LTT Folding Team's Emergency Response to Covid-19

[LFreeman]

Just now, MK-23 said:

Yes, I have been restarting round the clock ever since I found the gpu acting up.

Sorry that is outta my league then. 

[MK-23]

1 minute ago, LFreeman said:

Sorry that is outta my league then.

It's okay! But I think, I killed it! Unfortunate! If it revives (I hope), I will give an update.

[Rune]

I...think the store internet may have been turned off overnight ._.

 

[ObeliskAG]

49 minutes ago, Jeremiah.Schorn said:

look up his 90 day cpu log on https://apps.foldingathome.org/cpu

 

THis has to be a massive server farm, as i saw between 4 and 17 jobs returned completed every 1 to 2 seconds.  Remember each job takes between 1 and 2 hours for the higher end products.

34,172 Slots of which:

- 16,340 are NVidia GPU

- 17,832 are x86

 

Makes me wonder why I'm spending all this money on electricity.

[ObeliskAG]

28 minutes ago, MK-23 said:

(GPU: RTX 2070 Super) I am also noticing that the gpu runs at a lower clock for the past two days. Earlier, temp would rise to a 65c (with an aggressive fan curve) and a clock of 1935. Now the clock dropped to 1605! and temp to 50c. My question is, did I kill my gpu by folding 24/7? Or, is it just because of the wu(s) that they don't require the higher clocks (I don't know)!

I really hope it's the latter. 

 

Thanks!

Check that you don't have a game launcher hiding in your Notification bar.

[Bitter]

My RX580 seems to be pretty stable, I've set it to advanced work to try to keep it more steadily fed. Still getting an odd failed work unit here and there on the Vega56 so I dropped the core clock by another 10mhz and memory by another 10mhz to see if that straightens it out long term or not. I'd rather drop a little speed then up the volts/heat. Got a p106-100 on the way to bring another system online to park in the basement to add to my folding run, of all the boxes currently folding that one will be the one that will stay running all the time for months/years.

[MK-23]

5 minutes ago, ObeliskAG said:

Check that you don't have a game launcher hiding in your Notification bar.

No, I have been monitoring the system from day 1. Did not run anything heavy ever since.

[ObeliskAG]

10 minutes ago, MK-23 said:

No, I have been monitoring the system from day 1. Did not run anything heavy ever since.

My suspicion is that you have another application running that has put the GPU in a different power state (probably P2 when you want P0). Bethesda Game Launcher or something like it, would do it.  You don't have to be running a game, just having the launcher running in the background will lock the GPU at 1,605. Your GPU is probably fine, as a fried GPU would likely be displaying screen artifacts and/or only be providing 2D graphics with no compute/3D capability.

 

Pause your folding and reboot.

[Martell96]

I just bought a new light fixture for my apartment, but I cannot replace it because the wall plug and the lights are on the same breaker as my computer. Will have to deal with the crappy light fixture until the end of the event...

[MK-23]

1 minute ago, ObeliskAG said:

My suspicion is that you have another application running that has put the GPU in a different power state (probably P2 when you want P0). Bethesda Game Launcher or something like it, would do it.  You don't have to be running a game, just having the launcher running in the background will lock the GPU at 1,605. Your GPU is probably fine, as a fried GPU would likely be displaying screen artifacts and/or only be providing 2D graphics with no compute/3D capability.

 

Pause your folding and reboot.

I understand what you are saying, but the only thing that runs on the system are afterburner and firefox (from time to time) and nothing else. I started folding on 27th of March (most probably) since then I have had no such issues with the gpu whatsoever, but for the last two day. And as I am monitoring all day, nothing else runs in the background.

I also get that the screen will start showing signs of a dead gpu, but under same conditions why would the gpu not use all its clock when in afterburner and TM its showing 96% to 99% usage?

 

[jctappel67]

I really want to stay up long enough to grab my 600 WUs folded certificatesince I missed the 500 certificate, but I'm too tired...

 

Will try to see if I can grab the 700 about this time tomorrow.

 

 

Nighty night

[ObeliskAG]

16 minutes ago, MK-23 said:

I understand what you are saying, but the only thing that runs on the system are afterburner and firefox (from time to time) and nothing else. I started folding on 27th of March (most probably) since then I have had no such issues with the gpu whatsoever, but for the last two day. And as I am monitoring all day, nothing else runs in the background.

I also get that the screen will start showing signs of a dead gpu, but under same conditions why would the gpu not use all its clock when in afterburner and TM its showing 96% to 99% usage?

 

The GPU can be at 100% utilization at the base clock rate. You are saying thermals are fine and it's unlikely that power is an issue while your just folding.

 

My money is that some application has changed the power state of the GPU. This feature is discussed here: https://developer.nvidia.com/setstablepowerstateexe- disabling -gpu-boost-windows-10-getting-more-deterministic-timestamp-queries

 

I don't know if it's possible that Firefox may have rendered some content or has a plug-in that might change of the GPU power state. Have you tried rebooting?

[Weirdman24]

Hoping someone can help me. What should I expect from this for folding?

 

 

 

 

Is this even good? Should I spin up more of these? I have 3 more servers identical to this powered off not doing anything at the moment.

 

 

[MK-23]

12 minutes ago, ObeliskAG said:

I don't know if it's possible that Firefox may have rendered some content or has a plug-in that might change of the GPU power state. Have you tried rebooting?

I don't think so too. I have been rebooting round the clock. It seems like I might need to reinstall the nvidia drivers from the ground up.

[Stormseeker9]

9 hours ago, ColdThief said:

Whelp I did all I could do. My landlords noticed a power bill increase. I contributed the best I could, but I can't finish the last 5 days. Good luck to everyone and I'm glad we are helping!

Shut the front door. How are they such blood hawks.

[Gorgon]

1 hour ago, MK-23 said:

(GPU: RTX 2070 Super) I am also noticing that the gpu runs at a lower clock for the past two days. Earlier, temp would rise to a 65c (with an aggressive fan curve) and a clock of 1935. Now the clock dropped to 1605! and temp to 50c. My question is, did I kill my gpu by folding 24/7? Or, is it just because of the wu(s) that they don't require the higher clocks (I don't know)!

I really hope it's the latter. 

 

Thanks!.

 

If your GPU was failing you’d be getting Failures in the Log. Folding at Home will tell you real quick if your GPU is mis configured or throwing errors or your system can’t handle the full thermal load.

 

I have 5 RTX 2070 Supers and you definetly have an issue as mine all stay between 1900MHz and 2050MHz at 48-51C but these are all Hybrid cards with an AIO so something is down-clocking the cards.

 

If it isn’t failing at Folding and you’re not running a game launcher then it is likely the boost algorithm which will only down-clock you if you hit a thermal, voltage or power limit.

 

I would suggest a reboot and clearing any settings auto applied in after-burner or other such tool.

 

1635 sounds suspiciously like a base clock speed with no boost.

[MK-23]

3 minutes ago, Gorgon said:

I would suggest a reboot and clearing any settings auto applied in after-burner or other such tool.

 

Yes, I will hard-reboot once this wu is done. Also reinstall the drivers.

[ObeliskAG]

6 minutes ago, MK-23 said:

I don't think so too. I have been rebooting round the clock. It seems like I might need to reinstall the nvidia drivers from the ground up.

What configuration changes have you made with MSI Afterburner?

[MK-23]

Just now, ObeliskAG said:

What configuration changes have you made with MSI Afterburner?

Nothing except an aggressive fan curve.

[ObeliskAG]

1 minute ago, MK-23 said:

Nothing except an aggressive fan curve.

Have you tried increasing your power limit to the top, while leaving your clock speeds alone?

[Yongtjunkit]

Hi, I was wonder if I should choose either the CPU or GPU for folding@home

 

I'm using my old laptop for this, It's an Asus X550CC

 Cpu: core i5-3337U

GPU: Nvidia GT 720M 

 

Currently folding with the cpu at light settings (it's a laptop in my bedroom and I don't want it to make lound sound at night) now as it got a job before the GPU... I believe the gpu would be Idle most of the time as it would always use the Igpu for videos 

 

Also how do I set-up a webUi for it so that I can manage it instead of looking at the laptop screen itself? 

[MK-23]

Just now, ObeliskAG said:

Have you tried increasing your power limit to the top, while leaving your clock speeds alone?

I literally have not messed with any other setting other than the fan curve and the power limit seems to be at the 100% mark.

[GOTSpectrum]

Active users have continued to grow over the last few days!

 

[marknd59]

You might get a bit of a boost from the last video to.

 

[justpoet]

I never remember.  What time zone are we using for our folding days?