[QUOTE=chalsall;388118]It really is quite easy. I'd suggest you sign up for EC2, and experiment with their "Free Teir" offer; gives you two "t1.micro" instances (one Linux and one Winblows) to experiement with for a year for free. Not powerful enough to do much LL'ing (and no GPU'ing), but a good way to get comfortable with the UI, creating and mounting volumes, etc.

If you're interested, I could probably figure out how to export my AMI (already configured with CUDA) for you to use.[/QUOTE]

That reminds me, I should really get that AMI I talked about building, built.

I would include Prime95/mprime, but I'm not sure about the licensing issues.

I've been avoiding using EC2 for the project because I'd rather spent the month's worth of expense on a used GTX 580's. But I haven't bought any more either lol.

[QUOTE=chalsall;388118]It really is quite easy. I'd suggest you sign up for EC2, and experiment with their "Free Teir" offer; gives you two "t1.micro" instances (one Linux and one Winblows) to experiement with for a year for free.[/QUOTE]Maybe I'll do that over the holidays.

I know it's not much, but I picked up a batch of 100 DC-TF assignments a few days ago. They should be complete tomorrow.

[QUOTE=ixfd64;388180]I know it's not much, but I picked up a batch of 100 DC-TF assignments a few days ago. They should be complete tomorrow.[/QUOTE]

Everybody's work is incremental on some scale, (except for Curtis Cooper, of course.) :smile:

[QUOTE=kladner;388187]Everybody's work is incremental on some scale, (except for Curtis Cooper, of course.) :smile:[/QUOTE]

He doesn't factor. He's too good for us lowly pond scum.

My only remaining TF system has been flaky lately and it finally took a dump. I've been working to get it back up, but the CPU fan went bad now so I have to wait until it comes in the mail. With Thanksgiving, will probably be a week or so :glare:

[QUOTE=flashjh;388202]With Thanksgiving, will probably be a week or so :glare:[/QUOTE]

Sorry to hear that; thanks for the head's up.

[QUOTE=chalsall;388053]It isn't, but as Mark said, it's not needed.[/QUOTE]

Eeeeep! Spoke too soon... Having had some time to see the empirical rates, we're still behind!

Over the last week we've done on average ~926 per day to 71, while the DC Cat4 "churners" have requested on average almost exactly 1,400 assignments per day over the last nine days!

Thus, I'm going to start giving out DC TF to 71 work for those who ask for LL TF work with the "Let GPU72 Decide" option set.

Those who don't want to do any DC TF'ing choose any other option (including "What makes sense"). Every option other than LG72D will only ever give LL TF work.

Alternatively, those willing to help out with the DC TF "surge", please either set the option to be LG72D, or explicitely ask for DC TF work (preferably to 71, but to 70 would help to).

Edit: Oh, and so everyone knows, because of the "churn" being moved from LL to DC, we could go for several months without doing any additional LL TF'ing and still not hand out anything at less than 74. This means we should be able to start going to 75 in the appropriate LL ranges when this DC surge is finished.

Grabbing another 10kGHd

[QUOTE=chalsall;388330]Eeeeep! Spoke too soon... Having had some time to see the empirical rates, we're still behind!

Over the last week we've done on average ~926 per day to 71, while the DC Cat4 "churners" have requested on average almost exactly 1,400 assignments per day over the last nine days!
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Some people were a bit late in jumping on board, finishing up LLTF work I imagine. I see now on mersenne.info that 1831 factors were moved 69 to 71 yesterday. The day before it was 1100, and the day before that 1000. If we can keep up yesterday's pace we'll be okay.

[QUOTE=Mark Rose;388336]If we can keep up yesterday's pace we'll be okay.[/QUOTE]

If. Such an important word... :wink: :smile:

Until we pull out of this (downward) glide in DC, it might be fun to "watch the numbers" and possibly react (or not). :smile: