LTT Official Folding Month V (2022)

[BiotechBen]

1 minute ago, GOTSpectrum said:

I was under the impression that the x70 was a cut down die to some small degree

fair, the 470 is an imperfect 480. the card I have from xfx is their top bin (didnt know this when I got it, just needed a reference blower design)

[GOTSpectrum]

@Gorgon I feel like a dummy, how do I remote access, I feel like I've done everything right, set the allowed IP to access the remote, targeted the IP of the remote device, allowed it through windows firewall... 

 

I used the right password to connect...

 

Can't think of anything else 

[BiotechBen]

13 minutes ago, GOTSpectrum said:

@Gorgon I feel like a dummy, how do I remote access, I feel like I've done everything right, set the allowed IP to access the remote, targeted the IP of the remote device, allowed it through windows firewall... 

 

I used the right password to connect...

 

Can't think of anything else 

Is the port forwarding configured correctly? That's what always seems to be the problem for me when anything remote access doesn't work and I can't figure out why.

[GOTSpectrum]

6 minutes ago, BiotechBen said:

Is the port forwarding configured correctly? That's what always seems to be the problem for me when anything remote access doesn't work and I can't figure out why.

I made the most simple of errors... forgot to restart the folding server lmfao 

[BiotechBen]

Just now, GOTSpectrum said:

I made the most simple of errors... forgot to restart the folding server lmfao 

See, nothing works until someone else comes along

[GOTSpectrum]

I'm thinking about auctioning off my signed 1080 after folding month, I need to raise some funds for the media company and it seems like something that could sell well... I dunno 

[cbigfoot]

Well Bender is Up and running again...now to work on calculon and Leela and Omicron and Scooty Puff ...

 

oh and i have to get my monitoring set up again...i may have rebuilt iZac and hes not on windows anymore...i guess bender will monitor my other computers...

[GOTSpectrum]

1 minute ago, cbigfoot said:

Well Bender is Up and running again...now to work on calculon and Flexo and Omicron and 

It's nice to see everyone spinning up early!

[Alex Atkin UK]

Now were cooking:

 

Apparently the problem with my monitoring script hanging was something to do with how FAHClient rejects connections (or this case doesn't it seems, it just hangs) if you have the IP range wrong and I'd forgotten to change my IP range in one client (had to change it due a subnet clash recently).

[Shlouski]

18 hours ago, Gorgon said:

If your power or clock-limiting the GPUs you can also get away with much smaller Power Supplies as well

 

I just worry about cards suddenly reverting to stock configs for whatever reason while continuing to fold, it's rare but I have seen it happen, I think it occurs when drivers crash and then are reinitialized.

 

A 650w or 750w would likely be running close to its limit with just 2 3070's at stock as they could to pulling 500 watts combined, so I prefer to use Psu's that could run my cards at stock even though I'm planning to underclock them.

 

 

Today I ordered some new parts in the hope I can get another system running 5 gpu's, this would mean I can run one system instead of 5, and hopefully saving 200w to 400w.

 

I bought another Gigabyte X570S UD motherboard, this is the same board I'm using in my current 5 gpu build, better the devil you know.

 

I bought 4 Tempest Riser Cables PCI-e x16 3.0 20cm at 40% off, hopefully they can do the job.

 

They look ok:

From my experience I know bifurcation will only work properly on the Gigabyte X570S UD when it is paired with a gen 3 Ryzen, unfortunately I don't have any spare gen 3 cpu's hanging around.

 

I went to ebay and found 3100's being sold close to 100 euros secondhand, and the cheapest new gen 3 I found in my area was the 3600 for 130 euros, meh. I did notice that the 5500 was on a 35% discount down to 110 euros so I bought it, the plan being to replace my system with a 3500x with this cpu and use the 3500x for the 5 gpu build.

 

I bought this bifurcated riser, hopefully it works:

 

 

My plan is to mount the system on a spare mining rack I've got. Connect this bifurcated riser to the motherboard using a riser extension cable so it can be turned horizontally, and then use the new I riser extension cables plus a few I already have to connect the gpu's. 

[Shlouski]

5 hours ago, GOTSpectrum said:

I would love to do a bunch of research into folding rates at various wattages, core counts, clocks ect

 

Tell you what.

 

I will put 5 different gpu's into my system and let you remote in, then you can fine tune them for me 

[GOTSpectrum]

1 minute ago, Shlouski said:

 

Tell you what.

 

I will put 5 different gpu's into my system and let you remote in, then you can fine tune them for me 

I'm sure you would love to have me playing with your ahem system

[Alex Atkin UK]

1 hour ago, GOTSpectrum said:

I'm sure you would love to have me playing with your ahem system

Time to move this "discussion" to private messages?

[BondiBlue]

Hmm, I think I'm getting excited for folding month. I just picked up a cheap RX 580 8GB to add to my mix of random folding cards. It's an ex-mining card, but it's in good condition and I'll mostly be using it for folding. 

 

Once that card arrives I'll have a total of 8 GPUs ready to go for folding month, including a GTX 1080, two RX 570s, one RX 580, a GTX 1660 Ti, a Quadro M4000, a Quadro P4000 and a Quadro P620. I don't plan on doing any CPU folding this time though.

[BiotechBen]

7 minutes ago, BondiBlue said:

Hmm, I think I'm getting excited for folding month. I just picked up a cheap RX 580 8GB to add to my mix of random folding cards. It's an ex-mining card, but it's in good condition and I'll mostly be using it for folding. 

 

Once that card arrives I'll have a total of 8 GPUs ready to go for folding month, including a GTX 1080, two RX 570s, one RX 580, a GTX 1660 Ti, a Quadro M4000, a Quadro P4000 and a Quadro P620. I don't plan on doing any CPU folding this time though.

I'm considering dropping the CPU folding, it's been a rollercoaster of performance, some folds it chews through like a woodchuck, some folds are a sloth, and there doesn't seem to be a strong correlation other than "Cancer bad". If I could tell F@H to do only influenza and "unknown" folds on CPU, and "anything it wants" for GPU: I'd be set.

[BondiBlue]

8 minutes ago, BiotechBen said:

I'm considering dropping the CPU folding, it's been a rollercoaster of performance, some folds it chews through like a woodchuck, some folds are a sloth, and there doesn't seem to be a strong correlation other than "Cancer bad". If I could tell F@H to do only influenza and "unknown" folds on CPU, and "anything it wants" for GPU: I'd be set.

The only time I ever do CPU folding these days is on a couple machines that don't have dGPUs (or have dGPUs that aren't supported by F@h). It's been more than 5 years since I stopped doing CPU folding with a GPU in the same system. The performance suffers too much. 

[RollinLower]

spun up the 6900XT last night to see how she goes. Right now i'm looking at around 5M PPD under windows, which is not too bad i guess. Does anyone here have a general F@H AMD guide for 6xxx cards? i feel like i could optimize even further but i really only run Nvidia under Linux usually.

 

should i just undervolt / overclock?

[GOTSpectrum]

 

It's nice to be back, just testing various hardware atm so will be all over the place most likely 

[Lightwreather]

Question:

Do GRID Drivers affect F@H performance in a meaningful way?

Planning to spin up a VM on Gcloud this time, and it's an intriguing option.

[GOTSpectrum]

2 minutes ago, Lightwreather JfromN said:

Question:

Do GRID Drivers affect F@H performance in a meaningful way?

Planning to spin up a VM on Gcloud this time, and it's an intriguing option.

I don't think folding at home has GRID support... I could be wrong though 

 

afaik they don't even have tesla support, unless that changed 

[dogwitch]

12 hours ago, BondiBlue said:

The only time I ever do CPU folding these days is on a couple machines that don't have dGPUs (or have dGPUs that aren't supported by F@h). It's been more than 5 years since I stopped doing CPU folding with a GPU in the same system. The performance suffers too much. 

its 50/50% you will get a decent cpu wu.

i not bee lucky thru

[RollinLower]

2 hours ago, GOTSpectrum said:

I don't think folding at home has GRID support... I could be wrong though 

 

afaik they don't even have tesla support, unless that changed 

True, i have a Nvidia Grid K2 laying on my desk i used to run in my main F@H server. It is working on F@H, but it definitely is a bitch to setup.

 

If you look in the GPUs.txt here: https://apps.foldingathome.org/GPUs.txt

there are multiple grid cards in there.

[GOTSpectrum]

1 minute ago, RollinLower said:

True, i have a Nvidia Grid K2 laying on my desk i used to run in my main F@H server. It is working on F@H, but it definitely is a bitch to setup.

 

If you look in the GPUs.txt here: https://apps.foldingathome.org/GPUs.txt

there are multiple grid cards in there.

good to know 

[Sequence211]

I really want to join this year too, Will be my fourth year in a row, 5 if i count 2018 where I entered too late to get the badge, but participated anyway.

However I don't know if i can fulfill the requirements due to very high electricity costs in Europe this winter.
But I will see if I can get something up and running, and really hope to complete this event too.

[GuiltySpark_]

Going to give it a go for the first time in many years. I did this on and off for team [H] about a decade ago it feels like but have been out of it since then. 

5800x/RX6600

7900x/3090

 

I'm opening the windows and relying on PC's for heat, lets go!