I've been upgraded with a titanium stent in my heart. That saved my life and cost about 240€.
I wish I could have gotten a stent, I had 3 way bypass at the end of March this year, it was a bit more expensive though my insurance covered all of it so far. At the 10 day post-op with the surgeon he said my heart had a 25 year guarantee on it, I'm 71 and probably won't live that long so we both laughed.
My cousin has an engineering degree and was working for a company that made stents and he brought one at Christmas time one year so everyone could see how they worked, they are cool and simple. As we were talking we I told him I read a story about a problem every stent was having and that was that the design of the stent, like expanded metal, gave places for the plaque to cling onto and cause another blockage so they would have to do another one for the patients and he said it was a problem they were all working on but hadn't solved yet. I said 'why don't you guys coat with something non sticky so the plaque slides on by?' and he said 'I don't know'. The next story I saw on stents said they had 'fixed' the problem by coating them a non sticky stuff that prevented the plaque from sticking to the stents. I don't know if he got rich off of it or they were already working on something like that but I never got anything...not even a stent!!
Hi Mikey,
I read your reply in a busy moment here at home. I'll read it later with thought and possibly send a pm - so not to pollute a valid and a good thread any more with Titanium(Nitride), Silver or any kind of dust and coating to obscure the real reason this thread is still alive. This thread is about beating ...
I just looked around and you had disappeared from the top 50 but had gone down the GpuGrid rabbit hole instead. I see you are cranking up e@h tasks again.
Welcome back
:)
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Yeah, thought I would try something new for a while. GPUGrid is a nice project helped by the fact that they have badges and even little stamps that tell you how much you contributed to scientific publications. I wish E@H would implement that.
I stopped at 500M credits, which took me a little more than a month. Now I'm back on E@H to try and surpass the 1B mark over here hopefully by the end of the year.
Yeah, thought I would try something new for a while. GPUGrid is a nice project helped by the fact that they have badges and even little stamps that tell you how much you contributed to scientific publications.
There are cpu-based projects that do medical research. rosetti@home and WCG (cancer) are active. Unless you have a lot less threads than I think you do, you could run those while crunching E@H. Of course your power bill would groan some more.
Tom M
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I'll be moving to Germany to start a Postdoc in February, so I will have intermittent outages during that time.
I'm not going to take this whole system with me to Germany, so I will take my CPUs and GPUs with me to hopefully make a new system over there. This time I want to be able to have all 7 P4000s set up on one motherboard.
If I set the less ambitious goal of staying in the Top 50 on a non-Epyc MB. I have possible candidate.
This is an Asus ROG b450-f gaming ii motherboard. It has a Ryzen 3700x (8c/16t) CPU with two sticks of 3200 Mhz ram.
It is driving 3 GPU's at the same speed as the Epycd8 motherboard was. At least from a processing speed POV.
I still need to run up the parts list on eBay.
The limits are specific. I attempted to use expansion kits to run 6 GPUs previously. And it was unstable.
Only one pcie slot is fast enough to run GpuGrid tasks. The other two 16x slots are not. None of the three 16x slots are actually running 16x. They are running 8x, 4x, 4x. And one slot is running Gen2 the others Gen 3.
For an up to 3 GPU cruncher that is only running one GPU on a project that needs high pcie bandwidth this is do-able.
Why did I jump through these hoops? It frees up a lot of CPU threads on my Epycd8 system to use for CPU only crunching.
Respectfully,
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Amazon's price is about $80US while at Walmart it's about $60US
Now this is a PROFESSIONAL gpu so it needs external cooling or it needs to be installed in an approved case that can force air thru it. But this site shows how to use external cooling in your own standard case:
mikey wrote: petri33
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Hi Mikey,
I read your reply in a busy moment here at home. I'll read it later with thought and possibly send a pm - so not to pollute a valid and a good thread any more with Titanium(Nitride), Silver or any kind of dust and coating to obscure the real reason this thread is still alive. This thread is about beating ...
I just looked around and you
)
I just looked around and you had disappeared from the top 50 but had gone down the GpuGrid rabbit hole instead. I see you are cranking up e@h tasks again.
Welcome back
:)
A Proud member of the O.F.A. (Old Farts Association).
Yeah, thought I would try
)
Yeah, thought I would try something new for a while. GPUGrid is a nice project helped by the fact that they have badges and even little stamps that tell you how much you contributed to scientific publications. I wish E@H would implement that.
I stopped at 500M credits, which took me a little more than a month. Now I'm back on E@H to try and surpass the 1B mark over here hopefully by the end of the year.
taketwicedailey wrote: Yeah,
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There are cpu-based projects that do medical research. rosetti@home and WCG (cancer) are active. Unless you have a lot less threads than I think you do, you could run those while crunching E@H. Of course your power bill would groan some more.
Tom M
A Proud member of the O.F.A. (Old Farts Association).
Did you go on
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Did you go on vacation?
Your system hasn't contacted the e@h server since Dec 18th.
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Tom M wrote: Did you go on
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Just heard from him. It is a planned outage not a catastrophe.
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I'll be moving to Germany to
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I'll be moving to Germany to start a Postdoc in February, so I will have intermittent outages during that time.
I'm not going to take this whole system with me to Germany, so I will take my CPUs and GPUs with me to hopefully make a new system over there. This time I want to be able to have all 7 P4000s set up on one motherboard.
If I set the less ambitious
)
If I set the less ambitious goal of staying in the Top 50 on a non-Epyc MB. I have possible candidate.
This is an Asus ROG b450-f gaming ii motherboard. It has a Ryzen 3700x (8c/16t) CPU with two sticks of 3200 Mhz ram.
It is driving 3 GPU's at the same speed as the Epycd8 motherboard was. At least from a processing speed POV.
I still need to run up the parts list on eBay.
The limits are specific. I attempted to use expansion kits to run 6 GPUs previously. And it was unstable.
Only one pcie slot is fast enough to run GpuGrid tasks. The other two 16x slots are not. None of the three 16x slots are actually running 16x. They are running 8x, 4x, 4x. And one slot is running Gen2 the others Gen 3.
For an up to 3 GPU cruncher that is only running one GPU on a project that needs high pcie bandwidth this is do-able.
Why did I jump through these hoops? It frees up a lot of CPU threads on my Epycd8 system to use for CPU only crunching.
Respectfully,
A Proud member of the O.F.A. (Old Farts Association).
For gpu crunching you can
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For gpu crunching you can always check out the Tesla K80 at Amazon or even Walmart:
https://www.amazon.com/Dell-Tesla-K80-Accelerator-Refurbished/dp/B07GJ45V3D
https://www.walmart.com/ip/nVidia-Tesla-K10-8GB-GDDR5-PCI-E-x16-Computing-Accelerator-Processing-Unit-With-Dual-GK104-Kepler-GPUs/295856016?fulfillmentIntent=Shipping&filters=%5B%7B%22intent%22%3A%22fulfillmentIntent%22%2C%22values%22%3A%5B%22Shipping%22%5D%7D%5D&classType=REGULAR
Amazon's price is about $80US while at Walmart it's about $60US
Now this is a PROFESSIONAL gpu so it needs external cooling or it needs to be installed in an approved case that can force air thru it. But this site shows how to use external cooling in your own standard case:
https://linustechtips.com/topic/1340083-guide-using-an-nvidia-tesla-k80-for-gaming-on-windows/
Mikey, I would use the
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Mikey,
I would use the term "server GPU" because it is designed for a case that cools servers. But you can't argue with the price!
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