justpoet

One of the reasons that while I often fold, I only go all out for folding month when it just offsets other heating costs so isn't as bad as the power numbers would make it look. We were at 42¢ plus delivery charges for a while, but when it meant I wasn't using as much fuel oil that was also at record highs, it was ok enough to bang at it for science and home heating anyway. Be smart about efficiency when not in heating season, and it really isn't that bad.

At the opposite end of the power efficiency spectrum.... ...I just ripped a Radeon 480 out of a system being scrapped at the transfer station. When we get to folding month at the end of the year, I'll have to try to get it going for my first GPU folding ever. LOL

To all of you with the big electric bills...go solar. I built up credit in the spring and summer with $0 bills and exporting more than I used, and it has been getting used the last few months to heat the house via folding (and of course normal usage like holiday baking in the oven), instead of the oil furnace having to do all the work. The bill covering last month's usage that came not too long ago was a "bit" higher, but still covered by the credits. Solar isn't cheap, but it definitely pays back!

No, U!

If CPU folding, this is easy. in FAH Control, go set the thread count from -1 (automatic) to the number you wish to dedicate to F@H. If you want to basically never think about it, do 1 less thread count than you have physical cores. That way you'll always have a full non-hyperthreaded core for all your "now" tasks, and more hyperthreading to spin up for other things. This will keep the system responsive while still folding, and generally without a ton of folding loss too.

Yeah, we're talking 12 year old daily driver here though. If it finally wobbles out, it probably won't come back. LOL That said, it sounds a little better if I ramp the fan up further, so that's what I've done.

Welp, the usual suspects had to get spun down. The ancient laptop is all that remains to fold with me through the last couple days of the event...and today I hear one of the fans starting to go on it. Hopefully it doesn't give its life for this. But I'm determined to have every day of the event as active, like I always have...even if I'm at the very bottom of the charts being a CPU only folder. LOL

Each VM as well as each OS in each VM has an overhead. Keeping that overhead minimal is likely best.

The issue with EV charging is that most people would get all of their charge at roughly the same time, and you're getting all of it within 4-6 hours, rather than spread with even load over the course of 24 hours like folding. It isn't the kWh that is the problem with EVs for infrastructure, but the raw kW demand all at once. There are certainly smart ways to handle this, but not everybody can wait, and not all circuits can handle more than a few EVs on them at once. The adoption rate of EVs is such that except in rich "everybody gets an EV and commutes far" neighborhoods, it usually isn't going to be a problem for quite some time.

Cheap ARC card?

I seem to remember somebody did a couple WU on LNG, just to show the difference at one point (no clue which CPU or generation). So things like cryo/AC cooling systems I'm sure will be other outliers as well.

Have you found a good reference for the calculations and explanations, or online calculator for this? I've wanted to do a heat pump for primarily heating on average days (we have oil now that wouldn't go away, just be used far less), but also occasional cooling (mostly dehumidifying here) in the summer. But companies quote wildly different sizes in differing numbers, and don't seem to have numbers to back up the why, despite them all saying engineering calculated what would be required.

I know the sheet shows event points. I'd be curious at the end to see the WU count of each person added to the spread sheet. I'll still be near the bottom, but I'd find it interesting to see, and see if the WU rankings purely match the point rankings or deviate a bunch.

Thanks LMG!

Happy Thanksgiving!