LTT Folding Team's Emergency Response to Covid-19

[TVwazhere]

Also dont forget that you can get badges based on the points you've collected for the LTT team!

(I only spent the last half hour awarding points badges to users who made requests over the weekend LOL!)

[Gallardo006]

If you have trouble getting Work Units, restart the application and/or restart the computer to reset the pipe to the Work Unit Server.

[Void Astra]

2 minutes ago, Puntoboy said:

Been struggling all morning to get any CPU WUs. Only GPU so far today.

I think I have the same issue since I can only see "GPU Running" and "CPU Ready"  Even though I have over 80% CPU usage.

[GOTSpectrum]

1 minute ago, TVwazhere said:

(I only spent the last half hour awarding points to users who made requests over the weekend LOL!)

Wait, you can award folding points directly?

[Daniel_SC]

1 minute ago, TVwazhere said:

Also dont forget that you can get badges based on the points you've collected for the LTT team!

(I only spent the last half hour awarding points to users who made requests over the weekend LOL!)

I Just realized I got my Bronze badge Thx to F@H mods!

[Puntoboy]

2 minutes ago, Gallardo006 said:

If you have trouble getting Work Units, restart the application and/or restart the computer to reset the pipe to the Work Unit Server.

It's only CPU ones though, my GPU is crunching away.

[mattheginger]

1 hour ago, FoldingToFightAnyDiseases said:

Hey my Folding@home is glitching out. It keeps reloading the page and will not fold. Does anybody have a solution? Thx!

Tbh it's better to use the 'advanced control' inferface... You can close the web interface, then right click on the folding icon in the system tray. Select 'advanced control'.

 

Also, it may not be folding due to the scarcity of WU's right now. 

[MalteSpielt]

CPUs are a lot worse at folding than GPUs..

Been folding with 4 Servers (each with around 24 Cores) and they generate less points together than my single GTX 1070...

[TVwazhere]

3 minutes ago, GOTSpectrum said:

Wait, you can award folding points directly?

guess the secret is out /s

[cyberphy]

I got my 1050, 730 and my Xeon I know its not much but I will do what I can

 

[Spotty]

21 minutes ago, TVwazhere said:

And if he's going to try and LN2 it..... It's gonna be a long ass stream without a lot of exciting things going on. It's notr like he can get an update every 20 minutes with Time Spy runs, it's just watching a bar rise up to completion. Literally watching paint dry levels of excitment.

Don't try telling him that...

 

Unlike for benchmarking high scores like Cinebench and Timespy extreme overclocking for F@H just isn't practical. For example in a 24 hour contest to see who can score the most points any performance gains you get from overclocking will be wasted by the time it takes to set up the pots, get the LN2 going, dial in the overclocking, any lost work units from a crash due to unstable OC...

 

Realistically all you could do with a LN2 overclocked folding@home system is boast about your Estimated PPD: score and that's about it. Maybe submit a few work units but after that you'll be out of LN2 and disassembling the pots while your production drops back down to 0.
Compared to just a regular system where you can just set and forget and get consistent results 24/7. Even if you can't get as high estimated PPD you're still going to end up far ahead. Turtle and hare race.

 

But like GN said in his reply on twitter, it's not to be practical. If it gets some extra attention to Folding@home then that's great!
I just hope people don't watch it and think that they should overclock their system to the max to get the best result and then end up failing a bunch of work units

 

Here's the Gamers Nexus Folding Team: https://folding.extremeoverclocking.com/team_summary.php?s=&t=234771

There's no way the Gamers Nexus team could compete with the LTT team at this point. But a 1v1 battle of Steve from GN versus @jakkuh_t (6 editors 1 PC) could be a more fair fight.

[Gallardo006]

2 minutes ago, Puntoboy said:

It's only CPU ones though, my GPU is crunching away.

I didn't mean my picture as an example. haha I only posted to show my total today. When I do get CPU work units, I crunch them in like 30 minutes

[Gallardo006]

1 minute ago, Spotty said:

Don't try telling him that...

 

Unlike for benchmarking high scores like Cinebench and Timespy extreme overclocking for F@H just isn't practical. For example in a 24 hour contest to see who can score the most points any performance gains you get from overclocking will be wasted by the time it takes to set up the pots, get the LN2 going, dial in the overclocking, any lost work units from a crash due to unstable OC... Then you can't stand there for 24 hours monitoring it so after a few hours you have to stop.

 

Realistically all you could do with a LN2 overclocked folding@home system is boast about your Estimated PPD: score and that's about it. Maybe submit a few work units but after that you'll be out of LN2 and disassembling the pots while your production drops back down to 0.
Compared to just a regular system where you can just set and forget and get consistent results 24/7. Even if you can't get as high estimated PPD you're still going to end up far ahead. Turtle and hare race.

 

But like GN said in his reply on twitter, it's not to be practical. If it gets some extra attention to Folding@home then that's great!
I just hope people don't watch it and think that they should overclock their system to the max to get the best result and then end up failing a bunch of work units

 

Here's the Gamers Nexus Folding Team: https://folding.extremeoverclocking.com/team_summary.php?s=&t=234771

There's no way the Gamers Nexus team could compete with the LTT team at this point. But a 1v1 battle of Steve from GN versus @jakkuh_t (6 editors 1 PC) could be a more fair fight.

LOL, I wish we they could filter points based on Coronavirus WU's. Then I feel they may have more races going on.

[ykdave]

2 minutes ago, Malte said:

CPUs are a lot worse at folding than GPUs..

Been folding with 4 Servers (each with around 24 Cores) and they generate less points together than my single GTX 1070...

Yea, definitely not as productive as a GPU.  When cooking, my 3950x shows an average 500,000ppd, and the 2080ti is anywhere from 2,500,00-3,000,000ppd 

But, until they can keep the GPUs churning, ill let the 3950 eat, this morning its the only thing thats got work

[PEagle]

3 minutes ago, Gallardo006 said:

I didn't mean my picture as an example. haha I only posted to show my total today. When I do get CPU work units, I crunch them in like 30 minutes

I read earlier in the thread that it depends on the WU that is given to you but can range from 30minutes to 4 hours

[MalteSpielt]

Just now, ykdave said:

Yea, definitely not as productive as a GPU.  When cooking, my 3950x shows an average 500,000ppd, and the 2080ti is anywhere from 2,500,00-3,000,000ppd 

But, until they can keep the GPUs churning, ill let the 3950 eat, this morning its the only thing thats got work

Yeah, thats the reason im keeping the servers running. every little helps (even though it costs like 10€ per day in electricity )

[Gallardo006]

2 minutes ago, ykdave said:

Yea, definitely not as productive as a GPU.  When cooking, my 3950x shows an average 500,000ppd, and the 2080ti is anywhere from 2,500,00-3,000,000ppd 

But, until they can keep the GPUs churning, ill let the 3950 eat, this morning its the only thing thats got work

You're eating all my 3950x work... lol I'm taking those GPU orders though

[Gallardo006]

I'm bored, (besides work) and I got another 9700k box sitting around. Debating on picking up best bang for buck GPU's and running that too. I'm already heating my house though, and I feel my wife might murder me with another one.

[MalteSpielt]

4 minutes ago, ykdave said:

Yea, definitely not as productive as a GPU.  When cooking, my 3950x shows an average 500,000ppd, and the 2080ti is anywhere from 2,500,00-3,000,000ppd 

But, until they can keep the GPUs churning, ill let the 3950 eat, this morning its the only thing thats got work

Its crazy how much new hardware has gotten better. my 1070 barely hits 550k per day, and my 6950X hits around 120k per day.

[SOCOM_HERO]

Not seeing descriptions of my WUs today. Wonder if the servers are hit so hard they aren't displaying them?

[ShortRouter]

Ladies and gents... WE DID IT! Congrats to y'all !

 

[Void Astra]

Just now, Gallardo006 said:

I'm bored, (besides work) and I got another 9700k box sitting around. Debating on picking up best bang for buck GPU's and running that too. I'm already heating my house though, and I feel my wife might murder me with another one.

Those GPUs are expensive heaters  But they're getting hot for a good cause 

[GOTSpectrum]

1 minute ago, Malte said:

Its crazy how much new hardware has gotten better. my 1070 barely hits 550k per day, and my 6950X hits around 120k per day.

my 2060 hits over 1M PPD, around 1.1-1.3M 

[Zberg]

6 minutes ago, ykdave said:

Yea, definitely not as productive as a GPU.  When cooking, my 3950x shows an average 500,000ppd, and the 2080ti is anywhere from 2,500,00-3,000,000ppd 

But, until they can keep the GPUs churning, ill let the 3950 eat, this morning its the only thing thats got work

I was wondering if I was just getting small CPU WUs or that was always the case.  Now with an N of 3, it seems the GPU alone is hovering around 2.5-3,000,000 on its own and when the CPU gets something it really barely changes or gets a job worth like 8000.  

 

Regardless, very happy they did this video, I literally had never heard of folding for any of these causes and its nice the hardware can do something useful between gaming sessions.

[Gallardo006]

What badge is after bronze again? 10 million points?