BOINC testing
We got 7.0.18 last week. So far working fine. I haven't had a chance to replicate my GPU work fetch testing I did with 7.0.15, but I suspect it still has the same problem.
Farm news
Nothing much happening on the farm this week. We had a pretty hot week with a couple of cool days thrown in. I had the 2 main GPUgrid machines running flat-out on the cool days to try and get things moving.
Still no news regarding the Adventure, need to chase them up again.
GPUUG server donations
Here is a link to some pictures of the recent purchase by the GPU Users Group of a couple of servers for the Seti@Home project. They put together two servers on this occasion.
Astropulse/Ntpckr and Download servers get assembled
Again a special thank you to Graham Middleton and the team at the GPU Users Group.
Project news - Einstein
They just keep finding new pulsars. This week it was another 3 in the Parkes data. and the week before another 3 in the Arecibo data. They are up to 9 new pulsars this year alone.
They have only processed data from 2 radio telescopes, so I wonder how many more they could find if they had access to data from other telescopes.
03 March 2012
18 February 2012
18th of February
Adventure saga
Well I reminded the case people that I had sent them the links to their own website. I also include pictures of the case from Japan and the Intel one (used to show off the Knights Corner cards). They don't think the case I had in mind will be able to handle the amount of heat. They think there is an alternative one that might be better suited to what I need, however no further news since then. I suppose I will have to call them again next week.
BOINC testing
Nothing new this week. Still running 7.0.15, although a Mac version of 7.0.16 has appeared today.
Farm news
Its been pretty quiet with the hot weather. I am trying to crunch a bit overnight when the temperatures drop.
I removed the graphics card from Obi-Wan and decided I will run it as a CPU only machine (its a Core 2 Quad) as the case isn't really designed to handle a graphics card producing all the heat. Seeing as its been off for 3 months it wanted a fair few updates to be applied, which I did to bring it up to date.
Orbit at Home
On the 8th of Feb they announced that their grant request to NASA had been rejected. No doubt one of many due to budget cuts. The Planetry Society who also support the project have started a campaign to try and address the imbalance of the cuts.
Well I reminded the case people that I had sent them the links to their own website. I also include pictures of the case from Japan and the Intel one (used to show off the Knights Corner cards). They don't think the case I had in mind will be able to handle the amount of heat. They think there is an alternative one that might be better suited to what I need, however no further news since then. I suppose I will have to call them again next week.
BOINC testing
Nothing new this week. Still running 7.0.15, although a Mac version of 7.0.16 has appeared today.
Farm news
Its been pretty quiet with the hot weather. I am trying to crunch a bit overnight when the temperatures drop.
I removed the graphics card from Obi-Wan and decided I will run it as a CPU only machine (its a Core 2 Quad) as the case isn't really designed to handle a graphics card producing all the heat. Seeing as its been off for 3 months it wanted a fair few updates to be applied, which I did to bring it up to date.
Orbit at Home
On the 8th of Feb they announced that their grant request to NASA had been rejected. No doubt one of many due to budget cuts. The Planetry Society who also support the project have started a campaign to try and address the imbalance of the cuts.
12 February 2012
12th of February
That folks is my GPUgrid badge, now that I have finally passed 50 million credits.
BOINC testing
7.0.15 came out late last week so I have updated the 2 test machines. They had a fix in this for gzipped files as WCG were having issues with the new up-compressing logic. I'm not on WCG so I hadn't noticed. They were working okay for CPDN. Its still got its GPU work fetch issue.
Farm news
I took the 750w Seasonic power supply back, but it turns out there was no reason to. While it only has 2 PCIe power connectors on the side of the power supply there are a number already hard-wired into it as well. Now its back home.
I went to upgrade Maul so it had 2 x GTX560Ti cards but it seems there isn't enough room for them. The 2nd PCIe slot leaves about 2 or 3mm from the 1st card, which means the fan won't get much air flow (its in the middle of the card). The 3rd PCIe slot is even better, the cables connecting various bits to the motherboard hit the fan and the power supply is about 5mm away from the fan. Again not ideal for air-flow. So its still only got 1 in there.
Still no news regarding the case for the Adventure 2800. I will chase them up next week.
I made another donation to GPUgrid, so they should have enough to get one of those new ATI graphics cards and look at getting it to work with their science app.
GPUUG news
The GPU Users Group got a huge donation from one of their members. It has finished off both the fund-raisers they had running and left some money over for whatever is next. A big thank you to Graham Middleton for his generosity.
05 February 2012
5th of February
Farm news
Well not much happening down on the farm this week. We got a few cool days so I managed to finish off the CPDN work units. I also managed to do a few GPUgrid work units. Today got above 30 degrees so the farm was off in the afternoon.
I rang the shop and will return the 750w Seasonic power supply that doesn't have sufficent PCIe power connectors. I will trade up to a 850w Seasonic which apparently has 4 PCIe power connectors.
I also rang the company that had the rack-mount case however they cannot find sufficent details on their web site. I need to give them links to their own site so they can find the information.
BOINC testing
7.0.14 came out so I have that on 2 machines. Why 2 when I normally only put alpha versions on 1 machine? Well this one has some changes around gzip file unzipping so I want to test that. I know CPDN has gzipped files, so I have it running a few CPDN work units to see how it handles them. Other than that there are a few minor tweaks.
I am still discussing cache testing with Dr Anderson, who didn't think my test was a valid one, but will have to see what his latest response is. Put simply I don't think it builds up a GPU cache (but it does for CPU) and believe its a bug that needs to get fixed before it can be released.
Well not much happening down on the farm this week. We got a few cool days so I managed to finish off the CPDN work units. I also managed to do a few GPUgrid work units. Today got above 30 degrees so the farm was off in the afternoon.
I rang the shop and will return the 750w Seasonic power supply that doesn't have sufficent PCIe power connectors. I will trade up to a 850w Seasonic which apparently has 4 PCIe power connectors.
I also rang the company that had the rack-mount case however they cannot find sufficent details on their web site. I need to give them links to their own site so they can find the information.
BOINC testing
7.0.14 came out so I have that on 2 machines. Why 2 when I normally only put alpha versions on 1 machine? Well this one has some changes around gzip file unzipping so I want to test that. I know CPDN has gzipped files, so I have it running a few CPDN work units to see how it handles them. Other than that there are a few minor tweaks.
I am still discussing cache testing with Dr Anderson, who didn't think my test was a valid one, but will have to see what his latest response is. Put simply I don't think it builds up a GPU cache (but it does for CPU) and believe its a bug that needs to get fixed before it can be released.
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