TPU's WCG/BOINC Team

[ThE_MaD_ShOt]

Host names should be different.

Yeah they are

 

[Toothless]

While computer hardware is nice and all it should not be your priority. Get stable income so that you can find a place to rent and be your own man or to be able to pay the bills that you are currently being asked.

Make sure first that you can live hustle free not worrying if you will have electricity, food or wifi when you get home, that you can go out with friends and grab a beer coke (just realized you have to be 21 in the us ) not being ashamed that you can't afford one. Socializing and having friends is important and while i can write nice words here on the forum I can't be there when you are in real need, like a place to crash or dinner to share. They become even more important if you dont have a healthy relationship with your parents (this is a conclusion i jumped to by what you have been writing, sorry if i am mistaken). And remember always have some on the side for rainy days that should be enough for at least a months worth of rent, bills and food.When all that has been satisfied then you can go and buy stuff be it pc hardware, traveling around , snowboarding gear, car / bike or whatever is on your top priority list.

This is something I have learned by leaving my nest right after turning 19 (albeit my decision was supported by my family and we have a good relationship which has helped me thru some very difficult times). I have worked bunch of part time jobs from cleaning and working night shifts to chauffeuring ambassadors. Now 6 years later I have 2 stable part - time jobs (one of them is 90% night shift) that pay me enough to have a good life and I am but few months away of getting my master engineering degree and a proper paying job. Sorry for the long off topic but I felt the need to share this with a fellow TPU member that could end up in a similar situation

Well right now even without the job I can pay bills for two months anyway. My current job is four days a week, 8-10 hours per shift. We're usually working 9 hours and it's every week though sometimes we get a week off. It's weird.

As for other stuff, I mean not much I can do until I get something full time and I'm still job searching, just not when I'm at work or sleeping. I haven't been able to put in the PSU @R-T-B sold me yet because sleep and work. Tomorrow is my last night for the week so I can get stuff done this weekend.

I still want two 970s. c:

 

[peche]

i got this today !

Pretty excited that i can help from my office just doing nothing... just my computer work in the background!!
Thanks for let me in this pretty cool way to help !
Regards,

 

[FireFox]

Amazing 5 new members has joined the Team

 

[peche]

Amazing 5 new members has joined the Team

 

[FireFox]

Congrats @peche welcome on board.
Well done Bro..

 

[peche]

Congrats @peche welcome on board.
Well done Bro..

funny cause i can crunch just for help .. not interested on points and miles...chrunching for a while... for a little help tpo comunity,
the i7 870 that i have for everyday work its having pretty loads and high temps, so i would see if i can replaced the cooler for a bettrer one,

Thanks for cheering me up dude!
Regards,

 

[Bow]

Amazing 5 new members has joined the Team

 

[Arjai]

Currently Win7 is installing 130 Security Updates on Karen.

I have a few downloads of my own to do and She will be Crunching!!

Core 2 Duo, can't remember the series# or what she's clocked at. That will come later, Right now?

Relief. After a week of trying to boot This Old Comp, I was a bit burned. So, on with Karen, right?

Nope. So, after some non scientific research I figured I would start anew this afternoon.

I pulled the Optical Drive. Pulled another out of a project box. Stuffed in my Win7 disk, and BOOM!!!

It felt like the first good thing since I figured out how to get the P4 going, last week!

126 updates left to install... Never thought I'd be so happy looking at that!

Thanks to Dano, for the key.

 

[Arjai]

OK, updates done.
Security essentials...done
Chrome and synch...done
next steps: Malewarebytes, CCleaner, Glary and BOINC.

Should be crunching within an hour. Then, off to Walmart to get my Desk chair!!

Karen is now CRUNCHING!!!!

 

[krusha03]

OK, updates done.
Security essentials...done
Chrome and synch...done
next steps: Malewarebytes, CCleaner, Glary and BOINC.

Should be crunching within an hour. Then, off to Walmart to get my Desk chair!!

Karen is now CRUNCHING!!!!

GJ man, what cpu is it using?

 

[Caring1]

I'd increase the buffer if I was you, due to a planned outage on WCG servers on Saturday.
Having only a couple of tasks ready to start won't keep you busy for long.

 

[SirKeldon]

I'm throwing up a question, as I'm sure some of our experienced WCG members may be able to answer. When I first started with WCG/BOINC the project Help Conquer Cancer was able to do GPU work (maybe there were also others but I don't remember at the moment) .... now as far as I can see, the only profitable way to use the GPU is with F@H as I do time to time. Here's the question, do you know if any upcoming projects in WCG will have the ability to use the GPU again? It will be nice to dedicate a whole machine again just to crunch and not crunch/fold.

 

[ChristTheGreat]

Grabbing a Dell R310 server with a Xeon x3430, 4x 4gb samsung 1066 ECC, PERC S300 for.... 50$ xD

I might use for a short time, as these server are not silent and it's too big for my office at home. for the time, I might install linux and run BOINC. 4 more core for a short time, that'S more then nothing!

 

[manofthem]

I'm throwing up a question, as I'm sure some of our experienced WCG members may be able to answer. When I first started with WCG/BOINC the project Help Conquer Cancer was able to do GPU work (maybe there were also others but I don't remember at the moment) .... now as far as I can see, the only profitable way to use the GPU is with F@H as I do time to time. Here's the question, do you know if any upcoming projects in WCG will have the ability to use the GPU again? It will be nice to dedicate a whole machine again just to crunch and not crunch/fold.

So far HCC has been the only project to use GPU WUs, and there is nothing planned definitively in the future for more GPU work for WCG. It would be very nice though, as it's a great way to crunch out some work, and many team members have GPUs still laying around just in case...

 

[SirKeldon]

So far HCC has been the only project to use GPU WUs, and there is nothing planned definitively in the future for more GPU work for WCG. It would be very nice though, as it's a great way to crunch out some work, and many team members have GPUs still laying around just in case...

It was so nice to have GPU + CPU combining work for WUs, a lot of computational power in the same machine. Let's try to be optimistic and hope they release something nearby in the future, as they sure will benefit from those shaders working at 100%. Thanks for your quick reply @manofthem

At least we do have F@H which is a nice way to use our old cards, though that ... not too much juice from my old HD6850 and I don't want to burn my new GTX770 yet

 

[ChristTheGreat]

yes it would be nice.. my R9 290 is idling, I play only a few hours a week, and I could had my backup HD6850 to the work!

 

[BUCK NASTY]

yes it would be nice.. my R9 290 is idling, I play only a few hours a week, and I could had my backup HD6850 to the work!

Crank that card up in F@H and instantly be in for Pie!

 

[ChristTheGreat]

Crank that card up in F@H and instantly be in for Pie!

Could be a good solution.

It's possible to run WCG and F@H at the same time?

 

[manofthem]

It was so nice to have GPU + CPU combining work for WUs, a lot of computational power in the same machine.

Well that's still the case, but you have to split things up a bit between WCG and F@H now. As you said a few posts back, F@H is a great way to use the GPUs, and that's what a lot of us do too. So they can fold while the cpus crunch, snd it's all good, science is getting done

However since it's challenge time, it means that folding is temporarily on hold for now.

Could be a good solution.

It's possible to run WCG and F@H at the same time?

Absolutely. I crunch on 6 threads on my 4770k and fold on my 290s quite a bit. As I said, not right now though. Rule of thumb has been to leave a thread open per gpu folding

 

[BUCK NASTY]

Could be a good solution.

It's possible to run WCG and F@H at the same time?

Yes, they play well together. You may need to reserve a CPU core for F@H, but I'm not sure with AMD cards. @manofthem can answer for sure!

 

[ChristTheGreat]

ohh nice.

well I might look at this, running a little of that watercooled R9

 

[SirKeldon]

In my "Survivor" machine, HD6850 folds time to time while i'm constanly crunching and yes, they do behave well with each other. This last week i've been burning a lil bit my GTX770 also while crunching with the i5, very nice performance, the old 6850 not so much though

Talking about performance, I think I'm going to post something in F@H thread to get your help/advice @BUCK NASTY and @manofthem

 

[peche]

im not specting pie since im working only with one computer... but congrats to all pie eater here !
Regards,

 

[mjkmike]

Well right now even without the job I can pay bills for two months anyway. My current job is four days a week, 8-10 hours per shift. We're usually working 9 hours and it's every week though sometimes we get a week off. It's weird.

As for other stuff, I mean not much I can do until I get something full time and I'm still job searching, just not when I'm at work or sleeping. I haven't been able to put in the PSU @R-T-B sold me yet because sleep and work. Tomorrow is my last night for the week so I can get stuff done this weekend.

I still want two 970s. c:

Good to see you working. The more I work the less I worry about the small stuff in my life. I may be strange because I always need something to do might as get payed for it. PM if you need more help.