Farm status
CPU only
Running Universe@home part time.
Nvidia GPUs
Off
Raspberry Pis
Running Einstein@home BRP4 work.
For news on the Raspberry Pis see Marks Rpi Cluster
Ryzen 7000 availability
I priced an upgrade for my Ryzen 5900X machines. I would need a new CPU (Ryzen 7900X) at $949, Noctua NH-U12A cooler at $199, ASUS X670-P motherboard at $499 and lastly 64GB of DDR5-5600 memory at $599. Giving a total of $2,246 in AUD.
I would aim for faster memory as the sweet spot for the Ryzen 7900X is 6GHz and that would cost more of course, assuming I could even find it. Oh and then there are NVMe drives.
As I see it we aren't quite there yet. DDR5 memory is too expensive, not much faster than DDR4 and in too small capacities. You can't even get PCIe gen 5 NVMe drives at the moment. Its going to take a while for the 6.0 kernel to get into a stable Linux release giving the necessary driver support. I think I will have to wait a bit longer.
09 October 2022
22 September 2022
22nd of September
Farm status
CPU only
Off
Nvidia GPUs
Off
Raspberry Pis
All running einstein BRP4 work
For news on the Raspberry Pis see Marks Rpi Cluster
Bill shock
I've been limiting the larger crunchers from use to keep the electricity bill under control. At the moment its been the Pi's running 24/7 with bursts of activity from the x64 machines on weekends.
RTX 4090 announced
Nvidia announced their Ada Lovelace architecture high-end graphics cards (RTX 4090 and 4080). They can use up to 600 watts, so I won't be looking at them. I currently have a number of RTX 3060 Ti cards but if Nvidia keep increasing power consumption I will move to their lower powered models. They haven't announced the rest of the range so I don't expect to be upgrading any time soon, besides the existing Ampere architecture cards are now being discounted quite heaviliy.
Other news
I'm still waiting for AMD Zen 4 to be available at the retailers so I can work out how much its going to cost to upgrade the Ryzen 5900X machines. Given the price of DDR5 memory at the moment I may wait a while for prices to drop.
CPU only
Off
Nvidia GPUs
Off
Raspberry Pis
All running einstein BRP4 work
For news on the Raspberry Pis see Marks Rpi Cluster
Bill shock
I've been limiting the larger crunchers from use to keep the electricity bill under control. At the moment its been the Pi's running 24/7 with bursts of activity from the x64 machines on weekends.
RTX 4090 announced
Nvidia announced their Ada Lovelace architecture high-end graphics cards (RTX 4090 and 4080). They can use up to 600 watts, so I won't be looking at them. I currently have a number of RTX 3060 Ti cards but if Nvidia keep increasing power consumption I will move to their lower powered models. They haven't announced the rest of the range so I don't expect to be upgrading any time soon, besides the existing Ampere architecture cards are now being discounted quite heaviliy.
Other news
I'm still waiting for AMD Zen 4 to be available at the retailers so I can work out how much its going to cost to upgrade the Ryzen 5900X machines. Given the price of DDR5 memory at the moment I may wait a while for prices to drop.
23 August 2022
23rd of August
Farm status
CPU only
Off. Had the Altra running on the weekends.
Nvidia GPUs
Have been doing Einstein and Milkyway on and off.
Raspberry Pis
All running Einstein BRP4 work.
For news on the Raspberry Pis see Marks Rpi Cluster
Other news
There hasn't been any work from Rosetta@home so the Ryzen 5900X's have been off. I had the Altra running for a couple of hours on weekends doing Einstein BRP4 work.
The Raspberry Pis have doubled with an additional BitScope Edge Cluster 12 being added.
CPU only
Off. Had the Altra running on the weekends.
Nvidia GPUs
Have been doing Einstein and Milkyway on and off.
Raspberry Pis
All running Einstein BRP4 work.
For news on the Raspberry Pis see Marks Rpi Cluster
Other news
There hasn't been any work from Rosetta@home so the Ryzen 5900X's have been off. I had the Altra running for a couple of hours on weekends doing Einstein BRP4 work.
The Raspberry Pis have doubled with an additional BitScope Edge Cluster 12 being added.
31 July 2022
31st of July
Farm status
CPU only
Off. I had the Altra running Einstein BRP4 work earlier today.
Nvidia GPUs
Three running Einstein FGRP5 work.
Raspberry Pis
All running Einstein BRP4 work.
For news on the Raspberry Pis see Marks Rpi Cluster
Other news
As you would gather from my other blog the Rpi's have moved into an EC12 which had me occupied doing the assembly and some reconfiguration of support nodes.
The Altra had a bit of a run so it did a bunch of Einstein BRP4 work units. The x64 machines didn't get to run as Rosetta doesn't appear to have any work available unless I want to run Virtual Box work units.
There is talk of the newer Nvidia cards using up to 800 watts, so I will probably be skipping them. You would think Nvidia would be reducing power consumption as they switch to smaller manufacturing nodes, but they appear to be getting worse.
CPU only
Off. I had the Altra running Einstein BRP4 work earlier today.
Nvidia GPUs
Three running Einstein FGRP5 work.
Raspberry Pis
All running Einstein BRP4 work.
For news on the Raspberry Pis see Marks Rpi Cluster
Other news
As you would gather from my other blog the Rpi's have moved into an EC12 which had me occupied doing the assembly and some reconfiguration of support nodes.
The Altra had a bit of a run so it did a bunch of Einstein BRP4 work units. The x64 machines didn't get to run as Rosetta doesn't appear to have any work available unless I want to run Virtual Box work units.
There is talk of the newer Nvidia cards using up to 800 watts, so I will probably be skipping them. You would think Nvidia would be reducing power consumption as they switch to smaller manufacturing nodes, but they appear to be getting worse.
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