Don't forget to pay taxes on that fortune your making, I heard the IRS is going to start chasing down the data miners.

You only pay tax when you convert from the coin to USD. If anything, you can treat this as simply paying for the electric bill every month, providing free crunching and free heat. Or you could go the way I did and use that money to expand your operations, further accelerating science.

Make sure you tell that to the IRS, they're pretty understanding. Seriously though, I've heard on TV and read a couple of articles that they were going to do this. Just be careful, you don't want those guys after you.

https://cryptocurrencyfacts.com/2017/12/30/the-tax-rules-for-crypto-in-the-u-s-simplified/

seems that the US have quite hefty regulations indeed (tax on capital are due) and want to cut a slice off the crypto currency cake. Many countries in the EU (Germany, Austria..) are more gracious, if you hold your GRC for more than a year, it is deemed to be speculative trading and therefore tax-free. Taxes arise only when spending crypto coins within one year after acquisition.

Having said that, the infrastructure and energy cost for crunching charitably (= GRC acquisition) likely exceed the GRC profit by far. So it may be that there is a loss in total and no taxes to be paid, even in the states. Kindly contact your tax advisor to find out... and some simple bookkeeping might be helpful for US crunchers anyway.

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I would love to see HCF1 protein folding and interaction simulations to help my little boy... someday.

By the way... getting back to the topic... there is WORK, both long and short runs for our GPUs. Just wanted to give an honorable mention :)

PS: At present, there is sunshine in Austria and I can draw plenty of power from my photovoltaics and would be happy to add one more 1070ti to my machines, if there was a continuous stream of jobs. Which is not so easy to ensure, as interpreting the results need a lot of manpower too, if I understood the admins correctly. Well, Admins... I guess other fellow crunchers are also game for anything... so let the community know when there is need for expansion.

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I would love to see HCF1 protein folding and interaction simulations to help my little boy... someday.

Sunshine and heat. The available work seems to ramp up just as the northern hemisphere (and my office) heats up. I had a nicely cooled GPU sitting idle too much of the winter, but now that there's work the GPU is starting to throttle back to keep the temperature reasonable.

argh!

Win

You could set a custom fan curve, using a tool like MSI Afterburner, to keep the GPU temps at a level that is below the thermal throttling thresholds. I use a custom fan curve that keeps my GTX 980 Ti temps at below 78*C, so they run at custom tested-stable overclocks, without downclocking.

You could set a custom fan curve, using a tool like MSI Afterburner, to keep the GPU temps at a level that is below the thermal throttling thresholds. I use a custom fan curve that keeps my GTX 980 Ti temps at below 78*C, so they run at custom tested-stable overclocks, without downclocking.

Yes, that's exactly what I do. I was hoping for the better solution of getting WUs in winter.

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What brand of 980Ti?

I have 2 GTX 980 Ti GPUs in my system.
- eVGA GTX 980 Ti FTW, with a -70 downclock to be completely stable (tested).
- Dell GTX 980 Ti, with a +105 overclock that is completely stable (tested).

I have 2 GTX 980 Ti GPUs in my system.
- eVGA GTX 980 Ti FTW, with a -70 downclock to be completely stable (tested).
- Dell GTX 980 Ti, with a +105 overclock that is completely stable (tested).

You could always convert the EVGA to a hybrid. That would help with heating issues.

I've done that before with those 980Tis, if you can still find the kit. But it has to be for the FTW. There is a difference between the kit for the regular 980ti and the FTW version.

As for the dell. Not sure but might be able to use a regular hybrid kit.

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I have 2 GTX 980 Ti GPUs in my system.
- eVGA GTX 980 Ti FTW, with a -70 downclock to be completely stable (tested).
- Dell GTX 980 Ti, with a +105 overclock that is completely stable (tested).

Dell made 980ti's? Is it just the stock cooler?

Jacob Klein wrote:

...I use a custom fan curve that keeps my GTX 980 Ti temps at below 78*C ...

how much below 78°C? slightly below, or far below? At which temps do your two 980ti's normally run?

80*C is the thermal throttling point for Pascal GPUs like mine, I believe. So I set the fan curve such that it will hit max fan at 78*C, to keep the temps below 80*C, so those clocks are at maximum.

The GPUs routinely run between 60-78*C.

And yes, Dell made the GTX 980 Ti that came in my Alienware Area 51 R2. And yes it is a default cooler, runs great.

Once you figure out your max stable clocks, using MSI Afterburner to downclock/overclock as necessary, and set the fans up appropriately, you're generally good to go, even on projects like GPUGrid which are notoriously hard on GPUs.

- Jacob

Hi, for 2 days I have not received wu ... is't vacation time in Barcelona?
Thanks in advance
K.

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Dreams do not always come true. But not because they are too big or impossible. Why did we stop believing.
(Martin Luther King)

Hi, i do not receive any WU (since 3 days) too.
What happens ?
Greets
Martin

What happens ?

Most probably: vacation time :-)

I have had "no tasks are available" message in boinc manager for all GPUGrid apps for the past week or 10 days. Server status says tasks are available. I don't think I've changed anything - no other projects are behaving this way. Windows 10, core i7, gtx 960m on this computer.

I have had "no tasks are available" message in boinc manager for all GPUGrid apps for the past week or 10 days. Server status says tasks are available. I don't think I've changed anything - no other projects are behaving this way. Windows 10, core i7, gtx 960m on this computer.

There are tasks but only for linux CPU app.
In the meantime you can use folding@home as a backup project.

Will you have windows tasks in the future?

I'm not the member of the team ;)
But yes, for sure there will be work units for windows hosts. You just need to wait. We are in the middle of holidays.