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Yaay me. Thanks for the votes all :)

So, just about a day in, we're #11 as a team; neck in neck with SETI.USA for the #10 spot. Nice start all (y)

Hehe, any chance of trash talking? I guess you haven't met me...retired sailor that other sailors repeatedly said 'just aint right'. Yep, I'll trash talk ya, right after I trash ya in whatever computational contest we have :P

I'll second colinstu

I hear that. It's almost like these systems can think and are like 'oh goodie, he's away, let's bugger off'. Makes me not wanna even leave the house when a competition is going on. Don't it suck having responsibilities? :P

So, any of y'all planning on participating in the Einstein challenge in Prime Grid? I'll be sending my Threadripper 7960X and Ryzen 9 7950X3D at it. I the only question I have is how to set my CPU. I mean I *can* set it to 4 and both CPUs will have enough cache to run them fully in-cache but...

Nice, Gratz!!

To add, with the smaller tasks in PG ya, I was running 3 concurrent tasks. Once I started on GFN-18 it was set back to 1.

Ya, for PG tasks it makes little difference. If i run 2 concurrent it takes twice as long. On Einstein, I found the sweet spot to be 4 concurrent tasks on the current cards. I have an Instinct Mi100 due in tomorrow I'll be experimenting on.

Aye. It adds up quickly. I hate having to 'retire' hardware, but the build cost is a one-time thing. The electric bill is an on going every month thing. I realized how much my old Xeons are holding me back when I compared my Einstein crunchers. One is a Xeon 1697A v4 with dual Radeon Pro...

Got the same with my 7950x3d. 16 concurrent tasks getting done in under 8 minutes each. That's a lotta work getting done. Also tested it on my 7960x Threadripper and got the same results. This got me to thinking: gee, this is only a 24 core cpu. What about the 64 core which then got me...

I was mostly doing the GFNs on the GPUs, but I tossed some PPSE runs in when I wasn't using my dev box to actually work on. Amazing how many PPSE tasks a modern CPU can chew through.

5, and 2 little ones. I'm happy with that. Well, not really but it is what is is 🤣

Yup, great showing all. Great fun and lots of really, REALLY big primes found.

Yup, feeling a bit like I'm in the middle of the Sahara right now. What a dry spell indeed. Ah well, I found a few and if I can find at least one more in this last leg I'll be happy.

I wouldn't worry about it. The person in question had over 40k tasks and wasn't completing any of them, they were all timing out. It's really no different that pretty much any organization that reserves the right to ban folks for whatever they deem fitting. Pretty sure this site has such a...

Still a prime. Great find!!

Well, I went against my own words and switched to GFN18's. They sure keep ma GPUs busy. Who knows, perhaps I'll yoink the jersey for the biggest fish, assuming I even find a prime.

Awesome sauce, Gratz!

I hate when that happens. Here's to hopin for a nice huge cache to chew on (y)

Nice nice, Gratz on your GFN-16!! I find it quite satisfying to find a prime.

I yoinked a mega yesterday, but after 50k PPSE's not a one. This little 7950X3D is a nice way to hammer the hell outta PPSE tasks.

I'm not sure I'd call it an Nvidia issue. I mean I have several NV GPUs crunching PG and after nearly 100k tasks collectively not a single error. On the other hand, my AMD VII Pro turned just over 10% error on E@H, that's a card with ECC memory on a board with ECC memory. It is what it is I...

Thanks for posting the info. When TdP is over I'll prolly give my GPUs a bit meatier set of tasks as well, but for now imma just let things sail as-is.

Oof. That don't seem like a whole lotta work. Admittedly I'm not very familiar with that particular project but still..128 WUs?

That would be my thinking. Not having the 3D cache, you're pushing some of the work out into RAM which is much slower. This is why I spend so much of my day perusing forums and doing general research. When I started back with PG, I spent like days going through the forums. It's great they...

I'm feelin the same. About the only thing I've noticed is if I start doing heavier work, my crunching slows down a bit, as it should. Even then, I'm only talking a few seconds per WU. Not a big in my book. I've also spent a day testing the effectiveness of enabling SMT. After about a...

lol yep. I was JUST reading that on their forums and made a second post. Now at least I know what these super short jobs my CPU is getting. I do PPS on my daily driver's CPU when I'm not actually working on it.

Wow, apparently the game has changed since I been gone. It looks like now, instead of a double checker they're using 'proof tasks' so every find is a first. So small caches and inefficient crunching are no longer needed. Guess that's what I get for taking a couple years off lol. Lemmie do...

I'm just running straight GFN-17's. I started TdP on the 16's, but my cards spent waay to much time doing nothing. The 17's seem to keep the cards busy most of the time and in scouting my peers it seems few are running 4090s so my theory is if I get handed a prime to crunch I should be the...

I feel ya. Got half a dozen 4090's runnin GFN-17 and I aint hit a prime in a week. Just bad luck :(

Not me, but I been playin with a couple orange pi's, rollin some Einstein stuff:

Ya, that's what I have my systems hunting. Damn those are big numbers lol.

I've seem to have hit a dry spell. I was getting just about 1 a day but haven't gotten one in several. Guess that's just the luck of the draw. Oh, Gratz on the primes (y)

OMG just don't tell my wife. She already calls me a bad influence :P

They sure are. They're a great way to encourage participation as well IMO

Silly me, I forgot to set my cache to keep as few WUs as possible so I had hours of work. That find was straight luck lol. Now I'm runnin the GFN-17s to let those 4090s stretch their legs. Hopin to snag a few mega's before all is said and done.

I would recommend a current-gen Intel CPU to feed them. In the last few months i've built several machines, first 2 being 4090-based but one being an i3600k and the other a Ryzen 7800x. The AMD system was consistently a few seconds off-pace from the Intel system (doing the same WU of course)...

Ya, i'm actually just testing my systems and thus starting with GFN 16. I'll likely roll up on GFN 17 once i'm sure things are workin right.

Not wanting to go off topic in the PG challenge series thread (which TdP is not included in) anybody else gonna chase more badges this year?