I think my electric bill went up $100 a month!

It does get addictive. Be careful, or you'll end up like me, burning 2000 kwh/mo. Yikes!

3*GTX1080 + 1*GTX1080Ti and CPU plus cooling equals about
3*140W+1*200W + 140W + MB + cooling = about 800W.

For SETI: 800W * 24h/d * 30d/mo * 1k/1000 = 576 kWh/mo for boinc. Approx 7000 kWh/y.

The whole house needs 20 000 kWh/y (Seti included) for heating, warm water and appliances. 63,5 deg North. No active cooling in the house. Any escaping heat is circulated back to the input air. The computer room is in the basement so summer heat is seldom a problem. The whole house electric bill is about €200/mo.

I'm considering going partly Solar + batteries.

Petri

I went solar last year. Best decision in regard to my electric bill...

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I think my electric bill went up $100 a month!

It does get addictive. Be careful, or you'll end up like me, burning 2000 kwh/mo. Yikes!

3*GTX1080 + 1*GTX1080Ti and CPU plus cooling equals about
3*140W+1*200W + 140W + MB + cooling = about 800W.

For SETI: 800W * 24h/d * 30d/mo * 1k/1000 = 576 kWh/mo for boinc. Approx 7000 kWh/y.

The whole house needs 20 000 kWh/y (Seti included) for heating, warm water and appliances. 63,5 deg North. No active cooling in the house. Any escaping heat is circulated back to the input air. The computer room is in the basement so summer heat is seldom a problem. The whole house electric bill is about €200/mo.

I'm considering going partly Solar + batteries.

Petri

I went solar last year. Best decision in regard to my electric bill...

I went solar in 2013. Added some more this past October for the third cruncher. Was net zero until the third cruncher. Added solar output hasn't had any effect yet as it was installed at the beginning of rainy season. Will take this years spring-summer season to see the effect for this year and if I am back to net zero for the year.

It is still questionable whether batteries are cost effective yet except for complete grid disconnect or very high electric rates or tiers.

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I went solar in 2013. Added some more this past October for the third cruncher. Was net zero until the third cruncher. Added solar output hasn't had any effect yet as it was installed at the beginning of rainy season. Will take this years spring-summer season to see the effect for this year and if I am back to net zero for the year.

It is still questionable whether batteries are cost effective yet except for complete grid disconnect or very high electric rates or tiers.

Haven 't done batteries, but have talked to a friend of mine as he is going to try it and see how it does with it. We have similar system (but I have a larger electrical requirement so I have more panels) Same installer and manufacturer.

ps...Had to start crunching Seti again as Keith was catching up to my overall credit ;)

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I wonder if it would be worth investing in 48V DC CPU power supplies. They are quite common in Telco's.

. . Well done Ghia, the first million is a big milestone, From the get go it took me over 4 years :)

Stephen

:)

I achieved a new GPU that does guppi HIP vlars in just over 103 seconds per task. An old 1080 needs 143+ seconds to that.
The user achievement is in the almost linear scaling of performance when going from 20 to 28 SMX units.

Petri

. . Shhhh! Or else everyone will be buying GTX1080ti GPUs LOL

Stephen

:)

WTG kittys, extra kibbles for you!

BOINCStats says I will have 840M in 26 years and 3 days!

Ohhh BIG Sigh :((

. . Agreed . . . . . one really BIG sigh ....

Stephen

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I think my electric bill went up $100 a month!

It does get addictive. Be careful, or you'll end up like me, burning 2000 kwh/mo. Yikes!

. . So far my usage is about 20+KwH per day or about 650KwH per month hence the $200/month bill.

. .Maybe I should take up golf instead, it might be cheaper :)

Stephen

:)

I think my electric bill went up $100 a month!

It does get addictive. Be careful, or you'll end up like me, burning 2000 kwh/mo. Yikes!

3*GTX1080 + 1*GTX1080Ti and CPU plus cooling equals about
3*140W+1*200W + 140W + MB + cooling = about 800W.

For SETI: 800W * 24h/d * 30d/mo * 1k/1000 = 576 kWh/mo for boinc. Approx 7000 kWh/y.

The whole house needs 20 000 kWh/y (Seti included) for heating, warm water and appliances. 63,5 deg North. No active cooling in the house. Any escaping heat is circulated back to the input air. The computer room is in the basement so summer heat is seldom a problem. The whole house electric bill is about €200/mo.

I'm considering going partly Solar + batteries.

Petri

. . That's impressive, your one rig has more than double the output of my 3 rigs and uses less power. I really need to get rid of the Pentium-D LOL.

. . I should probably consider going solar too. One thing we get a lot of here is sunshine :)

Stephen

:)

. . Shhhh! Or else everyone will be buying GTX1080ti GPUs LOL

Stephen

:)

S'ok! Just drives the prices on the used 980's I get even lower ...

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ps...Had to start crunching Seti again as Keith was catching up to my overall credit ;)

Ha Ha, LOL , Zalster. I saw that you had abandoned SETI for Einstein lately. Got to keep the pressure up on you, ya know?

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. . I should probably consider going solar too. One thing we get a lot of here is sunshine :)

Stephen

:)

You really should. I use PVOutput.org as my solar monitoring website. Based in Australia. Most comprehensive utility to see exactly what you produce and consume. Absolutely light years ahead of the simple websites that the panel manufacturers or installers offer up as far as the depth of information available. Take a look at the regional graph to see what I mean about Australia being a hot-bed of solar production.

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S'ok! Just drives the prices on the used 980's I get even lower ...

Yea I know, I keep watching prices and the 1070s haven't come down to the price they were at boxing day.
I have my eye on 1 or 2 - 980 Ti's

10 Million Cobblestones for SETI@home.

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Congrats! That's a major milestone.

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Just passed the 1 million mark!

Just passed the 1 million mark!

Congrats! Pretty decent for a first month of operation.

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Thank you, I'm happy to be crunching again after a brief 10+ year respite! Now, the challenge is optimization.... but that's the fun part, right?!

. . I should probably consider going solar too. One thing we get a lot of here is sunshine :)

Stephen

:)

You really should. I use PVOutput.org as my solar monitoring website. Based in Australia. Most comprehensive utility to see exactly what you produce and consume. Absolutely light years ahead of the simple websites that the panel manufacturers or installers offer up as far as the depth of information available. Take a look at the regional graph to see what I mean about Australia being a hot-bed of solar production.

Interesting. I installed a 6.5kw system in 2013, and last fall added another 4.5kw, and I still have a (albeit significantly smaller) electric bill. Of course, it's not nearly as sunny way up north here in MN as it is down in the land of OZ, what with that pesky white stuff in the winter to contend with as well, but overall, it now almost has me at net 0, give or take, depending on the weather. Here is my report that I received from Enphase, their reporting is using a program called Enlighten:

Week                                         Peak Power                     Energy Produced
03/01/2017 - 03/07/2017                       12.4 kW                           339 kWh
03/08/2017 - 03/14/2017                       12.7 kW                           352 kWh
03/15/2017 - 03/21/2017                       12.8 kW                           390 kWh
03/22/2017 - 03/28/2017                       12.6 kW                           294 kWh
03/29/2017 - 03/31/2017                       12.8 kW                           105 kWh
March 2017 Total:                                                              1.48 MWh

Seeing all this talk about Petri's special sauce, I am tempted to convert one or 2 of my rigs to Linux, but it and I have a long, contemptous relationship, and aren't on speaking terms right now. I've been so spoiled with Windoze, what with updates, both OS and drivers, just working, without any tomfoolery and wrestling to get them downloaded and installed like I had with Lunix, that I find it hard to expend the energy right now trying to give it another go. Maybe one of these days, because the results are so dang impressive! Pretty much one machine putting out 3/4 as much as 4 of mine combined, and I don't even want to _think_ of the energy comsumption differential between my systems and his. :-O

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Hi Al, that is an impressive peak power. I have ostensibly a 11.263 kW system. But it is comprised of my first 8.3 kW ground mount array with string inverters and the second system of 2.9 kW using microinverters. And the two disparate systems don't talk to each other. The second system is Sunpower comprised and they have no method of exporting data externally unfortunately. So all of my generation data is coming off the SMA ground mount array exported to PVOutput.org. So the latest addition is invisible as far as generation but I do see its affect on my consumption because I have generation/consumption monitoring at the Smart meter. If I had to guess, my total peak would be in the 10kW range. It has been not all that sunny here in Northern California where we seem to be making up for the past 4 years of drought. Been exporting power to the grid for the past week mostly with a break in the weather. Looks like we are going into probably the last of the winter/spring rainfall cycles at the end of this week. Our rainy season is pretty much at its end. Won't really know where I stand as far as net power usage until the anniversary date of late October for the latest addition.

I did a brief fling with Ubuntu for about a year a while ago and it seemed to handle stock BOINC relatively easily. I have been a bit reticent attempting Linux again with my monitoring of the threads related to Petri's special sauce Linux CUDA release.

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