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Hey, guys. I've got around $96,000 of Google Cloud Platform credit that expires next April and there's no way in hell I'm going to be able to spend it all by then.

I've only spent 4k since this past April and that was because I accidently left some huge instances on.

 

I just started a 16 CPU server folding on the team and am going to see how efficient it is.

 

If it proves to be efficient, I'll allocate 10 x 32 vCPU servers to fold continually, coming to 160 CPU's folding for cures.

 

I can probably leave those running all the way to April, and as the deadline for my credit approaches, I'll throw more servers online until I burn through all the credit.

 

Just wanted to let you know, you'll see my username 'ericvolp12' showing up on the team page pretty soon I hope.

 

Great to be part of the team :D

 

 

UPDATE: My PPD looks to be around 70k per server. I'll wait til tomorrow to make any decisive actions.

I'm creating a cluster template now so if I want to, I can roll out an automated cluster of these servers to scale when I want them to.

 

Is 70k PPD any good?

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Thank you :)

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dang son :D awesome

 

edit: how did you get 100k in credit? o,o

Won it in a financial technology hackathon :P

 

Was supposed to be for a startup, but the two others and I don't have a startup.

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GOD DAMMIT MY "CLOUD TO BUTT PLUS" EXTENSION MADE THIS THREAD'S TITLE REALLY WEIRD....

Ahahahahahaha

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Ahahahahahaha

Yep. Here's what it looks like to me...

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That extension can make a bad day a great one though so I keep it around xD

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Yep. Here's what it looks like to me...

butts.jpg

 

That extension can make a bad day a great one though so I keep it around xD

Your image isn't loading for me :(

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96k...

 

Go buy an insane watercooled rig.

 

Right now

 

do et

It's not real cash.

 

It has no monetary value and you can't turn it to cash without creating a business around selling it :P

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Won it in a financial technology hackathon :P

 

Was supposed to be for a startup, but the two others and I don't have a startup.

dang lucky..

I am a happy wuffy

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Then sell it lol

You have to create a whole business around it.

 

It's really not worth it, they charge a lot for their cloud servers, at most I'd make maybe 15k and it'd take a ton of work and a year to crank it all out.

 

 

 

 

 

I'm headed to bed now, it's 5 AM here in London. See you guys tomorrow with an update!

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Quick last note, by my current calculations based on my current work unit (9752), I can get around 18 work units done a day on one server.

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Yep. Here's what it looks like to me...

 

 

That extension can make a bad day a great one though so I keep it around xD

 

You have to create a whole business around it.

 

It's really not worth it, they charge a lot for their cloud servers, at most I'd make maybe 15k and it'd take a ton of work and a year to crank it all out.

 

 

 

 

 

I'm headed to bed now, it's 5 AM here in London. See you guys tomorrow with an update!

This is what it looks like: 

 

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Okay I've been staying up secretly, spinning up cloud instances.

 

http://fah-web.stanford.edu/cgi-bin/main.py?qtype=userpage&username=ericvolp12

 

Watch that for a day

 

I should be getting points around a rate of 8 million a week.

Noice, I wonder how far up the leaderboard you'll get by April.

 

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Noice, I wonder how far up the leaderboard you'll get by April.

Yeah, gotta wait for my numbers to stabilize before I can make any solid predictions ;)

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Yeah, gotta wait for my numbers to stabilize before I can make any solid predictions ;)

Typically the numbers go up after they're stable it took a couple days for my 7950 and 290 to get 289k-301k constantly. Can't wait to see your PPD after a couple days.

 

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Typically the numbers go up after they're stable it took a couple days for my 7950 and 290 to get 289k-301k constantly. Can't wait to see your PPD after a couple days.

Oh, okay. Thanks for the info :) 

Yeah, they're only CPU's tho, 256 2.5Ghz cores of Xeons.

Probably astronomically cost inefficient, but hey it's free to me.

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Oh, okay. Thanks for the info :)

Yeah, they're only CPU's tho, 256 2.5Ghz cores of Xeons.

Probably astronomically cost inefficient, but hey it's free to me.

Eh, cost efficiency doesn't matter if they're free. Its awesome that we now have an extra 256 Xeon cores on the team though.

 

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Eh, cost efficiency doesn't matter if they're free. Its awesome that we now have an extra 256 Xeon cores on the team though.

Hahaha, glad to hear I'm welcome :D

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Are you allowed to put titans in your servers? Kappa

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Are you allowed to put titans in your servers? Kappa

Lol, I don't own the servers or live anywhere near them.

It's like having a ton of AWS credit.

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