![]() I'm just not that interested in throwing very real energy down that rabbithole. And the best thing I have is an old crufty is filling my queues right now, but it's still pretty far down the list of things I'd rather be running.Īnd then there's the math stuff, but. all my rigs are CPU based right now, because my GPUs are getting used by people for actual GPU work anymore. Rosetta has lots of crashing tasks, and generally no work prefers GPUs, which are still unobtanium in any reasonable performance. ![]() are still down, might come back at some point, but some of the errors they've talked about in their updates don't give me any great confidence in the skills of the people managing the infrastructure right now. but neither do they run on "most systems" without problems. At least system suspend doesn't interfere. As a general rule of thumb, the tasks don't suspend/resume successfully, so if you do anything but "let the task run straight through from start to completion," they're likely to crash on you. They're a fiddly pain in the rear to work with - they still ship 32-bit tasks for Linux and MacOS, which means you need 32-bit libraries for Linux, and for MacOS, most of the actual work is being done with Mojave VMs on Linux or Windows hosts, as MacOS hasn't supported 32-bit tasks for. I try to throw my cycles at things that are "actual, real-world problems" in the physical space, partly because I've got a rather comically oversized solar array on my office that powers it, and I'd rather put the surplus to something useful (though I can't pull nearly enough to actually tax the array, it just idles along most days - I need another inverter off the battery bank and an outdoor case for servers).Ĭ used to have endless work, and that well has been rather dry lately - with any trickles into it getting slurped up in a hurry by the handful of users with a lot of machines (of which I'm one). My office heaters are getting disturbingly far down the list of "things they enjoy doing," while scrounging for work that isn't synthetic math makework.
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