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This event has ended and I recommend you guys head over to the Folding Community Board for any general folding conversation. 

 

 

17 hours ago, Rybo said:

Now that I think about it...I think it has something to do with NVidia cards are compatible with F@H whereas ATI cards are not.  I suspect you have an ATI?  

ATI/AMD cards are compatable with Folding - but they tend to offer lower performance by quite a bit per watt.

Some of the newest ones are getting closer - but even the current top-of-the-line AMD Vega VII is a thin hair faster to the same on PPD and similar power draw vs my generation-old Nvidia GTX 1080ti cards, while the current NVidia 20xx high end cards are almost twice the PPD/watt.

 

Folding for some reason is more efficient on NVidia cards and has been for several generations now, I'm not sure why.

 

There are projects where AMD cards have been higher to the same performance though - I'm not sure what the current numbers look like, but the MooWrapper BOINC project (Dnet RC-72 underneath) showed a slight advantage to the Vega64 vs the GTX 1080ti on stock settings that grew with tweeking, and even my "reference" model Vega56 is very close when tweeked to my top-end Aorus GTX 1080ti cards when tweeked - both are capable of close to 10 GigaKeys/sec (Vega a bit below, 1080ti a little above).

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On 4/22/2020 at 4:05 AM, Bombastinator said:

It successfully conveyed what I was talking about though.  They don’t do f@h but they do do curecoin which isn’t f@h but is used by researchers.  It would still suck up GPU based work if all they can do is GPU based workloads.  Remember the people making the workloads are the researchers and they will pick whatever they get the fastest results from. They’re not locked to F@h.

Curecoin no longer uses SHA256 ASIC - they used to for "20%" of their output to secure their blockchain, but Curecoin 2.0 moved to a different option for that some months back.

 

I've sometimes thought it would be interesting to get a chip designer to come up with a Folding-specific ASIC, but I doubt it would be worth the cost as Folding is a LOT more complicated process than cryptocoin processing is.

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Just realised the 'competition' aspect only ran for a couple of weeks. Think i've been folding for close to two months now. May give my system a bit of a rest and save on my power bill. 

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I still fold but only about 4 hours per day.

 

Just dumped an old core21 WU that was making my GPU unbearably squeal loudly with coil whine and that would have lasted 3 hours...

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Mobile SFF rig: i9-9900K, Noctua NH-L9i, Asrock Z390 Phantom ITX-AC, 32GB, GTX1070, 2x1TB SX8200Pro RAID0, 2x5TB 2.5" HDD RAID0, Athena 500W Flex (Noctua fan), Custom 4.7l 3D printed case

 

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GPD Win 2

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3 hours ago, Kilrah said:

I still fold but only about 4 hours per day.

 

Just dumped an old core21 WU that was making my GPU unbearably squeal loudly with coil whine and that would have lasted 3 hours...

Yeah I had the same. It was project 16900 that made my GPU sound like a train doing an emergency braking.

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Same, I already had one a while ago from the same project group but let it run, it was only an hour or so... but for 3h I couldn't take it

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Asus Zenbook UM325UA, Ryzen 7 5700u, 16GB, 1TB, OLED

 

GPD Win 2

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Anyone able to join the fight on Rosetta@Home for the next day and a half? So close to 2nd place, can smell the silver in the air

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2 hours ago, leadeater said:

Anyone able to join the fight on Rosetta@Home for the next day and a half? So close to 2nd place, can smell the silver in the air

I am adding two epyc servers (64cores) 

 

(you can say what you want but thats the best server name ever :D )

BOINC - F@H

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4 minutes ago, ffbr said:

I am adding two epyc servers (64cores) 

 

(you can say what you want but thats the best server name ever :D )

Epic! That'll give us an epic improvement. I'm epically excited to see the improvement in team output.

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Joined with a 9900K... hopefully that'll help a bit, but it seems their WUs are over a day long so might not make it in time... and I didn't expect to let the PC run all night :( Oh well

Smaller WUs like F@H seems much more "flexible" for part-time processing. 

F@H
Desktop: i9-13900K, ASUS Z790-E, 64GB DDR5-6000 CL36, RTX3080, 2TB MP600 Pro XT, 2TB SX8200Pro, 2x16TB Ironwolf RAID0, Corsair HX1200, Antec Vortex 360 AIO, Thermaltake Versa H25 TG, Samsung 4K curved 49" TV, 23" secondary, Mountain Everest Max

Mobile SFF rig: i9-9900K, Noctua NH-L9i, Asrock Z390 Phantom ITX-AC, 32GB, GTX1070, 2x1TB SX8200Pro RAID0, 2x5TB 2.5" HDD RAID0, Athena 500W Flex (Noctua fan), Custom 4.7l 3D printed case

 

Asus Zenbook UM325UA, Ryzen 7 5700u, 16GB, 1TB, OLED

 

GPD Win 2

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27 minutes ago, Kilrah said:

Joined with a 9900K... hopefully that'll help a bit, but it seems their WUs are over a day long so might not make it in time... and I didn't expect to let the PC run all night :( Oh well

Smaller WUs like F@H seems much more "flexible" for part-time processing. 

Thanks 🙂 Initial est is probably off, 9900k should do them in 6-8 hours, on the lower end. You can also go to the project site and set target run time as low as 2 hours, 8 hours is default.

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1 minute ago, leadeater said:

Thanks 🙂 Initial est is probably off, 9900k should do them in 6-8 hours, on the lower end. You can also go to the project site and set target run time as low as 2 hours, 8 hours is default.

And I noticed with a target time of 2hrs the epyc servers are currently pulling around 1h20min per task.

 

...

 

That is Epic !

BOINC - F@H

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33 minutes ago, Kilrah said:

Joined with a 9900K... hopefully that'll help a bit, but it seems their WUs are over a day long so might not make it in time... and I didn't expect to let the PC run all night :( Oh well

Smaller WUs like F@H seems much more "flexible" for part-time processing. 

On the rosetta website you can choose the target time under "project preference". The choice are 2, 4 and 8hours with 8 being default. It does not always work but worth a try

BOINC - F@H

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Thanks for the info, I just reduced it but fr some reason the WUs it decided to give me initially are really about 1 day and 4 hours... :(

 

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F@H
Desktop: i9-13900K, ASUS Z790-E, 64GB DDR5-6000 CL36, RTX3080, 2TB MP600 Pro XT, 2TB SX8200Pro, 2x16TB Ironwolf RAID0, Corsair HX1200, Antec Vortex 360 AIO, Thermaltake Versa H25 TG, Samsung 4K curved 49" TV, 23" secondary, Mountain Everest Max

Mobile SFF rig: i9-9900K, Noctua NH-L9i, Asrock Z390 Phantom ITX-AC, 32GB, GTX1070, 2x1TB SX8200Pro RAID0, 2x5TB 2.5" HDD RAID0, Athena 500W Flex (Noctua fan), Custom 4.7l 3D printed case

 

Asus Zenbook UM325UA, Ryzen 7 5700u, 16GB, 1TB, OLED

 

GPD Win 2

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Welp it seems the estimator is useless, I'm actually at 50% after about 5h and it tells me 14 hours left 😅

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Mobile SFF rig: i9-9900K, Noctua NH-L9i, Asrock Z390 Phantom ITX-AC, 32GB, GTX1070, 2x1TB SX8200Pro RAID0, 2x5TB 2.5" HDD RAID0, Athena 500W Flex (Noctua fan), Custom 4.7l 3D printed case

 

Asus Zenbook UM325UA, Ryzen 7 5700u, 16GB, 1TB, OLED

 

GPD Win 2

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Last 48 hours are killing me...

 

Is anyone else getting insanely long jobs for only 75-500 points?   I have been generating 800K-1M points per day for a ~few weeks now,  but I've been at 19M points for 2 days and I'm only getting jobs for 500 points or less and they can take up to 2 hours to process.

 

I've reinstalled FAH twice, deleted the work folder etc.

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10 hours ago, Kilrah said:

Smaller WUs like F@H seems much more "flexible" for part-time processing. 

If you like small work units (but configurable) you should check out distributed.net

 

The "default" work unit size for RC5-72 runs so fast on my higher end GPUs that it takes them longer to load and unload than to run the units.

 

Can also check out the BOINC MooWrapper project, which is basically distributed.net RC5-72 work with a "make it work with BOINC stats reporting" wrapper.

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Turns out even the percentage is just a mess, what was at 50% after 5 hours finished after like 2 more... 

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Mobile SFF rig: i9-9900K, Noctua NH-L9i, Asrock Z390 Phantom ITX-AC, 32GB, GTX1070, 2x1TB SX8200Pro RAID0, 2x5TB 2.5" HDD RAID0, Athena 500W Flex (Noctua fan), Custom 4.7l 3D printed case

 

Asus Zenbook UM325UA, Ryzen 7 5700u, 16GB, 1TB, OLED

 

GPD Win 2

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For all practical purposes, due to Folding, I haven't done any serious gaming for 65 days. It is now time to shut down and vacuum out the PC, then play!

 

2000 WUs!

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Due to the event, I have contributed 2,004 WUs and 138,302,610 points to the Linus Tech Tips Folding Team:

https://folding.extremeoverclocking.com/user_summary.php?s=&u=867950

 

It's been fun and the Gold forum badge looks good 🙂 Looking forward to the next Folding event.

 

Regards,

 

ObeliskAG

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7 hours ago, ObeliskAG said:

For all practical purposes, due to Folding, I haven't done any serious gaming for 65 days. It is now time to shut down and vacuum out the PC, then play!

 

2000 WUs!

200357539_2020-05-19FoldingAtHomeOverclockersscore.png.08bdcf3ae315c583688b2c97b1bdda47.png

 

880554964_FoldingAtHome2000wuscertificate1503005.jpg.33cad656777b9f0aec44b5eb51e03bbe.jpg

 

Due to the event, I have contributed 2,004 WUs and 138,302,610 points to the Linus Tech Tips Folding Team:

https://folding.extremeoverclocking.com/user_summary.php?s=&u=867950

 

It's been fun and the Gold forum badge looks good 🙂 Looking forward to the next Folding event.

 

Regards,

 

ObeliskAG

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Same. Haven't played anything since March, pc is running 24/7 with a reboot during the weekends to install system updates. My 'to play' list got way longer lol

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This event has ended and I recommend you guys head over to the Folding Community Board for any general folding conversation. 

 

 

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The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing. - Socrates
 

Please put as much effort into your question as you expect me to put into answering it. 

 

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