Farm status
CPU only
Off. Have been doing some Rosetta work.
Nvidia GPUs
Running Einstein and Milkyway work.
Raspberry Pi's
Running Einstein BRP4 work.
For news on the Raspberry Pis see Marks Rpi Cluster
Zen 4 news
The information about Zen 4 is sounding quite promising with motherboard makers and AMD making some announcements at Computex 2022. I will look at upgrading the Ryzen 5900X machines to the equivalent Zen 4. We're still waiting for more details from AMD about CPU specs. Interestingly AMD have said the CPU's will have integrated graphics as well as supporting PCIe 5 and DDR5 memory.
Initially there won't be anything that uses PCIe 5, apart from maybe some M.2 SSD's but that will change over time. The CPU socket has changed to AM5 so that will require a new motherboard and newer DDR5 memory. There is also talk of M.2 SSD's getting bigger, probably to the 22110 size (110mm length) to support PCIe5.
Energy pricing
We have been warned to expect electricity prices to increase up to 140% this year as the wholesale electricity prices have jumped. Energy efficiency is certainly on my mind these days. They are also expecting natural gas prices to increase although not as much. Unfortunately my home doesn't have a north facing roof so adding solar panels wouldn't help much, not to mention I have a fairly small roof area so couldn't fit many panels.
29 May 2022
08 May 2022
8th of May
Farm status
CPU only
Off
Nvidia GPUs
Two running Einstein and Milkyway work.
Raspberry Pis
Running Einstein BRP4 work.
For news on the Raspberry Pis see Marks Rpi Cluster
Work mix
Rosetta ran out of work so nothing for the CPU's to do. Einstein continues to have limited work for GPU's. GPUgrid doesn't seem to have any work. Milkyway seem to have sorted out their server issues and is providing GPU work when requested, not withstanding their bug where if you report and request work at the same time it doesn't give any work.
CPU only
Off
Nvidia GPUs
Two running Einstein and Milkyway work.
Raspberry Pis
Running Einstein BRP4 work.
For news on the Raspberry Pis see Marks Rpi Cluster
Work mix
Rosetta ran out of work so nothing for the CPU's to do. Einstein continues to have limited work for GPU's. GPUgrid doesn't seem to have any work. Milkyway seem to have sorted out their server issues and is providing GPU work when requested, not withstanding their bug where if you report and request work at the same time it doesn't give any work.
24 April 2022
24th of April
Farm status
CPU only
Had the Ryzen 5900X machines doing Rosetta@home for a day.
Nvidia GPUs
Had all machines doing Einstein@home and Milkyway@home.
Raspberry Pis
All running Einstein@home.
Work mix
The weather allowed for running Rosetta@home on the Ryzen 5900X machines so I did a burst of work for them. I had a couple of the Nvidia GPU machines doing Rosetta on their CPUs.
I also had the Nvidia GPUs doing Einstein@home and Milkyway@home work on the RTX 3060 Ti's. Sometimes Einstein doesn't give GPU work when requested. I assume this is caused by their running out of signal candidates for the FGRP5 work and having lots of GPU equipped hosts asking for work.
CPU only
Had the Ryzen 5900X machines doing Rosetta@home for a day.
Nvidia GPUs
Had all machines doing Einstein@home and Milkyway@home.
Raspberry Pis
All running Einstein@home.
Work mix
The weather allowed for running Rosetta@home on the Ryzen 5900X machines so I did a burst of work for them. I had a couple of the Nvidia GPU machines doing Rosetta on their CPUs.
I also had the Nvidia GPUs doing Einstein@home and Milkyway@home work on the RTX 3060 Ti's. Sometimes Einstein doesn't give GPU work when requested. I assume this is caused by their running out of signal candidates for the FGRP5 work and having lots of GPU equipped hosts asking for work.
10 April 2022
10th of April
Farm status
CPU only
Off
Nvidia GPUs
Off
Raspberry Pis
All running Einstein@home BRP4 work
For news on the Raspberry Pis see Marks Rpi Cluster
Work availability
We're still running from time to time, depending on the weather. In a break from the rain its sunny and hot with more rain forecast for later in the week. The Pis have been running constantly. I had the Altra running for a couple of hours yesterday doing Einstein BRP4 work.
The other machines have generally been off because they are excluded (by the project) from doing BRP4 work. I usually use the Nvidia GPU machines to run the Einstein FGRP5 search but there isn't much work available for them or from GPUgrid.
Milkyway which I also run on the Nvidia GPUs has been having server issues where it says it doesn't have any work but the server status page shows there to be plenty.
Storage server update
I got the parts mentioned in my previous blog post and assembled it. I had to buy an over-priced 2nd hand GT 710 graphics card off eBay so I could have a display. The GT 710's have been replaced by the GT 730, hence the eBay purchase.
I assembled the new motherboard and swapped out the existing one. Everything else got reused in the new build. I didn't even install the operating system I just put the old M2 SSD into the new motherboard and off it went. The only thing I had to install was the Nvidia drivers.
I couldn't get the 32GB memory sticks to work so I used the memory from the old machine (4x16GB sticks). It seems none of the machines I have recognize the 32GB sticks.
CPU only
Off
Nvidia GPUs
Off
Raspberry Pis
All running Einstein@home BRP4 work
For news on the Raspberry Pis see Marks Rpi Cluster
Work availability
We're still running from time to time, depending on the weather. In a break from the rain its sunny and hot with more rain forecast for later in the week. The Pis have been running constantly. I had the Altra running for a couple of hours yesterday doing Einstein BRP4 work.
The other machines have generally been off because they are excluded (by the project) from doing BRP4 work. I usually use the Nvidia GPU machines to run the Einstein FGRP5 search but there isn't much work available for them or from GPUgrid.
Milkyway which I also run on the Nvidia GPUs has been having server issues where it says it doesn't have any work but the server status page shows there to be plenty.
Storage server update
I got the parts mentioned in my previous blog post and assembled it. I had to buy an over-priced 2nd hand GT 710 graphics card off eBay so I could have a display. The GT 710's have been replaced by the GT 730, hence the eBay purchase.
I assembled the new motherboard and swapped out the existing one. Everything else got reused in the new build. I didn't even install the operating system I just put the old M2 SSD into the new motherboard and off it went. The only thing I had to install was the Nvidia drivers.
I couldn't get the 32GB memory sticks to work so I used the memory from the old machine (4x16GB sticks). It seems none of the machines I have recognize the 32GB sticks.
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