21) Message boards : Server and website : GPUGRID CAFE forum - Spammer (Message 14404)
Posted 5222 days ago by Profile Krunchin-Keith [USA]
Yes, this was reported to me by another user.

I have hidden all the posts, wasting 24 minutes of my time, and reported this to GDF to banish them and take additional measures to stop this.
22) Message boards : GPUGRID CAFE : Team Recruiting Thread (Message 13400)
Posted 5303 days ago by Profile Krunchin-Keith [USA]
team U.S.A. for Citizens, Friends and Patriots of the United States of America

Our flag: Stars and Strips or "Old Glory" - U.S.A. founded July 4th 1776

One of the long-standing traditions of distributed computing projects is the formation of teams.
Not just a tradition,
a little healthy competition encourages active participation,
to the general gain of the project.

Team USA was created to show we have American pride and that good ol' American know-how is still a reality.
If you're a patriotic American, this is the team to join. Embrace our motto of "United we stand".
If you're not an American at all, you're still welcome.
This has always been a country with open arms.

Visit our fourm
23) Message boards : Graphics cards (GPUs) : NVidia GPU Card comparisons in GFLOPS peak (Message 13264)
Posted 5317 days ago by Profile Krunchin-Keith [USA]
@SKGiven, great work. I've had some people asking me about what they want to buy, this may help them make a decision.

Here's a few to confirm your readings, native settings

I have 4 computers with one 8800GT each. Two at the moment have an older client and don't report this info.

GeForce 8800 GT (driver version 19038, compute capability 1.1, 512MB, est. 60GFLOPS)
GeForce 8800 GT (driver version 19038, compute capability 1.1, 512MB, est. 60GFLOPS)

I have an additional one that is factory overclocked. It runs just as kool as the others, XFX did a good job on building these. It has a higher reading because of the overclocking. Throwing this in just for comparison.

GeForce 8800 GT (driver version 19038, compute capability 1.1, 512MB, est. 65GFLOPS)

One thing about the XFX 8800GT is they are single slot width boards. I choose them for two reasons, I needed single width slot boards and they come with a double lifetime warranty. They also only take one six pin power connector.

One thing to note about upgrading, be sure your power supply has enough power and you have the required power connector(s) for these cards. Also check if you have room for a double wide card or not. Most manufacturers will list these requirements on thier website under the product description or technical specs.
24) Message boards : Graphics cards (GPUs) : cooling the beast (Message 10471)
Posted 5452 days ago by Profile Krunchin-Keith [USA]
Here is some info on a brand new kooling technology.

See www.xpressar.com

- Utilize micro compressor and refrigerant to cool PC, to maximize over-clocking limitation and performance.
- 20ºC cooler than liquid cooling System
- Equipped with intelligent IC controller to prevent condensation
- Thermal resistance can be <0.02 ºC/W under 100% loading.
- High performance micro compressor uses standard 12V power
- Small, low noise, high performance technology.
25) Message boards : GPUGRID CAFE : Milestones (Message 7595)
Posted 5537 days ago by Profile Krunchin-Keith [USA]
Congradulation to those who have made thier latest milestone. Keep up the good work.


I have recently passed 5 million for this project, 10 million overall.

ps,
In case any of you are wondering where I dissapeared to, I haven't given up BOINCin', I've just been busy taking care of reconstructing some lost personal data after 2 hard drive failures, both my primary and my backup drive failed at the same time, that is about a 1 in infinity chance, boy I must be the luckiest man in the universe. I also have a new personal project researching my family heritage, so I've been very occupied with other matters recently. One day I'll be back and more active.
26) Message boards : Graphics cards (GPUs) : Windows app 6.62 (Message 6293)
Posted 5582 days ago by Profile Krunchin-Keith [USA]
I've seen a similar drop in CPU times.
For same work type work units the CPU times dropped from about 40.0k sec to 1.4k sec. ms/step went up 2-3.

Not bad.

I lost my database the end of last year and can't do any more anaylsis. When that happened I stopped recording new results and have not had time to rewrite my spreadsheet which did those.
27) Message boards : Graphics cards (GPUs) : DCF (Message 4406)
Posted 5628 days ago by Profile Krunchin-Keith [USA]
OK, Mine dropped again from 100 to 'Task duration correction factor 91.193244'

This will be my last post. I have some more last minute preparaions for vacation tonight, then I'm off tomorrow for 12 days. MErry Christmas to all, see you all later, much later.
28) Message boards : Graphics cards (GPUs) : GPUGRID vs SETI@home beta (Message 4383)
Posted 5629 days ago by Profile Krunchin-Keith [USA]
I got a couple returned results.

interesting parts:
Flopcounter: 28798913900607.105000

They do not record GPUtime, so it is hard to tell exactly.

Best guess would be 70-73 credits claimed (none granted yet) for previous approximate 26 minutes work. This estimates out to about 2665 credits for 16.5 hours, whereas GPUGRID here will grant 3232 for same time (based on my system). Of course credit is granted per flops computed, but you get more from here per time used.

@GDF
How many Flops are in your tasks ?
I know there are 850,000 steps, but how many flops in each step.

This way we could better compare the applications performance.
29) Message boards : Graphics cards (GPUs) : DCF (Message 4382)
Posted 5629 days ago by Profile Krunchin-Keith [USA]
My DCF on this host has jumped back up to 100.
30) Message boards : Graphics cards (GPUs) : GPUGRID vs SETI@home beta (Message 4377)
Posted 5629 days ago by Profile Krunchin-Keith [USA]
I started a new thread for this.

What applies for GPUGRID should apply for Seti.
So, 280 is the current fastest card.

gdf

Maybe, but I do not think their application is as intensive as GPUGRID. I tried to follow along in their forum but there is so much to read. They do not really need the fastest.

I think they have a shorter run time 2-3 hours for GPU's and probably can make use of slower cards not able to participate here.

It seems their deadline is about three weeks, 1/8/2009 for one downloaded a few hours ago, my first. But I still have to wait 8 hours for my current GPUGRID task to finish. Can't tell run length since it is the first it has an estimate of 00:00:00. I'm going to test a very few, but ultimately I will stay with GPUGRID and only use SETI@home as a backup should this project run dry of work, which seems to happen once and a while. Same for other projects as they come online.

I'll let you know how one compares after it completes.

I see they have windows only so far, and it appears their windows app only uses 4% or less of the CPU on windows. Currently the GPUGRID I'm running is showing 37 to 44.


OK here are some comparisons. On my one system, that is and under WindowsXP

All times approx. These are run with 6.4.5

GPUGRID runs 59000s/16.5h elapsed time with 48000s/13.33h cpu time, which is about 40% cpu usage, when observed with windows task manager.

SETI@home beta runs 26 minutes wall clock time and only uses 7min cpu time. It was hard to rate the cpu usage. It runs near full 44-50% for the first 30 seconds, then it drops to 3-12%, average 10%. Later in the task though it runs more like 12-22%. I saw spikes, both ways with the cpu anywhere from 2-23%. Mostly though you could say the average was 10%. A lot less than GPUGRID.

I do not know how credits compare yet.


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