27th of June

Farm status

CPU only

Running Rosetta work

Intel GPUs

Running Rosetta work

Nvidia GPUs

Two running Rosetta work

Raspberry Pis

Three running Rosetta and 10 running Einstein work.

For news on the Raspberry Pis see Marks Rpi Cluster 

Rosetta news

Rosetta announced via twitter that they have created an antiviral protein. To quote their tweet on the 26th of June:

"We have some BIG NEWS: Researchers @UWproteindesign have succeeded in creating antiviral proteins that neutralize the new coronavirus in the lab. (These experimental drugs are being optimized for animal trials now)"

Most of last week they had little or no work so the farm was basically idle, possibly due to completing that task. More work has been forthcoming so the farm is running them now.

Other news

Most of this week was occupied getting the two networks combined into one new NBN connection. I ended up reinstalling the Raspberry Pis due to firewall issues on the Pi and not having a screen and keyboard so I couldn't access them. The Intel and AMD machines were easier because they have a screen and keyboard.

SpeedTest says I can get 45 Mbit downloads and 10 Mbit uploads now. File transfers are quicker but I don't feel they are 5 times faster than before.

20th of June

Farm status
CPU only
Running Rosetta work

Intel GPUs
Running Rosetta work

Nvidia GPUs
Two running Rosetta work

Raspberry Pis
Three running Rosetta work. Ten running Einstein work.

For news on the Raspberry Pis see Marks Rpi Cluster 

Networking changes
I am in the process of switching to the NBN network. It should provide a higher speed internet connection. I've signed up for a 50 Mbit plan (50 Mbit download and 10 Mbit upload).

At the moment I have two DSL connections with two separate modem/routers which makes two separate local area networks. One has the x64 machines and the other has the Raspberry Pis. I will have to combine them into a single network.


Other news
I got a shipping notification for the 2nd Ryzen 3900X build. The rest of the parts should arrive next week. I already have the power supply and memory.

I've made it to 60th place on the Rosetta@home top participant list. I will be dropping back because today was rather warm (30 degrees in my computer room) and I have to reduce the heat being produced by the computers. I've set all of the Intel GPU and Nvidia GPU machines to no new tasks so they finish off the work they currently have.

7th of June

Farm status
CPU only
Running Rosetta work.

Intel GPUs
All running Rosetta work.

Nvidia GPUs
Two running Rosetta work.

Raspberry Pis
Two running Rosetta work. Ten running Einstein work.

For news on the Raspberry Pis see Marks Rpi Cluster

Other news
The farm has climbed to 73rd place in the Rosetta top participant list. I don't think I will be able to get much higher. Most of their top 100 participants are running multiple servers with lot of cores. The top one that I could look at (in 4th place) had 95 computers with 12, 24 and 40 core CPUs.

The Ryzen 3900X that is on back-order got delayed again. The problem part seems to be the motherboard. All the other parts are in stock and have been allocated to the order. The power supply and memory that I ordered from other suppliers arrived weeks ago.