We're #200 @ Rosetta@Home, improving the world!

[Umfriend]

Top bad. You were there right from the beginning But you wil have made close to 4 mln, that's is quite an accomplishment. I bit of a shame that only Nicram and not you have been Predictor of the Day

[ZokesPro]

Well, as soon as winter is over or when I sell my server, which ever comes first, I'm going to have to remove boinc permanently. Sorry guys but the heat management alone for a dual cpu xeon server in a house is quite complicated and expensive.

[VJ]

I'm currently not accepting new jobs, as the PC needs to be reconfigured. This most likely will happen next week. After that, it should return nicely to calculate stuff.

[Umfriend]

So. As it is, we do not rise quickly anymore because it requires, on average, more and more additional credits to rise another spot. Nevertheless, we're still #79 by RAC so ultimately a top 100 spot will be attained.

Delany, for one reason or another, did 1 WU all of a sudden but then fell silent again (to bad, you were a great cruncher). Marshmallowman must be suffering from summer down under (or at least that is what I hope is the reason for him crunching none for a while now). Meanwhile, even though we're not exactly 1-percenters yet, we do now have 5 millionaires! MMM and recently VJ joined the club. Zokes became triple and Nicram, top contributor of the team (but for how long?) became quadruple millionaire with me hot on his tails.

[Umfriend]

So I have been doing some maintenance & restructuring on my Server and apparantly I borked BOINC a bit, missed a few days of crunching. All recovered now so the credits will flow again like they used to.

Intend to play around with Server Tech Preview on an older machine, may do some BOINC on there as well.

[Nicram]

Thanks! Matrox Users FTW!

[Umfriend]

And another milestone has been reached for team MURC:

Nov 15, 2014
Predictor of the day: Congratulations to Nicram (Team Matrox Users) for predicting the lowest energy structure for workunit 6h_tube9_3_A_6h_tube9_3_B_patchdock_split_03_14103 0_SAVE_ALL_OUT__223981_0 !

Congrats Nicram!

Meanwhile, we're at #165 by TC and 65 by RC. I'm doing nicely as well, within #1000 by TC and #1 by RC of the Netherlands!!!

[ZokesPro]

Wow. With Sitflyer and J1NG being back and Wulfman adding we are now #62 by RAC (@ZokesPro, we're ahead of Team MIlwaukee Electric Tool Corp by RAC!!). Perhaps, with a little bit of extra effort or Resurrections, we can reach #150 by YE!

Haha, maybe someone took my complaint about their servers seriously! I've noticed that their machines aren't number one either.

Had a little scare when I saw my last electric bill. But having a child in the house explains it. Thought I was going to have to sell the server, or worse, shut it down! (wait, isn't selling it worse?)

[Nicram]

Great work guys!

[SitFlyer]

With the weather cooling I have fired up the older lappy, to just crunch, and modified the exceptions on my primary.
Whatever output I have should be pretty constant for the next 6 months.

[Wulfman]

Not bad, but my output is going to drop at some point..

[Umfriend]

Wow. With Sitflyer and J1NG being back and Wulfman adding we are now #62 by RAC (@ZokesPro, we're ahead of Team MIlwaukee Electric Tool Corp by RAC!!). Perhaps, with a little bit of extra effort or Resurrections, we can reach #150 by YE!

[Umfriend]

I don't see how this can be related to any BOINC setting so I am guessing it is a UEFI/BIOS setting that is causing this. It moght be nice in the sense that you're not using a lot of power although I think it would be more efficient to run at max power for a limited number of hours per day. INteresting. What happens if you do do things that use the other three cores as well? If you can't get it out of this state then you're effectively running 5, uhm, PIIIs?

[J1NG]

To be very honest I don't know. It's been like that since the last time I installed it (onto the USB drive stick). The CPU will use the threads I tell it to (5 : Five threads max), but it never pushes it hard enough to cause the CPU to go full speed. Instead, the CPU uses all the threads allocated to it but remains at low power of 1.2 Ghz instead. That's why my output has been so low compared to before (other than the last week when the machine was simply not on at all).

5 Threads allows the machine to do other duties and functions without needing to stall/pausing BOINC or cause conflict of resources to whatever I'm doing at the time.

Hoping with the 4930k I can set it to 9 threads and leave the last 3 to other duties.

Of course, this is all still preliminary at the moment, still need to get other stuff sorted first. But heading in that direction.

Until then, I'm not going to mess around with BOINC more to fix this low power state, as it's working "fine" as it is right now and I don't want it doing something silly next because I'm messing with settings that don't need tampering with. Will sort it when the CPU upgrade happens.

J1NG

[Umfriend]

How do you get it to run in a low power state? I would have thought BOINC would cause the CPU to max out on the cores it can use?