LTT Folding Team's Emergency Response to Covid-19

[Kilrah]

1 minute ago, LFreeman said:

GOTSpectrum is allowed cause he is special.

He doesn't have any? It's embedded content that's no good. 

Link to folding stats are allowed.

[LFreeman]

Just now, Kilrah said:

He doesn't have any? It's embedded content that's no good. 

Link to folding stats are allowed.

Oh that's what he meant. I wasn't sure if external links were allowed cause my stats link won't show.

[GOTSpectrum]

3 minutes ago, LFreeman said:

GOTSpectrum is allowed cause he is special.

 

Just saying

 

On 8/27/2018 at 10:44 PM, Whiskers said:

• Signatures
  • Text only, no images or other external content linked.
  • No Advertising/External Links other than to other LTT forum posts, except for the following:
    • a text link to your PC Part Picker profile
    • a text link to your Folding@Home or BOINC stats page
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[hydrochloric]

Woohoo, broke the 3 mil mark!

 

At this rate if I can keep all the machines loaded I can break 10 by next Monday.

 

1 minute ago, Yujah said:

If anyone here's folding with a HD 5830+ or HD 6930+ a shoutout would be appreciated, but I'll for now note potential issues with 6950 at least....

One of my machines is running a 7970.  It's not worth much for it's power draw.

[Yujah]

1 minute ago, hydrochloric said:

One of my machines is running a 7970.  It's not worth much for it's power draw.

Ah, yes, should've specified "in the 5000/6000 series"; shall edit. An HD 7970 is GCN so would indeed work.

[Gorgon]

50 minutes ago, cbigfoot said:

what model are those? 2080ti super and 2060?

both 5700xt - just installing latest adrenaline driver in windows

[LFreeman]

6 minutes ago, LFreeman said:

Oh that's what he meant. I wasn't sure if external links were allowed cause my stats link won't show.

Apparently I didn't save...

[hydrochloric]

2 minutes ago, Yujah said:

Ah, yes, should've specified "in the 5000/6000 series"; shall edit. An HD 7970 is GCN so would indeed work.

You did, sort of.  I guess I didn't carry the first line into the last.

 

Somewhere out there there's a severely over-worked 4970 being force-fed by a Phenom 9950 BE lol...  But I know that one can't fold.

[Cavick]

2 hours ago, Cavick said:

I'm running into a weird issue. If I leave the CPU in the client it will not get WUs at all. I get the " No WUs available for this configuration" error for both CPU and GPU. If I remove or pause the CPU in the client the GPU more or less gets a steady stream of WUs. I've tried playing with the thread count manually with inconsistent success. Windows and drivers are up to date. Any ideas what is going on? Specs below:

OS: Win 10 Pro
CPU: Ryzen 5 1600
GPU: GTX 970
RAM: 16GB

Nevermind I got it working. Reinstalled the client then dialed the CPU back to 8 instead of -1. So far both seem to be fine. We'll see once the current WUs complete. 

[GOTSpectrum]

2 minutes ago, Cavick said:

Nevermind I got it working. Reinstalled the client then dialed the CPU back to 8 instead of -1. So far both seem to be fine. We'll see once the current WUs complete. 

Woo, glad you're back into the fight!

[J1mjam]

Finally got my 2 VMs set up and folding!  Giving my Azure Free Trial a spin, along with some AWS goodness for comparison.

 

Everything seems to be chugging along nicely and the WUs are flowing! 

 

Keep Calm and Fold On

[Pasi123]

Is it normal that my CPU usage is only ~60% when folding? My other PC's (with less cores/threads) are running at 100% or almost 100%

 

[cbigfoot]

8 minutes ago, Pasi123 said:

Is it normal that my CPU usage is only ~60% when folding? My other PC's (with less cores/threads) are running at 100% or almost 100%

 

Some of the protons units only support lower thread counts I have noticed some like on my 3900 where it will only fold on 8 of my threads. 

[Favebook]

4 hours ago, Unilevers said:

one of my 2080Ti's decides it wants to have a bad time and will throw 2 or 3 bad WU in a row then smarten up and be fine for the rest of the day.  No idea why.

Disable any flags if you put any and lower your CC and PL.

4 hours ago, Gorgon said:

I've seen this type of behaviour on NVidia when power-limiting cards really low with a high clock offset to compensate. When the WU returns from a check-point where the CPU is busy but the GPU idle and the clocks ramp up because the card is cooler it boosts higher natively and the offset sends it into unstable territory.

That is exactly what I experienced too @Gorgon, my 1080 Ti would work fine on 99% of WUs and then when it's checkpoint time (every 30min), for those brief few seconds, it would lower the temps a lot and GPU's boost would kick in and instant freeze which I will explain below:

 

However, it seems to be not wide spread, it depends from GPU to GPU in my case... For example, my 1080 Ti ran +160 (2100 CC effectively) on 0x21 but as soon as 0x22 hit Advanced flag, it started crashing and had to lower it to +125. However, when COVID units hit the F@H, everything was fine on +125 but I lowered it to +100 just in case, and the a few days ago it started freezing my PC (and it looked like my CPU was unstable as that is how it usually looked when I was OC-ing it, and I tried upping V-Core but it still kept crashing so I figured it was GPU...).

Afterwards, I lowered CC to +50 and then there were literally just freezes where everything keeps running (that is how I figured it wasn't CPU) but monitor froze and mouse didn't move while F@H was still working in background and every other app as well (youtube played sound fine).

So I had to damn lower CC down to +25 and that is now 100% stable w/o any freezes/dropped WUs. But fun fact is that even at +100 it wouldn't drop WUs, it would just freeze PC and keep folding on same WU after restart.

 

Meanwhile, my 1070 has stable OC with CC of +90 since September and it never even dropped froze a PC, let alone drop a WU....

Same behavior with 2080 Super, OC with CC of +85 (was +100 but lowered just in case), since February and works like a clock.

4 hours ago, Den-Fi said:

 

Added another GPU. 

I'm not being competitive, I just was bored.

You done yet?

Can you calm down now? Pause some slots, let other get WUs... 

 

Tho, seriously, what do you do with all those GPUs when you are not full throttle at F@H?

[Sequence211]

Last few updates i have gotten no credits, even though i have handed in 3 different WU's to 2 different servers..

i guess they will come eventually....

but that does nothing for me in the competition.

Yesteday was a bad day for me too, Got 3 WU's that did not show up at all. that was about 350k points. Seems like the same ammount today.

 

Just spun the other system up, which is only folding on the xeon E5-2630v3 cpu. adding about 75k at 45-50W (cpu)

thinking of bringing the heat, by using my macbook pro in windows (to fold on gpu), to add annother 100k.... maybe later, if i can find a solution for keeping it cold enough, si i can sleep somewhere near it.

[Ayren]

I just had to nuked my entire 10 GPU queue cos things kept crashing ; -;
To whoever was going on about those weird large projects earlier... damn you were right

[Ayren]

Just now, Ayren said:

I just had to nuked my entire 10 GPU queue cos things kept crashing ; -;
To whoever was going on about those weird large projects earlier... damn you were right

I even got a 80k base reward project ;;-;;

heres hoping i get it on my local client where it wont crash 9 other gpus when it fails >.>

[hydrochloric]

5 minutes ago, Ayren said:

I even got a 80k base reward project ;;-;;

heres hoping i get it on my local client where it wont crash 9 other gpus when it fails >.>

That is at least the upside to running a 1+1 or 1+2 with a bunch of individual machines, though it's nowhere near as energy efficient.

[hydrochloric]

I do wish we some more granular control over which slots are getting what WUs.  My 3600 keeps picking up these dinky little 600-200 base credit tasks that take under an hour, while the Xeon struggles with 2400 credit ones for hours on end.  If I could swap those two...

 

[Ayren]

Man that just hit my mood harder than it shoudve...
That was like 4 crashes and about an hour until ive got stuff running again also for some reason all my configs went poof too?
Running at 14.5m  ppd again tho so thats neat ^^

[Shigeru]

And for everybody amusement here is how a Intel Atom N455 compares in folding to a AMD E240... boths sucks, but the E240 sucks much more give the ETAs!! (wow, what was even to reason to design that piece of crap?!? Sometimes lags so bad what even lost the ethernet connection).. going to waste a couple of WUs but oh well (the one in the E240 for sure). The only positive point of the E240... doesn´t heat... ever lol

[Unilevers]

11 minutes ago, Ayren said:

Man that just hit my mood harder than it shoudve...
That was like 4 crashes and about an hour until ive got stuff running again also for some reason all my configs went poof too?
Running at 14.5m  ppd again tho so thats neat ^^

ya i cant keep any of my cards fed today, im down 40% atleast from where i should be.  happens i guess

[Duffbro]

thats a good outlook at least for the servers...

[Ayren]

13 minutes ago, Unilevers said:

ya i cant keep any of my cards fed today, im down 40% atleast from where i should be.  happens i guess

just got another one[crash]... safe to say i hate my life rn

I imagine the server hates me atm since i dropped like 20 WUs


ffs

[Gorgon]

It's Alive!

Downloaded one of those brutal 13876 on the 2nd GPU. It ran for a few minutes then puked.

 

Temperatures on the upper card were in the high 80s, low 90s. Hmm it appears Gigabyte has an over-optimistic fan profile. 87C and running at 40% fan - Really. Cranked the fan profile and away we go.

 

Going to run it on Windows to see what they can do there and tomorrow start trying to get them to work under Linux.