LTT Folding Team's Emergency Response to Covid-19

[FakeGamerGuy]

So I rebuilt a workstation to run F@H at work, along side my main workstation, but once I got the system together I couldn't find and PCIe power cables so I dropped a 1030 in and set it to run only on the CPU, and took the 1060 that was supposed to go in there and put it in my main workstation. But the spacing between them was kind of non-existent, so I unmounted the power supply and installed the GPU one slot down (and it has more bandwidth now). Still working on ways to allocate more resources.

[Valentyn]

10 minutes ago, Hitcowman said:

I think its alittle harder to do that with the GPU's. 
Like my CPU is showing up correct, with right ammount of cores etc. It's a "fixed" number it has to relate to.
While my GPU is being detectet as a Radeon 5600-5700XT, witch means it cant detect the exact model, and considering that the core on those cards vary from 1500 to over 2000mhz and v-ram is from 4 to 8gb, it might be harder for them to make a system that gives priority to better GPUs. Atleast untill they are able to seperate cards more in detail.  
Edit: And as  Linus has showed us many times, it's not hard to trick a system into thinking it has a kickass card, og a card to think its more kickass than it really is  

True enough.

 

Thankfully it seems my Card as GV100 without issue, and unless you force an unlocked P2 state for CUDA rendering, the Titan V doesn't boost over 1335Mhz for CUDA work loads.

Turning off the P2 state lets it boost over 1700mhz, but god damn, the coilwhine when is mental.

 

Also I found out while my second system was not getting any GPU units for nearly 2 days!
It was downloading WU's, starting them, returning a BAD WORK UNIT, and then stall.

Each time I rebooted the client or system it kept trying to use the same work unit, and returning BAD WORK UNIT.
Turned out it was my drivers.

Driver 442.50 kept messing it up.

 

Just installed the new Doom Game Ready 442.74 and it got working again!

[Rallymax]

20 minutes ago, FakeGamerGuy said:

So I rebuilt a workstation to run F@H at work, along side my main workstation, but once I got the system together I couldn't find and PCIe power cables so I dropped a 1030 in and set it to run only on the CPU, and took the 1060 that was supposed to go in there and put it in my main workstation. But the spacing between them was kind of non-existent, so I unmounted the power supply and installed the GPU one slot down (and it has more bandwidth now). Still working on ways to allocate more resources.

while I love that you're trying to get more compute online pls know that you need at least one slot between those cooler designs. Otherwise you'll choke the air supply and the blocked GPU will run hot, potentially shutting down as you run a cuda heavy program (F@H) on it.

but maybe it's just the photo angle. is there a slot between them?

 

[SeanStoube]

Is anyone else noticing issues with the ExtremeOverclocking site not updating stats? The past 2 pulls are reporting zero for points and WUs, but my machines have been folding and the point total on the web control has been increasing.

[FakeGamerGuy]

8 minutes ago, Rallymax said:

while I love that you're trying to get more compute online pls know that you need at least one slot between those cooler designs. Otherwise you'll choke the air supply and the blocked GPU will run hot, potentially shutting down as you run a cuda heavy program (F@H) on it.

but maybe it's just the photo angle. is there a slot between them?

 

The first photo showed the problem (no gap between the cards). Second photo shows the gap, and the fact that I had to unmount the PSU to make room for it. Good looking out, though.

 

Edit: Oof, setting up the client to recognize both cards was a little scary lol. Once I figured it out it was pretty simple.

[PhantomJaguarr]

Been getting more gpu WUs than cpu WUs now.

[Kilrah]

20 minutes ago, SeanStoube said:

Is anyone else noticing issues with the ExtremeOverclocking site not updating stats? The past 2 pulls are reporting zero for points and WUs, but my machines have been folding and the point total on the web control has been increasing.

Yeah they're kind of "one run late" or more for personal stats, someone said they were only calculating team points but not user all the time. Had one run that was at 0, but next time it ran my 300K points I got in the previous period showed up.

[Alex Atkin UK]

22 hours ago, N.tony said:

I have the opposite problem, can't submit a finished WU...

For like 6 hours already:

 

I lost one because it was done in 2 hours but never submitted and its literally been days (well past the timeout now).

[Rallymax]

28 minutes ago, SeanStoube said:

Is anyone else noticing issues with the ExtremeOverclocking site not updating stats? The past 2 pulls are reporting zero for points and WUs, but my machines have been folding and the point total on the web control has been increasing.

i found that it only updated after your first day. Now I'm seeing it update on a per hour basis.

[Purzifal]

just sent this off to BBC News asking them to look into this and do a story about it. lets see who spots the little easter egg i left in there

 

[Kilrah]

nVidea?

[NeZz_DK]

Hi Guys 

 

I Just joined in for the good cause,

 

is there any way I can get my GPU usage higher than 40% utilization or is that depending on specific Work Unit?

[Xaiux]

2 minutes ago, NeZz_DK said:

Hi Guys

 

I Just joined in for the good cause,

 

is there any way I can get my GPU usage higher than 40% utilization or is that depending on specific Work Unit?

SNIP

Task manager doesn't show utilization for this task correctly. Either choose one of the graphs to be CUDA or Compute_#, or use something like GPU-Z

[Valentyn]

5 minutes ago, NeZz_DK said:

Hi Guys 

 

I Just joined in for the good cause,

 

is there any way I can get my GPU usage higher than 40% utilization or is that depending on specific Work Unit?

 

Check with GPUZ or Afterburner. Windows doesn't accurately report it, unless set to CUDA.

 

 

 

[NeZz_DK]

Ahh CPU-Z looks a lot better

 

[-rascal-]

Welp...might be the time to bring the 2nd R9-Fury back out of storage (games these days have slowly dropping multi-GPU support).

Happen to have my old FX-8350 system and a couple of HD 7900 GPUs still as well.

(Too bad I haven't bothered to RMA the i7-6800K for my X99 system yet )

 

Going to try to get some ol' buddies to pitch in as well -- know a few who just built new Ryzen 3000 systems within the last few weeks hahahah

 

[GOTSpectrum]

Well Guy's I've been up for the past 40 hpurs going shopping in the middle of the night to avoid people and stocking up (sensibly, no panic buying from this mon) so I think it's about time I sign off and read some of my book.

 

Have a good day/night/morning/evening whatever it is where you're at, stay safe.

[Valentyn]

1 minute ago, GOTSpectrum said:

Well Guy's I've been up for the past 40 hpurs going shopping in the middle of the night to avoid people and stocking up (sensibly, no panic buying from this mon) so I think it's about time I sign off and read some of my book.

 

Have a good day/night/morning/evening whatever it is where you're at, stay safe.

Have good one mate!

[vf1000ride]

Frustration level rising.  Managed to turn in 366k points in the last 4 days.  Today, can't get a single WU.  14hrs now with no luck, tried restarts to no avail.  Got one WU that refuses to send and is on the problem child list over at the F@H forums and both gpu/cpu idle since 3am.  Bugger.

[Purzifal]

Just now, vf1000ride said:

Frustration level rising.  Managed to turn in 366k points in the last 4 days.  Today, can't get a single WU.  14hrs now with no luck, tried restarts to no avail.  Got one WU that refuses to send and is on the problem child list over at the F@H forums and both gpu/cpu idle since 3am.  Bugger.

where is the problem child list?

[vf1000ride]

6 minutes ago, CAProjects said:

where is the problem child list?

https://foldingforum.org/viewforum.php?f=18

 

Seems to be centered around servers @ 155.247.164.214 / 213 with WU ID 11758.  Lots of people saying the server won't accept the finished unit back.  Mine finished 3/19@02:46z and hasn't sent yet.  It's lost over half its credit just sitting there. 

[Valentyn]

19 minutes ago, CAProjects said:

where is the problem child list?

 

8 minutes ago, vf1000ride said:

https://foldingforum.org/viewforum.php?f=18

 

Seems to be centered around servers @ 155.247.164.214 / 213 with WU ID 11758.  Lots of people saying the server won't accept the finished unit back.  Mine finished 3/19@02:46z and hasn't sent yet.  It's lost over half its credit just sitting there. 

 

Yup!

I've one of those units stuck trying to send for a day now, the longer it takes, the less points it's worth, and it keeps ticking down.
 

 

[SeanStoube]

2 hours ago, Rallymax said:

i found that it only updated after your first day. Now I'm seeing it update on a per hour basis.

It updated perfectly every 3 hours since I started on 15MAR, just today at the 12pm run did it start acting up. Probably just overloaded since its correcting itself on the next run.

[CrustStation]

23 hours ago, RankUpGamers said:

9.7 cents per kWh here in the wonderful land of Tennessee.

Thank you, TVA

[CrustStation]

Anyone on here running really old hardware? Oldest I'm running currently is an early Core 2 Duo. I want to get my Compaq Deskpro EN with a Slot 1 PIII up and running with Mint and FAH. I tried a Pentium D but all it did was heat the room and take longer, so I swapped back in the lower clocked C2D.