More fuel for the fire in the credits/gflop calculation thread. Now there is an official SETI calculation right on the front page. I wonder if the derived values hew to the original definition.

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Seti@Home classic workunits:20,676 CPU time:74,226 hours

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On my front page, the two figures are again in the exact ratio of 200::1 (give or take a few powers of 10).

As I posted in the Café thread-
They should now start paying out Credit according to the definition of a Cobblestone if they are going to use RAC to determine the amount of processing done in GFLOPs.

You've contributed about 65,122.16 credits per day (325.611 GFLOPS) to SETI@home recently. Thanks!

65122.16/200 = 325.6108
Round it to 3 decimal places = 325.611

And i'll say it again,
They should now start paying out Credit according to the definition of a Cobblestone if they are going to use RAC to determine the amount of processing done in GFLOPs.

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Grant
Darwin NT

Greetings,

Great News!!!

I watched a video where an i7 8086k was dropped into a Z370 chipset motherboard and the machine booted up into the UEFI BIOS and Windows 10 without a hitch. All I have to do now is wait for the email from Intel letting me know that I am one of the winners. ;)

Newegg has the CPU for sale for $424.00 US.

Siran

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Winders 11 OS? "What a piece of junk!" - L. Skywalker
"Logic is the cement of our civilization with which we ascend from chaos using reason as our guide." - T'Plana-hath

That is a 6 core and not the 28 that they demonstrated. They also failed to mention that they were using a chiller to drop the temperature far below what most people without a hefty bank account can do. Think Liquid Nitrogen cold. Most reviews are calling out Intel for this. Saying it's false advertisement.

Not that I wouldn't like 5.0 Ghz chip but would need more than 6 cores.

I'll wait and see how things develop.

Zalster

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The draw was on June 11th. For those interested:

Winners List: For the names of the winners, available after July 11, 2018, for a period of at least 30 days, email support@votigo.com with an email subject of “Intel 8086 Sweepstakes”.

Something to look forward to in the not too distant future.

Samsung did confirm that 8TB NF1 will employ a brand new high-performance controller that supports the NVM Express 1.3 protocol and PCI Express 4.0 standard. Therefore, the solid-state drive can deliver sequential read speeds of 3,100MB/s and write speeds of 2,000MB/s. It also offers 4KB random read performance up to 500,000 IOPS and 4KB write performance up to 50,000 IOPS.

Samsung Crams 8TB Into Its Next-Generation PCIe 4.0 SSD.

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Grant
Darwin NT

Something to look forward to in the not too distant future.

For those with very deep pockets.

SSD's are good but they have still got a long way to go before they can compete with HDD's on price for capacity and send the HDD the same way as the floppy.

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Kevin

Doesn't look like anybody here won one of those Intel CPUs.
The kitties didn't get an email either.
Oh well, it was a chance anyway.
Meowsigh.

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"Freedom is just Chaos, with better lighting." Alan Dean Foster

I didn't get an email either. Wouldn't have expected one from my past experiences with drawings and raffles. I'm a person who can't even win a door prize in a drawing that has guaranteed a prize for everyone entering.

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Seti@Home classic workunits:20,676 CPU time:74,226 hours

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AMD are offering the first 40 winners in the US to swap their Intel i7-8086 with an AMD epyc. See article here

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BOINC blog

A new Compute Stick from Intel.

The CS125 sports a quad-core Intel Atom X5-Z8300 processor clocked at 1.44GHz (burst up to 1.84GHz) and Intel HD graphics. It has 2GB DDR3L 1600MHz soldered down single-channel memory running Windows 10. It is equipped with Bluetooth 4.0 and integrated 802.11ac. Surprisingly, even with all that hardware, Intel managed to pack in two USB ports (one 3.0, one 2.0).

The Compute Stick can plug into any monitor with an HDMI port, making it ideal for traveling or just plugging into a desktop monitor for a clutter-free workspace. It comes with either 32 or 64GB of onboard storage, but also has an SD slot for easy expansion.

I remember being impressed by the performance of the Core CPUs when they were first released (after being impressed by the 486compared to the 386), and this system that fits in the palm of you hand outperforms a desktop Core 2 Duo E4400 at 2GHz, using 10W or less (the E4400 alone used up to 65W).

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Grant
Darwin NT

A bit of computing history.

Seventy years ago was arguably the start of the modern computer age.
A machine that took up an entire room at a laboratory in Manchester University ran its first program at 11am on 21 June 1948.
The prototype completed the task in 52 minutes, having run through 3.5 million calculations.
The Manchester Baby, known formally as the Small-Scale Experimental Machine, was the world's first stored-program computer.

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Grant
Darwin NT

A bit of computing history.

Seventy years ago was arguably the start of the modern computer age.
A machine that took up an entire room at a laboratory in Manchester University ran its first program at 11am on 21 June 1948.
The prototype completed the task in 52 minutes, having run through 3.5 million calculations.
The Manchester Baby, known formally as the Small-Scale Experimental Machine, was the world's first stored-program computer.

The "Baby" was born a mere 3 months after I was, and a mere 2 miles away.. God, do *I* feel old ;-)

P.

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At least you a more working parts left than "Baby" :P

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At least you a more working parts left than "Baby" :P

That's debatable ;-)

P.

(time for my afternoon nap) ;-)

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Blast From the Past: BBC Releases Historical '80s Computing Literacy Project.

The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) is famous for its highly educational TV series. Back in the 1980s, the channel made a huge effort in exploring the computing world through the The Computer Literacy Project (CLP). In total, 146 CLP episodes were released, along with another 121 related episodes which have been broken down into 2,509 categorized, searchable clips. Some of those clips included interviews with major innovators, such as Microsoft's Bill Gates and Apple's Steve Wozniak. In an effort to encourage the young generation to delve more into computing, and especially programming, BBC has decided to release CLP's entire archive.

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Grant
Darwin NT

Graphics card prices expected to drop in July
Because crypto-currency demand has fallen dramatically, we should see 20% drop in new GPU retail prices. Could be more if the miners dump a lot of cards to the used market and the OEM's have to compete on price to clear excess inventory.

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Seti@Home classic workunits:20,676 CPU time:74,226 hours

A proud member of the OFA (Old Farts Association)

Graphics card prices expected to drop in July
Because crypto-currency demand has fallen dramatically, we should see 20% drop in new GPU retail prices. Could be more if the miners dump a lot of cards to the used market and the OEM's have to compete on price to clear excess inventory.

Fingers crossed.
Even if Nvidia do release their next series of video cards in the next few months (some are speculating maybe December, or not even until next year), I expect their prices will still be pretty high- RAM prices are still high, and the next series are meant to be using GDDR6 memory, so it will be even more expensive still.

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Grant
Darwin NT

A bit of computing history.

Seventy years ago was arguably the start of the modern computer age.
A machine that took up an entire room at a laboratory in Manchester University ran its first program at 11am on 21 June 1948.
The prototype completed the task in 52 minutes, having run through 3.5 million calculations.
The Manchester Baby, known formally as the Small-Scale Experimental Machine, was the world's first stored-program computer.

The "Baby" was born a mere 3 months after I was, and a mere 2 miles away.. God, do *I* feel old ;-)

P.

. . Look on the bright side, now I feel a little less old ...

Stephen

:)