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Send message Joined: 5 Jan 09 Posts: 670 Credit: 2,498,095,550 RAC: 0 Level  Scientific publications    
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A new milestone for GPUGrid I think. Well done. |
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Send message Joined: 25 Feb 14 Posts: 15 Credit: 53,918,886 RAC: 0 Level  Scientific publications
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But can it handle Crysis? |
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Send message Joined: 17 Aug 08 Posts: 2705 Credit: 1,311,122,549 RAC: 0 Level Scientific publications |
Sure it can: recent studies [1] have shown that Crysis features a negative cruncho-productivity charge. A GPU-Grid crunching computer develops a positive one, hence a repulsive force is felt as soon as any Crysis installation medium approaches a critical distance to any crunching PC. I haven't measured this yet, but a quick estimate on the back of an envelope suggests the distance to be about 2 +/- 1 DVDs. So we should be pretty safe, as only few Crysis installations will be able to tunnel through this barrier. It is not yet ascertained what happens to those which actually tunnel. The lifetime of this exotic state can be rather high. On the other hand the activation energy is said to become very high after a short initial activity burst. Further studies are needed to quantify the impact of this phenomenon on GPU-Grid throughput. This will be essential to keep crunching even when next generation Crysis' appear, which are expected to have even stronger charges and might even propagate into PCs through unshielded telecommunication lines. Currently efforts are made to combat this crunching power leak further. MrS [1] citation needed Scanning for our furry friends since Jan 2002 |
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Send message Joined: 25 Feb 14 Posts: 15 Credit: 53,918,886 RAC: 0 Level Scientific publications
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That just made my day. As for the the effect on the infected computers, they will be gutted and re-outfitted with premium components and then overclocked near the point of catching fire. Once the infected computers can return to crunching, their RAC will reach new heights. |
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Send message Joined: 5 Dec 12 Posts: 84 Credit: 1,663,883,415 RAC: 0 Level  Scientific publications
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Now it says we're down to 1.5 PetaFlops. What's happening? |
 Retvari Zoltan Send message Joined: 20 Jan 09 Posts: 2380 Credit: 16,897,957,044 RAC: 0 Level  Scientific publications
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Now it says we're down to 1.5 PetaFlops. What's happening? Summer in the northern hemisphere is "happening". The number of the active users is dropping in every BOINC projects (these charts have two month 'delay')         |
Chilean Send message Joined: 8 Oct 12 Posts: 98 Credit: 385,652,461 RAC: 0 Level  Scientific publications
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But can it handle Crysis? My gaming laptop can handle Crysis very well on Full HD. The Witcher 3 however... is the new Crysis. 
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Send message Joined: 5 Dec 12 Posts: 84 Credit: 1,663,883,415 RAC: 0 Level Scientific publications
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Yikes, that's precipitous! I don't blame anyone for not being able to handle the excess heat. Would be cool to have a service to loan out our GPUs - let them migrate north for the summer. |
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