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Dataman
Ace Cruncher Joined: Nov 16, 2004 Post Count: 4865 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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Whats left? Some old servers mainly, about 5 or 6. My core2 duo laptop which still runs fine. A 386 which still runs very well. The I7 Lenovo on which I am typing this (my main house machine).An all in one Gateway I use to back up the 386. My 4 core HP AMD Phenom(tm) 9150e Quad-Core which I just recently retired from crunching. My 6600 quad, 2600K machine and a Dell T7400 with twin Xeon 5410's. Plus the 3 servers I have running in the shed. There are also 3 laptops, none of which are currently running because they are just because I haven't gotten around to trying to run them. One of them is an old 286 laptop. There is also a couple of older 386's with no hard drives in them which I may just get working. I have 2 Pentium systems I use to test hard drives. And last but not least a working IBM XT with a 10 meg hard drive. It still worked the last time I fired it up, but that was a couple of years ago. I think that is it. My wife still thinks I have too many computers around. Cheers Karen would like your wife as she feels the same. As a surprise, she bought an i7 8700K with a RTX2080 in it for me (I was so stunned I thought she would have to dial 911. LOL) and immediately asked how many computers it would replace. "Replace?", I said. Actually, I have decommissioned all of the 8 thread servers and am down to 3 x Threadrippers, 6 x i7 8700's and 14 x RPi's. Fortunately, I have a huge parts closet where I can stash the old ones. It makes her happy when they "disappear" from the racks.  I am not running much now as it is Summer, hot and our electrical grid is in shambles due to bankruptcies and greed (mostly greed!). Cheers!   |
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Sgt.Joe
Ace Cruncher USA Joined: Jul 4, 2006 Post Count: 7846 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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Karen would like your wife as she feels the same. As a surprise, she bought an i7 8700K with a RTX2080 in it for me (I was so stunned I thought she would have to dial 911. LOL) and immediately asked how many computers it would replace. "Replace?", I said. I hope you thanked her appropriately. Does she ever peek into the "parts closet"? our electrical grid is in shambles due to bankruptcies and greed (mostly greed!). Must be PG&E. You can bet the executives are still getting paid, bankruptcy or no bankruptcy. Me, being the cynical person I sometimes am, wonders if they are also getting their bonuses for "outstanding" work. I am down to only one 8 thread server left, the other servers being 24 thread. I almost had a deal on a Dell 9000 with quad processors, but found out I don't have a circuit with enough juice to power it. I also looked at some blade servers, but I think they are also out of my league. Hope you get some cooling weather. Cheers
Sgt. Joe
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Dataman
Ace Cruncher Joined: Nov 16, 2004 Post Count: 4865 Status: Offline Project Badges:
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You hit the nail on the head. This is PG&E's second bankruptcy since 2000. First the bankruptcy court granted them $230 million in bonuses to "retain existing employees".
---------------------------------------- Then they were granted ~$450 million in emergency rate increases to improve infrastructure (that they neglected to do for decades). Now they are aggressively lobbying the court to set aside ~5.5 billion in litigation for blowing up 2 square blocks of Silicon Valley 3 years ago (aged natural gas line) and burning down a significant portion of Northern California and killing a couple of dozen people last year (aged electrical towers).We already pay over twice the average National rate for electricity. It is getting problematic to justify crunching in volume. Cheers!  PS: She NEVER comes in the server room except to bring me a steaming mug of caffeine. She is a wonderful person and I am a most fortunate man. [Edit 1 times, last edit by Dataman at Jul 22, 2019 1:47:02 PM] |
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Bearcat
Master Cruncher USA Joined: Jan 6, 2007 Post Count: 2803 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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Hopefully I get my dual hex back up before the snow comes along. Though you consolidated to dual processor systems Joe. If you want a dual core laptop to add to your hoard, you can have it. Mother in law asked me to get rid of it. No hyperthreading. Heck, at 1 time I had 3 dual systems, apple and windoze. Now just my hex gaming rig crunches.
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Sgt.Joe
Ace Cruncher USA Joined: Jul 4, 2006 Post Count: 7846 Status: Offline Project Badges:
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Hopefully I get my dual hex back up before the snow comes along. Though you consolidated to dual processor systems Joe. If you want a dual core laptop to add to your hoard, you can have it. Mother in law asked me to get rid of it. No hyperthreading. Heck, at 1 time I had 3 dual systems, apple and windoze. Now just my hex gaming rig crunches. I am heading into the direction of only having dual processor systems crunching, but I will keep the household computers going also. The household systems I only have crunching while I am at home, while the dual processor systems in the shed crunch 24/7. Let me ponder on the laptop for a little bit. I have to be pretty circumspect about bringing new systems into my stable at the moment. My wife is just getting used to having many fewer systems around so I need to be careful not to upset the applecart. I do appreciate the offer. (Edit) I currently have all my worthwhile machines crunching SCC as I would like to get to 100 years, I need about 25 more. It will be touch and go. (Edit2) Just did some back of the envelope figuring and unless the project goes until mid-December I will not make it. Just as well, but I will crunch it until it finishes. Cheers
Sgt. Joe
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Element6
Advanced Cruncher United States Joined: Nov 10, 2009 Post Count: 93 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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I finally got my Diamond badge for Open Zika!
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Sgt.Joe
Ace Cruncher USA Joined: Jul 4, 2006 Post Count: 7846 Status: Offline Project Badges:
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I finally got my Diamond badge for Open Zika! Congratulations. Keep up the good work. Crunch on. Cheers
Sgt. Joe
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Sgt.Joe
Ace Cruncher USA Joined: Jul 4, 2006 Post Count: 7846 Status: Offline Project Badges:
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I think on of my better crunchers has given up the ghost. It is a Dell T7400 with with 2 XEON 5410's which has crunched a little over 100,000 work units. I think the power supply may have gone bad. It will no longer boot at all. It tries to start and then dies after about 5 seconds. I may try to move the hard drive to another machine (it is one of the few machines which actually uses a hard drive rather than just a USB.) I got it used from a county auction a number of years ago. I am sure it cost way more in electricity than it cost to purchase. If I can replace it with another 24 thread or better machine I will do that. So, my numbers will be down for a bit until that gets replaced. I am sure that whatever I replace it with will be a more efficient user of electricity, and probably quite a bit quieter.
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Sgt. Joe
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Bearcat
Master Cruncher USA Joined: Jan 6, 2007 Post Count: 2803 Status: Offline Project Badges:
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My dual xeon system did the same thing. Been meaning to shut my main computer down ans swap PSU just to insure thats the issue before getting another one. But also thinking of getting a single cpu system thats more efficient to swap out. The new amd chips seem to be the ticket for high core count.
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Sgt.Joe
Ace Cruncher USA Joined: Jul 4, 2006 Post Count: 7846 Status: Offline Project Badges:
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Well I gave up on the dual XEON and took the hard drive out. I plugged the hard drive into an old Core2duo I had idle. It never missed a beat. I will run out the queue so no work units will be lost, but it will take some time as that machine is slower and it only does 2 units at a time instead of 8. Once the queue is empty, that machine will be shut down, as the cost of electricity for it does not justify the amount of work produced.
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Sgt. Joe
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