Folding Community Board

[Captainmarino]

5 minutes ago, TVwazhere said:

Two Billion

Congratulations! That's awesome. Thanks for all the work.

[jctappel67]

The prices came down, and the temptation was too great. Just purchased an MSI RTX 3070 TI Gaming X Trio.

 

My wallet is empty, but my heart is full. Isn't that what really matters?

 

Now I just need to figure out if I'll keep the 2070S running. My room gets hot enough as it is.

[cbigfoot]

just thought I would pop by and say hi I haven't forgotten about yall just busy mining for $. 

[LAR_Systems]

New Beta GUI felt cute, don't know, might delete later. 

 

[IkeaGnome]

1 hour ago, LAR_Systems said:

New Beta GUI felt cute, don't know, might delete make it the release GUI later.

FTFY. This looks like a massive modernization of the current GUI and looks amazing!

[justpoet]

3 hours ago, LAR_Systems said:

New Beta GUI felt cute, don't know, might delete later. 

Looks great.  Would be cool to put a ranking of the user within the team, not just overall, as well as the rank amongst teams of the team.

[rkv_2401]

1 hour ago, justpoet said:

Looks great.  Would be cool to put a ranking of the user within the team, not just overall, as well as the rank amongst teams of the team.

Yeah, that would be a useful data point. Currently we need to visit 2 websites to see that

[Captainmarino]

5 hours ago, LAR_Systems said:

New Beta GUI felt cute, don't know, might delete later. 

 

Love it! I like the iconography, rankings, and especially the color palette. I'm always partial to green/blue. Great work!

[NetoriusNick]

12 hours ago, LAR_Systems said:

New Beta GUI felt cute, don't know, might delete later. 

 

think you covered this before but currently there is no way to see this for remote machines is there

[jctappel67]

On 4/12/2022 at 3:38 PM, LAR_Systems said:

New Beta GUI felt cute, don't know, might delete later. 

 

May be a bit of a big ask, but can we get this extension in Firefox? Would be super cool.

Edited April 14, 2022 by jctappel67
To correct a mentally-deficient spelling error

[dogwitch]

1 hour ago, jctappel67 said:

May be a bit of an big ask, but can we get this extension in Firefox? Would be super cool.

i to would love that

[rkv_2401]

I use Firefox as my primary browser, but I don't mind having one Edge window with LARSystems' folding web client open for data collection! (That's the only thing I use Edge for, LOL)

[LAR_Systems]

14 hours ago, jctappel67 said:

May be a bit of a big ask, but can we get this extension in Firefox? Would be super cool.

Can't do it, I have tried.

 

Firefox sandboxes the Extensions in such a way the browser can not communicate with the local folding@home client service (in party because it runs insecure on HTTP) URL required to get the folding clients API stream.

 

The best I could do in their sandbox is drop CSS/JS on top of their HTML (running 2X the resources) and read the values they write to the HTML and try to parse them to send the DB data.   Kind of pointless to the user, as it's just the same default broken UI with dark tones.

 

On Chrome / Chromium / Edge I can replace their HTML completely and in the latest update, replacing their code with an LAR version that provides more features than the default client and far more than what I can do in Firefox to make it worth doing that.

 

I'm more about the user experience and fixing/improving the folding client than I am just about feeding the DB, I want something useful that looks good in my own browser and yours with information and utility.

 

Showing a responsive modern UI, (trying to add accessibility) skins, system and slot averages for more accurate folding information for users / DB and what I'm wrapping up now... Time of Use fold scheduling to enable folders that want to not go broke on power to use off peak times to fold only, then auto finish otherwise is my highest priorities and hopefully make using Edge or Chrome worth it.

 

Time Shift / Time of Use Alpha (Testing GUI)

 

That all said, I'm exploring what can be done with Python or .NET core to run a local package for users that are headless or want to load things up in any browser they like... but that has been back burnered due to the need for the Chrome Extension needing to be updated to the latest Google publishing standards... and I only have so many hours to maintain the extension and database site.

 

 

[LAR_Systems]

On 4/12/2022 at 10:03 PM, rkv_2401 said:

Yeah, that would be a useful data point. Currently we need to visit 2 websites to see that

On 4/12/2022 at 8:06 PM, justpoet said:

Looks great.  Would be cool to put a ranking of the user within the team, not just overall, as well as the rank amongst teams of the team.

You currently have to visit two sites because those sites like EOC have to process the entire F@H user stats files every few hours and calculate/store them to have those metrics.   

 

They are not available on an existing or public API like the metrics that I am currently displaying in the client.

 

The client and the hardware DB have been a big bite to chew on as one dev, not sure I want to take on the kind of work EOC is doing as well to provide those points of data that we can already get, that said I will add a direct link from the team panel to EOC team page as I have for the user stats.

[RollinLower]

Add another 1M points to the fold!

I got this thing super cheap, and with just 120W powerdraw under load it's a pretty economical card too.

Also, the fan makes it a very nice fit next to the NIC in this server.

[dogwitch]

1 hour ago, RollinLower said:

Add another 1M points to the fold!

I got this thing super cheap, and with just 120W powerdraw under load it's a pretty economical card too.

Also, the fan makes it a very nice fit next to the NIC in this server.

that heat me harder...  tech bonk!

[jctappel67]

4 hours ago, LAR_Systems said:

Can't do it, I have tried.

 

Firefox sandboxes the Extensions in such a way the browser can not communicate with the local folding@home client service (in party because it runs insecure on HTTP) URL required to get the folding clients API stream.

 

The best I could do in their sandbox is drop CSS/JS on top of their HTML (running 2X the resources) and read the values they write to the HTML and try to parse them to send the DB data.   Kind of pointless to the user, as it's just the same default broken UI with dark tones.

 

On Chrome / Chromium / Edge I can replace their HTML completely and in the latest update, replacing their code with an LAR version that provides more features than the default client and far more than what I can do in Firefox to make it worth doing that.

 

I'm more about the user experience and fixing/improving the folding client than I am just about feeding the DB, I want something useful that looks good in my own browser and yours with information and utility.

 

Showing a responsive modern UI, (trying to add accessibility) skins, system and slot averages for more accurate folding information for users / DB and what I'm wrapping up now... Time of Use fold scheduling to enable folders that want to not go broke on power to use off peak times to fold only, then auto finish otherwise is my highest priorities and hopefully make using Edge or Chrome worth it.

 

Time Shift / Time of Use Alpha (Testing GUI)

 

 

That all said, I'm exploring what can be done with Python or .NET core to run a local package for users that are headless or want to load things up in any browser they like... but that has been back burnered due to the need for the Chrome Extension needing to be updated to the latest Google publishing standards... and I only have so many hours to maintain the extension and database site.

 

 

Thanks for explaining that in a language my Luddite self can understand. Bummer that it doesn't work, but understandable. These projects are like a car that you restore for a couple of years when you have the time to do some work on it.

[rkv_2401]

22 hours ago, LAR_Systems said:

They are not available on an existing or public API like the metrics that I am currently displaying in the client.

 

The client and the hardware DB have been a big bite to chew on as one dev, not sure I want to take on the kind of work EOC is doing as well to provide those points of data that we can already get, that said I will add a direct link from the team panel to EOC team page as I have for the user stats.

That should be more than enough. No point in doing so much redundant work when EOC already does it. I thought there would be a public API from EOC for such data..

[dogwitch]

so it seems they finale fix my account info on folding.

so am 50 mill shy of half a billion.

sadly i wont be spinning up some machines(need to power saving) to replace my main tv that died.

[Gorgon]

15 Billion!

@SansVarnic are you ever going to unlock the old Milestones thread?

 

And on an amusing note I just got my Gas Bill and it was -208Cdn. It seems they don't like reading the meter in Winter and just got around to it now. Of course they're not going to transfer the funds to my bank account but just leave it as a credit on my Gas Account but as that's only about $30/mo. over the summer it means I'll still have a credit by the time the snow files again.

 

On another note I will be scaling back my Folding now that the Winter is over. I'll be taking some GPUs off F@H and moving them to WCG when they resume next week as they still have COVID WUs and I'll be running my rigs just duing the 12-hour cheaper time-of-use window at minimum power settings. After 3 years of 2-$300/mo. extra on the Electricity bill it's time to start saving some funds as I will be retiring in the next couple of years.

[jctappel67]

My new GPU came in today. Added 3400 points (35 percent) to my TimeSpy score after light overclock. Now I know it's somewhat stable, so I can get it folding!

 

 

P.S. Unfortunately, my PSU (650W) does not have the cojones to run both a 2070S and a 3070 Ti at the same time, so my PPD won't be going up as much as it could until I can justify purchasing a new mobo, cpu, and ssd to put in my old case with my old PSU (750W) and run it as a dedicated folding rig. First world problems (le sigh).

[Gorgon]

5 hours ago, jctappel67 said:

P.S. Unfortunately, my PSU (650W) does not have the cojones to run both a 2070S and a 3070 Ti at the same time, so my PPD won't be going up as much as it could until I can justify purchasing a new mobo, cpu, and ssd to put in my old case with my old PSU (750W) and run it as a dedicated folding rig. First world problems (le sigh).

650w would be fine as long as you power-limit both cards while folding. I run my 2070 Supers at 170W with little to no degradation of points and it should be the same for the 3070ti. Now having enough PCIe power connectors might be an issue.

[dogwitch]

10 minutes ago, Gorgon said:

650w would be fine as long as you power-limit both cards while folding. I run my 2070 Supers at 170W with little to no degradation of points and it should be the same for the 3070ti. Now having enough PCIe power connectors might be an issue.

do you have a beefy breaker set up for that monster rig of yours?

[RollinLower]

7 hours ago, dogwitch said:

do you have a beefy breaker set up for that monster rig of yours?

i bet he just has some cables running to tap into a lamp post on the street

[jctappel67]

13 hours ago, Gorgon said:

650w would be fine as long as you power-limit both cards while folding. I run my 2070 Supers at 170W with little to no degradation of points and it should be the same for the 3070ti. Now having enough PCIe power connectors might be an issue.

There lies the the rub. I have an SFX power supply in this computer, with only the 2 PCIe outlets. I could make use of the daisy chain connectors, but that's just too janky for my blood. Not even sure if the other would fit without choking out the chonky new GPU anyway (2.7 slots according to MSI).

 

This is why I kept the old case & PSU around anyways, so it's all good.

 

Also, I have housemates that I assume would (probably) not appreciate having a power hungry heat box sitting in the corner of a common area, cause it's certainly not staying in my room. My main rig makes my room hot enough as it is. Hopefully I'll have my own house this time next year to alleviate that issue.