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B-Roy
Cruncher Joined: Mar 5, 2020 Post Count: 1 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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I'd think it's not the "green transition", but the lack of gas storage in Europe after the covid-recovery, higher demand in Asia for LNG gas and a geopolitical play from Russia (no additional supply and they want the Nord Stream 2 pipeline to finally open). Add to this that electricity is often produced from gas and that prices are linked, you get higher prices before the winter. For the future, it is advisable to get fixed cost tariffs, if they are available. Regarding the "green transition", higher prices now should actually speak in favor of the transition, because a) high prices now are a certain act of sabotage by gas producers (see above) and b) green energy that can be locally produced would end these dependencies on politicallly motivated players.
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erich56
Senior Cruncher Austria Joined: Feb 24, 2007 Post Count: 295 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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For the future, it is advisable to get fixed cost tariffs, if they are available. I am sure that the gas/electricity suppliers will not offer such fixed cost tariffs in the near future. Here in Austria the situation is even such, that customers with fixed cost tariffs got their contracts terminated by the suppliers. Obviously, here the suppliers can do this in case of unforeseen major increases of world market prices :-( |
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biscotto
Cruncher Italy Joined: Apr 11, 2020 Post Count: 27 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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Hello, everyone,
----------------------------------------I know everyone is getting way less GPU tasks than they can crunch, but i'm receiving an incredibly low volume (maybe 2-3 a day, each taking 30min) in batches of 2 maximum. Is this normal for just one GPU? As i understand you have to be lucky and get updates in the time window the tasks are released, but is there a way i can increase my capacity (how many i hold until i complete them) or the update rate? And most importantly, is this (reasonably) frowned upon? Thank you for your time Papa Ryzen 5 3600 / Mama Radeon RX 560 |
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Acibant
Advanced Cruncher USA Joined: Apr 15, 2020 Post Count: 126 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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As i understand you have to be lucky and get updates in the time window the tasks are released, but is there a way i can increase my capacity (how many i hold until i complete them) or the update rate? And most importantly, is this (reasonably) frowned upon? You can run a scheduled task on Windows or a cron job on Linux to run "boinccmd --project www.worldcommunitygrid.org update" without the quotes and running from the directory where it's installed. After any update the client forces a backoff period of about 2 minutes and 30 seconds so you can't schedule it any more frequently than that.People could frown on it but I know people are doing it from them saying so in other threads. And I know others are doing it when they have several million points per day while having a runtime low enough that those points are not from CPU work. So while the load on the project servers would be lower if nobody did this, the reality is that you have to compete if you want the work units.  |
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robertmiles
Senior Cruncher US Joined: Apr 16, 2008 Post Count: 443 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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New targets to consider?
It’s time to fear the fungi https://arstechnica.com/science/2021/11/its-t...?utm_source=pocket-newtab |
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Cirian
Cruncher Joined: Dec 16, 2012 Post Count: 15 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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A month ago was the last time I received a GPU task :(
Considering the GPU crunching power is generally better than the CPU, why don't produce and release more GPU units? Wouldn't that be better for the project? |
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bluestang
Senior Cruncher USA Joined: Oct 1, 2010 Post Count: 272 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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A month ago was the last time I received a GPU task :( Considering the GPU crunching power is generally better than the CPU, why don't produce and release more GPU units? Wouldn't that be better for the project? Because they don't have enough resources to process the results if they release more. Maybe and hopefully that will change, but not right now it seems. |
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bluestang
Senior Cruncher USA Joined: Oct 1, 2010 Post Count: 272 Status: Offline Project Badges:
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Anyone else seeing a reduced intake of WUs over the past day (or so)?
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bluestang
Senior Cruncher USA Joined: Oct 1, 2010 Post Count: 272 Status: Offline Project Badges:
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It would nice if there was a "Server Status" page like most, if not all, other BOINC projects have where we can see things like this.
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El_Pinguino
Cruncher Joined: May 15, 2020 Post Count: 8 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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Yes, a server stats area would be nice. The work queue on my Ryzen 9 is generally full. But my little i3 with an Nvidia T600 has been low, but not empty, lately. The GPU has completed about 20 tasks in the last month.
What about Folding at Home? Are they lacking work units as well? Maybe I should repurpose the i3 to fah. |
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