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

[Assimilator1]

Cheers biodoc

 

[geecee]

Thanks for adding me and for the stats. I should be bringing a few more things online this weekend, so hopefully the numbers will improve a little.

 

[biodoc]

December 20th stats: The Moonshot Gang is closing the gap.

 

[biodoc]

December 21st stats:

 

[Pokey]

I keep getting notes from my power company noting that my average power usage is higher than that of other homes in my area and with offers to help lower my usage. 😊

I am tempted to tell them my grow lights need the power but I might get a visit from the police.

Crunch on everybody, quietly.

 

[Endgame124]

I keep getting notes from my power company noting that my average power usage is higher than that of other homes in my area and with offers to help lower my usage. 😊

I am tempted to tell them my grow lights need the power but I might get a visit from the police.

Crunch on everybody, quietly.

I get something similar, but different.

we installed solar panels last year in November, which essentially wiped out our power Bill. Then I decided to get back into distributed computing due to covid. My power bills now say something like “your electric usage is lower than comparable homes, but up 300% since last year. Schedule your energy audit and home appliance inspection today “

 

[StefanR5R]

Schedule your energy audit and home appliance inspection today

Maybe they could show you a few more insider tricks how to get the power use of the Raspberry Pis down even further.

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Since I moved less than 2 years ago, the new power company keeps giving me a phone call a couple of days after I received my yearly bill. They just ask if everything is alright with my bill. So far, everything which I came up with for a response was a brief confirmation, that yes, everything is alright. I try to sound firm when I say this, but I suspect I am not coming across entirely enthusiastic.

 

[TennesseeTony]

My power company once asked if I could use a bit more KW for the month, so the boss could get a bonus. (joking)

 

[Markfw]

I just added a new video card, and I am getting a message I have never seen. I posted this on the folding forums, but maybe someone here knows what it is. When I try to add cpu or GPU it says "disabled" in the folding slots status. ?????? I can try to add cpu, and I get the same thing ???

Damn Nvidia, took an hours of googling and installing the cuda drivers. They used to be in the driver package. Not anymore.

 

[Pokey]

It says over there you solved the problem. Is that true?

 

[Markfw]

It says over there you solved the problem. Is that true?

Yes, go here: https://askubuntu.com/questions/1077061/how-do-i-install-nvidia-and-cuda-drivers-into-ubuntu

NOTE: THIS FIX IS FOR Mint 19.2

Then run the stuff from
Then run from "add and install" down to "tune environment"

There may be more there thats needed in the tune environment and below, but as soon as it started working, I stopped while I was ahead, and I am now running.

Damn nvidia... It used to be so easy to install Nvidia drivers. Just click the button for recommended drivers in the 19.2 install and you are pretty much done. Not anymore.

 

[Markfw]

Don't take my reply for god.... It did one work unit, and now all I get is errors: And now its locked at "failed"

And after a reboot, its working again....

 

[Pokey]

Don't take my reply for god.... It did one work unit, and now all I get is errors: And now its locked at "failed"

And after a reboot, its working again....

I have had good luck with the repository 455 drivers installed with driver manager on Mint 19.3 and 20.

Is the card new or used?? Could it be a defect?

 

[cellarnoise]

I bought my 1st liquid cooler after all these years this past month! Read about custom builds all these years, and almost built a sub Earth barrel build (55 degrees!) 25 or so years ago. I'm still in the same house and thinking about it....!

So I just crammed an Arctic 420 Aio into my Fractal S2 / R6 case after some top radiator mount Dremel modifications to help clear the RAM! Love it so far! Much quieter (as in silent) and a bit cooler than the NH-u14s that I had on the current and lowly 1700x. This is in preparation for a 5950x build. Love it so far...!

I also have a NH-u14s tr4 or whatever on the 1950x next to it and I hear that cpu fan all the time. Don't see a good tr4 AIO that survives after all these years.

Hope these hold up well....

I had a hot tub once (hopefully soon again!)

I have also sat on a U.S. federal grand jury that reviews pre-trial stuff for 18 months. The feds rightly so a lot of info from power companies for past 30 years or so. They see all that individual accounts use. From companies to peons. Too much juice and they look up on you. Even a new hot tub can hit the radar! You are likely all suspect! HaHa!

 

[Markfw]

I have had good luck with the repository 455 drivers installed with driver manager on Mint 19.3 and 20.

Is the card new or used?? Could it be a defect?

Used 2080TI. Seems fine now.

 

[biodoc]

December 22nd Stats:

 

[Assimilator1]

Oooh they're closing in slowly! What's the been the average daily difference recently?
I'm wondering if it's worth running on my HD 7870 XT, lol. What would I get from that? 100k ppd? What's that F@H benchmark site again?

 

[Endgame124]

Oooh they're closing in slowly! What's the been the average daily difference recently?
I'm wondering if it's worth running on my HD 7870 XT, lol. What would I get from that? 100k ppd? What's that F@H benchmark site again?

I don’t know about the 7870, but a R250X gets about 40k-60k per day. I don’t normally use it, but for a race I said, why not?

 

[biodoc]

More Data:

 

[Assimilator1]

Well, it turns out I was a long way off, this afternoon F@H has been showing ~200k ppd for the HD 7870 and 50-60k ppd for the i7 (I'm going to remove the CPU slot though).
So with CPU and GPU slot it was drawing ~340w from the wall, now with just the GPU slot it's ~255w (and damn it, removing the cpu slot instantly killed the WU instead of finishing it).

 

[StefanR5R]

So I just crammed an Arctic 420 Aio into my Fractal S2 / R6 case after some top radiator mount Dremel modifications to help clear the RAM! Love it so far! Much quieter (as in silent) and a bit cooler than the NH-u14s that I had on the current and lowly 1700x.
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I also have a NH-u14s tr4 or whatever on the 1950x next to it and I hear that cpu fan all the time.

On EPYC 7452, even when configured to its high-cTDP of 180 W, NH-U14S TR4-SP3 works very very quietly. The fan speed here is most certainly lower than 800 RPM. (Due to a quirk of Supermicro's BIOS, I have disconnected the RPM monitoring pin of the CPU coolers' fans.) The current all-core workload which I have on these CPUs drives them at their 180 W socket power limit with a median core clock of 2.6 GHz.

The NH-U14S keeps them at a median CCD temperature of 48 °C, with an intake air temperature of 26 °C.

That is, NH-U14S can cool 180 W away quietly — very quietly. But it cannot keep core temperatures down if too much voltage is pumped into the cores, or if the cores are configured to run at uselessly high clock speed.

Have a look into the BIOS or into Ryzen Master for an ECO mode option or for a PPT limit option. Using ECO mode, you get

• a marginal decrease in throughput of all-core workloads,
• no decrease in few-cores workloads,
• core clocks which cannot be used to brag about,
• core temperatures which can be used to brag about,
• a reduction of power usage in all-core workloads which is strikingly disproportionate to the reduction of throughput.

 

[Icecold]

Lowering the PPT on my 3900x was fairly shocking to me in how much it reduced the heat, marginally affected performance, and how easy it was. I had spent hours fine tuning an undervolt on a Phenom II x6 back in the day just to get a less substantial decrease in heat / power usage. With lowering PPT, I just had to Google where the PPT setting was on my motherboard since it wasn't in a super obvious place to me in the bios, set it to 88, and then my Noctua HSF keeps it very cool even on AVX workloads.

 

[biodoc]

Dec. 23rd stats:

 

[Markfw]

This is how it goes for me every year, being on the losing team, I don't know why. And I just added 5 million ppd yesterday, and look what happens .

 

[crashtech]

Well I am probably going to have to pull one GPU out, so that might make things closer.