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Hi all,
A quick look here:
http://ubtstats.co.uk/ubt/millions2.php?cs=2&sz=2
...and you'll see that currently we have 874 "Project Millionaires" - that is projects where members have achieved at least 1,000,000 credits on said project.
So, at some point soon, we'll be crossing into new territory - having 1,000 Project Millionaires.
Any one fancy a little "compy" predicting WHEN this might happen?
Reply with your prediction and the nearest guess, (that is made no sooner than a fortnight before the time when it actually happens), will earn themselves something chocolatey and biscuity...
regards
Tim
Predictions made so far:
UBT - Timbo - 15th June 2016
hgblade - 26th June 2016
Woodles - 2nd August 2016
A quick look here:
http://ubtstats.co.uk/ubt/millions2.php?cs=2&sz=2
...and you'll see that currently we have 874 "Project Millionaires" - that is projects where members have achieved at least 1,000,000 credits on said project.
So, at some point soon, we'll be crossing into new territory - having 1,000 Project Millionaires.
Any one fancy a little "compy" predicting WHEN this might happen?
Reply with your prediction and the nearest guess, (that is made no sooner than a fortnight before the time when it actually happens), will earn themselves something chocolatey and biscuity...
regards
Tim
Predictions made so far:
UBT - Timbo - 15th June 2016
hgblade - 26th June 2016
Woodles - 2nd August 2016
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Hi Tim
I'll give this a go, even if it's only to try and keep Mark from the 'something chocolatey and biscuit"
26th June 2016.
Keith
I'll give this a go, even if it's only to try and keep Mark from the 'something chocolatey and biscuit"
26th June 2016.
Keith
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Hi All,
So we need another 26 millionaires? Seems achievable.
I shall go for August 2nd 2016
Mark
So we need another 26 millionaires? Seems achievable.
Why, what's wrong with things being chocolatey and biscuity and minehgblade wrote:I'll give this a go, even if it's only to try and keep Mark from the 'something chocolatey and biscuit"
I shall go for August 2nd 2016
Mark
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Re: Millionaires Club
Hi all,
We now have 888 "Millionaires" in the club, so to speak
Just need 112 more and we'll have ONE Thousand Millionaires....that's some going by anyone's reckoning
regards
Tim
We now have 888 "Millionaires" in the club, so to speak
Just need 112 more and we'll have ONE Thousand Millionaires....that's some going by anyone's reckoning
regards
Tim
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Am I missing some change to mathematics here - don't we need 112 more to reach 1000???UBT - Timbo wrote:Hi all,
We now have 888 "Millionaires" in the club, so to speak
Just need 12 more and we'll have ONE Thousand Millionaires....that's some going by anyone's reckoning
regards
Tim
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hgblade wrote:Am I missing some change to mathematics here - don't we need 112 more to reach 1000???UBT - Timbo wrote:Hi all,
We now have 888 "Millionaires" in the club, so to speak
Just need 12 more and we'll have ONE Thousand Millionaires....that's some going by anyone's reckoning
regards
Tim
Keith
Oops.... yup - well spotted.....I have only one excuse - I've picked up a cold while I was down in Londinium over the weekend and I had to take a day off work, and I've had headache throughout the day....I'll correct the original "error".
regards and thanks
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Hi Nicknick wrote:i just made 874 so I guess we lost some people since the first post
If you look here:
http://ubtstats.co.uk/ubt/ubt_members2. ... &sz=2&rp=0
you can see who has left the team recently...and hence if they *were* Millionaire Club members, then they aren't now
Shame really - esp as most/all of those who've left (to my knowledge) have never been members of the forum, so if they had any gripes, we could have helped sort them out. C'est la vie.
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I'm a millionaire! (Well, in credits - if I was a real millionaire, I'd go out and but more putes for BOINC! )
Chris
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Congratulations Chris, if credits were pounds, I think there would be a few more people crunching!
(I'd probably look into getting a Cray or two )
Mark
(I'd probably look into getting a Cray or two )
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Thanks and I'm sure there would! You'd be a multi-billionaire!!
What are Crays? They sound like they could be cool
Chris
What are Crays? They sound like they could be cool
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Have a look here Chris http://www.cray.com/products/computing
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Woah! They look amazing!
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The original supercomputers and still hold 6 of the top ten world places
How do you fancy half a million Xeon cores running Enigma?
... Although the electricity bill might go up a bit!
How do you fancy half a million Xeon cores running Enigma?
... Although the electricity bill might go up a bit!
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ill take 2 pleaseWoodles wrote:Have a look here Chris http://www.cray.com/products/computing
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Half a million cores?! How much is a Cray, anyway?
Chris
I'll take as many as they can give me!ill take 2 please
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You can get a two year old, cut price one for half a million dollars, that has 6144 cores and only produces 225 Teraflops though.UBT - Chris wrote:Half a million cores?! How much is a Cray, anyway?
The top of the range machine is expected to scale to just over 1 million cores but at the moment, only manages 560,640 cores to produce 27,112.5 Teraflops according to the list of the top 500 supercomputers (second place behind Tianhe-2)
It was a $60 million upgrade to Jaguar so not a new build, probably touching $100 million from scratch.
Doubt you'll find any on EBAY
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Hi ChrisUBT - Chris wrote:Woah! They look amazing!
But take a look at these:
http://www.craysupercomputers.com/crayXMP.htm
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So even if all of UBT pitched in, they'd probably be wayyyy out of our price range
If a Cray came on to the BOINC system, I'm guessing we'd really notice a difference! The total power it the moment is ~170,000 Teraflops - if a 27,000 Teraflop computer came online, that would just be amazing!
Imagine it running 20GH/s BU tasks! You'd get a few hundred credits there (Theoretically about 45 Trillion A DAY!)
Chris
If a Cray came on to the BOINC system, I'm guessing we'd really notice a difference! The total power it the moment is ~170,000 Teraflops - if a 27,000 Teraflop computer came online, that would just be amazing!
Imagine it running 20GH/s BU tasks! You'd get a few hundred credits there (Theoretically about 45 Trillion A DAY!)
Chris
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Hi ChrisUBT - Chris wrote:So even if all of UBT pitched in, they'd probably be wayyyy out of our price range
If a Cray came on to the BOINC system, I'm guessing we'd really notice a difference! The total power it the moment is ~170,000 Teraflops - if a 27,000 Teraflop computer came online, that would just be amazing!
Imagine it running 20GH/s BU tasks! You'd get a few hundred credits there (Theoretically about 45 Trillion A DAY!)
Chris
It's all about "the numbers game" in computing. And if you think about it, we're now getting into the era of affordable multi-CPU PC's....even on the desktop, there are now dual CPU Xeon Haswell motherboards, that can run 48 or even 72 "cores" (if you use Hyper-Threading)...!!
http://www.titancomputers.com/Titan-X55 ... p/x550.htm
And a while back (2009), Intel was experimenting with 80 core CPU's
http://www.pcworld.com/article/183653/I ... iency.html
And of course, NVidia and AMD/ATI now have multiple "cores" in their GPU's, which makes them ideal for number crunching on BOINC
Crays of course were using "parallel processing", which Windows doesn't really support, though it might at some point in the future.
Of course, if you had a little bit of money, you could rent processing power from Amazon (AWS) or Microsoft (Azure) - start with a server, add an OS - say a nice flavour of Linux, install BOINC and scale the workload, based on how much you wanted to spend (no. of CPU's, bandwidth, etc).
For not a lot of money one could easily earn a huge stash of credits on some CPU projects.....hmmm, now that's an idea !!
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I'll look in to that server thing, Tim
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Well, I said I'd look into it, and I did!
I used Windows Azure and (using my £125 free credit from my trial) created a VM which should last for about 15 days
I'll update you on how much credit it earns, so fingers crossed it will do well!
Here's it's CPID, so anyone who is looking in to one can see how it's doing: http://boincstats.com/en/stats/-1/host/ ... a008196e50 (within the first hour, it's crunched 4 E@H tasks and 2 Goofy tasks, with 15 active tasks )
Chris
I used Windows Azure and (using my £125 free credit from my trial) created a VM which should last for about 15 days
I'll update you on how much credit it earns, so fingers crossed it will do well!
Here's it's CPID, so anyone who is looking in to one can see how it's doing: http://boincstats.com/en/stats/-1/host/ ... a008196e50 (within the first hour, it's crunched 4 E@H tasks and 2 Goofy tasks, with 15 active tasks )
Chris
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HI ChrisUBT - Chris wrote:Well, I said I'd look into it, and I did!
I used Windows Azure and (using my £125 free credit from my trial) created a VM which should last for about 15 days
I'll update you on how much credit it earns, so fingers crossed it will do well!
Here's it's CPID, so anyone who is looking in to one can see how it's doing: http://boincstats.com/en/stats/-1/host/ ... a008196e50 (within the first hour, it's crunched 4 E@H tasks and 2 Goofy tasks, with 15 active tasks )
Chris
Excellent work
TBH, I've been busy what with work and stuff to actually look into doing this. Seems like's it's pretty simple and straightforward, so I'll maybe take a look at it more closely this Easter.
Now, what would be good, is if you have a Bitcoin account and use the funds from that to pay for the Azure hosting I wonder how much electricity you'd have to pay for, to earn enough Bitcoins to be able to afford some Azure crunching ? (This is hypothetical - no actual figures required )
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Hi Tim,
That would be good then on each VM, you could run another bitcoin client (without ASIC), but still earn a little bit back
It's doing well for itself so far, but it disconnected over the weekend (I made it error out by accident), but I was away over the weekend, so I've only just fixed it (missing out on ~10,000 credits )
Chris
That would be good then on each VM, you could run another bitcoin client (without ASIC), but still earn a little bit back
It's doing well for itself so far, but it disconnected over the weekend (I made it error out by accident), but I was away over the weekend, so I've only just fixed it (missing out on ~10,000 credits )
Chris
'UBT - Chris' is my old name - I now crunch as 'CaffeinatedSloth' but I'm still 100% UBT