The 12th Annual Folding@Home Holiday Season Race

[HK-Steve]

Morning Everyone, Points look good so far, am still Folding for you Guy's.
Got into the Top 50 today...

 

[biodoc]

Excellent HK-Steve! Congrats!

 

[Howdy]

Well I figured out my "low" return rate for the most part. I had/have 2 issues, on one machine EVGA XOC crashed and basically set the fans to default= high temps and low clock speed. Fix: reboot machine and all is good. Next machine is sitting on 2 completed WUs that have made their way down to base credit, typical Stanford collection server garbage. Reboot and all the other standard attempts to get them to send have not helped. Machine is getting new WUs and sending those in normally.
Might have to fire up "Weed Burner" for a few days to make up for the losses..........

 

[HK-Steve]

Well I figured out my "low" return rate for the most part. I had/have 2 issues, on one machine EVGA XOC crashed and basically set the fans to default= high temps and low clock speed. Fix: reboot machine and all is good. Next machine is sitting on 2 completed WUs that have made their way down to base credit, typical Stanford collection server garbage. Reboot and all the other standard attempts to get them to send have not helped. Machine is getting new WUs and sending those in normally.
Might have to fire up "Weed Burner" for a few days to make up for the losses..........

Thanks biodoc..

Howdy, sorry to hear your issues, fingerscrossed you have got them worked out now..
you have been on my butt the entire time... interested in what the Weed Burner has in it??

Cheers

 

[Howdy]

Thanks biodoc..

Howdy, sorry to hear your issues, fingerscrossed you have got them worked out now..
you have been on my butt the entire time... interested in what the Weed Burner has in it??

Cheers

"Weed Burner" is nothing special actually. It is the one I pulled out of the "Weeds" for one of my last challenges @ EVGA. A conglomeration of GPUs that I put together with old parts....3-900 series GPUs 2-750w PSUs and (I think) a i7 870 CPU, everything on air and as the name implies it runs HOT= Burner. I could stuff another in there but even with an open case it "bumps the temp governor" @ 79-80*C on the top card, close to it on the middle, and well the bottom is OK as usual.

 

[petrusbroder]

Here are the stats for the 27th day of the 12th Folding@Home Holiday Season Race
Stats are as of December 28, 2017, 20:30 UTC (approx).
The inter-team race stats are from the Folding@Home stats page.
The intra-team race stats are from EOC.com.

The inter-team race:

The intra-team race:

The intra-team race daily production:

The intra-team race individual daily production:

Only 3½ more days for the intra-team race. So lets put in a sprint ...
The race with Brony@Home is still going our way. But we may not grow too confident - more than half the race is before us. And who knows, what the Bronies have in mind ...

 

[petrusbroder]

Oh, BTW; we have by far passed the december production of 2016:
December 2016: 1 291 456 373 points
December 2017: 1 468 348 111 points in 28 days.
The full production may end up in approcimately 1 672 000 000 points - an all time high, which may stand for 11 more months ...

 

[HK-Steve]

Maybe I should have said YES to the intra Team Race????

I have not looked into this as this is a donation of PPD for me.. But maybe some info as what this is..
please be kind as I am an other Team member helping for this Pony crushing,, maybe too strong, stamped... still too strong... trampling.... 3 leg race??????????????????????

Not really to look to take any one's place, but, BUT this is some fun, FUN here. keep up the PPD Everyone, Great Stuff..

 

[TennesseeTony]

.Yeah I think the Eradicators need him for the next 3.5 days.

 

[HK-Steve]

.Yeah I think the Eradicators need him for the next 3.5 days.

I am there, sign me up.

 

[HK-Steve]

Just thinking, been here for 5 days, maybe 6 , does that count if TennesseeTony would like my contribution??

Off to bed here, late in Switzerland.. all the best to you all.. fine fellows

 

[Howdy]

@HK-Steve ...............Looks like you got tired of me being on your back side or you needed more heat in the house nice climb away from me!!

 

[HK-Steve]

@HK-Steve ...............Looks like you got tired of me being on your back side or you needed more heat in the house nice climb away from me!!

Yeah I saw the rear view mirror full,

So finally got my watercooled rig full of bacteria cleaned out.
Flushed twice and got those 2x 1080 FTW's fired up.

Still has an issue, got an error message on the first boot up.
DRIVER_IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL

But it is running for now Folding away.. fingerscrossed with no further issues..

 

[Howdy]

Yeah I saw the rear view mirror full,

So finally got my watercooled rig full of bacteria cleaned out.
Flushed twice and got those 2x 1080 FTW's fired up.

Still has an issue, got an error message on the first boot up.
DRIVER_IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL

But it is running for now Folding away.. fingerscrossed with no further issues..

If it's folding........walk awayyyyyyyy from the machineeeee hehehe

Cured with pentium-cillin? Pretty sure you need to watch where and who your rigs fraternize with if your getting bacterial infections, maybe a safe crunching/ folding talk is in order?

The error message I ran by my I.T guy Google (I figure you did too, might be the same guy?) loads of different scenarios and could be this and that blah blah blahs. BUT if it's working I go with it until it stops working or goes away........or Format......but in this case it could be hardware too. I'll put this on my list of "I DO NOT WANT THIS ERROR"

Hope it keeps on plugging away without issue!!

Assuming it's a Win7 machine I did find this though and Win10

 

[StefanR5R]

So finally got my watercooled rig full of bacteria cleaned out.

Last summer I had to clean some gunk out of a waterloop less than a year old. I wondered if it was bacteria or algae, but in retrospect, I am pretty sure it was a sealant used in the EK Predator modular AIO with which I started my watercooling ventures. (The first EK Predator versions had leak issues which they addressed in a revised version. It seems the change they made was a liberal use of that sealant. In case of the one which I had, that sealant eventually sealed a bit more than it was supposed to. But on the positive side, this modular AIO allowed for gradual migration to custom watercooling.)

 

[HK-Steve]

If it's folding........walk awayyyyyyyy from the machineeeee hehehe

Cured with pentium-cillin? Pretty sure you need to watch where and who your rigs fraternize with if your getting bacterial infections, maybe a safe crunching/ folding talk is in order?

The error message I ran by my I.T guy Google (I figure you did too, might be the same guy?) loads of different scenarios and could be this and that blah blah blahs. BUT if it's working I go with it until it stops working or goes away........or Format......but in this case it could be hardware too. I'll put this on my list of "I DO NOT WANT THIS ERROR"

Hope it keeps on plugging away without issue!!

Assuming it's a Win7 machine I did find this though and Win10

Is a Win10, will look more into it tomorrow, but will not mess with it until it stops running.
Just back from Star Wars and dinner with Wife for her Birthday today.

Was a Phobya premix, even the bottle I took 50ml out of has it now, white floaty stringy stuff.

Went to distilled water and silver coils and all good so far..


Pentium-cillin, too funny,

 

[petrusbroder]

Here are the stats for the 28th day of the 12th Folding@Home Holiday Season Race
Stats are as of December 29, 2017, 20:30 UTC (approx).
The inter-team race stats are from the Folding@Home stats page.
The intra-team race stats are from EOC.com.

The inter-team race:

The intra-team race:

The intra-team race daily production:

The intra-team race individual daily production:

I have added HK-Steve to the Cancer Eradicators for the past 3 Days (since it was then he let me know he wanted to get in). Thus the sub-teams are more balanced now and the final 60 hours of the race will be most interesting: How small will the difference between the subteams be?
We need to keep up the production and thus the pressure on Brony@Home.
Therefore: do not end folding after January 1, 12:00 UTC! Keep on folding! Brony@Home will not quit. they will fight on and we really want to win this race!

 

[Markfw]

Well, my dual 1080 box had to be rebooted. So linux fails now (crashes) so I booted win 10. Lost some ppd. But I have just about had it with linux, always reinstalling, crashing, etc...

I can't spend my life re-installing, and have not found out any of the errors. The last problem was with Threadripper. This is a E6700 retail CPU ! On an ASUS motherboard.

 

[Ken g6]

That is strange. I've never seen Linux behave that badly. Systems that are old enough that I don't update them can stay running for weeks and months.

Maybe you could set up a VM if you have spare time and see if you can reproduce the problem when rebooting it?

 

[StefanR5R]

Went to distilled water and silver coils and all good so far..

I went with distilled water only, until the gunk build-up. Then I briefly used a mix with clear EK concentrate. Now I am adding Glysantin G48 instead. It's cheap and available from local stores. (Some of my water blocks are nickel plated ones from EK, which are said not to go well together with a silver coil.)

Well, my dual 1080 box had to be rebooted. So linux fails now (crashes) so I booted win 10.

My GPU hosts with Linux Mint are rock stable so far. 3 with ASRock Z270 boards which I never ran with any other OS before Mint, one with Asus X99-A which I used with Windows 7 until recently. On the latter board, Linux logs correctable PCIe bus errors repeatedly but infrequently. Well, since they are correctable, I don't attempt to do anything about them.

(I have been using Linux for many years now, but not for GPU computing until this race, and I had been avoiding proprietary drivers on Linux for more than a decade now. Being a lot more familiar with Linux than with Windows, and in face of all the anti-feature issues of Windows, I am glad that Linux works out so well for me for F@H.)

 

[HK-Steve]

Into the Top 40 today, a couple more days before I go back to EVGA Team for Formula Boinc..

 

[yodap]

Hey Steve, us folks ranked in the 70's getting no love? Lol

My 1080 running in a Mint 17.3 is so problem free it's getting me worried almost. Only thing was a freak local power outage Thursday AM. Not fun because it was -10F -23C. I couldn't get the portable generator started either. 5 hours later I got it started, 5 min later the power comes back. Gah!!

 

[HK-Steve]

Hey Steve, us folks ranked in the 70's getting no love? Lol

Plenty of Love yodap, just could not find a way to post it, I am crap at this software stuff, hardware is my strength..

But, there you are.. Awesome stuff..

 

[StefanR5R]

Can't find the [

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Hey Steve, us folks ranked in the 70's getting no love? Lol

That would be cold, if it were so.*

Only thing was a freak local power outage Thursday AM. Not fun because it was -10F -23C.

That is cold!

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[petrusbroder]

Here are the stats for the 29th day of the 12th Folding@Home Holiday Season Race
Stats are as of December 30, 2017, 20:30 UTC (approx).
The inter-team race stats are from the Folding@Home stats page.
The intra-team race stats are from EOC.com.

The inter-team race:

The intra-team race:

The intra-team race daily production:

The intra-team race individual daily production:

That's all for today. One and a half more days of the intra-team race. The difference between the sub teams is closing ...