*** F@H Tech Assistance Thread ***

[Norton]

That only applies to SMP WU's.

Thanks for proving my point

Still don't understand why the54thvoid is only getting 6k points per wu.... shouldn't it be more?

 

[thebluebumblebee]

Just had a look at my log and it does show the passkey in there. My first few runs had no passkey and i may have only added it during my last WU run. I guess it's sorted now?

Thanks for proving my point

Still don't understand why the54thvoid is only getting 6k points per wu.... shouldn't it be more?

Let's see what happens with his next 2 WU"s.

 

[AlienIsGOD]

could someone enlighten me as to how to get my 7870 folding?

 

[Norton]

could someone enlighten me as to how to get my 7870 folding?

Download client here:
https://fah.stanford.edu/file-relea...ows-xp-32bit/v7.3/fah-installer_7.3.6_x86.exe

Get a passkey when you do the install (you will need it for the bonus points) add in the passkey during the setup process

Follow the instructions in this post to setup a beta slot:
http://www.techpowerup.com/forums/showpost.php?p=2882920&postcount=8

If crunching and folding*
*note- this is what I do (below), others may do differently
- Delete the CPU slot so the F@H client can't use your CPU
- crunch as normal- you may need to adjust % usage to free up one core if the folding is sluggish.


A 7870 on an 8900 beta job w/bonus should get over 50k ppd

That should be all you need- good luck!

 

[mx500torid]

Hi all! Ok I apologize in advance if this is covered somewhere but I couldnt find it. I reformatted 2 of my machines and installed the new client. Both machines it detects the 2600k and both are showing under task manger they are at 100% but for over 8 hours they are at 0%. Any help would be appreciated.

 

[thebluebumblebee]

Trying to remember... does this have to do with privileges? Try running the client with admin privileges.

 

[TRWOV]

Would it be worth it to fold on a 7770 or GT640? I have those lying around and I'd like to sell one. Which one would give more PPD?


EDIT: If I'm reading the internet right, GT640 ~8K, 7770 ~35K, is that so? I guess I'll sell the 640 then. Heck, even the GT430 PCI that I've been holding onto might get better results (10K if the internet is right).

Does the FAH client accept multi-GPU configs? (ATI+nVidia) or should I put each card on a different PC? What about PCI cards? Are they compatible?


EDIT2: Does FAH requires significant CPU power? as in, should I dedicate a couple of cores to FAH exclusively? or is it happy sharing with Boinc?

 

[Norton]

The 7770 will get 15-30k ppd depending on the job it's working on and AFAIK you don't need to set aside any cores for them anymore.

My recommendation would be to run only on the 7770- GCN and OpenCl seems to be changing the landscape atm. Example- my 7970 will do nearly 100k ppd at less power and less heat than my GTX 580.... which tops out at 40-50k ppd


EDIT- crunching and folding on the same rig is 100% fine. You may see a drop in production of a couple of percent but that 's it.

 

[TRWOV]

Good to know. If it doesn't need significant CPU resources I think I'll add a couple more 7770s to the offsite fleet.

Another question: can I Fold in XP?

 

[thebluebumblebee]

yes

 

[mstenholm]

The 7770 will get 15-30k ppd depending on the job it's working on and AFAIK you don't need to set aside any cores for them anymore.

My recommendation would be to run only on the 7770- GCN and OpenCl seems to be changing the landscape atm. Example- my 7970 will do nearly 100k ppd at less power and less heat than my GTX 580.... which tops out at 40-50k ppd


EDIT- crunching and folding on the same rig is 100% fine. You may see a drop in production of a couple of percent but that 's it.

I have heard the same - that AMD GPUs now doesn't need the extra core and looking at the CPU usage it is identical for AMD and Nvidia but in my case that was not true. I have two identical 7970s in two different rigs. One is a i970 at 4050 MHz and one is i7-920 at 3350 MHz. Before I reduced the cores for crunching they were suffering (80 and 50k PPD). Now the last results for a 7810 (one thread left free from crunching) was 13580 = 84k PPD (slow Intel), 14192 = 95k PPD (faster Intel) and 14320 =99k PPD for my GTX 680 (i970 at 4050 MHz) which I use all the day. The figures for 7811 are a few percentage lower.

I wonder what my 7950 can do. I will find out when it gets cold enough

 

[Norton]

I have heard the same - that AMD GPUs now doesn't need the extra core and looking at the CPU usage it is identical for AMD and Nvidia but in my case that was not true. I have two identical 7970s in two different rigs. One is a i970 at 4050 MHz and one is i7-920 at 3350 MHz. Before I reduced the cores for crunching they were suffering (80 and 50k PPD). Now the last results for a 7810 (one thread left free from crunching) was 13580 = 84k PPD (slow Intel), 14192 = 95k PPD (faster Intel) and 14320 =99k PPD for my GTX 680 (i970 at 4050 MHz) which I use all the day. The figures for 7811 are a few percentage lower.

I wonder what my 7950 can do. I will find out when it gets cold enough

My 7970 (1050/1425) gets a rating of 95k+ to 120k+ ppd depending on the job- daily average output was pretty consistent aound 90k ppd.

I do reserve 1 core on the cpu (FX-8350@stock) and leave the other 7 crunching. The ppd did seem a bit less before I did the 1 to 7 split but didn't run long enough to get a good idea of how much it mattered

 

[xvi]

Hi all! Ok I apologize in advance if this is covered somewhere but I couldnt find it. I reformatted 2 of my machines and installed the new client. Both machines it detects the 2600k and both are showing under task manger they are at 100% but for over 8 hours they are at 0%. Any help would be appreciated.

Do they have a stable connection to the internet?

 

[Arjai]

So, yea. It has been sitting "Ready" for a half an hour. My WiFi has been recieving stuff the whole time. Will it ever start working? I limited the BOINC Mgr, for WCG, to three cores. So F@H should be using one of the cores but, it is just sitting there, "Ready". ?

 

[Norton]

Run the slider up to "full"- it will never run at the current setting will crunching

 

[Arjai]

Run the slider up to "full"- it will never run at the current setting will crunching

I suspended BOINC, opened the F@H Client. Now it is paused for 10 minutes... So, will see what happens in ten min.

New
It is now downloading...

Well, now it is waiting again, for 2 minutes.

Well, now it is waiting again, for 2 minutes.

now it says 42 min wait?

 

[Norton]

Not sure what's going on there? Switch to advanced mode and post a screenshot.

FYI- please avoid double posting- just update/edit your post...

 

[Arjai]

Not sure what's going on there? Switch to advanced mode and post a screenshot.

FYI- please avoid double posting- just update/edit your post...

Sorry about double posting, wifi last night sucked and did not know I was doing that.

Anyways, I downloaded the client from the homepage. I was hoping, it would figure out to use my CPU. Or, is there something I need to do for it to stop looking for an AMD64? I have 7.3.6 and an i5 laptop with 4 logical cores. WCG is only using one core, and I think, one thread, set at 50% of cores.

I don't understand what, or ,why, access is denied.

This is what it read when it was set up:

What is a boy to do?

 

[thebluebumblebee]

try running the client with administrator privileges.
move the slider to Full. Just limit the number of cores that it uses. Anything under full will cause Folding to stop if you use the system at all.

 

[Arjai]

I figured it out, after some reading. When I set up the Passkey, I used my real name, instead of my username. Because of that, access was denied. uninstalled, reinstalled used my username to get a passkey and Wallah! I am now Folding!!!

Yea!

I am completely unsure how much of a contribution I will make, not huge I am sure, but I am happy that I can now contribute a little to THIS awesome team. In addition to Crunching for the other awesome WCG team!

Go TPU!!



Sorry for being such a nuubie! I look forward to getting to know more of you here, I'm sure this team is as cool as the Cruncher's (in fact I know a few here that I know from over there).

So, it now says it is running, on the webpage screen. How long before any progress on the progress bar?

 

[Maban]

I'm only getting like 34k PPD (with quick return bonus) with my 680 at 1254MHz now. It used to do like 90k. Have I missed something that they changed recently?

 

[mstenholm]

I'm only getting like 34k PPD (with quick return bonus) with my 680 at 1254MHz now. It used to do like 90k. Have I missed something that they changed recently?

What kind of frame times do you have? My 680 at 1267 MHz does a 8900 at 4:16 and still get around 94k PPD.

 

[Maban]

It's around 7:45 TPF on 8900. I haven't changed any hardware since it changed. I noticed it start of last month. I stopped for a while figuring it would fix itself. But it hasn't.

 

[thebluebumblebee]

Did you happen to "upgrade" the driver? I know there was a drop in PPD (for kepler) with a recent driver update:
https://foldingforum.org/viewtopic.php?f=88&t=25190&p=251445&hilit=kepler#p251445
https://foldingforum.org/viewtopic.php?f=80&t=25132&p=251283#p251283

 

[Maban]

I'll try going back to 327.23 then.

Edit: Seems to be working good now.