Would very much like to hear about your African adventures, if you care to share them with us. Yeah, one of my favorite movies as a kid was "King Solomon's Mines" (50s version). Maybe even had something to do with going into Anthropology as a field of study. Your experience with mining in Africa fits right in...[url=http://arstechnica.com/civis/viewtopic.php?p=26941921#p26941921:2rs32h4f said:
[TPR] GIMPS Perpetual Thread: Part 13 - A 'prime' thread to announce M48 and find M49
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I would be pleased to share them. Hmmm anthropology - how about a ritual, where I was invited to smoke some kind of substances. I later learned the drug was mixed with dried human flesh ... is this bizarre enough? 
Really? I want to keep using an antique 8400GS, but the serber boart I have chosen could run multiple cards. Trouble is that these cards can't run themselves ... I would lose a core or two. I have to settle on a six core xeon for now, so cores are scarce.
[url=http://arstechnica.com/civis/viewtopic.php?p=25938183#p25938183:1xctp31e said:
Actually, you can TF on the GPU without feeding it from a CPU.[url=http://arstechnica.com/civis/viewtopic.php?p=26947545#p26947545:2bmxnund said:
http://www.mersenneforum.org/mfaktc/mfaktc-0.20/
(Note that this is the program for Nvidia cards.)
Yes. Just resurrected the Ars Technica login, but P95 crunching never ceased for me. (Did I start in something like 2002?!) True, I progressively lost access to the whole farm I had previously, but a new box added recently and I'm apparently number 5 producer on TPR - so that can't be much of a challenge these days
[url=http://arstechnica.com/civis/viewtopic.php?p=28017087#p28017087:3s53ana3 said:
I've been messing around with mfaktc on my Windows 7 dual GTX 460 box. It's quite a pain manually downloading work and uploading results. My worktodo has run dry a few times when I miscalculated how much I'd need. Is there anything to automate this? I've read about MISFIT, how do you set it up?
I manually feed my GPUs once a week. The workload is pretty consistent so I just reserve a little extra.[url=http://arstechnica.com/civis/viewtopic.php?p=28400905#p28400905:1dg2mdri said:
Are you using the GPU72 interface to get work?
Software: http://www.mersenneforum.org/misfit/
Support forum, lots of help: http://www.mersenneforum.org/forumdisplay.php?f=103
If you post for help there they will hook you up.
[url=http://arstechnica.com/civis/viewtopic.php?p=29002055#p29002055:38kskbzg said:
That's quite true. Look where I was when you last posted this in January compared to now. Although I have done some first time and double check tests, most of that is trial factoring on my GPUs.
I think I started in 1994 or 1995 (there were only about 300 of us or so then). I remember having to email results to George and manually request new exponents to test. Those were the days...;-)
My summer slowdown is starting as I don't need as many "heaters" running in the house.
My summer slowdown is starting as I don't need as many "heaters" running in the house.
woo, just turned it back on; i'm in the top 15 over the past week or something, crazy.
where are those nifty stats from?
edit: whoops. I'm not part of TPR, but of TPR-SoB!
where are those nifty stats from?
edit: whoops. I'm not part of TPR, but of TPR-SoB!
http://www.mersenne.org/primes/?press=M74207281
Well, that worked!
Lets see... I wish for another prime next month! Is anyone here?
The DCA is a shadow of its former self. I still look in regularly and still crunch for Team Prime Rib.
Missed my anniversary:
viewtopic.php?p=14162732#p14162732
and I need to get my iMac back on prime95, the HD crash in the fusion drive was annoying but running just on the SSD now. heh
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and I need to get my iMac back on prime95, the HD crash in the fusion drive was annoying but running just on the SSD now. heh
Glad to hear that you're well! As far as CPUs, consider Ryzen 2700 for low power (8 core/16HT and 65w) and it still will probably outperform most xeons. For max performance think about Threadripper. Personally if you want that much crunching power I'd consider just getting 2 Ryzen machines.
Worth having a read of the front page of www.gpu72.com
Interesting developments for crunching ...
Interesting developments for crunching ...
Maybe I'm dense this morning but I just see an announcement with no links on how to do it or concrete next steps.
Click on Colaboratory on front page, then click on gpu72_tf
You will need to have a username with gpu72 and also you will need to get an access key, also shown on the front page.
Then click on 'Execute" button and it will then just start, and you get the chance to crunch with either a Tesla K80 or P100, for 12 hour slots. Then leave it for 12 hours, and then start again, and then ditto
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You will need to have a username with gpu72 and also you will need to get an access key, also shown on the front page.
Then click on 'Execute" button and it will then just start, and you get the chance to crunch with either a Tesla K80 or P100, for 12 hour slots. Then leave it for 12 hours, and then start again, and then ditto
Send me a PM if you still don't follow
That worked. The announcement did give enough details about that they were announcing. I couldn't even figure out they were giving away time.