Distributive computing...a shrinking universe?
24 Nov 2008 12:57:29 UTC
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With the worldwide economic crisis in full swing...What effect will this crisis have on our universe of distributive computing?...Are any of you planning to reduce your involvement to save money that is needed elsewhere in your life?
Distributive computing...a shrinking universe?
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Probably not me.. I only contribute in a limited way.. The only thing that could affect my contribution is the price of electricity.. The price increased twenty percent this year and it is increasing another 10 percent next year
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I have seen posts by
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I have seen posts by crunchers with reasonable sized farms (say 6+ boxes) saying they are certainly shutting down the older rigs. In many cases they are shutting down more than 50% of their farm because of the price, and the stability, of the electric supply is the reason (power prices).
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Hmmm... my electric bill
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Hmmm... my electric bill actually dropped by 50% over the last two months, so I see no reason to cut back. I actually might be adding a computer if I can find a new one that I like.
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Just curious... what are
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Just curious... what are people paying for electricity... I am paying 15.73 cents per Kilowatt Hour(KWH) for the first block of 497 Kilowatts and 13.29 cents per kilowatt for the second block. It went up four cents per KWH since last year..
There are some who can live without wild things and some who cannot. - Aldo Leopold
My electric company's
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My electric company's rates:
First 600 kWh $0.08493 per kWh
Over 600 kWh $0.05543 per kWh
On top of the monthly service charge of $11.90 per month (all in US $)
But I've never even come close to 600 kWh.
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RE: With the worldwide
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I won't be reducing my overall involvement. Instead I have detached projects that have refused adopt new strategies for production efficiency made possible by BOINC server features that have been available for 2 years. Tanpaku was the first to get the axe and more recently I've dumped LHC@home. I have no quarrels with the value or importance of the work they do, it's simply the fact that they needlessly waste nearly 40% of the CPU time donated to them due to their braindead IR > minQuorum policy.
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RE: My electric company's
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I suspect your utility is an oil fire producer and is paying spot price for oil as opposed to medium term contracts for supply. Watch Out.. I think your rates could go up fifty percent when the price of oil recovers (which it will). But I could be wrong :-)
There are some who can live without wild things and some who cannot. - Aldo Leopold
RE: RE: My electric
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Actually it's an electric co-op that's big into investing in alternative energy. They just attached to a new wind farm that recently came online. The rest is supplied by coal power (although they are trying to switch entirely to geothermal, wind, solar, etc). The main reason why my bill dropped so much is that the temperatures have dropped now that it isn't summer anymore (although that new wind farm did help). No AC = less cost for me. :)
~It only takes one bottle cap moving at 23,000 mph to ruin your whole day~
RE: RE: RE: My electric
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I am impressed really :-).. 5% of our supply is by wind locally with 18% of supply in 6 years time.. That is the max we will go for the time being for reliable power supply.. Other sources are from the mainland supplied by cable and includes supplies from nuclear (which we are part owner) oil and natural gas.
I apologize I did not mean to hijack this thread
There are some who can live without wild things and some who cannot. - Aldo Leopold
RE: With the worldwide
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During the summer my electric bill hit $500.00 a month, I turned 6 pc's off and am now down to about $300.00 a month. My house is total electric and I pay 6 1/2 cents(US) per kwh. I currently have 16 pc's running Boinc for various projects.