LTT Official Folding Month 2020!!!

[Rybo]

44 minutes ago, Macaw2000 said:

 

I'm not sure how effective my folding will be mid-week. During the weekend, there were a handful of interruptions but now that the work week is here, the spot instances are largely unavailable. 

 

 

In the last folding contest, I saw very few interruptions. GPU cloud computing must have really taken off. 

 

&^#$&*(@#$

 

You reminded me to check up on my merc and he's been shut down.  The spot price is still under my bid, but I'm still getting a capcity_not_available on my spot request.  I'm assuming that means that everybody is using up all of the GPU instances, but I'd expect spot prices to increase if that's the case.  Maybe it's everybody using on demand or something?  

[Kilrah]

27 minutes ago, Intrinsic said:

I would hope so (see below). I was hoping, as a technical community, people would realize that some older high end hardware could be more powerful than more modern slower hardware. Rather than just thinking "it must be newer than ___ hardware . I was giving ___ hardware as a relative performance point people could compare against.

 

A GT1030 is about the same price as an RX550 but gives more PPD and costs less than half in electricity per million points.

For this application older hardware is very quickly eclipsed in efficiency.

[Guest]

 

HOORAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[NetoriusNick]

Dam

[LAR_Systems]

2 minutes ago, Den-Fi said:

 

HOORAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

BEAST!

[Kilrah]

@LAR_Systems I think there might be a slight calculation error, or I need to find me a 3090 ASAP 

 

 

https://folding.lar.systems/folding_data/gpu_ppd_datasheet?gpu_model=ga102_geforce_rtx_3090

 

BTW it would be nice if in points/kWh or cost/1M could be columns in the GPU list that we could sort by.

[Intrinsic]

Someone asked what the minimum hardware speed for this even was. I took a kick at the cat at providing the minimum hardware speed that would get you: 20 Days with activity AND 500,000 Points AND 40 WU in 30 days time. I wasn't trying to speak to: The best bang for the buck, the most power efficient, the oldest hardware you can fold on (this is already listed on the folding web page), and so on..

[DonGuano]

can't seem to crack continous 3m PPD with my gear

managed to do it once..

[Guest]

@TVwazhere Can we haz 10 billion badge so I have something to look forward to?

Idk why I picked you to ask, but I do feel like you know who to ask lol.

[Rybo]

1 minute ago, Den-Fi said:

@TVwazhere Can we haz 10 billion badge so I have something to look forward to?

Idk why I picked you to ask, but I do feel like you know who to ask lol.

Just start a new folding account and see how fast you can get diamond again.  

[TVwazhere]

3 minutes ago, Den-Fi said:

@TVwazhere Can we haz 10 billion badge so I have something to look forward to?

Idk why I picked you to ask, but I do feel like you know who to ask lol.

Well, it's actually up to team leader to the best of my knowledge. 

 

I still think Mythic should have been like 2.5Billion to keep with the Exponential (logarithmic?) nature of points between each badge. (1m-25m, 25m-100m) (100m-500m) (500m-2 or 2.5B)

[LAR_Systems]

12 minutes ago, Kilrah said:

@LAR_Systems I think there might be a slight calculation error, or I need to find me a 3090 ASAP 

 

 

https://folding.lar.systems/folding_data/gpu_ppd_datasheet?gpu_model=ga102_geforce_rtx_3090

 

BTW it would be nice if in points/kWh or cost/1M could be columns in the GPU list that we could sort by.

In F@H, GPU PAYS YOU!

 

I will give it a look, it's only the 3090 doing it... so probably need to adjust for spatulas or something... 

[Guest]

2 minutes ago, TVwazhere said:

Well, it's actually up to team leader to the best of my knowledge. 

 

I still think Mythic should have been like 2.5Billion to keep with the Exponential (logarithmic?) nature of points between each badge. (1m-25m, 25m-100m) (100m-500m) (500m-2 or 2.5B)

Oh. Well he hates me, so I guess I'm not getting a 10B badge.

[GOTSpectrum]

5 minutes ago, Den-Fi said:

@TVwazhere Can we haz 10 billion badge so I have something to look forward to?

Idk why I picked you to ask, but I do feel like you know who to ask lol.

 

2 minutes ago, TVwazhere said:

Well, it's actually up to team leader to the best of my knowledge. 

 

I still think Mythic should have been like 2.5Billion to keep with the Exponential (logarithmic?) nature of points between each badge. (1m-25m, 25m-100m) (100m-500m) (500m-2 or 2.5B)

We have no current plans to add any other badges due to the limited number of diamond/mythic badges currently in circulation. 

 

If you want more badges you need to get more people up to the diamond level.  

[marknd59]

3 minutes ago, TVwazhere said:

 

I still think Mythic should have been like 2.5Billion to keep with the Exponential (logarithmic?) nature of points between each badge. (1m-25m, 25m-100m) (100m-500m) (500m-2 or 2.5B)

Can you please wait until after I get my Mythic badge before you start to change thing. 

[Macaw2000]

27 minutes ago, Rybo said:

&^#$&*(@#$

 

You reminded me to check up on my merc and he's been shut down.  The spot price is still under my bid, but I'm still getting a capcity_not_available on my spot request.  I'm assuming that means that everybody is using up all of the GPU instances, but I'd expect spot prices to increase if that's the case.  Maybe it's everybody using on demand or something?  

I haven't entirely figured out how pricing works. Price scales with demand but then at some point the spot instances just become entirely unavailable. I assume On-Demand, RIs, and others all get priority and the spot instances are killed. Right now I see instances running nicely in Ireland and Paris but impossible to launch anywhere in the US. I assume that will change after business hours.

[LAR_Systems]

4 minutes ago, GOTSpectrum said:

 

We have no current plans to add any other badges due to the limited number of diamond/mythic badges currently in circulation. 

 

If you want more badges you need to get more people up to the diamond level.  

I like this mindset... it's F@H multi-level marketing.

He needs to define a downline of folders to get diamond so he can ascend to Double Secret Diamond level... a level so exclusive we don't even show it on your profile.

PS: Next badge should be at 175 Billion..  Bezos level.

[Guest]

4 minutes ago, GOTSpectrum said:

 

We have no current plans to add any other badges due to the limited number of diamond/mythic badges currently in circulation. 

 

If you want more badges you need to get more people up to the diamond level.  

BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO.

Imma go fold for EVGA.

They care about me.

[LAR_Systems]

Just now, Den-Fi said:

BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO.

Imma go fold for EVGA.

They care about me.

Brands are not your friends.

This PSA brought to you by, LTTSTORE.COM

[GOTSpectrum]

6 minutes ago, TVwazhere said:

I still think Mythic should have been like 2.5Billion to keep with the Exponential (logarithmic?) nature of points between each badge. (1m-25m, 25m-100m) (100m-500m) (500m-2 or 2.5B)

I think, although I don't know 100% as it was some time ago that originally it was up in the air on wat the point value should be, but between talking to members and looking at the user table (there were only around 5-10 people who actually has one billion points or more) 2.5 was considered but there was only 2 members with that value or higher without many looing like they would hit it in the near-term. Which going of the fact that we are only at 26 people with over 1 billion as of now, I feel the right decision was made. 

 

Just as an interesting point, if it was 2.5 then there would only be 5 people who qualify for the badge as of now, which I feel is a little too exclusive and would feel unobtainable for many folders. 

[Guest]

Just now, LAR_Systems said:

Brands are not your friends.

This PSA brought to you by, LTTSTORE.COM

EVGA is not a brand, it's a family.

[LAR_Systems]

1 minute ago, GOTSpectrum said:

I think, although I don't know 100% as it was some time ago that originally it was up in the air on wat the point value should be, but between talking to members and looking at the user table (there were only around 5-10 people who actually has one billion points or more) 2.5 was considered but there was only 2 members with that value or higher without many looing like they would hit it in the near-term. Which going of the fact that we are only at 26 people with over 1 billion as of now, I feel the right decision was made. 

 

Just as an interesting point, if it was 2.5 then there would only be 5 people who qualify for the badge as of now, which I feel is a little too exclusive and would feel unobtainable for many folders. 

Also this decision was made pre CUDA update and single cards that can do 5.5 million PPD in a day.   No one was seeing that on the horizon at the time.

[LAR_Systems]

1 minute ago, Den-Fi said:

EVGA is not a brand, it's a family.

Poor Den-Fi... we have already lost him to the brand managers

 

[Guest]

2 minutes ago, GOTSpectrum said:

Just as an interesting point, if it was 2.5 then there would only be 5 people who qualify for the badge as of now, which I feel is a little too exclusive and would feel unobtainable for many folders. 

You know what else is unobtainable? Things that don't exist.

[Guest]

Just now, LAR_Systems said:

Poor Den-Fi... we have already lost him to the brand managers

 

The free GPUs helped.