Basically. I sometimes get paid to use energy when demand is really low.

I want to take full advantage of this and use as much power as possible. My energy provider has an API so I’m planning on checking if the price is less than 0p. Then starting a stress test to use energy.

What kind of stress tests can i stop and start easily?

  • refriedrouting@reddthat.comEnglish
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    1 year ago

    CPU and GPU calculations will use the most power.

    I’m assuming this is your own hardware, so you probably do not want to stress test hard drives, as this will cause them to fail early.

    • giant_smeeg@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
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      1 year ago

      Yeah, mainly just CPU/GPU stress. However not sure what?

      Are there any docker containers that might automatically run when started? Then I can kill them via bash

  • Bazzatron@reddthat.comEnglish
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    1 year ago

    Might not be the most popular answer - but why not mine Ethereum or Bitcoin? Or maybe something smaller like Stellar Lumens?

    Crypto mining is widely regarded as taxing on your hardware and consumes a good amount of juice. Small additional ROI that you wouldn’t get by just running furmark.

    I think as ROI is a prominent metric for mining, you’ll find a wealth of resources that will answer your exact questions on enabling/disabling/scaling in line with an external value like unit cost of power.

    • giant_smeeg@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
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      1 year ago

      I had a bit of a look after this and decided to do Folding@home. It seems the workloads start as soon as the docker container is started.

      So I can easily check the API, if price < £0.00. Start docker.

      if price > £0.00 stop docker.

      Should be pretty easy to cobble together then.