Hello From Rainy Colorado!

RandyF

New Member
USA team member
Hi All! I've been aboard the team for a month or so, but wanted to drop by and say "hello"! Glad to be contributing to the team. I'm trying to tweak all parameters of Boinc, but welcome any suggestions. I think that I am operating more efficiently if I set my target CPU time to 16 hours, instead of 8, but any insight is appreciated. CRUNCH ON!Ryzen 3900X
 

Nick Name

Administrator
USA team member
Welcome to the team and forum, great to have you on board. Not sure what you're looking for in terms of efficiency, the default run time (using the Not Selected option in your project preferences) right now is 8 hours, so you'd return 2x the number of jobs in the same amount of time if you set run time to that. Several weeks ago 16 was the default but they quickly lowered that to 8. If 16 is working well for you it's ok to leave it. I was using the default but went to 4 hours a couple days ago so I can do more of the WCG Open Pandemic work.
 

RandyF

New Member
USA team member
Well, the electricity bill finally came...$360. Needless to say, the wife is NOT happy at all, and I have been "ordered" to forego crunching on my 7 computers at home. This is a sad day for me, but I will still be able to contribute "remotely", if not from home. Maybe I can *discretely* run an extension chord from my neighbor's house? lol! I will still contribute, albeit in a decreased capacity.
 

Nick Name

Administrator
USA team member
Well, the electricity bill finally came...$360. Needless to say, the wife is NOT happy at all, and I have been "ordered" to forego crunching on my 7 computers at home. This is a sad day for me, but I will still be able to contribute "remotely", if not from home. Maybe I can *discretely* run an extension chord from my neighbor's house? lol! I will still contribute, albeit in a decreased capacity.
She needs to get her priorities in order. :ROFLMAO: I feel your pain, most of us slow down in the summer time. I've shut my top machine down completely. Electricity here is fairly reasonable compared to the rest of the country but crunching costs me around $100/month normally. I keep the CPUs going on a couple systems at night but I don't run the GPUs when I have to run the air, it's just too expensive. Hopefully you can come back in the fall with the rest of us! :D
 
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