Your bet is correct mac1. Got home only 1 hour after landing in Santa Cruz, all bags intact and unmolested by customs. Temperature here this morning is 32 at 10:15 am



We have a dedicated WCG Team UK page on Facebook that I administer. If you wish to join then you MUST send me your WCG alias along with your request so that I know that only Team UK members are part of this closed group. Without exception all Team UK members will be allowed to join. Just keeping things tidy!

PS on this matter I have a request from Richard Drage but I don't know if he is a member of Team UK or not. If you are reading this Richard, send me your alias and I'll add you to the Facebook group.

The forum on WCG is pretty dreadful, mac1, but I guess it's not their priority. I offered to put up an alternative Team UK bulletin board a couple of years ago before I did the stats site, but there wasn't any interest sadly.

Morning All,
That PC I strangled with a weeks worth of FAH WU's has finally churned them out. Each one stated it would take 57mins to complete but actually took 5hours, at least now it can get back to a steadier output. It looks like recent FAH WU's are behaving better (3hrs quoted, 4 hours elapsed).

That PC is an i7 3770 so isn't too shabby but I have to say my recently quietened server (from 2009) is beating it with a pair of Xeon 5420L's, each node is getting ~50k points/day. I don't think I could cope with it in the summer though my study is 25deg with the door open

Statistics Date 		Total Run Time
(y:d:h:m:s) 		Points Generated 		Results Returned
01/30/2017 		0:008:00:52:44 		25,168 		76
01/29/2017 		0:007:17:00:26 		15,099 		44
01/28/2017 		0:006:16:19:21 		17,964 		35
01/27/2017 		0:008:01:29:12 		17,087 		45
01/26/2017 		0:000:17:17:48 		2,876 		11
01/25/2017 		0:007:10:09:30 		15,269 		46
01/24/2017 		0:007:09:33:17 		15,895 		43
01/23/2017 		0:007:19:31:59 		13,737 		49
01/22/2017 		0:008:00:14:03 		43,907 		318
01/21/2017 		0:009:09:14:42 		38,419 		346
01/20/2017 		0:009:01:27:46 		31,163 		306
01/19/2017 		0:008:14:53:49 		39,108 		431
01/18/2017 		0:009:19:49:16 		33,052 		298
01/17/2017 		0:009:09:11:34 		39,871 		302

Here's that PC - the text pastes ok actually, when it's set to 'code' it retains the spacing. Ignore the 26th that was me.

cheers,

So how have you quietened your server, mac1? I got an i5-6600 (with a four disk raid array) and an i7-6700, in a 1.8m square "micro-study", and they're pretty much inaudible even when flat out on WCG. Enormous heatsinks though .

Nice Dave, bet the 6th gen are efficient, my 5420's aren't even 1st gen it was a 2U rack server (Dell C6100) in it's former life, I've taken the four motherboards out and stacked them up they're about 16cm wide and 40cm long each, the heatsinks are tiny (~30mm height). I've put them all in an Aerocool Dreambox case (you can literally make any shape from that), mounted a 20cm fan on the front and another on the back and threw the 4x 80mm fans in the bin. Next up was the two power supplies, each had 2x 38mm screaming high pressure fans - totally unneccessary now they have a 140mm fan. It was 75db with all 8 cpu's on 100% it's now down to 46db under the same conditions, which is fine. The 12 disk back pane I've just mounted on the top of the motherboards and it aint pretty... but functional. My flat is heated with electric panel heaters which is a complete waste, this is a far more fun way of generating heat - 600w worth.
It could be water cooled or maybe eight heat pipe tower heatsinks but the box was only £250 on ebay 3 years ago so isn't about to get a luxury makeover