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From merely a few months ago: I just heard a radio broadcast interview with the leader of an immunological and vaccine research team of Berlin Charité. The discussion turned to the sometimes very low efficiency of vaccines against seasonal flu. In this context, he stated that corona viruses have a s...

A few random thoughts: – sprint project announcements – 0 h period for disclosure of the sprint project sounds stressful. But it favors participants who bring just one or two computers, and smaller computers. I am not one of those participants myself, but I see this aspect as a plus. On the other ha...

From the figures which I have seen so far, the performance and performance/W difference between Rome and Milan is negligible in workloads which scale well to all cores, such as almost all BOINC projects which use CPU but not GPU. On the used market, there may occasionally be opportunities to snag so...

Today, an asteroid with the rather numerical name 2001 FO32 is going to pass Earth at a distance of 6.6e9 feet. Sounds close — and it is. But it's still several times the distance between Earth and Moon. Inhabitants of the South half of this rock, or near the equator, may have a peek if they bring g...

The challenge is now running since 9 hours, and "tasks ready to send" continues to be 0 or near 0 all the time. However, my comparably large computers are nevertheless able to maintain my desired ~10 hours deep work buffer, with merely a single client instance per computer, but of course w...

Right now it is somewhat difficult to receive tasks.

I was heating the home with TN-Grid lately. I'll tweak my setup now and check back tomorrow whether or not I will have to switch to some other project.

Looks like 5 day task deadlines, so that would be when to start "bunkering," Indeed, March 3, 12:00 UTC was the start of the bunkering period (for some). https://munin.kiska.pw/munin/Munin-Node/Munin-Node/results_tngrid.html TN-Grid's status is the same as during the past years: TN-Grid a...

Charts and maps of vaccination progress across the world, which vaccines are used where, and more:
https://ourworldindata.org/covid-vaccinations

(111 countries haven't started vaccinations yet, for various reasons.)

Latinsquares was down from Sunday till Friday. Posted: 19 Feb 2021, 20:12:47 UTC So, the electrical power was shout down for 3,5h on Sunday in all the municipal area and the very good news was that the UPS (that was supposed to function for one hour) lasted for all the time and it was not near to fi...

It's true. They also weren't among the earliest to bet on the viability of mRNA vaccines, but they had hopes for more classic vaccines, e.g. a French development which then went nowhere. Also, approval processes took more time than in some other countries (IMO, it's good to be thorough) although the...

Biontech/Pfizer on the other hand say that they take higher prices in countries with high incomes, vs. lower prices in countries with middle and lower incomes. Originally, Biontech/Pfizer asked the EU for € 54 per dose, presumably going by the economic damage which the pandemic causes to the EU. Thi...

SiDock has work again since a day ago.
Their ready-to-send figure follows their usual sawtooth pattern again, complete with the occasional tooth space.

The AstraZeneca vaccine costs the EU € 1.78 per unit. Countries such as Brazil, Saudi Arabia, South Africa pay € 5.25. Uganda has to pay $ 7, apparently. (€ 5.79?) It's good to be rich! Well, almost. One of the consequences is that the EU is receiving only half as much vaccine from AstraZeneca in th...

Each target consists of ~2 M workunits = ~4 M tasks. ( post by Crystal Pellet ) The remaining tasks of the 3rd target were sent to hosts during the night from Friday to Saturday. All but three have been returned by now. Workunits of the announced fourth targets are not available yet, i.e. there is c...

If they make [GT 1010's] TBP ≈20 W, not 30 W like reported, then it could be a 1:1 GT 710 replacement, which they then could phase out. I presume though that GP108, like the larger Pascal chips, does not include a D/A converter for VGA support anymore. GT 1030 cards with VGA output exist, but they ...

Originally, both <cpu_usage> and <gpu_usage> are doing the same: They inform boinc-client's task scheduler how the application behaves. But they do not control the application itself. Only a few applications (vboxwrapper and some other multithreaded applications) have re-purposed <cpu_usage> and use...

I am receiving new tasks now. The workunits are called TARGET_3_*. RxDock and CMDock work is available.

Target corona_PLpro_v1 is now at ≈91 %. Maybe the current ≈9,600 tasks in progress make up the missing 9 %. ( https://www.sidock.si/sidock/server_status.php ) We will soon finish the second target SARS-CoV-2 PL -Pro as well. I'm not sure what this means, but for now I interpret this as "We will...

If they make its TBP ≈20 W, not 30 W like reported, then it could be a 1:1 GT 710 replacement, which they then could phase out. (Did the Kepler based GT 710 already replace a prior Fermi based eponymous GT 710? — Edit, nope, the Fermi based one was called GT 705.)

Interesting read on Covid-19 variants. link Coincidentally, just now I heard a radio interview, recorded January 14, with an epidemiologist on the topic of the current mutations. It was said that there is a suspicion that immune escape is beginning now with the Brazilian variant, but it is not clea...

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While I never profiled its effects, I have mitigations off on all of my DC-dedicated computers.
It was a small nuisance to figure out how to set the GRUB config accordingly in Mint.
In OpenSuse, there is a dialogue for this in their central system management GUI.

January 1 --> 8 .............. 0 --> 27 % completion (average: 3.9 %/day)
January 8 --> 11 .......... 27 --> 44 % completion (average: 5.7 %/day — 10 days to go at this rate with this target)

From what I remember, the now long submerged Acoustics@home had better performance under Windows than under Linux. They linked the Windows build against a heavily optimized non-free math library, while the Linux build had to make do with a version which lacked all the optimizations.

HD 6450 ....... TeraScale 2 (Northern Islands) Caicos Pro ....... 625 MHz ..... 40 nm TSMC BTW, EPYC: As you probably know, I preferred to build dual-socket systems. Benefit: Half the amount of mainboards, PSUs, disks, network interfaces, BMCs/GPUs (and potentially: cases) compared to single socket ...

Some hardware specs: GT 1030 ............ Pascal GP108-300-A1 ................... 1228 MHz ..... 14 nm Samsung GTX 750 Ti ....... Maxwell GM107-400-A2 ................ 1020 MHz ..... 28 nm TSMC GT 730 .............. Kepler 2.0 GK208B ........................... 902 MHz ..... 28 nm TSMC GT 710 .........

Baseboard Management Controllers (BMCs) are not only low-power video cards, they also allow for remote management, even down to remote access to the BIOS. Downside: They don't come as add-in boards; you need to buy a mainboard with them. Related news: https://www.anandtech.com/show/16349/the-asrock-...

@Skillz you should get an SSL cert. Yeah I need to do some research on how to get that done. Haven't had time to do anything for a while now. If it requires $, let me know and I'll pay for it. Yes you can pay for one at like your domain provider but you can also get free ones so I would do that if ...

The last test completed now. I obtained the average of all task run times, calculated PPD and PPD/W from them, and edited them into the previous post. Conclusion: Performance of the GPU application is usable, but not exciting. One GTX 1080 Ti is equivalent to 19 Xeon E5 v4 threads, or to 14 EPYC Rom...

One more thing which I forgot to ask: Did you run a 32-bit Linux or a 64-bit Linux in the VM? BTW, I browsed top_hosts.php just now and looked at the reported GFLOPS of "Get Decic Fields 4.00" of some computers with same CPU but Windows versus Linux. The GFLOPS were all over the place. The...