Farm status
Intel GPUs
Running Einstein O1OD1 work overnight
Nvidia GPUs
Two running Einstein O1OD1 work overnight
Raspberry Pis
Off
Crunching news
We had a couple of cooler days with showers so I had the Intel GPU machines doing Einstein work with bursts of Seti thown it.
I also had a couple of the Ryzens running doing Einstein work overnight, as well as running bursts of GPUgrid (short tasks) and Seti.
Other news
The proxy server had its motherboard swapped out. Its got an NVMe SSD which took a couple of goes at installing Linux before behaving. It seems you to have to tell grub to use UEFI mode to be able to boot to the SSD. I also had to flash the BIOS as the SSD wasn't appearing.
The 6th generation i7's were all sold.
I reinstalled Linux on one of the Ryzen 7 machines due to it getting confused about the package dependancies for the Nvidia driver.
GTX 1660Ti officially released
Nvidia finally announced the GTX 1660 Ti. They look like a good replacement for my GTX 1060's so once they become available in quantity I will get some. The current driver in Debian doesn't support them but there is a driver available directly from Nvidia. I don't think they'll be able to get it into the Debian Buster release (expected in March or April) but it may become available soon after via their backports repo.
EVGA seems to have 3 versions of them so I will probably go with the XC Ultra as it has a dual-slot cooler with dual fans (the other two versions have triple slot coolers with a single fan). Its also got the highest boost speed out of the three. There doesn't appear to be any stock available of the XC Ultra at the moment so it might be a while before I can place an order.
24 February 2019
03 February 2019
3rd of February
Farm status
Intel GPUs
All off
Nvidia GPUs
All off
Raspberry Pis
Idle
Weather impacting processing
We have flooding in the north of the country and bush fires in the south. Sydney has been hot but we had two days of cooler weather so I managed to run the Raspberry Pis and Intel GPUs for a short period. Its hot so they are off again. It doesn’t look like the weather is going to cool down any time soon.
In other news the parts for the proxy server are awaiting assembly. I also have someone interested in the 6th generation i7’s that I replaced so hopefully he’ll take the lot and that should make some room.
Intel GPUs
All off
Nvidia GPUs
All off
Raspberry Pis
Idle
Weather impacting processing
We have flooding in the north of the country and bush fires in the south. Sydney has been hot but we had two days of cooler weather so I managed to run the Raspberry Pis and Intel GPUs for a short period. Its hot so they are off again. It doesn’t look like the weather is going to cool down any time soon.
In other news the parts for the proxy server are awaiting assembly. I also have someone interested in the 6th generation i7’s that I replaced so hopefully he’ll take the lot and that should make some room.
13 January 2019
13th of January
Farm status
Intel GPUs
Off. Have been doing bursts of Einstein work overnight
Nvidia GPUs
Off
Raspberry Pis
Idle. Have been doing bursts of Einstein work overnight
Other news
Parts were ordered last year for the Proxy server, but the CPU got back-ordered. The CPU has now been changed from an i3-8300 to an i3-8100 as they are in stock. The parts are supposed to arrive next week.
Linus Tech Tips did a video called "Using 6000 CPU cores for Science" which was about the LIGO gravity wave detectors. Unfortunately they didn't cover the Einstein project and how we process the data. The link is https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sCuKuUgNfjA
The weather is effecting processing or work so I am down to turning machines on in the evening, doing a burst of work and powering them off the following morning.
New GPU announcements
As expected Nvidia announced a RTX 2060 graphics card at CES 2019. The specs look quite good apart from the fact the Turing GPU's and the Einstein GPU apps won't work together. They also announced a GTX 1160 which is basically the same card without the Ray Tracing and Tensor cores. We'll have to wait for some of these to come to market but they sound like a better alternative for number crunching.
AMD also announced a Vega VII graphics card which could be useful for number crunching. It was targeted to the gamers and comes with 16GB of video memory. Its built using 7 nanometer fabrication so hopefully won't use too much power.
I expect I will be replacing GPUs in the 1st quarter of this year so now its just a matter of finding the right one to pick.
Intel GPUs
Off. Have been doing bursts of Einstein work overnight
Nvidia GPUs
Off
Raspberry Pis
Idle. Have been doing bursts of Einstein work overnight
Other news
Parts were ordered last year for the Proxy server, but the CPU got back-ordered. The CPU has now been changed from an i3-8300 to an i3-8100 as they are in stock. The parts are supposed to arrive next week.
Linus Tech Tips did a video called "Using 6000 CPU cores for Science" which was about the LIGO gravity wave detectors. Unfortunately they didn't cover the Einstein project and how we process the data. The link is https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sCuKuUgNfjA
The weather is effecting processing or work so I am down to turning machines on in the evening, doing a burst of work and powering them off the following morning.
New GPU announcements
As expected Nvidia announced a RTX 2060 graphics card at CES 2019. The specs look quite good apart from the fact the Turing GPU's and the Einstein GPU apps won't work together. They also announced a GTX 1160 which is basically the same card without the Ray Tracing and Tensor cores. We'll have to wait for some of these to come to market but they sound like a better alternative for number crunching.
AMD also announced a Vega VII graphics card which could be useful for number crunching. It was targeted to the gamers and comes with 16GB of video memory. Its built using 7 nanometer fabrication so hopefully won't use too much power.
I expect I will be replacing GPUs in the 1st quarter of this year so now its just a matter of finding the right one to pick.
23 December 2018
23rd of December 2018
Farm status
Intel GPUs
Running Einstein O1OD1 work overnight
Nvidia GPUs
Off
Raspberry Pis
Running Einstein BRP4 work
Away
I had a couple of weeks off so things were powered down while I was away. Since returning Sydney had a couple of heavy hail storms that fortunately haven't broken anything for me. The hail storms seem to have cleared the hot weather so I am able to continue crunching for the moment.
Projects
I have a couple of little projects to finish off this year. Firstly I need to finish off the Pi Cluster which means I need to buy more Pi3's
The second one is to replace the proxy server which also means buying some more hardware. Its a 4th generation Intel i5 and Intel are currently up to the 9th generation which gives you an idea how old it is. While it doesn't impact the crunching, its running 24/7 so reliability is everything.
There are a number of things on the "to do" list for next year. Technology advances and hardware needs updating. I try to replace the hardware over a couple of years so they don't fall too far behind.
Intel GPUs
Running Einstein O1OD1 work overnight
Nvidia GPUs
Off
Raspberry Pis
Running Einstein BRP4 work
Away
I had a couple of weeks off so things were powered down while I was away. Since returning Sydney had a couple of heavy hail storms that fortunately haven't broken anything for me. The hail storms seem to have cleared the hot weather so I am able to continue crunching for the moment.
Projects
I have a couple of little projects to finish off this year. Firstly I need to finish off the Pi Cluster which means I need to buy more Pi3's
The second one is to replace the proxy server which also means buying some more hardware. Its a 4th generation Intel i5 and Intel are currently up to the 9th generation which gives you an idea how old it is. While it doesn't impact the crunching, its running 24/7 so reliability is everything.
There are a number of things on the "to do" list for next year. Technology advances and hardware needs updating. I try to replace the hardware over a couple of years so they don't fall too far behind.
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