LTT Folding Team's Emergency Response to Covid-19

[ffbr]

1 minute ago, GOTSpectrum said:

Well you know how to fix that, but yourself a couple new GPUs!

Wonder what is the best $$$ per point card at the moment

[leadeater]

2 minutes ago, ffbr said:

Wonder what is the best $$$ per point card at the moment

RTX 2060 KO

[GOTSpectrum]

2 minutes ago, ffbr said:

Wonder what is the best $$$ per point card at the moment

2060 or 2060S if you are considering TCO over a period of time then maybe the better PPD/W of the 2080ti may top it imo. @Gorgon any input?

 

I know you have made some pretty sheets about this

[GOTSpectrum]

Just now, leadeater said:

RTX 2060 KO

The KO is terrible for folding as it uses more power than a 2060 or 2060S. So if your power if free then yeah, if not, better to spend the extra on a none-KO card. IMO. 

[RollinLower]

6 minutes ago, GOTSpectrum said:

2060 or 2060S if you are considering TCO over a period of time then maybe the better PPD/W of the 2080ti may top it imo. @Gorgon any input?

 

I know you have made some pretty sheets about this

i mean, given a long enough period of time any better PPD/W card will be cheaper in the long run.

if you spend over 1K on a card tough, that might become one looooong run

[GOTSpectrum]

Just now, RollinLower said:

i mean, given a long enough period of time any better PPD/W card will be cheaper in the long run.

if you spend over 1K on a card tough, that might become one looooong run

Honestly I have no idea what a 2080ti costs these days.

 

I buy used/referbed 2060/2070 cards for stupid low prices using ebay sniping

[marknd59]

Woo Hoo just got an e-mail. The last of my new hardware, which I ordered last Friday, has just been depatch and should be delivered "between 9:00am - 5:30pm on Saturday". Guess I building a new system tomorrow.

 

I know everyone is having problems at the moment but I think 7 days to get an order out when I payed for next day delivery is a bit much.

[leadeater]

11 minutes ago, GOTSpectrum said:

The KO is terrible for folding as it uses more power than a 2060 or 2060S. So if your power if free then yeah, if not, better to spend the extra on a none-KO card. IMO. 

The KO (not KO Ultra) uses less than the Super and the same as any AIB high power OC card, nothing that can't be capped by power offset on any of the cards really. KO is just cheaper than most, is actually a 2080 die and if at any point a workload that is on it hits those magic situations where it's 20%-40% faster then win.

 

Problem is there is no data for the KO on a per project basis to know how well it performs but if I were to by a 2060 it would only be a KO. The card build and cooling is kinda garbage but I'd buy it for the GPU die alone.

[RollinLower]

1 minute ago, marknd59 said:

Woo Hoo just got an e-mail. The last of my new hardware, which I ordered last Friday, has just been depatch and should be delivered "between 9:00am - 5:30pm on Saturday". Guess I building a new system tomorrow.

 

I know everyone is having problems at the moment but I think 7 days to get an order out when I payed for next day delivery is a bit much.

can you get refunded for the extra delivery costs?

[DrButtlet]

18 minutes ago, GOTSpectrum said:

Well you know how to fix that, but yourself a couple new GPUs!

This is very true, I do need to just build a dedicated folding machine anyways!

[marknd59]

1 minute ago, RollinLower said:

can you get refunded for the extra delivery costs?

Don't know guess I can ask and see what they say.

[Kyouki_IE]

I was at rank 101 on day 11 and 12, was hoping I could increase just one rank to make it into the top 100, but got pushed down one place to 102 by these cloud computers jumping on google compute for the last few days of the event.

 

Still...

• 102nd out of 8k+
• broke 25 million total points (2m from the day before the event, 23m during the event)
• I made it onto LTT's team summary stats page.
• Silver Folding Badge! [EDIT]

All that with just 2 GPUs, an RTX 2080 and a GTX 970. I'm pretty happy with that.

I folded 10-15 years ago and got 100k points from 215 WUs (old account), but the difference with modern GPUs is phenomenal!

 

It's been fun. I will continue to fold for the team, but I will have to back off from doing it 24/7.

 

[FloRolf]

18 minutes ago, leadeater said:

Problem is there is no data for the KO on a per project basis to know how well it performs but if I were to by a 2060 it would only be a KO. The card build and cooling is kinda garbage but I'd buy it for the GPU die alone.

Well, as someone who actually did buy it (Ultra version tho) and ran it the last 2 weeks, maybe I should put some results in the database

 

But yes, the cooler is garbage but it produces an average of ~1.1m so that's pretty good for a 330€ card imo. 

[Parideboy]

Wish I've cracked 300th, placed 315th. This was my first folding event, it's been a lot of fun

[Hitman1989]

Just to give my 2 cents

[ffbr]

Oui oui c'est pas le bon thread ... Mais je peux pas m'empêcher !

[Inversion]

So glad I made it over 500k points. First folding event and just a single GTX 1070 folding while I did uni work and taking a break when playing games and sleeping. Pretty proud tbh.

[Favebook]

11 hours ago, cbigfoot said:

i have read 90%+ of this forum does that make me crazy? 

Are you sure you read 90%+ of whole forum or just this topic?

6 hours ago, Agrias said:

how to uninstall folding@home? i cant find it in control panel or uninstall.exe

You don't... Why would you do such a thing? 

5 hours ago, GOTSpectrum said:

Stats people!

 

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1Ii5ST0SPYVaVplR6WBDouFTz3daxyM_r6BdrCpgcLbg/edit?usp=sharing

 

BTW guys the blog post will be the awards ceremony posted in the next 48 hours or so.

Yo @GOTSpectrum, something is wrong in that sheet, not sure what data validation method you used, but it must be wrong as I do not see @leadeater at #1 place.

4 hours ago, leadeater said:

RIP @ 0:31 

RIP @ day 10 when everyone started abusing free credit and all my cards are already used due to last event in 2019 

[Stormseeker9]

1 hour ago, marknd59 said:

Don't know guess I can ask and see what they say.

I would demand it. If you are promised next day (or paid for it) and it comes a week later.. 

[ShortRouter]

W00t, neevr thought I could make it into the top100. Could've even made it into top50 if I planned the cloud thing better.

[marknd59]

2 minutes ago, Stormseeker9 said:

I would demand it. If you are promised next day (or paid for it) and it comes a week later.. 

Yes but you know what they are going to say - "We are very sorry but it due to things that are beyond our control", I'd almost bet money on it. I will send an e-mail or give them a call anyway next week after the holiday,

[shark103]

231th place with almost 24/7 14days without using cloud on anything like that - quite nice in my humble opinion  

 

almost as  i had to clean it once and one stop for update of cooling with 3 noctuas

[Stormseeker9]

16 minutes ago, marknd59 said:

Yes but you know what they are going to say - "We are very sorry but it due to things that are beyond our control", I'd almost bet money on it. I will send an e-mail or give them a call anyway next week after the holiday,

true true 

[RedCom]

1 hour ago, Kyouki_IE said:

I was at rank 101 on day 11 and 12, was hoping I could increase just one rank to make it into the top 100, but got pushed down one place to 102 by these cloud computers jumping on google compute for the last few days of the event.

 

Still...

• 102nd out of 8k+
• broke 25 million total points (2m from the day before the event, 23m during the event)
• I made it onto LTT's team summary stats page.
• Silver Folding Badge! [EDIT]

All that with just 2 GPUs, an RTX 2080 and a GTX 970. I'm pretty happy with that.

I folded 10-15 years ago and got 100k points from 215 WUs (old account), but the difference with modern GPUs is phenomenal!

 

It's been fun. I will continue to fold for the team, but I will have to back off from doing it 24/7.

 

Sorry, guilty as charged! I was 301st in the day 12 update, then jumped to 88th in the final standings.

 

With Google giving away $300 worth of cloud services, I would have encouraged everyone to take advantage of it for this event given the cause, but I do understand those that believe folding should be "homegrown" on your own hardware. 88th is nice and all, but the most important thing is the science to beat this thing!

[NineEyeRon]

Im hoping when the stats update I can get back into the top 3000.

 

I started just outside the top 1000 but fell away very quickly when I stopped being able to fold overnight. Then I missed a whole day due to internet issues and needing my PC for gaming.

 

Since then I had a couple of really good days but still lost 1000 places and then never recover as I struggled for WUs in the limited hours I had to fold each day.