minecraft MultiGPU, checkpointing, and another record breaking cactus (22 blocks tall)

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#1 minecraft MultiGPU, checkpointing, and another record breaking cactus (22 blocks tall)

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Finally, support for multiple GPUs and checkpointing has landed.
• If you have multiple GPUs, the research apps will now make use of all available GPUs.
• We now support Intel GPUs.
• If work is suspended, or your machine is powered off, checkpoints will now ensure work does not start from the beginning.
• You will also notice work estimates are far more accurate.
• You do not need to take any actions to enable these features.
• We are also taking steps to increase the priority of additional results added to workunits after computation errors. This in order to speed up validation of incomplete workunits.
Thank you to Hypprs, nicoboss, DutChen18, BalintCsala, and anyone else who was involved in testing and updating the app.

For the third time in 1 week, Minecraft@Home has broken the tallest cactus height record in normal terrain generation.
I present, a 22 block tall cactus
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1.14.4 world seed: 11343195073417814, co-ordinates: 14955936 64 -3750655.

Congratulations to volunteer SirNapkin1334
, your host was responsible for locating this one!

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Source: https://minecraftathome.com/minecraftho ... .php?id=14
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#2 Re: minecraft MultiGPU, checkpointing, and another record breaking cactus (22 blocks tall)

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Minecraft is a BOINC project now? Really? Boincstats say so, so it must be true. Formula Boinc have yet to twig.
And I see we have a TSBT presence already.
I'll save most of my modest resources for FB but I suppose a few cores won't do any harm.
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#3 Re: minecraft MultiGPU, checkpointing, and another record breaking cactus (22 blocks tall)

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Yes, It's a thing ......
There's even a forum on the board https://tsbt.co.uk/forum/viewforum.php?f=257
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