Summer Folding sprint 2022 - Part One

[GOTSpectrum]

I remember when a million PPD got you in the top 5... those were the days...

 

 

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Just kidding, I love to see all you guys pushing hard

 

[BondiBlue]

4 minutes ago, GOTSpectrum said:

I remember when a million PPD got you in the top 5... those were the days...

 

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Just kidding, I love to see all you guys pushing hard

 

I remember the days when it took me about a year to get one million points at all. The Core 2 Duo that did all that work is still in use all these years later.

 

I don't know why it feels like so long ago. I started folding in 2016, but it feels like it's been longer than that. 

[GOTSpectrum]

2 minutes ago, BondiBlue said:

I remember the days when it took me about a year to get one million points at all. The Core 2 Duo that did all that work is still in use all these years later.

 

I don't know why it feels like so long ago. I started folding in 2016, but it feels like it's been longer than that. 

technology tends to have that effect... we have come so far, so fast 

[BondiBlue]

Just now, GOTSpectrum said:

technology tends to have that effect... we have come so far, so fast 

Yep. My 1660 Ti gets more points in one day than my old C2D could get in a year, and the 3080 I've been using for this week gets almost 6x the points of the 1660 Ti. Hell, even my laptop gets well over 100K PPD, and that's running Folding@home though Rosetta on Apple Silicon (M1 Max). I love the progress when it comes to the competition part of folding. 

[Baha]

44 minutes ago, BondiBlue said:

Yep. My 1660 Ti gets more points in one day than my old C2D could get in a year, and the 3080 I've been using for this week gets almost 6x the points of the 1660 Ti. Hell, even my laptop gets well over 100K PPD, and that's running Folding@home though Rosetta on Apple Silicon (M1 Max). I love the progress when it comes to the competition part of folding. 

Thinking on it, that's wild. I remember my mind being blown back when I got a laptop with a 670mx built in, because I had a portable machine that could break 100k PPD. 6 figures of PPD with only 150W! Now the CPU cores alone on a 50W chip can break 100k when running through a translation layer. Crazy.

[GOTSpectrum]

4 minutes ago, Baha said:

Thinking on it, that's wild. I remember my mind being blown back when I got a laptop with a 670mx built in, because I had a portable machine that could break 100k PPD. 6 figures of PPD with only 150W! Now the CPU cores alone on a 50W chip can break 100k when running through a translation layer. Crazy.

I think my first omg moment was going from a GT 460 to a GTX 980ti... it was such an insane jump 

[GOTSpectrum]

Blog timeeeeee

 

 

 

[Baha]

23 minutes ago, GOTSpectrum said:

I think my first omg moment was going from a GT 460 to a GTX 980ti... it was such an insane jump 

A 460 to a 980ti is an absolutely bonkers jump! That's a good 4 hardware generations, probably a good 500-600% performance improvement! I had a similar moment jumping from a 6870 to a 1080 on my desktop -- but I did have the aforementioned laptop to hold me over.

 

I don't seem to have the self restraint to wait quite that long to upgrade these days, but those kinds of jumps were so big they would totally redefine the experience you get from your card.

[dogwitch]

4 hours ago, Baha said:

A 460 to a 980ti is an absolutely bonkers jump! That's a good 4 hardware generations, probably a good 500-600% performance improvement! I had a similar moment jumping from a 6870 to a 1080 on my desktop -- but I did have the aforementioned laptop to hold me over.

 

I don't seem to have the self restraint to wait quite that long to upgrade these days, but those kinds of jumps were so big they would totally redefine the experience you get from your card.

want to know a bonkers jump

gts 250 to dual 2080s....

 

just check my 3 card rig... psu not working correctly... but am going to sleep now.

[TVwazhere]

On 6/8/2022 at 10:42 AM, TVwazhere said:

*me slipping into 21st place and calling a certain someone to enlist folding help*

On 6/8/2022 at 5:16 PM, dogwitch said:

don't do it bro.... its not worth it...

On 6/8/2022 at 7:37 PM, cbigfoot said:

 I will say that someone will hit 200M tomorrow and @TVwazhere apparently was told no help to be had.  or please hold and they forgot to get back to him yet...

On 6/8/2022 at 8:12 PM, justpoet said:

Why you have to go and call out @TVwazhere's credit card like that?

On 6/8/2022 at 9:28 PM, cbigfoot said:

it seemed he was calling Mando but there is no change from his norm...now watch him jump 7 places tomorrow....

Update: Dad said no.

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Actually I had to turn him down because..... Well IDK exactly, a weird sense of personals accomplishment, I guess?

[Shlouski]

12 hours ago, cbigfoot said:

lol do you really need that much power.

 

Absolutely, I will let you know why as soon as I have thought up a plausible explanation. 

 

12 hours ago, cbigfoot said:

i just ordered a new Ride that don't require dinosaurs

 

 

Awesome I hope you enjoy it, what are you getting?

 

10 hours ago, Gorgon said:

The first step is to admit you have a problem ...

 

I am the problem

[cbigfoot]

13 hours ago, Shlouski said:

 

Awesome I hope you enjoy it, what are you getting?

 

 

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[RollinLower]

16 minutes ago, cbigfoot said:

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noice! i drove one of those for work for a little while. acceleration is unreal compared to gasoline. be carefull putting your foot down

[RollinLower]

so close to 10M PPD!

i know i can do it, i might just have to get my main PC folding aswell....

so close too!

[cbigfoot]

4 hours ago, RollinLower said:

so close to 10M PPD!

i know i can do it, i might just have to get my main PC folding aswell....

so close too!

Well Get to it...just a reminder we have a whopping 48 Hrs till the event ends.  

[cbigfoot]

Point Validation Complete.  @GOTSpectrum will get the Post done when he can...maybe in a few hrs. maybe in the morn...on another note No hard feelings @vsteelbut i have my sights set on the single digits... ...Thanks @ShlouskiFor slowing down.

[dogwitch]

concerning issue(thunderstorms this week and random times)

psu which am going to test in just a bit. it goes on, then shuts right off.

5 port gb switch  said computer was connected to is only running at 10mb now....(which also i will tinker with )

am hopping gpus/mobo did not get damage .....

 

[Mxyzptlk]

On 6/9/2022 at 5:05 PM, Shlouski said:

 

Damn, I don't know how to break this to you so I will come right out and say it, these arrived today and should be on tomorrow morning. 

 

 

Maybe more points will solve the issue

I keep looking at 3xxx cards and the prices edging down and down…. But then I remind myself to save the money for the 4xxx cards.  

[BondiBlue]

After my crazy day yesterday it looks like I've hit a rough spot. I've only been able to get three of my GPUs to fold today (GTX 1660 Ti, RTX 3080, and one RX 570). I just got the second 570 back up and running, so there's another 400K-500K points in the next day or so. A new card might be arriving in the mail tomorrow, and if it does it might be able to get me a few more points by the end of the event. 

[vsteel]

3 hours ago, cbigfoot said:

on another note No hard feelings @vsteelbut i have my sights set on the single digits... 

Single digits were in my grasp for a little bit.   Let me just lie here and collect my thoughts......

[Gorgon]

3 hours ago, Mxyzptlk said:

I keep looking at 3xxx cards and the prices edging down and down…. But then I remind myself to save the money for the 4xxx cards.  

I’m slowly coming to the conclusion that the 3000-series are more of just a small incremental improvement over the 2000-series. Yes, they are faster but at some serious increases in power and price so the increases just aren’t there in efficiency and value.

[Baha]

1 hour ago, Gorgon said:

I’m slowly coming to the conclusion that the 3000-series are more of just a small incremental improvement over the 2000-series. Yes, they are faster but at some serious increases in power and price so the increases just aren’t there in efficiency and value.

I've been pretty surprised at how far the 3000 series cards can be wrangled compared to out of the box efficiency -- I can cut my 3080's power by 22% and drop virtually no performance -- but seeing what you've gotten up to, I'm sure you're aware of that.  They really push the higher end chips far beyond the efficiency curve.

 

That being said, the 3000 series definitely still seems out of whack compared to pretty much anything I've personally known since the GTX 400 series. I'm hoping that's because of the move to Samsung's manufacturing node, since Nvidia will presumably move back to TSMC at some point.

 

As someone who really likes powerful small form factor PCs, I'm a bit worried about the rumors swirling about for the 4000 series as well. Really hoping we don't continue to balloon up to 500-600W graphics cards.

[dogwitch]

slight update. got gb switch that was feeding pcs for folding. back up and running. correctly.

now onto working on triple gpu pc.... psu

[GOTSpectrum]

 

bit if a half arsed blog cause i'm running late. 

[NetoriusNick]

1 hour ago, GOTSpectrum said:

 

bit if a half arsed blog cause i'm running late. 

still appreciate the effort