F@H January TeAm record run?

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Ken g6

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It looks like @geecee isn't folding, and hasn't for a long time. . All zero's.
I know, but I figure if @Skillz can poke everybody about the PrimeGrid stuff (in Discord), the least I can do is to poke everybody I pass that I recognize in F@H.
The greasyfork screenshot looks identical to the standard V8 webpage, no additional information that I can see?

And I don't mean to rain on your parade, but this has a lot of fun info: https://webclient.lar.systems/8_3_5/

Edit: Breath-Weapon might need a tictac?
The new info is underneath the progress bars. I updated the description to point it out better.

That site does have a lot of fun info, but not individual WU estimated points that I can find. (Just base points.)
 

In2Photos

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Do I need to do anything special for this or just set FAH to team Anandtech (which it already is)?
 

Assimilator1

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I looked for a Folding race thread a couple of weeks back I didn't realise (or didn't see) this was the racing thread, different title threw me off

I'm up for it, but is it too late?
Main rig spec in sig. Will run it 24/7 for the race.
 

Endgame124

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I looked for a Folding race thread a couple of weeks back I didn't realise (or didn't see) this was the racing thread, different title threw me off

I'm up for it, but is it too late?
Main rig spec in sig. Will run it 24/7 for the race.
It’s not too late - it runs all month!
 
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Assimilator1

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Cool, I'm in then, running on my 3060 Ti.
I assume even my shiny 'new' Ryzen 5800X would only put out a trifling ppd vs my grx card?
Also, do I still need to leave 1 CPU core free in BOINC?
 

StefanR5R

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@TennesseeTony's response is better because shorter, but anyway here are my 2²² cents to your second question:

It depends on several factors, among them operating system, GPU performance, and what BOINC projects you run. You could test it yourself by watching F@H's PPD estimation and the GPU utilization graph in a respective hardware monitor, while leaving BOINC running with different logical CPU counts.

I have Linux, dual RTX 4090, and a 4c/8t Kaby Lake, turbo boost disabled in the BIOS. The FahCore_24 processes (and my guess is, FahCore_23/22 too) are single-threaded each and are occupying 100% of a logical CPU each. This is generally the case with CUDA applications on Linux; I don't know about Windows.

Also, these FahCore processes run at the same lowest possible scheduling priority as BOINC CPU-only work runs. Supposedly, FahCore scheduling priority could be nudged up a bit with <core-priority v='low'> in config.xml. (Default is 'idle'.) But I haven't tested this. If running at same scheduling priority, BOINC tasks would fight for processor time with FahCore if there are as many runnable tasks as there are logical CPUs. If running at different scheduling priorities, there would still be a fight for CPU time, but the higher prioritized processes would receive a bigger share, of course.

Anyway, I haven't done any experiments myself. Besides the dual FahCores, I am running just 2 PrimeGrid tasks concurrently on this computer. That is, I use all physical cores for F@H and PG combined, but only half the hardware threads. Furthermore, I know that the two PG tasks together occupy >2.5 MBytes of the level 3 cache of the processor (which has got 8 MB of it). I don't know how much cache is desirable for FahCore_24/23/22. But my guess is that they make heavy use of the memory controller at least periodically. Hence, all the concurrent BOINC work should better be light on RAM accesses (which is true with my current small PG load).
 
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Assimilator1

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Physical memory load at the moment is 43% (I have a bunch of tabs open), so should be ok on that front at least.
 

Ken g6

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I know, but I figure if @Skillz can poke everybody about the PrimeGrid stuff (in Discord), the least I can do is to poke everybody I pass that I recognize in F@H.
I've now passed @Modular, but I doubt he'll see it.
 

Endgame124

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2025 progress so far::

Daily January Peak (1/1/2025):
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Week Peak (Week of 12/29/24 to 1/4/25):
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Peak month active Users (1/6/2025):
58

Current team peaks:
Daily Peak (1/25/2024):
1,666,901,932 points

Week Peak (week of 1/21/24)
7,654,446,4125 points

Monthly Peak (Month of Jan 2024)
26,898,347,599 points

Peak month active Users (1/23/2024):
83
Peak Active Users (April 19th, 2020):
1481
 

Ken g6

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F@H has started sending me "inappropriate" messages.

22:22:55:I1:WU161:Requesting WU assignment for user Ken_g6 team 198
22:22:55:I1:OUT526:> POST https://assign5.foldingathome.org/api/assign HTTP/1.1
22:22:55:I1:OUT526:< HTTP/1.1 503 HTTP_SERVICE_UNAVAILABLE
22:22:55:E :OUT526:HTTP_SERVICE_UNAVAILABLE: {"error":"No appropriate assignment"}

Edit: It seems to have gotten sorted out.
 
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Pokey

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Well, my attempt to stay on ver 7 didn't go according to plan. Those 0x24 core failures just wrecked my output, so I bit the bullet and put Mint 22 on all my rigs. (comes with Kernel 6.8.0-51.) And installed Nvidia driver 550.120 (cuda 12.4). Then installed F@H v 8.3.18 and everybody is humming along nicely.

I have hit a snag getting Web control account set up so, I can't see them all on one computer yet. Still working on that.
 

Markfw

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I had issues with the web, then tried to go back to 7 and got all sorts of errors trying to get it to work. Here is the secret. Get the version 7 exe. Then make sure the version 8 is totally deleted, data and all. Then open a command prompt in administrator mode. THEN install version 7 using the cmd window., than make sure to allow the app to give access (not sure what to, but the PC asks you). Up and running on 4 windows boxes since with version 7 !! (edited)
The problem I have with linux and F@H is that every time I have a error of some type, and reboot the PC its on, it loses the video card, and I can't get it to work unless I remove F@H totally, reboot the PC, then re-install F@H. Then add the video card, then reboot again. If I am lucky its works, if not "rinse and repeat". Pain in the but,

EDIT ::: to add to the version 7 command prompt install. when you download the exe, put it in a directory that easy to get to, ususally a directory right off the root of C drive. So when you open the command prompt, then change to that directory, then type out the name of the exe to execute, its easier
 
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TennesseeTony

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The client(s) seem much less refined than in years past, and they were rough around the edges even then. None of mine survive a reboot very well, they don't automatically restart with either OS as I directed them to, and one always resets my configuration to include the iGPU. One dropped a 4090 down to 5M ppd a day for a few days, but I discovered it DID start the client automatically, hours after I manually started it, so it was running twice (technically running 10M ppd, I suppose, lol).
 

mmonnin03

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I forgot to thank you for the fah forum link. It helped me a lot. So, Thank You. 👍
I updated to Ubuntu 22 via putty and it worked for me. It's a bit disappointing when applications are compiled with fairly new requirements. I hope there's at least something in a newer glibc version that's being used and not available in the ones available to Ubuntu 20.04.
 

StefanR5R

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The problem I have with linux and F@H is that every time I have a error of some type, and reboot the PC its on, it loses the video card, and I can't get it to work unless I remove F@H totally, reboot the PC, then re-install F@H. Then add the video card, then reboot again.
You could make a backup copy of /etc/fahclient/config.xml for easier recovery.

If FAHCore or FAHClient had a problem, then reboot + client restart may not help because then the client likely tries to restart the bugged WU. On the other hand, deinstallation+reinstallation+reconfiguration can be avoided:

I have all my dGPU equipped computers configured to *not* autostart the FAHClient service at boot. I always only start it manually. And before I do, I am able to e.g. remove failed work from the /var/lib/fahclient/work/ directory on the very rare occasion of a prior serious failure.

Thus, I never had to uninstall+reinstall+reconfigure the client.
 

Markfw

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You could make a backup copy of /etc/fahclient/config.xml for easier recovery.

If FAHCore or FAHClient had a problem, then reboot + client restart may not help because then the client likely tries to restart the bugged WU. On the other hand, deinstallation+reinstallation+reconfiguration can be avoided:

I have all my dGPU equipped computers configured to *not* autostart the FAHClient service at boot. I always only start it manually. And before I do, I am able to e.g. remove failed work from the /var/lib/fahclient/work/ directory on the very rare occasion of a prior serious failure.

Thus, I never had to uninstall+reinstall+reconfigure the client.
Just happened to my 9654. A F@H unit "FAILED". The Fix is usually a reboot. I did and lost F@H completely. Its on a Genoa, and reboots take so long, so I may remove the card and put it in a windows box. (its a 4080)
 

Markfw

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OK, linux. I was able to install fahclient and start it, but when I try to install fahcontrol it says something about python 2 can not be fulfilled ???
 

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