Proposal: Distributed Computing / Mining forum

Thanks Biffa!

I feel the DC should always have first 'dibs' on any special treatment as the dedication to many people to multiple projects there is amazing.

The mining forum would have a lot of 'lite' users who'd drop in for info and probably never hardly post - alongside the regulars of course! ;)
 
I would support a sub forum for mining.

Although I do not support the requirement for a qualification of entry, it goes against the principals of the internet.....freedom of information for the betterment of all !
 
Do you still want all other distributed computing type threads kept in this forum, or do you want to split out the specific OcUK team into it's own forum as well?
 
No we have been fine with the other Distributed projects in here, just put a separate Mining forum. Cheers Jokester
 
I was a seti nut - wouldn't exactly consider it useful though :p and the moment Kolala gets within a million or so of me then I will be switching back over to preserve my 6th place in the team.
This is just an interesting diversion for a while
 
I've been thinking the same for a while. I find it quite disappointing that the busiest threads by far are for mining with very little activity from, what I would call, traditional DC projects. We still have a lot of people participating in the traditional projects with good output for a team our size but very little discussion - certainly nothing like it used to be. There used to be a lot of activity in here; both with Folding and with BOINC but that has sadly tailed off in recent years. It seems people are still happy to participate but don't have the time or the inclination to discuss it much. A lot of the discussion used to be around optimising output but the BOINC and Folding clients these days are pretty much "set-it-and-forget-it" and need very little tweaking.

I don't know if a separate forum for mining would help increase the non-mining discussion but I think it deserves a place of it's own in order to not dilute what little discussion there is.

A couple of things I'd be interested to know regarding mining are:

  1. I wonder how much resources mining is taking away from traditional DC projects - i.e. How much resources have been switched from DC to mining and how many people would switch to DC if mining ended?
  2. I would assume that any profits from mining would be liable for tax. If so, I wonder how many people are actually paying tax or intend to :p
 
Stan_Lite said:
A couple of things I'd be interested to know regarding mining are:

  1. I wonder how much resources mining is taking away from traditional DC projects - i.e. How much resources have been switched from DC to mining and how many people would switch to DC if mining ended?
  2. I would assume that any profits from mining would be liable for tax. If so, I wonder how many people are actually paying tax or intend to :p
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I can only talk about my experience here.
I see this as a temporary thing, Im still a seti nut, always will be I guess but after 10 years of crunching, I quite like the idea that I can switch the power to something that will give me money. What I really like even more is that the current state of the miners is a bit like the good old days of boinc, endless tweaking of config files to squeeze that little bit more out of the miner ;)
Will I go back, most definitely, the first thing I did before considering my upcoming AMD purchase was to research whether seti was a decent option down the line, if the credit output was poor, then it would have been a no go.

Id imagine that this has hurt DC projects all over the world, (I cant be the only one who has stopped, just look at the team stats!) but I also believe that for mining, there has been a massive influx of people who have never used their machines for this type of thing before, so not every miner used to be a cruncher if you get my drift.
Im still watching my team rank and the moment it is threatened I will switch for a while to protect my ranking, so it does still matter for me, maybe not just as much as it used to, but Im still passionate about the idea of people around the world combining rigs to solve or further the understanding of science, that will never change
 
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edgedemon said:
Id imagine that this has hurt DC projects all over the world, (I cant be the only one who has stopped, just look at the team stats!) but I also believe that for mining, there has been a massive influx of people who have never used their machines for this type of thing before, so not every miner used to be a cruncher if you get my drift.
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I agree 100%. It would be nice to think that some of the newcomers would switch over to more altruistic projects at some point. Fingers crossed.

edgedemon said:
Im still watching my team rank and the moment it is threatened I will switch for a while to protect my ranking, so it does still matter for me, maybe not just as much as it used to, but Im still passionate about the idea of people around the world combining rigs to solve or further the understanding of science, that will never change
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I'm assuming you mean your Seti position and not combined - since I shot past you like a rocket in the combined table weeks ago :p
 
Stan_Lite said:
I agree 100%. It would be nice to think that some of the newcomers would switch over to more altruistic projects at some point. Fingers crossed.



I'm assuming you mean your Seti position and not combined - since I shot past you like a rocket in the combined table weeks ago :p
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:p:p:p

yeah, just seti, any other project was purely for backup and to keep the rig warm during the many frequent borkley outage periods.

Congrats on the combined ranking though, I actually looked to see, then got irritated and then started thinking.....
Once a cruncher, always a cruncher :D
 
edgedemon said:
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yeah, just seti, any other project was purely for backup and to keep the rig warm during the many frequent borkley outage periods.
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Borkley still having outages? Some things never change :rolleyes:

edgedemon said:
Congrats on the combined ranking though, I actually looked to see, then got irritated and then started thinking.....
Once a cruncher, always a cruncher :D
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Thanks. It's in the blood :)
 
I have 3 rigs mining, all have 3770Ks in them and all are currently crunching Boinc projects, the way I see it is mining pays for the leccy and then some, of course it does tie up the GPUs but I only have so many because of mining and when it went slack a few months back I switched them to poem@home and was hitting 4 million a day.

It would be nice if some of these new 24/7 miners with half decent CPUs would help out the OcUK team, it has no impact on mining and the difference between running and not running the CPU power wise is only 60W per machine for me.

Nice going on GPUGrid btw Stan.
 
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