Just wanted to call your attention to the fact that Gary Roberts is about to reach a major milestone. He will pass the 100 Billion credit mark overall. Quite the accomplishment that is worthy of praise and celebration. Congratulations, Gary!
Thank you very much and apologies for the late response! I really appreciate the kind comment.
I hadn't been paying much attention to the milestones thread recently (distracted by real life :-) ) so got quite a surprise when I finally caught up this morning.
OMG i got my first 1B Project!! And its Einstein@home! :)))
For some reason your handle seemed quite familiar from way back when, so I had a quick look at your previous posts and discovered that you last checked in around 5 years ago when you had 0.25B! Thank you so much for your continuing support!
Prior to that I found this thread where you were having trouble getting the FGRPB1G search running on a particular machine.
It's nice to see that the sorting out of that problem has allowed you to power on to the big 1B :-).
Just wanted to call your attention to the fact that Gary Roberts is about to reach a major milestone. He will pass the 100 Billion credit mark overall. Quite the accomplishment that is worthy of praise and celebration. Congratulations, Gary!
Thank you very much and apologies for the late response! I really appreciate the kind comment.
I hadn't been paying much attention to the milestones thread recently (distracted by real life :-) ) so got quite a surprise when I finally caught up this morning.
Let me be the first to congratulate Gary Roberts for reaching the 100 Billion mark!!!
CONGRATULATIONS!!
At this moment he is #80 in the world with over 4 million participants.
And don't sweat the small stuff! We all get distracted by "real life" things.
Let me be the first to congratulate Gary Roberts for reaching the 100 Billion mark!!!
My first reaction when reading this was, "What the hell is he talking about??? - I still haven't reached 98 B yet???
Then it dawned on me that Tigers_Dave had provided an 'overall' link. I hadn't even looked at that link because I had wrongly imagined he was just referring to my E@H stats. So thanks (and apologies) to George for setting me straight. After finally clicking the link and seeing that I was listed above 100 B, I then realised that I had accumulated credits at other projects (Seti, Milkyway, LHC, POGS, etc) before deciding to concentrate entirely on E@H. So, indeed, I do have an overall total above 100 B and I wasn't even aware of it .
I haven't looked at a stats site in many years. I attended the E@H 'Open Day' in 2011 and with what I saw and from the discussions I had, I was even more firmly convinced that E@H was the project I really wanted to support. I spent more than a week in Hannover and during that time had a conducted tour of the GEO600 gravitational wave detector. Very impressive!
After making the 'E@H only' decision, statistics in general became a pretty much useless metric for me. I tend to look at RAC for individual machines as a way to judge if a machine is working efficiently or not and that's about it. If I suspect something might be wrong with a machine, I can quickly check current RAC to see it looks reasonable. If not, I look at the longer term trends in the RAC graph in BOINC Manager. All my machines are set to keep 100 days of records - <save_stats_days>100</save_stats_days> in cc_config.xml - so that trends over time become more meaningful and easier to see.
For a quick check I use a small bash function that is installed on every machine. From my daily driver, I login over a secure shell (ssh) and execute the function. Here is an example of what it tells me about the target machine. It's an example of a quite recent GPU upgrade (Asus RX570 to MSI RX580) which is giving a bigger boost to RAC than I expected (and the RAC is still rising).
The first line (ssh) establishes a secure shell connection to the machine identified as H6. That's just shorthand for the host that has an IP address ending in .6 (ie. the final octet). The second line launches my local bash function 'psa'. I called it that because it started out life many years ago as the single command "ps -A | grep -E 'boinc|gamma|einst' " so it would just find and list the processes that contained one of the three listed keywords (boinc or gamma or einst), using their entries in the process table - in other words just a simple way to see details about BOINC related stuff in the multitude of other process table entries. As you can see below, it does quite a bit more these days :-).
Current credits:-User Tot: 97.90B User RAC: 57.3M Host Tot: 1.15B Host RAC: 635.9K
The middle lines of output are the process table entries that the single original command used to produce but I've added extra data in the form of frac_done entries so I can know there is a proper separation being maintained between the two tasks sharing the GPU. Those values and all the other BOINC related info gets extracted from the state file (client_state.xml) so I get a quick and up-to-date picture of how things are going. I also get reminded about various other details for that host.
Before I did the GPU upgrade, the long term RAC had been around 575K and was relatively stable. The change to the MSI GPU occurred almost 8 days ago (as the current runtime shows) and the RAC is still rising quite appreciably. I had expected it to get to just over 600K but it's now well on the way to 650K. I built the host as a CPU only cruncher back in 2009. It has a Q8400 quad core CPU. It's been GPU only for many years now. I'm sure that is one of the reasons why the motherboard and CPU are lasting so well.
And yes its my overall 12th year now on Boinc and never stopped continous 24/7 support :)
One year with more or less crunching power, depends on serveral things ^^ I will see how far i can go ^^
Edit: To mark the occasion, i finally updated the dual 570/580 GPUs PC with dual buget 1060 GPUs cos they nearly for free cos no other usecase anymore for 3GB VRAM ^^ 3-4 times more crunching power per GPU in this host. wohoo!
Just wanted to call your attention to the fact that Gary Roberts is about to reach a major milestone. He will pass the 100 Billion credit mark overall. Quite the accomplishment that is worthy of praise and celebration. Congratulations, Gary!
Yes he is, Dave. I will definitely be looking out for it, and I'll give him a biiiggggWHOOPIE when he does.
But, I suppose YOU wouldn't ALSO be approaching 100 Billion in credits, too ? ;>)
George, thanks for noticing. Yes, I will reach the 100 Billion milestone (overall) late next week. It was a goal that I set when Collatz@Home ceased operations and I moved my crunchers over to Einstein@Home. Once I reach it, I am likely to cut back on my participation. My home office has five eGPUs, my wife's home office has three eGPUs, and my work office has six eGPUs. That's too much heat for summertime in the U.S. Deep South. Once things cool off, I will probably bring the eGPUs back into service.
"I was born in a small town, and I live in a small town." - John Mellencamp
But, I suppose YOU wouldn't ALSO be approaching 100 Billion in credits, too ? ;>)
George, thanks for noticing. Yes, I will reach the 100 Billion milestone (overall) late next week. It was a goal that I set when Collatz@Home ceased operations and I moved my crunchers over to Einstein@Home. Once I reach it, I am likely to cut back on my participation. My home office has five eGPUs, my wife's home office has three eGPUs, and my work office has six eGPUs. That's too much heat for summertime in the U.S. Deep South. Once things cool off, I will probably bring the eGPUs back into service.
Well, you will be missed for sure. But a big "WHOOPIE!!" in advance before you go. ;>)
I'll still be here sweating it out for the long haul just in case you want to chat again.
George, thanks for the kind words. I am not completely leaving E@H - just cutting back. I have another motivation; my main HVAC system at home partially failed on Thursday, so I need to cut back on my crunching until the system is repaired.
"I was born in a small town, and I live in a small town." - John Mellencamp
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I agree with Keith, welcome to the club!
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Thank you very much and apologies for the late response! I really appreciate the kind comment.
I hadn't been paying much attention to the milestones thread recently (distracted by real life :-) ) so got quite a surprise when I finally caught up this morning.
Cheers,
Gary.
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For some reason your handle seemed quite familiar from way back when, so I had a quick look at your previous posts and discovered that you last checked in around 5 years ago when you had 0.25B! Thank you so much for your continuing support!
Prior to that I found this thread where you were having trouble getting the FGRPB1G search running on a particular machine.
It's nice to see that the sorting out of that problem has allowed you to power on to the big 1B :-).
Cheers,
Gary.
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Let me be the first to congratulate Gary Roberts for reaching the 100 Billion mark!!!
CONGRATULATIONS!!
At this moment he is #80 in the world with over 4 million participants.
And don't sweat the small stuff! We all get distracted by "real life" things.
Proud member of the Old Farts Association
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My first reaction when reading this was, "What the hell is he talking about??? - I still haven't reached 98 B yet???
Then it dawned on me that Tigers_Dave had provided an 'overall' link. I hadn't even looked at that link because I had wrongly imagined he was just referring to my E@H stats. So thanks (and apologies) to George for setting me straight. After finally clicking the link and seeing that I was listed above 100 B, I then realised that I had accumulated credits at other projects (Seti, Milkyway, LHC, POGS, etc) before deciding to concentrate entirely on E@H. So, indeed, I do have an overall total above 100 B and I wasn't even aware of it .
I haven't looked at a stats site in many years. I attended the E@H 'Open Day' in 2011 and with what I saw and from the discussions I had, I was even more firmly convinced that E@H was the project I really wanted to support. I spent more than a week in Hannover and during that time had a conducted tour of the GEO600 gravitational wave detector. Very impressive!
After making the 'E@H only' decision, statistics in general became a pretty much useless metric for me. I tend to look at RAC for individual machines as a way to judge if a machine is working efficiently or not and that's about it. If I suspect something might be wrong with a machine, I can quickly check current RAC to see it looks reasonable. If not, I look at the longer term trends in the RAC graph in BOINC Manager. All my machines are set to keep 100 days of records - <save_stats_days>100</save_stats_days> in cc_config.xml - so that trends over time become more meaningful and easier to see.
For a quick check I use a small bash function that is installed on every machine. From my daily driver, I login over a secure shell (ssh) and execute the function. Here is an example of what it tells me about the target machine. It's an example of a quite recent GPU upgrade (Asus RX570 to MSI RX580) which is giving a bigger boost to RAC than I expected (and the RAC is still rising).
The first line (ssh) establishes a secure shell connection to the machine identified as H6. That's just shorthand for the host that has an IP address ending in .6 (ie. the final octet). The second line launches my local bash function 'psa'. I called it that because it started out life many years ago as the single command "ps -A | grep -E 'boinc|gamma|einst' " so it would just find and list the processes that contained one of the three listed keywords (boinc or gamma or einst), using their entries in the process table - in other words just a simple way to see details about BOINC related stuff in the multitude of other process table entries. As you can see below, it does quite a bit more these days :-).
[gary@eros ~]$ ssh $H6
[gary@zoos ~]$ psa
Hostname: zoos Host ID: 950583 GPU: Ellesmere Checked: Thu May 11 01:46:36 PM AEST 2023
Runtime: 7d 20h 40m 5s BOINC: 7.16.11 On_Frac: 0.998990 Kernel: 5.15.24-pclos1
2282 ? 00:13:44 boinc
6298 ? 00:00:44 hsgamma_FGRPB1G Frac_done: 0.652429
6611 ? 00:00:17 hsgamma_FGRPB1G Frac_done: 0.141522
Current credits:- User Tot: 97.90B User RAC: 57.3M Host Tot: 1.15B Host RAC: 635.9K
The middle lines of output are the process table entries that the single original command used to produce but I've added extra data in the form of frac_done entries so I can know there is a proper separation being maintained between the two tasks sharing the GPU. Those values and all the other BOINC related info gets extracted from the state file (client_state.xml) so I get a quick and up-to-date picture of how things are going. I also get reminded about various other details for that host.
Before I did the GPU upgrade, the long term RAC had been around 575K and was relatively stable. The change to the MSI GPU occurred almost 8 days ago (as the current runtime shows) and the RAC is still rising quite appreciably. I had expected it to get to just over 600K but it's now well on the way to 650K. I built the host as a CPU only cruncher back in 2009. It has a Q8400 quad core CPU. It's been GPU only for many years now. I'm sure that is one of the reasons why the motherboard and CPU are lasting so well.
Cheers,
Gary.
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ahhh Thanks :)
And yes its my overall 12th year now on Boinc and never stopped continous 24/7 support :)
One year with more or less crunching power, depends on serveral things ^^ I will see how far i can go ^^
Edit: To mark the occasion, i finally updated the dual 570/580 GPUs PC with dual buget 1060 GPUs cos they nearly for free cos no other usecase anymore for 3GB VRAM ^^ 3-4 times more crunching power per GPU in this host. wohoo!
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George, thanks for noticing. Yes, I will reach the 100 Billion milestone (overall) late next week. It was a goal that I set when Collatz@Home ceased operations and I moved my crunchers over to Einstein@Home. Once I reach it, I am likely to cut back on my participation. My home office has five eGPUs, my wife's home office has three eGPUs, and my work office has six eGPUs. That's too much heat for summertime in the U.S. Deep South. Once things cool off, I will probably bring the eGPUs back into service.
"I was born in a small town, and I live in a small town." - John Mellencamp
Tigers_Dave
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Well, you will be missed for sure. But a big "WHOOPIE!!" in advance before you go. ;>)
I'll still be here sweating it out for the long haul just in case you want to chat again.
Proud member of the Old Farts Association
George, thanks for the kind
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George, thanks for the kind words. I am not completely leaving E@H - just cutting back. I have another motivation; my main HVAC system at home partially failed on Thursday, so I need to cut back on my crunching until the system is repaired.
"I was born in a small town, and I live in a small town." - John Mellencamp