AMD Users just passed 60,000,000 credits on the Einstein@Home project

[Steve Lux]

Congrats to all past and present participants!

[Steve Lux]

The AMD Users team has just passed 70 million credits on einstein@home.

We are also not far from catching up with Rechcraft.net (10 days) and boinc.cz (20 days) at our present rate.

Congrats team!

[Dirk Broer]

:wav:And 5 million of those are yours! Congratulations:icon_lol:

[Steve Lux]

Thanks, this nVidea GTX 580 card is a wonder..

[Dirk Broer]

I bet it's one of the best cards you presently can use for Einstein. Only the GTX 590 will deliver more performance, but is expensive to buy and (too) expensive to operate 365/24/7. If and when Einstein will bring out an OpenCL application that can be used by AMD/Ati cards/CGPUs (or Intel SandyBridge/IvyBridge) balance would flip to the HD 5970 and HD 6990.
For as it is now the GTX 580 will even outperform the Quadro 6000 on Einstein. For MilkyWay the reverse will be true, but who wants to spend $3000 on a videocard?
P.S. The GTX 295 might be a wee bit better than the GTX 580 for Einstein, but as it is an older architecture I am not 100% sure about that. It is also more expensive to operate, using 289 Watt against the 244 for the GTX 580.
Best performance/Watt (SP) for the nVidia family comes from the GTX 560Ti: 7.43
The Radeon ARES, the best AMD/Ati card when it comes to performance/Watt (SP), brings a hefty 18.50 on the scales. Another card you do not want to run 365/24/7....

[Steve Lux]

AMD users just went over 100 million on Einstein@home!

ded101 is nearing 10 million and I'm on his heels.

[Steve Lux]

Congrats to ded101 for being the first on the team to surpass 10,000,000 or 10 million or 1x10^7 points in Einstein@home!

[Dirk Broer]

Congrats to ded101 indeed!
But let's not forget
100110001001011010000000 (binary)
989680 (hexadecimal) and
27 · 57 (factorization)

[Steve Lux]

Not to be entirely pedantic, but apparently we left some gaps. 10 million in:

Base 3: 200 2110 0110 2101
Base 4: 2120 2112 2000
Base 5: 100 3000 0000
Base 6: 5 5420 0144
Base 7: 1 5066 6343
Base 8: 4611 3200
Base 9: 2073 1371

Base 11: 571 016A
Base 12: 342 3054
Base 13: 20C 187A
Base 14: 148 445A
Base 15: D2 7E6A

Base 20: 32 A000

Roman Numeral System during the middle ages: ( ( ( ( ( I ) ) ) ) ) (close as I could get with no backwards "C" in ASCII)

[Dirk Broer]

please continue till base 100...

[AMDave]

Roman Numeral System during the middle ages: ( ( ( ( ( I ) ) ) ) ) (close as I could get with no backwards "C" in ASCII)
I'd clean forgotten that notation. Very clever indeed. Made me smile. :)

[Dirk Broer]

Those Romans were around for quite a long time. They also used this notation:

ten million = X with two horizontal bars over it.
X = 10 and each horizontal bar indicates multiplication by 1000: 10 x 1000 x 1000 = 10,000,000 (ten million)

BTW: A backward C: Ɔ

[Steve Lux]

Just an update on einstein@home.

We have recently surpassed 111,700,000 points. This last September was our highest point production on record with around 6 million points for the month. At the present rate October output is set to surpass September by a significant margin. We are getting some great production in this project.

There are several teams we are catching up with. We should catch one team in a few weeks and two more in just over a month and another in about a month and a half at this present rate. There is also one team catching up on us though. We would have to really kick it in gear, nearly doubling our output, to out pace them.

I've got a 20-25k/day system I need to get going on this if I can get it fixed.

Good work team!

[NeoGen]

That is awesome news Steve! Einstein@Home is one mega-project and ideal for GPUs. I wish I had a 20-25k/day system. :icon_lol:
But anyway, glad to see you on the forum buddy. :) How is life treating you these days?

[Steve Lux]

Just trying to scratch out a living like everyone else. For another $1,000 I could fill up the other half of my big Linux cruncher system and get about 70k/day out of the box, but money is very tight now days. You know, Ubuntu is OK I suppose and a little faster in Einstein, but I miss a GUI. Linux reminds me of the old DOS days and I find that as I get older I'm less interested in bothering with all the hoops you have to jump through to get a distro up and running.

Still haven't got my main 4-core user system going yet. Perhaps I'll work on it again this weekend. If I can get it up and running it should be good for another 25k/day or so in Einstein. We've lost about 50k or more per day in Einstein production over the last few days. I can't make up for all of that, but perhaps I can help a bit more. It's been getting cooler lately so it's time to get all of my heaters (crunching systems - one in each room) up and running again. Local electricity is about 6.9 cents per kWH, so using crunching systems to both do research and heat rooms at the same time is kind of handy.

My youngest son is getting married next month. Any extra I have is going into that event. I got tired of wrapping all the pennies, nickles, dimes and quarters I've saved over the years to help pay for the wedding, so I came here to poke around.

[Dirk Broer]

Hi Steve,

Linux has a GUI Boinc client (http://blog.thesilentnumber.me/2009/09/top-things-to-do-after-installing.html), used it myself on Fedora.
http://i.imgur.com/2uZ2D.jpg&w=633&h=375&ei=LqxdUJrYMMPH0QWOkYCgCg&zoom=1&iact=hc&vpx=513&vpy=156&dur=14784&hovh=173&hovw=292&tx=186&ty=73&sig=117311853201933042743&page=1&tbnh=98&tbnw=166&start=0&ndsp=30&ved=1t:429,r:2,s:0,i:77
I'll see how high my Einstein score is next weeks using a bunch of low end and mid range GPUs/APUs, but 70k a day might be possible

[Dirk Broer]

There are several teams we are catching up with. We should catch one team in a few weeks and two more in just over a month and another in about a month and a half at this present rate. There is also one team catching up on us though. We would have to really kick it in gear, nearly doubling our output, to out pace them. Good work team!

Passed SETI@Netherlands today, Sicituradastra still has not been able to pass us...

[Dirk Broer]

Sicituradastra just passed us today, and SETI@Netherlands is stepping up their effort.
Other teams have stepped up as well.

And I just blew a HD 6670, d#$%%&d. But under guarantee, so I could exchange it for a card of the same price (they had no HD 6670 anymore)
So now I have an extra Einstein card in the form of a 2Gb GT 630. As it will not run WCG for an unknown reason (a GT 440 will and is the same card essentially),
it will soon be transferred into the wife's PC, because hers is slowed down by GPU WCG WUs running on her GT 430.

[Dirk Broer]

AMD Users is at 124,139,127 credits today, we passed LIGO@LLO on the 11th of November (Pocky Day),
SETI@Netherlands is still behind us (even behind LIGO@LLO), and now we're in pursuit of OcUK - Overclockers UK, a tough cookie to crack though.

EDIT: My credit for Einstein is actually far better than showing, and I have an unholy queue of pending results.