Originally Posted by
vaughan
Well I find Amicable a little hard to predict. I have an nVidia GeForce Gigabyte GTX1050ti that predicted 1,324 days to complete one task, 0.051% completed after 16 hours in my Ryzen 9 3900x computer with 18 CPUs on Amicable with a predicted ETA of 2 hours. I don't know why the other 6 cores are not being used, a mystery of silicon world I guess. So that task got aborted and set for no new Amicable GPU work. Machine is now happily on Milkyway GPU tasks again at 8 minutes 20 seconds a task.
A phoenixed Dell Optiplex 990 running an Intel 2600 Sandybridge predicted over 12 days to crunch an Amicable task on 4 full cores. It got aborted and is now on Rosetta with 4 tasks at 7 hours 30 minutes each. I say "phoenixed" as this box had its power supply replaced so as to participate in the SG Pentathlon.
Dell on-line support were crazy funny. I started searching for the replacement power supply but didn't get anywhere. A friendly little window popped up and asked if I wanted support. OK. I explained my needs and they wanted the Service Tag - hey I had it. So far so good. Next they sent a quote by email (why not tell me in the popup box?). I open the quote and it is for the cable from the GPO to the IEC connection on the dead power supply. Morons. I explained it was incorrect - sorry we will have to get a senior to help off-line. They emailed that its escalated to another team and they re-route my inquiry back to support technician #1. Fools. So I emailed the senior supporter and he replies sorry it is unavailable. What? A widely used desktop box sold to 1000s of offices across Australia dating from 2013. Lousy company. I believe under Australian Consumer Law a manufacturer has to maintain spare parts for 10 years after production of a model ceases.
Next I visited my local computer shop and they readily obtained a Dell (made in China,[why can't USA make anything?]) replacement power supply. Don't know where it came from but it works. So that is the story of the "phoenix" computer.
ps. I have 4 more that are in-line for the same phoenixing.