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I installed Clear Linux on a drive and saw negligible improvement over Pop!_OS. It may be good for compute loads, but little things like getting the printer to work are a pain. Available apps are limited compared to Ubuntu, Linux Mint, and Pop!_OS. I still keep going back to Windows 11...

Intel Core i9 11900K: Five Linux Distros Show Sizable Lead Over Windows 11

A photo of my Antec case.

We don't have a team at BOINC Central. It isn't urgent. There is no work yet available.

I had a mining rig and sold the components other than power supplies, hard drives, and the rack. When I built my current computer, the Aorus Z590 Pro AX with an Intel i9-10850K, I put it in the mining rig rack. It is convenient, but it is bulky and ugly. I decided to put it in a case since...

BOINC.USA (236370) Earned 500,014,117 points by contributing 3,583 work units Folding@home

I have installed Ubuntu 23.10 and ran BOINC benchmarks. On the supposedly fast Nobara (Fedora-based): Measured floating-point speed: was 6.9 billion ops/sec and the measured integer speed: ~21 billion ops/sec. (Pop!_OS was faster with 7.3 billion ops/sec, floating point.) Ubuntu 23.10...

The big anthrax scare got me started with United Devices, the precursor of World Community Grid. Oops! I meant to say 2002, not 1992. (My son's computer was connected by dial-up to Charlotte, NC, to get on the internet in 1995.)

World Community Grid has broken my addiction to distributed computing. I started in January of 1992 and I no longer have a need to use up to 1400 Watts of power for a computer. I'll be around but I won't be running hard.

Here's a Linux distro that Windows users could learn to love: Nobara. I am running BOINC on it.

I mean 100% passive such as those by Compulab. I gave my old one away. It is neat to do everything except crunch on a computer smaller than a router and some modems.

I sold my Dell Nvidia RTX 3080 10GB on eBay today. The bidding surpassed my "buy it now" price by $30. It sold for $355 + shipping. I had previously sold my RTX Titan X Pascal, and this leaves me without a crunching GPU. I plan to put my computer in a case and get rid of the mining rack or...

My rural home is two miles from a road with white lines. My ISP has announced that I can now get 2.5 ($120/month) and 10 Gbps (call for pricing) service. I'd be tempted but I've found few downloading servers that can provide over 500 Mbps.

There appears to be complete disregard for project preferences in version: 8.1.18.

I cannot continue. My computer is running GPU only tasks on two video cards, and it is pulling 685 Watts. This would be good in the heating season but is insane in July.

I am setup and ready to start the Math Day 2.0 Challenge. It starts two hours from now.

Summer has arrived after a cool spring. If I can be practical, I will stop crunching until the heat generated by my computer is not working against the HVAC system. I wonder how long I can keep the "No new tasks" setting? o_O

I have paused my rig for a short while. My air conditioner is working hard to keep the house cool, and the voltage has dropped to 107. Edit: The house cooled three degrees in an hour. I am running GPUs only to save ~200 Watts. Power consumption was ~950 Watts, and that exceeds the power used...

Two kept the Titan X busy, but the RTX 3080 was not utilized fully. I did not have success setting for 3 tasks/GPU but I may have been impatient. I'll reduce the tasks/GPU and see if the 3080 stays busy. Edit: Full utilization with three tasks per GPU.

Team USA is now in 8th place. Since getting into 39th place in the listing of Top Computers, I have been looking at the results of my competitors. I am surprised that most of them do not run CPU tasks, even those with 128 processors! I am going to deplete my CPU tasks in queue and see how it...