SETI@Home Wow!-Event 2019

[IEC]

Having quickly gone to Linux from Winblows 10, again, I find one system (fully stable under WinTen) keeps locking up. I am not 100% certain I have fixed the problem, but the only real change in hardware is the GPU fan speed (easily controlled under WinTen/MSI AfterBurner). In searching for our old ( if not somewhat odd ) friends from Brony@home, I see they are now without a home. Good thing I backed up that guide @hiigaran made for Folding on Linux (with Nvidia), I found the fan speed controls I needed. No new crashes yet....

I used nvidiux to underclock my GPU by about 100MHz on core. The Gigabyte Extreme GTX 1070 cards are clocked to the moon (2075MHz boost stock) which is fine for gaming but definitely NOT for DC work.

 

[biodoc]

It seems @StefanR5R has the pedal to the metal.

 

[lane42]

It seems @StefanR5R has the pedal to the metal.

That was the Disturbance in the Force https://setiathome.berkeley.edu/team_members.php?teamid=30191&offset=0&sort_by=expavg_credit
And he's moving up in the ranks fast

 

[Ken g6]

I've been climbing the ladder slowly, but "I believe I have found a faster way."

 

[biodoc]

Nice bunker drop @Ken g6 !

 

[StefanR5R]

Hehe, @Ken g6, mind the ceiling!

 

[Ken g6]

Hehe, @Ken g6, mind the ceiling!

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I don't think I was ever in danger of hitting the ceiling. The main problem is now that the rockets are exhausted I'll slowly descend. Oh, well, it's been a fun ride, and I think waiting to boost made it more fun.

 

[StefanR5R]

@biodoc, I'll be enjoying your distinguished company for another hour or so, but then it will be time to pack up and go overtake a few more SG/H/GUUG users. ;-)

 

[StefanR5R]

Oooooh....Chernobyl style? Yikes.

РБМК (RBMK) reactors like in Chernobyl had been built further off East, and most are no longer in service now. The remaining ones are all located in Russia (unfortunately for us, all very far in the West of Russia). Reactors of this type had seen various improvements after the Chernobyl disaster, but the basic properties (graphite moderated, no containment) remained. The rest of the Eastern European reactors are almost all of the ВВЭР (WWER) series of pressurized water types. The Eastern European countries tend to operate their nuclear reactors until way into old age, but as I mentioned, some of the French and Belgian plants nearby aren't any better in this regard, at all.

 

[Pokey]

OK Tony, i am bracing so I don't get caught up in the vortex...................... Do your worst.

 

[TennesseeTony]

It will be like quicksand, Pokey, just don't struggle unless you want it over with more quickly....

 

[Pokey]

It will be like quicksand, Pokey, just don't struggle unless you want it over with more quickly....

Actually it should be a piece of cake. I have already started shutting down.

I plan to consolidate my rids a bit and may stick around for the Dec FAH event if I can remember how to fold. The power company has already alerted me that my power usage is higher than avg. this month.

 

[TennesseeTony]

You put on one heck of a show for a fleet of GTX970s! Well done!

 

[ao_ika_red]

After reading Stefan's information, I was curious about nuclear-based power generation in my own country and it seems a new US-based startup company called ThorCon is investing in a new NPP concept called molten salt reactor (MSR). It will be a scale-up version from the successful model trialled by ORNL, TN. Fingers crossed, it will replace coal power plant which accounts for more than half of our power output.

 

[Kiska]

Meanwhile we will have solar, wind and whatever combination to replace coal, and nuclear is... not an ideal replacement:
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-08...ower-is-not-the-answer-for-australia/11450850

 

[crashtech]

One of the only renewables that gives a similar steady output comparable to coal or nuclear is hydroelectric power. Others like wind and solar are obviously intermittent, and the problems associated with intermittent grid sources are generally not well understood by most non-engineers. I happen to think that proponents of various generation schemes use this lack of knowledge to their advantage. Certainly at the very minimum, massive infrastructure upgrades need to be made to shuffle all that intermittent power around, and even thought the above linked article radically downplays the need for baseload generation, it's my opinion that such thinking is misguided, until energy storage technology further matures and improves.

But, this is totally OT. Sorry.

 

[ao_ika_red]

Meanwhile we will have solar, wind and whatever combination to replace coal, and nuclear is... not an ideal replacement:
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-08...ower-is-not-the-answer-for-australia/11450850

Due to economics, it's not like we have much choices. Geothermal power plant is growing but far too slowly and NPP has power/area density that unmatched by wind / hydro / solar power plant. And thanks to Paris Agreement, right now we're accelerating electric vehicle programs and reducing fossil power plant. Both of which will exponentially increase electric power demand from CO2-less power plant.
And the proposed site for the MSR-NPP are closer to Malaysian Borneo than OZ so you don't have to worry if we manage to mess it up.

 

[Markfw]

I have shut down my SETI boxes, and one other. Its already 71f at 9 am ! And its feels way hotter when you are outside.

 

[ao_ika_red]

But, this is totally OT. Sorry.

Oops. I got carried away too. Sorry for that.

 

[StefanR5R]

@ao_ika_red, with the the SETI@home maintenance downtime on, what much else is there to do than to get lost in off-topic discussions? ;-)

I can't resist to emit another OT post myself, but I'll try to stay on-topic again:

There is a similarity between coal power generation and nuclear power generation, in that either one is not sustainable. Meaning: Current society is placing extreme costs onto future societies.* But in some aspects, nuclear power generation is dissimilar from the other: a) It incurs absurdly high risks. (Hint: Nuclear facilities cannot be insured.) b) On a global scale, mankind could shut most of it down in the short term with moderate effort. It's a small and often overestimated part of power generation globally.

*) Looking at my own country, we are among the Meisters in externalizing our costs, and in shifting our costs onto future generations. Efforts to transform into a fully sustainable society need to increase in scope and intensity a lot in countries like mine.

 

[Ken g6]

It will be like quicksand, Pokey, just don't struggle unless you want it over with more quickly....

Tony, I'm sure glad you're not approaching me from behind!

 

[Assimilator1]

Ahhh one day fusion power will rescue us all ........ or maybe that should be some decade!
Kiska
Reading between the lines it seems that SA depends on other states 'baseload' to fill in the gaps, that's not viable for a whole country to do (unless you rely on other countries 'dirty' energy production, which kinda defeats the point), anyway it's nice to hear a positive story about increasing renewables . IIRC, here in the UK about 25% of our power is from renewables, far more than I thought!

Anyway, yea it's been hitting the low 30s (C ) here in the UK too, & I've had to shut off GPU crunching during the day, that's allowed Ingleside to pass me , for now

 

[lane42]

I say we should (every DC cruncher) have a 1 day OFF marathon to save electric.
No one crunches for 1 day. Maybe December 25, err.... or after the F@H race

 

[Howdy]

Machine idling, no tasks available.

 

[TennesseeTony]

Machine idling, no tasks available.

Did you not attempt to adopt the GPU spoof for dummies on page 392 of the SCC?