Folding@home: Put your CPU and GPU in use against the Corona COVID-19 virus

#5770425

StarvinMarvinDK

2020-03-17 18:40

2 cpu cycles already done

#5770465

yasamoka

2020-03-17 20:25

MariusW:

Trump administration recently attempted to buy German research company to produce vaccine "exclusively" for the US. Give me one good reason for lending my processing power to a US based "company" for this research!? Nerds around the globe are picking up the slack of a broken healthcare system.

This is NOT a company FFS. It's a university that releases its results to the public. You can even find a GitHub repo of their COVID-19 results so far. Don't be ignorant and spread misinformation, the world has enough of it.

#5770469

tsunami231

2020-03-17 20:34

Maybe I give this try seeing my pc tend to on idle most the time THe screen saver is just screen saver or does it do it work when screen saver is running? And I assuming the client has to be running to be doing work?

#5770477

Athlonite

2020-03-17 21:02

So I've decided to jump back onboard for a while hopefully I'll be able to get and return a few Covid-19 WU's at the moment my gpu is folding an 11762 WU so not a covid-19 one yet and for some dumb reason my CPU can't get a damn WU to save itself this is what the log says 19:58:57:WU00:FS00:Connecting to 18.218.241.186:80 19:58:58:WARNING:WU00:FS00:Failed to get assignment from '18.218.241.186:80': No WUs available for this configuration 19:58:58:ERROR:WU00:FS00:Exception: Could not get an assignment

#5770479

anticupidon

2020-03-17 21:06

Both in Linux and Windows the desk computer couldn't get a single WU all day and log is full of errors. Trying to get my home computer, back online. Will report back.

#5770549

tsunami231

2020-03-18 00:25

Finish 1 CPU WU and 1 GPU WU. Anyway I can limit Folding to using half power on the GPU. Gpu can get rather loud if on full load for to long

#5770571

sykozis

2020-03-18 01:46

yasamoka:

Workloads are different with each project and each FAH Core. CPU folding uses Core a4 if I'm not mistaken while GPU projects use Core 21 and Core 22. The projects are also of different complexity. They are not directly comparable. However, I'm not sure if CPU folding is worth it anymore given the points they reward for each unit. I remember back when we had "bigadv" work units on CPU, the point rewards were great. It seems that these work units had enough complexity / size as to be infeasible on GPUs, but I believe that is not the case anymore.

If you're only folding for the points/competition, CPU folding is a waste of electricity most of the time. If you're actually trying to contribute as much as possible to the project, CPU folding will always be worth it.

#5770572

tsunami231

2020-03-18 01:47

yah I had this going for 6+ hours "medium" which was like 6 thread and full load GPU it created some heat im my room that I can feel. I had to found out CPU was 63-65c so I limited it to 1 thread and I can limit gpu to 50 power which reduces temps. For some reason 95% load on GPU in F@H cause my gpu to whine too, where that same kind load in games there is no whine, anything bellow 75% power limit in MSI stops the whine though.

#5770575

DownwithEA

2020-03-18 02:30

With great power comes great nerdibility.

#5770594

David Lake

2020-03-18 05:36

My Titan V does 3-5 million PPD

#5770653

Ven0m

2020-03-18 11:30

Did we break it? I'm having difficulties obdaining new work units and uploading finished work. And the F@H sites report error codes.

#5770728

tsunami231

2020-03-18 16:54

jura11:

Hi guys If you are getting WU's errors please restart the F@H app, quit the app and start again F@H, this usually helps with getting WU's due this I would try restart F@H app Hope this helps Thanks, Jura

I think that what just says when there is no work to be handed out. Anywho I will let my CPU do work on my system when it is idle I cant let the GPU do work do to there is no way to really limit the usage to 50% GPU pushed 67c after hour or 2 of full usage, which make the fan get going and I hear coil whine from GPU at any load above 75% usage which odd in self cause I can put 95% usage on my gpu in game and have zero coilwhine which just ocd me to death. So Basic I will fold on my cpu using 3 or 4 threads, which should keep temps under 60c and wattager under the 95watt the cpu is rated at, so I say maybe 70 watts

#5770841

erazerswe

2020-03-18 21:04

I just joined the team even though i only have an amd fx 6350 and a gtx960, but its for a good cause so why the heck not?

#5770920

yasamoka

2020-03-19 02:55

sykozis:

If you're only folding for the points/competition, CPU folding is a waste of electricity most of the time. If you're actually trying to contribute as much as possible to the project, CPU folding will always be worth it.

The points are a reflection of the relative contribution to the project that you provide. If you want to contribute as much as possible, save the energy costs of CPU folding and buy a cheap GPU that can probably still fold faster and earn more units (meaning it is more valuable) too. I fully expect CPU Folding to enter legacy status if there are no projects that are complex enough to fit in GPU memory. The worst I've seen FAH use is like 200MB VRAM, so this isn't happening any time soon - it seems that the algorithms are very compute heavy, not memory intensive (either size or bandwidth).

#5770985

adabiviak

2020-03-19 11:04

Have been knocking these out as they come up. I have both my and my mom's computers in the basement, wired up into the living room, both to make it silent up here but donate the heat downstairs (where there's no HVAC). It's a cold winter here at the moment, but my mom is quilting in the basement in comfort.

#5771349

tsunami231

2020-03-20 05:43

yasamoka:

The points are a reflection of the relative contribution to the project that you provide. If you want to contribute as much as possible, save the energy costs of CPU folding and buy a cheap GPU that can probably still fold faster and earn more units (meaning it is more valuable) too. I fully expect CPU Folding to enter legacy status if there are no projects that are complex enough to fit in GPU memory. The worst I've seen FAH use is like 200MB VRAM, so this isn't happening any time soon - it seems that the algorithms are very compute heavy, not memory intensive (either size or bandwidth).

I would gladly let my gpu do the folding when my system is idle, IF the client had way to limit gpu usage, yes I aware I can use MSI AB to limit the power limit But i dont want to do that,

#5771688

yasamoka

2020-03-20 23:00

tsunami231:

I would gladly let my gpu do the folding when my system is idle, IF the client had way to limit gpu usage, yes I aware I can use MSI AB to limit the power limit But i dont want to do that,

Why would you want to limit GPU usage? And why wouldn't you just put a power limit? You do know that GPU usage is basically how frequently the GPU is being used and not how heavily the GPU is being utilized, right? Making something use < 100% GPU usage means that it works, stops, works, stops. And there's no point to that. GPU compute schedulers handle distributing the workload themselves, so you can't easily / properly control resource allocation. Just put a power limit.

#5771710

tsunami231

2020-03-21 01:12

yasamoka:

Why would you want to limit GPU usage? And why wouldn't you just put a power limit? You do know that GPU usage is basically how frequently the GPU is being used and not how heavily the GPU is being utilized, right? Making something use < 100% GPU usage means that it works, stops, works, stops. And there's no point to that. GPU compute schedulers handle distributing the workload themselves, so you can't easily / properly control resource allocation. Just put a power limit.

so as the gpu fan dont go into overdrive cause it pushing 70c and so the card isnt pulling full wattage obviously And i dont want to have do threw MSI AB power limit cause then I have to keep swaping profiles, which i dont want to do. I dont run MSI AB or RTSS always, only when I need to check something.

#5771713

yasamoka

2020-03-21 01:58

tsunami231:

so as the gpu fan dont go into overdrive cause it pushing 70c and so the card isnt pulling full wattage obviously And i dont want to have do threw MSI AB power limit cause then I have to keep swaping profiles, which i dont want to do. I dont run MSI AB or RTSS always, only when I need to check something.

What's wrong with the GPU fan spinning up? I've been folding for 10 years, and most of that time on air cooling.

#5771736

A M D BugBear

2020-03-21 07:13

Haven't been on this for awhile, Can confirm, 2 cpu's and 4 Gpu's, are infact working, Don't know about all day being turned on, I never leave my 4-way at full power like this for to long of a time, I always closely monitor it, although temps are very good, but have to be careful while your at it, thanks again.