Farm status
Intel GPUs
Two i7-8700's running Seti
Six i7-6700's off
Nvidia GPUs
Off
Raspberry Pis
All running Einstein BRP4 work.
Networking
I ordered two of the 10GbE switches which turned out to be the wrong model. I thought I ordered the Netgear GS110EMX but instead I got the MX version which is unmanaged. I might have well have saved myself some money and got the ASUS which was cheaper as they have the same features apart from the warranty.
I did a quick test using the Drobo5N2 and file server and I managed to only get 52% of the theoretical 2GbE (ie two 1GbE ports) that I was expecting so it hasn't provided any speed improvement over the 1GbE switch that I had before. While I can get a 10GbE network card and plug that into the file server I can't do anything with the Drobo's networking.
In other news we had some warmer weather so most of the farm was off and besides that I have also been spending some time working on the Rpi cluster - see marksrpicluster.blogspot.com for details.
30 September 2018
23 September 2018
23rd of September
Farm status
Intel GPUs
All running Seti overnight
Nvidia GPUs
Off
Raspberry Pis
All running Einstein BRP4 work
Networking upgrades
I am looking at upgrading the internal network to 10 gigabit. Its a toss up of getting a cheaper unmanaged switch, the ASUS XG-2008 which gives 2 x 10GbE plus 8 x 1GbE for $349 AUD, or a Netgear smart-managed switch which gives the same ports but costs $90 more.
I have one device currently with a 10GbE network port in it, I have a few with dual 1GbE network ports that are teamed/bonded together. To get link aggregation (sometimes call port trunking) you need a managed switch. In addition to that I would also need to get a full 10GbE switch to plug the other ones into and they are around $930 AUD for the XS708T (8 x 10GbE) or $1800 for the XS716T (16 x 10GbE). There are slightly cheaper models such as the XS708E ($690) and XS716E ($1460) which have less features. The Netgear ones come with a lifetime warranty unlike the ASUS which only has the statutory 1 year warranty.
Intel GPUs
All running Seti overnight
Nvidia GPUs
Off
Raspberry Pis
All running Einstein BRP4 work
Networking upgrades
I am looking at upgrading the internal network to 10 gigabit. Its a toss up of getting a cheaper unmanaged switch, the ASUS XG-2008 which gives 2 x 10GbE plus 8 x 1GbE for $349 AUD, or a Netgear smart-managed switch which gives the same ports but costs $90 more.
I have one device currently with a 10GbE network port in it, I have a few with dual 1GbE network ports that are teamed/bonded together. To get link aggregation (sometimes call port trunking) you need a managed switch. In addition to that I would also need to get a full 10GbE switch to plug the other ones into and they are around $930 AUD for the XS708T (8 x 10GbE) or $1800 for the XS716T (16 x 10GbE). There are slightly cheaper models such as the XS708E ($690) and XS716E ($1460) which have less features. The Netgear ones come with a lifetime warranty unlike the ASUS which only has the statutory 1 year warranty.
01 September 2018
1st of September
Farm status
Intel GPUs
3 x i7-6700 running Seti and occasional Asteroids
2 x i7-8700 running Seti and occasional Asteroids
Nvidia GPUs
2 x Ryzen 1700 running Seti
Raspberry Pis
All running Einstein BRP4 work
Other news
Nvidia launched a new GPU chip family called Turing and also the top of the line GPU’s now designated RTX-2080, RTX-2080Ti and RTX-2070. I have four GTX 1060’s so their logical replacement would be a RTX-2060 however they haven’t even announced them yet so I may be looking to replace them closer to Christmas.
I got a kernel update (4.17.15) for all the machines. It promptly broke the one machine with bonded network ports. I’ve raised a bug for that and have to run an older kernel on that machine until its fixed. The other machines with single network ports are fine.
Intel GPUs
3 x i7-6700 running Seti and occasional Asteroids
2 x i7-8700 running Seti and occasional Asteroids
Nvidia GPUs
2 x Ryzen 1700 running Seti
Raspberry Pis
All running Einstein BRP4 work
Other news
Nvidia launched a new GPU chip family called Turing and also the top of the line GPU’s now designated RTX-2080, RTX-2080Ti and RTX-2070. I have four GTX 1060’s so their logical replacement would be a RTX-2060 however they haven’t even announced them yet so I may be looking to replace them closer to Christmas.
I got a kernel update (4.17.15) for all the machines. It promptly broke the one machine with bonded network ports. I’ve raised a bug for that and have to run an older kernel on that machine until its fixed. The other machines with single network ports are fine.
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