EXTREMEHW 3 Day Foldathon December 22-24th UTC

[Avacado]

3 hours ago, pioneerisloud said:

Why not, one last run during the winter.

You are aware that winter just started yesterday and you have a few months to run some cards before it ends

[pio]

45 minutes ago, Avacado said:

You are aware that winter just started yesterday and you have a few months to run some cards before it ends

It's usually not worth it for the PPD output to be honest.  But for the friendly competitions, why not?  

[mx500torid]

Well I screwed that up thought it started tonight at 7. Starting them now. Apologies.

[axipher]

3 hours ago, mx500torid said:

Well I screwed that up thought it started tonight at 7. Starting them now. Apologies.

 

Better late than never

[Fluxmaven]

Down to the last few hours. I decided to spin up a few extra cards to torment my long-term rival @neurotix. Sorry bud I couldn't help myself

 

That comes at the cost of the office being a bit warm while I'm in here building my rack mount GPU storage shelf. I only have 20 of these risers currently but the rails are 3' deep so I can squeeze 3 or 4 shelves worth in here.

[Cerberus]

3 minutes ago, Fluxmaven said:

Down to the last few hours. I decided to spin up a few extra cards to torment my long-term rival @neurotix. Sorry bud I couldn't help myself

 

That comes at the cost of the office being a bit warm while I'm in here building my rack mount GPU storage shelf. I only have 20 of these risers currently but the rails are 3' deep so I can squeeze 3 or 4 shelves worth in here.

x1 to x16

[Fluxmaven]

Just now, Cerberus said:

x1 to x16

I'm just using them to store my benching cards. I'm tired of every flat surface in the office being covered in hardware 

[Cerberus]

Just now, Fluxmaven said:

I'm just using them to store my benching cards. I'm tired of every flat surface in the office being covered in hardware 

makes sense. smart.

[Fluxmaven]

7 minutes ago, Cerberus said:

makes sense. smart.

Quick check of the inventory spreadsheet shows 35 GPUs in the house... And that's assuming I haven't missed any 

 

If only the majority of them weren't old stuff for HWBOT comps. I'd love to have some more RTX 4XXX cards for folding

[Broseph]

That's a wrap!  Fun 3-day event.  I installed Debian 12 to two unused boxes just to test them for future use and used it start writing my "Linux for beginners" how-to guide for BOINC and Folding@home.  Thanks for the event!

 

(The Xeon 1230v3 (Haswell) 4c/8t with Intel stock cooler, Supermicro motherboard, Rosewill 4U chassis was going to be my 2013 FreeNAS build, but ZFS intimidated me so I put it on hold.  With Folding, it heated up to 100C within seconds so I had to stop.  I reapplied new thermal paste (Noctua NT-H2 and replaced the 2013 Arctic Silver 5?) and got the same results, so I think the stock Intel CPU fan just sucks.

The Dell OptiPlex with 4c/4t i5 Ivy Bridge worked great, and it's heating up the basement to keep the water pipes from freezing.  I'll run it a couple months until I can sell it.

Edited December 25, 2023 by Broseph

[Broseph]

Can't wait to start GPU folding.  I've been Folding for about 20 years (low User ID) and got to top 15,000 or so back when everyone was CPU folding.  Had to install the client in 2 Windows folders for dual core CPUs since the client didn't support multi-core or multi-thread back then.

Leaning towards getting a PNY RTX A2000 6 GB from Amazon since it's a 75 Watt slot-powered slim GPU.  It'll fit in my Dell OptiPlex 3050 with i5 4c/4t Kaby Lake.

 

Someday I'll have a sick 42U server cabinet with 4U servers with 4 flagship GPUs sucking down 1200 Watts.  Someday.

Edited December 25, 2023 by Broseph

[Cerberus]

3 minutes ago, Broseph said:

sucking down 1200 Watts.

    

[neurotix]

Okay, I drew prizes for this months foldathon.

 

@tenchimuyo93 and @axipher please pm me here on the forums with your PayPal email address.

 

Payments will not go out until the 27th at the earliest and the 29th at the latest. Partner is out of town currently and she controls the pursestrings. Lol.

 

Great Foldathon as always guys. Thanks @damricand @firedfly

 

@Fluxmavenskinny arse can go die under a bridge. Hehe.

[damric]

hello. I just got to my hotel here in the panhandle of Oklahoma. It's freezing ass cold here. I just saw that the foldathon ended and those were some very impressive numbers we put up so congrats everyone.

 

 

 

[Broseph]

17 minutes ago, Cerberus said:

    

Ah yes, I see that this forum is a bunch of enablers.  High Wife Approval Factor lmaooo.  At least it's not meth or something.  There's worse addictions and hobbies.

"Honey!  It's for cancer and Alzheimer's and other horrible diseases.  Do you want those things?"

(I'm not married.  I'm just mentally preparing.)

Edited December 25, 2023 by Broseph

[Fluxmaven]

27 minutes ago, neurotix said:

@Fluxmavenskinny arse can go die under a bridge. Hehe.

 

Better luck next year 

 

[neurotix]

Lol at that mug!

 

 

[neurotix]

@tenchimuyo93 I need your email for the Foldathon prize, you've won $50. Please send me your PayPal email.

 

If I don't have it in 72 hours I will redraw the prize. Thanks.

 

(Can someone who knows him inform him possibly?)

[neurotix]

Okay, tenchimuyo93 did not respond to me within 72 hours to claim his foldathon prize.

 

The new winner is @steakikan; please pm me with your PayPal email address within 72 hours to claim your $50. I will send a pm so you get an email, assuming you have pm email notifications on.

 

If this person does not claim their prize, that's it. I'm not drawing again and the only winner will be axipher who responded days ago.

[neurotix]

All prizes sent out.

 

I hope we have as much turn out next month, sans prizes!

[damric]

Just got back from holiday vacation. I rolled a d20 to see who won the DDR4.

 

@mx500torid You won the random draw for the Patriot DDR4-4400 16GB. Please send me your shipping address in a timely manner and I'll get these mailed out.

 

Happy New Year ALL!

 

I'm looking at January 19, 20, 21st for next foldathon. I'll need to firm that up with @firedfly then one of us will post that.