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[dogwitch]

1 hour ago, danwat1234 said:

----Latest electric bill shows 304KWh used per day (/24 12.66KW average). House members use little power ourselves it's mostly the crunchers. That includes a ~1PB Chia farm maybe 1.3KW. House heat is always off, and it is gas. SiDock #1 Rosetta #10 because of WCG down. Usually WCG gets most of the work because SiDock does not allow much Work Unit caching, and Rosetta usually has no work but coincidentally does now.
Note; i have undervolted all the boxes i can as far as possible to increase efficiency. Skylake-class typically undervolt by 140mV Haswell 70mV

shock people still do chia

[Gorgon]

5 hours ago, danwat1234 said:

----Latest electric bill shows 304KWh used per day (/24 12.66KW average). House members use little power ourselves it's mostly the crunchers. That includes a ~1PB Chia farm maybe 1.3KW. House heat is always off, and it is gas. SiDock #1 Rosetta #10 because of WCG down. Usually WCG gets most of the work because SiDock does not allow much Work Unit caching, and Rosetta usually has no work but coincidentally does now.
Note; i have undervolted all the boxes i can as far as possible to increase efficiency. Skylake-class typically undervolt by 140mV Haswell 70mV

Ouch - that would be over $1,000 a month for electricity at the prices here. I'm surprised your local law enforcement hasn't raided you looking for the "grow op."

 

If your going to keep that up and you own the property you should consider getting a Solar setup. It would pay for itself very quickly.

 

Looks like WCG may be up soon. Ugly failure - looks like the Dell Server motherboard died and they likely corrupted their RAID trying to get it working again. Why anyone uses hardware RAID these days is beyond me.

[danwat1234]

On 3/9/2023 at 9:22 PM, Gorgon said:

Ouch - that would be over $1,000 a month for electricity at the prices here. I'm surprised your local law enforcement hasn't raided you looking for the "grow op."

 

If your going to keep that up and you own the property you should consider getting a Solar setup. It would pay for itself very quickly.

 

Looks like WCG may be up soon. Ugly failure - looks like the Dell Server motherboard died and they likely corrupted their RAID trying to get it working again. Why anyone uses hardware RAID these days is beyond me.

Up front solar cost is huge to make any meaningful dent but I'd like 2.

Wish I could deduct electricity use cost on my taxes for BOINC, but it's not a business and not charity donation 

[Mxyzptlk]

Jan 13th I started to do some BOINC and I of course joined the LTT Team.

 

Specifically projects for Einstein at Home and tried / am trying to do some for the WCG, but that hasn't been going well lately....

 

Really impressed with the CPU Control that BOINC gives you. I wish that F@H did that!

[Ithanul]

I'm alive.  Need to get around to back to some crunching.  Life been busy.

 

Oh crap...so team sign ups already pass for the BOINC Pent.  

 

Edit:  Wait, re-reads.....02 May.  Darn, okay, should be able to still get team sign up.  Ugh, I need more coffee.

 

Anyway, good time to stress out the 5800X some more.

 

[dogwitch]

fyi everyone where really close to be top 25 teams on prime grid!

 

 

update

spun up a machine. we hit top 25 baby!

[Ithanul]

Well, some news about this years BOINC Pentathlon.

 

Registration should soon be opening in a few weeks.

 

[Ithanul]

So, appears WCG feeder server is back-up.  Just got WUs from them.

[GOTSpectrum]

Thinking about pulling the trigger on a nicely priced 22 core for the old x99 FOLDATRON in time for the pent

[Ithanul]

17 hours ago, GOTSpectrum said:

Thinking about pulling the trigger on a nicely priced 22 core for the old x99 FOLDATRON in time for the pent

Darn, ya kinda tempting me to go look at what some Xeons for x99 are going for now.  Still got a x99 mobo floating about I could rig up.  Though, oof, the temps down here are already cranking up.  I'm really going to have to figure up something for this Pent where I don't over heat the house.

[GOTSpectrum]

33 minutes ago, Ithanul said:

Darn, ya kinda tempting me to go look at what some Xeons for x99 are going for now.  Still got a x99 mobo floating about I could rig up.  Though, oof, the temps down here are already cranking up.  I'm really going to have to figure up something for this Pent where I don't over heat the house.

Unfortunately I just realized I won't have the money in time, as I need to buy a couple of things for the studio this month. Oh well should have it for next year.

 

I really wanna get the 22 core and a 16 core for my AM4 platform. But we will see because they aren't really needed yknow 

[GOTSpectrum]

@Ithanulsign ups are open, don't miss it this year lol 

[dogwitch]

10 minutes ago, GOTSpectrum said:

@Ithanulsign ups are open, don't miss it this year lol 

linik?

[GOTSpectrum]

4 hours ago, dogwitch said:

linik?

https://www.seti-germany.de/boinc_pentathlon/anmeldung.php

[dogwitch]

4 hours ago, GOTSpectrum said:

https://www.seti-germany.de/boinc_pentathlon/anmeldung.php

will check it out.

[Ithanul]

On 4/12/2023 at 3:46 AM, GOTSpectrum said:

@Ithanulsign ups are open, don't miss it this year lol 

Thanks for the heads up.  Last year was just a nutty year for me.

 

Update:  Okay, Pent thread is now up and submitted team registration for this year.

[Captainmarino]

6 hours ago, Ithanul said:

Thanks for the heads up.  Last year was just a nutty year for me.

 

Update:  Okay, Pent thread is now up and submitted team registration for this year.

Awesome! I had a lot of fun last year for my first Pent. Looking forward to this year.

[Mxyzptlk]

Other then Einstein@home, what other BOINC projects use the GPU slot? I prefer to move over to a BOINC project that is more along the lines of cancer research like what World Community Grid is doing, but it seems like they only do CPU? Which is fine because I like to fold using BOINC over F@H due to the much better CPU control that BOINC offers.  But.... I'd like to make use of the GPU there, or I can just keep going like I am and run BOINC on the CPU and F@H on the GPU.

[Gorgon]

18 hours ago, Mxyzptlk said:

Other then Einstein@home, what other BOINC projects use the GPU slot? I prefer to move over to a BOINC project that is more along the lines of cancer research like what World Community Grid is doing, but it seems like they only do CPU? Which is fine because I like to fold using BOINC over F@H due to the much better CPU control that BOINC offers.  But.... I'd like to make use of the GPU there, or I can just keep going like I am and run BOINC on the CPU and F@H on the GPU.

World Community Grid has OpenPandemics GPU work units but they are few and far between.

[GOTSpectrum]

Upvote? Trying to spread the word of the upcoming BOINC event with prizes up for grabs https://www.reddit.com/r/LinusTechTips/comments/136d794/event_on_the_forum_with_prizes/

[Bob__]

How can I check my Bionic stats? I'm almost at the first badge

[Lightwreather]

1 hour ago, Bob__ said:

How can I check my Bionic stats? I'm almost at the first badge

https://www.boincstats.com

Search for your username with the search box in the upper left.

[Bob__]

45 minutes ago, Lightwreather JfromN said:

https://www.boincstats.com

Search for your username with the search box in the upper left.

random question but how do you get that gold with so little posts, most of the people that I have seen with it have like 10k+ posts

and also didn't work

 

would this be good enough for credits?

[Lightwreather]

8 hours ago, Bob__ said:

random question but how do you get that gold with so little posts, most of the people that I have seen with it have like 10k+ posts

and also didn't work

Well, uh, it's a paid subscription to the forum…

Also, what's your BOINC username?

[Bob__]

6 hours ago, Lightwreather JfromN said:

Well, uh, it's a paid subscription to the forum…

Also, what's your BOINC username?

Oh ok I had no idea

My Bionic username is Bob__ as far as I know but it says there is no account with Bob__ as the username