I'm new to GPU (36K GHz days)

[fjcroderick]

Hey.

I'm Chris from Canada.

I've kept a rack in my parents basement running P95, but programmed to throttle with their thermostat (Electric heat)

Recently back to town and have an extra workstation. It has a Quadro 4000, AMD Radeon 5450,
Intel W3565 Xeon Quad Core 3.2GHz
64 Bit and 8 Gigs of Ram running windows 10.

Anyone care to walk me though mfaktc setup?

i used the Nvedia Web installer to get Cuda 10.2 on the rig.

I'm an electrician, a welder and have 2 degrees but.... computer programming is not a strong suit of mine, i have not tinkered with windows in 3? years.

Thanks

-Chris

abbccocfw@protonmail.com

[storm5510]

36,000 Gigahertz Days? You may want to elaborate on this much more.

[CRGreathouse]

Originally Posted by storm5510

36,000 Gigahertz Days? You may want to elaborate on this much more.

If I understand the benchmarks correctly (and I may not), this corresponds to about 625 days of actual calculation time, which in a cold region might take less than 3 years on a setup like the one mentioned.

[storm5510]

Originally Posted by fjcroderick

...It has a Quadro 4000, AMD Radeon 5450,
Intel W3565 Xeon Quad Core 3.2GHz
64 Bit and 8 Gigs of Ram running windows 10.

i used the Nvedia Web installer to get Cuda 10.2 on the rig.

I did not think AMD products could use CUDA. It has historically been Nvidia only, I believe. AMD would use OpenCL. In this case, you would need mfakto.

There is a simple application called GPU-Z which can display what your card can use. Do a web search for it, download it, and run it. Very simple.

[kriesel]

Originally Posted by fjcroderick

Recently back to town and have an extra workstation. It has a Quadro 4000, AMD Radeon 5450,
Intel W3565 Xeon Quad Core 3.2GHz
64 Bit and 8 Gigs of Ram running windows 10.

Anyone care to walk me though mfaktc setup?

i used the Nvedia Web installer to get Cuda 10.2 on the rig.

Quadro 4000 is an ancient NVIDIA CUDA capable card, capable of mfaktC.
AMD Radeon 5450, would require OpenCL, mfaktO.
It's more than a little odd they're in the same system.
Quadro 4000 won't get along well with CUDA 10.2 (too new).
See https://www.mersenneforum.org/showpo...15&postcount=4
A possibility is that post 1 is a troll. There's only one post total from that user.
Mfaktc has a decent readme. Install. Follow it. Self test. Get worktodo entries. Tune. Report results using the manual results web page. If adventuring into MISFIT or other client management software, a working client app such as mfaktc verified operating manually first is a good idea.

[fjcroderick]

Originally Posted by storm5510

36,000 Gigahertz Days? You may want to elaborate on this much more.

i have a team of PCs.. and have been contributing for 10? years.

The setup have uses the house thermostat and inputs into an analog port, and for a while ran.. 30 ish servers? its been a while...

O have a building iv'e been heating with the above mentioned rig.. but i'd like to quadro to do something useful...

[fjcroderick]

CPUZ profile attached

[fjcroderick]

Originally Posted by kriesel

Quadro 4000 is an ancient NVIDIA CUDA capable card, capable of mfaktC.
AMD Radeon 5450, would require OpenCL, mfaktO.
It's more than a little odd they're in the same system.
Quadro 4000 won't get along well with CUDA 10.2 (too new).
See https://www.mersenneforum.org/showpo...15&postcount=4
A possibility is that post 1 is a troll. There's only one post total from that user.
Mfaktc has a decent readme. Install. Follow it. Self test. Get worktodo entries. Tune. Report results using the manual results web page. If adventuring into MISFIT or other client management software, a working client app such as mfaktc verified operating manually first is a good idea.

Thanks.. l will check out the link.

... i started out crunching bitcoin back in 2009... i bought a pallet of used but functional servers and put them into a 8 foot rack I got from the trash when a rural cable provider overhauled their setup. it came with a furman power conditioner... i had some help from a Ukrainian coder friend... i'm ligit.