Have you got pie today?

Norton · Aug 9, 2015

Time for Pie.....! :cool:

August 8th, 2015

Are you in our Top 20?

Or almost there?

Nice view of a Avro Vulcan!
A favorite of @CAPSLOCKSTUCK iirc

Congrats to All of our crunchers!!!

craigo · Aug 9, 2015

All of a sudden, RAAF Aardvarks! at number 18 (decommed 2010. F1-11c`s.. most buried in the desert a few in museums)

xvi · Aug 9, 2015

There's a flight museum not too terribly far away from where I live and they had a SR-71 on display. HNNNNGG SO AWESOME!

Also, I made pie! Woo! The ol' xvi farm has still got it!

I don't even have the dual Xeon rig powered up, but it's not a very efficient rig. Only ~7.7k PPD and it eats a few hundred watts, I think? About 10 ARM boxes would do the same for ~90w.

craigo · Aug 9, 2015

xvi said:
There's a flight museum not too terribly far away from where I live and they had a SR-71 on display. HNNNNGG SO AWESOME!

Also, I made pie! Woo! The ol' xvi farm has still got it!

I don't even have the dual Xeon rig powered up, but it's not a very efficient rig. Only ~7.7k PPD and it eats a few hundred watts, I think? About 10 ARM boxes would do the same for ~90w.

Maybe it`s time we all upgraded... RAAF F/A-18 Super Hornet.

twilyth · Aug 10, 2015

craigo said:
All of a sudden, RAAF Aardvarks! at number 18 (decommed 2010. F1-11c`s.. most buried in the desert a few in museums)View attachment 67236

Those have always been one of my favorite designs. I have USAF wall posters I got from the GPO (govt printing office) and a couple are of that plane.

xvi said:
Also, I made pie! Woo! The ol' xvi farm has still got it!

I went back and checked and it looks like you've been getting pie since the 6th. Congrats dude!

craigo · Aug 10, 2015

It is my goal to crunch 3.14 in the team top 10.. PIE of PIE. hahahahaha.. DREAM BIG!

twilyth · Aug 10, 2015

Never in a million years did I think I would ever have 4 servers running just to do WCG. It's a sickness. The initial symptoms are a light rash of ppd envy and obsessive stats checking. But from there you spiral into the syphilitic madness of endless hw upgrades and monthly power bills equal to a car payment. I'm sorry to tell you that there is no known cure. :twitch:

Nordic · Aug 10, 2015

Summer heat relieves the symptoms, but increases anxiety. There is no real relief.

xvi · Aug 10, 2015

twilyth said:
But from there you spiral into the syphilitic madness of endless hw upgrades and monthly power bills equal to a car payment. I'm sorry to tell you that there is no known cure.

I've honestly considered and started researching the possibility of solar with an AC backup. Prognosis, not cheap.

Nordic · Aug 10, 2015

I once researched backyard windpower. I live in an apartment, so it is not possible. But with a few hundred dollars and a several car batteries you could power all or part of your fleet depending on wind conditions and the size of your fleet. What I wanted to do supposedly could produce 500w.

xvi · Aug 10, 2015

james888 said:
I once researched backyard windpower. I live in an apartment, so it is not possible. But with a few hundred dollars and a several car batteries you could power all or part of your fleet depending on wind conditions and the size of your fleet. What I wanted to do supposedly could produce 500w.

At work, we have a passive site that's solar and wind powered. Not sure what the exact load is (few hundred watts or so?), but the site gets a LOT of wind and we've had quite a bit of luck with that.
The site is very remote, so it was quite feasible for us to go with solar/wind. Also, I think head honcho thought it'd be a fun toy to play with.

I was thinking some sort of battery plant setup that runs off of solar until the batteries get low where it then switches to AC in some sort of hitless manor.

Norton · Aug 10, 2015

Time for Pie.....! :cool:

August 9th, 2015

Are you in our Top 20?

Or almost there?

Still one of the best!

Congrats to All of our crunchers!!!

twilyth · Aug 10, 2015

I should check into solar again. The problem though is that the front of my house has the southern exposure and that would mean the trees would have to go. But one is over 50 ft tall and another at least 40ft and I would hate to lose either of them. I get them trimmed every few years so that most of the weight from branches is on the side opposite the house so if they ever do go down in a storm they don't take the house with them. Plus I don't know if we get enough clear days here for the cells to work at peak efficiency.

I like the idea of wind power though, especially if I can feed it back into the grid. I could put up a tower in the back yard. The real issue would be how long it would take to pay for itself.

Nordic · Aug 10, 2015

Depending on how big you wanted to go, I wanted to run a 20 foot pole on top of a 40 ft high building. It has been awhile, but I remember the set up I was looking at was about $750. That was basically the bare minimum for any real power.

xvi · Aug 10, 2015

twilyth said:
I like the idea of wind power though, especially if I can feed it back into the grid.

I heard you'll need a DC connection to them. Can't push AC backwards. I suspect it'd be difficult to generate enough power to last you through the night, let alone enough to sell some back to the power company. I wonder how difficult it'd be to get DC wired to a home though.

james888 said:
Depending on how big you wanted to go, I wanted to run a 20 foot pole on top of a 40 ft high building. It has been awhile, but I remember the set up I was looking at was about $750.

Today, I saw a '93 Jaguar XJS convertible for $11k. This would probably satisfy some of the same itch with much less out of pocket.
Considering some people are moving to 80 Plus Platinum/Titanium PSUs to chase power bill reductions, that's really not all that bad.

thebluebumblebee · Aug 10, 2015

twilyth said:
The real issue would be how long it would take to pay for itself

The other issue is noise. Neighbors might not like it. IMHO, a home owner should look into vertical axis wind turbines. Nice info: http://www.windturbinestar.com/hawt-vs-vawt.html

About the F-16, I wonder if we'll see a revised version that incorporates some of the things that have been learned from the more recent fighters? Increasing the size of the internal fuel tanks. Internal ordinance bays. They've done this with both the F-15 (F-15SE Silent Eagle) and F-18 (F/A-18 Super Hornet Prototype Featuring Conformal Fuel Tanks).

Norton · Aug 11, 2015

Time for Pie.....! :cool:

August 10th, 2015

Are you in our Top 20?

Or almost there?

Monday...!

Congrats to All of our crunchers!!!

BarbaricSoul · Aug 11, 2015

WTF, How in the hell am I in 16th place with only an i7 860 running 24/7 and a i7 3930k running 16-18 hours a day?

t_ski · Aug 11, 2015

BarbaricSoul said:
WTF, How in the hell am I in 16th place with only an i7 860 running 24/7 and a i7 3930k running 16-18 hours a day?

Summer is a low output season, due to high temps outside and people out of school. I'm surprised I'm up to 7th.

Norton · Aug 12, 2015

Time for Pie.....! :oops:

August 11th, 2015

Are you in our Top 20?

Or almost there?

Back to the aviation theme...!
How about a Skycrane?

Congrats to All of our crunchers!!!

Norton · Aug 12, 2015

Update/Double post....

Apologies to @Heaven7 - sorry Bud, I didn't grab your 8/11 points fast enough. Seems that FreeDC drops all past references to your ppd the second you leave the Team.

Hope all is well and you continue to hang here with us

manofthem · Aug 13, 2015

That is one anorexic heli :laugh:

@Norton, does this help for 8/11?

Norton · Aug 13, 2015

Time for Pie.....! :oops:

August 12th, 2015

Are you in our Top 20?

Or almost there?

3 engines= Awesome!

Congrats to All of our crunchers!!!

twilyth · Aug 14, 2015

Today's stats haven't been posted yet but I just wanted to say that switching over to UGM exclusively has really goosed my points. And that's even with having dozens of pages of OET on some of the machines. So if you care about total points, you might want to ditch OET.

manofthem · Aug 14, 2015

twilyth said:
So if you care about total points, you might want to ditch OET.

Thanks for the info

LOL, I just switched my main rig over to OET exclusively tonight. It was running OET and CEP2, but I temporarily ditched cep to try to hit my 5yr sooner in OET. (then again, I think it's known that cep doesn't yield the highest ppd either)

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