LTT Official Folding Month 2019!!!

[Yggdrasil128]

53 minutes ago, shaz2sxy said:

Some odd reason F&H was stuck downloading on my 1070ti .... had to restart the PC to get it to start again... lost a few hours of work while it was sitting around

 

12 minutes ago, TVwazhere said:

I think I'm having the same issue, I seem to only be getting a single 1070ti's worth of points right now

 

I'm also having that issue apparently. Happened today while I was away.

Downloads are generally pretty slow ATM for me, and sometimes they just slow to a crawl, or even stop and fail completely, causing the FAHClient to either try downloading a new WU or just completely hang up on that particular slot, until I restart the whole client.

 

[Rusted]

4 minutes ago, Yggdrasil128 said:

 

 

I'm also having that issue apparently. Happened today while I was away.

Downloads are generally pretty slow ATM for me, and sometimes they just slow to a crawl, or even stop and fail completely, causing the FAHClient to either try downloading a new WU or just completely hang up on that particular slot, until I restart the whole client.

 

I had slow uploads this morning, but that was probably due my connection failing. There have been many posts about slow downloads/uploads and some problems with getting WUs. I have been lucky with those problems and only once I've had to restart my computer to get a WU. If I use this thread as reference it looks like the problems have surfaced in last few weeks, lets hope this doesn't get any worse in coming weeks.

 

4 hours ago, shaz2sxy said:

Not good at all. can you not setup a mobile wifi router on a cheap data sim while they sort it out?

I do have some backup hardware, I can use an old phone as router. I need to get a prepaid card for it, that's only short walk to get one. For now I have few days to see how this turns out.

[mattheginger]

10 hours ago, shaz2sxy said:

I dont know why im looking at another GPU lol

 

I have the Strix 1070ti and 2070 super lol....

 

I'll be selling the 1070ti after the event

That's how it goes...

 

[Dissitesuxba11s]

Added LTT support post:

 

Edited September 25, 2019 by Dissitesuxba11s
Interesting, link wasn't working for a second.

[palespartan]

22 hours ago, GOTSpectrum said:

The method for handing out the keys will be as follows, I will use googles random number generator, taking the first number given. 

 

Once it has been decided the willing ranks will be announced in the Folding month blog(To be created) and each member will be tagged, you will then have 7 days to claim your prize.

 

If it is not claimed, the prize will be raffled again using the same process as above. 

 

To claim the prize you must DM me within the given 7 days with the subject line 'Claiming prize'.

 

60 USD steam gift card - Ranks 1-25 Donated by - @YBPT

 

20USD Steam goft card - Ranks 26-50 Donated by - @Den-Fi

 

20USD Steam gift card - Ranks 51-75 Donated by - @Den-Fi

 

20USD Steam gift card - Ranks 76-100 Donated by - @Den-Fi

 

20USD Steam gift card - Ranks 101-125 Donated by - @Den-Fi

 

20USD Steam gift card - Ranks 126-150 Donated by - @Den-Fi

 

Wolfenstein - Young blood Key - Ranks 150-300 Donated by - @shaz2sxy

 

Corsair Vengence RGB Kit - Ranks 1-100 Donated by - @JoeDaCabbie

 

Random Steam keys - Ranks All ranks Donated by - @GOTSpectrum @tg4life666 @kubo6472 

 

My question to you guys,

 

should myself and the other guys involved be allowed to claim one of these prizes if the draw picks us out?

 

I'm going to leave that up to you, let me know what you think. 

 

This is amazing. And as one of the people involved I am definitely not worried about being included or not in the prize drawing.

 

18 hours ago, TheRandomness said:

Hey uh, so I just reinstalled F@H for the first time in a few years and already I have a problem.

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00:37:22:Adding folding slot 01: READY gpu:0:TU117 [GeForce GTX 1650]
00:37:22:Saving configuration to config.xml
00:37:22:<config>
00:37:22:  <!-- Folding Core -->
00:37:22:  <checkpoint v='10'/>
00:37:22:
00:37:22:  <!-- Network -->
00:37:22:  <proxy v=':8080'/>
00:37:22:
00:37:22:  <!-- Slot Control -->
00:37:22:  <power v='full'/>
00:37:22:
00:37:22:  <!-- User Information -->
00:37:22:  <passkey v='********************************'/>
00:37:22:  <team v='223518'/>
00:37:22:  <user v='Therandomness'/>
00:37:22:
00:37:22:  <!-- Folding Slots -->
00:37:22:  <slot id='0' type='CPU'>
00:37:22:    <cpus v='6'/>
00:37:22:  </slot>
00:37:22:  <slot id='1' type='GPU'>
00:37:22:    <gpu-index v='0'/>
00:37:22:    <opencl-index v='0'/>
00:37:22:  </slot>
00:37:22:</config>
00:37:22:WU01:FS01:Connecting to 65.254.110.245:8080
00:37:23:WU01:FS01:Assigned to work server 128.252.203.10
00:37:23:WU01:FS01:Requesting new work unit for slot 01: READY gpu:0:TU117 [GeForce GTX 1650] from 128.252.203.10
00:37:23:WU01:FS01:Connecting to 128.252.203.10:8080
00:37:24:WU01:FS01:Downloading 69.96MiB
00:37:30:WU01:FS01:Download 32.96%
00:37:36:WU01:FS01:Download 58.42%
00:37:42:WU01:FS01:Download 80.40%
00:37:46:WU01:FS01:Download complete
00:37:46:WU01:FS01:Received Unit: id:01 state:DOWNLOAD error:NO_ERROR project:14230 run:177 clone:1 gen:32 core:0x21 unit:0x0000002980fccb0a5d654fdcd56a9f0e
00:37:46:WU01:FS01:Starting
00:37:46:WU01:FS01:Running FahCore: "C:\Program Files (x86)\FAHClient/FAHCoreWrapper.exe" C:\Users\rando\AppData\Roaming\FAHClient\cores/cores.foldingathome.org/Win32/AMD64/NVIDIA/Fermi/Core_21.fah/FahCore_21.exe -dir 01 -suffix 01 -version 705 -lifeline 7804 -checkpoint 10 -gpu-vendor nvidia -opencl-device 0 -cuda-device 0 -gpu 0
00:37:46:WU01:FS01:Started FahCore on PID 13420
00:37:46:WU01:FS01:Core PID:17956
00:37:46:WU01:FS01:FahCore 0x21 started
00:37:47:WU01:FS01:0x21:*********************** Log Started 2019-09-25T00:37:46Z ***********************
00:37:47:WU01:FS01:0x21:Project: 14230 (Run 177, Clone 1, Gen 32)
00:37:47:WU01:FS01:0x21:Unit: 0x0000002980fccb0a5d654fdcd56a9f0e
00:37:47:WU01:FS01:0x21:CPU: 0x00000000000000000000000000000000
00:37:47:WU01:FS01:0x21:Machine: 1
00:37:47:WU01:FS01:0x21:Reading tar file core.xml
00:37:47:WU01:FS01:0x21:Reading tar file integrator.xml
00:37:47:WU01:FS01:0x21:Reading tar file state.xml
00:37:47:WU01:FS01:0x21:Reading tar file system.xml
00:37:47:WU01:FS01:0x21:Digital signatures verified
00:37:47:WU01:FS01:0x21:Folding@home GPU Core21 Folding@home Core
00:37:47:WU01:FS01:0x21:Version 0.0.20
00:37:47:WU01:FS01:0x21:ERROR:126: Bad platformId size.
00:37:47:WU01:FS01:0x21:Saving result file logfile_01.txt
00:37:47:WU01:FS01:0x21:Saving result file log.txt
00:37:47:WU01:FS01:0x21:Folding@home Core Shutdown: BAD_WORK_UNIT
00:37:48:WARNING:WU01:FS01:FahCore returned: BAD_WORK_UNIT (114 = 0x72)
00:37:48:WU01:FS01:Sending unit results: id:01 state:SEND error:FAULTY project:14230 run:177 clone:1 gen:32 core:0x21 unit:0x0000002980fccb0a5d654fdcd56a9f0e

 

Yeah uh, don't know what's wrong there. This is a laptop btw (it's plenty capable of cooling itself, don't worry about that), with an R5 3550H and GTX 1650 running the latest drivers, and latest install of Windows 10 Home.

If you're returning back WU's you should really be looking at your stability first. Often with laptops out of the box they will not be stable under compute workloads so you might want to try underclocking and see if that helps first.

 

[Sequence211]

19 minutes ago, Dissitesuxba11s said:

Added LTT support post:

 

To paticipate in the drawings for the LTT prices, we have to sign up for this too, right? 

As far as i read, the requirements for participation are also lower than this folding month thread describes.

Kinda weird they are both called folding month 2019, but are two different things working towards the same cause. Where the official thread (this one) is started by a non-employee, and the "apparently not official thread" is started by LTT. 
Some clarification whould be nice, i am sure that many people will get a bit confused about this.

[Stormseeker9]

It’s pretty clear tho... this is the community thread for f@h and we started this on the forum a while back.

 

now LMG/LTT get involved themselves as we are closing in on the start of the folding month. They have seperate prizes to what we have here in the community.

 

best way I can explain it with my knowledge. Please correct me if I wrong

[Sequence211]

On 8/8/2019 at 11:55 PM, GOTSpectrum said:

The LMG prizes will be handled by them on a separate thread that will be posted closer to the start date, keep your eye out here for further information as it rolls in. 

 

8 minutes ago, Stormseeker9 said:

It’s pretty clear tho... this is the community thread for f@h and we started this on the forum a while back.

 

now LMG/LTT get involved themselves as we are closing in on the start of the folding month. They have seperate prizes to what we have here in the community.

 

best way I can explain it with my knowledge. Please correct me if I wrong

Yea, it is mentioned in the first post of this thread, but otherwise i do not think it is that obvious. But thanks

[Dissitesuxba11s]

5 hours ago, Struck said:

To paticipate in the drawings for the LTT prices, we have to sign up for this too, right? 

As far as i read, the requirements for participation are also lower than this folding month thread describes.

Kinda weird they are both called folding month 2019, but are two different things working towards the same cause. Where the official thread (this one) is started by a non-employee, and the "apparently not official thread" is started by LTT. 
Some clarification whould be nice, i am sure that many people will get a bit confused about this.

Both threads are to advertise the LTT Folding Month, a yearly event that was started by a forum user last year. This thread was made to elicit interest from the common forum user, and the recurring folders. Prizes are also offered by generous fellow forum folders. 

 

The LTT thread that was just posted was made to further invite people into the fold with the incentive of more favorable prices. Most of the users (often new) that would be posting on that thread are probably only entering for the chance to win, which is why the requirements are easier to meet.

 

Either way, the goal of the event is to invite user to donate their compute power to help drive disease research. It's up to you if you want to win a prize.

 

I'm in it for the badges to help Alzheimer's research.

Edited September 26, 2019 by Dissitesuxba11s
Bad grammar

[GOTSpectrum]

22 minutes ago, Struck said:

To paticipate in the drawings for the LTT prices, we have to sign up for this too, right? 

As far as i read, the requirements for participation are also lower than this folding month thread describes.

Kinda weird they are both called folding month 2019, but are two different things working towards the same cause. Where the official thread (this one) is started by a non-employee, and the "apparently not official thread" is started by LTT. 
Some clarification whould be nice, i am sure that many people will get a bit confused about this.

This is the event thread, the LMG thread is their giveaway for this event. Simple really.

 

This is the third year of Folding month, the first became the folding community thread, the other events, Folding month and summer sprint are linked in the OP. 

 

We are a community driven event folly supported and backed by LMG, hence why this is the official event and their is the giveaway.

 

@jakkuh_t can you add some clarity on your thread, maybe alter the title so avoid confusion.

[Dragoby]

Hey everyone this sounds great to me! Just wondering if there is a command line version for Ubuntu as I have a blade server with 14 nodes I could get running for this and would be nice to have a cli so I can just ssh and install instead of making a Gui boot for them all xp

[Yggdrasil128]

6 minutes ago, Dragoby said:

Hey everyone this sounds great to me! Just wondering if there is a command line version for Ubuntu as I have a blade server with 14 nodes I could get running for this and would be nice to have a cli so I can just ssh and install instead of making a Gui boot for them all xp

 

You could try this. Works for me on Ubuntu 16.04.

apt update
apt full-upgrade -y
apt install nano wget bzip2 telnet -y
wget https://download.foldingathome.org/releases/public/release/fahclient/debian-stable-64bit/v7.5/fahclient_7.5.1_amd64.deb
dpkg -i --force-depends fahclient_7.5.1_amd64.deb

After installation, you can set up your config.xml (should be in /etc/fahclient) and then run the client with 'FAHClient'.

 

EDIT: I would recommend running the client in screen or tmux, though. So it doesn't exit when you close the SSH session.

Edited September 25, 2019 by Yggdrasil128
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[GOTSpectrum]

6 minutes ago, Dragoby said:

Hey everyone this sounds great to me! Just wondering if there is a command line version for Ubuntu as I have a blade server with 14 nodes I could get running for this and would be nice to have a cli so I can just ssh and install instead of making a Gui boot for them all xp

@Gorgon will probably be able to help you out here

[DieselWeasel]

Well hello again everybody. I'm back. I think I was here for the first folding month, and I'm quite sure I missed on in between, so this time Discord notification really helped. I've still got the same rig so I won't be taking any top spots, but will give it my best. Maybe I even stay over the winter if I don't get any noise complaints  

[GOTSpectrum]

3 minutes ago, DieselWeasel said:

Well hello again everybody. I'm back. I think I was here for the first folding month, and I'm quite sure I missed on in between, so this time Discord notification really helped. I've still got the same rig so I won't be taking any top spots, but will give it my best. Maybe I even stay over the winter if I don't get any noise complaints  

Welcome into the fold!

[DieselWeasel]

24 minutes ago, GOTSpectrum said:

Welcome into the fold!

Quick questions. Who do I contact for the badges? and if I remember correctly for the first folding event we had to post our numbers (maybe there was a google doc?) on the starting day or something like that. Is that automatic this year or still manual? 

[shaz2sxy]

8 minutes ago, DieselWeasel said:

Quick questions. Who do I contact for the badges? and if I remember correctly for the first folding event we had to post our numbers (maybe there was a google doc?) on the starting day or something like that. Is that automatic this year or still manual? 

Use this thread to request the badge

 

 

[DieselWeasel]

1 minute ago, shaz2sxy said:

Use this thread to request the badge

 

 

Thanks and I saw the pinned post. The process is for checking points is now automated

[shaz2sxy]

@GOTSpectrum Silly Question

 

about the start time for the event.... is it midnight of the 30th..... so UK time - Monday at midnight it starts...

 

does that make sense?

[DieselWeasel]

If anybody wondered about the PPD of a top spec Macbook Pro (early 2018) https://prnt.sc/pb03pc

Not even worth the risk of damaging it by overheating

[shaz2sxy]

2 minutes ago, DieselWeasel said:

If anybody wondered about the PPD of a top spec Macbook Pro (early 2018) https://prnt.sc/pb03pc

Not even worth the risk of damaging it by overheating

My £350 acer laptop

 

GPU only

 

[DieselWeasel]

Just now, shaz2sxy said:

My £350 acer laptop

 

GPU only

 

 

Yeah with a GPU  My quick google search told me that you mostly can't fold with GPUs on macs... Though I have no clue what kind of a difference the Radeon Pro 560X would make.

[palespartan]

1 hour ago, GOTSpectrum said:

This is the event thread, the LMG thread is their giveaway for this event. Simple really.

 

This is the third year of Folding month, the first became the folding community thread, the other events, Folding month and summer sprint are linked in the OP. 

 

We are a community driven event folly supported and backed by LMG, hence why this is the official event and their is the giveaway.

 

@jakkuh_t can you add some clarity on your thread, maybe alter the title so avoid confusion.

Actually the community board was originally my first event of "folding week" but yes back in 2017 I believe. The first folding month was actually last years event. Just for the record that first folding week (stats for it I believe are still linked in the community board OP) was a total of 10 people including myself compared to the now over 1400 singups we have for this event!!!!!! Love to see how much this community has grown and how many people are helping this great cause.

[palespartan]

Ok since the event is right around the corner I figured it was time to start showing off our rigs.

 

This was my extremely sketchy setup I was running last year as my dedicated rig just to give you an idea of how much its improved:

 

(note how one system and the other gpu are running off of one psu while the other is running only the board and cpu on the other machine this of course never lead to issues...

 

 

And here are this years much improved versions:

 

ComputeBox (I am not creative with names)

 

 

 

 

Note that I actually hooked up the front panel so that the power button and everything works.

 

 

 

And in my opinion the much more beautiful ComputeClassic:

 

 

On top of this I do have my gaming tower at home that I don't have pics of at the moment but really just looks like any gaming tower in a define s (nothing special) and will be doing my usual limited folding on my work computer of AW13 R3 oled.

[GOTSpectrum]

40 minutes ago, shaz2sxy said:

@GOTSpectrum Silly Question

 

about the start time for the event.... is it midnight of the 30th..... so UK time - Monday at midnight it starts...

 

does that make sense?

The begining stats will be the pulled from the Stanford servers at 00:15 UK time, this will be the 00:00 update. So all points produced during or after the first day of October, up too and including the whole of the 4th of November will be counted.

 

I hope this offers the clarify you seek.