decline in thoughtput over past six months

[ixfd64]

I noticed that our average throughput has steadily dropped from around 360 to 250 TFLOPS over the past six months. Anyone know what's happening?

[Mark Rose]

Originally Posted by ixfd64

I noticed that our average throughput has steadily dropped from around 360 to 250 TFLOPS over the past six months. Anyone know what's happening?

AirSquirrels switched to Ethereum, probably.

Also, MadPoo has lost his compute resources, so it's going to get worse, especially for DC.

[ATH]

Looking at the "30 days" statistics from today and 6 months ago:

			2017-08-18 00:00 UTC	2017-02-18 00:00 UTC
Actual TFLOP/sec		272.396			402.338
GHz-Days			4085940			6035073
Active user IDs			4522			5099
Active computers		27316			30222
work units			718025			2413321

So the number of of active users went down ~11% and active computers went down ~10%.

[axn]

Summer break at curtisc's uni?

[Madpoo]

Originally Posted by axn

Summer break at curtisc's uni?

I did notice that quite a few of Curtis' assignments in category zero were expiring lately. Maybe they took some labs offline over the summer like you said?

[ewmayer]

Originally Posted by Mark Rose

AirSquirrels switched to Ethereum, probably.

Yep - here is upper few lines of 'top' output from his 32-core Xeon server, whose CPU portion he is generously allowing me to hog for ongoing Fermat-number testing:

  PID USER      PR  NI    VIRT    RES    SHR S  %CPU %MEM     TIME+ COMMAND                                              
 2353 ewmayer   20   0  927344 329452   3816 S  2576  0.3 655615:08 Mlucas                                               
28484 root      20   0 18.985g 223320  62804 S  11.8  0.2   2310:12 ethdcrminer64

The actual GPU-based throughput of his job gets short shrift in the Linux top output, but we can presume it's 'lots'.

According to David, that mining to take advantage of the current crypto-currency price bubble is helping pay for a crapload of new hardware, so presumably said HW will be helping him make up for lost time once he resumes GIMPS work.

[NBtarheel_33]

Originally Posted by Madpoo

I did notice that quite a few of Curtis' assignments in category zero were expiring lately. Maybe they took some labs offline over the summer like you said?

Perhaps those assignments were on older systems that have been upgraded without curtisc bothering (or having the chance) to transfer the assignments in progress.

I do notice that the UCM-curtisc team only has 2,280 total outstanding assignments. IIRC this is down considerably from the 3,000+ that I have seen in the past.

It is a shame that curtisc doesn't drop by the forum once in a while.

[ewmayer]

Originally Posted by NBtarheel_33

I do notice that the UCM-curtisc team only has 2,280 total outstanding assignments. IIRC this is down considerably from the 3,000+ that I have seen in the past.

Perhaps they've switched their focus from outstanding to mediocre assignments? :)

[lycorn]

Originally Posted by Mark Rose

AirSquirrels switched to Ethereum, probably.

Also, MadPoo has lost his compute resources, so it's going to get worse, especially for DC.

Did he?
I can still see many results returned by him...

[Madpoo]

Originally Posted by lycorn

Did he?
I can still see many results returned by him...

It's just a matter of time... our stuff is moving to the cloud, for better or worse. LOL

[0PolarBearsHere]

What's happening to all the old kit?