I think I can saphire in a day if the project will release enough work for me. The real question is, why are folks so overpowered. For me, it's a business that needs to have capacity available on demand. Seeing that capacity go unused is painful. I'd hate to see people upgrading their home rigs to get more points, when most of us can do just fine with an ATOM processor for our day-day uses.

Yesterday was a gold in a day with a runtime of 91 days.
I managed that only three times since crunching for WCG.
My average runtime went from around 40 at the start of 2010 to 85 three months later. The target is to reach by end April gold in a day in sustained mode. That will be the maximum I can get out of my system.

The absolute peak record runtime day stands at 150 days 22 hrs made on the 15th of March 2010.

If you have also particular peaks over your average keep us posted. It is very interesting to see the kind of peak individual variations we can get over the grid.

I see these peaks like Soliton Wavess for those who are familiar with physiscs, or also what is called Rogue Waves that appear in the oceans. These are unpredictable waves that appear from cahotic combinatorial behavior of sea waves. These solitary waves can be up to 30 meters high (appearing in relative calm sea so up to 1000% over average) and when they slam on ships, they can destroy or capsize and sink them. Larger ships will resist but can suffer big damage. For a long time their existence was a matter of discussion but now they are being tracked by satellites and have been proven not only to exist but some theories have appeared to explain how and where they can be produced.

We have a large pool of members at WCG with very unpredictable behavior. There are many many parameters in play and they all interfere. So we should have also these kinds of phenomena. After all WCG is a non linear physical dynamic system. Perfect for all type of cahotic phenomena.

The WCG Rogue Wave that slammed on me on the 15 of March 2010 was as follows:

Runtime 205% OA (Over Average of previous 7 days)
Points 229% OA
Returned Results 193% OA

But I have another Rogue Wave that slammed on the 22nd March 2010 where only the Returned results were affected.

Returned Results 222% OA

Again it can be explained as a conjunction of many very short CPU timed WU across the machines and simultaneous to the various projects, with a cumulation of PV being released all together. Any way it is not predictable even if it can be explained.

Anyway I love those Rogue Waves. Should have more coming

It's got nothing to do with money.
This is what we do and what we spend our money on.
Now when in the winters we lose power here and that happens at least once a winter I turn on the generator(5500w,30A) and run just my Sossaman machine..2-31w Yonah laptop cpus in a Intel server board..
Less than 100w draw at 100% load and $200.00 to build.
The perfect low power machine but computational power like 65% of a Q6600 quad.