LTT Folding Team's Emergency Response to Covid-19

[TheAmazingDave]

9 minutes ago, ZombieStew said:

Sooooo, checked my power draw due to a warm circuit breaker. (had to move some systems to a different circuit) I'm pulling ~3.6 Kw. Yeah, sanity is out the window. Electric bill is going to be just a little higher this next month, like an order of magnitude higher.

Yikes! I thought I was crazy running full time at 800 watts...  

 

 

[TheAmazingDave]

On an aside, the mailman brought me a package... 

 

Not the processors I wanted, but still makes me grin. 

[Ayren]

13 minutes ago, TheAmazingDave said:

On an aside, the mailman brought me a package... 

 

Not the processors I wanted, but still makes me grin. 

ooooooh pretty 

[Alex Atkin UK]

13 minutes ago, ZombieStew said:

Sooooo, checked my power draw due to a warm circuit breaker. (had to move some systems to a different circuit) I'm pulling ~3.6 Kw. Yeah, sanity is out the window. Electric bill is going to be just a little higher this next month, like an order of magnitude higher.

What breakers do you have?  AFAIK they really shouldn't be getting warm unless overloaded and faulty.

[Cabanaj]

1 hour ago, Metallus97 said:

Intersting... did you try to reset itto your user?

Or maybe a full uninstall (including the data option) and then reinstall will help.

Also its best practice to strop folding before fiddling with the drivers.

Hello Metallus97

About the best practice of stopping folding,thanks for the reminder.  But yes, I knew, thus I have updated my drivers after finishing my work.So no problem on that side.
For now, I have only updated the info in the config panel (user name and team number), and  with my issued passkey (that I have archived) when I have noticed the problem.
I will keep an eye for any discrepencies on my profile  between the stat page and what my reults. If I see any weird discrepencies, I'll follow up here.
 

[Alex Atkin UK]

4 minutes ago, ZombieStew said:

Nine total now. 4 doing CPU only (64 cores total), 5 doing CPU and GPU with 3 of those running dual graphics cards.

I can see I'm not going to get near the top of the group table.   Quite happy to have reached 1,594th though.  Its also finally pushed me to get better fans for my main PC so I can use more cores.

[ZombieStew]

9 minutes ago, Victor Golf said:

You must not be in North America to be pulling that much! 

Oh I am in the US of A. About 600 miles south of the Canada border.

[DelphinusVyse]

Not sure how accurate it is to actual usage while folding, but Seasonic's PSU calculator puts my system at using 647 W under load. Not sure what I really expected but I didn't think it would be quite that high.

[justpoet]

1 minute ago, ZombieStew said:

Oh I am in the US of A. About 600 miles south of the Canada border.

I can pull 3.15kW out of my 10 solar panels.  Common house mains without solar would still allow for 200 amps x 240 volts or 48kW before tripping the main breaker.  So, you just need to make sure the sub circuits are shuffled around appropriately.  A single phase common household 20 amp breaker will do about 2kW forever, so just 2 circuits will get crankin' no problem.

[ZombieStew]

3 minutes ago, Alex Atkin UK said:

What breakers do you have?  AFAIK they really shouldn't be getting warm unless overloaded and faulty.

Square D Homeline. Well considering i was pulling 20 amps on a 20 amp circuit (Measured at the breaker with a clamp on amp meter) I'm not surprised the breaker was a little warm to the touch.

[justpoet]

As an aside, my main old dual Xeon server system that's still starving for CPU work units will hit about 400W when it can load all the cores fully, but not be doing much else.

[Sl0mar]

Quick question - I've been folding for the past week or so and haven't had any issues but now I've got a WU (proj # 13821)  that has an ETA of over 7 days on my 8600k.  The expected credits are at their base value of 900.  I don't care about the credits per se but it seems like either something is not working properly or this is an extremely intensive WU compared to the usual 1-4 hour durations I've seen in the past.  Any ideas as to why this might be the case?  My GPU is still chugging along at normal pace and I've tried pausing and re-folding many times already.  

-Thanks!

[TheAmazingDave]

1 minute ago, justpoet said:

As an aside, my main old dual Xeon server system that's still starving for CPU work units will hit about 400W when it can load all the cores fully, but not be doing much else.

How many CPU threads? I'm using all 16 in my old PowerEdge and it's been working 24 hours a day since Wednesday.

[justpoet]

1 minute ago, Sl0mar said:

Quick question - I've been folding for the past week or so and haven't had any issues but now I've got a WU (proj # 13821)  that has an ETA of over 7 days on my 8600k.  The expected credits are at their base value of 900.  I don't care about the credits per se but it seems like either something is not working properly or this is an extremely intensive WU compared to the usual 1-4 hour durations I've seen in the past.  Any ideas as to why this might be the case?  My GPU is still chugging along at normal pace and I've tried pausing and re-folding many times already.  

-Thanks!

After it gets a couple % done, the estimated time, and estimated turn in credit (including bonus) should update.  New work units will usually give odd values like this until your system chugs on them for a bit to know what it is really capable of.

[justpoet]

1 minute ago, TheAmazingDave said:

How many CPU threads? I'm using all 16 in my old PowerEdge and it's been working 24 hours a day since Wednesday.

One is dual quad core and the other is dual 6 core.

[Alex Atkin UK]

3 minutes ago, Sl0mar said:

Quick question - I've been folding for the past week or so and haven't had any issues but now I've got a WU (proj # 13821)  that has an ETA of over 7 days on my 8600k.  The expected credits are at their base value of 900.  I don't care about the credits per se but it seems like either something is not working properly or this is an extremely intensive WU compared to the usual 1-4 hour durations I've seen in the past.  Any ideas as to why this might be the case?  My GPU is still chugging along at normal pace and I've tried pausing and re-folding many times already.  

-Thanks!

How long has it been running?  Mine always seem to have an ETA of the timeout value until they've been running for a while and it reduces to the real value.

[Sl0mar]

1 minute ago, justpoet said:

After it gets a couple % done, the estimated time, and estimated turn in credit (including bonus) should update.  New work units will usually give odd values like this until your system chugs on them for a bit to know what it is really capable of.

Makes sense although this has already been running for a day and it's at ~10% done - it won't meet the deadline at this rate.

[Ayren]

wohoo i got a 13873 \ ^  - ^/ (the 161MB GPU one with the large payout)

[justpoet]

1 minute ago, Sl0mar said:

Makes sense although this has already been running for a day and it's at ~10% done - it won't meet the deadline at this rate.

Hmm, if it has been going for a day it is a bit odd that it hasn't adjusted.  I've had a few that say 7 days and then adjust down to like 2 days and get bonus credit still.  They were large base values though, so expected to take a long time.

Possible thread/RAM contention with the GPU folders (normally it is suggested to leave a CPU thread unused per GPU you're using).  Maybe somebody like @GOTSpectrum or @Gorgon can comment with more trouble shooting.

[ZombieStew]

2 minutes ago, justpoet said:

I can pull 3.15kW out of my 10 solar panels.  Common house mains without solar would still allow for 200 amps x 240 volts or 48kW before tripping the main breaker.  So, you just need to make sure the sub circuits are shuffled around appropriately.  A single phase common household 20 amp breaker will do about 2kW forever, so just 2 circuits will get crankin' no problem.

Yeah, my limiting factor is cooling. Have 3 of the systems in a small bedroom the rest are in the living room. Have the patio door cracked open to pull cold outside air in (the other 6 systems are sitting right next to the patio door) and a 24" window fan in the small bedroom blowing out to pull the air through. Leaves me limited to the circuits i can plug into. Still have to be able to work from home so I have to have some place that doesn't have cooling fans screaming.

[Alex Atkin UK]

3 minutes ago, Sl0mar said:

Makes sense although this has already been running for a day and it's at ~10% done - it won't meet the deadline at this rate.

Crikey, that must be one of the heavy ones that can run on GPU or CPU.   I thought they had a smarter allocation system than that.

[gmouz]

Can it reach 100 attempts? Im refreshing every time I see it needs 30 mins per attempt

Spoiler

 

[TrueMad]

nobody can stop me ... but i'm wrong...

 

Collecting server answers: IN YOUR FACE

19:09:32:WU02:FS01:Uploading 23.06MiB to 155.247.166.219
19:09:32:WU02:FS01:Connecting to 155.247.166.219:8080
19:09:38:WU02:FS01:Upload 13.82%
19:09:44:WU02:FS01:Upload 28.18%
19:09:50:WU02:FS01:Upload 42.82%
19:09:56:WU02:FS01:Upload 53.11%
19:10:02:WU02:FS01:Upload 68.02%
19:10:03:WU00:FS00:0xa7:Completed 70000 out of 250000 steps (28%)
19:10:08:WU02:FS01:Upload 82.38%
19:10:14:WU02:FS01:Upload 97.01%
19:10:15:WU02:FS01:Upload complete
19:10:15:WU02:FS01:Server responded WORK_QUIT (404)
19:10:15:WARNING:WU02:FS01:Server did not like results, dumping
19:10:15:WU02:FS01:Cleaning up

 

Edited March 28, 2020 by TrueMad
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[Sl0mar]

2 minutes ago, justpoet said:

Hmm, if it has been going for a day it is a bit odd that it hasn't adjusted.  I've had a few that say 7 days and then adjust down to like 2 days and get bonus credit still.  They were large base values though, so expected to take a long time.

Possible thread/RAM contention with the GPU folders (normally it is suggested to leave a CPU thread unused per GPU you're using).  Maybe somebody like @GOTSpectrum or @Gorgon can comment with more trouble shooting.

 

2 minutes ago, Alex Atkin UK said:

Crikey, that must be one of the heavy ones that can run on GPU or CPU.   I thought they had a smarter allocation system than that.

Yeah seems like I caught a massive chungus of a WU - I'll see if removing a CPU thread helps, thanks for the advice!

[Ayren]

17 minutes ago, TrueMad said:

nobody can stop me ... but i'm wrong...

 

Collecting server answers: IN YOUR FACE

19:09:32:WU02:FS01:Uploading 23.06MiB to 155.247.166.219
19:09:32:WU02:FS01:Connecting to 155.247.166.219:8080
19:09:38:WU02:FS01:Upload 13.82%
19:09:44:WU02:FS01:Upload 28.18%
19:09:50:WU02:FS01:Upload 42.82%
19:09:56:WU02:FS01:Upload 53.11%
19:10:02:WU02:FS01:Upload 68.02%
19:10:03:WU00:FS00:0xa7:Completed 70000 out of 250000 steps (28%)
19:10:08:WU02:FS01:Upload 82.38%
19:10:14:WU02:FS01:Upload 97.01%
19:10:15:WU02:FS01:Upload complete
19:10:15:WU02:FS01:Server responded WORK_QUIT (404)
19:10:15:WARNING:WU02:FS01:Server did not like results, dumping
19:10:15:WU02:FS01:Cleaning up

 

the fuck?

I had it a couple of times that the server would not take an answer for 15-30 minutes but never the straight up quit