12 June 2022

12th of June

Farm status
CPU only
Off

Nvidia GPUs
Running Einstein FGRP5 work overnight

Raspberry Pis
Running Einstein BRP4 work

For news on the Raspberry Pis see Marks Rpi Cluster


Switch upgrade
I got a couple of new 2.5GbE switches. They are Dlink X106XT switches. They have a single 10GbE port and 5 x 2.5GbE ports. They are an un-managed switch but one can prioritize a particular 2.5G port via a switch on the back. It has an annoying LED strip on the front. Unfortunately one can't turn it off but can have it display a white colour instead of the RGB. The 10GbE port is intended to be used as an uplink port so you can integrate them within a 10G network and get the best performance.

I had a QNAP 5 port 2.5GbE switch but the Dlink should be able to push the network speed a bit more. I've removed the QNAP switch. My compute nodes all have 2.5GbE network cards installed.


Other news
I had the Altra running for an hour or so today. It only takes an hour to do Einstein BRP4 work units, so I let it run for a bit and churn out 78 work units. It has an Ampere Altra 80 core (ARMv8) CPU running at 3GHz. I keep two cores available for other tasks.

Rosetta@home is out of work at the moment so no point running the Ryzen 5900X machines.

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