Milkyway@home TeAm competition - 10/15 to 11/15

Fardringle · Nov 7, 2020

The 280X puts out a lot of heat, and there's really no way around that. I did try to give a little bit of room between the cardboard tunnel and the back side of the GPU, but that's hard to do since I had to leave room for the intake fan on the GTX 1060 as well. It didn't work very well so I took the cardboard out.

I think one of the biggest problems has been that whoever designed this case planned for a lot of very good airflow on the top half of the case, but not for the bottom of the case where the 280X is sitting. Removing those PCI slot spacers did seem to help a bit. The 280X has been averaging about 6-8C cooler since I did that. And the GTX 1060 and Ryzen 3900X have also been running several degrees cooler so it does seem like more of the heat is actually being pushed out instead of just circulating around inside the case. Of course, that was also over night so I'll let it run through the afternoon today to see if the temps just go back up or if they stay slightly more manageable.

StefanR5R · Nov 7, 2020

You could even mount another case fan in "pull" orientation back outside of the case where the now open slots are. — Unless these slots are currently working as intakes, because the present case fans are configured for negative pressure in the case.

Icecold · Nov 7, 2020

Morning Stats:

Name	Competition Total	Since Yesterday’s Stats
crashtech	125,821,518	6,189,649
Icecold	83,395,894	3,711,225
phoenicis	68,446,389	2,998,329
biodoc	30,541,995	1,424,854
emoga	13,121,221	1,252,824
Skillz	11,963,448	804,044
[TA]Assimilator1	10,750,056	480,322
Kiska	10,690,815	1,319,853
Fardringle	9,757,535	477,106
Lane42	5,418,475	319,293
waffleironhead	4,879,400	177,633
zzuupp	3,732,865	256,657
Walrus of Apathy	3,425,537	122,001
flywaldo	2,554,985	126,963
Endgame124	1,860,414	98,049
Brent	1,676,495	25,391
Ken_g6	1,670,916	78,585
Stig	1,565,292	23,893
IcefireQuickSilver	1,504,342	62,786
Orange Kid	486,503	699
Silverthorne	212,106	2,763
Christopher	153,026	11,030
elfenix	146,033	2,652
burninator34	57,261	0
SuperTerra	45,166	2,291
geecee	42,082	0
IEC	39,510	0
rune-san	22,416	0
Shu Gao	14,002	301
cdescodificad	2,081	0
Dale Jokhan	1,464	488
Measured with the span of	150	0

Total in pie form:

Here is where we're at in terms of overall BOINC points overtaking Poland. It doesn't appear that it will happen during the competition, but hopefully shortly after. I'm going to continue running Milkyway after the competition and I'm sure some others will as well.

Here is the graph of where we have been throughout this competition in Formula BOINC as well as projection forward. We should easily pass those 2 teams by the end of this competition.

Close race between Kiska and [TA]Assimilator1. Stats in Sega Genesis form:

Fardringle · Nov 7, 2020

StefanR5R said:
You could even mount another case fan in "pull" orientation back outside of the case where the now open slots are. — Unless these slots are currently working as intakes, because the present case fans are configured for negative pressure in the case.

That's not a bad idea! I can't fit another fan inside, but strapping an exhaust fan outside might help. And if I can track down a big enough fan, I can position it to act as exhaust for both graphics cards.

biodoc · Nov 7, 2020

The only way I've been able to control heat in a 2 GPU system is to take the side cover off and reduce the power to the cards. I'm on linux but there must be a glitzy windows app you can use to control power and/or volts to the gpus on the cards. MSI afterburner might be the right app.

Fardringle · Nov 7, 2020

biodoc said:
The only way I've been able to control heat in a 2 GPU system is to take the side cover off and reduce the power to the cards. I'm on linux but there must be a glitzy windows app you can use to control power and/or volts to the gpus on the cards. MSI afterburner might be the right app.

All good suggestions, but I can't leave the side cover off. I have three rambunctious young cats who LOVE to chase fan blades and chew on wires..

I do use MSI Afterburner to control everything on the GTX 1060, but the 280X is voltage/power locked so I can adjust the clock and fan speeds, but not the power usage.

I think part of it is that MilkyWay just heats up the 280X a lot because it makes use of the double precision functions/circuits.

In anticipation of the possible next sprint, I turned MilkyWay and SRBase off on this machine for a little while to test run times on both cards on Amicable. The GTX 1060 temperatures are just about the same on SRBase and Amicable. But the 280X dropped all the way down to 72-75C running Amicable compared to around 90C running MilkyWay. I did check GPU-Z to make sure both cards are running at 100% load in Amicable.

Granted, it's a very small test as I only let them run one task each on Amicable, but that's a pretty big difference in temperature for the AMD card.

Edit: P.S. It looks like the 1060 will take around 55 minutes per task in Amicable, and the 280X will take about 90 minutes. And the 'baby' 750ti in my daughter's computer is looking at somewhere around 2 hours and 20 minutes per task...

Assimilator1 · Nov 7, 2020

Kiska is about to scream past me

Icecold · Nov 8, 2020

Morning stats:

Name	Competition Total	Since Yesterday’s Stats
crashtech	131,911,045	6,089,527
Icecold	87,575,350	4,179,456
phoenicis	71,624,655	3,178,266
biodoc	31,959,234	1,417,239
emoga	13,973,168	851,947
Skillz	12,857,751	894,303
[TA]Assimilator1	11,201,479	451,423
Kiska	11,168,112	477,297
Fardringle	10,190,728	433,193
Lane42	5,865,790	447,315
waffleironhead	5,082,558	203,158
zzuupp	3,992,982	260,117
Walrus of Apathy	3,565,707	140,170
flywaldo	2,661,994	107,009
Endgame124	1,954,431	94,017
Ken_g6	1,750,434	79,518
Brent	1,703,547	27,052
Stig	1,642,021	76,729
IcefireQuickSilver	1,594,863	90,521
Orange Kid	487,641	1,138
Silverthorne	272,604	60,498
Christopher	154,377	1,351
elfenix	146,751	718
burninator34	57,261	0
geecee	47,819	5,737
SuperTerra	45,621	455
IEC	39,510	0
rune-san	22,416	0
Shu Gao	16,422	2,420
cdescodificad	2,081	0
Dale Jokhan	1,464	0
Measured with the span of	150	0

Total in pie form:

Maybe even more applicable than yesterday as [TA]Assimilator1 holds off Kiska from overtaking for another day:

Assimilator1 · Nov 8, 2020

I wonder if he was feeling sorry for me!

Or he's had a rig stall

Fardringle · Nov 8, 2020

Assimilator1 said:
I wonder if he was feeling sorry for me! Or he's had a rig stall

He said he was taking his Radeon VII off of BOINC for a while to encode a huge collection of security camera videos.

Icecold · Nov 9, 2020

Morning Stats:

Name	Competition Total	Since Yesterday’s Stats
crashtech	138,153,376	6,242,331
Icecold	92,080,265	4,504,915
phoenicis	75,058,673	3,434,018
biodoc	33,664,651	1,705,417
emoga	14,845,023	871,855
Skillz	13,735,205	877,454
[TA]Assimilator1	11,696,051	494,572
Kiska	11,228,775	60,663
Fardringle	10,488,846	298,118
Lane42	6,076,357	210,567
waffleironhead	5,277,399	194,841
zzuupp	4,225,613	232,631
Walrus of Apathy	3,711,915	146,208
flywaldo	2,767,725	105,731
Endgame124	2,048,687	94,256
Ken_g6	1,834,601	84,167
Brent	1,759,360	55,813
Stig	1,701,278	59,257
IcefireQuickSilver	1,685,407	90,544
Orange Kid	487,641	0
Silverthorne	276,277	3,673
Christopher	154,729	352
elfenix	147,244	493
burninator34	57,261	0
SuperTerra	51,619	5,998
geecee	51,054	3,235
IEC	39,510	0
rune-san	22,416	0
Shu Gao	17,868	1,446
cdescodificad	2,081	0
Dale Jokhan	1,464	0
Measured with the span of	150	0

Total in pie form:

Endgame124 · Nov 9, 2020

yay, my competition total would finally take 4th place in the daily total category. Huzzah!

Assimilator1 · Nov 9, 2020

Fardingle, ah yea, I remember that now!

Cheers for the stats Icecold

Icecold · Nov 10, 2020

Morning stats:

Name	Competition Total	Since Yesterday’s Stats
crashtech	143,939,044	5,785,668
Icecold	96,704,635	4,624,370
phoenicis	79,023,071	3,964,398
biodoc	35,316,661	1,652,010
emoga	15,625,773	780,750
Skillz	14,600,630	865,425
[TA]Assimilator1	12,184,443	488,392
Kiska	11,577,874	349,099
Fardringle	10,903,626	414,780
Lane42	6,109,387	33,030
waffleironhead	5,562,556	285,157
zzuupp	4,480,643	255,030
Walrus of Apathy	3,893,431	181,516
flywaldo	2,896,238	128,513
Endgame124	2,136,884	88,197
Ken_g6	1,905,130	70,529
Brent	1,813,064	53,704
IcefireQuickSilver	1,784,983	99,576
Stig	1,763,645	62,367
Orange Kid	488,113	472
Silverthorne	276,505	228
Christopher	155,619	890
elfenix	147,351	107
burninator34	57,261	0
geecee	55,980	4,926
SuperTerra	55,975	4,356
IEC	39,510	0
rune-san	22,643	227
Shu Gao	18,427	559
cdescodificad	2,081	0
Dale Jokhan	1,464	0
Measured with the span of	150	0

Total in pie form:

Assimilator1 · Nov 11, 2020

I think the race has settled down around my zone? Unless someone's stashing up for a dump!

Icecold · Nov 11, 2020

Morning stats:

Name	Competition Total	Since Yesterday’s Stats
crashtech	149,812,928	5,873,884
Icecold	101,380,268	4,675,633
phoenicis	82,896,534	3,873,463
biodoc	36,902,720	1,586,059
emoga	16,288,901	663,128
Skillz	15,459,353	858,723
[TA]Assimilator1	12,667,534	483,091
Kiska	12,108,930	531,056
Fardringle	11,361,332	457,706
Lane42	6,117,905	8,518
waffleironhead	5,769,698	207,142
zzuupp	4,750,606	269,963
Walrus of Apathy	4,058,915	165,484
flywaldo	3,012,847	116,609
Endgame124	2,230,930	94,046
Ken_g6	1,995,411	90,281
IcefireQuickSilver	1,875,106	90,123
Brent	1,855,811	42,747
Stig	1,807,646	44,001
Orange Kid	489,755	1,642
salvorhardin	313,600	313,600
Silverthorne	276,960	455
Christopher	164,858	9,239
elfenix	147,464	113
geecee	65,862	9,882
SuperTerra	57,795	1,820
burninator34	57,334	73
IEC	39,510	0
rune-san	22,643	0
Shu Gao	18,496	69
Dale Jokhan	2,179	715
cdescodificad	2,081	0
Measured with the span of	150	0

Total in pie form:

Welcome to salvorhardin first day on the stats putting up 313,600 points on day 1!

Icecold · Nov 11, 2020

We have also passed BOINC@AUSTRALIA in the Formula BOINC Milkyway@home marathon, and will be passing USA in the next couple of days.

Icecold · Nov 12, 2020

Morning stats:

Name	Competition Total	Since Yesterday’s Stats
crashtech	155,878,601	6,065,673
Icecold	105,987,778	4,607,510
phoenicis	86,854,701	3,958,167
biodoc	38,470,402	1,567,682
emoga	16,858,710	569,809
Skillz	16,249,352	789,999
[TA]Assimilator1	13,178,640	511,106
Kiska	12,492,321	383,391
Fardringle	11,817,228	455,896
Lane42	6,121,350	3,445
waffleironhead	5,920,335	150,637
zzuupp	4,994,265	243,659
Walrus of Apathy	4,166,632	107,717
flywaldo	3,131,586	118,739
Endgame124	2,319,291	88,361
Ken_g6	2,071,268	75,857
IcefireQuickSilver	1,919,493	44,387
Stig	1,862,891	55,245
Brent	1,860,703	4,892
salvorhardin	725,122	411,522
Orange Kid	490,681	926
Silverthorne	277,187	227
Christopher	167,273	2,415
elfenix	147,493	29
geecee	73,892	8,030
SuperTerra	60,526	2,731
burninator34	57,334	0
IEC	39,510	0
rune-san	22,643	0
Shu Gao	19,441	945
Dale Jokhan	3,366	1,187
cdescodificad	2,081	0
Measured with the span of	150	0

Total in pie form:

crashtech · Nov 12, 2020

I got my last 280x running again!

Icecold · Nov 13, 2020

Morning Stats:

Name	Competition Total	Since Yesterday’s Stats
crashtech	161,996,054	6,117,453
Icecold	110,391,356	4,403,578
phoenicis	90,705,807	3,851,106
biodoc	40,120,281	1,649,879
Skillz	17,111,179	861,827
emoga	16,981,094	122,384
[TA]Assimilator1	13,671,538	492,898
Kiska	12,669,870	177,549
Fardringle	12,238,935	421,707
Lane42	6,125,024	3,674
waffleironhead	6,109,482	189,147
zzuupp	5,255,053	260,788
Walrus of Apathy	4,247,155	80,523
flywaldo	3,254,900	123,314
Endgame124	2,415,173	95,882
Ken_g6	2,159,109	87,841
IcefireQuickSilver	1,990,391	70,898
Brent	1,886,374	25,671
Stig	1,883,500	20,609
salvorhardin	1,110,040	384,918
Orange Kid	541,913	51,232
Silverthorne	279,040	1,853
Christopher	167,500	227
elfenix	147,528	35
geecee	86,669	12,777
SuperTerra	68,522	7,996
burninator34	57,334	0
IEC	39,510	0
rune-san	22,643	0
Shu Gao	19,912	471
Dale Jokhan	3,610	244
cdescodificad	2,081	0
Measured with the span of	150	0

Total in pie form:

TennesseeTony · Nov 13, 2020

We appreciate you keeping the stats for this! Your devotion to the TeAm is evident in the effort(s)!

Fardringle · Nov 13, 2020

We are now officially in 6th place in the Formula BOINC marathon. Nice job!

5	Planet 3DNow!	10	2,625,740,356	10,593,426,519	7,967,686,162
6	TeAm AnandTech	8	2,211,205,502	6,792,878,351	4,581,672,848
7	USA	6	2,207,001,608	6,508,748,063	4,301,746,455
8	BOINC@AUSTRALIA	4	2,162,329,273	7,320,967,558	5,158,638,285

And if we keep up this production after the month challenge ends, we'll pass Boinc@Poland for 13th place overall in the project in about 9 days.

Assimilator1 · Nov 13, 2020

Ooh tempting, was planning on shutting down my 2nd rig after this though....

Thanks again for the stats Icecold

Icecold · Nov 14, 2020

Morning stats:

Name	Competition Total	Since Yesterday’s Stats
crashtech	168,184,124	6,188,070
Icecold	114,345,597	3,954,241
phoenicis	94,703,976	3,998,169
biodoc	41,799,917	1,679,636
Skillz	18,317,234	1,206,055
emoga	17,008,532	27,438
[TA]Assimilator1	14,180,650	509,112
Kiska	12,766,261	96,391
Fardringle	12,691,327	452,392
waffleironhead	6,374,460	264,978
Lane42	6,128,958	3,934
zzuupp	5,510,441	255,388
Walrus of Apathy	4,394,258	147,103
flywaldo	3,385,260	130,360
Endgame124	2,506,930	91,757
Ken_g6	2,234,365	75,256
IcefireQuickSilver	2,096,423	106,032
Brent	1,963,676	77,302
Stig	1,941,590	58,090
salvorhardin	1,523,546	413,506
Orange Kid	820,761	278,848
Silverthorne	280,650	1,610
Christopher	173,642	6,142
elfenix	147,528	0
geecee	96,179	9,510
SuperTerra	73,105	4,583
burninator34	57,334	0
IEC	39,510	0
rune-san	22,643	0
Shu Gao	20,155	243
Dale Jokhan	5,674	2,064
cdescodificad	2,081	0
Measured with the span of	150	0

Total in pie form:

If anybody has any extra hardware to add now is the time. Tomorrow morning's stats will be the final. Great work everybody!

lane42 · Nov 14, 2020

Great job on the stats Icecold

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