How are people doing so many WU?

[SGRacing]

I was looking at all the info available over at extereoverclocking and I'm curious how some users are accomplishing so many WU in a day? I typically do 10-12 on my GPU and 8-10 on my CPU slot if I run all day so how are there users doing 50+ WU per day. Mind you I get almost 2m ppd.

[SenKa]

11 minutes ago, SGRacing said:

I was looking at all the info available over at extereoverclocking and I'm curious how some users are accomplishing so many WU in a day? I typically do 10-12 on my GPU and 8-10 on my CPU slot if I run all day so how are there users doing 50+ WU per day. Mind you I get almost 2m ppd.

Likely running multiple systems. My GTX 670 is the only thing folding right now, running at ~100k PPD. Or *would* be if it was running at all, i actually just realized it was stalled...

 

EDIT: Stall was nothing serious, just the F@H client being dumb. Im shocked this GPU has stuck around so well. Bought it at goodwill years ago.

[Bitter]

https://stats.foldingathome.org/donor/Bitter

 

I've got 3 machines running, one good for about 1.1 to 1.3mil PPD and two at about 300-400k PPD.

[keysbeast13]

i have 2 rigs running F@H likes to not ass. a wu all the time with mine

[Bitter]

Also I use FAHControl to monitor from my laptop (which is not folding!) and have all 3 running the babysitter script to try to keep all the slots constantly active.

[keysbeast13]

lol i just had to idle my main gpu and restart it LOL 

[LFreeman]

I agree with everyone else. I usually have at least 1 rig going all the time. During the day time I can have up to 5 folding at any given time.

[LazyDev]

I have 3 machines running, but waiting for a CPU to combine two of those as they have PCIE bottlenecks.

[Rybo]

Same as everyone else: I've got 3 rigs running, but that's only netting me ~40 WU's per day.  

I think another factor is that some WU's are bigger than others.  If you look at overall rankings ordered by total points, WUs are not very well sorted.  It's probably a case of WU's getting bigger over time, but I have nothing to base that on except my gut.  

[BulletMagnetEd]

Yeah, I have two running as well. If they're getting multiple millions of WUs done, there must be some powerful hardware working there.

[Bitter]

3 hours ago, BulletMagnetEd said:

Yeah, I have two running as well. If they're getting multiple millions of WUs done, there must be some powerful hardware working there.

A P106/GTX 1060 is good for 300 to 400k PPD, my Vega 56 does 800k to 1mil PPD, RX580 is about the same as the P106 but uses a little more power.

[RCD3T]

I stopped folding at home this week due to not getting enough work units. It was fun for a while, until you realize you can’t run headless machines like your are supposed to and have to babysit. I‘m disappointed that it hasn’t changed much in the last 7 years or so and still hasn’t accomplished much research wise (I don’t care about journals that were posted 5 years ago, show me something new). 

 

I bought 4 2080 supers just for covid (I got motivated!) and there is nothing more annoying than watching them be idle for hours at a time. Start, pause, start, pause, start, pause, etc. Instead, I did something that actually makes a difference, picked up a couple 3D printers and materials and joined a group to distribute them. 

[Unilevers]

55 minutes ago, RCD3T said:

I stopped folding at home this week due to not getting enough work units. It was fun for a while, until you realize you can’t run headless machines like your are supposed to and have to babysit. I‘m disappointed that it hasn’t changed much in the last 7 years or so and still hasn’t accomplished much research wise (I don’t care about journals that were posted 5 years ago, show me something new). 

 

I bought 4 2080 supers just for covid (I got motivated!) and there is nothing more annoying than watching them be idle for hours at a time. Start, pause, start, pause, start, pause, etc. Instead, I did something that actually makes a difference, picked up a couple 3D printers and materials and joined a group to distribute them. 

the babsitter script and advanced flag literally makes the client hassle free.  i havent been without a WU in weeks across 30 cards and 6 machines.

[Bitter]

1 hour ago, RCD3T said:

I stopped folding at home this week due to not getting enough work units. It was fun for a while, until you realize you can’t run headless machines like your are supposed to and have to babysit. I‘m disappointed that it hasn’t changed much in the last 7 years or so and still hasn’t accomplished much research wise (I don’t care about journals that were posted 5 years ago, show me something new). 

 

I bought 4 2080 supers just for covid (I got motivated!) and there is nothing more annoying than watching them be idle for hours at a time. Start, pause, start, pause, start, pause, etc. Instead, I did something that actually makes a difference, picked up a couple 3D printers and materials and joined a group to distribute them. 

You can donate one or two of those to me and I'll make sure to keep them busy.

[ssmmdd]

I have 7 running atm, 2 at my place (one with a compatible GPU), 4 at a different location and one dedicated server.

 

I have an 8th machine here that I'm gonna fire up with Linux (probably CentOS) and F@H later this week.

 

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[geokilla]

On 4/25/2020 at 7:26 PM, Unilevers said:

the babsitter script and advanced flag literally makes the client hassle free.  i havent been without a WU in weeks across 30 cards and 6 machines.

May you share the script and how to install it? My RX 570 spent the whole day idling today so I just uninstalled it.

[CWP]

7 minutes ago, geokilla said:

May you share the script and how to install it? My RX 570 spent the whole day idling today so I just uninstalled it.

You can find the babysitter thread here: 

 

[CWP]

 

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[FraktalU]

also running multiple clients, 5.

My gf´s rig & the surfdeck are folding 24/7. The Laptop too, exept I need to do work with TIA. They give a baseline about ~1.3mio ppd.

The main system is runing boinc or f@h over night and as often as my personal workloads allow it.

As for the system i lend to my best friend, he has been instructed to run f@h when he is not gaming...

 

until now didn´t bother with babysitter. Is runing pretty smooth, as I check it myself from time to time.

The only thing bothering me is when it get stuck over night and the retry timer lays in the hours...

[SGRacing]

8 hours ago, FraktalU said:

also running multiple clients, 5.

My gf´s rig & the surfdeck are folding 24/7. The Laptop too, exept I need to do work with TIA. They give a baseline about ~1.3mio ppd.

The main system is runing boinc or f@h over night and as often as my personal workloads allow it.

As for the system i lend to my best friend, he has been instructed to run f@h when he is not gaming...

 

until now didn´t bother with babysitter. Is runing pretty smooth, as I check it myself from time to time.

The only thing bothering me is when it get stuck over night and the retry timer lays in the hours...

I have my wife's computer folding now too but for some reason I can't get it to connect when I add it to the client list, apparently I'm missing something.

[FraktalU]

14 hours ago, SGRacing said:

I have my wife's computer folding now too but for some reason I can't get it to connect when I add it to the client list, apparently I'm missing something.

this guide helped me a lot

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q0Juqom6DFI&t=185s

[Gorgon]

@Den-Fi taught me their secret. I make a sacrifice to the Folding deity on a regular basis and am rewarded. Last night it was discovering a bad RAM module.

[Unilevers]

1 hour ago, Gorgon said:

@Den-Fi taught me their secret. I make a sacrifice to the Folding deity on a regular basis and am rewarded. Last night it was discovering a bad RAM module.

is that why it was only showing 4gigs on your open air frame?

[Bitter]

I'm feeling a drought as well, estimated PPD is down to just a hair over 1 mil, should be closer to 2 mil.  This isn't the kind of 'flattening the curve' I wanted.

 

[Gorgon]

3 hours ago, Unilevers said:

is that why it was only showing 4gigs on your open air frame?

Nope, I was moving RAM around. That rig now has 2 x 8GB DDR4-3200 so I can BOINC on 9 of the available threads