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The Skynet Pogs Challenge 2016

We have a rather large challenge going in Folding@Home during the month of December. I would not expect much participation from our crew.
 
AMD's work a little faster on this project if you decide to run it. I hate passing up a challenge, but my CPU cores will be dedicated to WCG, and combating the Zika virus, as I'll be running GPU only for Folding.

POGS has a history of running out of work during races.
 
Hm, it occurs to me that, as this is not a PrimeGrid race, you can load up on work for it and dump it later. It also occurs to me that, as you can't bunker for F@H much, now is a good time to do some POGS work, before the race.

Finally, I see that POGS can run on Android. Although I haven't been able to get my Android devices to cooperate lately. :\
 
There website is down just as the Challenge starts, wtf...or its crashed because of the challenge. Either way I am not dumping my cache until its back up.
 
Late to the game, but I've decided to toss some electricity towards POGS these last days of the race, unsure if I'll crunch all six remaining days or not.
 
26/28, 25/28, 21/24, 9/12..... 81 threads. One thread per system is reserved for background tasks, and one thread is reserved/in use per GPU for Folding.
 
Ah just a few then! 😉
Nearly 19k RAC so far, I think it'll go a long way north of that 😀

I can't decide whether to switch back to Asteroids or Skynet after the F@H race is over.....
 
Both Asteroids & Skynet have few active TA members, but more to the point I am particularly interested in astronomy 🙂.
Also I have 'optimised' my rig (GPU choice) more for Milkyway & Einstein by having an HD 7970, very powerful on double precision, but relatively poor on single precision (F@H) compared to modern cards.
Atm F@H is saying 126k ppd for my 7970 on a 0x21 WU.

Although it plays Elite Dangerous just fine 🙂.
 
I'll be back on Milkyway come the 1st as well. Hopefully they got those server issues from Oct-Nov straightened out. I'm curious to see how 2 980's will do. Also looking at a R9 280, but I have to check the mobo and see if it's 8x or 16x PCIE. I haven't done it because it's underneath my 125gal fish tank with 3 other computers, and it's in the back.
 
I agree Mark, it's an efficiency issue. Although a chainsaw can slice butter, and a serrated kitchen knife can cut small branches, if you have a knife available, best let the knife slice the butter, and the chainsaw trim the branches.

@iwajabitw you will be disappointed with Nvidia on Milkyway and/or Einstein, as they use double precision, which Nvidia has been neglecting for several generations. AMD likewise has nearly abandoned double precision, with the 7970/280X being the last and best double precision card.
 
When I was testing Milkyway before the server issues it took 35-40 seconds per task with 1 980. Since then I added the second card but haven't been back do to the Primgrid challenge in Nov, now the F@H. Also the 980's a lot cooler M@H and didn't throttle back. This warmer winter has them cooking good, have actually had the AC on the last 3 days.
 
Re MW times, if that's for 106.88 credit WU times then that would make your 980 the 3rd highest ranked NVidia card in my benchmarking thread 🙂, although maybe the time you gave is for the other WUs, as I already have a 980 in the chart & that's doing the 106.88 WUs in 145s (stock clocks).

MW benchmarking thread https://forums.anandtech.com/thread...u-gpu-cpu-times-wanted.2384985/#post-36398280

Would be good to have your times in there too when your back on it 🙂
 
From 10/18/2016. Last post on page 1.
https://milkyway.cs.rpi.edu/milkyway/forum_thread.php?id=3118#56955
This is what I had posted
"So after some testing there is no real benefit to running multiple WU on the GTX980. With a max setting in the config file for 20 wu, it takes 12 minutes to process avg, all the tasks. 1 wu setting, takes 40seconds avg. Power % of the GPU never exceeds 58 even at 20 tasks at once. So simple math, I can do 20wu in 12 minutes or 1 in 40 seconds yielding 30 tasks avg complete over the same 12 minutes."

I'll get you some screen shots when I back on the project.
 
Btw I've just found out that the old 106.88 credit WUs are no more, so that benchmarking thread is now obsolete.
I may well start another thread with the new 133.66 credit WUs.
That said, further to my previous post, even though a GTX 980 would be 1 of the highest ranking NVidia cards in the MW table, it's still some behind the old Tahiti cards .
Curious about running multiple WUs, I always thought the NVidia's did benefit from that......
 
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