31 March 2019

31st of March

Farm status
Intel GPUs
Five running Seti

Nvidia GPUs
Two running Seti

Raspberry Pis
Twelve running Einstein and four running Seti


Other news
Its been hot and and its been cool. As its cool at the moment I have most of the farm running.

Einstein O1OD1 work seems to have run out. I had one of the Intel GPU's running it and the others running Seti. The farm is currently running Seti work while Einstein test a GPU version of their gravity wave app.


AMD Ryzen
They will be officially announcing the 3rd generation Ryzen line up and pricing on the 7th of July simply because its the 7th day of the 7th month and they are 7nm CPUs. I will be waiting to see what the official specs are as I look to replace my Ryzen 1700's.

16 March 2019

16th of March

Farm status
Intel GPUs
Running Seti work

Nvidia GPUs
Two running Seti work

Raspberry Pis
12 running Einstein BRP4 work
4 running Seti work


Other news
Nvidia released the GTX 1660 (non-Ti). Its a bit faster than a GTX 1060 and of course cheaper than the 1660 Ti. It has GDDR5 memory, presumably to keep the price down. It also has less CUDA cores (1408) than the Ti (1536).

I completed the install of the six NVMe SSD's into the Intel GPU machines. I swapped out their SSHD's and had to reinstall Linux and BOINC on them all which was a little time consuming.

Einstein seems to have finished off their O1OD1 search which I had the farm concentrating on. While they sort out another search I will concentrate on the other projects for a while.

09 March 2019

9th of March

Farm status
Intel GPUs
5 running Seti. Have been running Einstein

Nvidia GPUs
Off

Raspberry Pis
Off


Crunching news
I have been concentrating on the Einstein O1OD1 crunching. To even things out a bit I am currently running Seti work before going back to Einstein. The data for Einstein's O1OD1 data is expected to be processed in around 12 days. When that happens I will concentrate on the other projects until Einstein get another search run going.


Hardware upgrades
I have ordered a bunch of 1TB NVMe SSD's to put into the Intel GPU machines. After the success of the proxy server I decided the Intel GPU machines would be next. They've already shipped and should arrive next week.

On the hardware front I am waiting on the EVGA GTX 1660 Ti XC Ultra to become available. There doesn't seem to be anyone selling them in Australia at the moment. I have been told that they would take 4-5 weeks after their release to become available.

The next thing on the upgrade list are the Ryzen machines. I am waiting on AMD to release the 3rd generation Ryzen CPUs around the middle of the year. I will be replacing my four existing Ryzen 1700's. I am still deciding which Ryzen CPU to replace them with.