15th Annual Folding@Home Holiday Season Race: Mark's Marauders win!

[biodoc]

December 10th stats: The gap closed a bit between the 2 teams so I won't change anything.

 

[Pokey]

Well, here we are roughly 1/3 of the way into the “race” and it is still relatively close.

I have been watching the comments and conversations with interest. Since a lot of you know way more than I ever will about crunching numbers and computers, I hesitate to jump in as a rule, but I will offer this:

• The vast majority of folders are in fact Windows systems and the LAR_Systems data base should be accurate for them. For those running Linux systems, your output should be considerably higher. I have made no attempt to quantify it exactly, but it should be in the +20% range.
• Point of interest; LAR_Systems is a member on the LinusTechTips team, the largest actual team Folding right now. Almost 9000 members compared to our 300+. I don’t know any more than that, but the data base has thousands of data points and so I consider it to be the gold standard right now.
• As far as the beta vs advanced discussion, my recommendation is to go with the advanced flag. Unless of course you like getting brand new problematical work units from time to time and are a died-in-the-wool beta tester. The need for beta to get the cuda core is no longer necessary.

So that’s my two cents for now. My output has been erratic due to equipment issues which always seem to happen during events. 😊 But even though outnumbered, the moonshot gang seems to be holding its own thank you very much.

It will be interesting to see where the rest of the month takes us.

Thanks all. (even Mark’s Marauders) 😊

 

[blckgrffn]

I've always wanted to be a Marauder.

One rig up

Three rigs up

 

[IEC]

The waste heat from my Radeon VII kept my room at 68F overnight without central heat. Winning!

 

[biodoc]

December 11th Stats:

 

[Assimilator1]

Thanks for the stats biodoc

The waste heat from my Radeon VII kept my room at 68F overnight without central heat. Winning!

This thread might be of interest to you .

 

[VirtualLarry]

FYI: You can actually run Folding@Home at the same time as mining ETH with NH... interesting!

MH/sec is down slightly, I'll have to go around and check my average PPD tonight, and see the stats tomorrow. This could be huge! (and hopefully, my PPD )

Edit: (*) OK, FORGET I SAID THAT.

Checked the GTX 1660ti triple-slot card rig, with an Athlon 3000G (2C/4T, OC'ed to 3.90Ghz), mining on CPU, GPU, and Folding on GPU.

Folding PPD was not 1.01Mil PPD, it had decreased to 61K PPD (!).

Not so good a showing.

But I'm not certain if this was because of sharing the GPU, or lack of CPU resources, mining on the CPU too. So I'm continuing the experiment, only NOT mining on CPU anymore (it was a trivial amount, anyways). When it finished the WU in 17 hours (*hopefully that decreases in estimation soon), then I'll see what a fresh WU can score. Also, moved the "Folding slider" up to "Full". Not sure how that affects GPUs or GPU scheduling or GPU memory-allocation. (This is a 6GB GTX 1660ti, I don't know how much VRAM F@H models take up, but the mining DAG is around 4GB, and Windows is running off of the GPU too.)

 

[blckgrffn]

What the crap... just looking at our team stats...

Team AnandTech Team Summary - Folding@Home Stats

F@H stats team summary for Team AnandTech. Help Folding at Home fight Coronavirus, further medical research, and prevent diseases with distributed computing!

folding.extremeoverclocking.com

Man, we are packed with heavy hitters since the call to all arms at the beginning of the pandemic. Wow.

So. Many. Points.

 

[crashtech]

What the crap... just looking at our team stats...

Team AnandTech Team Summary - Folding@Home Stats

F@H stats team summary for Team AnandTech. Help Folding at Home fight Coronavirus, further medical research, and prevent diseases with distributed computing!

folding.extremeoverclocking.com

Man, we are packed with heavy hitters since the call to all arms at the beginning of the pandemic. Wow.

So. Many. Points.

And yet every point counts. We never know whose little setup might stumble upon the winning molecular combo. It's like playing the lottery.

 

[StefanR5R]

Or maybe I should upgrade the client. I am running 7.4.4 which is packaged by Mint. Current at foldingathome.org is 7.6.21.

Ouch!

I updated a different computer with same GPUs to 7.6.21 now. I learned: A current FAHClient is necessary in order to get FAHCore to use CUDA instead of OpenCL.

 

[biodoc]

December 12th Stats: The marauders have taken the lead.

 

[petrusbroder]

Thanks for the stats, biodoc!

 

[Assimilator1]

Cheers biodoc

IEC's zipped past me already, blckgrffn next?

 

[Mike_F]

Is there a thread for what to do when you fry a card (and maybe a PSU) with an (apparently) incorrectly wired power connector? (correctly labeled and keyed!)
@Markfw , do I remember that somewhere around here recently you mentioned that you had older generation hardware that you are interested in flipping?
@biodoc , my PPD just took a hit for a while--maybe ever.

 

[Markfw]

Is there a thread for what to do when you fry a card (and maybe a PSU) with an (apparently) incorrectly wired power connector? (correctly labeled and keyed!)
@Markfw , do I remember that somewhere around here recently you mentioned that you had older generation hardware that you are interested in flipping?
@biodoc , my PPD just took a hit for a while--maybe ever.

I would love to do that, but until I can buy a new generation card, I will have to stay where I am at.

By the way, does the system post ? Have you tried a new PSU ? That would be my first guess. Over-buy (more watts than needed) always when getting a PSU for a folding box. They take a lot of punishment.

EVGA 850 watt has all the connects, and all the power for about any 1 card setup.

 

[Endgame124]

If we are recommending power supplies, I’ll throw a suggestion for Seasonic into the ring. The platinum and titanium models are not only built with top end components, but they come with a 12 year warranty. That should cover you for at least 4 system builds.

 

[Markfw]

If we are recommending power supplies, I’ll throw a suggestion for Seasonic into the ring. The platinum and titanium models are not only built with top end components, but they come with a 12 year warranty. That should cover you for at least 4 system builds.

I have don evga, because of the warranty service. Have you had to use your 12 year warranty ever ? But again, over buy on wattage. when the PSU is not breaking a sweat at 500 watts on an 850, it will run cooler and last longer. Like 12 years..... I have some Corsairs that lived that long and are just now dying.

 

[Endgame124]

I have don evga, because of the warranty service. Have you had to use your 12 year warranty ever ? But again, over buy on wattage. when the PSU is not breaking a sweat at 500 watts on an 850, it will run cooler and last longer. Like 12 years..... I have some Corsairs that lived that long and are just now dying.

I have never had a Seasonic power supply fail, so I’ve never tested the warranty. The oldest I still have in service is from 2008, but it was a gold that I believe “only” had a 10 year warranty.

my last 2 power supplies have been Seasonic
Titaniums - a 650w and a 1kw. I pushed the 650w over 600 watts for around 6 months with no issues, but decided the 1k would be better for a 3090 +5950.. of course I haven’t been able to buy either...

 

[geecee]

Hi, is it too late to join? I'm afraid I don't have much available at the moment. An old 750Ti and two Vega iGPUs. Maybe 200K a day on a good day. I've moved to an apartment from a house, and would need to go pull some stuff out of storage to do more. Have an old box with a 970 in it and might also be able to add something more in a week or two, so might be able to put up 800K - 1mil a day sometime in the near future.

 

[biodoc]

December 13th stats:

 

[TennesseeTony]

Linux tech support time.

Installing fahcontrol I get python dependency error. Fully updated Mint 20 MATE installation, the 19.3 was getting worse performance then Windows.

Anyone care to share the magic terminal command? Everything I have tried says "yep, got that already."

 

[TennesseeTony]

Nevermind, Pokey said:

FAH with Linux Mint 20

Just a heads up, version 20 won't let FAH Control install: Error: Dependency is not satisfiable: python-gtk2|python-gnome2 There may be a work around but I am not inclined to go down that rabbit hole right now. I'll stay with Mint 19.3 until FAH updates their code to employ the latest version...

forums.anandtech.com

 

[Pokey]

Nevermind, Pokey said:

FAH with Linux Mint 20

Just a heads up, version 20 won't let FAH Control install: Error: Dependency is not satisfiable: python-gtk2|python-gnome2 There may be a work around but I am not inclined to go down that rabbit hole right now. I'll stay with Mint 19.3 until FAH updates their code to employ the latest version...

forums.anandtech.com

There was a work around that allowed FAHControl to work with Mint 20 but that has disappeared, Thank You Ubuntu. If anyone has an answer, please post it.
Tony, what kind of video cards are you using? AMD or Nvidia? If Nvidia, then you will be using the cuda core which is more productive, if AMD, then you will be using opencl which is less productive.
But you already knew that I'm sure.

 

[biodoc]

December 14th stats: The Marauders are increasing their lead!

 

[biodoc]

There was a work around that allowed FAHControl to work with Mint 20 but that has disappeared, Thank You Ubuntu. If anyone has an answer, please post it.

There's a python 3 version of FAHControl in testing that I've been using but you can't install it as a package. Go to this link and click on the green code icon and choose Download Zip. Extract the zip file into your home directory.

cd fah-control-Python3_Testing-Linux
./FAHControl