LTT Folding Team's Emergency Response to Covid-19

[Guest]

 

Ok, here we go. Now I got my personal stats page back online and up to date lol.

https://folding.den-fi.com/summary.html

 

 

[Shigeru]

8 hours ago, hydrochloric said:

Well...  I have a 7970 Dual-X and a Vega 56 AirBoost.  I'm running both as folding units, but no reason I need to be.  Hell, I'm not even registered for this competition.  Would one be useful for you?  I need one for 4k output to my TV, but you're welcome to one.

Well! Was taking some time to properly re-check the specs of my two "biggest" machine and will send you a PM

[GOTSpectrum]

I took sometime off after sleeping to play a couple games, hope it doesn't hurt my PPD too much but it was only halo CE so can't imagine it all that taxing on my GPU.

[cbigfoot]

MY BIGGEST RETURN YET!!! tomorrow i will be requesting my 10mill badge at this rate...

Spoiler

[Kilrah]

51 minutes ago, steelo said:

I think at least in my case, I need a few threads...I have a 6c/12t  CPU and reserved only 1 thread for a RX 5700 and my GPU maxed out at 80%

That doesn't mean anything, I currently have a WU that only uses 84% even if nothing else is running. Some can't use all possible available resources, likely some parts of the job have to wait on other stuff to be done before continuing etc.

[Kilrah]

22 minutes ago, Den-Fi said:

Ok, here we go. Now I got my personal stats page back online and up to date lol.

https://folding.den-fi.com/summary.html

That's a load of failed units for that one slot...

 

  

6 minutes ago, cbigfoot said:

MY BIGGEST RETURN YET!!! tomorrow i will be requesting my 10mill badge at this rate...

Unfortunately there's no 10M badge, it's 25 - still a way to go

[marknd59]

When I said "I have a very invested interest in Covid-19" I really ment it.

 

I'm a cancer patient. In the last 2 1/2 years I've had my right lung removed, done 4 months of chemo, had neurosurgery to remove a brain tumor, and had 2 lots of radiotherapy ( the latest being last Wednesday). If I get Covid-19 I'll be lucky to make it 2 weeks.

 

With that said this system will only ever be used for folding, if I make past Covid-19 I'll switch it over to cancer research, It's never  going to be a gaming rig.

 

My thinking behind the R7 is R7 2700 and R5 3600 are near enough the same price I can have the R7 run 14 cores (leaving 2 core to keep everything else happy) and the CPU WU's have to be done and every bit will help.

 

Power draw I'm not too bothered about if it means I can get more WU's done in the same time I don't mind a slightly higher power bill. My whole idea is to crunch as many WU's as I can with the budget I have.

 

Also I would like to personally thank everyone of you for spending your time, effort and resources to help out people in a position like mine.
 

[cbigfoot]

2 minutes ago, marknd59 said:

When I said "I have a very invested interest in Covid-19" I really ment it.

 

I'm a cancer patient. In the last 2 1/2 years I've had my right lung removed, done 4 months of chemo, had neurosurgery to remove a brain tumor, and had 2 lots of radiotherapy ( the latest being last Wednesday). If I get Covid-19 I'll be lucky to make it 2 weeks.

 

With that said this system will only ever be used for folding, if I make past Covid-19 I'll switch it over to cancer research, It's never  going to be a gaming rig.

 

My thinking behind the R7 is R7 2700 and R5 3600 are near enough the same price I can have the R7 run 14 cores (leaving 2 core to keep everything else happy) and the CPU WU's have to be done and every bit will help.

 

Power draw I'm not too bothered about if it means I can get more WU's done in the same time I don't mind a slightly higher power bill. My whole idea is to crunch as many WU's as I can with the budget I have.

 

Also I would like to personally thank everyone of you for spending your time, effort and resources to help out people in a position like mine.
 

in that case the R7 would be best. and best of luck to you.  i would also look at a Noctua cooler for the CPU as the included ones aren't the best.

[minibois]

7 minutes ago, cbigfoot said:

MY BIGGEST RETURN YET!!! tomorrow i will be requesting my 10mill badge at this rate...

*Looks to the left* *Looks to the right*

So... Who's gonna tell you there is no 10 mil badge 

 

But there is a very beautiful silver 25 million badge!

 

[LU0P10]

@Kilrah Have you checked your rear view mirror 

 

[cbigfoot]

5 minutes ago, Kilrah said:

That's a load of failed units for that one slot...

 

  

Unfortunately there's no 10M badge, it's 25 - still a way to go

DOH lol ok next week

[steelo]

1 hour ago, ShortRouter said:

You could try reserving more threads but it could also be overheat issue and your 5700 clocking itself down when both CPU and GPU is under full load. Just a shot in the dark really. Check the clock speed and temps with MSI afterburner.

I thought that too, but my GPU temps max out at around 75C...

 

I saw where another poster suggested editing the config file...that is a bit too complicated and I don't want to risk fudging it up...

[Duffbro]

1 hour ago, Cas_DS said:

It's already been a couple of days that it didn't get a task. I tried your tip but it didn't help. Tnx for helping

 

just keep on trying... once I needed around 45 attempts but mostly 4-5 attempts. Its just random luck to find a free resource slot on the server.

Its getting way better since they are ramping up server capacity. Will be doubled soon... 

[Kilrah]

12 minutes ago, LU0P10 said:

@Kilrah Have you checked your rear view mirror 

Ouch... I just added my old 970 to the mix but while those 3.7 days might take longer now I still won't be able to escape  Only a measly 400k PPD more, and until it cooks itself given its fans are pretty much touching its neighbor's backplate... 85°C

[Shigeru]

Good day everybody! Just to share a link for another post I just created with a story from a member (doctor) of a astronomy project where I participate:

 

[LU0P10]

Just now, Kilrah said:

Ouch... I just added my old 970 to the mix but while those 3.7 days might take longer now I still won't be able to escape 

I give you a bit of slack for a while though... since I have to tear down my other pc... taking 1080Ti out, putting 2080 Seahawk in... but 1080Ti is getting it´s new home with i7 2600K (LUL I found out that from some cardboard box yesterday)... and bought a wifi card. Going to locate that third pc to my balcony at 2 Celsius climate... 

 

...when WUs are done I am hustling under the bonnet few hours 

[J1mjam]

Woo! Got myself into the top 500! And my daily production from yesterday was 217th. Smashing!

[Favebook]

6 hours ago, ReneBrain said:

I just stated my experience. Mileage may vary.I am not into this thing, and i just always see only base credit so i can only tell you what i experienced ( he only shows me really low numbers on the estimate, like 1k to 12k, which isn't even close to the 50k to 200k points i am getting per wu). I am just folding and try out to help out man.Don't be so harsh

He wasn't harsh, he was just correcting you so you wouldn't spread misinformation.

4 hours ago, QuintLeo said:

If any of you have questions especially on multi-card and mixed GPU type rigs under LINUX, I can probably help you sort them out.

You my friend will be needed!

[LAR_Systems]

I really hope that F@H can beef up assignment servers at some point... 

[Inkertus]

4 minutes ago, LAR_Systems said:

I really hope that F@H can beef up assignment servers at some point... 

Last day or two they're doing pretty well.  Assignments are north of 100k/hr consistently now.  Past week+ they were anywhere from 50-90k tops.

[Guest]

1 hour ago, Kilrah said:

That's a load of failed units for that one slot...

That was just F@H freaking out after installing nvtop somehow removed the nvidia drivers. It's not actual failed WUs.

[LAR_Systems]

13 minutes ago, Inkertus said:

Last day or two they're doing pretty well.  Assignments are north of 100k/hr consistently now.  Past week+ they were anywhere from 50-90k tops.

[GOTSpectrum]

1 minute ago, LAR_Systems said:

My folding on 7/7 says it's very true!

[Ayren]

25 minutes ago, LAR_Systems said:

I really hope that F@H can beef up assignment servers at some point... 

Theres 1 simple thing that could make a tremendous improvement already without even modifying the backend:

Having a pooled queue of WU to draw from instead of each FS having its own damn queue

Ik there are limitations to that but still... In general better queue management would be nice but i guess that would be too exploitable? meh its not like one cant manipulate the queue already if one tries

[Inkertus]

1 minute ago, Ayren said:

Theres 1 simple thing that could make a tremendous improvement already without even modifying the backend:

Having a pooled queue of WU to draw from instead of each FS having its own damn queue

Ik there are limitations to that but still... In general better queue management would be nice but i guess that would be too exploitable? meh its not like one cant manipulate the queue already if one tries

A centralized server keeping track of what has what and round-robin distributing based on # of jobs and capacity? "server #3 has an open slot and this job go ask for it"