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Cleared 50,000,000 today. Cool. 🙂

If I can keep the GTX 1070 and both GTX 970s online and running, I can steadily gobble up 1.4 million PPD, which is pretty nice. I keep losing production to various hardware reshuffles and upgrades, though, as reflected in the graph attached.

It also seems like some WUs just plain run less efficiently than others. The GTX 1170 generally wants to run at about 800k PPD, but sometimes it will run not too much better than half that, and the only variable I can account for is the difference in WUs. 😕

Too bad there isn't a "silver-plus" badge to put in for at 50 million.  🙂

See y'all at 100 mil! 

With the novelty of the whole COVID-19 wearing off, fewer people are participating in the F@H effort than a few months ago. However, those that are left (including me) have buckled down and are cranking out more points than ever, averaging around 36 trillion points or 1.5 million Work Units per day. What that adds up to in petaflops or super computer equivalents, I am not sure, but can say with some confidence "a LOT"...
 
I have retired all of my older Folding machines (Socket 771/775 boxes) and have ceased all CPU folding, as it just is too inefficient and makes too much heat, and I have added several GPUs (a pair of GTX 970s) and am looking to add one more shortly (a GTX 1070ti, most likely), which would put my production up to over 1.5 million points per day. All of these reside in various Socket 1366 machines of roughly 2012-vintage, all running hex-core Zeons (not that this matters all that much Folding purposes any more...)
I should have my F@H Linus Tech Tips Team Silver (25 million point) certificate by Thursday or so. Only 75 million more to go (!) to get my Gold.

Still picking up steam, still adding GPUs, still cutting back on CPU cores devoted to folding. Still having fun. 🙂

Currently have the following up and running:

1x Dell Precision T5500 w/ 1x X5660 @ 2.8Ghz, 12GB of RAM, 1x Zotac GTX 970
1x Dell Poweredge R710 w/ 2x X5675 @ 3.09Ghz, 48GB of RAM, 1x Zotac GTX 970
1x HP Z400 w/ 1x L5640@ 2.2Ghz, 8GB of RAM, 1x EVGA GTX 750 Ti
1x Dell Precision M4500 laptop, Quad Core i7M, 15GB of RAM, 1x Quatro 880M

This adds up to some 900,000PPD, so right now I am blowing past  bunch of people that are no longer active and a fair number that are. Entering the top 8,000 on the team and the top 50,000 of FAH as a whole.

Getting the GTX 970 (which seems to be about the best value going right now, at just over $100 per on US Ebay) up and running in the R710 was actually quite simple, really...You just have to do everything in a particular sequence to get the card detected, the onboard video turned off and then have the server running on the GPU. The next frontier will be trying to get the two GTX 970s running in SLI on the R710, which from what I can tell by looking around on the web has not been done before. It may prove to be impossible, and if that is the case, I will try it again with both cards in the T5500, the only downside there is that I can't get it up and running on two processors (a flaky riser interface, I figure). If that works, I may go back and try a better one-card solution for the R710.

Cleared 50,000,000 today. Cool. 🙂

If I can keep the GTX 1070 and both GTX 970s online and running, I can steadily gobble up 1.4 million PPD, which is pretty nice. I keep losing production to various hardware reshuffles and upgrades, though, as reflected in the graph attached.

It also seems like some WUs just plain run less efficiently than others. The GTX 1170 generally wants to run at about 800k PPD, but sometimes it will run not too much better than half that, and the only variable I can account for is the difference in WUs. 😕

Too bad there isn't a "silver-plus" badge to put in for at 50 million.  🙂

See y'all at 100 mil! 

Well, it's new to me.  🙂

GTX 1070, actually. 
 

Some new card I am not aware of? 🙊😮

Cleared 50,000,000 today. Cool. 🙂

If I can keep the GTX 1070 and both GTX 970s online and running, I can steadily gobble up 1.4 million PPD, which is pretty nice. I keep losing production to various hardware reshuffles and upgrades, though, as reflected in the graph attached.

It also seems like some WUs just plain run less efficiently than others. The GTX 1170 generally wants to run at about 800k PPD, but sometimes it will run not too much better than half that, and the only variable I can account for is the difference in WUs. 😕

Too bad there isn't a "silver-plus" badge to put in for at 50 million.  🙂

See y'all at 100 mil! 

I imagine that is how most people here started: with just whatever was laying around, then whatever they could dig out of closets. I happen to have access to a lot of older server and workstation gear, so that is where I went next. Lots of old Xeon CPUs making lots of heat. Then, I discovered the joys of GPU folding and have come to focus exclusively on that. I suspect that some of the higher flyers in this world have either repurposed somebody else's server farm (and power bill) or have dug out their old mining rigs. I will be lucky to ever even break into the top 1000, given some of the folding capacity that people have developed here. But, I am happy to do what I can do. 🙂

I imagine that is how most people here started: with just whatever was laying around, then whatever they could dig out of closets. I happen to have access to a lot of older server and workstation gear, so that is where I went next. Lots of old Xeon CPUs making lots of heat. Then, I discovered the joys of GPU folding and have come to focus exclusively on that. I suspect that some of the higher flyers in this world have either repurposed somebody else's server farm (and power bill) or have dug out their old mining rigs. I will be lucky to ever even break into the top 1000, given some of the folding capacity that people have developed here. But, I am happy to do what I can do. 🙂

I imagine that is how most people here started: with just whatever was laying around, then whatever they could dig out of closets. I happen to have access to a lot of older server and workstation gear, so that is where I went next. Lots of old Xeon CPUs making lots of heat. Then, I discovered the joys of GPU folding and have come to focus exclusively on that. I suspect that some of the higher flyers in this world have either repurposed somebody else's server farm (and power bill) or have dug out their old mining rigs. I will be lucky to ever even break into the top 1000, given some of the folding capacity that people have developed here. But, I am happy to do what I can do. 🙂

I've been folding since March and am up to 8 machines folding 24 hours a day now, all of them older PCs that were sitting in storage gathering dust. I'm at 8 million points now and hit about 100,000-150,000 (approx) points per day. I just raided my Mom's place and took her old desktop and an old work laptop to add to my folding set up. I figure if they're just gathering dust, might as well put them to work. I'm so glad I don't pay the electricity bill!

We have a new rodarkone awakening... watch out for tylerjthomas9 he started yesterday but he's hitting 13M per day so already ... 😬 
 
That is good for the team but scary for us "slower" guys  
 

I received my aio watercooling for my 5700 xt I'll try to install it tomorrow, it won't be faster but reducing the noise of that blower will be very nice 👍🏼. But the real muscle for now is the 2060 Super. I'm starting to wander if I should replace my 5700 xt by another RTX card 🤔 too bad the Radeon card look nicer... 

Oh, COVID-19 itself is going nowhere anytime soon. People here in the US seem determined to help spread it as far and as widely as possible. The only thing fading with COVID-19 is the novelty of it being among us and the novelty of folding proteins to try and cure it, hence the vast number of inactive users that are accumulating like arterial plaque in the folding world. 3/4 of the people that were folding back in April are inactive now. Personally, I am doubling and redoubling my efforts as we get deeper into this thing, since a vaccine or something along those lines is the only thing that is going to help us shake it anytime soon. Next, probably a GTX 1080 or something in that class.

We have not gotten that hot here yet, but it is inevitable. That is a big part of why I gave up on CPU folding altogether.

My wife fronted me some money as an early birthday present, and I ordered a GTX 1070 today. That, combined with my two GTX 970s and my old GTX 750ti should give me something around 1.7 million PPD. That will just have to do for now.  From what I am told, I can even use these things to play games!  🙂

Same here in my country, people really seem to like that COVID-19 that they keep sharing it with everyone...
 
I am looking into buying around 5M worth of PPD GPUs but current market is bad, I do not need those GPUs and 40C during the day tells me to wait.

In the top 500 since yesterday ☺️

Maximum speed ahead!   Next goal 5000 WUs 
 
Oh! And in the Top 30 for today (still early but...) 

And this is just the beginning, in a few months, it will be much much worse than in early 2020. Only because it's not main-stream media anymore, doesn't mean it ain't spreading like hell.

Broke into the top 100!
 

It's crazy how some people think COVID is wearing off...

With the novelty of the whole COVID-19 wearing off, fewer people are participating in the F@H effort than a few months ago. However, those that are left (including me) have buckled down and are cranking out more points than ever, averaging around 36 trillion points or 1.5 million Work Units per day. What that adds up to in petaflops or super computer equivalents, I am not sure, but can say with some confidence "a LOT"...
 
I have retired all of my older Folding machines (Socket 771/775 boxes) and have ceased all CPU folding, as it just is too inefficient and makes too much heat, and I have added several GPUs (a pair of GTX 970s) and am looking to add one more shortly (a GTX 1070ti, most likely), which would put my production up to over 1.5 million points per day. All of these reside in various Socket 1366 machines of roughly 2012-vintage, all running hex-core Zeons (not that this matters all that much Folding purposes any more...)
I should have my F@H Linus Tech Tips Team Silver (25 million point) certificate by Thursday or so. Only 75 million more to go (!) to get my Gold.

Folders during the LTT spring event:
I MUS FOLD ALL THE WU'S TO GET THE MOST PPD TO INCREASE MY RANK BECAUSE I AM BATTLING FOR SUPREMACY IN MY CURRENT TOP NUMBERED BRACKET THAT I MIGHT HAVE A DECENT SHOT AT WINNING A COOL PRIZE AND ALSO FOR BRAGGING RIGHTS I SHALL SEND MEMES TO MY OPPONENTS TAUNTING THEM AS I SLOWLY EDGE CLOSE TO OVERTAKING POINT IN A SHOW OF SUPREMACY AND MIGHT
 
Me:
Guys look my graph looks like a skiing hill  

I like nice even numbers
 
Two months until I double my current points, but only halfway to the next badge lol

Hit 100 million yesterday

Congrats @dogwitch I'll hit 100 Million in about a week now unless I upgrade my single 5700 XT 🤔 or wait for upcoming card... 

Ryzen 3900X / 32Gb 3600 / Radeon 5700 XT / MSI B450
 

i hit 100 million today.