- Nov 28, 2004
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Hi TeAm-mates, as some of you may have noticed, my production is way down. There are several reasons for this:
The price of electricity has more than doubled in 2018-2019 due to energy tax. What I find frustrating is that the energy tax is added to the "real" price of power before VAT is added. Thus I am paying 25% more (the VAT is 25%) on the tax, i.e. if the energy tax is increased by 5 cents/KWh the real increase is 6,25 cents/KWh. The total price (inkl. taxes) of electricity is now 19 cents/KWh, which is double the price compared to 2 years ago. In 2018 I had all my 6 computers running essentially 24/7 which used approx 13000 KWh at a price of 2500 USD which is almost twice as much as in 2016. The corresponding bill for 2019 would be more than 3000 USD. I consider that too much considering that my computers use 48% of all the household's energy. I am not so much concerned where the energy comes from (I purchase all my power from a company which sells hydroelectric, solar and wind power only) and that is one of the least expensive power utilities)
The second reason is that the fun and joy of running DC has decreased a lot. My computers are old(er), their efficiency is down and the joy in crunching for science and for the points is not as large as it was before. What keeps me still running is the TeAm. But then the time i have to be active in the community here is much less. The reason for that is that my responsibilities in work have increased a lot. Unfortunately my workplace has been reorganized and I have been given more to do and more to be responsible for. On top of that quite a few of my valued collaborators have taken the opportunity to retire, which makes my work harder. I am now working 65+ hours/week (including on call duties) which is a lot for a 60+ years old MD. However, that work gives joy and a lot of fun, so I don't mind that a lot, but I am tired when I get home ...
I will continue to crunch on one computer 24/7 (with 6 cores and a 1080 GPU) and one computer for approx. 12 hours/day. One laptop will be doing WCG.
The projects I will crunch will be Seti@home, Climateprediction@home and WCG. Seti because I really like that project and that got me started in DC. I like Climateprediction a lot and that may be important and WCG grid is one of my favorites since I started it - because of the many projects it contains and because it has produced a lot of published results.
I will also start and join the 14th Annual Folding@Home Holiday Season Race in December 2019.
I will also be around now and then as time allows ...
The price of electricity has more than doubled in 2018-2019 due to energy tax. What I find frustrating is that the energy tax is added to the "real" price of power before VAT is added. Thus I am paying 25% more (the VAT is 25%) on the tax, i.e. if the energy tax is increased by 5 cents/KWh the real increase is 6,25 cents/KWh. The total price (inkl. taxes) of electricity is now 19 cents/KWh, which is double the price compared to 2 years ago. In 2018 I had all my 6 computers running essentially 24/7 which used approx 13000 KWh at a price of 2500 USD which is almost twice as much as in 2016. The corresponding bill for 2019 would be more than 3000 USD. I consider that too much considering that my computers use 48% of all the household's energy. I am not so much concerned where the energy comes from (I purchase all my power from a company which sells hydroelectric, solar and wind power only) and that is one of the least expensive power utilities)
The second reason is that the fun and joy of running DC has decreased a lot. My computers are old(er), their efficiency is down and the joy in crunching for science and for the points is not as large as it was before. What keeps me still running is the TeAm. But then the time i have to be active in the community here is much less. The reason for that is that my responsibilities in work have increased a lot. Unfortunately my workplace has been reorganized and I have been given more to do and more to be responsible for. On top of that quite a few of my valued collaborators have taken the opportunity to retire, which makes my work harder. I am now working 65+ hours/week (including on call duties) which is a lot for a 60+ years old MD. However, that work gives joy and a lot of fun, so I don't mind that a lot, but I am tired when I get home ...
I will continue to crunch on one computer 24/7 (with 6 cores and a 1080 GPU) and one computer for approx. 12 hours/day. One laptop will be doing WCG.
The projects I will crunch will be Seti@home, Climateprediction@home and WCG. Seti because I really like that project and that got me started in DC. I like Climateprediction a lot and that may be important and WCG grid is one of my favorites since I started it - because of the many projects it contains and because it has produced a lot of published results.
I will also start and join the 14th Annual Folding@Home Holiday Season Race in December 2019.
I will also be around now and then as time allows ...