LTT Folding Team's Emergency Response to Covid-19

[GOTSpectrum]

2 minutes ago, jctappel67 said:

I feel like that's supposed to be a small GPU WU, not a yuge CPU unit, but that's just me.

My theory, they are rolling our larger and larger units as a way to get around the WU shortage. If every WU take 20% longer thats 20% less calls to the servers

[SlurmWorm]

3 minutes ago, Inkertus said:

Daaang.  Got myself an absolute unit of a WU here with a 11+ hr time frame 9% into it. 6/16 of my 3700x and most jobs have taken ~4 or less.

I'm jealous! Just crossed 2 million points processing largely small WU's on a 3950X.  Largest WU was 60K and was ecstatic, wish I could pick larger WU's manually.  Apparently it's kinda possible with fahcontrol but it won't install under Ubuntu 19.10 because python_gnome2 is not installed (cannot install it either).  I can only start/stop/restart the client and hope for the best.

[Duffbro]

1 minute ago, GOTSpectrum said:

My theory, they are rolling our larger and larger units as a way to get around the WU shortage. If every WU take 20% longer thats 20% less calls to the servers

simulating 1,2 nanoseconds in 2-3 hours  per WU 

[GOTSpectrum]

1 minute ago, SlurmWorm said:

I'm jealous! Just crossed 2 million points processing largely small WU's on a 3950X.  Largest WU was 60K and was ecstatic, wish I could pick larger WU's manually.  Apparently it's kinda possible with fahcontrol but it won't install under Ubuntu 19.10 because python_gnome2 is not installed (cannot install it either).  I can only start/stop/restart the client and hope for the best.

No way to specify larger WUs these day FYI 

[Kenpachi1985]

Damn, the supply of WU's has been amazing today. Not having to wait  more then approx. 2 minutes for a GPU WU as soon as i tell my system to FLEX HARD ON THAT COVID MOFO.

[Guellan]

18 minutes ago, Inkertus said:

Daaang.  Got myself an absolute unit of a WU here with a 11+ hr time frame 9% into it. 6/16 of my 3700x and most jobs have taken ~4 or less.

Never fails that those 5500 base work units go to one half of the I7 3630QM...usually takes almost the full 24 hours. Logic also dictates that the Radeon RX550 gets the 38800 base units too.

[TrueMad]

Does this mean 90 Billion points last month for LTT?  impressive

https://stats.foldingathome.org/teams-monthly

[Inkertus]

8 minutes ago, Guellan said:

Never fails that those 5500 base work units go to one half of the I7 3630QM...usually takes almost the full 24 hours

Luckily I got it on the 3700x instead of half the 1700 or this would take the full 24 hours...or close to.  For giggles I compared just under half (6/16) of my 3700x to my old toaster of a 4820k and it beats it by about a quarter more.  Amazing how far CPU architectures can come at times.  My 1700 is more than 2x the total performance, nearly the same single thread rating, and takes half the power.  Came out just under 4 years later.

[Shigeru]

14 minutes ago, Bitter said:

Possibly, had some driver funk too so I'm DDUing and reinstalling but I dont think HD 7570 is supported.

 

Checked the logs and it's something about opencl.

Uhmmm... maybe should work with correct drivers, for example the 7560 of my A8-5600K should work, but because its a HD 7560D since the A8 is a APU it just get errors if try to process a WU.

[SlurmWorm]

Just FYI to anyone else with an AMD 3950X -- I have folding cranked to full with all CPU's running at 100% and the system (Ubuntu) is still completely usable.  Playing videos, browsing and working and it's fully responsive.  I'm guessing the 3900X would react similarly (no idea if running Windows would handicap performance tho).

 

 

[Guellan]

4 minutes ago, Inkertus said:

Luckily I got it on the 3700x instead of half the 1700 or this would take the full 24 hours...or close to.  For giggles I compared just under half (6/16) of my 3700x to my old toaster of a 4820k and it beats it by about a quarter more.  Amazing how far CPU architectures can come at times.  My 1700 is more than 2x the total performance, nearly the same single thread rating, and takes half the power.  Came out just under 4 years later.

I have been surprised at the generational performance increase in the Ryzen line its self, noticeable differences from 1600x-2600x-3800x.

[WaldorfMan]

9 minutes ago, TrueMad said:

Does this mean 90 Billion points last month for LTT?  impressive

https://stats.foldingathome.org/teams-monthly

 

But look at the Default (No Team Specified) group.  Oh the power we could draw from those not aligned... 

 

[Inkertus]

Just now, Guellan said:

I have been surprised at the generational performance increase in the Ryzen line its self, noticeable differences from 1600x-2600x-3800x.

Yeah the 1700 to the 3700x is 40% lower scoring which I'm sure makes Intel jealous considering their piddly 10-15% generational increase up to that point look quaint.  Problem for AMD is maintaining that level of momentum.  We're eeking every IPC and clock extra we can out of silicon at this point and we're getting into physics f#@kery now to keep improving.

[Inkertus]

6 minutes ago, SlurmWorm said:

Just FYI to anyone else with an AMD 3950X -- I have folding cranked to full with all CPU's running at 100% and the system (Ubuntu) is still completely usable.  Playing videos, browsing and working and it's fully responsive.  I'm guessing the 3900X would react similarly (no idea if running Windows would handicap performance tho).

 

AMD chips these days are multi-tasking beasts.  I'd basically expect that out of any 8-core AMD chip from Ryzen on up.

[Inkertus]

Just now, Inkertus said:

AMD chips these days are multi-tasking beasts.  I'd basically expect that out of any 8-core AMD chip from Ryzen on up.

All day long, underclocked and undervolted a bit even (3.8GHz @ 1.2875v) for heat reasons (still 83C in there).

[Favebook]

Guys guys guys....

I have an ingenious idea!

 

 

Slow the hell down with this thread, I am getting lost here...

Soon to hit 400 pages in less than 3 weeks, FFS, it's insane!

[Inkertus]

Just now, Favebook said:

Guys guys guys....

I have an ingenious idea!

 

Slow the hell down with this thread, I am getting lost here...

Soon to hit 400 pages in less than 3 weeks, FFS, it's insane!

If you walk away and come back to more than 5 new pages, just jump to the newest page and read from there.  Not missing a ton. 

[jctappel67]

2 minutes ago, Favebook said:

Guys guys guys....

I have an ingenious idea!

 

Slow the hell down with this thread, I am getting lost here...

Soon to hit 400 pages in less than 3 weeks, FFS, it's insane!

[GOTSpectrum]

2 minutes ago, Favebook said:

Guys guys guys....

I have an ingenious idea!

 

 

Slow the hell down with this thread, I am getting lost here...

Soon to hit 400 pages in less than 3 weeks, FFS, it's insane!

IK the feeling, I am loving the enthusiasm though!

[cbigfoot]

9 minutes ago, Inkertus said:

AMD chips these days are multi-tasking beasts.  I'd basically expect that out of any 8-core AMD chip from Ryzen on up.

take a look here: http://folding.compson.me/summary.html and you will see what a beast the 3900x is loland the 1700 and the 2600 for that matter (Dont mind the server its only using 6 cores)  all the rest are -3 cores for my 3900 -4 cores for the 1700 to reduce heat. and -2 cores for Bender soon to be -3 or 4 when i get the 2060 that is since ~9:30pm cst last night.

[Favebook]

7 minutes ago, Inkertus said:

If you walk away and come back to more than 5 new pages, just jump to the newest page and read from there.  Not missing a ton. 

Would love to, but my self-diagnosed OCD does not allow me to do that...

[dogwitch]

hell pages get updated more the getting wu.... ha

 

[cbigfoot]

2 minutes ago, Favebook said:

Would love to, but my self-diagnosed OCD does not allow me to do that...

yah @dogwitch is on page 382 lol

 

 

that was fast lol

[Cysero]

eyyyy

[Megatryn]

Hi!

New to the forum. Just started folding on tuesday (for LTT), putting my gaming rig to work in the background while I have my home office on my work laptop. To be honest I have no idea what I'm doing, put it on and let it rip. Got 404,787 credits and 18 WU's by now.