Summer Folding Sprint of 2020

[cbigfoot]

6 minutes ago, LAR_Systems said:

Gaming during an event... *shakes head*

hey i HAVE to got my KSP time in or i will go CRAZY...

[rodarkone]

Hmm .. @Zberg I thought F@H is well optimised not to consume resources when other programs are running, I am never stop F@H while I game and I don't see a difference (maybe is based on the game) 

[cbigfoot]

6 minutes ago, rodarkone said:

Hmm .. @Zberg I thought F@H is well optimised not to consume resources when other programs are running, I am never stop F@H while I game and I don't see a difference (maybe is based on the game) 

in the PERFECT world it is...this world is far from perfect lol

[LAR_Systems]

17 minutes ago, rodarkone said:

Hmm .. @Zberg I thought F@H is well optimised not to consume resources when other programs are running, I am never stop F@H while I game and I don't see a difference (maybe is based on the game) 

There is a PPD impact on the GPU, big or small depending on the game, how much VRAM is uses and you have etc. even if small it's there and if the game you are playing is CPU heavy, that can choke the GPU and drop PPD that way.

I can monitor PPD production and watch it drop watching a YouTube video... hell, a bunch of us proved there was a tiny impact from animated GIFs in browsers.  

If it's on screen and moving it's running the 3D mode of the video card (in windows 10 anyways)... PPD is highest when your screens have turned off and GPU can just go Burr.

[LAR_Systems]

32 minutes ago, cbigfoot said:

hey i HAVE to got my KSP time in or i will go CRAZY...

I have not played KSP this week... probably saved a lot of Kerman lives as a result

[cbigfoot]

1 minute ago, LAR_Systems said:

I have not played KSP this week... probably saved a lot of Kerman lives as a result

i killed ~20 Mechjebs but did successfully launch 10 satelites lol 10/30 not too bad when you doing crazy stuff with it. most where ruds as was not sober when playing and didnt check staging lol...had SRBs hit the VAB like a missle thou...once on purpose...

[LAR_Systems]

1 minute ago, cbigfoot said:

i killed ~20 Mechjebs but did successfully launch 10 satelites lol 10/30 not too bad when you doing crazy stuff with it. most where ruds as was not sober when playing and didnt check staging lol...had SRBs hit the VAB like a missle thou...once on purpose...

Launching drunk... just like the Apollo era Astronauts

[Zberg]

37 minutes ago, rodarkone said:

Hmm .. @Zberg I thought F@H is well optimised not to consume resources when other programs are running, I am never stop F@H while I game and I don't see a difference (maybe is based on the game) 

Depends on game.  Doom eternal very well optimized so can still play with good rates, but PPD drops to about half when I play.  I play some lighter games that dont affect it, but recently ive been just wanting to finish that one.  Ill never catch @cbigfoot at that rate!

[rodarkone]

PPD drop is better than stopping the client  as long as the game is still playable

[cbigfoot]

1 minute ago, rodarkone said:

PPD drop is better than stopping the client  as long as the game is still playable

on my lsptop i stop the client due to thermals lol...my desktops can keep rocking but yeah

[RollinLower]

somehow still in 13th? thats good enough for me!

[Jake_Fisher]

Well...I'm aiming to stay in the top 100 by the time this is over. *FINGERS AND EVERYTHING ELSE CROSSED* 24/7 folding is fun! Maybe I should OC a bit juuuuust to make sure. Or inject some NOS. NOS works on everything, right guys? Right?

[RollinLower]

Just now, Jake_Fisher said:

Well...I'm aiming to stay in the top 100 by the time this is over. *FINGERS AND EVERYTHING ELSE CROSSED* 24/7 folding is fun! Maybe I should OC a bit juuuuust to make sure. Or inject some NOS. NOS works on everything, right guys? Right?

to be honest injecting NOS directly into the finstack of the GPU would probably cool it down a lot. meaning you could clock higher.

so yes, NOS would work!

[chaozbandit]

2 minutes ago, RollinLower said:

to be honest injecting NOS directly into the finstack of the GPU would probably cool it down a lot. meaning you could clock higher.

so yes, NOS would work!

By the time you buy several 2lb bottles of nos, you could have bought another gpu!

[Jake_Fisher]

1 minute ago, RollinLower said:

to be honest injecting NOS directly into the finstack of the GPU would probably cool it down a lot. meaning you could clock higher.

so yes, NOS would work!

AWESOME!! Now I need what....3,000 tanks of NOS to keep it constant?  I have no real knowledge about NOS. Just passing knowledge about more oxygen, burning hotter, cylinders firing faster. That's about it. I'd rather build computers than cars. 

[OIIOOIOI]

4 hours ago, chaozbandit said:

 

Agreed. My vega 64 hasn't seen over 1m ppd since p14201 ran dry 2 days ago.

cause this project is mine all mine 3:)

[Macaw2000]

Some observations from folding in the cloud...

 

As many of you know, I fold entirely in the cloud. I've evolved my software to scour the planet for the cheapest GPU instances and grab them on the spot market. When the price is cheap, my software will spin up to 10 GPU containers on g4dn.xlarge and commence folding. What I've discovered this week is how dynamic the market can be.

 

It's been a nice exercise in Infrasctructure As Code, software development, DevOps, and git.

 

Mumbai is a complete tease. Crazy cheap GPU instances that last for a couple hours then get interrupted. There must be some big customer workloads that run a few times a day and interrupt the spot market.

 

Canada has been steady eddy. I suspect there is more capacity than demand in Canada. It's not the very cheapest but was never interrupted.

 

West coast was a mixed bag. Ran about 85% of the time uninterrupted and at a good rate.

 

After the contest, I'm dedicating most of my GPU budget back to my crazy moonshot project. Real-time deep fakes at high quality. Would anyone be interested in a livestream of how to cloud fold or do deep fakes or other interesting cloud stuff? Gauging interest. My daughter is a professional twitch streamer so I'm sure she can get me started.

[OIIOOIOI]

btw while Gaming, i pause the Vega and the cpu in Advanced client ( or set down CPU to 2 or so, depending on Game ) let the RTX crunch while Gaming and after Game fire up the Vega again... best gaming performance and still crunching

[LAR_Systems]

11 minutes ago, Macaw2000 said:

Some observations from folding in the cloud...

 

As many of you know, I fold entirely in the cloud. I've evolved my software to scour the planet for the cheapest GPU instances and grab them on the spot market. When the price is cheap, my software will spin up to 10 GPU containers on g4dn.xlarge and commence folding. What I've discovered this week is how dynamic the market can be.

 

It's been a nice exercise in Infrasctructure As Code, software development, DevOps, and git.

 

Mumbai is a complete tease. Crazy cheap GPU instances that last for a couple hours then get interrupted. There must be some big customer workloads that run a few times a day and interrupt the spot market.

 

Canada has been steady eddy. I suspect there is more capacity than demand in Canada. It's not the very cheapest but was never interrupted.

 

West coast was a mixed bag. Ran about 85% of the time uninterrupted and at a good rate.

 

After the contest, I'm dedicating most of my GPU budget back to my crazy moonshot project. Real-time deep fakes at high quality. Would anyone be interested in a livestream of how to cloud fold or do deep fakes or other interesting cloud stuff? Gauging interest. My daughter is a professional twitch streamer so I'm sure she can get me started.

I would love to see a stream or video on the automatic cloud instance / scaling for folding.

And Canadian data centers are more cost effective as we just open the windows for most the year to cool

[LAR_Systems]

I have now reached the point in the event where most of my cases have various panels removed and drinking liquids in my office is very sketchy.

[LAR_Systems]

The song of the day meets the RGB for greater FPS and heat theme required for Folding.
 

 

[cbigfoot]

4 hours ago, LAR_Systems said:

Launching drunk... just like the Apollo era Astronauts

well sober Kerbal is easy lol...drunk/buzzed makes it challenging...

[MISTERDIEABETIC]

Go figure that on the 2nd to last day, I'm getting shit for points. And I've got no clue why my points were so damn low early this morning!

And my current GPU fold shows I'm only set to get 1,100,000 PPD which is about 700k lower than usual. 

 

Guess today just isn't my day

[LAR_Systems]

1 hour ago, MISTERDIEABETIC said:

Go figure that on the 2nd to last day, I'm getting shit for points. And I've got no clue why my points were so damn low early this morning!

And my current GPU fold shows I'm only set to get 1,100,000 PPD which is about 700k lower than usual. 

 

Guess today just isn't my day

It’s the new WUs that start with 17... they are brutal for ppd

[GOTSpectrum]

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