Re: [TER] Folding@home. Home thread.

Burned

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I finally bit the bullet and swapped graphics cards between my DC rigs. Had one that was just constantly rebooting (even though it had the better power supply ostensibly). After a few flushed units as I fooled with it, its at least all working right now. Funny thing was it was rock solid stable on Einstein but couldn't go 24 hours folding. Fingers crossed.
 

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Thanks Jimbo. The problems have followed the video card, although not nearly as constant. So its either card, drivers, or workload or some combo thereof. Its rock solid stable on Einstein, which runs at about the same velocity and temperature, so I suspect an interplay between the folding math and the AMD driver.

Meanwhile... I've noticed an influx of new compute power on the two projects I keep up with, while their active users remains flat. I suspect two things. The availability and price of current generation video cards has returned to normal, and DC farmers are repurposing old mining rigs. You'll also see a commercial entity come in, make a big splash, and then move on.
 

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CPUs that have AVX2 support can do fairly well in Folding@Home; my Ryzen 7 5800X gets on the order of 320,000 to 340,000 PPD under Windows with 12 threads engaged, and under Linux with 16 threads it sits around 400,000-480,000 PPD. This is with a 120 W power limit, since my poor Noctua U12S cooler can't keep up with more heat output than that. That PPD score is in the range that my GTX 980 used to put out, and it looks like CPU projects are still different from GPU ones so the scientists who are submitting CPU-favouring work would probably appreciate the compute time.
 
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Hm, I thought the 980 was a few million PPD? I've got a 1080Ti, but it's not quite stable with F@H for some reason - I'll come back to a locked up machine every now and then. It's fine for desktop and gaming use, so I haven't particularly cared. I'll get stuff migrated over to F@H in the next week or so as they drain out or time out tasks (one of my boxes, nonsensically, has about 300 Einstein@Home tasks and it will, in no possible way, complete all of them).

I should try to get the 8700K scrap running. I think I've got a 980 laying around with it, too.
 
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Well, just scrounged a few million PPD until it warms up outside.

I got my 8700K running with a GTX 980, and that's running ~1M PPD, but only during daylight hours (it's in my office).

The house desktop had been struggling with lockups on the 1080 Ti, but I lowered the power limit to it and it's been behaving for a while, returning 2-3M PPD as long as I don't mind the heat.
 
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Are we still competing like in the beginning and since I've been gone so long I don't remember squat.
Team Egg Roll is in 56th place. So we are not competitive for the lead.


When we started an idle CPU drew almost as much power as a busy CPU. In the last 20 years. Reducing idle power has been a focus of CPU designers. Perhaps the last 10 years for GPUs.
 
Competition has changed. Its very much a GPU game now. Every now and then you'll see somebody bring a fleet of CPUs to bear, but to really make a splash it takes a 4080/4090 or several. Then you start noticing your power bill.
Given the price of these cars they better be able to prepare my breakfast and serve it to me in bed.
 
Are we still competing like in the beginning and since I've been gone so long I don't remember squat.
Same here. During the CPU days had servers that did after hours cron jobs, cranking out units and ran it at home as well.
Later, smattering of Radeon and Nvidia since then. 980, 2080 Super that got replaced with 4070Ti (2.8 to 3Ghz solid).
Have not paid attention in a while, and was in the team's top 50, now 12...okay, cool.
Getting colder, finally, windows cracked open and the lappy w/2080M and desktop with 2080 Super would heat the heck out of the room.
Seems like we all contribute, but dang we're on autopilot big time.
 

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I spend 3 nights/ 4 days in the bates motel and diagnosing medical issues while folding.
BTW, I have cancer.
I am sorry that you have to go through that. I work at a cancer centre, and while I can't promise an outcome I can say that every other person I've met who works in one is going to do their best to give you the best life that you can live.
 

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I spend 3 nights/ 4 days in the bates motel and diagnosing medical issues while folding.
BTW, I have cancer.
hugs

You're not alone. I have tumors inside my jawbone.
Hey Jimbo and Tom , I had one doctor say there was nothing he could do for me and another say I had a 5% chance. 7 chemo, 25 radiation, and a Whipple later, I am 4 years cancer free 🤞 YOU GOT THIS! DON'T EVER, EVER GIVE UP!
 

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Hey Jimbo and Tom , I had one doctor say there was nothing he could do for me and another say I had a 5% chance. 7 chemo, 25 radiation, and a Whipple later, I am 4 years cancer free 🤞 YOU GOT THIS! DON'T EVER, EVER GIVE UP!
Appreciated! Be assured, I've definitely been fighting this as hard as I can. It's an extremely rare tumor and the only "standard of care" treatment is some rather brutal surgery. I did hardcore research and found that 80% of the tumors like I have are due to a particular genetic mutation in the cell which becomes the tumor. Separately, I found that there is an FDA approved chemo treatment for other tumors with this specific genetic mutation, got a referral to MD Anderson and eventually got on the chemo. More detail here.
 

Burned

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Getting to the right place makes all the difference. I got to Emory Winship and got good oncologists and an amazing surgeon. Jimbo, I hope you made it over to Houston. I got a good friend who was a 9/11 first responder and now he's at Sloan Kettering for brain cancer. Had another who went to Moffitt because that was the only doc that ever even heard of what he had.

Hopefully, our folding will create another building block in the basic science to fight this.