LTT Folding Team's Emergency Response to Covid-19

[MidKnight Reign]

18 minutes ago, 42thgamer said:

That can still get quit a bit of work done!

I added system info to my profile if your still interested in the full specs

[Cable_Player]

So the bill payer put a stop to me folding, as it was going to increase the electricity bill by ~£30/m which is understandable.

I've gone a few days and this topic has blown up even more than it was wow!

I've decided to run just a couple of WUs each day - I'll get my 780 working and tell it to finish and then my 980 usually runs one or two more than that, so at least it's something and it won't have such a big impact on the electricity bill.

With that said, I had a phone call earlier and have managed to get a job for the next few weeks at least, so I'll be able to contribute towards the bills, so may be able to get up and running 24/7 again. But, as it's only a 780 and 980 I think I would prefer to put a better GPU into the machine which will use a similar amount of power but be able to contribute more to the project.

My brother's 1660 ti is very affordable card and was doing fairly well with the WU's so that's an option, though I doubt I'll end up replacing the GPU's as it's not an essential thing to buy at the moment.

[Plexas]

28 minutes ago, 42thgamer said:

Don't think so. Maybe dust off your pc a bit

This build is a week old

[mattheginger]

32 minutes ago, Plexas said:

Are the new GPU WUs any different from before? They're really hammering my 2070 super. Its hovering 5C hotter than it used to at the same ambient temp  

I think it’s to do with the atom count of each WU. On the lower ones my 2070s sits around 64 degs at ~91% utilisation. On the higher atom WU’s it’s at about 68-69 degs ~97-98% utilisation.

 

Perhaps you’ve been getting a run of higher atom count WU’s

[Stormseeker9]

21 minutes ago, Sevilla said:

I have 2 machines that will be folding. Will I need to assign different names to it and register twice with the 2 different names? New to folding.

No, you can set all machines to the same account / team / fodling name.

Make sure to use the same passkey for both

[Inkertus]

One million points baybee!

 

[Gorgon]

36 minutes ago, Plexas said:

Are the new GPU WUs any different from before? They're really hammering my 2070 super. Its hovering 5C hotter than it used to at the same ambient temp  

Some of the larger atom-count Core22 WUs will give your GPU a work-out almost as much as Furmark will. They're just that efficient at using all the shaders/cores on a GPU. Think of it as a really good long-term stability test of the GPU and your cases cooling.

 

My EVGA 2070 Super Hybrids will run at 51C for weeks on end but the odd WU will bump them up to 58C

[Inkertus]

1 minute ago, Gorgon said:

Some of the larger atom-count Core22 WUs will give your GPU a work-out almost as much as Furmark will. Their just that efficient at using all the shaders/cores on a GPU. Think of it as a really good long-term stability test of the GPU and your cases cooling.

 

My EVGA 2070 Super Hybrids will run at 51C for weeks on end but the off WU will bump them up to 58C

Well that explains the +5c bump on some workloads.

[LAR_Systems]

12 minutes ago, RestlessRancor said:

So the bill payer put a stop to me folding, as it was going to increase the electricity bill by ~£30/m which is understandable.

I've gone a few days and this topic has blown up even more than it was wow!

I've decided to run just a couple of WUs each day - I'll get my 780 working and tell it to finish and then my 980 usually runs one or two more than that, so at least it's something and it won't have such a big impact on the electricity bill.

With that said, I had a phone call earlier and have managed to get a job for the next few weeks at least, so I'll be able to contribute towards the bills, so may be able to get up and running 24/7 again. But, as it's only a 780 and 980 I think I would prefer to put a better GPU into the machine which will use a similar amount of power but be able to contribute more to the project.

My brother's 1660 ti is very affordable card and was doing fairly well with the WU's so that's an option, though I doubt I'll end up replacing the GPU's as it's not an essential thing to buy at the moment.

Don't sweat it, take care of yourself and family first, be able to pay your bills and do what you can.

A good money saving measure can be to only fold during off peak hours if your billing is setup that way.   

 

Have a look if you get a cheaper electrical rate during the night etc. and only fold then, it can really help when you're on a budget.

[Plexas]

8 minutes ago, Gorgon said:

Some of the larger atom-count Core22 WUs will give your GPU a work-out almost as much as Furmark will. They're just that efficient at using all the shaders/cores on a GPU. Think of it as a really good long-term stability test of the GPU and your cases cooling.

 

My EVGA 2070 Super Hybrids will run at 51C for weeks on end but the odd WU will bump them up to 58C

Thanks for clarifying mate. Right now both my 3700x and 2070 super are sitting on 62-64C at 100% usage each (fluctuates a bit up and down depending on the WU). No thermal issues here, was just wondering  

[Stormseeker9]

Spoiler

:49:55:WARNING:WU01:FS02:Exception: Failed to send results to work server: Transfer failed
12:49:55:WU01:FS02:Trying to send results to collection server
12:49:55:WU01:FS02:Uploading 49.92MiB to 155.247.166.219
12:49:55:WU01:FS02:Connecting to 155.247.166.219:8080
12:50:01:WU01:FS02:Upload 5.76%
12:50:07:WU01:FS02:Upload 12.77%
12:50:13:WU01:FS02:Upload 19.66%
12:50:19:WU01:FS02:Upload 26.54%
12:50:25:WU01:FS02:Upload 33.55%
12:50:31:WU01:FS02:Upload 40.69%
12:50:37:WU01:FS02:Upload 47.45%
12:50:43:WU01:FS02:Upload 54.59%
12:50:49:WU01:FS02:Upload 61.72%
12:50:55:WU01:FS02:Upload 68.86%
12:51:01:WU01:FS02:Upload 75.87%
12:51:07:WU01:FS02:Upload 82.88%
12:51:13:WU01:FS02:Upload 89.89%
12:51:19:WU01:FS02:Upload 96.65%
12:51:22:WU01:FS02:Upload complete
12:51:22:WU01:FS02:Server responded WORK_QUIT (404)
12:51:22:WARNING:WU01:FS02:Server did not like results, dumping
12:51:22:WU01:FS02:Cleaning up

Does this mean that even thought he WU completed it didnt go through?

 

Took of the OC on GPU for now too

[Valentyn]

10 minutes ago, Gorgon said:

Think of it as a really good long-term stability test of the GPU and your cases cooling.

 

My EVGA 2070 Super Hybrids will run at 51C for weeks on end but the odd WU will bump them up to 58C

 

Yup! Plus people can check if their Overclocks are producing bad work units also in the log.

 

My old man's Super clocked EVGA Hybrid 980Ti produces loads of bad work units, and it's just a factory overclocked one. It maybe gets a single project done a day without issue

[oal32]

Finally something to load the home lab 86 cores + 1 gpu on the job. I'm trying to throw my old GPU into another box but I don't want to use its video out any help?

[post_screen]

Pulled my old laptop out of the closet. It ain't much but it's honest work

[Zberg]

Ohhhhh snap!  Im a:

 

[LAR_Systems]

11 minutes ago, oal32 said:

Finally something to load the home lab 86 cores + 1 gpu on the job. I'm trying to throw my old GPU into another box but I don't want to use its video out any help?

You should be able to add a GPU to a system (I assume a server with on board graphics in your case) but not use it as the video out via a setting in the bios.

Look for settings that let you specify on-board graphics as default video output device and manually set that once you have added the graphic card.

 

I have been able to do this on my ASUS / Intel systems.

 

Otherwise if you have two GPUs in a system you should be able to set which one is the default display via BIOS or by simply connecting your monitor two the one you want to use depending on BIOS / OS used.

[MidKnight Reign]

1 minute ago, LAR_Systems said:

You should be able to add a GPU to a system (I assume a server with on board graphics in your case) but not use it as the video out via a setting in the bios.

Look for settings that let you specify on-board graphics as default video output device and manually set that once you have added the graphic card.

 

I have been able to do this on my ASUS / Intel systems.

 

Otherwise if you have two GPUs in a system you should be able to set which one is the default display via BIOS or by simply connecting your monitor two the one you want to use depending on BIOS / OS used.

Would dummy plugs also help with that?

[oal32]

3 minutes ago, LAR_Systems said:

You should be able to add a GPU to a system (I assume a server with on board graphics in your case) but not use it as the video out via a setting in the bios.

I cant put them into the server because they're only half height plus that would be too easy. I have an old desktop i can put it in. All of my monitors are VGA but the new/old GPU doesn't have that output so i cant even see the bios to change it. 

 

[LAR_Systems]

Just now, MidKnight Reign said:

Would dummy plugs also help with that?

Dummy plugs will not help your folding @ home PPD etc. but if you want to control the machine via some form of remote desktop are very helpful in setting good resolutions and getting a refresh rate on RDP that's not terrible.

Amazon post GPU mining craze sells packs of 3 HDMI plugs for about 15-20$

[SCSI15]

I seem to be getting larger WU's to work on. I am hitting 2 hours for a single gpu WU. I was only getting 1.5 hour ones before. 

 

 

[LAR_Systems]

2 minutes ago, oal32 said:

I cant put them into the server because they're only half height plus that would be too easy. I have an old desktop i can put it in. All of my monitors are VGA but the new/old GPU doesn't have that output so i cant even see the bios to change it. 

 

Yeah, that's a bit more tricky...so the desktop case does not have a CPU with on-board graphics to let you configure bios after adding the GPU?

If that's the case the simplest solution might need to be getting an adapter for the video output the GPU does have to VGA

[steelo]

1 minute ago, SCSI15 said:

I seem to be getting larger WU's to work on. I am hitting 2 hours for a single gpu WU. I was only getting 1.5 hour ones before. 

 

 

Me too...I have one that is taking over 3 hours...

[Zberg]

 

Take that poopy virus!

[LAR_Systems]

Just now, SCSI15 said:

I seem to be getting larger WU's to work on. I am hitting 2 hours for a single gpu WU. I was only getting 1.5 hour ones before. 

 

 

Getting those chonky WU's!    Those can be better, they generally give more PPD and keep you out of the race to get a new WU from the servers longer.

[Guest]

extremeoverclocking is screwing me!

 

Web client says I have 3.3m points, extremeoverclocking says 2.2 since one day