UK BOINC Team Forum

Hi all,

A quick look here:

http://ubtstats.co.uk/ubt/millions2.php?cs=2&sz=2

...and you'll see that currently we have 874 "Project Millionaires" - that is projects where members have achieved at least 1,000,000 credits on said project.

So, at some point soon, we'll be crossing into new territory - having 1,000 Project Millionaires.

Any one fancy a little "compy" predicting WHEN this might happen?

Reply with your prediction and the nearest guess, (that is made no sooner than a fortnight before the time when it actually happens), will earn themselves something chocolatey and biscuity...

regards
Tim

Predictions made so far:

UBT - Timbo - 15th June 2016
hgblade - 26th June 2016
Woodles - 2nd August 2016

Hi Tim

I'll give this a go, even if it's only to try and keep Mark from the 'something chocolatey and biscuit"

26th June 2016.

Keith

Hi All,

So we need another 26 millionaires? Seems achievable.

hgblade wrote:I'll give this a go, even if it's only to try and keep Mark from the 'something chocolatey and biscuit"

Why, what's wrong with things being chocolatey and biscuity and mine

I shall go for August 2nd 2016

Mark

Hi all,

We now have 888 "Millionaires" in the club, so to speak

Just need 112 more and we'll have ONE Thousand Millionaires....that's some going by anyone's reckoning

regards
Tim

UBT - Timbo wrote:Hi all,

We now have 888 "Millionaires" in the club, so to speak

Just need 12 more and we'll have ONE Thousand Millionaires....that's some going by anyone's reckoning

regards
Tim

Am I missing some change to mathematics here - don't we need 112 more to reach 1000???

Keith

hgblade wrote:

UBT - Timbo wrote:Hi all,

We now have 888 "Millionaires" in the club, so to speak

Just need 12 more and we'll have ONE Thousand Millionaires....that's some going by anyone's reckoning

regards
Tim

Am I missing some change to mathematics here - don't we need 112 more to reach 1000???

Keith

Oops.... yup - well spotted.....I have only one excuse - I've picked up a cold while I was down in Londinium over the weekend and I had to take a day off work, and I've had headache throughout the day....I'll correct the original "error".

regards and thanks
Tim

i just made 874 so I guess we lost some people since the first post

nick wrote:i just made 874 so I guess we lost some people since the first post

Hi Nick

If you look here:

http://ubtstats.co.uk/ubt/ubt_members2. ... &sz=2&rp=0

you can see who has left the team recently...and hence if they *were* Millionaire Club members, then they aren't now

Shame really - esp as most/all of those who've left (to my knowledge) have never been members of the forum, so if they had any gripes, we could have helped sort them out. C'est la vie.

regards
Tim

wow homefarm was a big loss les bins too

I'm a millionaire! (Well, in credits - if I was a real millionaire, I'd go out and but more putes for BOINC! )

Chris

Congratulations Chris, if credits were pounds, I think there would be a few more people crunching!

(I'd probably look into getting a Cray or two )

Mark

Thanks and I'm sure there would! You'd be a multi-billionaire!!

What are Crays? They sound like they could be cool

Chris

Have a look here Chris http://www.cray.com/products/computing

Woah! They look amazing!

The original supercomputers and still hold 6 of the top ten world places

How do you fancy half a million Xeon cores running Enigma?

... Although the electricity bill might go up a bit!

Woodles wrote:Have a look here Chris http://www.cray.com/products/computing

ill take 2 please

Half a million cores?! How much is a Cray, anyway?

ill take 2 please

I'll take as many as they can give me!

Chris

UBT - Chris wrote:Half a million cores?! How much is a Cray, anyway?

You can get a two year old, cut price one for half a million dollars, that has 6144 cores and only produces 225 Teraflops though.

The top of the range machine is expected to scale to just over 1 million cores but at the moment, only manages 560,640 cores to produce 27,112.5 Teraflops according to the list of the top 500 supercomputers (second place behind Tianhe-2)

It was a $60 million upgrade to Jaguar so not a new build, probably touching $100 million from scratch.

Doubt you'll find any on EBAY

Mark

UBT - Chris wrote:Woah! They look amazing!

Hi Chris

But take a look at these:

http://www.craysupercomputers.com/crayXMP.htm

regards
Tim

So even if all of UBT pitched in, they'd probably be wayyyy out of our price range

If a Cray came on to the BOINC system, I'm guessing we'd really notice a difference! The total power it the moment is ~170,000 Teraflops - if a 27,000 Teraflop computer came online, that would just be amazing!

Imagine it running 20GH/s BU tasks! You'd get a few hundred credits there (Theoretically about 45 Trillion A DAY!)

Chris

UBT - Chris wrote:So even if all of UBT pitched in, they'd probably be wayyyy out of our price range

If a Cray came on to the BOINC system, I'm guessing we'd really notice a difference! The total power it the moment is ~170,000 Teraflops - if a 27,000 Teraflop computer came online, that would just be amazing!

Imagine it running 20GH/s BU tasks! You'd get a few hundred credits there (Theoretically about 45 Trillion A DAY!)

Chris

Hi Chris

It's all about "the numbers game" in computing. And if you think about it, we're now getting into the era of affordable multi-CPU PC's....even on the desktop, there are now dual CPU Xeon Haswell motherboards, that can run 48 or even 72 "cores" (if you use Hyper-Threading)...!!

http://www.titancomputers.com/Titan-X55 ... p/x550.htm

And a while back (2009), Intel was experimenting with 80 core CPU's

http://www.pcworld.com/article/183653/I ... iency.html

And of course, NVidia and AMD/ATI now have multiple "cores" in their GPU's, which makes them ideal for number crunching on BOINC

Crays of course were using "parallel processing", which Windows doesn't really support, though it might at some point in the future.

Of course, if you had a little bit of money, you could rent processing power from Amazon (AWS) or Microsoft (Azure) - start with a server, add an OS - say a nice flavour of Linux, install BOINC and scale the workload, based on how much you wanted to spend (no. of CPU's, bandwidth, etc).

For not a lot of money one could easily earn a huge stash of credits on some CPU projects.....hmmm, now that's an idea !!

regards
Tim

I'll look in to that server thing, Tim

Chris

Well, I said I'd look into it, and I did!

I used Windows Azure and (using my £125 free credit from my trial) created a VM which should last for about 15 days

I'll update you on how much credit it earns, so fingers crossed it will do well!

Here's it's CPID, so anyone who is looking in to one can see how it's doing: http://boincstats.com/en/stats/-1/host/ ... a008196e50 (within the first hour, it's crunched 4 E@H tasks and 2 Goofy tasks, with 15 active tasks )

Chris

UBT - Chris wrote:Well, I said I'd look into it, and I did!

I used Windows Azure and (using my £125 free credit from my trial) created a VM which should last for about 15 days

I'll update you on how much credit it earns, so fingers crossed it will do well!

Here's it's CPID, so anyone who is looking in to one can see how it's doing: http://boincstats.com/en/stats/-1/host/ ... a008196e50 (within the first hour, it's crunched 4 E@H tasks and 2 Goofy tasks, with 15 active tasks )

Chris

HI Chris

Excellent work

TBH, I've been busy what with work and stuff to actually look into doing this. Seems like's it's pretty simple and straightforward, so I'll maybe take a look at it more closely this Easter.

Now, what would be good, is if you have a Bitcoin account and use the funds from that to pay for the Azure hosting I wonder how much electricity you'd have to pay for, to earn enough Bitcoins to be able to afford some Azure crunching ? (This is hypothetical - no actual figures required )

regards
Tim

Hi Tim,

That would be good then on each VM, you could run another bitcoin client (without ASIC), but still earn a little bit back

It's doing well for itself so far, but it disconnected over the weekend (I made it error out by accident), but I was away over the weekend, so I've only just fixed it (missing out on ~10,000 credits )

Chris