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AlanS
Advanced Cruncher England Joined: Feb 22, 2020 Post Count: 58 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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Hi Dave
----------------------------------------Thanks for the tip about the windows calibrator. I had no idea it was there. There is a lot of windows 10 I've just not discovered, just sticking to the stuff I've known since windows 95!  Thinks look quite a bit better now thanks.  |
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Darkmatter.NI
Veteran Cruncher Northern Ireland Joined: Jun 6, 2014 Post Count: 783 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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Hey unsmurf
----------------------------------------Congratulations. You're about to knock me out of the top 10 in team runtime. you are doing nearly double my average runtime. Have you upgraded recently?  |
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genhos
Veteran Cruncher UK Joined: Apr 26, 2009 Post Count: 1108 Status: Offline Project Badges:
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Hi AlanS,
----------------------------------------While it's good for the team points output, now that Tib Big D has got a gpu running at work he's storming away from you and is going to go absolutely rip past me in within the next month. |
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AlanS
Advanced Cruncher England Joined: Feb 22, 2020 Post Count: 58 Status: Offline Project Badges:
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And he still hasn't bought you one ? Shocking!
----------------------------------------I'm a relative newcomer here, having only started WCG when Seti@Home finished. But I have to leave PC on 24/7 because if I turn it off it's very hard to get it going again! Unfortunately I can't have anything like this running on my work laptop. But not doing bad, been on this team exactly a month and got nearly 70 days of run time. |
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dcrobinson
Veteran Cruncher UK Joined: Mar 10, 2009 Post Count: 1176 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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70 days run time in a month is pretty good AlanS. The best way of accumulating badges on the cheap is to buy something ridiculously low power and run it 24/7, because the badges are based on run time (which seems unfair to me, which is why my signatures are points-based). Find a low-spec NUC on eBay (or even a Raspberry Pi, which will only run OPN at the moment, but has four cores and costs about a tenner a year to run). You can also sign up to a year's free cloud computing from the likes of Amazon AWS, which is basically a free year of run time if you don't mind fiddling with Linux. It seems a bit "not in the spirit", but it is free.
----------------------------------------Congratulations Andy "mac1" on getting a billion team points!!!
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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Thanks DCR, I finally got there with a little boost from the GPU work.
---------------------------------------- Regarding run-time, yes to echo your thoughts even an old android quad core phone with a cracked screen sitting in a drawer somewhere could be a useful contributor for run-time, some phones will run without batteries but unfortunately most don't and those tend to eat them up pretty fast I found they tend to swell up within a year of beginning crunching but it's a good way for them to go rather than straight to the drawer/recycling options. Actually I did manage to trick one phone that there was a battery when there wasn't with a little resistor but it's a lot of fiddly faffing around.
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Andy Suffolk - UK |
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genhos
Veteran Cruncher UK Joined: Apr 26, 2009 Post Count: 1108 Status: Offline Project Badges:
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And he still hasn't bought you one ? Shocking! I know, I know. Going on the current points production and Dave stats Comparison page, I've got about 25 days before TBD goes past me and a little over a year before you do, Alan. So your production isn't half shabby at all. On the last 7 days points, TBD is 4th  while you are 14th and I'm 30th.Wow Mac1, a billion points   |
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unsmurf
Cruncher Joined: Mar 11, 2017 Post Count: 27 Status: Offline Project Badges:
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hey Darkmatter.NI, no upgrades here, last upgrade was ~a year ago. i think it might of been the gpu test they did which gave me a big boost as i had 2 machines running them but otherwise its my normal running across ~5 pc which is much reduced now everybody is working from home and most of the pc are switched off at the end of the day otherwise it would be 2-3 times more output. i am coming for your 5th spot in the points too :)
----------------------------------------congrats to all that have had badges and big milestones recently. |
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Darkmatter.NI
Veteran Cruncher Northern Ireland Joined: Jun 6, 2014 Post Count: 783 Status: Offline Project Badges:
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Hi Unsmurf
----------------------------------------A strong performance indeed, nice job. It's only going to take you 68 days to pass me in points! Nothing I can do right now to keep my place. Maybe in the future I can do an upgrade and give you more of a challenge. |
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AlanS
Advanced Cruncher England Joined: Feb 22, 2020 Post Count: 58 Status: Offline Project Badges:
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Seems there were a load of GPU tasks released over the weekend, my BOINC cache is full of them! Unfortunately my PC crashed and I lost the 30 day history in the BOINC manager so I can't see at a glance how its affecting my stats.
----------------------------------------Actually what is the score shown in the BOINC manager? It shows me about 2.1 million when my team contribution is over 6m and total to WCG is 14m according to the stats on the website. |
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