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mac1
Senior Cruncher United Kingdom Joined: Mar 30, 2014 Post Count: 263 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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DC, your stats just jumped up massively, did you buy the new CPU?
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dcrobinson
Veteran Cruncher UK Joined: Mar 10, 2009 Post Count: 1176 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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DC, your stats just jumped up massively, did you buy the new CPU? Ha ha. Well spotted Andy. No, no yet. I've done the research and will be putting the order in tomorrow night I hope. No, I just deployed another £40 of Azure credit I happen to have spare (which is good for a couple of very slow cores 24/7), and switched on a Docker container with six i7-8700 cores on my work PC (which I'm not really allowed to do, but I was feeling a bit miserable on Friday so I thought **** it). The 6 cores will be turned off shortly, because whilst it runs silently, when I start compiling the fans then tend to kick in and draw attention to my wrong doings!!!
Dave Robinson, Malvern, UK
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Distemper
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Ahhh I almost forgot about Azure free credit, I've been using GCP so far on both my personal Google account and work... time to turn on some more I guess
----------------------------------------GCP offers the pre-emptible instances which significantly reduce cost with the downside that you have to turn them back on every day... do Azure offer anything similar? Edit: OK nevermind... apparently I'm not eligible for a free account on either my work or personal Microsoft accounts, better luck next time :)
Harry
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dcrobinson
Veteran Cruncher UK Joined: Mar 10, 2009 Post Count: 1176 Status: Offline Project Badges:
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Ahhh I almost forgot about Azure free credit, I've been using GCP so far on both my personal Google account and work... time to turn on some more I guess GCP offers the pre-emptible instances which significantly reduce cost with the downside that you have to turn them back on every day... do Azure offer anything similar? Edit: OK nevermind... apparently I'm not eligible for a free account on either my work or personal Microsoft accounts, better luck next time :) Thanks for reminding me about that. Google Cloud Platform gives you $300 of free credit on the trial. I shall consume that at the first available opportunity  .I used my free year of AWS a long time ago, and I get Azure credits thanks to my job.
Dave Robinson, Malvern, UK
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Distemper
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I was poking around some documentation for stuff at work and I was reminded of IBM Cloud and Alibaba, both of which offer their own free credits...
----------------------------------------I'm gonna give them a try tonight when I get back home and see if they're viable for crunching on and report back here. In the meantime, if anyone is curious about trying out a cloud service for themselves (its initially free(!) but may require inputting card details, but these are trustworthy companies), but isn't sure how to do it or is not confident enough with the command line setup, etc., I'd love to help and I'm sure other people would be too. Just give me a shout. I would imagine most of us are comfortable given people running BOINC tend to be techies but just throwing it out there in case someone out there isn't :)
Harry
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Distemper
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Well IBM Cloud didn't work out exactly as planned.
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Harry
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dcrobinson
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Well IBM Cloud didn't work out exactly as planned. When you guys spin up a cloud VM for these kind of purposes what percentage of CPU time do you allocate out of curiosity? I'm guessing they don't like 100% work loads? With Azure, I just let it run at 100%, but some cloud providers are wise to this and throttle. Azure doesn't even include BOINC in their version of the Ubuntu repositories (you can easily get round that) and there are rules against crypto currency mining. I also think it depends on what size/configuration of VM you configure.
Dave Robinson, Malvern, UK
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dcrobinson
Veteran Cruncher UK Joined: Mar 10, 2009 Post Count: 1176 Status: Offline Project Badges:
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I think we're running out of Team Challenges, Captain Crookes
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Dave Robinson, Malvern, UK
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mac1
Senior Cruncher United Kingdom Joined: Mar 30, 2014 Post Count: 263 Status: Offline Project Badges:
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Yay team UK back up to 42nd in the run-time.
----------------------------------------"Run time rank up 1 today" I came back on Saturday thankfully without any flu symptoms. Crunching on all machines again now. Anyone got any big build plans for this year?
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Andy Suffolk - UK |
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dcrobinson
Veteran Cruncher UK Joined: Mar 10, 2009 Post Count: 1176 Status: Offline Project Badges:
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My Ryzen 9 3900X is now up and running. Just not sure if I can afford the 80p/day in electricity
----------------------------------------. When I've finished fettling the BIOS I might run it for a week to see how far up the team leaderboard I can get. I reckon 3rd place.
Dave Robinson, Malvern, UK
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