General Chit Chat on PG

[chooka03]

Checkout this runtime!

http://www.primegrid.com/workunit.php?wuid=665270780

1,026,507.35sec for this SoB w/u.(My wingman)

They finished (if I read it right) 12 days after me lol

A minutes silence for that poor, poor i3-9100. 

[chooka03]

I was curious about tng's computers. He has over 500 active PC's crunching PG. I asked him about it and this was his response -

https://thescience.cloud/

Created by the founder of PG apparently.

[turbo0]

I just added $15 credit to test it out, setup is super easy. Not sure how the compares to other cloud computing services but I'm just running 1 CPU as a test costing 1cent an hour. 500 PC's is crazy

I think I found them https://www.boincstats.com/stats/11/host/list/0/0/66603

[chooka03]

Yep, that's tng!
THAT.....is why I don't get hung up on competing at BOINC. There's nothing level about the playing field 

[Dingo]

Still expensive:  6 CPU cores - Xeon E5-2650 v4, Xeon Gold 6140 CPU or similar   $0.1262 per hour (Rest of world, no VAT) =  $92.13 a Month

I have four dedicated servers that are all 4 core / 8 thread and I pay $53.54 CAD ($56.10 AUD) each a month from https://www.soyoustart.com/us/game-servers/

I have no other association with soyoustart and do not receive any $$ from them.

[tazzduke]

Well I am now going badge hunting and will be for the rest of August on Primegrid

Primehunting as gone out the window, on GFN15, started off running around 70 percent 1st's, then it just kept on dropping till around 25 percent 1st's.

Ouch. lol

[zsalter]

Still expensive:  6 CPU cores - Xeon E5-2650 v4, Xeon Gold 6140 CPU or similar   $0.1262 per hour (Rest of world, no VAT) =  $92.13 a Month

I have four dedicated servers that are all 4 core / 8 thread and I pay $53.54 CAD ($56.10 AUD) each a month from https://www.soyoustart.com/us/game-servers/

I have no other association with soyoustart and do not receive any $$ from them.

'How'd you manage to get four for that price?! Looks like you can buy 1 for $50 a month? That's a pretty sweet setup for you though!

[Dingo]

'How'd you manage to get four for that price?! Looks like you can buy 1 for $50 a month? That's a pretty sweet setup for you though!

They are still there at that price but from the USA I think.  There is a setup fee for each one unless you pay for 6 months or a year.