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  1. raulinbonn
    Just checked and right now folding what must be the largest WU my 1070 has handled so far: almost 200K estimated points. It's 30+% already done, and still 4+ hours to go:
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    I would think the overall scheme is a two-way multi-producer / multi-consumer scenario. So there could be one global distributed queue for WU's, and one global distributed queue of clients picking them up, then submitting their results to one global distributed queue of results for servers to pick up. Whether it is implemented like that I really don't know, but the behavior of the clients seems to clearly not match that.
  3. raulinbonn
    Definitely the client needs some work. Almost always whenever I see the GPU has not been folding for some time, I stop the client, restart it, and almost always consistently get a WU immediately. This should not be happening. The overall scheme should not make the clients seemingly get stuck with some server(s) which run out of WU's, while other servers may have WU's pending and no client is picking them up. Will check and play with these scripts to see how much my average PPD might improve.
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    I like your keyboard too!
  5. raulinbonn
    This is an IBM Model M "Manufactured for IBM by Lexmark", as indicated in the tag on the bottom. It is from April 1994, part #82G2383. It's a third generation model as detailed here: https://deskthority.net/wiki/IBM_Enhanced_Keyboard Sports the wonderful buckling spring switches. Not selling it at all, hopefully this post or I won't be banned here for sharing these details Here a teaser photo of the keycaps, and the label on the bottom:
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    Maybe you don't know about some of the greatest keyboards of all time? This is an IBM Model M. Certainly old, but it's one of the best keyboards ever. I used Model M's back in the late 80's - early 90's, got this original one just couple of years ago after trying pretty much everything out there. To my fingers nothing really compares to the feel and sound of an original IBM Model M (for daily usage and typing, not for gaming.) My PC is not that old, but also not brand new, has an i7-6700K and a 1080 TI. For folding I've been using mostly another PC build with an AMD 3600 and a 1070 though.
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    Continuing these recursive photos, not same class of drink but Jägermeister is still delicious
  8. raulinbonn
    After 4+ hours, finishing one of the largest WU's my 1070 has crunched: 141K points estimate. In the previous days there was one with 150K+ points, those must have been the largest so far:
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    Side panel on the Cougar QBX is not transparent, so there is no RGB or concern about internal looks on this build. Reason to put that "ultimate GPU sag solution" was not aesthetics, but caring about shipping this PC and keeping that corner of the GPU complete immobilized.
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    I had tested the CPU before with prime95 actually. There's no overclocking on this PC, everything completely stable. The stock GPU has also shown to be completely stable under Cinebench R15, R20, Superposition, Furmark, Time Spy, Firestrike. Reduced the clocks on the GPU mostly to reduce thermals a bit.
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    Oops sorry mess up submitting previous comment. Saw some build photos so sharing mine here as well. This is a build I made for my sister, haven't shipped it to her yet because of the situation. It's a Cougar QBX case, with an AMD 3600, and an Nvidia GTX 1070. Folding with the side panel on, just removed it for the photo. The case is elevated a bit, and without the bottom filter in place. Adding the filter and/or removing that elevation will increase the GPU temperature quite a bit, by at least 5 degrees. PS. You can see details about the "ultimate GPU sag solution" (that screw on the bottom right holding the GPU) in the following link: http://fluviolabenti.blogspot.com/2020/02/the-ultimate-solution-to-gpu-sag.html
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    Saw some build photos so sharing mine here as well. This is a build for my sister, but I haven't shipped it to her yet because of the situation.
  13. raulinbonn
    Folding of a WU from project 14541 completed problem-free. In fact got another WU from the same project right afterwards:
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    Folding just with one of my PCs and the Nvidia 1070 for a couple of days now. The 1070 has been underclocked by -100 MHz all along, both for cores and memory. So far ok at more than 23%, will report later if it finishes problem-free.
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    But guess what, incidentally it's project 14541. Loud sweating here as well
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    Had not received a WU for several hours, in spite of re-pausing and re-folding, and restarting the client, and the computer. Went ahead and did the advanced client-type option, got a WU immediately. That client can really benefit from some polishing.
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    Thanks! Just checked and yes, in older logs from the past few days I can find other very low reported score estimates, like 7608, 9405. It's only now that I noticed such low estimates.
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    Yes that's me, thanks! I have restarted the software and also my two folding PCs a few times since starting some days ago (just in case,) so can't see too far back in the software logs though. In any case what you mention about collection servers might explain it. I've noticed it fails to upload to the servers rather often after finishing a WU, then after a few minutes finally it starts uploading. However normally a decent point estimate is given. I'll keep monitoring.
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    But the 7685 awarded points message wasn't on the web client, was on the log tab in the Advanced Control window: 14:50:40:WU01:FS01:Server responded WORK_ACK (400) 14:50:40:WU01:FS01:Final credit estimate, 7685.00 points
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    After more than an hour of crunching numbers, my 1080 Ti just was awarded a wooping: "Final credit estimate, 7685.00 points" Is this maybe of concern? Is this something others have experienced?
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    I am in Central Europe. But shouldn't the client be able to work unattended, specially when leaving it in "Power:Full" and "When: While I'm Working"? I don't think It should require our constant monitoring of it, or frequent restarting or pausing/unpausing to get it to start getting again WU's. If that's the case, some serious debugging is in order.
  22. raulinbonn
    Ok no wonder, I have two pcs folding and the most powerful one has not received any WU's at all today. The other one, just one WU which it's still processing.
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    I'm thinking, developers from Folding @ Home should get pointers to this forum, because they can improve their interface a lot from some of the user feedback collected here. For example in my opinion the interface should not say WARNING or ERROR (exactly like that, with full uppercase) then followed by "Failed to get assignment", or "Exception: could not get an assignment" repeatedly everytime it fails to get something from a server, when everything on our clients is really running fine, it's just that the servers don't have anything to send. Those messages are pretty misleading, make the user think something is wrong with the client, or it is no longer connecting or failing, when it's not the case. If there is some way to tell the health of the client is perfect, even though it's not getting any jobs, then the log should report that, not only repeatedly pushing out those unnecessarily alarming uppercase warnings and errors.
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    Some times no WU's, sometimes you get one and complete, but then you get things like this in the log tab of the Advanced Control. It basically means a server not being able to immediately receive those results: 17:08:46:WU01:FS01:Uploading 49.92MiB to 155.247.166.219 17:08:46:WU01:FS01:Connecting to 155.247.166.219:8080 17:08:47:ERROR:WU01:FS01:Exception: Transfer failed After some time eventually the transfer should start, seemingly even if with some other server, as in this case: 17:12:15:WU01:FS01:Uploading 49.92MiB to 128.252.203.10 17:12:15:WU01:FS01:Connecting to 128.252.203.10:8080 17:12:52:WU01:FS01:Upload 0.63% 17:12:58:WU01:FS01:Upload 3.13% 17:13:04:WU01:FS01:Upload 6.13% 17:13:10:WU01:FS01:Upload 9.39%
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    Any resources help, but very specially any GPU over CPU cores. At least on my system, current point estimate per day for my 4 assigned CPU cores is only ~40K points, while current estimate for my 1080 Ti is ~1.6 M points, so 40X what those CPU cores can do.
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