axipher

I started my internet forum days back on sites like freebasic.net which also had the private to corporate move and lots my interest very quickly. Like ENTERPRISE here, I also spent a lot of time growing with the community on Overclock.net having joined late in 2011. The community we built there was great and continues to contain a lot of amazing people and I found myself coming back not for just the content, but the people driving the content and the discussions that took place.

I worked my way from a member up the staff ranks to the never officially titled Folding Editor Manager, but to be honest, the Folding Editors were always a team who each took a small part of the load of keeping Folding@Home alive and competitions of all sorts running while all having different tech backgrounds. We never really had a manager, just a bunch of members passionate about Folding@Home wanting to do their part to help out.

I'm looking forward to the journey ExtremeHW has in store and happy to be part of the early days.

In for this, fingers crossed my stats don't break

It was a pleasure to be a part of the shenanigans

Btw, we are targeting to get into the top 800 folding teams as our first objective. That's what we need to see a folding user list on the extremeoverclocking site

Or we could make our own Folding List with Overclocks and LN2

Heya... Can you a BOT3456?

Did you just change your Minecraft username? The server log shows that you tried connecting with an "Invalid Session" normally that's either from a bad username/password, the launcher needs to be re-opened and re-login, you are using a somehow deactivated account, or a recent username change which needs a logout and login on the Minecraft Launcher again.

Sure thing, once we get more people on, people can set up their own bases, then we can figure out where some group projects can be worked on.

Welcome to the forum, glad to have you aboard.

 

No RT ? Blasphemy !

I mean it needs Ray-Tracing that isn't locked to Nvidia RT cores and instead the DX12 Ray-tracing

Reply here is you want to be added to the Player List

First 10,000 x 10,000 blocks have been generated and mapped on the Unofficial ExtremeHW Minecraft Server at minecraft.axihub.ca

The server is running a mostly Vanilla Survival Experience on 1.16.4 on Java with some of the following Quality-of-Life features:

- Spawn Island to start off (If you have ideas to decorate it, message me)

- "/kit tools" grants you a complimentary set of Stone Tools, some Bread, a Boat, a Bed and some Torches; there is no need to struggle to start on a new server

- GriefPrevention Plugin to protect small plots of your builds as well as your first Chest; gain more protection blocks as you play (no AFK gains)

- EssentialsX Plugin to provide you with the ability to set your own homes with a GUI to access them

- Dynmap at the same address to see the world and plan your adventure

- No PvP, if there is enough interest, ExtremeHW will look at a more official Minecraft Server offering

Server Address: minecraft.axihub.ca

Current Server Operator Accounts:

- axipher

Current Players:

- ViridianVole (axipher's regular player account)

- TickTock1780 (tictoc)

- StevoTheLeo

- username TBD (Steven)

- Artikbot

- andrews2547 (Andrew)

- Supercrumpet

- bonami2

- TBD

You will need to buy a copy from Minecraft.net then once you have done that, sometimes you have to go back to the store page, navigate again to the Java Edition and click "Buy" even though you already did and it will bring you to the download page instead. You download the .MSI installer for Windows, or just the .JAR file for other Operating Systems and run it form there.

Builds and Bases show-off Thread: Unofficial ExtremeHW Minecraft Server - Show-off You Builds and Bases Here

If they remade the original Crysis with the new NeonNoir engine that doesn't need Nvidia RT, that would be amazing. I miss my old Alienware m5550-r3 that could play Crysis on the road.

Quick question to the Folding Guru's. Quadro's. Our work PC's have some entry level Quadro's, namely the P400. However when I install the Folding client it does not pick up the GPU. So I thought it was no biggie and tried to manually add it but when I try, nothing happens and it just drops back to the main screen of the Advanced viewer. Oddly enough it did give me a error before about supported GPU's (I think). Any idea or best way to force the client to use the GPU ?

Sometimes the Manufacturer Driver's aren't fully supported by application sometimes. Also I can't remember if Stanford has an up-to-date list of compatible hardware. All I can find is this old list: https://foldingathome.org/faqs/gpu3-...ed/for-nvidia/

 

Did you ever pick up any work? The only WUs that Navi can fold are core_22 WUs. I know that Stanford is prioritizing distribution of the Covid19 WUs which are all based on the new core_22. I imagine your laptop CPU and Quadro are picking up regular core_21 WUs in addition to the core_22 WUs.

 

Not sure if you have the amdgpu-pro drivers, but you will need those in order to run OpenCL projects in Ubuntu.

I gave up on folding in Ubuntu, was getting nothing and computer was just sitting their idling at 100 watts. And Laptop was getting way too hot and fans clicking at high speeds so that wasn't quite feasible right now.

The 128GB is actually a little short of what I would like to have. Running particle simulations, and as the application has been optimized, RAM usage has gone up per 8 core task. Right now I need to allocate about 35GB per task, so now I'm just giving each task 6 cores. Peak throughput for the current jobs are sitting at 8-core/32GB. I might be able to get by with offloading some of the in-memory data to NVMe drives, but that would require me to take my loop apart and add an NVMe RAID card. The card would need to run in a x16 slot, so I'd have to lose the triple-parallel bridge I am currently using. I might give it a go later this week, since a RAID card plus the NVMe drives is quite a bit cheaper than upgrading to 32GB DIMMs.

 

In it's normal day-to-day life, in addition to being my daily machine, it runs a few build servers, a host of differnt VMs, and does CI/CD for a few repos/applications. I had planned on bumping that machine up to 256GB with ECC UDIMMs, but putting a few things on hold due to the state of the world at the moment.

Hey there tictoc, been a while. Was that you that had an unfortunate encounter with a Creeper in the Minecraft Server?

Aww damn, sorry to miss this, I was out doing some renovations and came home at 5 and passed out for 2 hours :/

Quick question, I had a GPU OC that obviously messed up a WU. So now I have a WU that is stuck in "Send" mode. How does one fix that again ?

I can't remember if I ever had that issue before. I think you can in to the Appdata folder for FAHClient and delete the unit there, you won't get any credit or anything, but then when you restart FAHClient, it shouldn't find the bad unit and start a new one.

I can't run it on my Linux Gaming rig, but I can sure run it on my Mobile Quadro P2000 laptop.

 

Running a Plex server myself, I can tell you that the encode/decode performance will not be affected if the GPU is in a slot assigned to the chipset. I have never had any problems, lets put it that way. If there is a performance hit, then I can say with confident you would only see it on paper and nothing that would cause you any particular performance degradation:)

That's good news then, I might just throw my GPU in the chipset PCIe slot then and give that a test for transcoding first then.

Thanks the the reply. I was kind of thinking the same thing, that it would be minimal latency that would mostly mess with Crossfire/SLI or PCIe Raid (M.2 PCIe drives).

I'm just wondering if something like a GTX 1050 Ti will run fine for just video encode/decode for Plex on the chipset PCIe 4.0 x4 or just through the network card down there instead. The Network is more important for me, but if it's just a very tiny increase in latency, it should be fine in my mind, just wanted someone else's thoughts and potentially expertise on the issue.

 

Could be worse. You could be folding on a computer with a 1080Ti and another computer with a GT 1030 and are only getting WUs on the computer with the GT 1030 like @Alex

I can't get Work Units on my gaming PC at all with a Ryzen 3600x and Navi 5700, but my work laptop with an i7-8850H and Mobile Quadro P2000 can get units here and there no problem, but sounds like a bloody jet engine while Folding...

Hey all,

I just ordered an Asus X570-Pro board that can run two of the PCIe x16 slots at 4.0 x8 form the CPU and the third PCIe at 3.0 x4 from the X570 chipset.

Alongside the x16 slots, the two M.2 slots are split between the CPU and the Chipset and all the x1 slots are from the Chipset.

I plan to run a M.2 daughter board in one of the x16 slots form the CPU so I can run two M.2 drives in UnRaid as a mirrored Cache drive both from the CPU PCIe lanes directly. I've had issues on previous Ryzen builds where the M.2 drive mirroring didn't play nicely under high load when separated across the CPU and chipset.

I also plan to run an Nvidia GPU for Plex Transcoding and a 10 Gig Mellanox card that needs 3.0 x4.

My question now is what is the performance hit of running the Network card off the Chipset PCIe lanes vs. the CPU lanes directly?

I'm pretty sure I can't run the GPU off the chipset PCIe lanes for just encoding, but I could be wrong.

haha take that @ENTERPRISE

 

I've updated the Google Spreadsheet in Post #2 to have a Second Sheet that sorts by Points instead of FAH username.

FYI, there will be a HWBOT team coming: https://hwbot.org/team/extremehw/

 

More on this soon

Maybe it's a good thing I kept my Q6600 Optiflex Tower and my T9600 HP Laptop... Get some odd category numbers for ExtremeHW's HWBot.

Hey you want to come on for this episode, we're gonna talk about folding for the first time

I'll gladly join for a Podcast if you need extra Canadian voices... And another voice to discuss Folding, Gaming, Tech news, etc.