TPU's F@H Team

[mx500torid]

Welcome debs anything you can add will be greatly appreciated.

 

[mstenholm]

The last time I built a PC in a case it was in my Corsair 800D - plenty of room in that one. I don't know why my finger ticked a NZXT H500 off for my new build. Worst thing ever to fill with anything. It took two hours and I had to remove a case fan to get CPU power cables in. So cloning of SSD and hopefully it will power up. With this "copy and paste" build of my AMD 2700x/GTX 970 I will test Linux+WCG+FAH against Linux+WCG. Tomorrow, maybe.

 

[mx500torid]

I installed Sparkylinux on my windows 7 machine to see if ppd would go up and it totally screwed it up. Went into endless reboots after i installed the Nvidia drivers. So wiped the hd and put Windows 10 back on. Folding fine but still the itch to install Linux. Downloaded Ubuntu 18.04. Does the Buck authored write up on Ubuntu still work?

 

[mstenholm]

I installed Sparkylinux on my windows 7 machine to see if ppd would go up and it totally screwed it up. Went into endless reboots after i installed the Nvidia drivers. So wiped the hd and put Windows 10 back on. Folding fine but still the itch to install Linux. Downloaded Ubuntu 18.04. Does the Buck authored write up on Ubuntu still work?

I don't know if @BUCK NASTY write up is still working. My Linux folding (courtesy of @agent00skid) only took a NVIDIA update and change of gpu-index. I'm pretty sure that Buck is OCing his two 970 as well so he is clearly the man to ask. I have no problem runinng one 970 stock and WCG but the FAH truly slows down WGC by 20-25 %. Ubuntu 18.04 here as well.

 

[mstenholm]

Was it something we/I said? Changed my mind

 

[debs3759]

Now the stats are sorted I'm back here. Don't want to fold for Bit-Tech any more due to issues with their admin

 

[mstenholm]

Now the stats are sorted I'm back here. Don't want to fold for Bit-Tech any more due to issues with their admin

Be sure to tell about the Tesla K10 once you get it running. Somehow I got it into my head that the older Teslas were out of the folding game.

 

[debs3759]

Tesla K10 is a Kepler card, equivalent to a GTX 690. Fermi, which is older, is still supported (I fold on a GTX 580). For sure I will post once it arrives and I know my approximate ppd.

 

[mstenholm]

Tesla K10 is a Kepler card, equivalent to a GTX 690. Fermi, which is older, is still supported (I fold on a GTX 580). For sure I will post once it arrives and I know my approximate ppd.

Tesla K10 is a Kepler card, equivalent to a GTX 690. Fermi, which is older, is still supported (I fold on a GTX 580). For sure I will post once it arrives and I know my approximate ppd.

I have a 680 laying around. Sure was not a great folder. Estimated runtime 500 hours. Your two chips could make up for it.

 

[debs3759]

It's got to be better than the GTX 580, GT 730 and i7 6800K combined

 

[debs3759]

Damn! My everyday PC (Llano A8-6800K with GT 730) was grinding to a halt with almost 40 browser windows across two browsers, and only 8 GB RAM. It's also been taking longer and longer (like 5 minutes) getting from the POST screen to starting to load Windows. I bought 32 GB RAM to upgrade it this week. Installed it and then it took an hour of rebooting, pressing different keys, making a cup of tea, etc, before I saw the Windows splash screen. Can't get the memory running at the rated 1600 MHz either, motherboard just isn't having it.

Anyway, I got Windows loaded and one of my drives was missing. Then it crashed and rebooted! I've got the reboot time down to about 10 minutes, so kept trying. Then it couldn't find the boot SSD! Eventually I used my folding machine to download a current Win 10 ISO (saves an afternoon of updates), and tried to repair the OS. That didn't work. So I restored a 2 month old back-up. In the process of doing that, Windows wiped a disk that had over 3000 hours of saved TV shows on it!

Still got no idea what is going on with it. I hope it is just an accumulation of dust somewhere critical, and I just bought a couple of cans of compressed air (well, propane is what they use, don't know why they call it air!). Now I have to reorganise my front room so I can get the PC out to clean it and try to fix it. It's buried behind piles of boxes, with just enough room to get my hands in to change the memory I need it fixed, as the GTX 580 will be folding in it when the K10 arrives and goes in the more powerful machine (which might soon have to serve as my everyday system). (that gives me a few weeks).

First world problems, designed to make me think

 

[NastyHabits]

I took a chance, threw a few $$$ and an e-mail to the gentleman who runs Free-DC about F@H stats. He fixed it, BUT the data stats for today are an accumulation of everything since Jan. 9th. It should start looking normal in the next few days.

@debs3759 I just read your post. Sorry for all the issues! It sucks when your daily PC has fits. For what it's worth, it sounds like a either a failing motherboard or power supply. Just my two cents. Good luck with fixing it.

 

[phill]

Damn! My everyday PC (Llano A8-6800K with GT 730) was grinding to a halt with almost 40 browser windows across two browsers, and only 8 GB RAM. It's also been taking longer and longer (like 5 minutes) getting from the POST screen to starting to load Windows. I bought 32 GB RAM to upgrade it this week. Installed it and then it took an hour of rebooting, pressing different keys, making a cup of tea, etc, before I saw the Windows splash screen. Can't get the memory running at the rated 1600 MHz either, motherboard just isn't having it.

Anyway, I got Windows loaded and one of my drives was missing. Then it crashed and rebooted! I've got the reboot time down to about 10 minutes, so kept trying. Then it couldn't find the boot SSD! Eventually I used my folding machine to download a current Win 10 ISO (saves an afternoon of updates), and tried to repair the OS. That didn't work. So I restored a 2 month old back-up. In the process of doing that, Windows wiped a disk that had over 3000 hours of saved TV shows on it!

Still got no idea what is going on with it. I hope it is just an accumulation of dust somewhere critical, and I just bought a couple of cans of compressed air (well, propane is what they use, don't know why they call it air!). Now I have to reorganise my front room so I can get the PC out to clean it and try to fix it. It's buried behind piles of boxes, with just enough room to get my hands in to change the memory I need it fixed, as the GTX 580 will be folding in it when the K10 arrives and goes in the more powerful machine (which might soon have to serve as my everyday system). (that gives me a few weeks).

First world problems, designed to make me think

If Windows is acting strange, always best to unplug any hard drives/SSD's whatever, that you have in the system just in case something does go funky and things start going wrong. If it's just the OS drive that fails or messes up, then the data drives you have in the system won't be touched.. Had the pain a few times. If you can, try plugging the drives in and seeing what state they are in. Without doing too much to them, see if something like GetDataBack or any other data retrieving program can read the drive and bring the data back.
Sometimes this works but as I deleted a load of data from my server back along as I thought I didn't need it and from my backup drives, after running the program it found the files but they just don't work. The data of it all is there, but I'm guessing the headers of each file is corrupt or didn't get copied and so has been lost for good..

I hope you manage to get the data back and get your system up and running

 

[newtekie1]

I just bought a couple of cans of compressed air (well, propane is what they use, don't know why they call it air!).

Not propane, some used to use Butane, but even that has been phased out because spraying potentially hot PC components with a flammable gas isn't really a good idea. They all use di, tri, ortetrafluoroethane now.

But it sounds like your SSD might be on its way out to me.

 

[mstenholm]

I'm running out of efficient PCI-E slots (16x2.0 or 8x3.0, don't like to lose 5% upfront). The only semi useful upgrade I can make is to replace a 970 on/off folding in a Linux crunching rig but in order to do that I would like to see some 2060 Linux stock PPD numbers. All I see is that the GPU is in the shops (US, others incl. Germany which could be an option for me) and some (one) is complaining of high temperatures. No PPD Window or Linux. Come on team .

 

[mstenholm]

I had a 6 hour semi outage on one 2070. I open Teamviewer and saw /mind you is´t was before coffee "FAH 21 stopped working." Sure from the down load and till the I opened Teamviever it wrote zero line in the FAH log but then it resumed from 51% OK it completed at low points but wtf. I had around 10 on that rig (wired) where a completed unit was not replaced. Sure tried next-unit 99%and 100% made no different. Well we all have a little ups and downs.

Long rant and you lazy folders did not bye a 2060 since yesterday. My last first GPU mover was a GPX 680 knowing absolute nothing what it could, I must have told it 5 times already. Worst GPU ever,in terms of points/investments. Can be be picked up, mint condition. You might have to do me a return favor. Walk the dogs, garden work or just listen to me for an hour drinking coffee or redwine. Sure only apply to +18 year old people.

Back to my original question since you didn't I did. Takes some days and it is not a Z version and it will run in a Linux "box". to replace a 970..

 

[phill]

Been managing a few work units over the last few days because of the sunny weather.. Nothing like turning more things on when you've actually got good sun for a change!! Hopefully the good weather will continue and I'll carry on with putting some points on the board

 

[mx500torid]

I finally got the GTX 980 Ti folding on Ubuntu 18.04. Tried using Bucks write up on Ubuntu but it didnt work. Took to looking up posts on the web, some parts advanced me some didnt. Finally after many long hours I found this write up and i thought i would share. Mind you I totally suck at Linux but I like a challenge. http://www.bronyathome.org/forums/showthread.php?tid=626. This guy was spot on for me. Oh and the low ppd on the 980 Ti has went from a bunch of 420k ppd to so far constant 580k at stock clocks. So tomorrow Im going to try it again on the 970s. Really would like to upgrade the 970s but money kinda tight after the RTX 2080 purchase. For MS I have a friend that bought an Asus RTX 2060 but he will not fold on it, I tried man.

 

[XZero450]

Is the 9xx series that much different to setup as opposed to the 1xxx series? I just ran the auto install drivers to get 390 and set F@H's gpu=true and restarted. This is on 18.04 also.

 

[thebluebumblebee]

Don't know if this will help:
With that 1070 Ti, I finished the WU that the 980 Ti was on, shut the compute down, swapped GPU's and the 1070 Ti worked perfectly. Same when I swapped them back.

@mx500torid , that guy sure likes the command line. That might even work for an Arch Linux install. Much of what he does can be done from the GUI!

 

[mx500torid]

Maybe you can do a writeup on that BBB. I had all kinds of problems but when I did what he wrote it worked. I was going by other writeups and videos.

 

[debs3759]

I passed a million points overnight, and finally at 100K ppd. I'll be in our team's top 100 this month (that's not a difficult task though)

 

[mstenholm]

I passed a million points overnight, and finally at 100K ppd. I'll be in our team's top 100 this month (that's not a difficult task though)

Is that with or without your Tesla K10?
When I started folding around 9 years ago with a 8800 I think it was (8053,1 PPD) I bravely claimed that I soon would be in the DAILY top 20. That was misunderstood as I would be in the overall team top 20 . Back then I could keep my fingers from the keyboard and let it slide but if you wait long enough almost all is possible. Best of luck with reaching page 1.
New change of plans - my GTX 970 stays in my 2700x doing a little on/off folding, my one Intel hex will have HT disabled and WCG stopped. That way I think that I can thermally fit a 1070ti and a 2060 in it. Well plans are to be changed and I will not have it until Monday anyways.
Edit: just realized that I then have to swap two PSUs. I doubt that even a good 9 year old 500 W can pull that much. Back to plan one and hope that the current Linux/Nvidia driver will pull a 2060.

 

[mstenholm]

My new RTX arrived today but so did my new router so fist thing first. I have copper and that is creap so I got a 4G and 12 times improvement in speed up and down. Don't buy a Chinese manual translated to Danish. After two hours I gave up and phoned hotline. Net thing in line was to and the 2060 to my part time folder. A couple of restarts and I noticed that I only used 30 W more the the 970 alone and that the PPD dropped from around 300-330 to 220K. I even lowered the WCG threads to 10. I better read up on Linux. I know that much that it takes a 415 but it was recognized and folding, well god know at what speed.
So reading or try and error. My hex without HT and no OC could make it below 500 W for the 1070ti and the 2060, if not, the rig is old, so an excuse to get some new. I was interested in seeing if a maxed OC 2060 could beat a maxed 1070ti so that will be step one.

 

[thebluebumblebee]

Don't buy a Chinese manual translated to Danish.

Was it translated to engrish first?