September equinox

[NerdLifeAMD]

ok some light at the end of the tunnel ...kinda
so im starting to find my way around the project sites a little better.
i have that wu from the 18 that wont validate i clicked on the details and low and behold a task one id higher
is displayed belonging to someone else.Its showing in progress but here is the thing this is the one of the longest task ive
ever received from prog and they person whom is validating it is registered as running the WU on a arm 7 BOOOOOOO
I wasn't even aeware prog had arm tasks available going to check on my nexus now its still crunching prime

Sure enough getting prog tasks now on the nexus.... im such a tool lol

crunching on android has been ok so far my only complaint is there is no sync with bam account
....that ive seen anyway...
my client is a few weeks old ive found that crunching on the phones not really worth it but the tablets gotten
about 5k credits in the past week

[Terry1953]

Some of these guys must have really filled up their drives with WU's. I have 183 pending. Kinda sad that they take them and run them so slow. Asteroids is on it's ass so I may as well have the cpu's do something. Still have a few machines on other things (Ryan's octo core won't run POGS for some reason) I may move a few more over if they go idle.

[Dirk Broer]

You should run more projects if you want Luigi/Mario to get the right proportions!

[Terry1953]

Yea I know and that will be easier when I get into the shed and have all the systems on a KVM switch. Right now they are all spread out and keeping an eye on them is a pain so the simpler the better. I have 2 of the 6870's tied up right now not running because they're in the other bedroom and I'm having trouble getting crossfire to set up and run Moo. We had a big party this weekend with a bunch of people and I was busy smoking over 150 pounds of pork and setting up and then cleaning up with the party.

[Dirk Broer]

Crossfire is nice for gaming, but it's no use crunching (my HD 6690D2's only got recognized by the AMD system monitor. BOINC, Windows, the Catalyst driver (sic!), CPU-Z and GPU-Z always saw them as a HD 6670 plus a HD 6550D or HD 6530D -depending which APU was coupled to the HD 6670). Under Linux it's the same: the Crossfire -though recognized in the catalyst driver- is not used by BOINC. The card and IGP are both used as discrete units, not as a single entity.

KVM wise speaking: have some adapters ready! (my KVM switches all use PS/2 and VGA ports, my most modern mobo's/video cards tend to do away with those). There's also KVM over IP though...

[Terry1953]

I have 2 8Port KVM switches that daisy chain and they use USB hook ups. So I'll be able to use just the one set of K V M. I see guys that have 2 and sometimes 3 5800's and 6800's on the same machine crunching. I just have to figure out how to do it.

[Jason1478963]

I recently switched from boincview to boinctasks to help with computer management. I rarely use my KVM's unless something goes wrong. This could reduce your trips to the shed as well. you may want to turn off the logging featutes in boinctasks with small work units on GPU's. Dad and I have found that a dummy plug helps windows use the GPU. Some machines seemed to work better by expanding the desktop for me to help boinc detect all three cards. I hope this helps as we have success with this method on our AMD cards.

[Dirk Broer]

I only once had to revert to the 'dummy plug approach': for my Intel HD2000, that useless piece of silicon -crunching-wise- in my i3-2100.

[Dirk Broer]

Milestones Yesterday

• AMD Users passed 5,000,000
• Terry53 passed 550,000
• BobCat13 passed 50,000
• NerdLifeAMD passed 70,000
• LogicLabs passed 4,000
• meshmar passed 7,000

[Dirk Broer]

POGS Milestones Yesterday, last full day of the September Equinox challenge:

• Terry53 passed 600,000
• BobCat13 passed 60,000
• NerdLifeAMD passed 90,000
• meshmar passed 10,000