Posts by ProDigit

21) Questions and Answers : Issue Discussion : MLC@home WUs using 2 CPUs (Message 199)
Posted 21 Jul 2020 by ProDigit
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Stock settings, just added the project, and it's taking 2 CPUs per WU, but only using 1 CPU worth of data crunching.
I have a dual core, 4 thread Intel X86 CPU and am running Linux.
Perhaps '1 thread per WU' is misconfigured to '1CPU core'?
22) Questions and Answers : Issue Discussion : Project PPD assignment? (Message 192)
Posted 20 Jul 2020 by ProDigit
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How much PPD per WU?
Or are there several size WUs?
23) Questions and Answers : Unix/Linux : NPU and TPU AI Co-processors (Message 191)
Posted 20 Jul 2020 by ProDigit
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But you will eventually have projects using nvidia gpus? Some of the older teslas like the m40 and the k80 are fairly cheap these days and have a lot of horsepower. Not to mention a lot of folks who run boinc are also gamers or devs and have some beefy gpus

Those GPU core frequencies are very low (below 1Ghz).

For the price of a second hand M40 or k80, I would preferably get a new 2060, 2060 Super, or 2060 KO.
Same price range, higher performance but at a way lower TDP (125-130W depending on the model; vs 200-250W on the M40, and 250-300W on the K80).
In fact I could run a single RTX 2080 (or 2080 Super) at the same speed as the 2 together, all at under 160W for the GPU (vs 500W on the other 2).

Not that it matters, as both of them use the same drivers as the RTX series.
What'll work on the K/M-series accelerators, will work on an RTX-series GPU.
The way things are going, I think they should focus on the RTX 2080 series of GPUs first.
(2080,2080 Super, 2080 Ti), as by next year, these will be considered mid-grade GPUs.
And in 2 years, this type of performance will be 'the new normal' in people's PCs (especially with a die shrink, running higher performance, on lower TDPs).


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