My last (and first) post was about one month ago and got a lot of positive response and I promised to post again if there is something new on my project, so here I am:
Gridcoin-Mining is working very well for us now and we decided to go into Phase 2 and expand our computing power to about 6.5kW with additional 11 PCs (i5-8400, 1x AMD Radeon RX Vega 56, 1x Geforce 1080). I ordered the hardware about one month ago, but it seems that Intel is not able to produce enough of their new 6 core processors and also the RX Vega are very hard to get, I guess because of Ethereum Mining. But I wanted them for a better double precision performance on some projects like milkyway@home. I hope to get all parts till Christmas, so that's my wish for this year, but of course not exclusively (all the best to you and your families)!
Here is the picture of the hardware (just case, power supply, mainboard and SSD).
In order to manage all hosts and projects I've created (as said in my last blog) a small BOINC-managing tool based on apache, mysql, PHP using the boinccmd-tool on an RaspberryPi. At the moment it's far away from being perfect, but I am working on it in my free time and I think about to make it Open-Source if you are interested?! In order to do that I must rewrite the code (first of all variable names) and comments to english because right now it's a mixture of german and english ;-) I'll keep you up-to-date on that.
I've also decided to split all hosts into virtual hosts that consists each of one single device. So the first host with (i5-7400, 2x AMD Radeon RX Vega 56, 2x Geforce 1080) is now split into 1xCPU, 1xIntel-GPU, and each of the graphics card separated in one BOINC-Client on different ports. It's done by ignoring all other devices except one by editing the client configuration (http://boinc.berkeley.edu/wiki/Client_configuration) and running multiple BOINC clients. So it's easier to decide which project should run on which hardware device without entering the projects page itself and do it manually. And making a "real" BOINC-Account-Manager" with all the API stuff to overwrite project settings is a bit to much work for me now, but maybe we can do that in the community some time - an offline BAM for local Gridcoin Mining, let's see...
So that is my plan for the near future, be prepared for new updates ;-)