ok i send you 1500 GRC at midday when i am home... maybe it is enough to go solo, i do not know. i also started mining on the pool, but i had previously done quite a lot of work on BOINC and was very disappointed when i understood my BOINC stats will not improve anymore. so i deleted the account and went solo... we are mining with two friends on the account "Deep Space Computing" now. A kind of mini pool. The idea is to start a company if GRC price goes up enough...
computer science. G.P.U. was my semester thesis in main topic and then also my diploma thesis. but at the time we had "erster Vordiplom" and "zweiter Vordiplom" first and then 2 years of "Fachstudium" with an additional 6 month "Praktikum" in the industry...
I almost don't know how to reply to that, thank you so much!
Since I am really into the computational part of chemistry, I think I will try to go in that direction. I will take another lecture next semester on programming in C++ etc.
It sounds pretty cool your G.P.U and that you were able to do this during your studies. We have a lot of lab work in chemistry but no "projects" we could follow up to now. This may change in the upcoming semesters as we have semester thesis and a master thesis to writ in the upcoming 2-3 years.
As I mentioned, I would really get deeper into the computer sciences in my leisure time. Do you have any suggestions where to start? Should I find a project and learn by doing or are there good books etc?
find a project where you have fun. maybe something in chemistry that can be parallelized. i suggest you buy the book "CUDA by example" and start right programming in C with CUDA extensions on your Nvidia card... the examples in the book are neat. get them working!
Cool, thank you for the suggestion! I will look around for a used one or buy one myself since it is not too expensive.
Does the book start at the very basics, e.g. "What is parallelised computing?"? Because as of now my experience is very limited as I mentioned before.
yes believe me it starts at the very basic. it is in C, so you do not have the barrier of C++ with object oriented programming.
it does not teach you well about parallelised computing but it forces you to write parallelized code for simple examples. and remember simple things work, complex things never work!
you just have to install the Nvidia CUDA Development kit on your rig, it is quite a huge package.
i sent the GRC to your address. i feel like funding myself 22 years ago :-) might the source be with you and take care @applepiie
Thanks, it's just great! I wrote a comment on the other part.
1500 ? That's so generous of you!!
he common sense says that Swiss are rich ;-)
The generosity is still remarkable, even for the Swiss!
but 1500 GRC at 0.03 USD/GRC is 50CHF right? my 3 kids will not starve... btw the "CUDA by example" book should be also around 50CHF
It's pretty much that price, yes. So you may be basically funding my computer science career :)
if you do the book and the project i have a friend of student's time who is now Professor for Theoretical Chemistry at the University of Paderborn! i can recommend you then :-)
Well, as you know the exams are coming now in august, but I will do my best during the next semester and order the book already now. Thank you again for the GRC, I think thats enough to go solo soon when I have the time to reorganise. Is there any direct message option in steemit or some other way, I would really like to write some more words if that is okay for you!
Edit: now that I think about it, slack would be optimal since we both just signed up!