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 Good Morning MOT Congratulations NiceMedTexMD and Vuj!! Nice big numbers  skip... While I am not the last guy to ask about GPUs, I am pretty close. On the other hand, I know a few things about building CPU crunchers. So.. I recommend that you go with an Intel I7 CPU. I like Gigabyte motherboards and usually equip them with 4GBs of memory. I use Coolermaster V8 CPU coolers and Coolermaster Cases ( I have used the "Scout" recently as well as the 932 HAF.) On power supplies, I have been using little 430s but those will not cut it if you want to do both CPU and GPU work. You will likely want to go with a 750w or bigger (and 80 (bronze at least) rated) with PCI-E cables for powering of the GPU(s). I am a fan of WD disk drives but will likely be switching to solid state disks soon..now that the price has come down and a lot of the issues have been worked out. If you want to do GPU computing as well as CPU, I would recommend the 932HAF case as it is BIG and the HAF stands for High Air Flow. Additionally I would make sure that the motherboard has at least two PCI-E slots. I don't know if it is necessary but my video is on a small card and the GPU crunching is on the GTX580. (Both are Nvidia- EVGA). Of course, opinions are like a...hum Noses? and everyone has one. The above is just mine and all the choices are arguable. If you are looking to buy a built system, I have no idea. Everyone have a great day! Thanks for your insight and experience. I know EVGA cards are some of the more expensive ones, but the one I got for one system seems to be operating very well. I also see that EVGA makes motherboards. I am on the Cooler Master sight right now to investigate the cases they have. I see the entire side opens on hinges (or so it looks), and I am looking at the Elite 361. I don't know if this is one of the HAF models, but I will investigate further...Thanks again. |
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RT
Master Cruncher USA - Texas - DFW Joined: Dec 22, 2004 Post Count: 2636 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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Both sides come off of the 932 HAF cases. Also both come off the storm Scout. The Scout is a bit smaller and does not have the ease-of-use stuff the 932s do. I buy all this stuff from Newegg.com.
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David Autumns
Ace Cruncher UK Joined: Nov 16, 2004 Post Count: 11062 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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I joined up to MOT Keith over at GPUGrid yesterday.
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keithhenry
Ace Cruncher Senile old farts of the world ....uh.....uh..... nevermind Joined: Nov 18, 2004 Post Count: 18665 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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Okay, I'm no expert on GPU stuff but there are some options for those of you with such cards. If you have any ATI cards, I understand MilkyWay supports those rather well. For the nVidia cards, GPUGrid, Einstien, and Seti are options as they do CUDA. Poem apparently supports some AMD GPUs. MOT also exists on each of these projects. Since folks are presumably going to prefer doing this sort of crunching for WCG first, here's a thought - set your project preferences at these projects so that you get only the GPU WUs and no CPU ones. Then set the resource share to zero. A resource share of zero is supposed to define a project as a "backup" that BOINC will request work from only when none is available from your other projects. I'm thinking that way, you'll get GPU work from those projects until WCG has some to offer and can still get CPU work from WCG as well. I'm not completely sure of that though as I've not tried that (no GPU cards here) so it may only work when your getting no work, CPU or GPU, at all. Still, if it does work, it could be a nice way to get up to speed doing GPU crunching and not have to track when WCG goes production with its GPU work.
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RT
Master Cruncher USA - Texas - DFW Joined: Dec 22, 2004 Post Count: 2636 Status: Offline Project Badges:
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Interesting that you mention that. I have my Elrond machine (has the Nvidia card in it. I have GPUGRID attached to the machine. I cannot figure out how to change the "Resource Share". Both WCG and GPUGRID say 100%. I would love to achieve what you suggest even getting WCG betas over the GPUGRID WUs. Thanks Guys. Have a great evening.
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nanoprobe
Master Cruncher Classified Joined: Aug 29, 2008 Post Count: 2998 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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Interesting that you mention that. I have my Elrond machine (has the Nvidia card in it. I have GPUGRID attached to the machine. I cannot figure out how to change the "Resource Share". Both WCG and GPUGRID say 100%. I would love to achieve what you suggest even getting WCG betas over the GPUGRID WUs. Thanks Guys. Have a great evening. Log on to your GPUGrid account, click on GPUGrid preferences, click on edit preferences,change the resource share to whatever you'd like and hit update preferences. Done.
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RT
Master Cruncher USA - Texas - DFW Joined: Dec 22, 2004 Post Count: 2636 Status: Offline Project Badges:
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Interesting that you mention that. I have my Elrond machine (has the Nvidia card in it. I have GPUGRID attached to the machine. I cannot figure out how to change the "Resource Share". Both WCG and GPUGRID say 100%. I would love to achieve what you suggest even getting WCG betas over the GPUGRID WUs. Thanks Guys. Have a great evening. Log on to your GPUGrid account, click on GPUGrid preferences, click on edit preferences,change the resource share to whatever you'd like and hit update preferences. Done. AhhhSooo. That worked Thanks. Now if I knew this would allow WCG tasks to run ahead of GPUGRID I would be a happy camper.Thanks Again |
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keithhenry
Ace Cruncher Senile old farts of the world ....uh.....uh..... nevermind Joined: Nov 18, 2004 Post Count: 18665 Status: Offline Project Badges:
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100 percent is the default value. To change that, you have to go to your account settings for that project. That means to change your resource share for GPUGrid, go to the GPUGrid website, log in and click on My Account. Find the link for GPUGrid resources, click on that and you'll see the resource share setting. Edit those preferences to change it. You'll need to do this for each project that you want to have a resource share other than 100. This is how you do this for projects that use the standard BOINC website interface. WCG is different. If you want WCG to have a resource share other than 100, you need to edit each of your WCG device profiles where it's call "Project Weight".
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keithhenry
Ace Cruncher Senile old farts of the world ....uh.....uh..... nevermind Joined: Nov 18, 2004 Post Count: 18665 Status: Offline Project Badges:
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Interesting that you mention that. I have my Elrond machine (has the Nvidia card in it. I have GPUGRID attached to the machine. I cannot figure out how to change the "Resource Share". Both WCG and GPUGRID say 100%. I would love to achieve what you suggest even getting WCG betas over the GPUGRID WUs. Thanks Guys. Have a great evening. Log on to your GPUGrid account, click on GPUGrid preferences, click on edit preferences,change the resource share to whatever you'd like and hit update preferences. Done. AhhhSooo. That worked Thanks. Now if I knew this would allow WCG tasks to run ahead of GPUGRID I would be a happy camper.Thanks Again It doesn't control "priority". Resource share is explained this way: "Determines the proportion of your computer's resources allocated to this project. Example: if you participate in two BOINC projects with resource shares of 100 and 200, the first will get 1/3 of your resources and the second will get 2/3." So for the total amount of work your computer gets, 1/3 with be from the first project and 2/3 from the second. However, a zero value is supposed to be "special". According to BOINC's Help on resource share: "If projects contend for resources, the amount allocated to a project is proportional to this number. The default is 100. Note: this is not a percentage. If a computer is attached to 2 projects, each with resource share 100, each project will get half the resources. If a project is given a resource share of 0 it will not receive any resources unless other projects are unable to provide tasks." How BOINC defines "unable to provide tasks" is the point I am unsure of. Does it differentiate between GPU and CPU or not? If you get CPU tasks from WCG, will that prevent you from getting GPU tasks from "backup" projects? |
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Somervillejudson@netscape.net
Veteran Cruncher USA Joined: May 16, 2008 Post Count: 1065 Status: Offline Project Badges:
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Back from fishing in Guatamala! What a neat place as was on the pacific coast at Pacific Fins fishing camp where I caught 5 sailfish. Biggest was 145 lbs! Nice to be home though! Only one machine shut down while I was gone so did not loose much! I have a smattering of different fairly large GPU's in anticipation of them working for WCG. Will after above need to look at the brands but usually tried to buy the most power for least money with best rating. RT sounds like you are back to normal and never heard the "nose" thing before! Haha! Looks like the teams numbers are great.
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