theknystar

Thanks for your opinion. If you do not see a market nor demand for this service your opinion is noted without any problem however dont try to spin a negative narrative behind the idea because i specifically listed many reasons why the whole operation would be created with good faith in mind. Capitalism brings efficiency either you like it or not. I guess you want less overall PPD because "evil people" like me are trying to do something positive. it was a very clever marketing to get people to fold on an idle PC. You cant tell people "hey can you run this thing 0-24? thanks". Nobody told you that idle folding is the only way to help the project... you can fold 0-24 as well with dedicated rigs and F@H was never against that. The project itself obviously benefiting greatly from efficient dedicated rigs. I can explain it to you as well, i have been folding with a dedicated rig for years now. Just because something was invented with a purpose that doesnt mean it will be used for that (most famous examples, bubble wrap, coca cola). I can twist your words as well so you have a negative narrative here just for fun...You saying hospital workers are doing something great and noble yet shame on them for taking a salary.

Hi, thanks for your input! Maybe a shorter 15day contract for 87.5$ sounds more reasonable as an option? Yep, Germany and other palces have like 0.3c kW/h pricing. its expensive at some places to just fold. FYI vast.ai is actually more expensive for a month than what i suggested here so im not sure why you saying thats cheaper and this is more expensive. (hence you can use that rig for other things as well) I also stated at the other comment that its better value just buying your own hardware but thats a drawback for any renting service. We do not want to "break in" to the general cloud renting. You can find many many shorter renting instance services which are great for that and we do not want to be their competition on it We only looking to help F@H overall PPD and not for "pure profit". Even if its not profitable but only self sustainable we are fine. We found that there is no cheap way to rent cards to do only F@H efficiently and if you want to rent out a multigpu setup to do folding they starting to get really messy.

Thank you for your input and i appreciate you letting us talk about it. Since its a really DYI community, its obviously worth to buy the hardware and fold on it yourself especially with 1-2 card. However you have to deal with noise, heat (after 2-3 card you have a 1kW/h heater essentially), hardware malfunctioning, and you also need the space. Server renting considered expensive compared to just buying the hardware no matter what company or service you looking at but you also forget important things like that the servers cooled and maintenanced as well not to mention it will need expensive distributors for electricity, protection, etc. Its not that easy to run a bigger operation as you calcualte it. (just imagine you need to turn on your AC because your PC is generating too much heat. im folding for 5 years now and i experienced it at first hand, you will have an AC problem because of the extended use. [What a surprise lol]) Sure. with full rent your math is "right" but these things should not be calculated with full rentals ever and other renting services would also let that rig idle. You also missed from your calclaution what i listed above. Crypto folders are not that greedy as you suggesting. Just give 40$ to somebody since he would only get 30$ with curecoin... they dealing with the problems what i listed and also crypto folding have not been profitable for at least 2 years now so they are just as much donating to the cause as anybody else. Good luck "renting a rig" from them. (not trying to be a crypto shill, you just brought up a wrong exapmle with it) Yep, donating to F@H directly is also an option, cant argue. Maybe my idea is too naiv and optimistic, but with good faith i was able to get capital interest. If there are no demand for such service then it wont exist.

Yup, redirecting that folding PPD to your folding name is certainly an option as well. Edited the topic including it

No. Our company have connection to order 30seres even on bulk with decent shipping time. flipping these would be irrelevant to our company revenue

Hello boys and girls. I convinced some people at my company to start a cloud folding service on the side if there is a demand for it. We have the capability to scale up to do a +100 GPU farm if we see big demand for it in the future. (Our company do not rely on this income, this is just a side adventure and also trying to increase F@H overall PPD) If there is demand for it we can allow people to rent out even multiple 3080 GPUs which would be specifically tailored to do ONLY folding with the best efficiency possbile. First of all this service would be in good faith and the GPUs would only do F@H even if they are not rented. So no idle. However if there is no demand and the business is not self sustainable at least we will have to shutdown the initiative. theoretically we looking at 1x3080 175$/m which includes electricity+maintenance cost as well and thats only because it would only do F@H. (its about daily ~5.5m PPD so a monthly 170m PPD) The folding PPD could be redirected to your folding name as well (or you would be able to get all of the Curecoin crypto which would be rewarded for it as well but its not proftitable and thats not the goal necessarily either.) Please let me know about your opinions / ideas or if you would be interested in such service.

looks good

i ll be an nvidia fun no matter what but im curious how d this perform against my 690 LUL

i have to say this sellout video is the best commercial video for that ultra short throw projector. i d definitely buy or even just try one out.. but dmn that thing not cheap so.... probably mission abort and i ll let the rich people have fun FeelsBadMan

Smart switch looks awesome

This is how the new LG monitor would look on my desk VS the cold reality with some twitch emotes hope u like it. Twitch users will definitely understand it Kappa

This is how the new LG monitor would look on my desk VS the cold reality with some twitch emotes hope u like it. Twitch users will definitely understand it Kappa

theknystar username https://www.vessel.com/videos/JemZ8O7Hy i cri evri tim... my 720p-1080p gaming experience so poor compare to that. i have the same fps :lol: https://www.vessel.com/videos/LCoY5zfFf i feel like i live in a cave after this video :lol: