Team Top 10

[Tamaster]

Well... It took me a bit of scrounging for parts, but with the big batches of Fokker_Planck wu's coming through, the temptation was more that I could bear. First I augmented my main desktop with a second machine running a 5600+ dualie that I resuscitated from a dead HP I had in the recycle bin. It's now running in an MSI K9N6PGM2-V with a 2GB upgrade, new PS and case and a really sweet Zalman CNPS7000C-Cu for the 24/7 duty. Kubuntu 9.04 64-bit went in smooth and now it's crunching Aqua FP's right nicely:

Alustriel's Stats @ Free-DC.org (http://stats.free-dc.org/stats.php?page=host&proj=aqu&hostid=36481)

Then I dug through the pile again and found an old Celery from another HP. It's still on the Top Deck (http://www.highspeedpc.com/) because I haven't yet scrounged up a suitable case and the PS is a real P o' S. Kubuntu 9.04 again, this time IA32 variety, and Aqua FP's are providing the burn in:

Mystra's Stats @ Free-DC.org (http://stats.free-dc.org/stats.php?page=host&proj=aqu&hostid=42081)

Now I'm draining the pool to the tune of 20k+ points/day and just pushed into the Team Top 10 :icon_wink:

Not bad for 5 cores WAAAY off the leading edge...

[liuqyn]

keep it up and maybe one day soon I'll have to fire back up just to hold you off.

that is unless vaughan forces me too sooner...

[Tamaster]

Nah... I'm no threat. But I'll tell ya who is really impressing.

G.L.I.S.

Whoa, now that is some ramp!

Keepin' that 810 (and it's GPU) fed is going to be challenging...

[vaughan]

keep it up and maybe one day soon I'll have to fire back up just to hold you off.

that is unless vaughan forces me too sooner...
Oops ... you noticed. :icon_wink:

[ohionet1]

Which projects are Team AMD currently focused on??

[AMDave]

Pretty much all of the active projects although we have a bit of a run going on here and there ;)
Which projects are you most interested in?

[vaughan]

PrimeGrid has a challenge on right now for PSP/SOB Sieving, they are easy lightweight (short) tasks. Initial one time only download is approx 10MB.

Aqua and QuantumFire are both rewarding with big points for CPU users.

Naturally the GPU projects reward well too: Collatz, MilkyWay, PrimeGrid AP26 and Seti & SetiBeta when they are on-line.

[liuqyn]

you forgot GPU Grid, but be ready for high bandwidth usage.

[Tamaster]

that is unless vaughan forces me too sooner...

I think that he just took you up on that one! :icon_lol:

[Tamaster]

Aqua and QuantumFire are both rewarding with big points for CPU users.

Just a note on the Points o' Credit issue with Aqua; the Fokker_Planck wu's are much more reasonable for dual-core machines:

1) They pay well (points per compute minute)

Depending on your processor clock rate and whether you are running a 64-bit OS, the points per compute minute can be really excellent. As an example, my main machine is running Win XP on a 5400+ Black clocked @ 3.3Ghz and is NOT a totally dedicated tasker; it manages to score almost 7 points per compute minute with FP wu's. I'm lucky to get 2.6 ppcm out of it with the 32-bit Aqua MT wu's. My 'new' recycled 5600+ 2.8Ghz dedicated cruncher running 64-bit Kubuntu WALKS ALL OVER my main machine with almost 11 ppcm; even though it is running at a lower clock rate (I believe that 64-bit vs. 32-bit is the main component difference, although the 5600+ also has larger L2 cache @ 1MB/core)

2) They execute relatively quickly

Again on my main machine, an FP wu will usually take about 40 minutes to complete; on the cruncher that comes down to about 26 minutes. On the 2Ghz Celery [32-bit Single Core], run time goes up to a 'whopping' 190 minutes. As a reference point, an Aqua MT wu on my main machine can take something in the order of 4,800 minutes (80 Hours) to complete. The longer it takes, the more things can happen to disrupt the work (or worse, cause a complete scrub, with the work lost).

3) They don't tie up the machine

Aqua@home has had issues with checkpointing, suspension and restarting of wu's not behaving very well. Ditto with not playing well with others wrt sharing cores and releasing cores at switch times to other BOINC tasks. This pretty much means that to be successful running Aqua wu's, you should not be running other projects simultaneously. It also means, you should run Aqua wu's from start to completion uninterrupted. That said, the FP wu's don't tie up a machine for days at a time, which is usually a GOOD thing.

That's why I love 'em...

[Tamaster]

Doh! I was so busy chasing SIMAP that I forgot to do my periodic check of Aqua for the infamous FP WUs! I see that I'm coming to the party LATE!
<shovels more coal> Got to get to 50k/day!
Oh man, I can some catchin' up to do...
(at least I've added a new laptop to the mix)