[QUOTE=TheMawn;373519]I've got about 600 myself and I'm in the top-20 yearly GIMPS contributors for TF, so 300 itself is quite substantial. Every bit helps, but don't be surprised by your impact over time.[/QUOTE]
Yes, I'm well aware of that. I'm currently ranked #60 this year and #49 overall for TF. A few days ago I reached the 100,000 GHzdays overall milestone :). I can scale up to 1000GHzdays/day with GPUs that are collecting dust at the moment. But the heat, noise and electricity costs are preventing me from doing that (electricity is very expensive in the Netherlands).

Yes, every little bit helps(I suppose).

But I still feel/[I]am [/I]microscopic with 360GHz.

[QUOTE=kracker;373555]But I still feel/[I]am [/I]microscopic with 360GHz.[/QUOTE]

Hey, I can currently bring less GPU firepower to bear than that (because the only machine which I currently have control over and can host a GPU does "real work" during the day), and I run GPU72! :smile:

As helpful as ~600 GHz-days/day might be, I am going offline starting tomorrow. I'll be up and running again on May 24.

I shall be off to Paris. Looking forward to the show at Le Moulin Rouge.


To be honest, the little superstitious part of me has a great feeling about this trip. I grab my TF assignments from GPU72 in batches of 100 per GPU, and both GPUs are looking like they will finish [I]just[/I] before I have to turn off my PC. I have a workout scheduled for today, and I have exactly enough episodes of the TV show I am watching to finish the season today, and exactly enough ingredients to make my post-workout smoothie.

[QUOTE=TheMawn;373576]As helpful as ~600 GHz-days/day might be, I am going offline starting tomorrow. I'll be up and running again on May 24.

I shall be off to Paris. Looking forward to the show at Le Moulin Rouge.[/QUOTE]

Thanks for the head's up (and you already pre-announced this, but thanks for the follow up).

I hope you can speak French to the French, to their tolerances.

I understand (from my sister, who can speak four languages fluently, and lived in France for four years) that the French generally refuse to understand English, even if they can.

And that the French in France look down on those who speak "Quebec French" as being "too colloquial", and the Quebec French consider the France French as "too snooty".

What is the Chinese saying? Oh, yeah... "May you live in interesting times....

[QUOTE=chalsall;373591]I hope you can speak French to the French, to their tolerances.

I understand (from my sister, who can speak four languages fluently, and lived in France for four years) that the French generally refuse to understand English, even if they can.

And that the French in France look down on those who speak "Quebec French" as being "too colloquial", and the Quebec French consider the France French as "too snooty".

What is the Chinese saying? Oh, yeah... "May you live in interesting times....[/QUOTE]

Hahahaha that is my favourite Chinese saying ever. I'll be sure to use it whenever I can from now on.

Well I belong to the Québec French in all above aspects. The only notion that isn't 100% correct is that they will refuse to understand English. In my experience, they will prefer English to Québecois.

On the other hand, if you starve them of French for long enough, they'll take whatever they can. Our French summer students at the lab last year started speaking to us in French again after a few days.

[SUB][SUB]Nyehh nyehh heh heh hehehehehe[/SUB][/SUB]


EDIT: What is interesting however is I find it a lot easier to step my French up to acceptable levels than English, despite being better at English. My English is already at a higher level, but I could please a snooty Frenchman much more easily than a snooty Englishman. Still, I'm sure the snooty Englishman would accept to understand me. A few years ago, we had a French summer student who was pretty high on the snootiometer. I was six or seven sentences in until he realized I was speaking French. And no, my French isn't that bad...

yep, this is the worst curse ever....

If anyone is successful in getting CUDA running on Ubuntu 12.04.4 or 14.04 please let us know.

[url=http://www.mersenneforum.org/showpost.php?p=365319&postcount=2301]We had it working via the package manager on 12.04.1[/url] but it is horribly broken now.

:help:

[QUOTE=Xyzzy;373606]If anyone is successful in getting CUDA running on Ubuntu 12.04.4 or 14.04 please let us know.

[URL="http://www.mersenneforum.org/showpost.php?p=365319&postcount=2301"]We had it working via the package manager on 12.04.1[/URL] but it is horribly broken now.

:help:[/QUOTE]
Works for me with driver and CUDA-Package from nvidia site.

BTW: I just finished my overdue assignments today and will take down my cards for a while (about 2500 GHz/d per day) due to heat issues. I definitely need to go for water cooling...

[QUOTE]Works for me with driver and CUDA-Package from nvidia site.[/QUOTE]You are talking about the .RUN installer? If so, we tried that and it failed to install numerous times.

[url]https://developer.nvidia.com/cuda-toolkit-55-archive[/url]

[QUOTE=blip;373649]Works for me with driver and CUDA-Package from nvidia site.

BTW: I just finished my overdue assignments today and will take down my cards for a while (about 2500 GHz/d per day) due to heat issues. I definitely need to go for water cooling...[/QUOTE]

You could try under-clocking them to keep thermals under control. I've pulled down one of my overclocks for that reason, though the weather has turned back cool* after a week which hit 90 F, so it probably isn't necessary just now. [INDENT]*including reports of snow in the Chicago suburbs, away from the lake.
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