LTT Folding Team's Emergency Response to Covid-19

[Inkertus]

So my remote PC has heat slabs instead of actual heat sinks (you know, that MB trend to "look cool" by putting black metal chunks on the VRMs instead of heat dissipating shapes) and in a Yo Dawg moment decided to pilfer a VRM heatsink from one board and just straight up stick it on top of the slab. It now cools better...wasn't really expecting that. 

[TrueMad]

9 minutes ago, GOTSpectrum said:

So how are you all doing on the folding front? 

Successfully getting WU+WU+WU+WU... my wife also take care about my client when i*m at work ! 

 

I wish you a very Happy Easter with many colorful eggs in the green grass !!

 

Take care and fold harder

[cbigfoot]

Just now, jctappel67 said:

That's what he wants you to think!!!

well with that 2nd 2060 bender should be able to fend him off single handily i hope  and will fold some with my 5700xt but it mostly will just be bender with his 2x 2060s @ approx 2,500,000 ppd and his friend i will be building out of parts i have will be a phenom x6 lol for the rx580 Flexo will run during events...

[Metallus97]

3 minutes ago, GOTSpectrum said:

Pretty much.

 

And no one has much interest on deving something like OpenMM for apple because 1. they overhead, 2. apple probably would get pissy, 3. macOS just isn't prevalent enough to make it worth it generally speaking 

Have to disagree!

CPU folding and BOINC and also GPU BOINC works perfectly on my Mac. 

So why would they get pissy?

Overheating? YES... I put some Liquid Metal on my Throttlebook Pro and its better now... but it could do more with better cooling 

[Inkertus]

3 minutes ago, TrueMad said:

Take care and fold harder

 

[Psedog]

6 minutes ago, GOTSpectrum said:

There is no support for OpenMM on macOS, that is the library used for molecular simulations by folding and many other applications 

This saddens me. I normally run my rig in OSX (hackintosh) and only switch to Windows for gaming. I wonder if Linux supports it.

 

In the OpenMM wiki it says it's supported in OSX through OpenCL. Is it just a matter of installing OpenMM or is it a fundamental issue with the Folding@home software?

 

Ref

http://docs.openmm.org/latest/userguide/application.html#installing-openmm

 

P.S. Glad your alright. No need to apologize. Always put yourself first. If you don't take care of yourself, who will?

[GOTSpectrum]

2 minutes ago, Metallus97 said:

Have to disagree!

CPU folding and BOINC and also GPU BOINC works perfectly on my Mac. 

So why would they get pissy?

Overheating? YES... I put some Liquid Metal on my Throttlebook Pro and its better now... but it could do more with better cooling 

From my experience with apple, which tbf is not something that I have dealt with for a long time, they don't like people using their stuff for alternative things. At least they didn't for the longest time, looking at louis rossmann they seem to still have that kinda mentality to some degree or another. But, maybe I'm wrong. Apple is not my area of expertise I will confess to that. I don't inherently have an issue with apple though outside of the fact they seem to be overpriced in many situations. But then again when everyone else starts pricing like apple they aren't really overpriced, at the end of the day it's the market that determines the value of something. I'm just cheap I think. 

[GOTSpectrum]

3 minutes ago, Psedog said:

-snip-

Best to ask @Metallus97 here but I know there is no GPU support in macOS due to limited OpenCL/MM support. Other than that I don't know much deeper as macOS is not of interest to me. 

[CWP]

Is it cooling issue or power limiting issue? My Mid2015 MacBook Pro (i7-4870HQ + R9 M370X) is stuck at 800MHz when both CPU and GPU are folding at the same time. The CPU, however, never gets above 80C, but if I pause the GPU folding, it will get into the high 90C.

 

(This is under Windows, by the way)

[Xaiux]

Well I hit over 20 million, it'll be a while until I hit the 25m badge though 

[cbigfoot]

7 minutes ago, Psedog said:

This saddens me. I normally run my rig in OSX (hackintosh) and only switch to Windows for gaming. I wonder if Linux supports it.

 

In the OpenMM wiki it says it's supported in OSX through OpenCL. Is it just a matter of installing OpenMM or is it a fundamental issue with the Folding@home software?

 

Ref

http://docs.openmm.org/latest/userguide/application.html#installing-openmm

 

P.S. Glad your alright. No need to apologize. Always put yourself first. If you don't take care of yourself, who will?

it seems @Den-Fi knowas a bit about macs too.. i have 1 a 2008 AL Macbook only have it for the occasional need to look at mac drives for customers... its hacked to 10.14 currently and will never update it till they come out with some other update that i have to read their new proprietary file system lol

[Ahaber]

1 minute ago, Xaiux said:

Well I hit over 20 million, it'll be a while until I hit the 25m badge though 

Shouldn't be too long. Looks like you are only about a week away.

[Boyce1]

1 hour ago, Shigeru said:

Excellent, but yeah, probably is that since in my caso was also showing other teams in my donor page and etc. Remember to get a passkey also for your new folding name once a couple of WUs are proccesed your stat page should like like this, only one team

What tab were you searching in?  If I select Team or Team Monthly using my Name and 223518 I get "No result" and I entered passkey when I set this up.

[Kilrah]

Good thing it's ending indeed, they're forecasting up to 25°C for this weekend... We're not there yet but today is basically reaching the bearable limit, got all windows open already and still too hot if I sit at the PC. 

[Shigeru]

1 minute ago, Boyce1 said:

What tab were you searching in?  If I select Team or Team Monthly using my Name and 223518 I get "No result" and I entered passkey when I set this up.

The donor page returning "not found" is also kinda normal, the servers needs some time to catch up in my case first was the EOC sever but the F@H server tooked around 2-3 to show my stats. Try searching for your user here: https://folding.extremeoverclocking.com/

[justpoet]

13 minutes ago, Psedog said:

This saddens me. I normally run my rig in OSX (hackintosh) and only switch to Windows for gaming. I wonder if Linux supports it.

 

In the OpenMM wiki it says it's supported in OSX through OpenCL. Is it just a matter of installing OpenMM or is it a fundamental issue with the Folding@home software?

 

Ref

http://docs.openmm.org/latest/userguide/application.html#installing-openmm

 

P.S. Glad your alright. No need to apologize. Always put yourself first. If you don't take care of yourself, who will?

OpenCL versions got deprecated on OS X without picking up the newer versions, similar to OpenGL.

OpenGL has some tools for swapping games to metal available, but I haven't seen anything similar for OpenCL (though I also haven't looked).

 

Linux works fine once you figure out the graphics card drivers and dependencies.

[Guellan]

Closing in on 25 Million, probably wont make it before the end of the "contest" but definitely will before my $300 credit runs out on Google Cloud (4 T4's).

[hydrochloric]

8 minutes ago, CWP said:

Is it cooling issue or power limiting issue? My Mid2015 MacBook Pro (i7-4870HQ + R9 M370X) is stuck at 800MHz when both CPU and GPU are folding at the same time. The CPU, however, never gets above 80C, but if I pause the GPU folding, it will get into the high 90C.

 

(This is under Windows, by the way)

My Mid 2012 MBP (i7-3615QM, GT650M) will spike the CPU temps to 70+ in normal use under OS X, and that's with new NTH1 or Kryonaut (can't remember which I used).  Before the reapply of the TIM it was 90+.

 

I haven't tried anything with windows because IMO it's not worth it on that old hardware when I have my desktops.  Though since I replaced the DVD drive with a 1TB HDD, maybe I could spare the space now.

[justpoet]

2 minutes ago, hydrochloric said:

My Mid 2012 MBP (i7-3615QM, GT650M) will spike the CPU temps to 70+ in normal use under OS X, and that's with new NTH1 or Kryonaut (can't remember which I used).  Before the reapply of the TIM it was 90+.

 

I haven't tried anything with windows because IMO it's not worth it on that old hardware when I have my desktops.  Though since I replaced the DVD drive with a 1TB HDD, maybe I could spare the space now.

My mid 2015 gets into the mid 60s with full throttle folding and gaming use simultaneously.  I got it to the low 70's once last summer on a hot day while doing that and also charging it.  Normally it sits in the low to mid 50s.  Under Windows, add 20 degrees, but with less performance.

[GOTSpectrum]

10 minutes ago, Kilrah said:

Good thing it's ending indeed, they're forecasting up to 25°C for this weekend... We're not there yet but today is basically reaching the bearable limit, got all windows open already and still too hot if I sit at the PC. 

It's 28C inside my house atm, not too bad with all things considered. Nothing on the summer folding sprint though!

[Macaw2000]

44 minutes ago, GOTSpectrum said:

 

 

Woo!!!! Good to hear!

 

I have no idea how I'm doing myself lmfao I should look at some point.

I posted a new video where you make an appearance: 

 

[hydrochloric]

1 minute ago, justpoet said:

My mid 2015 gets into the mid 60s with full throttle folding and gaming use simultaneously.  I got it to the low 70's once last summer on a hot day while doing that and also charging it.  Normally it sits in the low to mid 50s.  Under Windows, add 20 degrees, but with less performance.

I mean, it's a 22nm, nearly 10 year old 45W CPU.  Also the fan profile Apple setup on the laptops favors volume over cooling, running the edge of thermal throttling.  Actually before I redid the paste, it did throttle if I hit it with continuous load.  I also tweaked the fan profile a touch to get them spun up a little more a little faster.  It's still nearly inaudible but it keeps it out of the red.

 

I actually put it's little brother, a 2760QM in an old Latitude E5520 that wasn't designed to handle anything over a dual core...  If I run it 100% too long it will thermal out and shutdown lol.

[Sequence211]

46 minutes ago, Metallus97 said:

Sure I am running that! But would like to not have to dual boot for F@H. But the reason ist that OpenCL is kind of broken in the Mac Drivers and a special F@H core that supports Metal wont be done... to small unserbase for to much development cost...

I hear you. and agree.

What is the PPD of the 5500M ?

[Boyce1]

13 minutes ago, Shigeru said:

The donor page returning "not found" is also kinda normal, the servers needs some time to catch up in my case first was the EOC sever but the F@H server tooked around 2-3 to show my stats. Try searching for your user here: https://folding.extremeoverclocking.com/

I've been on for about two weeks.  I tried the link but don't know what the user ID number is to use search.  Is it the passkey?  Yeah, I'm a moron!

[jctappel67]

 

Just cracked the top 400 on the LTT team all-time list!