TPU's F@H Team

[(FIH) The Don]

wooohoo im back , just fired up folding for the first time in over 7 years

 

[hat]

Now there's a name I remember from way back. How's it going?

 

[NastyHabits]

Anybody else having trouble getting new work units? I haven't been able to receive any for several hours. Two computers attempting to connect to work server 140.163.4.241.

Here's the error message:
01:05:22:WU01:FS01:Connecting to 140.163.4.241:8080
01:06:22:ERROR:WU01:FS01:Exception: 10002: Received short response, expected 512 bytes, got 0

 

[mstenholm]

Anybody else having trouble getting new work units? I haven't been able to receive any for several hours. Two computers attempting to connect to work server 140.163.4.241.

Here's the error message:
01:05:22:WU01:FS01:Connecting to 140.163.4.241:8080
01:06:22:ERROR:WU01:FS01:Exception: 10002: Received short response, expected 512 bytes, got 0

Yes it has been one of these days. One server is down at Stanford.

 

[Arjai]

I've been back for a few minutes. It's been a good couple years off but, figured I would put my 580 to work, since it's been lonely... LOL.

 

[NastyHabits]

Finally got WU from Stanford after 12 hours. Whew!

 

[phill]

I was going to ask what was happening and if anyone else had been having issues... Well turns out I'm not alone which is kinda a good thing... At least I've been able to make use of the sun today

I hope everyone has been having a great day??

 

[windwhirl]

I was going to ask what was happening and if anyone else had been having issues... Well turns out I'm not alone which is kinda a good thing... At least I've been able to make use of the sun today

I hope everyone has been having a great day??

I'm taking advantage of the rather low temperatures (just 20 ºC right now) to get some work done without making a sauna out of the room.

Getting WUs has been hit and miss, with servers not responding, failing to connect or cutting off the connection mid-download.

When I do get something to do, it can be either for FahCore 0x21 or 0x22. 0x22 seems to give more points, so... here's hoping that I get more of those

 

[NastyHabits]

Stanford, like most universities in the US, is closed. Assuming that the labs are at least partially staffed by students, it's no wonder that there are issues. Hopefully the situation gets rectified on Monday.

 

[phill]

Had been hoping for a few work units yesterday but there where hit and miss but if someone has cleared them out, then I'm not surprised by it at all It's all in the name of good so I don't mind it

 

[Gmr_Chick]

I just joined the program last night, finally, after being curious about it for a few years. I...still know the ins and outs of it (and how to even explain it to family members ) but in light of what's going on (y'all calm dem tiddies over the damn toilet paper!) I figured what the heck and decided to give folding a try. Finished a COVID-19 project last night (actually, 2 I think) and racked up 17,833 points using my RX 580 and 3600. I'll mainly be "fighting" cancer because it's the bastard that took my father.

 

[hat]

You guys aren't alone not being able to get any work. I think the F@H team would be wise to take a page out of the BOINC playbook, and allow queueing of work units.

 

[phill]

I hope it's working better today, I've had some sun this morning so the PCs and servers are on folding and crunching away

Has anyone been having any better luck getting work units today??

 

[mstenholm]

I hope it's working better today, I've had some sun this morning so the PCs and servers are on folding and crunching away

Has anyone been having any better luck getting work units today??

Yes and no. Three out of five GPUs had/have something to do the past 8 hours, on and off. I'm faced with a weird problem with my monitors/cables/setup. I can't see three rigs (all have watt-meters, so I know if they fold). I don't run any supervision program atm, stupid me, but I can get the monitor to work on a rig if I go to bios but as soon as it start loading Windows (7) it goes to sleep mode. That was my 2070/Win7 rig. That same monitor goes direct to sleep mode in my 2070 Super/Linux and on my 2x2060 Linux. Here I can't just restart since I need to manual start FAHClient. What if the problem is the same? Then I for sure "killed" F@H, now at least it pick one WU from time to time.

In the process I borrowed a display cable from my dual 2060/Linux and now that rig/screen goes direct to sleep when I connect it. It run one GPU I can see from the power uptake, so I leave it as it is, for now. I ordered a new monitor and two new cables but until I get them the 8M PPD I had a week ago will be closer to 2M.

The good thing is that with all the new Corona-folders all available jobs get done.

 

[NastyHabits]

I hope it's working better today, I've had some sun this morning so the PCs and servers are on folding and crunching away

Has anyone been having any better luck getting work units today??

Nope. I think it may be due to their ramping up Covid-19 WU's. They asked for our patience in a news post.

FAH and Covid-19 virus

It's almost 9:00 AM here in California as I post this. Although Stanford is closed, hopefully a researcher or two is coming to work today.

 

[Gmr_Chick]

Right now, both my CPU and GPU are involved in COVID-19 projects 14329 and 11749, respectively, but my GPU has been working on 11749 since last night (I stop folding and put my rig into Sleep mode while I sleep, but I fold while working on my rig otherwise), but within the past hour or so my CPU picked up the 14329 project.

 

[Bones]

Getting WU's as you all know by now isn't easy.
I've been working on whatever I get, Corona related or not and right now I've got one of those going. I'm hoping they can get the server issues sorted and then more of us can get some WU's to work on. One thing is so many have responded to the call for help that they just don't have enough WU's to go around.

I've had decent luck with only one period of time I coudn't get a WU today, earlier I was getting them.
Just restated the client a few minutes ago and got the one I'm working on right away, no waiting.

 

[hat]

I normally wouldn't fold on my CPU since it's significantly slower than my GPUs, but I added a CPU slot just to see what would happen. Seems like there's some issue there too... I saw one running on the CPU this morning before I left for work, and both GPUs were idle. Now everything's idle...

 

[phill]

I was wondering is everyone still having issues with the work units?? It seems like we are lower down on the scores that I'd see from most of the top 10 guys... I've not run it for a day or two but it's definitely become slower trying to get work units and for the team TPU, it's grown by nearly 4 times!!

 

[NastyHabits]

@phill I haven't gotten new WU in 24 hours. I don't mind, but my folding PC does contribute to warming my apartment. Small sacrifice on my part.

 

[thebluebumblebee]

PCMR's PPD went up 250% oops, did I ever get that wrong. They went from ~45M PPD to topping out at 700M which is +1450% If we assume that there's a direct correlation between users and PPD, then, if I'm doing my math right, they started this with ~1,425 Folders and now have 22,000! I can see this causing WU shortages during the best of time, much less during C19.

 

[hat]

I've gone back to mining at the moment... my cards were idle anyway. There's a good chance I may jump back in when there's actually work for me to do...

Anyone know what's going on with the FAH stats page, though? All I can get out of it is Loading... or Bad Gateway.

 

[windwhirl]

I got a new WU in the morning, according to EOC F@H stats.

No idea if I got another one after (I'm at work now). But probably not. Not only because of the sudden tsunami of new folders (which is more than welcome, btw), but also because at least one ISP down here is at the limit of their capacity (online school classes, WFH, streaming services, etc., all went up A LOT, and the Internet infrastructure available simply can't keep up). I've been trying to connect to AFIP (Argentine IRS) for the past hour to send a bunch of tax forms and I can't even reach the authentication page, never mind getting to upload the files...

 

[XZero450]

I was wondering is everyone still having issues with the work units?? It seems like we are lower down on the scores that I'd see from most of the top 10 guys... I've not run it for a day or two but it's definitely become slower trying to get work units and for the team TPU, it's grown by nearly 4 times!!

I currently have 6 GPUs sitting idle, and very rarely 1 will get something.

 

[Gmr_Chick]

Anyone know what's going on with the FAH stats page, though? All I can get out of it is Loading... or Bad Gateway.

Same thing happened to me the other night when I tried joining the TPU team. I guess that means it's still experiencing problems.

Also, @XZero450, I love your signature. Lost my dad to colon cancer we didn't even know he had...until it was too late. That's one of the reasons why I decided to give folding a try. I couldn't help him, but maybe what I'm doing can help somebody else. Peace