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Super cooling next week in my neck of the woods.
-20F to -25F predicted for next week!
I've lived here all my life and still wonder....why
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Super cooling next week in my neck of the woods.
-20F to -25F predicted for next week!
I've lived here all my life and still wonder....why
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Super cooling next week in my neck of the woods.
-20F to -25F predicted for next week!
I've lived here all my life and still wonder....why
Better you than me. Stay safe and warm
Over -30c that is too much for my taste.
stay safe indeed!
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This morning in Babbitt, MN it was -38F with no wind. This is way northern MN.
At my house it was -15F with a wind chill of -32F. Right now at 2:08 PM it's warmed to a balmy 0F with a -14F wind chill.
Time to go ice fishing!
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This morning in Babbitt, MN it was -38F with no wind. This is way northern MN.
At my house it was -15F with a wind chill of -32F. Right now at 2:08 PM it's warmed to a balmy 0F with a -14F wind chill.
Time to go ice fishing!
Geez! So how does one cook an ice fish and are they good to eat? |
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This morning in Babbitt, MN it was -38F with no wind. This is way northern MN.
At my house it was -15F with a wind chill of -32F. Right now at 2:08 PM it's warmed to a balmy 0F with a -14F wind chill.
Time to go ice fishing!
Geez! So how does one cook an ice fish and are they good to eat?
If you eat them too fast you get brain freeze!! ;) |
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The local news around here is doing its usual thing of going absolutely berserk because it's been below zero (Centigrade) for a few nights in a row now, and in places we had 4 or 5 inches of snow settling. It's a bit pathetic really, even I can remember worse winters than that around here in the 80s, and older people keep saying how... you know, it was colder in great winter of '63 in the UK, and you'd still walk to school in your shorts, and you didn't even have any shoes in those days, or even a school to go to once you arrived there, etc.
A lot of schools around here closed last week for a couple of days because of the slight snow and cold, I don't know what they'd do if it went well into the -F readings. |
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If I had a choice of super hot (100F+) or super cold (-10F or colder) I would take the cold. You can always dress for the cold and be relitivley comfortable. You really can't dress to be cool when it's really hot. JMHO
We hardly ever have school cancelations for cold. Just 2 or 3 times when the govoner closed schools because it was so cold Twin Cities. I remember a lot of upset parents scrambling to find day care or having to take a sick day. Read the short article. It's pretty interesting.
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As I was driving to work this morning, my car indicated the exterior temperature as 79F. zing! :-)
Of course, it is supposed to rain this weekend. At that point, the lead story on all of the local TV news stations will be "STORMWATCH 2013! IT'S RAINING!", and there will be at least two "on location" reports from talking heads standing outside in the drizzle, as well as from the weather babe.
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@Gary - ummm, never mind :)
@Brink and red - was reading on yahoo where ya'll are really really cold. Hope you both have good heaters and stay warm. |
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Hi Gazzykins,
Where about are you located? We had about 6 inches of snow here in the Scottish Borders, nice for sledging and snowmen! It's gone a bit slushier today though....
- Iain
The local news around here is doing its usual thing of going absolutely berserk because it's been below zero (Centigrade) for a few nights in a row now, and in places we had 4 or 5 inches of snow settling. It's a bit pathetic really, even I can remember worse winters than that around here in the 80s, and older people keep saying how... you know, it was colder in great winter of '63 in the UK, and you'd still walk to school in your shorts, and you didn't even have any shoes in those days, or even a school to go to once you arrived there, etc.
A lot of schools around here closed last week for a couple of days because of the slight snow and cold, I don't know what they'd do if it went well into the -F readings.
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We had about 6 inches of snow here in the Scottish Borders, nice for sledging and snowmen! It's gone a bit slushier today though....
- Iain
Just had to look up the term sledging as I've never heard that before. I'm just guessing here that you are using it to refer to the gentlemanly sport of cricket :)
Sledging
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Sledging can mean:
Sledding or tobogganing
Sledging (cricket), verbal abuse or comments meant to intimidate or put off an opposing batsman in cricket.
Sledging (bodyboarding)
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http://news.yahoo.com/photos/chicago-firefighters-battle-flames-in-bitter-cold-slideshow/firefighters-spray-down-hot-spots-ice-covered-warehouse-photo-163128305.html
It was sad to see there was a fire but the picture seems to be a living example of the cold weather some of our team mates are living through. |
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Hi Gazzykins,
Where about are you located? We had about 6 inches of snow here in the Scottish Borders, nice for sledging and snowmen! It's gone a bit slushier today though....
Suffolk, so we usually get "no weather". I think South Wales>Midlands>Scotland got the best of it? I can't complain, at least we had a half decent amount of snow. I think it's going to pour down on Sunday here, and then freeze at night, so Look East will have plenty of cars in ditches to show in the morning. They're terrible, last week they showed loads of video clips taken by people with their mobiles, then put up the Email address "to send YOUR clips of the big freeze to", and immediately afterwards there was a report about an accident which closed with a policeman saying "The accident caused enough disruption on this carriageway, but believe it or not we had people on the other side of the reservation slowing down and even stopping to film it with their phones."
Brink - I've been to Minnesota, albeit when I was 11 or 12 and so more interested in Mario Kart on the SNES than anything else. My younger self did appreciate the superior arcades, though! |
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Brink - I've been to Minnesota, albeit when I was 11 or 12 and so more interested in Mario Kart on the SNES than anything else. My younger self did appreciate the superior arcades, though!
Kind of funny, I had to google SNES. I figure I have a few years on you in age. I played on the Intellivision when I was in my late teens then I stopped playing arcade games until my son bought a ps2 several years back. |
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Yeah I'm 30, so I missed out on the birth of video games as we know them. Funny that Mario Kart is still around on modern platforms, though. I inherited a Commodore 64 from my older brother, my dad got me a scrapped-but-working 286 from his work at some point, and I had a Mega Drive (Genesis) and then Snes. I don't really play games on the PC which confuses my parents when they come round and see boxes for graphics cards strewn all over the floor. They probably think I'm lying because I'm ashamed to admit it or something. I did play the Quake 3 demo in my late teens on the PC, I got it working on a friend's PC by WinZipping it across 14 floppies.
Heh, the computer nostalgia of other people is boring, isn't it... I'd never heard of the Intellivision though, at least as far as I can remember. It seems like the sort of thing I should have heard of. When UK-based people my age and a bit older talk about their first computers it's usually C64, ZX Spectrum, or an Atari of whatever flavour. |
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Heh, the computer nostalgia of other people is boring, isn't it... I'd never heard of the Intellivision though, at least as far as I can remember. It seems like the sort of thing I should have heard of. When UK-based people my age and a bit older talk about their first computers it's usually C64, ZX Spectrum, or an Atari of whatever flavour.
I got one of these when it was new: still works too. |
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Pong! Now that's cool! |
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Just now: in my town: snow is falling and sun is shining :)
I even record small video, since this is very unusual situation :)
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Here we go again. If we get over 7" we will break a record for the snowiest April.
Just got done with a 10" snow last Thursday! I may need to up my dosage...
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Sunny afternoon here under the porch @ 93F/34C with 8% RH and a gentle breeze. Tonight a low of 61F/16C.
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NOT cool for me come later this week. Temperature is supposed to rise 15F by the end of the week. It won't approach what TheDawgz deal with daily, but I don't have air conditioning. Bad timing in that I just took the bait announced on the main boards regarding "credit bonus", and grabbed a full (almost) load of SoB and GFN WR work units. They may be delayed somewhat if I have to shut down during the day due to ambient heat. On one SoB unit, I am Tarmo's wingman, and on another, I am Doug's, acting as tie-breaker for an "inconclusive"... I hope Doug wins!
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NOT cool for me come later this week. Temperature is supposed to rise 15F by the end of the week. It won't approach what TheDawgz deal with daily, but I don't have air conditioning. Bad timing in that I just took the bait announced on the main boards regarding "credit bonus", and grabbed a full (almost) load of SoB and GFN WR work units. They may be delayed somewhat if I have to shut down during the day due to ambient heat. On one SoB unit, I am Tarmo's wingman, and on another, I am Doug's, acting as tie-breaker for an "inconclusive"... I hope Doug wins!
Cheers,
--Gary
go and get you a hefty fan and circulate that air man!
I musta just skimmed the bonus thread cause I didn't know it was already in place.
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Hefty fan is "at the ready". I live only ~5 miles from the ocean, so 98% of the time a/c is not needed. For a few stretches each summer though... ugh.
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Hefty fan is "at the ready". I live only ~5 miles from the ocean, so 98% of the time a/c is not needed. For a few stretches each summer though... ugh.
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Starting to get a little toasty under the porch - predicting 116F / 46C for Friday and Saturday.
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Here is very pleasant 24°C ( after thunderstrom last night) , but last week was 37 °C ( and my I7) goes to 80°C :(
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ARRGH!! It got much hotter here today while I was at work than it was supposed to. The 2600K got so hot (according to the logs) that the CPU was throttling. In the past when I get close to that, I sometimes start getting errors (i.e. invalid work units). So I reluctantly aborted all 4 SoB's that I was running, trashing almost a day's worth of work on all 4 (with 2+ days to go). Set BOINC to only use 3 out of 4 cores and downloaded new work, and now temps are back down into the 70's. (C)
Rats, indeed. At least the new work should run really fast with a core open.
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ARRGH!! It got much hotter here today while I was at work than it was supposed to. The 2600K got so hot (according to the logs) that the CPU was throttling. In the past when I get close to that, I sometimes start getting errors (i.e. invalid work units). So I reluctantly aborted all 4 SoB's that I was running, trashing almost a day's worth of work on all 4 (with 2+ days to go). Set BOINC to only use 3 out of 4 cores and downloaded new work, and now temps are back down into the 70's. (C)
Rats, indeed. At least the new work should run really fast with a core open.
The other box seems fine.
Glad it didn't burn up. Sounds like your fan should be in use already LOL
Or maybe you could by a cheap refrigerator and stack your systems inside. That would really run up the electricity bill. |
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This is rough. At least today the CPU temperatures are okay, despite ambient being even warmer than yesterday. Today's issue was that one of the GFN WR units got a "no heartbeat from core boinc client for 30 seconds" (or something like that) message, and quit. I didn't notice this until I got home from work; it seems to have restarted (after a suspend/resume) okay but that 570 sat idle for the better part of a day. Sheesh. What next, locusts?
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This is rough. At least today the CPU temperatures are okay, despite ambient being even warmer than yesterday. Today's issue was that one of the GFN WR units got a "no heartbeat from core boinc client for 30 seconds" (or something like that) message, and quit. I didn't notice this until I got home from work; it seems to have restarted (after a suspend/resume) okay but that 570 sat idle for the better part of a day. Sheesh. What next, locusts?
--Gary
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A great day to stay in the shade under the porch!
Predicting 118F / 48C, Sunny (like that's a surprise) and RH of 13% (it's a dry heat - don't ya know) for Today and Saturday.
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Partly cloudy, 74F and breezy. (heat index of 72F) ;-)
Windows open and computers going full-boar!
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HOT here as well - 100F for the next 5 days. The good news is, we got that SoB :)
...Doug
NOT cool for me come later this week. Temperature is supposed to rise 15F by the end of the week. It won't approach what TheDawgz deal with daily, but I don't have air conditioning. Bad timing in that I just took the bait announced on the main boards regarding "credit bonus", and grabbed a full (almost) load of SoB and GFN WR work units. They may be delayed somewhat if I have to shut down during the day due to ambient heat. On one SoB unit, I am Tarmo's wingman, and on another, I am Doug's, acting as tie-breaker for an "inconclusive"... I hope Doug wins!
Cheers,
--Gary
go and get you a hefty fan and circulate that air man!
I musta just skimmed the bonus thread cause I didn't know it was already in place.
*no air conditioning aye?
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HOT here as well - 100F for the next 5 days. The good news is, we got that SoB :)
...Doug
Yep, I saw that. Good work, and stay cool...
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A quick search didn't remind me of where at least two people had posted about MSI Twin Frozr 580s having fan failures (I think Tarmo repaired one?).. but I just heard a grating noise from mine before it spat out this at my ankle:
It's obviously part of a fan blade, but I'm going to have to yank it out and see exactly what the damage is now, aren't I... |
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A quick search didn't remind me of where at least two people had posted about MSI Twin Frozr 580s having fan failures (I think Tarmo repaired one?).. but I just heard a grating noise from mine before it spat out this at my ankle:
It's obviously part of a fan blade, but I'm going to have to yank it out and see exactly what the damage is now, aren't I...
I'm the other one and Gary was too. However I am still looking for any website or company that will reburb a 570 if there are such folks. |
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A quick search didn't remind me of where at least two people had posted about MSI Twin Frozr 580s having fan failures (I think Tarmo repaired one?).. but I just heard a grating noise from mine before it spat out this at my ankle:
It's obviously part of a fan blade, but I'm going to have to yank it out and see exactly what the damage is now, aren't I...
I'm the other one and Gary was too. However I am still looking for any website or company that will reburb a 570 if there are such folks.
My AMD Radeon HD 4650 tried to crack its fan in half. I heard it starting to wobble, and glued/melted it back together. That lasted for about six months. Now the card is "passively cooled," which means no crunching. Netflix HD makes it heat up to about 80°C. I've looked everywhere for a replacement fan, but no go. |
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It's that time again, -6F right now with a windchill of -16F. Parts of my state will have -50F windchill tonight.
Only 3 months to go. |
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It's that time again, -6F right now with a windchill of -16F. Parts of my state will have -50F windchill tonight.
Only 3 months to go.
Easy for me to take for granted the temperate and boring weather we usually have in my neck of the woods. I'm quite certain I've never experienced -50F wind chill except perhaps during my excursion north last April (calm air temp was -30F or worse, and it was breezy at times).
Stay warm up there. Overclock everything a bit more to help with the heating :-) ... and keep crunching those Primorial jobs.
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-50F. That's inspiring. Bet you don't even need fans. |
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I'm in Duluth bird watching and it's 16 below zero F right now. The high today is going to be 9 below zero F and any breeze puts the wind chill at 40 - 50 below. I got some pictures of Snowy and Northern Hawk owls that I can post when I get home. |
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I'm in Duluth bird watching and it's 16 below zero F right now. The high today is going to be 9 below zero F and any breeze puts the wind chill at 40 - 50 below. I got some pictures of Snowy and Northern Hawk owls that I can post when I get home.
Is it just me or does anyone else think brink is just crazy :) |
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Wind chill warning is in effect for -50F for the next day at least.
In addition to the above, if you're out on Lake Superior, there is a "heavy freezing spray warning" in effect. Lovely. You don't even need to know the specifics of what that means; just by the name you know it is BAD.
Keep warm and safe!
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Wind chill warning is in effect for -50F for the next day at least.
In addition to the above, if you're out on Lake Superior, there is a "heavy freezing spray warning" in effect. Lovely. You don't even need to know the specifics of what that means; just by the name you know it is BAD.
Keep warm and safe!
--Gary
We saw a ship come in and the whole front was caked with a foot of ice. Scarry looking! The battery on my phone lasts for 3 minutes in the cold before it dies. |
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<WARNING BAD WORD IN THE LINK>
http://www.thedailymash.co.uk/news/international/all-50-us-states-now-terrifying-to-british-people-2014010882408
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It's only -9F this morning! Things are looking up!
It will be above the freezing point by Friday. I think I will take my chain-saw to the lake, cut a hole in the ice and go swimming! (ice is 21 inches thick) |
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It's only -9F this morning! Things are looking up!
It will be above the freezing point by Friday. I think I will take my chain-saw to the lake, cut a hole in the ice and go swimming! (ice is 21 inches thick)
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It's only -9F this morning! Things are looking up!
It will be above the freezing point by Friday. I think I will take my chain-saw to the lake, cut a hole in the ice and go swimming! (ice is 21 inches thick)
In the days leading up to it, I thought about doing this at the north pole. There were videos of people doing it in the past, except the ice is 8-10 feet thick. You went in "belayed", i.e. a rope around your waist. Since it is salty sea water, its temperature is well below "freezing", closer to 0F (-18C). This past April, the camp manager did not cut the hole. Probably just as well.
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<WARNING BAD WORD IN THE LINK>
http://www.thedailymash.co.uk/news/international/all-50-us-states-now-terrifying-to-british-people-2014010882408
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Now see, this is just poor journalism. While I agree with it for the most part, there are some inaccuracies.
- The "survivalist" states should include the northern rockies, like Idaho and Montana
- The mid-Atlantic, like Virginia, Maryland, Delaware, is pretty non-scary, unless you're too close to Washington DC, in which case all bets are off
- No one could possibly be scared of Hawaii
- Colorado's scariness depends totally on how many joints you've smoked today (sorry golfer)
For a more reliable source of news, check out theonion dot com (warning: harsh language).
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Embarrass is just a little north of where I was owl watching.
6 January
The polar blast threatened crops and livestock across the American farm belt, even in the usually temperate Deep South. The freeze was expected to reach as far south as Texas and central Florida, the National Weather Service said. Embarrass, Minnesota, experienced the lowest temperature in the nation on Tuesday: -37C (-35F), colder than readings recently recorded on Mars by the Mars Rover.
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Going down in it again for the next 3 days. Sick of it.
I'm going to hijack my own thread:
It's a referb but is it a good buy? I may go buy one or two tomorrow. Thoughts?
http://www.microcenter.com/product/425171/015-P3-1580-RB_NVIDIA_GeForce_GTX_580_1536MB_PCIe_20_x16_Video_Card_-_Refurbished |
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Stay warm... a new 580 will help with the heating cost :-)
That's certainly a big break off the original cost of a 580, which I think was on the order of $500 normal retail (though surely cheaper deals could be found). EVGA is a good vendor. Might be worth the gamble at that price ($180). The "gamble" part being of course issues similar to say buying a used car... you don't know how it was treated in the past. Driven by a "little old lady" or "fast and furious"?
I wonder how one "refurbishes" a GPU. Do they just replace the fan(s), clean the contacts, and blow the dust out? The chips themselves can't be altered by any means I'm aware of.
Buena suerte!
--Gary
p.s. One of my cars in the garage today I bought *used* in 1998 and it is still going strong. Just a comment on my own metaphor.
p.p.s. Back on topic it is *not* "cool crunching weather" here in L.A. By the middle of the week it is supposed to be 80F. Can't remember the last time it rained. Not necessarily a complaint, at least until the next brushfire. |
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My 1999 Chevy pickup has a broken heater so driving around sucks when it gets chilly like this. Time to go shopping I think.
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p.p.s. Back on topic it is *not* "cool crunching weather" here in L.A. By the middle of the week it is supposed to be 80F. Can't remember the last time it rained. Not necessarily a complaint, at least until the next brushfire.
Same here in Northern California. Set an all-time record high for January on Friday: 79°F. Governor Jerry Brown has declared a state of drought. Today we biked up to Folsom Lake, our local reservoir, so see how empty it is: 17% of capacity, and an old gold rush town usually at the bottom of the lake is now visible! I've been enjoying the spring-like weather myself, and I've still kept the GPU-rig running right along. But the lack of snow pack could be disastrous for our state's farmers this year.
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Quote from national weather service today "Today marks the 40th sub-zero low in the Twin Cities this winter. This ties as the 21st most for any winter, but winter is not over yet. 42 will be reached by Tuesday. In addition, the last 15 days have fallen below zero which ties for the 13th longest streak on record and two more days will be added early this week. That will allow this streak to tie for the 8th longest."
It looks like after Tuesday the back of winter may be broken! No more -0F or colder temps!
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I spoke too soon. Today a foot of snow and then back below zero at night. :( |
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It looks like the frigid weather is returning to the northern plains and the northeast of the US. Here in California we're about to get hammered with the first real storm in months. Not that it will be freezing cold, by any stretch, and the rain and snow will be welcome (except for those below the burn areas)
No astrophotography postings from me for the next several days, at least ;-)
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http://totallycoolpix.com/2014/02/frozen-lake-superior/
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http://totallycoolpix.com/2014/02/frozen-lake-superior/
check out the pix of frozen Lake Superior
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It reached 81F at my home today. Crazy even by SoCal standards. Barely used the furnace all "winter". It looks like we'll skip mudslide season altogether and go straight into brushfire season.
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It got to 53 GLORIOUS degrees today!!
Yes, that's above zero :) |
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Wild weather day here. Tornado's southern Minnesota blizzard northern part of state. Sheeesh ! |
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I hope all is well.
I thought tornado weather starts in the southern plains and moves northward as spring progresses, so this does sound unusual. Maybe I'm mis-remembering.
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You remember correctly, this is very rare.
To quote the weather service,
@NWSTwinCities: How unusual are March tornadoes in MN? Before today, only 20 March tornadoes in the modern era (since 1950). 14 of those were on 3-29-98. |
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We too have had some unusual weather. Yesterday morning all of the cars were covered with orange dust. It has come from the Saharan desert. It was picked up by sandstorms carried north. A very light fall of rain was then sufficient to deposit it but not so heavy as to wash it away. It happens every now and then; I suppose I notice it every couple of years.
The picture is of my car which I had polished the day before. I think you all probably know the word at the forefront of my mind. It begins with B.
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Saharan dust, now that's pretty neat! |
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Tim, the good news is you got practice polishing your car so now you are a pro at it.
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Only I can see on this picture is nice house ( reflection) :)
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Only I can see on this picture is nice house ( reflection) :)
Called COBWEBS: Currently Owned By Woolwich Equitable Building Society. |
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It made it to 70 today! 179days since that last happened.
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Well, unlike the title of the post, it's finally gotten HOT here in Arkansas - ambient temps are mid to high 90's and heat index is 104+
However, that being said, we have been blessed with a milder and rainier than normal summer so I'm not complaining.
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That's funny you say that. Here in Minnesota we have had 2 brutal winters in a row and really no summer to speak of. This is the first week of high dew points. We my have a heat index of 100 on Sunday.
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Good summer here in UK so far although I've been working through most of it. 1 window ajar, no GPU processing. Interesting to see how much GPUage I need when it starts to get really cool & whether I can/should add the 2nd GPU given the PC's in a smaller room than before. If so could be looking at WR emerald by Spring. |
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Yeah, before the last couple of weeks here it was getting a bit uncomfortable for us in the UK not used to hot weather, wasn't it? Now it's more comfortable for crunching.
My 580 is broken because I flashed it with a dud BIOS, so I'm using a Radeon 6670 to (clowly) tick over the PPS Sieve WUs. It's passively cooled and so only uses the 60 watts or whatever it is that PCI-e 2.0 provides. I need to either sort out my 580 or buy a 780 though, because I miss doing things like Wieferich on the GPU which require DP. I know a 6xxx series Radeon is 3 years old now, but I don't know why, in 2011, ATI/AMD were still making GPUs incapable of DP, no matter how slow they would be. Ah well, the GFN-CPU app is really fast on Haswell CPUs now, after I've got SoB Amethyst I'll set about changing the horrible sick-green GFN badge to a more pleasing blue.
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Broadwell CPUs will be out next year, hopefully the LLR devs will be able to take advantage of things like this.
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46F tonight and 36F tomorrow night. Nice and cool in my computer room.
I'm going to The Replacements homecoming concert on Saturday night and I think at 47F a sweatshirt and maybe cap is in order!
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It is about 30F warmer than that here, at least. Not fun. And later this week, we get hurricane remnants from Baja.
The Replacements were on Jimmy Fallon sometime in the last week. Great!
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I got a selfie with Craig Finn singer of the band "The Hold Steady".
https://twitter.com/brainlaser/status/510908833326039040
Slideshow of the concert from the local paper.
Look for the ugly mug with the black fedora second row to the right, that would be me.
http://www.startribune.com/entertainment/music/275024531.html
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I got a selfie with Craig Finn singer of the band "The Hold Steady".
https://twitter.com/brainlaser/status/510908833326039040
Slideshow of the concert from the local paper.
Look for the ugly mug with the black fedora second row to the right, that would be me.
http://www.startribune.com/entertainment/music/275024531.html
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@B - not that I'm saying BUT you sure looked like you were having a ton of fun! |
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@B - not that I'm saying BUT you sure looked like you were having a ton of fun!
That was the most fun I had in years, years!
I love those guys. It brought back a lot of memories from the 80's. I had a lot of fun times back then.
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It appears that "cool crunching weather" will return for AtP at least in the midwest USA, courtesy of the "polar vortex", over the next few days. Bundle up!
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It appears that "cool crunching weather" will return for AtP at least in the midwest USA, courtesy of the "polar vortex", over the next few days. Bundle up!
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Looks like 8 to 12 inches from Sunday PM to Monday PM.
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The weather service has bumped up the snow prediction depth to 12 to 18 inches for MSP.
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Spared! The storm track move 40 miles north and I only got 2 inches!. The poor suckers north of me got 16.5 inches. Yuck... |
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Just returned from holiday/vacation from the "Big Easy".
Had a great time! Ate my way through the city. Good cajun and soul food!
Not too cold or warm. Right around 70F during the day.
Got slapped this morning when I woke up to -7F here in Minneapolis.
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Out here in L.A. it's going to be *wet* crunching weather starting overnight and lasting for several days. Now that the brushfire season is over, it's time to transition to the mudslide season.
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It's a balmy 19°F here in Moscow RUS, warming to 28°F by the weekend. It's keeping my crunching rig nice and cool.
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Hoping that everyone in the eastern USA are escaping the nasty winter weather this weekend. Here in L.A., it's like summer. Sheesh. Not very Christmas-y, not that I'm complaining :-)
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Hoping that everyone in the eastern USA are escaping the nasty winter weather this weekend. Here in L.A., it's like summer. Sheesh. Not very Christmas-y, not that I'm complaining :-)
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Sounds very much like complaining to me - ha
Arkansas - sunny and 50ish. Should be nice weather and more importantly good GOLFing weather ! |
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Here it is in the upper 30's. No snow left on the ground after the rain we had the last 3 days.
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Today - Partly cloudy
High 65 °F | Low 42 °F
0% Chance of Precip.
SandyPaws Day - Partly cloudy
High 62 °F | Low 33 °F (Brrrrrr)
Winds WSW at 10 to 20 mph (Extra Brrrrrr)
0% Chance of Precip.
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Today - Partly cloudy
High 65 °F | Low 42 °F
0% Chance of Precip.
SandyPaws Day - Partly cloudy
High 62 °F | Low 33 °F (Brrrrrr)
Winds WSW at 10 to 20 mph (Extra Brrrrrr)
0% Chance of Precip.
I have family in Sierra Vista AZ and they are supposed to get a little snow, and a lot of wind, in the next day or so. My brother and his family live in Reno NV, and they're getting hammered with snow and wind right now too, making for a nice "White Christmas". I'm going up there in a few days to see them, but as long as it's not snowing on my precise travel days, it should be fine.
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Well, it's going down to -7F tonight with a pretty good breeze.
Wind chill advisory from midnight tonight until noon tomorrow for wind chill values of -25F to -35F.
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A slight chill in the air this morning.
-10F with a -35F wind chill right now.
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... and to think that today's high in Phoenix is forecast to be an unusually balmy 81F.
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... and to think that today's high in Phoenix is forecast to be an unusually balmy 81F.
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... and to think that today's high in Phoenix is forecast to be an unusually balmy 81F.
<sigh>
that hurt
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It is actually *raining* here in L.A. right now. At my home. WTF. I didn't sign up for that!
Best wishes to anyone in the northeast USA for the next couple of days. I have a cousin and a couple of friends in the Boston area (as well as all those runners) and it looks like they're in for a wallop.
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The snow is only a minor annoyance (of course the blizzard kind of missed NJ). The temperatures being rather below normal is getting old. For northwestern NJ, average January lows are in the low 20s. The 10 day forecast is showing 3 single digits and 2 below zero (it was 3 this am). They are calling for a heat wave next Wednesday (high of 35), of course predicted to be accompanied by 5-8 more inches of snow.
I'll trade you liquid precipitation for a little sub-zero weather...
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Any rats in the northeast US still digging out of the snow? I hope all is well... looks pretty challenging from the TV news. I believe bartman is in Connecticut, and I think Van said he's in NJ (?).
Here, we're about to get another dose of "brush fire season"... warm, windy, and dry.
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Yesterday , in my own small city (near 300.000 peoples ) we have highest wind gust ever recorded: and it was 212 km/h. I average wind speed was from 110 km/h to 150 km/h.
So I can say: it was windy :)
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Yikes. That is some serious wind. Sandy and Irene didn't come close to that, at least at landfall (about 80mph/130km/h if my recollection holds, and that is probably a bit generous).
As to NJ vs CT, I suspect CT (and more so MA) has gotten it much worse than we got here. The snow mostly missed us for each of the storms. I have about a foot on the ground, from those, which stubbornly refuses to melt due to the cold, which is apparently not getting better anytime soone. GF's daughter lives in Boston, and from what I hear it is unreal there (at least by somewhat spoiled US east coast standards).
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-15F tonight, high of 0F tomorrow. -35F windchill readings.
I'm betting my piece of junk 1999 chevy pickup wont start tomorrow morning. I bought it off the dealer lot new in '99 and I'm thinking of going car shopping this weekend. Too many things going wrong with it all at once.
Looking at this or something like it:
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This seemed like the best thread...
So, one of the cheap fans that came with my case is dying, making a bit of a grating noise - I assume the ball bearings aren't exactly circular any more. So I've bought what has long been hyped as the king of fans, the ugly-but-efficient and quiet Noctua NF-P14. Well, I don't know if that model specifically has been "hyped", but there have been rave reviews about Noctua fans for a couple of years now. I have no idea why they make them that colour, but I don't care. If Dabs manage to order one and deliver it to me in an acceptable time, I'll let you know if it's ever worth spending £25 on a case fan. |
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The (slowly) warming up weather is going to take a toll on my rac. A couple of machines have had to be pulled, too. My macbook pro video died, but thankfully Apple announced an extended service program for it. Its all fixed, but I'm not sure I want to have it crunching again. One of the 5770s in a mac pro started artifacting on me, so that machine is out, too. Two more mac pros are running their w/us off, and will probably get quiesced until the fall or until I can build a mini closet in the barn that I can air condition. |
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It is crazy-hot here. As I type this, a bit before 2PM local time, it is 91F outside. And it is still technically winter. Normally I wouldn't complain about such a thing but it makes for some "challenging" challenge-crunching.
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I would not crunch on my Mac if it were not for this app...
http://www.crystalidea.com/macs-fan-control
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I use iStat menus, great telemetry in addition to fan control, although it costs a few $$$ (I never knew I wanted to know my memory temperature). On my MBP and MBA, even with the fans maxed out, it is really hard to keep temps down below 190-200F, unless you get some help with ambient temperature.
On newer (relatively speaking) 2009-2012 Mac Pros, it is also a bit of a challenge unless you want to really spin the fans up. The 2008 Mac Pros are actually really good temperature-wise. Even with an ambient temp of 65 degrees, running at full tilt, I can keep temps down to 100 F without making them too noisy. And they don't hyperthread as a bonus. On a 2009-2012 8 or 12 core, same ambient temp, I can keep the CPUs at 140-155 F, but only with very noticeable fan speed. These are with video cards drawing some decent power, so the power supply fan is spooled up pretty good too.
My mac minis are in the same boat as the laptop. If I run the fan at full, I can kind of keep temperatures down to slightly below terrifying, and only in low ambient temps.
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For a lack of anywhere better to put this ...
A record high temperature for this date of 114 degrees (45.5C) was set at Phoenix AZ today.
And yes ... it is a dry heat - the relative humidy was a whopping 7%.
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For a lack of anywhere better to put this ...
A record high temperature for this date of 114 degrees (45.5C) was set at Phoenix AZ today.
And yes ... it is a dry heat - the relative humidy was a whopping 7%.
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For a lack of anywhere better to put this ...
A record high temperature for this date of 114 degrees (45.5C) was set at Phoenix AZ today.
And yes ... it is a dry heat - the relative humidity was a whopping 7%.
eww
I used to blow in fiber glass insulation in attics when I was much younger. Disgusting job, and it was always that hot. I need a cold beer just thinking about it!
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And just a teeny bit warmer today ...
We tied the record high temperature of 115 degrees (46.1C) set in 1989.
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Arkansas is in a mini heat wave. Temps over 96 degrees BUT with the high humidity the relative heat index as been close too 110 and you can definitely feel it. Get to roast and boil at the same time. |
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Colorado hasn't been bad, lots of rain. Highs in the mid-low 80s the past few days.
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In Belgium (Europe) a heat wave is predicted. Crunching is slowing down for me. Otherwise it gets too hot. |
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O dear. So I see. Good for sunbathing whilst watching highlights of Wimbledon, not so much for GPUs... |
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Yes, that heat is supposed to affect south-east England, too...
That's nice. I expect it will be pissing it down and struggling to get out of the high teens up here...
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36.11 C outside, gotta just turn up the A/C and get back on it! |
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63°F right now at 22:30 going down to 58°F overnight. Not much of a summer yet this year.
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Only 4 days of 90F or higher so far this summer of 2015. I was looking forward to "global warming"! :(
"They" say:
http://astronomynow.com/2015/07/17/diminishing-solar-activity-may-bring-new-ice-age-by-2030/
And
http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2015/05/record_antarctic_ice_hampers_research_scientists.html
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28C tomorrow. PSA off. Will be too hot for GPU work. Had a funny core of PSP LLR taking something like 44000 hours, yes 44 THOUSAND HOURS, estimated - putting BOINC back to 100% core usage (been on 75% usage while doing PSA WSS) seems to resolve it. Happened over the past few days with another one - later I realised it could have been a prime - a PSP prime - but now I think it's just some sort of glitch with the amount of CPU that PSA WSS GPU work uses & BOINC non-100%-core-util behaviour. |
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Anyone else started manual sieving since the new system came into force? I calculated I needed 29P (n=22) to last me from late this eve until when I get in from work tomorrow & conveniently my max is now 29! Weather a bit cooler as well. Not finding there's any benefit to 2 instances per GPU though. Negligble CPU usage however.
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Anyone else started manual sieving since the new system came into force? I calculated I needed 29P (n=22) to last me from late this eve until when I get in from work tomorrow & conveniently my max is now 29! Weather a bit cooler as well. Not finding there's any benefit to 2 instances per GPU though. Negligble CPU usage however.
Is it true you can't pause them with ctrl+c?
I have stopped FPS (CPU) and PPR12M (GPU) multiple times and started them successfully from checkpoints. So far I don't have experience with any other manual sieves.
I even changed config values.
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Is this two reservation limit permanent or only for newcomers?
It is really stupid if it is permanent :P
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Is this two reservation limit permanent or only for newcomers?
It is really stupid if it is permanent :P
Is the limit on the range size or the number of reservations? I think that new folks do have a limit on the range size on front end that gets adjusted up as work is returned successfully.
If you need to get the restrictions removed, you can pm JimB.
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You just have to do a variety of units until you're 'trusted'.
I'm up to 29P already. concentrating on N=22. They're about to finish - should be able to do 24-hours-wroth after this. |
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Is this two reservation limit permanent or only for newcomers?
It is really stupid if it is permanent :P
New reservations are/were disabled, Jim was/is doing maintenance on the sieving system. Not sure if it's done, but when it is you should be able to make new reservations.
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You just have to do a variety of units until you're 'trusted'.
I'm up to 29P already. concentrating on N=22. They're about to finish - should be able to do 24-hours-wroth after this.
OK that's reasonable and fully understandable.
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I'm up to 29P already. concentrating on N=22. They're about to finish - should be able to do 24-hours-wroth after this.
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I figured it out how to get what I want!
I will reserve larger range and split it between machines.
It makes order keeping quite complicated but doable.
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I'm up to 29P already. concentrating on N=22. They're about to finish - should be able to do 24-hours-wroth after this.
Dave, how many P's can you do in a 24 hour period.. somewhere around 29 from what I read but wanted to verify.
edit: I made 2 reservations about an hour ago so that must be working unless the work was on the gfn side only.
Between 34 & 35 - hopefully once my 29Ps get verified my allowance will go up to 35P so I can leave it going over a full day. I did 29 as 29×42mins equated to something before I go to bed until the time I got in from work.
& yes it is easily ctrl-c-able. I even put the next cmdline in the keyboard buffer so it auto started it, but forgot the d1 switch so did ctrl-c & resumed, including d1 this time, therefore moving the processing onto the other card :)! |
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In anticipation of some cooler weather to come, I just snagged a 7990 on ebay. Now I have to throw together a machine around it, with the expectation that I may grab a second one for the ultimate space heater/gfn-wr killer.
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Go for it. I've just revved up to 100P n=22 sieving ("Operation Sterling" (sterling as in £1 as in 100p/P...)). I do the sieving, you do the prime-finding ;). |
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Sounds good! I have 2 280xs already crunching away. I should be able to get to 1+wu/day, maybe 2 (certainly with a second 7990 I should be able to). I hate to see z have all the fun.
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Been tidying up my boxes and doing some preparation as to optimal run times for the next Cullen challenge. Running 3 systems I believe I can do exactly 41 units in time, although I might lost some runtime on my fastest box as I'm expecting bits to decorate it next week... |
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Been cleaning up too. I'm not sure how much help I'll be on the Cullen challenge, my systems are rather weighted towards GPUs, but I'll give it everything I've got.
Just crammed 2 GPUs in one of my mac pros, necessitating an external PS. Ugly (and rather warm), but it is working so far.
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Well, its here, and together, and getting an os installed. The only new parts were the case (cooler master haf xb evo), the power supply (1200w), and a whole bunch of fans (the 200mm venting straight up is a nice addition). 7 fans on the case, one on the cpu, and 6 on the gpus. It is remarkably (like eye-wateringly) loud under load.
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