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21) Message boards : Cafe MilkyWay : 1300W 106A POWER SUPPLIES (Message 75458)
Posted 8 Jun 2023 by .clair.
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An interesting thread this is , and its `twin` over on Einstein .
I decided to look up the C19 connector on ebay uk , on just the first page ,
They do them in arrange of colours , including pink
For new one they start at £7.95 , boring black plastic
Quickly passing £530 as a middle of the range price
BUT if you are mad or have VERY special needs they top out at £14950 used , that's not a typo , that one list new price of £21000 , that is also not a typo . . . . .
I shure would like to actualy sell some of them on ebay , I could retire real soon :-)
22) Message boards : News : Server Shutdown (5/8 - 5/10) (Message 75411)
Posted 29 May 2023 by .clair.
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Can we now close this thread coz we now have a new "Maintenance" thread to bitch about ;-)

We will be running server maintenance on 6/1/2023 at 11:30 AM EDT.
Maintenance should be done by the end of the day.
An announcement will be made on this thread when maintenance is over.
23) Message boards : News : Server Shutdown (5/8 - 5/10) (Message 75400)
Posted 23 May 2023 by .clair.
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In ISO format I think now would be 2023.05.23.20.48.36
Millenium . centuary . decade . year . month . day . hours . minits . seconds
Depending on if I got it right and how long it took me to post this :-)
24) Message boards : News : Server Issues (Message 75273)
Posted 2 Apr 2023 by .clair.
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Ah !!
Got it . .
Tell the hamster generator to run the other way round
They realy do need to find a way to send the resends out first
Wich iz wot I am realy saying

edit - an answer 31 seconds before I posted
ok , I know I type as fast as any housewife wearing oven gloves :-)
25) Message boards : News : Server Issues (Message 75263)
Posted 2 Apr 2023 by .clair.
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Ooo dear,
someone forgot to feed the hamster this afternoon
Back up to speed again now :-)
26) Questions and Answers : Unix/Linux : Problem switching from Windows to Ubuntu: ROCm question (Message 75190)
Posted 22 Mar 2023 by .clair.
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I know that AMD cards are a pain to work with, but are aware of this set of gpu utilities focused primarily on AMD cards? Would give you fan and clock control for one thing and some great displays of card info and graphs.
https://github.com/Ricks-Lab/gpu-utils
I've helped the developer out extensively on its ability to work on Nvidia cards also.

I have had a read of that page and will give it a go , many Thanks .
27) Questions and Answers : Unix/Linux : Problem switching from Windows to Ubuntu: ROCm question (Message 75181)
Posted 22 Mar 2023 by .clair.
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I have recently played the match the drivers kernel to the Linux Mint version so I could get my `old` amd7970 running
it worked , eventualy ,finding out then remembering that "Legacy" commandline switch had to be used so that a working open cl would be installed
What a total pain in the #&%$" it was
Two installs of mint , nuked the first 20.2
went back to mint 19.0 as it had the 4.15.0 kernel the driver needed
Then its make shure the card don't cook while crunching coz the fans are far too slow
the back of that card was instant burnt fingers hot
Read a heap more on the web , try it , it don't work , BUT find , dirty hack the file `pwm1` with 255 and its full fan speed for cool crunching .
Though I have an almost identical system that runs win7 ultimate and amd7970s all that OS / drivers / fan speed control stuff is so easy ..
And yet another system that has Linux Mint but with a nv 1060 in it , install driver / install "coolbits" = get work done .
AMD shure duz need to get its act together
28) Message boards : Number crunching : Run Multiple WU's on Your GPU (Message 75022)
Posted 5 Feb 2023 by .clair.
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Duz it fly ?
Did this fall of china`s balloon that `drifted` over USA .
29) Message boards : Number crunching : AMD VII: Occasional a task never finishes and is "hot spot" too high? (Message 74920)
Posted 18 Jan 2023 by .clair.
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When one of my AMD 7970`s got to 104c one day it was dead the next week .
80c is still to hot for my likeing . even short term .
I do everything I can to keep every bit of a hard working GPU/card below 70c ,
As far below as possible .
If you want them to last .
30) Message boards : Number crunching : Inaccurate run times - de_nbody (Message 74895)
Posted 6 Jan 2023 by .clair.
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From what I see of it sometimes the estimated runtimes are way out ,
Though I only keep a very small cache of work here @home so never get past the deadlines .
31) Message boards : Number crunching : Daily graphs of server_status (Message 74643)
Posted 5 Nov 2022 by .clair.
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WOW! This validation waiting graph is looking just like a hedge fund ladder attack against a meme stock!!

I thought it was the staff moral graph after the sale of Twitter to Elon Musk rat and the mass dumping of the workers .
32) Message boards : Number crunching : Daily graphs of server_status (Message 74616)
Posted 2 Nov 2022 by .clair.
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The green line looks like the financial markets on a bad day
Though , milky way on a good day :-)
33) Message boards : Number crunching : Daily graphs of server_status (Message 74589)
Posted 28 Oct 2022 by .clair.
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Well , there you go , waiting for vladivation 4.6 million , as of now .
34) Message boards : Number crunching : Daily graphs of server_status (Message 74554)
Posted 24 Oct 2022 by .clair.
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Tom already said the problem is not enough memory in the current Server but the IT people are in charge of moving the stuff over to the new Server they already have ready and waiting

If a server needs more memory . . me thinks , quick fix , FIT MORE MEMORY , bin there dun that , unless it already has a full set . 128 or 256GB whatever , ok I know it costs money .
35) Message boards : News : Server Issues (Message 74541)
Posted 22 Oct 2022 by .clair.
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The website loads quickly now , yesterday it was slow as glue and sometimes with page load timeouts .
36) Message boards : News : News General (Message 74319)
Posted 30 Sep 2022 by .clair.
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Separate selection for "Milkyway@home Separation cpu" and "Milkyway@home Separation gpu" probably also separate selection for "Milkyway@home N-Body Simulation cpu" and "Milkyway@home N-Body Simulation gpu" in the future

It would be VERY nice if we could have `separation` of the work unit types to select .
37) Message boards : Number crunching : New Benchmark Thread - times wanted for any hardware, CPU or GPU, old or new! (Message 74073)
Posted 17 Aug 2022 by .clair.
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I had one run for 43 hours of CPU time on three cpu`s, I thought it was a dud but let it run anyway (no longer in the database - 12 august ) that got 2266 credits
38) Message boards : Cafe MilkyWay : Earn Crypto while Mapping the Milky Way (Message 74064)
Posted 16 Aug 2022 by .clair.
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Looking at the avatar image it looks like `Est 2021` on the lable .
39) Message boards : Number crunching : Oops, capacitor catastrophic failure (Message 74047)
Posted 9 Aug 2022 by .clair.
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Are you shure that 5KT44 is a solid `dry` capitulator ?
not just an ordinary `wet` electrolytic in a metal can .
Well this is milkyway@home , you just made the next universe big bang . . . .
Good photo .
TCP = Tom Cats Piss :-)
What make and motherboard waz it
40) Message boards : Number crunching : Validation inconclusive (Message 73986)
Posted 22 Jul 2022 by .clair.
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The show aint over until the fat lady runs out of time :-),
one from my arkives
If any of it is wrong , I blame some one else . . .
And will place a firm leap second in your integers :
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Remember Y2k
Well it's not over , yet

2020: January 1: Systems still using 1920 as pivot date fail; Macintoshes running System 6.0.4 or earlier - correct date can no longer be set in Date & Time Control Panel
2030: January 1: Systems still using 1930 as pivot date fail.
2036: January 1: Burroughs Unisys A Series system date fails?
2036: February 6: 2^32 seconds from Jan 1, 1900.
2037: January 1: Rollover date for NTP systems
2038: January 19: Unix: 2^31 seconds from Jan 1, 1970
2040: February 6: At 06:28:16, old Macs' longword seconds from Jan 1, 1904 overflow.
2042: September 17: IBM 370 TOD clock overflows. One source lists this as the 18th (?)
2044: January 1: MS-DOS: 2^6 years from 1980, setting the most significant bit (MSB). Signed variables using this get a negative date.
2046: January 1: Amiga system date failure
2046: June 8: Some Unix password aging fails; 62^2 weeks from 1970.
2049: December 31: Microsoft Project 95 limit.
2078: December 31: MS Excel 7.0 - the last day
2079: June 6: 2^16 days from January 1, 1900
2080: January 1: MS-DOS file dates, displayed with two-digit years, become ambiguous.
2100: Y2.1K; most current PC BIOSes run out of dates; MS-DOS <DIR> renders the file-date years 2100 through 2107 as 99.
2100: February 28: last day of February - NOT a leap year
2106: February 7: Unix: 2^32 seconds from Jan 1, 1970; time overflows at 06:28:16.
2108: January 1: MS-DOS 2^7 years from 1980; file date overflows
2738: November 28: Approximate day of A.D. 1 million (days)
4338: November 28: COBOL-85 integer day 1,000,000 (10^6) exceeds six-digit field
9999: HTTP caching fails.
10000: January 1: Y10K!! Four-digit years fail. More time will elapse between the time this document was written and this date than has elapsed from the beginning of modern human civilization until now.
29602: January 1: MS Windows NT File Systems (NTFS) fails.
29940: New Macs' signed 64-bit time fails (has been OK since 30,081 B.C.!!)
31086: July 31: Internal DEC VMS time fails at 02:48:05.47
60056: Win32 64-bit time fails (started from Jan 1, 1601)


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