LTT Official Folding Month VI

[chmiaz]

Is there a database or google sheet of some kind that lays out what results are typical/average for a given piece of hardware? I'd like to make sure my cpu and gpu are running up to their full potential or at least at parity with what is typical. 

[Fluxmaven]

2 minutes ago, chmiaz said:

Is there a database or google sheet of some kind that lays out what results are typical/average for a given piece of hardware? I'd like to make sure my cpu and gpu are running up to their full potentia or at least at parity with what is typical. 

I usually reference this https://folding.lar.systems/

[Captainmarino]

2 minutes ago, chmiaz said:

Is there a database or google sheet of some kind that lays out what results are typical/average for a given piece of hardware? I'd like to make sure my cpu and gpu are running up to their full potentia or at least at parity with what is typical. 

https://folding.lar.systems/

 

There's pages for both GPU and CPU.

[TylerD321]

9 minutes ago, chmiaz said:

Is there a database or google sheet of some kind that lays out what results are typical/average for a given piece of hardware? I'd like to make sure my cpu and gpu are running up to their full potential or at least at parity with what is typical. 

All of the graphics cards I have seem to be running at like 75% of the ppd that I had been getting last I checked. I assume that it has to do with the influx of people folding due to the event. I suppose I’ll keep an eye on my projections these next several weeks!

[TylerD321]

@jakkuh_t @AlexTheGreatish Think you can talk Linus into doing a long term benchmark of his pool/server loop by participating in the event? Might be neat to plot pc temps against the weather (temperature outside) and see if or how much that affects cooling potential? Would be a fun way to make a video about folding and get another video out of that build haha

[Baha]

5 hours ago, Baha said:

Well, I ended up having an extremely regrettable hardware failure the very first day of the event -- turns out my boot SSD was from a faulty batch of Samsung drives that got soft recalled, and my Windows install bricked itself today!

I have it up and folding now, should be good to go.

... And then I see my 0 PPD in the daily blog, check the server that should also be running, and find out that the folding service failed out completely a few days ago after a month of running stable. Hhhhhh.

Well, I just got that restarted, and kicked on both of the laptops in my apartment to boot. I'm curious as to where I'll land on the leaderboard, if today's point totals hold up, I should get pretty far. Guess we'll see how much the false start kicks my butt long-term!

[dogwitch]

well that took me a while to figure out.

(flair in sig build)

keep shutting off...

i cleaned both gpus.

i did not even think and put them in different order.

1 of the fan cases on the gpu. is slight longer then the other one...

it keep the slot from being fully plug in.

took me a day to  figure out...

pc looks like it threw up. but no time to waste for folding.

 

[Baha]

12 minutes ago, TylerD321 said:

All of the graphics cards I have seem to be running at like 75% of the ppd that I had been getting last I checked. I assume that it has to do with the influx of people folding due to the event. I suppose I’ll keep an eye on my projections these next several weeks!

I've been seeing a lot of WU assignment failures on my box that has the highest end GPU in it today, which will likely decrease PPD on my end as well:
 

01:30:23:ERROR:WU01:FS02:Exception: Server did not assign work unit
01:30:23:ERROR:WU01:FS02:Exception: Server did not assign work unit
01:30:23:ERROR:WU01:FS02:Exception: Server did not assign work unit
01:30:23:ERROR:WU01:FS02:Exception: Server did not assign work unit

 

[dogwitch]

also check pass key. i had to make a new one.

old one was not working anymore.

[HoldSquat]

Aww man! Just joined the forum and missed the sign up for the event. Excited to fold with you all though! Good luck everyone with their power bills

[RollinLower]

1 hour ago, HoldSquat said:

Aww man! Just joined the forum and missed the sign up for the event. Excited to fold with you all though! Good luck everyone with their power bills

there are atleast 2 events evey year, with sometimes little sprint events in between. You are definitely welcome in the next ones!

[HoldSquat]

1 hour ago, RollinLower said:

there are atleast 2 events evey year, with sometimes little sprint events in between. You are definitely welcome in the next ones!

Oh I'll definitely fold then too! Thanks!

[dogwitch]

run a total of 4 or 6 wu . atm in 2 main machine.

knock on wood.

going to see what last machine finish wu. but it got a full 24 hour one.

[podkall]

Does this setting even do anything? It utilizes my CPU same no matter what I enter:

[podkall]

Or is utilization wrong value to look at when it comes to folding speed?

[Jacob_1999]

9 hours ago, Captainmarino said:

When my wife was pregnant with each of our three girls, we didn't find out the gender of any of them prior to birth. So as to not refer to any of them as "it", we would refer to each by a name that we would NEVER name a kid in real life. The first one was Oscar. The second was Snuffleupagus/Aloysius (that's Snuffy's actual first name!). And our third was called Grover 

 

P.S. No offense to any of you that may be named Oscar, Aloysius, Grover, or Snuffleupagus! WE didn't want to name any of our kids those names, but YOU are awesome and I love your name! 

We are expecting our second kid in february! for the first kid, we called her Bean Bunny, and the second is named French Fry - we also do not find out the gender haha it's so much more fun this way. 

[RollinLower]

1 hour ago, podkall said:

Or is utilization wrong value to look at when it comes to folding speed?

that number sets the threads you will utilize. If you are already running a WU, i don't think you can scale that back if a WU is in progress. so it will complete the WU with your previous settings before starting the next WU with the value you put in.

[Baha]

1 hour ago, podkall said:

Does this setting even do anything? It utilizes my CPU same no matter what I enter:

 

30 minutes ago, RollinLower said:

that number sets the threads you will utilize. If you are already running a WU, i don't think you can scale that back if a WU is in progress. so it will complete the WU with your previous settings before starting the next WU with the value you put in.

In addition to this, the UI around this setting is a bit confusing -- if you just enter a number of threads, then click "OK", it won't always save the value you put into the box. You need to enter a number, click somewhere in the window outside of the box to get it to set correctly (you'll see the down arrow next to the number fill in rather than remaining grayed out), then click "OK".

[NetoriusNick]

On 10/30/2023 at 2:40 AM, Alex Atkin UK said:

There's an unofficial Android app but drawback is it doesn't let you control individual slots.

there is also an unofficial iPhone app that does allow for individual control 

[Levent]

20 hours ago, TVwazhere said:

Very interesting. 

 

https://folding.extremeoverclocking.com/user_summary.php?s=&u=1300005

 

You should be at 2.5-3m PPD with those cards. Can you check to see their % usage and power draw via Afterburner or HWinfo?

Adding to this, I let both system run wild at maximum power limit for the last 20 hours, and this is what I got. I am honestly still clueless.

 

I got 150 wus now. I also just hit the 80% mark on bonus maybe that is the problem? If not I am not going to bother folding after this event. Identical system to mine would have gotten 3-4x more points.

 

[Captainmarino]

3 hours ago, Denning21 said:

We are expecting our second kid in february! for the first kid, we called her Bean Bunny, and the second is named French Fry - we also do not find out the gender haha it's so much more fun this way. 

Congratulations!

 

Love the names! LOL. On a slightly sadistic note, I love how it makes some people squirm when you tell them that you don't know what you're having

[Alex Atkin UK]

23 minutes ago, Levent said:

Adding to this, I let both system run wild at maximum power limit for the last 20 hours, and this is what I got. I am honestly still clueless.

 

I got 150 wus now. I also just hit the 80% mark on bonus maybe that is the problem? If not I am not going to bother folding after this event. Identical system to mine would have gotten 3-4x more points.

 

Its not registered a bonus yet.

[podkall]

3 hours ago, RollinLower said:

that number sets the threads you will utilize. If you are already running a WU, i don't think you can scale that back if a WU is in progress. so it will complete the WU with your previous settings before starting the next WU with the value you put in.

it does pause folding for a second if I change the value though

 

2 hours ago, Baha said:

In addition to this, the UI around this setting is a bit confusing -- if you just enter a number of threads, then click "OK", it won't always save the value you put into the box. You need to enter a number, click somewhere in the window outside of the box to get it to set correctly (you'll see the down arrow next to the number fill in rather than remaining grayed out), then click "OK".

I think they maybe fixed it because I didn't do that and it changed value and the folding paused for a second then continued, but maybe the WU is just locked for specific amount of cores to the setting as it was started

[Alex Atkin UK]

1 minute ago, podkall said:

it does pause folding for a second if I change the value though

 

I think they maybe fixed it because I didn't do that and it changed value and the folding paused for a second then continued, but maybe the WU is just locked for specific amount of cores to the setting as it was started

If the WU was using more cores than the new value I believe it gets dumped, but it may be using less cores than your new value so can just carry on.

 

Although I'm sure I've had them dumped before when I tried increasing the value, so I wonder if it depends on the WU itself or is just a random glitch?

[will0hlep]

1 hour ago, Alex Atkin UK said:

Its not registered a bonus yet.

That's a cool/useful link