LTT Official Folding Month 2018!!!

[Rusted]

3 hours ago, seoz said:

My parents are fine with me doing whatever I please in the house, I even offered to pay £10 a month towards the house bill but they said I should keep it for my own future.

Still, the thought of the bill being increased because of me is quite daunting, even if it is no more than £10 a month extra.

Well think that as a donation for a good cause.

You can give £10 for a some organization that claims to help some great cause with your money. But in reality only something like £2 of that money goes to the cause and £8 goes for that organizations own expenses.

With folding you can choose what research you support and how much. You pay for electricity and the researcher get what they need, computing power. There isn't some middleman taking 80% your donation for their own uses.

[Gorgon]

Starting to plan for my New Folding Rig. Suggestions and advice welcome

[Benjeh]

I might fold for LTT for a month or so, whats the team number?

[Gorgon]

Just now, Benjeh said:

I might fold for LTT for a month or so, whats the team number?

223518

[WillHemmens]

Unfortunately I've had to pull the plug on Folding for now, I've been really pleased by the stability of my system but the power usage has hit the bill pretty hard. I'll probably fire it up again towards the end of the month. Goodbye 15th! 

[GOTSpectrum]

2 minutes ago, Benjeh said:

I might fold for LTT for a month or so, whats the team number?

Noticed you've been checking out my profile, hope you enjoy being part of the team and if you need anything please don't hesitate to ask! 

[GOTSpectrum]

1 minute ago, WillHemmens said:

Unfortunately I've had to pull the plug on Folding for now, I've been really pleased by the stability of my system but the power usage has hit the bill pretty hard. I'll probably fire it up again towards the end of the month. Goodbye 15th! 

F

 

Seriously though, thanks for participating man! 

[Benjeh]

2 minutes ago, Ben Quigley said:

Noticed you've been checking out my profile, hope you enjoy being part of the team and if you need anything please don't hesitate to ask! 

You have the same name as someone my gf knows lol and np.

[GOTSpectrum]

1 minute ago, Benjeh said:

You have the same name as someone my gf knows lol and np.

You're not the first person to say that to me. 

 

What kinda rig you sporting?

[Benjeh]

4 minutes ago, Ben Quigley said:

You're not the first person to say that to me. 

 

What kinda rig you sporting?

6700K @ 4.7ghz 4.8ghz too unstable
Z170 sabertooth
16gig 3400mhz CL17 

980ti overclocked 1591/7600mhz need to bios hack it because its being a pain.

[GOTSpectrum]

Just now, Benjeh said:

6700K @ 4.7ghz 4.8ghz too unstable
Z170 sabertooth
16gig 3400mhz CL17 

980ti overclocked 1591/7600mhz need to bios hack it because its being a pain.

Ooo not bad, 

 

Going from that frequently it's watercooled? Also what issue are you having with that 980ti? 

[Benjeh]

6 minutes ago, Ben Quigley said:

Ooo not bad, 

 

Going from that frequently it's watercooled? Also what issue are you having with that 980ti? 

[GOTSpectrum]

3 minutes ago, Benjeh said:

Beautiful!

[Gorgon]

30 minutes ago, WillHemmens said:

Unfortunately I've had to pull the plug on Folding for now, I've been really pleased by the stability of my system but the power usage has hit the bill pretty hard. I'll probably fire it up again towards the end of the month. Goodbye 15th! 

Thanks for your support

 

Also try folding at the lowest power-limit supported by your card. Testing 1060s I found a 40% reduction in power only translated to a 15% decrease in yield.

[Benjeh]

I can't join this month so will hold on until december's round

[iHardware Shelden]

2 hours ago, Gorgon said:

Starting to plan for my New Folding Rig. Suggestions and advice welcome

tag me in the build log if you create one

[Cereal5]

I think I might go with an EK fluid gaming kit for my experimental PC... I would go with aliexpress parts but they're basically the same price once it's all said and done...

[Gorgon]

Did some analysis of the WUs I've processed since the start of the Folding Month

RTX 2070

Spoiler

WU    Count  Avg. PPD    Std. Dev.
11718    24    1,237,902      1096
14124     2     1,238,738       335
11720    28    1,242,940       940
11728    22    1,268,535    14436
11719    25    1,270,485    12214
11726    20    1,299,482    10019
11730    64    1,322,618      3957

GTX 1070 Ti

Spoiler

WU   Count Avg. PPD   Std. Dev.
11718    24    882,785      5,886
11730    75    930,565    11,496
11719    30    938,868      6,435
11726    18    950,473      6,473
11720    21    955,081      5,004
11728    18    957,371    13,048
14124      2    960,720         178

GTX 1060 (Windows)

Spoiler

WU   Count  Avg. PPD Std. Dev.
11718      4    393,333       302
11719    11    416,298       238
11730    27    416,333    7,866
11720    11    418,433    2,917
11726    16    419,220    4,062
11728    16    422,528    6,340
14124      1    424,145           0

GTX 1060 (Linux)

Spoiler

WU   Count  Avg. PPD  Std. Dev.
11718    17    431,699      1,218
11730    42    450,285    12,022
11719    16    464,242      7,044
11726    15    470,583      1,556
11728    15    486,345      1,513
11720    16    493,582    12,321

Both the GTX 1060s are 6GB models, the one that is in my Windows "Daily Driver" is a short-board. Both tend to run at a 2025MHz clock speed. The Windows version, however, also drives 3 x 24" 1080p displays.

 

The other interesting observation is the mix of WU performance from Worst (11718) to best (11720/11728) is pretty consistent across the GTX cards but on the RTX we see that though the 11730 is the best performer the 11718 is still the worst and while the 11726 has improved the 11720 and 11728 have degraded.

 

Though were not dealing with a really big sample size I think it's safe to say that the 11718 does not have a reasonable base points value and this should have been caught while it was in Beta but was not.

 

I suspect the differences between the GTX and RTX results may have to do with the mix of Integer, Single and Double Precision calculations and changes in Turing's architecture that allow concurrent execution of Integer and Floating-Point operations.

[palespartan]

On 11/17/2018 at 8:56 PM, Cereal5 said:

@palespartan took a bit of a dip today, you feelin alright?

Lol. Learned that because of foldings mislabeling of my gpus when I have multiple in a system that when you delete a slot and restart the computer after taking it out it deletes both WU's and gives you a fresh one when you start again... But all just jumbling things around maybe we'll see an increase in PPD coming soon...

On 11/17/2018 at 11:32 PM, Cereal5 said:

I HAVE HAD AN EPIPHANY.

 

Wait I just realized this won't work.

 

I was gonna say I can run my 750 Ti with a PCIe riser once my two cards get here, but that will leave the bottom two cards (1080 and 750 Ti) running in 4x, which will bottleneck the 1080. So... Never mind, I can't lol. I'd rather have a fully functional 1080 than 80k PPD from a 750 Ti lol

For a 750ti if you could get a riser cable to run it in 1x that probably wouldn't bottle neck it if you have the connection to spare.

On 11/18/2018 at 12:41 AM, ir8munk33 said:

I wonder if linus could boot up the 8 workstations build and fold with that? Got to be a few million PPD in that rig!

Considering that he is having trouble getting that thing to even load all 8 VMs there is no way he will be able to just put windows on it and run it with all 8 on 1 vm even. But there are still the current editor workstation which all have x99 boards and titan xps and quadros I think that just sit there at night not doing anything...

22 hours ago, TVwazhere said:

Same. I really wanted to play games but Iv'e been trying not to so I wont drop out of top 15 even though i have a decent 2M PPD buffer

 

Also, on this episode of "I wish I could say this is photo-shopped but it isnt" or "Lol I fucking wish, but I know F@H is just tripping mad balls after I paused it while I tested some things"

And then the power grid failed... lol

1 hour ago, WillHemmens said:

Unfortunately I've had to pull the plug on Folding for now, I've been really pleased by the stability of my system but the power usage has hit the bill pretty hard. I'll probably fire it up again towards the end of the month. Goodbye 15th! 

Thanks for participating this far. And definitely look into undervolting gpu's to do it for the future or keep a low amount of folding power going long term if you can. Also one strategy is to set up folding in a room you would likely use a heater for anyways so that maybe you don't have to as much. But we will see you next time around.

[Cereal5]

Needs more 14124 stats  for whatever reason I've gotten that WU at least 5 times in the past week, but I had never seen it before. And it's like 3x normal length

[Gorgon]

4 minutes ago, palespartan said:

Lol. Learned that because of foldings mislabeling of my gpus when I have multiple in a system that when you delete a slot and restart the computer after taking it out it deletes both WU's and gives you a fresh one when you start again... But all just jumbling things around maybe we'll see an increase in PPD coming soon...

Been there, done that - whoops! Learnt the hard way that the most opportune time to swap hardware is to look for a time when all the GPUs are set to finish around the same time and click "Finish"

[palespartan]

Just now, Gorgon said:

Been there, done that - whoops! Learnt the hard way that the most opportune time to swap hardware is to look for a time when all the GPUs are set to finish around the same time and click "Finish"

Its ok I think it was just 117xx WU's not any 141xx which is really good.

[TVwazhere]

2 hours ago, WillHemmens said:

Unfortunately I've had to pull the plug on Folding for now, I've been really pleased by the stability of my system but the power usage has hit the bill pretty hard. I'll probably fire it up again towards the end of the month. Goodbye 15th! 

The video version of "F"

[TVwazhere]

In other news, Project ITNOS finally got the 750ti in, and I hit a milestone I've been looking forward to since I started folding..... The Silver Badge

https://linustechtips.com/main/profile/187546-tvwazhere/?status=214174&type=status

[Invaderzim117]

28 minutes ago, TVwazhere said:

The Silver Badge

We get Badges??