axipher

I like my chocolate milk shaken, not stirred

I want to speak to your manager, I want a refund on my membership!!!

Thanks, I've got the stats backend for the Foldathon down do 38 kB across 8 PHP files and runs on a stock XAMPP setup on Windows, takes les than a minute to run both EHW and OCN stats. Google Docs makes it nice and easy to share the results too, hopefully @ENTERPRISE can get GDocs integration up and running before the event start. Alternatively, I am looking for some way to either embed a live image of the GoogleDocs, and image of a countdown timer, and or a PHP based chart of the results. If anyone has ideas for that, I'm all ears. Only thing I need to do is finish commenting all my code, clean up the username/password for the database access, then I'll probably throw a copy on Github for anyone to just use and abuse or help improve.

It's kind of crazy how fast we climbed the leaderboards with such a small team, but now the harder battle starts of getting to the top 100...

I updated the body of the post, just not the title, doh. Also ENTERPRISE just out here scattering a bunch of test posts everywhere to increase site activity...

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Hello all, Welcome to the ExtremeHW Folding Competition, November 18th - 20th, Midnight UTC. https://www.timeanddate.com/countdown/to?iso=20201119T00&p0=1440&msg=ExtremeHW+November+2020+Foldathon&font=serif&csz=1 In the spirit of folding for the cause and good old friendly competition between members, we are hosting another folding competition. For more details please see below. How to participate: During the competition you must be folding for Team 239902 You must post in this thread with "IN" followed by your folding username. Prizes: $25 USD PayPal (axipher) 1 Year Gold Membership (Bastiaan_NL) A game or games of your choice with a cap at 70 EUR on a platform that can send gifts (ie : steam, GoG, etc) (Mistio) Western Digital PC SN720 256GB SSD (Shipping included) (tictoc) Folding Time Prizes: 1 Week of Bastiaan_NL's RTX 2080 Super for around 3M PPD (Bastiaan_NL) 1 Week of Cerberus' 1080ti for around 2.3M PPD (Cerberus) 1 Week of Supercrumpet's 2080 Ti for around 4-4.5M PPD (Supercrumpet) All "Folding Time" prizes will require your username/passkey to be given to the donator, this will not give them any of your personal information, it just let's them be able to contribute full points to your username. Passkeys need at least 10 full Work Units to start getting the full Quick Return Bonus. Alternatively, you could setup another passkey for your Folding@Home username with a different email address and fold your first 10 units on that. This would still put the points towards your username, but they would also be tracked by a different passkey. Please note all winners must claim within 30 days from announcement of the winners. Current Event Stats: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/e/2PACX-1vSkztaGPFX12T6GazTilrFS1iy8OsssANF9sv3yMT6qtVFdBtoRNfFyQghtZiFNz2L_uPfr5Rxfr1TQ/pubhtml Team overall stats: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/e/2PACX-1vRlBI5oz7kCqBzp8hktCt31IWFPMXxDsOwNT7ipvAO6vvlD98sO-5yljfr6kAwSbimo8jpwir-Kt5WY/pubhtml Note: Stats are updated every hour at XX:25 for previous hour of submitted Work Units. Good luck to all! axipher

If I'm not mistaken, the main issues from the general public seem to be amateur astromers having to deal with all the extra light trails from all the new low-orbit satellites, and potential space debris from the satellites that they lose control of and can't bring in to the atmosphere to burn up in a controlled manner. It does seem like SpaceX rushed a lot of the Starlink program and relies a lot more on trial and error then lots of pre-planning and simulations.

I can see where Nvidia comes from with Super models, but it is annoying for consumers to have so many different SKUs to look at.

Makes sense, I figured most "professional" telescopes would have light and noise rejection.

I'm not an astronomer myself, but maybe with the lower orbit of that many satellites is the problem.

Soon we will have cameras with AI-Satellite Removal built-in ?

That would be great, I'll be posting the thread for November's on November 1st with the old traditional count-down timer and also try to figure out something for a live graph as well.

Oh this was a great episode, but someone forgot the Level1BBQ Sauce...

The site seems to be growing a good amount recently, even if we just host a friendly competition. Users might be able to throw up small prizes here and there to spice things up too in the spirit of the old community funded Foldathons. Even something like switching a Folding Farm to someone elses username for a week or something.

At this point, I really want to replace my Navi 5700 with a new Navi card from AMD, but some of the things I want to do with my GPU are still: - Folding@Home - h264 streaming - Light Video Editing - 1080p 240 FPS gaming So right now Nvidia is ticking all those boxes way better than AMD unless AMD really presents something amazing tomorrow. I'm still running a GTX 1050 Ti alongside my Navi 5700 just because of the better NVENC h264 encoder and the extra GPU muscle for Folding@Home muscle and video editing.

I honestly don't remember the original promised speeds from SpaceX themselves, but I can find this article talking about ~25 ms latency which they seem to have reached. https://www.geekwire.com/2018/game-elon-musk-says-spacexs-prototype-internet-satellites-working-well/ Now that 25 ms latency could have very well been a one-way form satellite to ground meaning 50+ ms round-trip on top of the regular internet latency. Starlink also has the possibility to allow for creating a internet back-link for general internet traffic to replace the need for some future under-sea cables as well. I might have missed some articles around Starlink so lots could still change.

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Yeah, the 3070 looks like a great upgrade choice for me if AMD doesn't bring better h264 hardware encoder and AAA 240 HZ 1080p performance. I'm looking forward to a more regular design with dual 6-pin or dual 8-pin and a water block.

So from my initial viewing of some reviews (versus 2080 Ti): - CUDA performance gets some hefty increases - Ray-tracing performance has gone up in some work loads, but not gaming - Regular 3D rasterized rendering has some high averages, but lower 1% lows - Slightly less power consumption than the 2080 Ti - Still uses the mid mounted 12-pin even though it only needs an 8-pin - Has all 3 display ports nice and close to each other making active display port cables hard to plug in as they might hit each other - Around half the expected price, probably the best part of this card making it pretty worth while Linus seems to have some pretty big opinions on Nvidia's Launch of the 3070 that I kind of agree with: today was only the Founder's Edition Review and NOT the partner boards and partners might be getting screwed again making Nvidia's own cards looking better.

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I still want a good 1660 or 1660 Super Single-slot option to come out.

Congrats mate

Banned because they can't even center their signature image...

We might get a Zen3+ that will only work on 500 even furthering that fragmentation, but then Zen4 might come out with DDR5 on a new AM5 socket. I doubt they will do the whole AM3+ thing again at this point. There were some pretty major changes from Zen1/+ to Zen 2 in the form of the I/O die being separated from the cores themselves which would definitely cause some pretty creative firmware writing. AMD could have foreseen this with a little bit of thought and made sure all motherboards were using big enough BIOS ROM chips to support all the families, but they were probably thinking their market share was so small since Bulldozer that it would be okay to shift new products to newer chipsets only. The fact that B550 took so long to come out though and B450 is still being sold doesn't help that case out though. Hopefully AMD can figure something out and help all the motherboard vendors get high-quality "beta" BIOS's out for X470 at least, ideally for B550 as well so they can get a solid foothold. It's also hard for me to be on the side of people who want 5000 support on 400 series. They already have a 400 series board with a 2000 or 3000 series CPU, most of them are looking to spend money on just a new CPU which I totally get, but then what about the old CPU? Is that just e-waste now? Hard to sell just an old CPU like that. I feel that long lived sockets like this kind of contribute to e-waste a lot more than they should, but that's personal opinion and haven't really looked up the percentage of e-waste that is just single CPU's.