Ferrari@home: 1976 308

"Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo" (rustyvandura)
07/14/2020 at 10:28 • Filed to: None

We jumped several positions overnight.

DISCUSSION (19)

QCGoose > Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo
07/14/2020 at 10:42

That has got to be one of the best profiles in automotive history. Absolutely a drop-dead gorgeous design and hard to believe it's getting close to half a century old!

Snuze: Needs another Swede > Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo
07/14/2020 at 10:49

I’m going to go ahead and claim credit for the bump!

I got one of my 2 workstations up last night and it’s going full bore now. Based on the initial WUs I received last night, the GTX 1650 should do around 300k PPD and th e P106 (basically a GTX 1050) should do about 200k PPD.

T he second workstation is being more problematic. Still having Linux issues. I also didn’t secure a second GTX 1650. So I’m still on the hunt for a video card, and I may end up nuking it and going back to Windows. But hopefully in the next 2 weeks I can get it up and folding.

Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo > QCGoose
07/14/2020 at 10:56

The ‘76 Lambo was nice also:

Kinja'd!!!

Which is ironic because 1976 was hardly a banner year for automobiles generally.

Kinja'd!!!

Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo > Snuze: Needs another Swede
07/14/2020 at 10:57

The 1060 makes me about 500k PPD and they’re down close to $100.

jminer > Snuze: Needs another Swede
07/14/2020 at 10:58

On linux the trick is usually the config file to make it work right.

Nicely done though with throwing some resources at our folding!

jminer > Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo
07/14/2020 at 11:01

Yeah we were at 311 when I went to bed - nicely done all!

Looking at the stats I’ll finally pass Eury the end of this week who succumbed to summer heat and solar power availability a while back. After that I will dial back my folding since we’re into the mid and high 90's of July here.

Full of the sound of the Gran Fury, signifying nothing. > Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo
07/14/2020 at 11:04

After several days offline I am back up and running on the primary system, and I’ll have to check the secondary machine to see if it’s running F@H. I restarted it the other day and may not have restarted folding .

I still need to open the primary computer up and swap a couple of cards; as soon as I fired it up the other day I was quickly reminded of why I didn’t put the 6-port SATA card right next to the primary GPU and its three fans - lots of grinding noises . I was also reminded that the fans on the CPU cooler are not screwing around and will take a chunk out of your fingertip when you try to slow it down manually for some testing.

Snuze: Needs another Swede > Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo
07/14/2020 at 11:09

Wow, that’s a lot more than I would have expected based on my P106 (basicall y a 1050). I put a bid in on a 1660 on eBay that ends tomorrow. If I don’t get it I’ll probably buy a 1060 instead . They are actually slightly cheaper than the 1660s.

Also, I am so lost regarding nVidia’ s nam ing structure vs. card performance.

Snuze: Needs another Swede > jminer
07/14/2020 at 11:10

Thanks, I’ll have to do a little more digging and check out the config. It’s weird because it worked once, then I had to reboot the computer, and now it will start but it won’t actually connect to F@H to download work units.

Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo > jminer
07/14/2020 at 14:04

We have several more teams we'll overtake before any of the threats catch up with us.

Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo > Full of the sound of the Gran Fury, signifying nothing.
07/14/2020 at 14:06

I want to install a second auxiliary fan on the back of the case hosting my 1080. All of the ventilation was static pressure.

Full of the sound of the Gran Fury, signifying nothing. > Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo
07/14/2020 at 16:29

I will admit to going a little fan crazy, but in a good way. I’m using an older Cooler Master Sniper case on my primary rig and it’s got plenty of room for fans, and pretty big ones at that, making it relatively quiet. There’s 140 mm fans on the top, bottom and front, all controlled via an on-board controller that also handles lighting on those (I tend to leave that off since I want my computer to be neither seen nor heard). I think there’d be one more if I had the side panel on. When I rebuilt it I put a 120mm fan on the back of the case, and there are two 120mm fans on the CPU cooler, drawing the air vertically right to that exhaust fan on the top. And then there’s a fan on the full-height hard drive cage holding 4 SSDs; the other four are cooled by the fan in the front of the case.

There might be issues with competing airflow directions, but I try to run it vertical and let the motherboard handle the rear fan and CPU fans, kind of like the convection cooling that Steve Jobs preferred, albeit fan assisted in my situation. It’s nice that modern systems actually monitor temps and only fire up fans when needed ; the power supply and GPUs only crank up the fans as necessary, and the 1080 even has light-up lettering that tells you when the fans are off. I’ve worked on enough computers back in the day that would get clogged up from dirt and debris which caused the CPU fan to stop turning and that would end up frying the chip. In an office, especially a dirty one like at an airport, this was all too common, and I had piles of dead Pentium IIIs laying around, discovered too late to have saved them.

It’s so funny to remember when CPUs didn’t have any cooling; I think my 486/DX2-66 was the first one I had that required it. Everything prior was just bare chips, not even any heatsinks. And I’ve built some systems that would scorch me in the summer and replaced a space heater in the winter (if I tried to run that system and a heater at the same time I’d trip the breaker). Those AMD X4 and X6 chips would suck up massive amounts of power and provide results that are not commensurate with their power consumption. Add in a four drive, 320GB RAID- 10 array and you’ve got the recipe for making the power company very happy.

Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo > Full of the sound of the Gran Fury, signifying nothing.
07/14/2020 at 16:43

The fan I already installed is 140mm and there was a spot for it. I’d like to add another that size, but I’m going to have to fabricate a special duct for it behind the case, which will be fun. It’s a fun thing to obsess about. (My first PC was a 486/33 with Windows 3.1

Full of the sound of the Gran Fury, signifying nothing. > Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo
07/14/2020 at 17:08

Hmm - now you’ve got me thinking of crazy things involving dryer ductwork and remote 120V fans...

I’ve been messing with computers since 1977, hanging out at Radio Shack when the first TRS-80 came out. Throughout the ‘80s I was a Commodore user, VIC-20 then 64, but bought my first real computer in 1991, mostly for flight simulation. It was a 386/33 and I even bought the 387 math co-proce ssor for the high-fidelity flight model on Falcon 3.0. I sucked at that game and actually preferred civilian flight simulation, Flight Assignment:ATP from subLogic being my favorite.

I have so many projects to do around the house and car, but despite having all the time in the world I never seem to get around to them. For the last several years I’ve been meaning to make a proper shifter bezel for my car, but I know that as soon as I do I’ll find the original. I’ve got the time, the tools and the parts, yet I haven’t done it. Same thing with the A/V setup in the living room - I said that I'd wire it all up once I finished rebuilding the cabinetry, which I did (finally - something got finished), but the components just sit there. Someone just needs to kick me in the ass and make me get to work...

Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo > Full of the sound of the Gran Fury, signifying nothing.
07/14/2020 at 17:14

Actually, it was a 486/DX33... And I remember talk of math coprocessors being already part of the 486 processor... All of it was meaningless to me and computers were entirely new to me... It had 4 megs of RAM, which I later upgraded to 8 megs, which helped a lot. The hard disk died and I bought a new one, 240 mb and $300. And a video card with 65,000 colors.

Speaking of projects, out to the driveway...

Full of the sound of the Gran Fury, signifying nothing. > Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo
07/14/2020 at 17:27

I probably still have the receipt for that computer - $1,830, with 4MB of RAM and an 80MB hard drive. Within weeks I was back at the store for a big 200MB drive, then 500MB. And then there were the video card upgrades.

There is one remnant of that system that I still use to this day. I had it built into a beautiful made-in-Germany NCR case, which looked so professional as compared to the usual cheap cases of the day. It used special screws, either JIS or Reed-Prince, and came with a special screwdriver. I still use it nearly 30 years later. I helped a friend build a system in one of those cases, and like me, he didn’t want to give it up when we had to make the migration to ATX.

I just checked and the store where I bought that computer is still in business! I stopped by one of their other locations when I was visiting home in 2017 and the owner still recognized me after all of these years.

Kinja'd!!!

Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo > Full of the sound of the Gran Fury, signifying nothing.
07/14/2020 at 17:31

I can relate to that account in its entirety.

QCGoose > Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo
07/14/2020 at 18:15

The Italians definitely knew how to make artwork on wheels!

Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo > QCGoose
07/14/2020 at 18:49

I would have to agree.