Farm status
CPU only
Off
Nvidia GPUs
Had two running Einstein FGRP5 work overnight
Raspberry Pis
Pi4's running Einstein BRP4 work. Pi3's running Einstein BRP4 over the weekend
Other news
I had the Altra going for a couple of hours so it did 156 work units in that time. It is rather noisy so I don't run it for long periods.
No work from Rosetta@home (unless I want to run their Python Project - Which I don't) so the Ryzen 5900X machines stayed off.
26 June 2022
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.
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.
29 May 2022
29th of May
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.
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.
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.
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