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Hypernova
Master Cruncher Audaces Fortuna Juvat ! Vaud - Switzerland Joined: Dec 16, 2008 Post Count: 1908 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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I was looking at gpugrid and saw that the number one contributor Erik Postnieks is positing a daily average of:
----------------------------------------36 Million Boinc credits per day. That translates into 252 Million WCG points per day. Or 6 to 7 times the IBM contribution. If we look at our complete daily WCG points production of yesterday we are around 900 Million. One cruncher could weigh 27% of the whole WCG grid. WOW !!! Agreed this is all GPU computing. But when one looks at the number of machines crunching for that result it is also surprising: 193 rigs (give and take a few one) All these machines have 1, 2, 3 or 4 Nvidia boards each. And a majority are 12 core CPUs. I have counted about 495 boards the vast majority being GTX 690 and 680 type. There are also 660 and a few different models. I wonder if it is a company or a single individual. In general company machines do not have top gamer boards and even if for some machines they do have, they do not have 2, 3, or 4 boards running in parallel. I can only be astonished at the cost this represents and the running costs in terms of electrical consumption probably over 150 kilowatts. I am really curious what kind of cruncher that is. But in any case I can humbly applaud such a generous contribution to scientific research.  |
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Sgt.Joe
Ace Cruncher USA Joined: Jul 4, 2006 Post Count: 7576 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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Mr. Postnieks has an impressive array of machines. Boincstats lists 127 rigs of his for GPU crunching. 15 are Xeons and the rest are I7's. It appears he put most of these use around 01/17/2013 as that is when his numbers went up. His best day is 59,056,125. I am only speculating but I am guessing he got permission from an emp[loyer perhaps to put Boinc on most of them. The electric bill must be tremendous. You would never run this many on a standard U.S. service of 200 amps. My guess is an employer or this gentleman has very deep pockets.
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branjo
Master Cruncher Slovakia Joined: Jun 29, 2012 Post Count: 1892 Status: Offline Project Badges:
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Mr. Postnieks has an impressive array of machines. Boincstats lists 127 rigs of his for GPU crunching. 15 are Xeons and the rest are I7's. It appears he put most of these use around 01/17/2013 as that is when his numbers went up. His best day is 59,056,125. I am only speculating but I am guessing he got permission from an emp[loyer perhaps to put Boinc on most of them. The electric bill must be tremendous. You would never run this many on a standard U.S. service of 200 amps. My guess is an employer or this gentleman has very deep pockets. Cheers Well...  . Congrats to him/her/it   Crunching@Home since January 13 2000. Shrubbing@Home since January 5 2006  [Edit 1 times, last edit by branjo at Feb 2, 2013 8:58:41 PM] |
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BladeD
Ace Cruncher USA Joined: Nov 17, 2004 Post Count: 28976 Status: Offline Project Badges:
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Imagine what his numbers would be if Nvidia hadn't crippled the 6xx series.
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Former Member
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I'm guessing a circuitous trace leading eventually to nVidia 'unofficial' sponsorship and/or a network of nVidia fans geographically spread but camped-on -, and agreeing to combine contributions to -, a single account. Still, nice contribution to science.
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ryan222h
Senior Cruncher Joined: Sep 4, 2006 Post Count: 425 Status: Offline |
It makes more sense when you consider the fact that other crunching sites like gpu grid reward more points per gpu hour than WCG
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Ingleside
Veteran Cruncher Norway Joined: Nov 19, 2005 Post Count: 974 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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BladeD wrote:
----------------------------------------Imagine what his numbers would be if Nvidia hadn't crippled the 6xx series. While Nvidia has crippled the double-precision-speed, I'm not aware GPUGRID uses much, if any at all, double-precision... ryan222h wrote: It makes more sense when you consider the fact that other crunching sites like gpu grid reward more points per gpu hour than WCG Yes, comparing between BOINC-projects doesn't normally make much sence, since especially some of the GPU-projects gives much higher credit/hour than it's possible to get by running GPU on another project. Still, with around 500 GPU's the production will be high regardless of project.  "I make so many mistakes. But then just think of all the mistakes I don't make, although I might." |
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Former Member
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One small thing to point out, because GPU grid is the only project that I have heard of that does this. Because GPU grid says they need a somewhat quick return of their results they offer point bonuses based on how quickly the tasks are completed and returned. 50% bonus for under 24 hours, and 25% bonus for under 48 hours.
Though besides that every task in a certain project run is a flat number of credits. Not to mention they offer Short and Long Projects, their short projects amount to far fewer points in the same amount of time ( even with the bonuses) as the long run projects. Though I think GPU grid credits may fall off a cliff soon, they are working on upgrading the CUDA software package they are using, and are running into quite a few issues, as such they have relatively few tasks remaining of which everyone is fighting over. Last time I checked they are basically completely out of Short Run tasks, and the Beta tasks are only released in small batches. While they have a fair amount of Long run tasks remaining, they are massive projects ( even compared to their normal long runs). Which it takes my better GPU ( still not top notch) about 40 hours to complete, and it takes my worse GPU ( still not bad) about 60 hours to complete. |
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Tomahawk4196
Advanced Cruncher USA Joined: Aug 16, 2007 Post Count: 93 Status: Offline Project Badges:
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If this guy is actually accomplishing these numbers, that's certainly a great contribution. However, I looked at his machine listing on BAM!, and if you sort by Credit per Day (http://boincstats.com/en/stats/45/user/list/), there are many entries that are absolutely identical - his top five machines are producing EXACTLY 540,600 credits per day, then there are 8 more producing EXACTLY 405,450 per day. He has twenty machines produicng exactly 270,300, and another 35 machines producing EXACTLY half that amount - 135,150 credits per day.
----------------------------------------I'm NOT in any way trying to express any sort of jealousy - if he's really doing this, then that is great for everyone. It just looks a little fishy - is there any way to crack + hack into the GPUGRID database (Thanks Sekerob), and adjust figures? Or could there be innocent duplication of reporting? (Sorry about the edits - trying to get the link working)  [Edit 4 times, last edit by Tomahawk4196 at Feb 3, 2013 2:56:31 PM] |
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Former Member
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This guy is *not* GPU crunching at WCG FAICS, http://boincstats.com/en/stats/-1/user/detail/2277892/projectList so forget the WCG DB hack/crack line. What he does elsewhere...
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