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[debs3759]

I just had to reduce the power limit of my GPU to 80% - my electricity cost rose by 50% yesterday! Not sure yet how that will affect my ppd, but the card will be using about 45W less, so hopefully my meter won't need topping up before pay day

Looking so far like 80% power is still giving me somewhere between 2M and 2.2M ppd, will know better after a few days averages. Might reduce it to 60% in a few days, and compare that. Bloody rip-off UK power prices

 

[debs3759]

I'm putting folding on pause for a few weeks while I get my finances reorganised to deal with the recent excessive increase in electric costs in the UK. Hopefully it'll only be until next month.

Meanwhile, I passed 200,000,000 points yesterday

 

[phill]

Love for the milestones, I understand about the electric costs in the UK.....

 

[80-watt Hamster]

I'm putting folding on pause for a few weeks while I get my finances reorganised to deal with the recent excessive increase in electric costs in the UK. Hopefully it'll only be until next month.

Meanwhile, I passed 200,000,000 points yesterday

Love for the milestones, I understand about the electric costs in the UK.....

What's driving the rate spike?

 

[mstenholm]

What's driving the rate spike?

I'm sure that the fuel price increase has reached US as well, there is your short explanation. The longer one involves low oil production in the middle east, lower average wind speed in Europe, lower water reservoir levels, Russian gas production is low and the fact that the industrial production in Europe is more or less back to pre-Covid times. All in all a bad cocktail for folding and the more serious aspects of every day life.

 

[debs3759]

What's driving the rate spike?

They say that a cold winter and high demand for liquified natural gas in Asia has caused a dramatic hike in wholesale gas prices, which translates to high wholesale electricity prices here, even for those of us who get our electric solely from renewable sources that are not directly affected.

Translation: Capitalism has caused a price hike.

I read somewhere that electricity prices have gone down in Spain, so I put the excessive rise down to greed.

 

[mstenholm]

They say that a cold winter and high demand for liquified natural gas in Asia has caused a dramatic hike in wholesale gas prices, which translates to high wholesale electricity prices here, even for those of us who get our electric solely from renewable sources that are not directly affected.

Translation: Capitalism has caused a price hike.

I read somewhere that electricity prices have gone down in Spain, so I put the excessive rise down to greed.

@debs3759 Spain want to have EU to pull rank and make a jonit purchase of gas in order to reduce the price like we did with corvid vaccination doses. I think you need to re-read whatever you saw about energy and Spain. The energy prices started to rise during the late summer so cold winter?
Spain energy
Edit: I found your souce on cold winter and China gas demand, BBC. Cold winter was last year, ok, storage is down, price go up and we are all seeing into a winter with higher energy price, some governments try to force the suppliers to reduce prices like UK and Spain but that doesn’t change the fact that energy prices is up big time.

 

[80-watt Hamster]

Let me preface this Q by saying I'm not in this for the points. Buuuuut...

I've currently got one folder running, a humble RX 470. AvgPPD had been floating in the mid-300k range for quite some time, but lately I'm not hitting that mark, and often coming in well below 200k. Had something changed in scoring or WUs, or should I be looking at configs?

(Also, should this have gone in the tech assistance thread?)

 

[windwhirl]

Let me preface this Q by saying I'm not in this for the points. Buuuuut...

I've currently got one folder running, a humble RX 470. AvgPPD had been floating in the mid-300k range for quite some time, but lately I'm not hitting that mark, and often coming in well below 200k. Had something changed in scoring or WUs, or should I be looking at configs?

(Also, should this have gone in the tech assistance thread?)

Well, I folded with a RX 580. Last time I checked, and that was around September or so, a job taking somewhere around 10 to 12 hours or so gave somewhere around 120/130K points

I think sometimes the average rewards have changed, but I couldn't tell you if that's a FAH-wide thing or if it depends on the kind of work unit (if it's Cancer, Alzheimer, or whatever)

 

[1freedude]

Let me preface this Q by saying I'm not in this for the points. Buuuuut...

I've currently got one folder running, a humble RX 470. AvgPPD had been floating in the mid-300k range for quite some time, but lately I'm not hitting that mark, and often coming in well below 200k. Had something changed in scoring or WUs, or should I be looking at configs?

(Also, should this have gone in the tech assistance thread?)

Where did you notice the decrease? I see a variable average per day at this link...

80wattHamster User Summary - Folding@Home Stats

F@H stats user summary for 80wattHamster. Help Folding at Home fight Coronavirus, further medical research, and prevent diseases with distributed computing!

folding.extremeoverclocking.com

 

[dogwitch]

there was some odd point wu. that where directly needed cpu also . so if you already was using a cpu wu.. it would do less points.

 

[80-watt Hamster]

Well, I folded with a RX 580. Last time I checked, and that was around September or so, a job taking somewhere around 10 to 12 hours or so gave somewhere around 120/130K points

I think sometimes the average rewards have changed, but I couldn't tell you if that's a FAH-wide thing or if it depends on the kind of work unit (if it's Cancer, Alzheimer, or whatever)

That makes sense. If only completing a couple WUs a day, numbers would necessarily bounce quite a bit.

Where did you notice the decrease? I see a variable average per day at this link...

80wattHamster User Summary - Folding@Home Stats

F@H stats user summary for 80wattHamster. Help Folding at Home fight Coronavirus, further medical research, and prevent diseases with distributed computing!

folding.extremeoverclocking.com

Over the last couple weeks just looking at Phill's summary posts. Thanks for reminding me of the XOC tracker; I'd forgotten about it. The big dip in Nov makes sense and was expected since that was when I retired an R9 270, but my admittedly faulty memory thought that the 470 did better than this on its own.

Funny thing: It won't pull more than about 55-60W on a folding load, even with an unstable OC.

Anyway, thanks all. Will continue to monitor and search for teammates for it.

 

[Ivan Bliminse]

Unfortunately my pc is in the same room as i sleep in so can only fold between 0800 - 2300 daily.. or else i'd run continuously..

 

[windwhirl]

Unfortunately my pc is in the same room as i sleep in so can only fold between 0800 - 2300 daily.. or else i'd run continuously..

Don't worry about it. I only have one machine doing crunching, and that's my one and only daily driver.

The important thing is the science is being done, at any rate.

 

[dogwitch]

Don't worry about it. I only have one machine doing crunching, and that's my one and only daily driver.

The important thing is the science is being done, at any rate.

yeah i have to do around 12 hours or so of folding or boinc/mining due to power / heat where i live.

 

[mstenholm]

Unfortunately my pc is in the same room as i sleep in so can only fold between 0800 - 2300 daily.. or else i'd run continuously..

It’s been +10 ago I began folding. It was the time before bonus for returning jobs fast, the QRB I think it’s called. In order to qualify you need a password as I recall. Do you have that password punched in? Maybe some of the newer members can guide you in case that what I wrote here makes no sense at all? The first 10 jobs completed after adding the password is without bonus and I can see that you did 11 now…..

 

[Ivan Bliminse]

It’s been +10 ago I began folding. It was the time before bonus for returning jobs fast, the QRB I think it’s called. In order to qualify you need a password as I recall. Do you have that password punched in? Maybe some of the newer members can guide you in case that what I wrote here makes no sense at all? The first 10 jobs completed after adding the password is without bonus and I can see that you did 11 now…..

I don't have any password (not that i'd know where to enter it into) as all i have done is jump on to the F@home site and start folding.. As to QRB and qualifying I have no idea.. ;-)

 

[mstenholm]

I don't have any password (not that i'd know where to enter it into) as all i have done is jump on to the F@home site and start folding.. As to QRB and qualifying I have no idea.. ;-)

I thought that much thats why I asked the team with the process in fresh mind to help you.

F@H passkey, google

 

[Deleted member 202104]

It's been a year since I've run F@H so I can't remember, but I found this:

Passkey – Folding@home

foldingathome.org

*edit* @mstenholm beat me with an edit.

 

[Ivan Bliminse]

Thanks for that but when i goto enter the passkey i get "The passkey must be a 32 character hexadecimal string" what's that all about, am i meant to add something specific..?
Would i need to uninstall / reinstall in order to complete it correctly ?
(sorry, complete n00b here)

 

[Deleted member 202104]

Thanks for that but when i goto enter the passkey i get "The passkey must be a 32 character hexadecimal string" what's that all about, am i meant to add something specific..?

(sorry, complete n00b here)

Scroll down on that page to the "Where can I get a passkey" section. Enter your name and email address and they'll mail you your passcode to enter within the F@H app.

 

[mstenholm]

First hit with my google suggestion -the place to apply for passkey. Put in FAHControl, Configure, identity.

 

[Ivan Bliminse]

First hit with my google suggestion -the place to apply for passkey. Put in FAHControl, Configure, identity.

Thankyou, followed your suggestion, my name on the Local Folding@home is now FAHControl and entered the given Passkey.
Will i have to keep this name or can i change it back to my previous (DoH!) ?
I had just made another 44k, but obviously i'll have to restart once again...;-)

 

[mstenholm]

Thankyou, followed your suggestion, my name on the Local Folding@home is now FAHControl and entered the given Passkey.
Will i have to keep this name or can i change it back to my previous (DoH!) ?
I had just made another 44k, but obviously i'll have to restart once again...;-)

I’m not sure but I think that you will have to start all over. Do I understand you correct, you entered the name FAHControl and not DoH! ? Change it in the settings to DoH!. F@H support forum

 

[Jacky_BEL]

I just read up on F@h :

COVID MOONSHOT SPRINT 11: The home stretch

so i decided to give it another try.

I noticed in the log that OpenCL was used instead of CUDA.
Probably a newer version of CUDA is required , which means a GPU driver update.

Edit:
I can confirm , updated to driver package 471.68 , which contains CUDA version 11.4.112
F@h is now again using CUDA platform.