TPU's WCG/BOINC Team

[windwhirl]

I wonder how many people have continued folding after they get their next electric bill?? .....

Electricity isn't very expensive here for end consumers and with cool days finally approaching... honestly, I can use the extra heat

 

[phill]

Electricity isn't very expensive here for end consumers and with cool days finally approaching... honestly, I can use the extra heat

It's about 15p or so a unit here for the tariff I'm on, if I'm having to pay for it that is... Solar panels are lovely in the summer, shame then your combating the damn heat!!

 

[ChristTheGreat]

Electricity isn't very expensive here for end consumers and with cool days finally approaching... honestly, I can use the extra heat

Hehe here, its going to be hot. But electricity is not that expensive!


Installed boinc into a vm on my server, so no host crash anymore !
50% cpu usage of 6 core. That better than nothing!

 

[mstenholm]

Hehe here, its going to be hot. But electricity is not that expensive!


Installed boinc into a vm on my server, so no host crash anymore !
50% cpu usage of 6 core. That better than nothing!

Please there are Europeans paying plus 0.35 US$. Due to spring time I‘m below 45 kWh/day so that is virtually nothing .

 

[phill]

Please there are Europeans paying plus 0.35 US$. Due to spring time I‘m below 45 kWh/day so that is virtually nothing .

For the rough cost here of 15p a unit, that's roughly $0.18 US I don't know how you manage that amount of electric @mstenholm !!

 

[xvi]

..and here I was worried about my $0.10-0.12/kWh rates.

 

[phill]

..and here I was worried about my $0.10-0.12/kWh rates.

Oh I wish it was that cheap here.. I'd consider running one of the servers all the time if it was!!

 

[windwhirl]

Please there are Europeans paying plus 0.35 US$.

I sort of feel like any complaint I could have had about my AR$2.82 (US$0.04 official exchange rate)/kWh rate died on the spot after reading that

 

[phill]

Bloody hell!! I'd keep things on a load longer if that was the case and solar panels!! Wow @windwhirl !!

 

[Lorec]

Uh, I dunno the rates here tbh.
For my three rigs crunching I paid $160 last month

 

[Arjai]

This is my new build 2700.

Does it usually take this long to ramp up? I rechecked my settings at WCG, and everything seems normal there, no changes have been made in the last year. The CPU is running at 100%, the GPU is folding, no problem.

Everything appears normal but, my other 2700, is putting out 10,000 + PPD. This one is still only 3 thousand PPD after 5 days.

This is the 2700, first build:

This is the new 2700 build:

So, on 5/16, yesterday, the new one generated more points than the older one. Yet my total PPD have not reached what I was expecting, 30.000+.
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Not sure I have anything to worry about, I guess, but the average is wonky, because of the 5 day sample?

BTW, this is what it looks like, one of my best looking builds, by far. I think BitWit might even like this.

Crappy pic from my phone, but it is still nice to look at.

Looking at that photo it looks like I could re route the fan cables...

 

[thebluebumblebee]

Yet my total PPD have not reached what I was expecting, 30.000+.

We don't have any good PPD projects at this time.

 

[windwhirl]

Bloody hell!! I'd keep things on a load longer if that was the case and solar panels!! Wow @windwhirl !!

Eh, don't know about that. The upfront cost (measured in US dollars) for the consumer is lower, but it is balanced out by lower average wages compared to the US or the UK. And due to how the government messes everything up, I'm sort of expecting a drop in service quality in a couple years, specially since energy rates were frozen a year ago, when the exchange rate was somewhere around AR$40=USD1, while today it is around 70 for official exchange rate (plus 30% tax) and over 130 in the black market.

Besides, my rate is for residential users with less than 325 kWh consumption per month, plus a fixed charge of AR$75 (just a little over a dollar) and taxes (21% VAT and a few others). Go beyond that and the rate rises rather quickly.

We don't have any good PPD projects at this time.

Ah, here I was thinking that somehow I'd gotten lazy with WCG when I was looking at the stats

 

[phill]

Eh, don't know about that. The upfront cost (measured in US dollars) for the consumer is lower, but it is balanced out by lower average wages compared to the US or the UK. And due to how the government messes everything up, I'm sort of expecting a drop in service quality in a couple years, specially since energy rates were frozen a year ago, when the exchange rate was somewhere around AR$40=USD1, while today it is around 70 for official exchange rate (plus 30% tax) and over 130 in the black market.

Besides, my rate is for residential users with less than 325 kWh consumption per month, plus a fixed charge of AR$75 (just a little over a dollar) and taxes (21% VAT and a few others). Go beyond that and the rate rises rather quickly.

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Ah, here I was thinking that somehow I'd gotten lazy with WCG when I was looking at the stats

Never seen it being done that way @windwhirl ... that's an interesting way for sure... Have you ever gone into the higher tiers for consumption or have you always been able to keep it under wraps?

 

[windwhirl]

Never seen it being done that way @windwhirl ... that's an interesting way for sure... Have you ever gone into the higher tiers for consumption or have you always been able to keep it under wraps?

I think the most I have ever measured has been around 630 kWh bimonthly (usage here in Buenos Aires is measured once every two months), so just under the limit for my current rate, but the last two months of summer, which were the peak of the year, it was 430 kWh, so let's say around 215 kWh a month.

Frankly, it's been "under wraps", but mostly because hot water and central heating were either covered by the monthly building expenses (like the last couple of years), so I don't usually have to use the AC during winter nor do I need my own water heater, or because those two things (hot water and heat) would almost surely use gas, not electricity, so it wouldn't really change much. During summer I do use the AC, but simple things like keeping the shutters closed during the day help a lot to bring down the amount of time the AC is on (although there are days where the summer heat is still unbearable and I just leave the thing blasting cold air at full power for a long while).

And no matter how power-hungry the RX 580 can be, it can't match the power usage of an AC unit , so during winter my monthly electricity usage drops to around 160 kWh

 

[windwhirl]

WCG Planned Maintenance on June 4, 13:00 UTC

Planned Maintenance on Thursday, June 4, 2020 (Completed)

We are updating the operating system on our servers on Thursday, June 4, beginning at 13:00 UTC.

www.worldcommunitygrid.org

We will be applying an important operating system update to our servers on Thursday, June 4, beginning at 13:00 UTC. We anticipate that the work will take approximately four hours.
During some of this time, volunteers will not be able to upload or download new work, and the website will not be accessible.
Volunteers will not need to take any particular action, as your devices will automatically retry their connections after the maintenance work is completed.
We appreciate your patience and participation.

 

[phill]

Thanks for the info @windwhirl !! Many apologies I never replied to your last message

Did everyone get an email from me regarding the Captain of the WCG?

 

[HammerON]

Do you mean the one indicating that you are now our illustrious captain

Yep

 

[phill]

Do you mean the one indicating that you are now our illustrious captain

Yep

That'll be the one!! I just wanted to check in and make sure that was ok with everyone??

 

[HammerON]

I couldn't think of a better captain, sir!!!

 

[thebluebumblebee]

That'll be the one!! I just wanted to check in and make sure that was ok with everyone??

 

[windwhirl]

Thanks for the info @windwhirl !! Many apologies I never replied to your last message

Did everyone get an email from me regarding the Captain of the WCG?

Don't worry about it

Regarding that email... was it supposed to show up on the email address I registered with WCG? Because the only ones I have are monthly digests...

I'll have to check my settings in a while (I caught WCG in the middle of updating stats, so I can't do it now.)

BTW, congrats on becoming the new captain!

EDIT: I had Team E-mail disabled. I enabled it now.

 

[Peter1986C]

I knew you would be our new captain, after @Norton announced his "abdication".
Congrats, @phill with your new position.

 

[Lorec]

Congrats @phill

 

[stinger608]

Nope, I haven't received an email other than the one that Bill sent out.