Just for reference, performance on a 4770K seems far better with 3 cores active (and HT off). Seems annoying when Intel constantly say "Improved multi-threading performance", etc, each year; but... what can you do? I assume the same may be true for Sandy and Ivy.
My 2600K consistently outperforms my 3770K on *big number* tests, even though the 2600K is clocked a bit slower. On smaller numbers (e.g. PPS, SGS) the 3770K wins, but not by much. This is true if I'm running a full load or leaving a core free to service the GPU. I've found an article or two online describing changes in the cache replacement algorithm between SB and IB that's likely responsible. I guess prime-hunting rats are not Intel's target audience.
As for 3 vs. 4 cores active on either SB or IB, for me, 4 is better overall throughput but not by much. 4 runs a *lot* hotter so sometimes I just run 3 for that reason alone.
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Just for reference, performance on a 4770K seems far better with 3 cores active (and HT off). Seems annoying when Intel constantly say "Improved multi-threading performance", etc, each year; but... what can you do? I assume the same may be true for Sandy and Ivy.
My 2600K consistently outperforms my 3770K on *big number* tests, even though the 2600K is clocked a bit slower. On smaller numbers (e.g. PPS, SGS) the 3770K wins, but not by much. This is true if I'm running a full load or leaving a core free to service the GPU. I've found an article or two online describing changes in the cache replacement algorithm between SB and IB that's likely responsible. I guess prime-hunting rats are not Intel's target audience.
As for 3 vs. 4 cores active on either SB or IB, for me, 4 is better overall throughput but not by much. 4 runs a *lot* hotter so sometimes I just run 3 for that reason alone.
Anyway, my $.02. YMMV.
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Though I only have a Sandy Bridge i5, from what I hear about all the new ones I would keep my i5-2500k over any of the new i5s from ivy or devil's canyon etc.
I only run 3 cores, especially in the summer here and with the gpu on. 4 cores on FMA3 llr with gpu running pps sieve gets the cpu temp up there into dangerous temps. 95deg+
Plus, when I'm running 4 cores llr, my programs I run get laggy. If its a dedicated crunching machine, then it's not a problem, but this is my only PC.
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Like everyone else, only what I've read:
- Intel soldered the Sandy Bridge's heat spreaders to their actual covers, to ensure great performance over the 9xx Nehalems... but then didn't do the same with the Ivy Bridge or Haswells, only Devil's Canyon (i.e. a way of holding back a little)
- Intel might have made a mistake by integrating the voltage regulation module with the CPU in Haswell - hence them actually detatching it for the Z98 chipset and adding visible capacitors to the rear of the Devil's Canyon CPUs: 
[Source: TheRegister]
Seems like deliberate cheating to me, but of course that's always been the way, i.e. disabling cores/bus speeds/ etc. You could literally overcome AMD's Athlon cheating by drawing a pencil line on the front to connect two points with graphite. Shame things aren't that simple any more!
I wonder what the other obviously vacant capacitor markers will be used for? I wonder if it could be the two "extreme" Haswells, suffixed with whatever and X, and having 12MB and 15MB of L3 cache? BORING, as well as everything else. |
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Well, I've "re-circuited" my prpnet instances to run LLR in the challenge, rather than PFGW. We'll see how it goes. Want to keep the GPUs going too, alongside.
Have a good weekend everyone.
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Mr. Z is tearing up the field in the GCW Challenge. I've got 1.5 CPU's on the job (would do more but it's too hot), and I see brinktastee, gazzyk1ns, 1998golfer on the scoreboard as well. Excellent. Keep it up gentlemen and we can walk away with this one.
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This is good work everyone. Keep it up. |
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I'm not good at math(s) but with my lowly computational skills I calculate that...yes...we are in the lead. :)
Ahhh this adult beverage is cold and tastee!
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For those of you up and about early in the morning (i.e. an hour or so before sunrise) Jupiter and Venus are *very* close together low in the eastern sky. Today (Monday) was the actual closest "approach"; a full moon could cover them both at the same time. They should present a nice pairing for several days. Venus is the brighter of the two and brilliantly white; Jupiter has a distinct "cream" coloring and is fainter due to much greater distance. Happy viewing! (or sleeping!)
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I, for one, welcome our propellor-bladed rodent overlords...
I don't know what to make of this, although the dutch-rat connection is hmmm... entertaining? ironic? not sure what word to use...
Dutch boy turns his dead rat into flying rodent
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Here's one for the books... although I guess this guy doesn't quite qualify [yet] for the Darwin Awards:
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-29495613
I love the quote that he "...planned every detail...". Mmm... not so much... maybe forgot about the part that it is really hard to run 1000 miles in a giant ball across the Atlantic?
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Completely off topic, but came across this paper today on computational modelling of bird strike on aircraft. A detailed reading is probably warranted, but it gives such gems as:
A bird undergoing impact at very high velocity behaves as a highly deformable projectile
The jelly projectile model is generally accepted as a substitute of the real bird ... a hydrodynamic material model is a reasonable approximation.
For the majority of the interaction, the blade interacts with the gelatin-like fluid, and only interacts with the solid bird for a brief instant
Looks like whichever way you slice it, it's not going to end up well for the bird!
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I believe this has morphed into the "make a random comment" thread, so nothing is "off topic" :-)
I liked the bird vs. airplane quotes. As well as being not a happy time for the bird, sometimes the airplane doesn't fare so well either... just ask Captain Sullenberger!
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Latest Sky News: It is still blue with white clouds. |
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I have just invented an invisibility cloak; anything under it is completely invisible. It is not quite perfect yet as you can still see the cloak itself. |
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I've decided to sell my vacuum cleaner. I's only collecting dust. |
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I've decided to sell my vacuum cleaner. I's only collecting dust.
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"Why don't you invite your Mother to stay for Christmas this year."
"What's wrong with you? You can't stand the sight of her."
"I know, but I thought she'd be company for you while I'm in Spain with all the lads from the football team."
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Erin and I got thrown off a plane for playing Scrabble. All I did was say "I have got 'Ebola'." |
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I shot someone with a starting gun. I've been charged with race crimes.
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The symptoms of Ebola are sweating, weakness, diarrhoea and stomach pains. Rather like me when I see Erin on the computer and remember that I haven't deleted my internet history.
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Those symptoms sound like my normal day-to-day existence.
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The neighbours caught Erin going through their bins again last night.
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It was Erin's birthday yesterday. I bought her a new bag and belt. The ungrateful woman just shouted at me. Still the vacuum cleaner works properly again. |
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No matter how bad your life is, it could probably get worse. Here's a quote from a New York Times article that I ran across after poking about the web regarding the composer of a piece I heard on the local classical radio tonight:
A FEW brush strokes have come to define the otherwise obscure 18th-century composer later known as Il Divino Boemo, or the Divine Bohemian: Josef Myslivecek.
He was a close friend of Mozart and a musical influence on him. He was one of the most celebrated opera composers in Italy in the 1770s. And he had his nose burned away in a botched operation for syphilis.
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Tycho Brahe lost his nose in a duel and so as not to draw attention to the loss wore a replacement made of metal. |
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Knock knock.
"Who's there?"
"Dejav."
"Dejav who?"
Knock knock.
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Almost my first task at a firm of patent lawyers I had just joined back in '87 was to file a patent application for the world's biggest ship.
It looks like they finished the ship at last: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2800441/world-s-biggest-ship-big-lift-oil-rig-takes-seas-pieter-schelte-begin-moving-structures-year.html despite the patent lapsing many years ago and a rather bizarre and entertaining court case about advance fee fraud (it is long but very well worth reading especially paragraphs 26 to 34 and the Appendix) http://www.bailii.org/ew/cases/EWHC/Ch/2014/2046.html. |
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Almost my first task at a firm of patent lawyers I had just joined back in '87 was to file a patent application for the world's biggest ship.
It looks like they finished the ship at last: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2800441/world-s-biggest-ship-big-lift-oil-rig-takes-seas-pieter-schelte-begin-moving-structures-year.html despite the patent lapsing many years ago and a rather bizarre and entertaining court case about advance fee fraud (it is long but very well worth reading especially paragraphs 26 to 34 and the Appendix) http://www.bailii.org/ew/cases/EWHC/Ch/2014/2046.html.
After reading the case - TheDawgz (obviously having no life whatsoever) were tickled pink by the phrase "... the Re-Re-Re-Amended Particulars of Claim"
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We're about to overtake UK Boinc Team for 12th place in terms of RAC.
Does this happen often?
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I'm glad they don’t use horses to make glue any more. It can’t have been easy operating the equipment with big clunky hooves. |
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We're about to overtake UK Boinc Team for 12th place in terms of RAC.
Does this happen often?
Is anyone else as bored as me & regularily follow this progress?
RAC goes up and down and is computed in a strange way so I tend to not pay attention to it. What I'm more impressed with is that our team is currently 9th in total credit, and that all other teams in the top 20 are larger. I attribute our success to technical prowess, witty banter, astonishingly good looks and taste in clothing, and "adult beverages".
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astonishingly good looks
You did see this photo before, right?
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I see two good looking fellows! Now pass me a pint! |
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On Monday I'm attending my first class in binary, ‘Binary 101′. I have missed the first four lessons. |
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Somebody in the bus queue called me an egomaniac. They didn't use my name but it was obvious they were talking about me. |
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I am not lactose intolerant as such but I wouldn’t want my daughter marrying one. |
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Recreate the fun of a visit to a public swimming pool in your own home by filling the bath with cold water, adding two bottles of bleach, then urinating into it, before jumping in.
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Erin asked me to knock something up in the kitchen. The cleaner is now pregnant. |
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On Monday I'm attending my first class in binary, ‘Binary 101′. I have missed the first four lessons.
This reminds me of a stupid old joke: "There are three types of people. Those who understand binary, and those who don't."
Completely unrelated, stupid joke: "Two cannibals were eating a clown. One says to the other, 'Does this taste funny to you?'"
Okay, I'm going to go wash myself off now.
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I'm gratified to see that team "Ukraine" is well ahead of team "Russia" in the 2014 PG Challenge standings, at least so far.
And I hope our own team's Ukraine contingent is still doing well.
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Mathematicians confuse Halloween with Christmas because 31Oct = 25Dec
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Mathematicians confuse Halloween with Christmas because 31Oct = 25Dec
I get it.
But before I got it I saw the string "25DEC" was indeed hex. Which is 155116. So I tried to link 155116 to 31 Oct...
Or there's the hex of 20141031... + so it goes on.
Maybe it's like Wikipoodia: keep going long enough & you get to "philosophy".
Or maybe I've just had a long day at work.
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I read a quote recently (I forget where) that was true to me:
"The 'brass ring' in your career is not how many zeros there are in your paycheck; it's when you become indispensable"
I inch very close to retirement. It's scary.
Sorry; I'm probably "sharing" too much. Back to prime finding.
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I read a quote recently (I forget where) that was true to me:
"The 'brass ring' in your career is not how many zeros there are in your paycheck; it's when you become indispensable"
I inch very close to retirement. It's scary.
Sorry; I'm probably "sharing" too much. Back to prime finding.
--Gary
It is not sharing too much at all. In many ways this is an ideal venue for sharing. I'll drop you an email on the address you have with PG with some of my experience unless you ask me not too. If you want to I'd be glad to engage in dialogue with you. |
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Even across the packed dance floor, my eyes locked onto hers and my heart leapt up into the top of my skull. Three seconds in and I knew I'd never forget the line of her mouth or the curve of her shoulder for the rest of my life. As she made a beeline straight for me, I'd never felt so alive. After what seems like an eternity she said her first words to me. “Can you bring your mop to the khazi, mate? Somebody’s spewed everywhere.” |
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A policeman pulled me over and said, "Do you know why I pulled you over?"
"Because you wanted to see how tall I am?"
"Step out of the car, sir," he ordered.
"See, I told you."
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My grandad used to always go on about how, in the old days, people could leave their back doors open. It is probably why his submarine sank.
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My grandad used to always go on about how, in the old days, people could leave their back doors open. It is probably why his submarine sank.
That brought to mind an old joke used to refer to something as worthless or just really dumb: "a submarine with screen doors".
Hadn't thought about that in years. Thanks!
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That brought to mind an old joke used to refer to something as worthless or just really dumb: "a submarine with screen doors".
Hadn't thought about that in years.
Right up there with "helicopter ejector seats."
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Right up there with "helicopter ejector seats."
As fitted to the Kamov Ka-50. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kamov_Ka-50
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Right up there with "helicopter ejector seats."
As fitted to the Kamov Ka-50. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kamov_Ka-50
Wow, leave it to the Russians to figure this out and build it.
That would be an amazing sight to see: two rotors being blown off, the seat and pilot ejecting to parachute away, and the flaming remains of the ship plummeting down toward hopfully quick-footed onlookers.
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You'd certainly think the test pilot for it would want a low fibre diet. |
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I am pleased with myself today as I managed to work out the twist in the book I was reading before the end. Spot’s ball was in the tree after all. |
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Erin on Apollo 13:
"Houston, we have a problem."
"What?"
"Never mind"
"What's the problem?"
"Nothing"
"Please tell us."
"You know what the problem is."
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A spoonful of sugar helps the medicine go down but it can make suppositories a bit gritty. |
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I opened another bottle of wine and then wondered what I was doing to my liver. Then I remembered. I was frying it with onions. |
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Erin on Apollo 13:
"Houston, we have a problem."
"What?"
"Never mind"
"What's the problem?"
"Nothing"
"Please tell us."
"You know what the problem is."
This joke travel around our blue planet : translated to many languages, but never lost sense: not lost in translations :)
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Erin on Apollo 13:
"Houston, we have a problem."
"What?"
"Never mind"
"What's the problem?"
"Nothing"
"Please tell us."
"You know what the problem is."
This joke travel around our blue planet : translated to many languages, but never lost sense: not lost in translations :)
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http://www.tickld.com/funny/t/1028535
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Erin on Apollo 13:
"Houston, we have a problem."
"What?"
"Never mind"
"What's the problem?"
"Nothing"
"Please tell us."
"You know what the problem is."
This joke travel around our blue planet : translated to many languages, but never lost sense: not lost in translations :)
Joke? What joke?
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Remember to thank your hostess for her hard work in preparing Thanksgiving Dinner for example by saying "I've not seen one bird stuffed with so much since I was in the Merchant Navy in Bangkok." |
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There are some rather photogenic real life vermin here http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-2848550/Can-rats-CUTE-One-photographer-tries-best-prove-furry-rodents-actually-adorable.html |
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I won't be crunching much for the next few days as I'm traveling to visit family for the (US) Thanksgiving holiday. I'll have my laptop so I can check in from time to time. I'm getting somewhat close to a couple of badge upgrades but those will have to wait a bit.
@Neo: haven't heard from either of them in a few months at least. Hope to see them again soon! And, nice to see your x-ray-avatar again as well.
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BitStamps, right?
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If the meanings of "true" and "false" were reversed, then this sentence would not be false.
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I bought a reflective jacket. It just sits in the corner and reads Proust. |
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I've just come back from church. The vicar is so selfish. It is hymn, hymn, hymn. |
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I've just come back from church. The vicar is so selfish. It is hymn, hymn, hymn.
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I've just come back from church. The vicar is so selfish. It is hymn, hymn, hymn.
It's the part where you were in/at church that's funny.
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I've just come back from church. The vicar is so selfish. It is hymn, hymn, hymn.
It's the part where you were in/at church that's funny.
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I've just come back from church. The vicar is so selfish. It is hymn, hymn, hymn.
It's the part where you were in/at church that's funny.
אױ װײ
How ya doin' Bernie?
Reminds me of more than 30 years ago when I first took Erin to my parents' house. I was a scientist and as my father well knew Erin was a young jew.
He then proceeded to tell the story of the cinema which is disturbed by a voice;
“Is there a doctor in the house?”
Silence.
A few minutes later
“Is there a doctor in the house?”
Silence.
“Is there a doctor in the house? This is an emergency.”
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I can wood just by looking at it. It's true, I saw it with my own eyes.
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Apparently it is not good to answer in a job interview when asked your greatest weaknesses to reply "Cigarettes, whiskey and wild, wild wimmen." |
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I wonder if it runs PrimeGrid?
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I wonder if it runs PrimeGrid?
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/261688960815
I like that the shipping charge is more than triple the cost of the item itself.
The next time this person is selling fruit bars, the item's title might be "teleportation device", "faster-than-light spaceship", or "car that runs on smog and spews gasoline out the tailpipe".
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