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JPM Send message Joined: 5 Jun 05 Posts: 2 Credit: 31,567 RAC: 0 |
Thanks to the Gillard (and formerly Rudd) Government in Australia, I am signing off from ALL BOINC projects that I contribute to. My electricity bill has near doubled. |
kittyman Send message Joined: 9 Jul 00 Posts: 51468 Credit: 1,018,363,574 RAC: 1,004 |
Thanks to the Gillard (and formerly Rudd) Government in Australia, I am signing off from ALL BOINC projects that I contribute to. My electricity bill has near doubled. Well, I am sorry to see any Seti contributor go, but I understand your situation. If things change for you, hopefully you will find your way back some day. Best wishes regardless. "Freedom is just Chaos, with better lighting." Alan Dean Foster |
Qui-Gon Send message Joined: 15 May 99 Posts: 2940 Credit: 19,199,902 RAC: 11 |
I haven't been able to get any work for about a week now, since I don't leave my machines on 24/7 any more. Each time I've tried to get more work I get the message that there is no work available. It seems that if there are so many crunchers out there that the hoppers are mostly empty, then perhaps they don't need so many crunchers. I have scaled back to one machine most of the time and only occasionally do I get work for a second. I used to crunch seven computers. |
JPM Send message Joined: 5 Jun 05 Posts: 2 Credit: 31,567 RAC: 0 |
I will finish off the work units I have started but the machine that I have dedicated to crunching is an old proliant ml330 g3 server. Not much in the way of a GPU. |
dahls Send message Joined: 24 Oct 04 Posts: 135 Credit: 178,942,502 RAC: 217 |
I haven't been able to get any work for about a week now, since I don't leave my machines on 24/7 any more. Each time I've tried to get more work I get the message that there is no work available. It seems that if there are so many crunchers out there that the hoppers are mostly empty, then perhaps they don't need so many crunchers. I have scaled back to one machine most of the time and only occasionally do I get work for a second. I used to crunch seven computers. My linux servers is running 24/7 but has not been able to get any work for more than a week. I have considered signing off too, since it seems like linux and BOINC does not work very well for the time being. |
James Butler Send message Joined: 26 Jul 11 Posts: 139 Credit: 6,266 RAC: 0 |
i find it easier and cheaper to crunch using a laptop as they are cheaper on electricity |
Dave Send message Joined: 29 Mar 02 Posts: 778 Credit: 25,001,396 RAC: 0 |
But no chance of GPU throughput. |
ToxicTBag Send message Joined: 5 Feb 10 Posts: 101 Credit: 57,197,902 RAC: 0 |
Allways a shame to see a cruncher go, i hope one day your circumstances change and that we will see you active again Best Wishes :-( |
Mike Send message Joined: 17 Feb 01 Posts: 34249 Credit: 79,922,639 RAC: 80 |
I totally agre with you Toxic. Best wishes. With each crime and every kindness we birth our future. |
dahls Send message Joined: 24 Oct 04 Posts: 135 Credit: 178,942,502 RAC: 217 |
Allways a shame to see a cruncher go, i hope one day your circumstances change and that we will see you active again Yes it is. But when things does not work and there is no answer why it fails, the easiest way is just go do something else and forget about BOINC. My three windows workstation will continue to run as long as it works, but I'm not sure if I will use more time trying to get BOINC work properly under Linux. Most of my CPUs are running Linux. |
Dimly Lit Lightbulb 😀 Send message Joined: 30 Aug 08 Posts: 15399 Credit: 7,423,413 RAC: 1 |
Thanks to the Gillard (and formerly Rudd) Government in Australia, I am signing off from ALL BOINC projects that I contribute to. My electricity bill has near doubled. I hope that one day circumstances will allow you to return to the crunching world, in the meantime, best wishes. |
BMH Send message Joined: 27 May 99 Posts: 419 Credit: 166,294,083 RAC: 125 |
Regarding those that are struggling for WUs... I have two boxes that are only on for 12-15 hrs a day that haven't been out of work for over a month when I set them up, compared to a couple of others that are on 24/7 that are struggling to keep the 'hoppers full'. I can't understand the logic - some machines just seem to go through rough patches. Brian. |
.clair. Send message Joined: 4 Nov 04 Posts: 1300 Credit: 55,390,408 RAC: 69 |
Somebody told me that Nvidia sell external boxes that take up to 4 full size graphic cards. If true, I wonder if ATI will follow suit. google for - PCI Express: Expansion Backplanes or words to that affect :¬) As an example have a look at this lot http://www.cyclone.com/products/expansion_backplanes/index.php BUT they cost a bit . . . . :¬( |
The Gas Giant Send message Joined: 22 Nov 01 Posts: 1904 Credit: 2,646,654 RAC: 0 |
Thanks to the Gillard (and formerly Rudd) Government in Australia, I am signing off from ALL BOINC projects that I contribute to. My electricity bill has near doubled. You do realise the carbon tax isn't in place yet and any elec price increases are purely due to price gouging by the suppliers. |
Bob Harris Send message Joined: 3 May 11 Posts: 112 Credit: 5,262,115 RAC: 0 |
Regarding those that are struggling for WUs... I have two boxes that are only on for 12-15 hrs a day that haven't been out of work for over a month when I set them up, compared to a couple of others that are on 24/7 that are struggling to keep the 'hoppers full'. I can't understand the logic - some machines just seem to go through rough patches. Hi BMH (& fellow GPUUG buddy) My main rig hasn't recieved anything today, and has had barely any WU's over the past few days. Yet my other, less capable rigs have been getting more than enough, which is irritating because it's my main rig that needs the work to keep up RAC figures. It doesn't make sense to me... I can empathise with others on this thread, giving up.... It does look like there's now more crunchers, than there is work units... so maybe SETI is at max capacity now and doesn't need more crunchers...??? Just a thought.. Bob Crunching to find ET. Crunching to find cures for Cancer and other nasty diseases |
dcappello Send message Joined: 3 Apr 99 Posts: 261 Credit: 170,969,320 RAC: 0 |
Chris, Do you know anybody that has build a rig using expansion backplanes and is crunching 7X24 ? I am interested and intrigued to say the least - looking at my RAC you will know why I just couldn't keep things cool this summer here in Dallas with 25+ days over 100F. Thinking to unloading some machines and going this expansion route. Comments most welcome. JPM - sorry to see you bail - I hope you'll come back someday. |
Carlos Send message Joined: 9 Jun 99 Posts: 29718 Credit: 57,275,487 RAC: 157 |
JPM, you can still crunch. The idea behind S@H was to use spare cycles. That means running in the background when your computer is on but idle. For example when you go grab lunch or a cup of coffee. If you use the program as originally envisioned then you can still crunch and only burn the electricity that your computer will burn anyway. |
BMH Send message Joined: 27 May 99 Posts: 419 Credit: 166,294,083 RAC: 125 |
JPM, you can still crunch. The idea behind S@H was to use spare cycles. That means running in the background when your computer is on but idle. For example when you go grab lunch or a cup of coffee. If you use the program as originally envisioned then you can still crunch and only burn the electricity that your computer will burn anyway. I don't think it works like that any more. As soon as your computer becomes idle and BOINC starts crunching, it's going to use 100% of the CPU by default... in all honesty, if you wanted to save electricity you'd be better off letting a computer go to sleep or better still shut it down. Brian. |
perryjay Send message Joined: 20 Aug 02 Posts: 3377 Credit: 20,676,751 RAC: 0 |
I think Carlos meant let it run while you are using your computer and it will just use the cycles you aren't using and yes, if you aren't using any yourself it will use all 100% while it has a chance, like while you are at lunch but didn't turn your computer off. Once you are done with your computer for the day just shut it down. BOINC will adjust and just feed you the work you can get done running that way. PROUD MEMBER OF Team Starfire World BOINC |
JohnDK Send message Joined: 28 May 00 Posts: 1222 Credit: 451,243,443 RAC: 1,127 |
If the "only" reason for shutting down the computer(s) is be course of the heat, I down understand why not just throttle the CPU/GPU, then the PCs wont get too hot and your still crunching. |
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