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RyanW
Cruncher Joined: May 3, 2020 Post Count: 3 Status: Offline |
Hi,
I have a system with the following parts that I am retiring from daily use and would like to use to run WCG. However, I am not very familiar with the proper settings, OS, etc.. that I should use for maximum Work Unit throughput. Threadripper 1950x currently OCed at 3.85Ghz all core (stable long term) Dark Rock Pro TR4 cooler 4x8gb 3200 cl14 RAM RTX 2070 GPU Asus Zenith Extreme Alpha MoBo 1200w PSU (oversized to run most efficient between 400 and 800 watts) Windows 10 Pro 1tb NMVE SSD 3x 2tb SATA SSD I currently have 93% CPU usage setting on BOINC. Are there any other changes I should make with regards to OS or Bios settings? Or any other settings that would help? Not really concerned with power consumption. A lot of the info I have found seems to be very technical and varied. It would be nice to consolidate and simplify this info for systems similar to mine into some overall guidelines. Also, are there any parts I should remove from this system that aren't really useful for WCG so that they can be repurposed? |
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Sgt.Joe
Ace Cruncher USA Joined: Jul 4, 2006 Post Count: 7846 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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You should be able to run at 100% if the temperature stays reasonable. WCG currently has no GPU project but may have one on the future. You may want to dual boot to Linux as some projects run more efficiently on Linux than Windows. Some run equally well on either OS. Boinc is designed to run at the lowest priority, so when you are doing something else on the system, it should get out of the way. You have plenty of ram and storage.
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Falconet
Master Cruncher Portugal Joined: Mar 9, 2009 Post Count: 3315 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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I suppose you could start by removing 2 of those SSDs.
----------------------------------------Also, maybe remove 16 GB of RAM? I think 16 GB is fine for WCG, even with 32 threads. Most projects use little RAM - maybe someone with a similar setup can chime in. Regarding the GPU, there are currently no projects at WCG running GPU apps. There may be so in the future. So if you have a lower power/weaker GPU, you could replace the 2070 and use it for something else, if you wish (and save some power too probably). I run 2 Cloud instances, each with 32 threads and 8 GB of RAM. They run all projects fine except for ARP, which is disabled due to checkpoints that are far apart and also because I run preemptive instances (meaning they can get shutdown at any time, so I would lose a lot of progress with ARP). OS wise, some projects run a lot faster on Linux but right now there are none of those running (SCC which did run a lot faster is now ending). However, Linux does use significantly less RAM than Windows. As for the 93% CPU usage, I always run at 100% on all cores, on all my machines, even when I use them.  - AMD Ryzen 5 1600AF 6C/12T 3.2 GHz - 85W - AMD Ryzen 5 2500U 4C/8T 2.0 GHz - 28W - AMD Ryzen 7 7730U 8C/16T 3.0 GHz |
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DrMason
Senior Cruncher Joined: Mar 16, 2007 Post Count: 153 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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How interesting. I was wondering if it was just me. For some reason, one of my machines is running similarly to yours, and it's driving me crazy trying to figure out what is causing it. My dual epyc 7601 (with SMT), running the latest linux mint, is also only running at about 95% CPU usage. About a week ago, when the machine was basically only crunching SCC units, it was running 100% CPU just fine, 24/7. But when SCC units dried up and it began running a mix of MCM, ARP, and MIP (limited to 10 at a time so as not to exhaust L3 cache) - bam - it started fluctuating between 93 and 100% with the average being around 95% usage.
----------------------------------------Since first gen threadripper and first gen epyc are a lot alike, I'll report back if and when I figure out what's going on.  |
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RyanW
Cruncher Joined: May 3, 2020 Post Count: 3 Status: Offline |
How interesting. I was wondering if it was just me. For some reason, one of my machines is running similarly to yours, and it's driving me crazy trying to figure out what is causing it. My dual epyc 7601 (with SMT), running the latest linux mint, is also only running at about 95% CPU usage. About a week ago, when the machine was basically only crunching SCC units, it was running 100% CPU just fine, 24/7. But when SCC units dried up and it began running a mix of MCM, ARP, and MIP (limited to 10 at a time so as not to exhaust L3 cache) - bam - it started fluctuating between 93 and 100% with the average being around 95% usage. Since first gen threadripper and first gen epyc are a lot alike, I'll report back if and when I figure out what's going on. Hi, I have it set intentionally lower because I read something somewhere. Unfortunately, it appears that the problem you are having is not one that I am experiencing. |
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RyanW
Cruncher Joined: May 3, 2020 Post Count: 3 Status: Offline |
Alright, Ill make some changes and set it to 100%
Ill also pull the extra hardware at a later date but Ill leave the GPU in there and maybe run GPUGRID on it. |
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Falconet
Master Cruncher Portugal Joined: Mar 9, 2009 Post Count: 3315 Status: Offline Project Badges:
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GPUGRID is Nvidia only though.
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