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Bearcat
Master Cruncher USA Joined: Jan 6, 2007 Post Count: 2803 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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Son gave me a used asus motherboard with a ryzen 5 chip on it. Pretty sure its a 6 core, he wasn't sure. Think its a 2nd gen chip. Anyone crunch with AMD ryzen 5? Just wondering about the temps if I will have any issues. Have to order a PSU so will be a bit before I get it online. Thinking around a 500 watt for a dedicated cruncher. Linux will be used. Might be time to try linux mint.
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Sgt.Joe
Ace Cruncher USA Joined: Jul 4, 2006 Post Count: 7847 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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A little sad news. I retired my AMD Opteron dual 6234 machine. It was a pretty heavy electric user for the amount of units it processed and I could not get it to completely quit throwing "finish file present too long " errors. I did get to minimize them, but never eliminated them. I will be looking for a machine to replace it, but not right away. I need to give my electric bill a break for a bit.
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flynryan
Senior Cruncher United States Joined: Aug 15, 2006 Post Count: 235 Status: Offline Project Badges:
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A little sad news. I retired my AMD Opteron dual 6234 machine. It was a pretty heavy electric user for the amount of units it processed and I could not get it to completely quit throwing "finish file present too long " errors. I did get to minimize them, but never eliminated them. I will be looking for a machine to replace it, but not right away. I need to give my electric bill a break for a bit. Cheers Interesting errors you had there. Never seen those on my AMD machines. The Opteron 6200 series is quite a few generations old already, probably a wise choice to retire. While we do like to recycle systems, at some point it becomes more hassle than its worth. An extreme example is my Pentium III 500 Mhz machine sitting here doing nothing. It works great and runs windows 98 flawlessly 20+ years later, even the games of the day, but for something like distributed computing is basically worthless. I was never too concerned about electric usage but when running 24/7 it does become a significant factor. The Ryzen chips are champs in this regard with the TSMC 7nm process. In comparison the older Opterons are 32 nm chips. |
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Sgt.Joe
Ace Cruncher USA Joined: Jul 4, 2006 Post Count: 7847 Status: Offline Project Badges:
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I gave it to guy I know who has cut me some pretty deals on some machines. He will disassemble it, recycle as much as he can, and sell what he can on ebay. He says there is still a market for the HD sleds, the CD drive and the NIC cards. He said there is not much call for the cpus, but occasionally he will get an inquiry for some of the older cpus and server memory. As far as I know, none of it gets landfilled, but all gets either resold or recycled. I also gave him an older IBM rackmount with a 5305 cpu I had not used in a long lime. If he can get any benefit from them, I am all for it.
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Bearcat
Master Cruncher USA Joined: Jan 6, 2007 Post Count: 2803 Status: Offline Project Badges:
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Sad when we have to retire a cruncher. But sometimes its time to put it out to pasture. With the AMD system I just fired up, should have 11 more threads of crunching to add to the crew. Hoping it works out with the little glitch happening now. Seems to crunch fairly fast.
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Ranarama
Cruncher Joined: May 15, 2019 Post Count: 36 Status: Offline |
Hello fellows!
Some old time winter here... Day time temperature has reach > -20'C ( > -4'F) here even on very southern county where spending most of my days next to sea. These winters has become really some luxury items. When I step outside and there is this tiny 50' temperature change between exhale and inhale.... Ou poi ou poi ou poi.. I'm so home again.. https://aijaa.com/lQE3VT |
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Sgt.Joe
Ace Cruncher USA Joined: Jul 4, 2006 Post Count: 7847 Status: Offline Project Badges:
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Hello fellows! Some old time winter here... Day time temperature has reach > -20'C ( > -4'F) here even on very southern county where spending most of my days next to sea. These winters has become really some luxury items. When I step outside and there is this tiny 50' temperature change between exhale and inhale.... Ou poi ou poi ou poi.. I'm so home again.. https://aijaa.com/lQE3VT Good to hear from you. Winter here has so far been anemic. We have had quite a few days near or over 32F(0C). Unusual. We just had a winter storm with high winds go through the southern part of Minnesota which shut down the roads for a day, here in central Minnesota it was mostly a non event. We had about 1 to 2 inches (2.5 to 5 cm) of wet sloppy snow with a temperature of 34F9(2C). However, later this month it is projected to get a little cold -5 to -10 F (-20 to -23 C). This winter so far has been quite kind to my heat bill. But that could change in the next few weeks. I just figure about 40 more days of winter and then we get to March 1 which I consider the beginning of the almost spring season, even though we have had some whoppers of snowstorms during March. Cheers
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Element6
Advanced Cruncher United States Joined: Nov 10, 2009 Post Count: 93 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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I was at a friends house this weekend and I we ere talking computers. I complained my little haswell takes too long to do some of the deep learning programs I am playing around with. He turns around and gets a storage bin off the garage shelf and hands me a Nvidia Quadro K6000. I need a PCI-E power cable and then I will install it. I know its an old card but I am excited to see if I get a speed bump on einstine@home over the on-chip Haswell GPU. Hopefully the OpenPandemics GPU WU drop soon.
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Sgt.Joe
Ace Cruncher USA Joined: Jul 4, 2006 Post Count: 7847 Status: Offline Project Badges:
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I know its an old card but I am excited to see if I get a speed bump Good for you. I hope it produces well for you. Nice to here from you too. Cheers
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flynryan
Senior Cruncher United States Joined: Aug 15, 2006 Post Count: 235 Status: Offline Project Badges:
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I was at a friends house this weekend and I we ere talking computers. I complained my little haswell takes too long to do some of the deep learning programs I am playing around with. He turns around and gets a storage bin off the garage shelf and hands me a Nvidia Quadro K6000. I need a PCI-E power cable and then I will install it. I know its an old card but I am excited to see if I get a speed bump on einstine@home over the on-chip Haswell GPU. Hopefully the OpenPandemics GPU WU drop soon. Folding@home also has a Covid-19 project for GPU (and CPU). I am doing 2 GPU's on that project and leaving the CPU's on WCG. There is a little learning curve getting up and running since the project doesn't use BOINC but has its own application. Its fairly easy to understand and navigate once you get the hang of it though. If and when WCG decides to make it a priority, my GPU's will be back here. https://stats.foldingathome.org/team/80446 |
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