TSMichaelB said: @MightyMayfield Do you guys have any secret tips for keeping your GPU's working? ...
TSMichaelB said: @MightyMayfield Do you guys have any secret tips for keeping your GPU's working? I feel like we have to restart our system every other hour or so in order to get new work units, or else half our GPU's sit ready for a long time. Our system has an estimated PPD of nearly 10M, but we get a fraction of that at the end of the day due to this phantom inefficiency that prevents our GPU's from getting work units until rebooting.We've reinstalled the OS and client several times, but I don't know if it's a configuration issue or not. I've not seen any difference with the advanced flags enabled either. I've considered simply scheduling Windows to restart every 1-2 hours and see if that helps long-term.
MightyMayfield said: TSMichaelB said: @MightyMayfield Do you guys have any secret tips for keeping your GPU's working? I feel like we have to restart our system every other hour or so in order to get new work units, or else half our GPU's sit ready for a long time. Our system has an estimated PPD of nearly 10M, but we get a fraction of that at the end of the day due to this phantom inefficiency that prevents our GPU's from getting work units until rebooting.We've reinstalled the OS and client several times, but I don't know if it's a configuration issue or not. I've not seen any difference with the advanced flags enabled either. I've considered simply scheduling Windows to restart every 1-2 hours and see if that helps long-term. Yes! Without giving away too much of the automation secret sauce, if you pause a work slot and then resume it, it will reconnect to the download server in 2 minutes instead of the previously allotted time.
TSMichaelB said:Thank you, that's extremely helpful to know. Now to figure out a way to do it with 4 GPU's and 5 clusters of 20 cores without it becoming tedious every time, lol. I think some scripting to grab some pixel colors might be required.
ChrisP said: Mild gaming GPUs have way more folding@home power than expensive CPUs do. Check it out - I'm folding with two 3950X systems and a 2700X system. Folding with 80 cores *sounds* really impressive and it definitely heats up the room, but the reality is a single GTX1060 or 5500XT video card can fold twice as fast as all those CPUs combined! If you want bang for the buck, fold with your video cards!! True Dat....My 6 card RX580 rig produced over 175 work units and over 5 million points the first week and that was with significant down time due to startup and shakedown issues...…. When I built it for mining Etherium it cost about $4,500. Today you could probably build it about $2K.wuffy68 said: Tramp78 said: wuffy68 said: Where was everyone when Folding@home Cancer, Alzheimer's, Parkinsons, Ebola, Diabetes and Influenza needed help with research? I just heard about this yesterday. Should I stop? Ryau is absolutely correct ... COVID19 is Folding@home's number 1 priority right now ... but don't be surprised when they run out of COVID19 work units, you will also be receiving Cancer, Alzheimer, and Ebola work units as well. Curecoin merely rewards folding@home participants who register on their system no matter what work units are received. Not asking anyone to switch teams - just trying to highlight how there are some innovative teams on Folding@Home that rarely get credit.
ChrisP said: Mild gaming GPUs have way more folding@home power than expensive CPUs do. Check it out - I'm folding with two 3950X systems and a 2700X system. Folding with 80 cores *sounds* really impressive and it definitely heats up the room, but the reality is a single GTX1060 or 5500XT video card can fold twice as fast as all those CPUs combined! If you want bang for the buck, fold with your video cards!!
Tramp78 said: wuffy68 said: Where was everyone when Folding@home Cancer, Alzheimer's, Parkinsons, Ebola, Diabetes and Influenza needed help with research? I just heard about this yesterday. Should I stop?
wuffy68 said: Where was everyone when Folding@home Cancer, Alzheimer's, Parkinsons, Ebola, Diabetes and Influenza needed help with research?
kmiller922 said: @MightyMayfield man are you ever crushing it. Guessing you found the warp drive now congrats on top 900.Heck i was shocked to see i'm in the top 20k. LOL
MightyMayfield said: Getting a lot of upload errors recently. Not sure if our firewall is causing issues or if it is FAHservers. Many 0 byte returned errors. Hm..
kmiller922 said: Ladies and Gentlemen I'd like to congratulate everyone on the work so far to get into the top 100 teams. Let's keep up the great work.
kmiller922 said: Just a heads up everyone who has put out a notice of a new outbreak not just for covid but ebola and some others as well. The other point I was going to make is even though we selected covid-19 as a priority the system will substitute with the next high priority item in the cue. I hope that we can keep as many possible to stay the course till a cure is found for all of the research that's needs to continue to be done.
cine_chris said: @kmiller922 I'm a recent F@Her. Yes, Folding is tedious, akin to watching paint dry or grass grow and not w/o frustrations like the WUs that were choking my 1660s. As I'm located in the BDD (basement data dungeon), the upcoming summer temps will likely force me to throttle my F@H efforts, but these challenges have me thinking in terms of managing energy costs and looking at a Fall strategy as fancy new, higher efficiency gear begins to arrive. Little Mental Games that keep me interested in the Folding effort, like chasing the Thread-Ripper demons.
@kmiller922 I'm a recent F@Her. Yes, Folding is tedious, akin to watching paint dry or grass grow and not w/o frustrations like the WUs that were choking my 1660s. As I'm located in the BDD (basement data dungeon), the upcoming summer temps will likely force me to throttle my F@H efforts, but these challenges have me thinking in terms of managing energy costs and looking at a Fall strategy as fancy new, higher efficiency gear begins to arrive. Little Mental Games that keep me interested in the Folding effort, like chasing the Thread-Ripper demons.
Wommwalsh said: Ahh-wooooooo! (lone wolf howl from Minnesota)My main ‘point’s getter’ is a i9-9980XE / GTX2060S whose parts came from the St. Louis Park store. It must do its day job – but is folding nights and weekends. My previous ‘mothballed’ workstation (a 10-year-old Dell T7400 with a pair of Xeon E5430’s and GTX660Ti), a spare laptop (i7-6700HQ / GTX 970M), and an extra RX570 are running full time.I started on April 3rd when I received the MC email. Mrs. Ahh-wooooooo just saw the electric bill from last month (+$55) and is lobbying to turn one of them off.
Ahh-wooooooo! (lone wolf howl from Minnesota)
My main ‘point’s getter’ is a i9-9980XE / GTX2060S whose parts came from the St. Louis Park store. It must do its day job – but is folding nights and weekends.
My previous ‘mothballed’ workstation (a 10-year-old Dell T7400 with a pair of Xeon E5430’s and GTX660Ti), a spare laptop (i7-6700HQ / GTX 970M), and an extra RX570 are running full time.
I started on April 3rd when I received the MC email. Mrs. Ahh-wooooooo just saw the electric bill from last month (+$55) and is lobbying to turn one of them off.
teamtempest said: Visited the suburban Minneapolis store today and watched the store's build work at F@H for a bit. Very pretty machine, but kind of strange in operation. Lots of F@H CPU threads going, maybe a half dozen or so, all apparently multitasking on a single physical CPU. The powerful GPU glowering in the case was doing nothing. My own machine isn't very powerful, but there's never any time the CPU and the GPU aren't both working unless I've set F@H to minimum power - then the GPU stops whatever it's doing until I turn it up again.
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