09 June 2024

9th of June

Farm status
CPU only
Running Rosetta@home work.

Nvidia GPUs
Off. Have been running Asteroids@home and Einstein@home work.

Raspberry Pis
Running Einstein@home work.

For more information on the Raspberry Pis see Marks Rpi Cluster


Other news
Running a mix of either Rosetta work (CPU), Asteroids and Einstein work (GPU). I have been alternating between the CPU machines and the GPU machines.

Still need to find time to assemble the Ryzen 7900's.

19 May 2024

19th of May

Farm status
CPU only
Running a mix of Einstein@home and Rosetta@home work when cool enough.

Nvidia GPUs
Off

Raspberry Pis
Running 24/7.

For more information on the Raspberry Pis see Marks Rpi Cluster


Other news
A bit of a cold snap (we're in Autumn at the moment) so I have the CPU only machines crunching away.

I still haven't found the time to build the Ryzen 7900 machines even though I've got all the parts. Work and Chia farming are keeping me rather busy.

I don't have any plans to upgrade the GPU crunchers at the moment. I won't buy a Nvidia 40 series card due to issues with their power connector. They really need to go back to using PCIe connectors.


02 March 2024

And we're back. Partially.

Farm status
CPU only
Both Ryzen 5900X machines running Rosetta beta work when its cool enough.

Nvidia GPUs
Have been running Einstein work when its cool enough.

Raspberry Pis
Off


Other news
As you would have gathered most of the farm has been off since the end of last year due to the heat. We've had a few cooler days as we come to the end of summer so I have managed to fire up some of the farm and get going again. For the moment it will be sporadic running as the weather permits.

The Ampere Altra is unable to complete installation of Debian Bookworm so its stuck at the moment. It installs everything up until it runs into trying the Grub bootloader and that fails. I raised a bug with Debian but haven't heard anything from them. Google suggests its something to do with being in UEFI mode, but that doesn't help.

I don't have any new hardware plans at the moment for the farm apart from the Raspberry Pis.