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Thread: Dual Opteron 6128, Dual Xeon E5-2670, both, or neither? |
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Sgt.Joe
Ace Cruncher USA Joined: Jul 4, 2006 Post Count: 7846 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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My X5670 does about 12,000 Boinc points per dat, the X5650 about 11,000 Boinc per day and the E2645 about 9,000 Boinc per day. They are all dual socket machines with hex core processors, so each is running 24 threads. The numbers are per machine, not per cpu. They are all running Linux.
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Coleslaw
Veteran Cruncher USA Joined: Mar 29, 2007 Post Count: 1343 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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BOINC will just tally all of the cores/threads together and say you have that many CPU's. Unless you go into the BIOS and turn off Hyper Threading that is (which will show only the total cores). So, if you have a total of 24 threads in a box, BOINC will load up 24 work units and treat each thread like it is its own CPU (core). This works pretty well until you get to rigs with more than 64 threads. Then it depends on the OS you have as Windows doesn't do NUMA very well like Linux does. However, Linux typically scores better at WCG anyways. If you are using a dedicated box, you should really consider using that. I've recently added a few Mint setups that seem to run quite well out of the box. These setups were CPU only, so didn't require mucking with video drivers. :)
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wolfman1360
Senior Cruncher Canada Joined: Jan 17, 2016 Post Count: 176 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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BOINC will just tally all of the cores/threads together and say you have that many CPU's. Unless you go into the BIOS and turn off Hyper Threading that is (which will show only the total cores). So, if you have a total of 24 threads in a box, BOINC will load up 24 work units and treat each thread like it is its own CPU (core). This works pretty well until you get to rigs with more than 64 threads. Then it depends on the OS you have as Windows doesn't do NUMA very well like Linux does. However, Linux typically scores better at WCG anyways. If you are using a dedicated box, you should really consider using that. I've recently added a few Mint setups that seem to run quite well out of the box. These setups were CPU only, so didn't require mucking with video drivers. :) I'll be throwing Linux on these for sure - probabbly Ubuntu 18.04. Should have time to put everything together later in the month.
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KLiK
Master Cruncher Croatia Joined: Nov 13, 2006 Post Count: 3108 Status: Offline Project Badges:
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For me, Intel is far better option that AMD...simply has more robust & temp.resistant chips. So my suggestion is to run with intel!
----------------------------------------Personally, I run DELL T5500 with dual X5670 & 48GB RAM...runs smoothly & great. For upgrade on those X5670, was looking to have: - most cores per those CPU version (to have more time on WCG per h crunched, so now I'm making some 40d per single day) - acceptable CPU wattage, as some of those run pretty hot & you will have problems with: too much noise from fans, too much heat in the room, etc. - acceptable CPU wattage for your electric bill & try to use some thermal monitoring program, such as Tthrottle or similar.  |
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