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Yep thanks I understand there is public information around and I have reviewed it but much of it requires specialist knowledge to understand. I would like to help communicate this as the layperson social media level - and maybe have a bit of fun at the same time. Which I think the world will really ...

Hi, I am super passionate about FaH during this pandemic and I have a unique sense of humour and twist on things. I'd be more than happy to help communicate what we're doing here so the public can understand what the most powerful computer in human history is doing. Is there a or some researchers I ...

I and others are getting work.. Keep trying? Seems pretty solid now.

If we can get an approximate user count / growth and approx computational capacity that would be amazing and would help with layman understanding and good news stories that the world is desperate for right now.

BTW what is the current user estimate and rough estimate of computational capacity of this thing now, in TFlops? It must be up there with big supercomputers by now...

I have contacts in Amazon and Microsoft and some local data centres, I'll reach out. I may get no if they have their own crises but who knows. Can we get an estimated compute capacity of FaH in TFlops now please. I will also reach out to a few journalists keen for a good news story. Just please tell...

Why the reluctance to reach out for corporate sponsorship? Big cloud providers are always looking for ways to strut their stuff so this seems like a win for everyone? If no one has approached them I will. This is exactly what cloud is all about. I appreciated being volunteer run but "no man is ...

Get corporate sponsorship they are all desperate to show off their stuff so let them brand the rescue all they like. We saved FaH blah blah blah. Has anyone approached Amazon etc?

Can we get some announcement on the public Web page about all this. If anything it makes for a good news story. Have the servers crashed or something? Or have all work units been exhausted?

That is an unprecedented growth. The userbase always grows in the wintertime, and it's still cold outside in much of the US and Europe ... If you're going to use electricity to heat your home when it's cold, then you might as well (try to) run FAH and do something useful with it in the process. If ...

Is it a good idea to just have say 4 CPU threads then. I don't want the CPU running full throttle all the time.

Is there a difference between CPU and GPU work units

If I set the CPU slot to zero and GPU to -1 it will only run on GPU?

Thanks.. yeah Pentium is pretty old school... good info, thanks.

JimboPalmer wrote: The viewer worked with Core_a4, it is broken with Core_a7. It is on a bug list, but it does not impact the science, so is not high priority.

I would argue it should have some priority as it attracts donors.