I just noticed that now two machines exceed the 30,000 mark of recent average credit. (Top Hosts)

Anyone care to speculate when the first machine will exceed 40K and 50K of RAC?
:-)

Care to share the specs of your host?

It's a 64-bit Linux system with a total of 4 GT200 class CUDA devices, made possible due to the 2-in-1 GeForce GTX 295. The Phenom 9550 CPU cores are not so impressive as those of Core i7, but they always seem able to keep the GPUs satisfied. Actively running more than two CUDA devices required an upgrade from a 750 Watt to a 1000 Watt power supply, now a Zalman ZM1000-HP.

Meanwhile... anyone yet running an eight GPU quad GTX 295 rig? ;-)

Consider the Price of this AMD Phenom the delivered power is although impressive. Now you can upgrade to Phenom II and show me a Intel-System with such a plattform-compatibility.

Question: Do you have 2 CPU-Socket's?

Sorry, but what are you talking about? This is about the GPUs.. you just need a board with 2 PCIe slots, 2 GTX 295 and preferrably 4 CPU cores, though on Linux less may do for 4 GPUs.

MrS

Anyone care to speculate when the first machine will exceed 40K and 50K of RAC? :-)

Good luck mate! That would be almost half the output of my entire team.. :D

@Paul: yes, with 6.62 fewer cores may be perfectly fine. If they're not I wouldn't look for a problem with bandwidth (because that's in the realm of nanoseconds) but rather the 1 ms scheduler interval. If a single CPU core is busy serving GPU 1 and right now GPU 2, 3 and 4 also need an *whatever*, then they'll have to wait until serving GPU 1 is done and the scheduler grants them a time slice. Thus I choose the careful term "preferrably" ;)

MrS

" If " the rig will crunch without producing computation errors and doesn't freeze I'd expect the 40K to be reached around the weekend... ;) (Knock on wood)

I was pleasantly surprised too...especially because the rig had freezes and produced computation errors...
My next estimate would be 50 K on next wednesday... ;)

Four GPUs and 4 CPU cores means one gpugrid WU/core and so, no WU in cache. I have a 2 cores CPU and a gtx295 (2 GPUs) and I can not get that the Boinc scheduler feeds them without my personal intervention (which, e.g., is impossible if I'm sleeping) (Boinc 6.6.3)

Four GPUs and 4 CPU cores means one gpugrid WU/core and so, no WU in cache. I have a 2 cores CPU and a gtx295 (2 GPUs) and I can not get that the Boinc scheduler feeds them without my personal intervention (which, e.g., is impossible if I'm sleeping) (Boinc 6.6.3)

Couldn't keep my promise to reach 50K just in time (yesterday)...
...and am wondering if anyone else had some "ghost WUs"...?

Explanation: during the last two days I had WUs, that could only be seen by the BOINC-manager, but not in the web sites task list. So I had eight WUs to crunch whilst in the task list there could only be seen five or six as "in progress". Could have been acceptable...if these WUs would have been listed after they had finished and were submitted...but they seem to have vanished in the Lost-WU-Nirvana...an unnecessary loss of time and credits...kind of annoying...

Yes, I thought also something like that was happening.

Further investigation learned me that these WU were on the web page task list, but then on page two or even three. So just try "next" on top of the web page to see your next 20 WUs and so on. That is were you will find them.

Kind regards

Alain

When I saw that there were less than the usual eight tasks "in progress" I checked the previous task-sides, but with no success: I couldn't find any new ones. Also, after submitting these "ghosts" neither the 'avg. cr' nor the 'tot. cr' for this host did change...

Ul1, your list of computers shows 4 x i7s but 3 have not contacted the server this month. Those 3 also have a number of work units marked no reply. I wonder if the missing work units are to be found on these i7s??

Did you change your email details on this project or make some other change?? If so it might be worth merging those computers with the same name within this project.

Phoneman1

As you mentioned: these rigs haven't done anything for the project this month...but the days I was dealing with the 'ghosts' were late monday and the whole tuesday...

And no: I didn't change anything...and these rigs will be back here as soon as they have cleaned their cache over at SETI...

Couldn't keep my promise to reach 50K just in time (yesterday)...

There are a some motherboards out now that can more than 2 full PCI-e slots. The ASUS P6T6 WS Revolution motherboard, for example, can run 3 boards in full x16 speed. Many will run 3 or more boards, but few will have them all at full x16. This board, and I believe there are a few others out there by other companies, could run 3 GTX295's at once at full speed, though I don't have the money to buy 3 of those right now.

There are a some motherboards out now that can more than 2 full PCI-e slots. The ASUS P6T6 WS Revolution motherboard, for example, can run 3 boards in full x16 speed. Many will run 3 or more boards, but few will have them all at full x16. This board, and I believe there are a few others out there by other companies, could run 3 GTX295's at once at full speed, though I don't have the money to buy 3 of those right now.

16 or 8x PCIe 2.0 is uncritical for now. It's a bit critical though to run 6 GPUs (3 cards) in one box.. concerning PSU, cooling and noise.

I was pleased to see that you are running 3 295's on a Rampage II Extreme, as I just ordered a new system yesterday with that same card and 2 295's but didn't know if it had room for a third one, my wallet on the other hand is not so pleased to learn this. I thought I was going to be able to put off an upgrade for quite a while but now instead I find myself already trying to figure out how toafford a third one Crunching is proving to be an expensive habit but I think I am hooked at this point. If CPU's were Coke, GPU's are most certainly Crack.

You would need a case with 8 expansion slots to use three GTX295 together with an R II Ex, e.g. Lian Li V2010, Lian Li PC-P80 or an Lian Li V1000 Plus II (only 7 slots, but it will work)...

I was sorry to hear about needing 8 slots to install triple 295's, but you do mention a 7 slot case which can manage it, so I still have some hope, as my case is going to be a CoolMaster HAF 932 which has 7 slots. If not I save a few bucks.
If I am not using my system for gaming and won't ever need SLI functionality can I install a non 295 card in the extra slot, like a 280 or 285, or even my current 260.

Sorry, but I think it won't work in your case: the Lian Li I've mentioned has the mobo installed upside down, so there's some space between the end of the mobo and the top of the case, enough for the part of the GTX that's overlapping...
The combo of 2 GTX295 + another single slot card should work...