LTT Folding Team's Emergency Response to Covid-19

[marknd59]

1 minute ago, Favebook said:

Do not use beta. Advanced is okay for you. If you do not care about PPD, put next-unit-percentage to 90 as that will get WUs ASAP.

Thanks. I wasn't sure about beta that's mainly why I asked. I'll leave next-unit-percentage at 90 for now and as the amount of work increases slowly work it up until I find the number that works best.

[Zmasteri]

 

I picked up a nice deal for Radeon 5700xt, I am running it with ryzen 3600 and getting 1.2 to 1.4M PPD + CPU. Super happy with the performance!  That also freed up my Geforce GTX 960 to pair it with another old GTX 960 and that machine is running for ~400kPPD.  Gonna continue until I see the electric bill 

[MiniMike DK]

@GOTSpectrum Hi, I see that I was lucky and won a Steam key.

While I am happy that I was lucky enough to win, I don't have a use for it, or even know what it is used for, so if you'd like please feel free to donate it to someone who can use it and will be happy to receive it.

 

Best wishes from MichaelAdler

[leadeater]

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There were a couple times late 2017 / early 2018 where CureCoin broke 60 BILLION points produced in a month... It looks like that record *could* get shattered this April by any (or all) of these top 3 teams if they can keep up the pace!

 

[Zmasteri]

1 minute ago, leadeater said:

 

In...in... in 13 days?!

[Xsilent(X)]

10 hours ago, Fried.Bacon said:

That fan though haha

 

Yeah i had no other floating around in my house...

[Metallus97]

10 hours ago, Fried.Bacon said:

That fan though haha

HMMMM Noctua quality!

[efka112]

3 hours ago, NetoriusNick said:

And we fold fold fold. Finally getting stable PPD.

Good for you, i can get gpu WUs at all for two days

[cbigfoot]

9 hours ago, LFreeman said:

Yeah unfortunately I am not going to be folding much. Two of the 4 PC's I had, shit the bed. I also have a weird issue with my gaming rig and I might have to RMA my 2080Ti

Not alone My inspiron 7775 Refuses to start...still have 1 yr warranty so will call it in probably next month once COVID be dead i hope....

[Egg-Roll]

1 hour ago, cbigfoot said:

still have 1 yr warranty so will call it in probably next month once COVID be dead i hope....

Call in now, they shouldn't demand you to send the computer anywhere till it is safe to do so, to them right now nothing is wrong with your computer if they know now they might put your warranty on hold or do something else for you. COVID isn't going to be leaving us any time soon sadly, even tho I want it to end asap as well.

[Waikano]

Just reporting in....looks like I hit over a 1mil finally...old Q9550 and GTX 680 adding it's little bit to the pile. I thought the old Beast would have died by now....the Ryzen 3900 is looking really good  Can't justify it just yet though. I'm not sure if the fan on my Seasonic 1000 Titanium has even spun up once though....that thing is awesome. If it has I can't hear it over the case and CPU heat sink fans....good thing they are Noctua.

[madprofessor207]

We broke the barrier then broke it again.

[Grounded]

Now that its all said and done heres a shot of my graph after switching out some hardware...Its been fun

[Tetsurou]

16 minutes ago, madprofessor207 said:

We broke the barrier then broke it again.

Further News is also looking good.

[DontLickDoorknobs]

2 hours ago, Grounded said:

Now that its all said and done heres a shot of my graph after switching out some hardware...Its been fun

But why does your graph go down to zero at the end?  Must just be changing out some more hardware for even more points? 

[StefanGT]

Does anyone know why my cpu (i7-6700) gets WO's all the time but my gpu (980ti) gets only two or 3 a day? My gpu sits idle more than 66% of the day.

[walderston]

4 minutes ago, StefanGT said:

Does anyone know why my cpu (i7-6700) gets WO's all the time but my gpu (980ti) gets only two or 3 a day? My gpu sits idle more than 66% of the day.

WUs are different for CPU and GPU. 

 

CPU WUs are 'GRO_A7' while GPU WUs are 'OPENM_22'

[cbigfoot]

12 hours ago, Egg-Roll said:

Call in now, they shouldn't demand you to send the computer anywhere till it is safe to do so, to them right now nothing is wrong with your computer if they know now they might put your warranty on hold or do something else for you. COVID isn't going to be leaving us any time soon sadly, even tho I want it to end asap as well.

i did during my lunch break today they will be sending me the MB parts only (which i prefer) no questions asked no arguments needed. was actually very surprised...

[Bitter]

With Ubuntu 18.04 ending support sooner than later I decided to be forward looking and install the beta of 20.04 which is supported until 2023. FAHControl has unmet dependencies and getting it working is a real bear. Back to 18.04. I guess it needs python2!? That's pretty jank...given that Python2 is basically EOL and dead in the water Ubuntu since 19.1 has quit supporting it. Kind of annoyed that I spent all this time getting 20.04 up and running and then have this trap sprung on me.

[Tetsurou]

Necromancy complete, Athlon 4200+ is now folding, sure it'll take more than 2 and a quarter days for a work unit, but its folding.  Now to get it's GPUs to pull their weight.

[Bitter]

1 hour ago, Bitter said:

With Ubuntu 18.04 ending support sooner than later I decided to be forward looking and install the beta of 20.04 which is supported until 2023. FAHControl has unmet dependencies and getting it working is a real bear. Back to 18.04. I guess it needs python2!? That's pretty jank...given that Python2 is basically EOL and dead in the water Ubuntu since 19.1 has quit supporting it. Kind of annoyed that I spent all this time getting 20.04 up and running and then have this trap sprung on me.

And now with Xubuntu 18.04 installed and the 'best' Nvidia driver installed FAHcontrol can't find a GPU when I try to set one for a slot. Fantastic. lspci lists the P106 as a 3D something instead of a VGA something so that's probably the problem. It was working fine in Ubuntu 18.04 in the other PC which had a GTX 650 installed along side. I'm going to try some different driver versions and then Ubuntu 18.04 and if none of that works I'll put it back in the water cooled tower and make sure it still works then see if I can shrink that partition down to fit on the 16GB SSD and clone it over I guess...??

 

tldr; I break anything I touch that was already working and nothing ever 'just works' for me.

[Geralt]

Can confirm that running the beta of Ubuntu 20.04 and I can't install FAHControl because of python2. Back in 19.10 I could hack it and install a fake package which was python2-gnome or something like that because it was missing that package but with 20.04, python3 is the default and only python. FAH team should look into that.

[Bitter]

23 minutes ago, Geralt said:

Can confirm that running the beta of Ubuntu 20.04 and I can't install FAHControl because of python2. Back in 19.10 I could hack it and install a fake package which was python2-gnome or something like that because it was missing that package but with 20.04, python3 is the default and only python. FAH team should look into that.

Yup, could not get the 19.1 work around to work either and wasn't going to spend hours trying when they're hopefully updating the FAHControl soon*

 

*soon would have been years ago honestly

[Geralt]

28 minutes ago, Bitter said:

Yup, could not get the 19.1 work around to work either and wasn't going to spend hours trying when they're hopefully updating the FAHControl soon*

 

*soon would have been years ago honestly

For 19.10, you're still able to hack it by creating a fake deb using equivs.

 

https://askubuntu.com/questions/1217195/how-to-install-folding-at-home-foldinghome-fahcontrol-on-ubuntu-19-10

 

Follow the top answer. It worked for me. The you'll need to download the GPU whitelist.

sudo wget http://fah-web.stanford.edu/file-releases/public/GPUs.txt -P /var/lib/fahclient/

 

[oedev]

On 3/28/2020 at 8:35 AM, LAR_Systems said:

After digging though my office for random bits, stealing from other systems, sacrificing some parts from a planned ebay part ITX build I started, but had no case for and a little 3D printing and zip ties to fill in the gaps of a makeshift body on a monitor stand, this abomination what brought online.

When powered, its first words to me were "What is my purpose?" and I said "To fold for LTT!", and that is what it is doing ever since...

 Meet Creaser, the spare part folding bot!

I wish I have that kind of spare parts