Macaw2000

Where is this?

Does GPU folding use only CUDA or would the new AMD video cards work?

Good times. Congrats everyone on their contributions. Neat to see how much progress has been made since the last event.

Battlestation update. Left the city for the country. I figure if work is remote now, might as well go someplace nice.

How about a 10B folding badge? As graphics cards evolve over the next couple years, it might be pretty obtainable.

I'm still recovering from the Seahawks loss yesterday.

I don't have a way to catch Den-Fi without compromising the design of my folding system. I designed it to 1) run on AWS 2) be the cheapest possible folding solution 3) find the least expensive GPU instances on the spot market 4) auto-scale anywhere in the world. I was poking around this morning to see if there was a creative way to boost. Maybe some more exotic machines like V100s far regions were being unused? Nope... didn't find a thing. Looks like it will be a race for the silver medal.

Woke up this morning and looked at rankings to see if I was catching up to Den-Fi or if he was killing me....

I have these! https://www.amazon.com/Sony-WH-1000XM4-Canceling-Headphones-phone-call/dp/B0863TXGM3/ref=sr_1_1?crid=301YZ6S6OH517&dchild=1&keywords=sony+mx1000m4&qid=1603311546&s=electronics&sprefix=sony+mx%2Celectronics%2C210&sr=1-1 Only been using them on flights though.. hmmm

Well I tried something new today. I wanted to see what it was like to fold locally. I heard there would be a lot of noise and heat. I lasted a whole work unit. The heat wasn't too bad, given a single video card, but the noise was no good.

Dang that was a lot of points today @Den-Fi. What is going on here?

A little cross-Atlantic fist bump to Europe. I don't have a single container running in the US right now. If a spot instance does spin up, it get's nuked almost immediately. Stockholm, Ireland, and Paris doing the heavy lifting. Canada and Mumbai throwing in a little help too. My architecture that worked so well in the last event has some serious flaws this event now that GPU computing is getting so popular. Love it though. GPUs rock.

I haven't entirely figured out how pricing works. Price scales with demand but then at some point the spot instances just become entirely unavailable. I assume On-Demand, RIs, and others all get priority and the spot instances are killed. Right now I see instances running nicely in Ireland and Paris but impossible to launch anywhere in the US. I assume that will change after business hours.

Wow I had not seen that. Very cool!