26th of September

Farm status
CPU only
Doing Rosetta work overnight.

Nvidia GPUs
Doing Rosetta overnight and Einstein in the morning.

Raspberry Pis
Doing Einstein and Rosetta work.

For news on the Raspberry Pis see Marks Rpi Cluster


3060 Ti news
I have (had) four machines with GTX 1660 Ti's installed. I am trying to get them all upgraded now there is stock available. The RTX 3060 Ti has been working out about 30% faster. I ordered a 3rd 3060 Ti which has already been installed. They use more power, run a bit hotter and there is more fan noise from them.

I ordered my second card 3 weeks ago, from a shop I don't normally deal with. They still have them listed as pre-order. I asked for an update and they replied they don't have any stock and don't know if or when they will be getting any. Meanwhile the price has gone up $200 since I ordered my first one so I will leave it on order and they will have to deal with the price increase. I don't expect the prices will drop any time soon.

I will wait a week or so to see if my regular shop runs out of stock again before placing another order. The shops are limiting GPU sales to one per household so I have to order one at a time which adds to the shipping cost. The other couple of computer shops I deal with either don't sell the EVGA brand or if they do sell them don't have any. I could also use an ASUS Dual model but nobody seems to have them in stock, although they have other ASUS models available.

5th of September

Farm status
CPU only
Off.

Nvidia GPUs
Running Einstein and Milkyway GPU work in the mornings.

Raspberry Pis
Running Einstein.

For news on the Raspberry Pis see Marks Rpi Cluster


Other news
As mentioned in my last post I got an EVGA RTX 3060 Ti. I have managed to pre-order a second card from another supplier today. It doesn't say when they will be in stock, however most shops aren't accepting pre-orders until they know they are getting stock. I still need another two cards.

I was informed the 10GbE switch which I have on back-order is not expected until November now.

I upgraded the remaining Nvidia GPU machines to Debian Bullseye after using the 3060 Ti machine as a guinea pig. Everything worked pretty much the same as before apart from updated software packages. Its not so much as an upgrade but rather a clean install of the latest version.

In project news Rosetta ran out of work again. They had 4 million work units in the queue but it seems a particular variant of the work had a bug and crashes within 60 seconds so they have millions of failed work units.