TPU's F@H Team

[NastyHabits]

@NastyHabits , how much of a load is that 1070 putting on the Athlon 5350? What OS is that running under?

@thebluebumblebee FahCore_21 uses 22-25% of the CPU. I'm running Windows 10 Home 64bit OS. The Athlon 5350 is one very weak CPU.

 

[thebluebumblebee]

The Athlon 5350 is one very weak CPU.

Maybe weak enough to cost you ~300K PPD? You're getting GTX 970 numbers. Check what the GPU usage % is in something like AfterBurner.

 

[NastyHabits]

Maybe weak enough to cost you ~300K PPD? You're getting GTX 970 numbers. Check what the GPU usage % is in something like AfterBurner.

@thebluebumblebee GPU usage - @80-90%.

Things to keep in mind re: my low output

• Stock clocks
• Small form cards = single power input
• Small case with horrible air flow/cooling, therefore no overclocking of anything.
  
• My internet is slow.
• The Kabini MB has really slow memory subsystems.

I also got a whole bunch of "BAD WORK UNIT" errors recently. In the last few months I've gotten lousy PPD. I'm guessing the WU's are bigger and slower than they were a few months ago. I'm actually quite pleased with how things are going with the GTX 1070. Temps have decreased to the point I can now put the case cover back on. With the 970, I had to leave the case open otherwise on hot days the MB would get too hot and cause errors. I've recently replace the CPU cooler and now the MB temps are in a safe range.

All in all, I'm pleased with what I'm getting now. 300K+ PPD as compared to 180K+ PPD. Low temps and lower power usage are big wins for me.

 

[thebluebumblebee]

With the 970..., All in all, I'm pleased with what I'm getting now. 300K+ PPD as compared to 180K+ PPD

You should have been getting over 300K PPD with the 970!
Here are the numbers that @msgclb has posted. I'm showing you his numbers because he's not some crazy OC'er and he uses W10. His average is just shy of 600K.

We need to find you something faster. Like a G4600 based system.

 

[mstenholm]

You should have been getting over 300K PPD with the 970!
Here are the numbers that @msgclb has posted. I'm showing you his numbers because he's not some crazy OC'er and he uses W10. His average is just shy of 600K.

We need to find you something faster. Like a G4600 based system.

He "forgot" to include 9414, 9415 and 9431. These are the WU we see these days and they yield lower as you know. OK 600 down to 300 is a long way. What clocks are you using @NastyHabits ?

 

[NastyHabits]

GPU = 1898 MHz, VRAM = 3802 MHz. Everything is stock straigtht out of the box.

 

[mstenholm]

You are not far off my 1987-1999 MHz. I get 552-596k on a 9341 according to HFM.net and that is excluding upload time. What PCIe link speed do you have? I'm at 5 GT/s (2.0 x 16x). I run 10 instances of WCG on my 12 threads leaving two threads for folding and other since it is my daily rig. Win 7 and 373.06 drivers. The newer works worse for me.

 

[NastyHabits]

My PCIe link speed is 5 GT/s, same as @mstenholm. Alas, it looks like I have to upgrade my MB and CPU. It will, however, have to wait since I just spent a bunch of $$$ to upgrade my main rig and my wallet is rather thin at the moment.

 

[thebluebumblebee]

Alas, it looks like I have to upgrade my MB and CPU

Sorry. I'll keep an eye out for someone getting rid of an i3 or Pentium real cheap.

 

[NastyHabits]

@thebluebumblebee Just for my own info, I started folding on my main rig (I5) into which I put the GTX 970. Although the results are not spectacular, it's still roughly a 47% increase over the GTX 970 when it was in my AM1!

I did some "shopping" and I'll be getting an itx 1151 MB and a Kaby Lake i3 as soon as I can afford it. I have all the other things I need already - case, ram and HD. It should only be a 30 watt increase in electricity use, which should keep from stepping up to the next level in my power bill.

 

[Norton]

WCG 13th Birthday challenge is on- details here:

https://www.techpowerup.com/forums/...1-16-11-22-2017-calling-all-crunchers.238851/

Would be great if the TPU folders could join in and lend a hand!

 

[Norton]

Is there an issue with F@H sending work or just with reporting results?

The stats sites haven't updated for a couple of days

 

[NastyHabits]

@Norton From the Standford stats page:

"There was an error accessing/using the database.
The Folding@home team is working to fix this issue. "​

 

[Norton]

@Norton From the Standford stats page:

"There was an error accessing/using the database.
The Folding@home team is working to fix this issue. "​

Thanks.

Just checked my folding rig and it's running fine... no monitor on it atm so it was a bit of work to check it

 

[phill]

Norton, why not try Teamviewer or something to allow you to log in so you don't need anything I use it across all of my PC's which seems to work ok

 

[Norton]

Norton, why not try Teamviewer or something to allow you to log in so you don't need anything I use it across all of my PC's which seems to work ok

I know and thanks, but I prefer the hands-on approach though

 

[phill]

I've been folding (Milkyway I think) on the 6 580's I have for mining every now and again I'm not sure how they've been working but they are underclocked and under volted. Is there anything I can do to run Folding on the 580's?

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I know and thanks, but I prefer the hands-on approach though

Well that's another story I think

The TeamViewer seems to be pretty good for logging on to the PC.. Just without the cables and such

 

[Norton]

I've been folding (Milkyway I think) on the 6 580's I have for mining every now and again I'm not sure how they've been working but they are underclocked and under volted. Is there anything I can do to run Folding on the 580's?

You can use the info in this link to setup F@H with the TPU team

https://www.techpowerup.com/forums/threads/easy-setup-for-folding-home.200520/

 

[TheoneandonlyMrK]

Thanks.

Just checked my folding rig and it's running fine... no monitor on it atm so it was a bit of work to check it

On this note , I sign in to Google (chrome) they have a fantastic remote desktop app that you essentially sign in on Google on each pc you want to remote use, setup chrome remote desktop on it then you can remote in on any chrome capable Device ie pc phone or tablet , its secure enough and very useable, i ditched all other methods since finding it.
And now I remote run 5 different pcs in 3 locations with it , its even useable to update and reboot since it works all the way through from boot ie you can sign back into a locked pc etc.

Only one of the five has a display attached and the one slight fail I've found is mouse not showing up if its not got a hardware mouse plugged in , i now have mice plugged in though so not one other issue I have found.

 

[NastyHabits]

@Norton More on FAH server problem.

Re: No credit from 155.247.166.220 and 155.247.166.219

by tug27224 » Wed Nov 22, 2017 9:01 pm

Unfortunately, this has happened before. We believe it to be related to the firewall at our university.
I've already started looking into it and will post updates to this thread.

edit: also, last time this happened all lost credit was awarded at once as soon as the issue was fixed.
​

My Edit: No one from Stanford has updated this post.

 

[thebluebumblebee]

Huh. Will you take a look at that?

It's nice to see so many Folding again, along with a sighting of @BUCK NASTY !
I'm planning on adding my GTX 980 soon, so that should push me to about 1M PPD.

 

[Recca29]

 

[phill]

That is amazing work thebumblebee!! I love it!!

 

[thebluebumblebee]

Here's what our hourly production looks like:

I was poking around on the stats at EOC and noticed that team Whitepages is doing more than 3 times what we are:

Notice anything strange about that? They're averaging less than 3,600 points per WU! Most likely running on some cloud system for testing purposes?

 

[thebluebumblebee]

Looking to add a GPU? I'm seeing GTX 980 Ti's popping up on CL. $250 for a card capable of 600K PPD isn't that bad.