LTT Official Folding Month 2019!!!

[justpoet]

2 minutes ago, Kochiha Ichihara said:

So our average points per 24 hours as a team is currently 520,596,930. This is the highest production of anybody in the top 100. We're pretty freaking epic.

[GOTSpectrum]

12 minutes ago, Kochiha Ichihara said:

So our average points per 24 hours as a team is currently 520,596,930. This is the highest production of anybody in the top 100. We're pretty freaking epic.

Weve been the best producing team for the past week or so by now btw guys

[TensorVortex]

1 hour ago, Xoggy said:

Running Proxmox 5.4 atm just on my way to update to 6.0 becuse it looks like i have a Kernel bug on the host regarding DMAR, About 2 hours of having load on the GPU the kernel hangs all CPU threads with the message: DMAR: DRHD: handling fault status 40

 

Do you have any pointers? Guest os is Win 10 1903 running adrenaline 19.10.1 drivers seted up as a q35 machine with OVMF bootloader ("bios")

all my setup info is here: https://github.com/MingyaoLiu/Threadripper-KVM-guide

 

You can check out my config and everything

[JVK]

1 hour ago, shaz2sxy said:

mine are

 

CPU 7700k: not folding

GPU #1 - 2070 super: 1.3M to 1.5M

GPU #2 - 1070ti 700k - 800k

 

IT can vary up and down depending on the WU

 

14180 & 14191 can drop my PPD to under 2M for both cards

14196 is consistent and I can get around 2.3M+ out of that

I have read conflicting things about CPU folding.  (Not really going to deep dive into the issue personally.)  On the one side, I hear that the CPU just doesn't perform that well vs. the GPU so why bother stressing it thermally, etc. at all.  The other side seems to be people claiming that CPUs are sent different types of problems to solve and that while they generate less points, that there are certain science problems that they are actually better at solving and so including them is actually helpful.

[Gorgon]

For all the Stats nerds out there. Here are my numbers since 08:00GMT 6 Oct. when I did the final card shuffle to balance the heat and power loading across the systems:

Notes:

• The 1060s are both 6GB versions, the first is a short-board.
• The 2070 is an early binned "A" variant and is a very strong over-clocker and has managed to out-produce one of the 2070 Super Hybrids.
• I haven't applied more than a modest overclock to the hybrids. They are running either +45 or +60 and are at about 50C to 65C

[AwAfrican]

3 hours ago, RollinLower said:

That's too bad. Can't you set it so it stops folding when you use the PC? So when the PC is idle it starts folding. 

That way you shouldn't experience bad performance while using the machine.

Oh absolutely I can set it to that, but it wouldn't even download GPU tasks which I thought was odd. I'm just leaving my rig on full power 24/7 right now for the remainder of the month and will go back to light folding following the event. I'm eyeing a RTX2070 super so the wife will get the 1050ti, and then I'll fold on both. But that won't happen till probably after Christmas.  

[shaz2sxy]

1 hour ago, JVK said:

I have read conflicting things about CPU folding.  (Not really going to deep dive into the issue personally.)  On the one side, I hear that the CPU just doesn't perform that well vs. the GPU so why bother stressing it thermally, etc. at all.  The other side seems to be people claiming that CPUs are sent different types of problems to solve and that while they generate less points, that there are certain science problems that they are actually better at solving and so including them is actually helpful.

Yeah the CPU does have different WU, but for me the 7700k temps get toasty so didnt want to increase overall temps in my case.

 

once I delid(after this months event) I;m going to see how it runs on CPU folding for temps

[Ithanul]

:I  I just keep wishing bigadv come back for CPUs, especially since getting high core count chips are way easier to afford now.

I still remember back in the GTX480/580 days my GPUs got their butts handed to them by 2P/4P systems that did bigadv.

[palespartan]

 

3 hours ago, JVK said:

I have read conflicting things about CPU folding.  (Not really going to deep dive into the issue personally.)  On the one side, I hear that the CPU just doesn't perform that well vs. the GPU so why bother stressing it thermally, etc. at all.  The other side seems to be people claiming that CPUs are sent different types of problems to solve and that while they generate less points, that there are certain science problems that they are actually better at solving and so including them is actually helpful.

So for F@H they are sent different jobs but usually just much smaller ones that can be handled by the lower parallel processing. That being said its not like the cpu jobs in folding aren't things that could be better calculated on a GPU so the difference there is that you aren't hurting anything by not cpu folding. All that being said a lot of the reason most of us don't cpu fold isn't just because they are much less efficient its because in certain cases it will actually hinder your gpu folding efficiency. For instance for nvidia gpus you need to leave at least one cpu core for the processing bandwidth that is needed for the gpu to talk back and forth with the cpu other issues might be heat as keeping your gpu 3c colder could bump you up 15mhz. and such like that.

 

If you have the extra cpu power and it wont effect anything else go for it. The number one motto in folding is "every bit helps" but it definitely isn't as efficient as gpu folding.

1 hour ago, AwAfrican said:

Oh absolutely I can set it to that, but it wouldn't even download GPU tasks which I thought was odd. I'm just leaving my rig on full power 24/7 right now for the remainder of the month and will go back to light folding following the event. I'm eyeing a RTX2070 super so the wife will get the 1050ti, and then I'll fold on both. But that won't happen till probably after Christmas.  

This might actually be a bug that is going on in folding where it fails to download work units sometimes. I would try to delete the slot and re add it to see if it will work.

[AwAfrican]

17 minutes ago, palespartan said:

This might actually be a bug that is going on in folding where it fails to download work units sometimes. I would try to delete the slot and re add it to see if it will work.

Tried a couple of times, no luck. 

[palespartan]

STATS HERE!

 

GET YOUR STATS HERE!

 

FRESH ORGANIC STATS HERE!

 

 

[justpoet]

…and somehow…I'm back up to number 500 after my output decreased!  LOL

[xyc_notz]

Somehow still scraping just under number 500, CPU has been doing a few little low pointers the past two days...

[mattheginger]

On 10/18/2019 at 1:34 AM, sanya567xxx said:

do you have "prefer maximum performance" setting of power in nvidia control panel? 

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After 12 hours of observation, it looks like that did the trick. Thanks mate!

[shaz2sxy]

@yaboistar @Kochiha Ichihara

 

its getting very close...

 

33	yaboistar	313970	5922119	37163394	0.07%	0.33%	0.51%
34	shaz2sxy	2010517	8166297	36881680	0.44%	0.46%	0.51%
35	Kochiha Ichihara	2057128	8983417	36830145	0.45%	0.50%	0.51%

[porina]

Yay. 2 stuck downloads overnight. 

[shaz2sxy]

2 minutes ago, porina said:

Yay. 2 stuck downloads overnight. 

I had one, luckily didn't loose too much time

[Halofication]

Stuck at download after every WU.....

[shaz2sxy]

4 minutes ago, Halofication said:

Stuck at download after every WU.....

Ive only had this once in a week or so.

 

i usually have to restart the computer for it to get unstuck

[Favebook]

2 hours ago, shaz2sxy said:

Ive only had this once in a week or so.

 

i usually have to restart the computer for it to get unstuck

Same here... Even though, I haven't had stuck download for a few months until today in the morning(one at 5AM and one at 7AM GMT+2) rx580 and 1080 Ti got stuck. Tried deleting slot and adding it back but that just kept the stuck slot and I even tried quitting FaH client(after pressing quit, usually advanced control goes offline and loses all info, but in this case it just stood there like client was operating) and launching it again, but nothing happened, it didn't launch at all (was using TeamViewer over the phone so I did not try finding tasks in task manager to disable them. That might have worked.)

 

The only solution was to delete slots and restart.

[JB25304]

I woke up to stuck downloads across the board on both systems too.  At least I was home to catch it, but I lost some time to say the least.

[AwAfrican]

I got another rig running, looks like it's about doubled my family output and it's only run for about 10hrs at this point. 

I also got a weird 17 point 16 Wu on my board yesterday

[shaz2sxy]

Hit with another stuck download on both GPUs again today. 

 

noticed for me its always the weekends when the server issues occur 

[AwAfrican]

21 minutes ago, shaz2sxy said:

Hit with another stuck download on both GPUs again today. 

 

noticed for me its always the weekends when the server issues occur 

just got one myself, quite frustrating. 

[sazrocks]

And my 1080 didnt fold all night again due to the download bug. RIP PPD