Holy %#Ą*! - what just happened?

"Full of the sound of the Gran Fury, signifying nothing." (granfury)
04/16/2020 at 03:52 • Filed to: None

An hour ago I was just hoping to make it into six digits (I was at about 95K) and was ready to celebrate that achievement but daaaayum, that last bit of work I processed was a little more intense than I originally thought. I did add the passkey and finally got some work going on the GPU, which, being a 1080, is where I felt that this processing should have been going in the first place. I’m finally feeling like I’m joining the big leagues, relatively speaking, instead of slogging away on little tasks. Hopefully this is all my computer’s doing and not someone processing in my name...

Not unexpectedly, my electricity consumption has gone up a bit in the last few days, although not by as much as I was expecting. I wonder how much of this was the computers and how much was the heated mattress pad that I ran for quite some time the other day...

AndI found out one reason that Linus Tech Tips had so many people and getting great numbers. It seems that if you joined their team there was the possibility of winning a bunch of free items. Mostly Steam keys, but free is free, right?

DISCUSSION (5)

JMKarstetter > Full of the sound of the Gran Fury, signifying nothing.
04/16/2020 at 05:23

Awesome, you finally got one of the bigger workloads on your GPU. Those are the best!

Full of the sound of the Gran Fury, signifying nothing. > JMKarstetter
04/16/2020 at 05:44

That would be it. I think that last one was 166K, and I had a 70K job before that. I’ve been going through the logs and getting an understanding, sort of, of what’s going on and I can see my points/credits per job, amongst other things. In another hour or two I should be adding another 100K+ to my score.

In addition, I’ve got the W7000 in the Xeon cranking away as well. It’s obviously not as powerful as the 1080, but every little chunk counts. Since I currently have an 850W power supply in the i7 (with a 1000W unit on the shelf) I’m almost tempted to throw in another GPU. Before I got into this folding thing I was going to put in a GT730 4GB that I had laying around to drive some secondary displays, until I knocked a blade off of the fan; I need to dig through my parts piles to see what I can do to get it back amongst the living without having to buy a fan online somewhere. But now that I think about it, I’ve got a spare GTX 670 sitting here that could be tossed into that open slot. I think that this would be a more efficient use of electricity than throwing another computer online basically just to run the card. Yeah, another computer could add a few more points, but I don’t think that would be the best bang for the buck.

In addition, I’m now ranked! Woohoo!

chaozbandit > Full of the sound of the Gran Fury, signifying nothing.
04/16/2020 at 07:57

LTT has folding sprints as a way of charitable donation, all in good fun but the top 100 guys are fielding some serious hardware. A large majority of the almost 10K entrants we got were low producers by the end of it. Some fun stats videos to see how points production has exploded over the past few years.

TheRealBicycleBuck > Full of the sound of the Gran Fury, signifying nothing.
04/16/2020 at 09:23

That GPU really makes a difference. The linux VM I set up is running 4 cores of the Xeon at 100% and I put up a paltry 1,800 points for 12+ hours of work. The server has enough overhead to run at least two more VMs, so maybe I can get a small cluster set up today.

haveacarortwoorthree2 > Full of the sound of the Gran Fury, signifying nothing.
04/16/2020 at 10:48

I have no idea what you guys are doing, but congratulations.