Folding Pie and Milestones!!

[s3thra]

Passed a million with 55 WUs complete!

 

[biffzinker]

22 WUs complete

 

[phill]

Right here's some early bird stats for the FAH Pie from the 24th March 2020.....

And now for the milestones and stoners for the day.......

@Anonymous ??!!
@biffzinker !!
@BigBeastBrady ??!!
@blackjacksli ??!!
@BogdanCalculeaza ??!!
@Captaindecisive ??!!
@Divide Overflow !!
@Eighty20 ??!!
@EvilTactics ??!!
@Folgore !!
@FranciscoAlexandrePires ??!!
@Iraklis ??!!
@Jacek_Bilski ??!!
@jmcslob !!
@Lebnil ??!!

Wow another massively busy day for team TPU!! We seem to have more members using the FAH client than the WCG client!! Still it's amazing that a virus can do all this Still fantastic work to everyone contributing to our team and the cause as a whole Massively impressive stuff everyone!! Congrats and well done!!

 

[phill]

Passed a million with 55 WUs complete!

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22 WUs complete
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Doing amazing things guys!! I hope I have tagged you in above, I think there was another 40+ milestones hit for our team and I don't have the time to go through and add all of them, so I invite this sort of update from everyone taking part

 

[trparky]

I have a completed work unit that just won't upload, the server keeps giving back errors.

 

[phill]

I have a completed work unit that just won't upload, the server keeps giving back errors.

I've been having that a lot recently, it's been most frustrating since it lowers your points each time that you can't upload or that it takes extra time to upload. Still getting a lack of work units down as the GPUs are mostly idle but again that's not the worst thing in the world....

If anyone else is getting the issues please do let us know It's good to hear everyone's experiences of this

 

[Mathragh]

If anyone else is getting the issues please do let us know It's good to hear everyone's experiences of this

Also had a couple of workunits that had trouble getting uploaded. Furthermore it anecdotally seems like Nvidia GPUs have less trouble getting workunits assigned than AMD GPUs. Is this possbile or am I imagining things? CPUs have the least available WU's in my experience.

 

[trparky]

it anecdotally seems like Nvidia GPUs have less trouble getting work units assigned than AMD GPUs.

Not that I can see. I have a GTX1060 and a lot of the time I'm fighting to get a work unit.

 

[biffzinker]

26 WUs completed:

Edit:

 

[phill]

Also had a couple of workunits that had trouble getting uploaded. Furthermore it anecdotally seems like Nvidia GPUs have less trouble getting workunits assigned than AMD GPUs. Is this possbile or am I imagining things? CPUs have the least available WU's in my experience.

Not that I can see. I have a GTX1060 and a lot of the time I'm fighting to get a work unit.

I just fold with my Nvidia cards as I don't believe the AMD cards (mostly for the RX 480's I have currently) would be very good at folding... So I just leave me 1070 and two 1080 Ti's fold along

I struggle getting work constantly but hopefully they'll have that sorted out at some point

I am curious if I can find out what work units I'm doing, as I have it set to any but I don't get a choice for the Covid-19 one.. Maybe that is just getting done as a default?? Anyone else have any ideas/evidence of what they are doing please do share

 

[Mathragh]

I just fold with my Nvidia cards as I don't believe the AMD cards (mostly for the RX 480's I have currently) would be very good at folding... So I just leave me 1070 and two 1080 Ti's fold along

I struggle getting work constantly but hopefully they'll have that sorted out at some point

I am curious if I can find out what work units I'm doing, as I have it set to any but I don't get a choice for the Covid-19 one.. Maybe that is just getting done as a default?? Anyone else have any ideas/evidence of what they are doing please do share

See this topic for more info on specific COVID projects (point 6) : https://foldingforum.org/viewtopic.php?f=16&t=32463, the web view of your F@H client also has more detailed info on the projects your hardware is currently working on.

Furthermore, it seems like however many extra workunits the researchers manage to add for peoples hardware to work on, the amount of available computing power is growing more quickly and their storage capacity isn't able to keep up with the increased data flow: https://www.anandtech.com/show/1566...0000000000-operations-per-second-for-covid-19 .
Sorry if this discussion is too offtopic for this particular thread, anywhere else this should be posted instead?

Edited for extra clarification.

 

[phill]

Right everyone, here's some more stats for the 25th March 2020 for FAH Pie.....

And now for the milestones and stoners for the day.....

@Anonymous ??!!
@AusWolf !!
@biffzinker !!
@BigBeastBrady ??!!
@blackjacksli ??!!
@Captindecisive ??!!
@Concerned_Citizen ??!!
@Dazlaa69 ??!!
@Decorator ??!!
@Divide Overflow !!
@Eighty20 ??!!
@jmcslob !!
@krusha03 !!
@Lebdnil ??!!
@Littlecheeks aka @Gmr_Chick !!

Another very busy day for team TPU's FAH group!! A total of 64 members contributing today, what an amazing turn out!! Congrats to everyone who made it past their next milestone and we hope to see you again very soon!!

What a result for the day!!

It seems we have a few teams on our tail now... I wonder why that is?? Normally it's the other way around and we are catching up with a load of people!! I do wonder if this might change when Covid-19 changes......

There was a load more people on the list for milestones so many apologies if I didn't mention you but please do put your score and milestone in the thread

 

[phill]

See this topic for more info on specific COVID projects (point 6) : https://foldingforum.org/viewtopic.php?f=16&t=32463, the web view of your F@H client also has more detailed info on the projects your hardware is currently working on.

Furthermore, it seems like however many extra workunits the researchers manage to add for peoples hardware to work on, the amount of available computing power is growing more quickly: https://www.anandtech.com/show/1566...0000000000-operations-per-second-for-covid-19 .
Sorry if this discussion is too offtopic for this particular thread, anywhere else this should be posted instead?

Thanks for the links, very much appreciated

I've tried the web viewer and it sucks for me, just keeps refreshing every second without me being able to do anything inside the page for changing options/settings etc. No idea why this is or what is causing it.. But having just read the number 7 (Copied and pasted from the link...)

7. How to fix Web control error ?
For: Google Chrome and some Chromium based browsers,
To fix web control,
Hit f12 on browser to enter dev mode,
right click on refresh button and hard reload.
Also try Incognito mode or clear cache.
Firefox is not affected by this bug.

It now makes sense and works in Edge (as I don't have FireFox installed but Edge is the only other installed....)

I see it's up to over 1.5 ExaFLOPS, or 1,500,000,000,000,000,000 floating point operations per second at the moment... That is amazing!! I hope one of the CPUs or GPUs contributing find something that will help with this virus....

Whilst I have half a brain, here's some information just in case someone wonders if they are contributing to Covid-19 as mine doesn't give me a definitive mention of what it's doing, just a work unit number which is explained by the below from the first link in @Mathragh's post (thank you again for that info!!)

6. How do I know that I'm working on COVID-19 related projects ?
If you're running a project that's listed here, you're fighting COVID-19 :
CPU : 13862 - 13863 - 14328 - 14329 - 14337 - 14528 to 14531 - 14572 - 14574 - 14576 - 14600 to 14602
GPU : 11741 to 11781

 

[Space Lynx]

So is this exascale compute power actually going to solve COVID-19, what exactly will they learn from protein folding COVID-19? Would be nice to have more transparency on this, it would be nice to know what the end game is if they succeed with the protein folding, if nothing comes of it 5 months from now, you are looking at a lot of contributing power wasted, aka accelerating climate change.

 

[Mathragh]

So is this exascale compute power actually going to solve COVID-19, what exactly will they learn from protein folding COVID-19? Would be nice to have more transparency on this, it would be nice to know what the end game, if nothing comes of it 5 months from now, you are looking at a lot of contributing power wasted, aka accelerating climate change.

I'd suggest starting here: https://foldingathome.org/2020/03/1...e-doing-and-how-you-can-help-in-simple-terms/

If you're afraid of wasting power and accelerating climate change; then by all means don't fold Over here in the northern hemisphere, especially at current temperatures, folding at least partly substitutes heating your home by other means, so it's not that big a of net-negative as you'd expect purely on (estimated) power use.

 

[Space Lynx]

I'd suggest starting here: https://foldingathome.org/2020/03/1...e-doing-and-how-you-can-help-in-simple-terms/

If you're afraid of wasting power and accelerating climate change; then by all means don't fold Over here in the northern hemisphere, especially at current temperatures, folding at least partly substitutes heating your home by other means, so it's not that big a of net-negative as you'd expect purely on (estimated) power use.

understandable, winter is over where I live though. in fact this week is getting quite warm


ty for link this helps me understand a lot better

 

[trparky]

I see it's up to over 1.5 ExaFLOPS, or 1,500,000,000,000,000,000 floating-point operations per second at the moment.

I had to look this up since I'm not familiar with numbers larger than Trillion. Anyways... That's 1 Quintillion, 500 Quadrillion floating-point operations per second.

According to one person on AnandTech, the issues that Folding@Home is having is something to do with storage capacity.

The limit on Folding@Home is actually storage bandwidth. They're working with Microsoft Azure to increase capacity - they spun up three 100 TB NVMe servers this week and it's still not enough.

Three 1 TB NVMe SSD equipped servers! And it's still not enough! Holy hell! Come on Microsoft, you got the capacity to spare... give more. MOAR!

 

[trparky]

Oh, what the hell...

15:46:36:WU00:FS01:Upload complete
15:46:36:WU00:FS01:Server responded WORK_QUIT (404)
15:46:36:WARNING:WU00:FS01:Server did not like results, dumping
15:46:36:WU00:FS01:Cleaning up

 

[hat]

Yeah... seems like I'm lucky to even get a work unit at all these days. The servers just can't keep up.

 

[toastem2004]

was rocking out, nearing top 10 and my first slice of pie ever, but the lack of WU has finally hit me as well.

 

[biffzinker]

My CPU is working on this at the moment.

GPU:

 

[toastem2004]

Yay, finally got one!

 

[phill]

Here comes for another dose of FAH Pie for the 26th March 2020...

And now for the milestones and stoners for the day......

@Anakha56 ??!!
@Anonymous ??!!
@AusWolf !!
@biffzinker !!
@BigBeastBrady ??!!
@blackjacksli ??!!
@BlackPantherTPU ??!!
@Captindecisive ??!!
@Concerned_Citizen ??!!
@DawidB ??!!
@Dazlaa69 ??!!
@Decorator??!!
@Divide Overflow !!
@Eighty20 ??!!
@EvilTactics ??!!

Amazing efforts everyone!! What a great day!! Again masses of people contributing to the FAH team in TPU... There's about 84 members contributing today, that's a good 5x more than normal for our team... Outstanding!! Amazing effort Team TPU!!

Live long and crunch and fold

 

[trparky]

Now if only I can get a work unit...

 

[windwhirl]

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Now if only I can get a work unit...

It's a waiting game, but a lot of work is being done: