firedfly

I hit top 100 folders according to EOC stats with my contributions to EHW. I've also folded over 16 billion points for the team! https://folding.extremeoverclocking.com/individual_overtake.php?s=&u=1248729&p=1 My total points for all teams puts me at 87th and 19 billion points in the fah stats! https://stats.foldingathome.org/donor/id/8514

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The Corsair memory has arrived. Thanks!

Keep me updated on how the RMA goes. I have the same card, folding 24/7. No issues after 3 months folding at stock speeds.

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Just the difference between the 3000 series nvidia and 4000 series is significant. The 3090 will get 8-9mil ppd, I believe. My 4090 averages around 27mil ppd! That is a HUGE jump in a single generation.

I have a custom docker image that I created and a "startup script" to configure and start folding. However, there is more configuration that needs to be done so you can manually stop folding after completing your last WU before you terminate the instance. I'm hesitant to provided all of the information publicly for fear of people trying it out and having to terminate instances that have been assigned a WU. That just slows down the science waiting for those WUs to timeout and be sent to others for completion. If you (or anyone else) are interested in setting this up, let me know and I can help you get things configured. Hitting me up on the EHW discord is likely the easiest way to get you up and running. As for budget, I initially planned on $200 as an extra push for the competition. Then @CoolGTX showed up in force . I added another $200 to rent more 4090s to be able to compete with the massive amount of gear that he owns and can run!!! In hindsight, it might have been better to use that money towards another 4090 to run full time I guess a bit of background first. For the last 1.5 years or so, I was running 3x3080TI and several lesser 3000 series GPUs. Due to a recent move, I wasn't able to keep running all of that myself. Two of the 3080TI's were shipped to @Cerberus to add to his folding farm. He hosts cards for several EHW members. Meanwhile, I picked up a 4090 that I fold on 24/7. For the competition, I had the following personally owned hardware in play: - 1x4090 - 2x3080TI (hosted by cerberus) - 1x3080 12gb - 1xQuadro P620 (This thing makes a crazy amount of PPD!!!) I'm guessing I would have been fighting for third with my hardware alone. As mentioned above, I also rented 4090s on vast.ai for the competition. My initial ppd was with 4x4090s being rented (about 170mil ppd in total with my hardware). After you ramped up, I added another 8x4090s. I'm currently renting 10x4090s total and my combined ppd with my personal hardware is about 325mil ppd. I'll try to add a few photos later tonight. @CoolGTX, from my understanding, you have only used hardware that you own and run. That is an amazing amount of hardware to be able to devote to folding. You have put up MASSIVE points during the competition. Thanks for contributing and I'm glad we were all able to push each other to contribute more than normal during this competition! A lot of science has been done.

@CoolGTXstepped it up another notch and is closing the gap to first place! What hardware are you running and what did you change for the extra push?

If you want to spend any time trying to optimize those 3080ti's for the best PPD, let me know. I think we could bump those up a bit. @Cerberusis currently running my 3080ti's and reported earlier today that they are between 6.5-8.5mil ppd depending on the WU. I think he's running them in Linux. By comparison, my 3080 12gb in windows is doing ~7.5mil ppd pretty consistently.

What's the ppd on your 3080ti? From my (limited) testing, the drop in ppd on a high end GPU was more than a CPU would make. So, folding on GPU+CPU was less ppd than just GPU.

There is no performance improvement with v8 and it is still beta. If you use hfm to monitor your folding systems, it will not work with v8. I'm not sure if any paths change, but I think they probably stay the same. I wouldn't recommend using the v8 client right now unless you have a specific reason.

That 5 gig is pretty cheap. That's ~$180/mo here.

Q-cruncher is @tictoc. @Supercrumpet is cptasian.

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I matched @Avacado's contribution, so you have another 10% from me. Thanks for hosting!

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My p620 was down for a bit at the end of the month due to some network changes and not having a monitor easily accessible to hook up to that system. This has been resolved and the p620 is folding again.

Sounds like you'll be difficult to beat next time!

You do not need to do anything different. Keep folding with your current username and passkey. The section you quoted is for when there are prizes awarded where someone will fold under your name for a period of time. For example, last year, I offered up a folding time prize so someone could receive all points from a 3080ti for 24 hours. The winner was randomly chosen from all contributors in the competition.

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What ppd estimate are you seeing on the 4090?

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@Cerberus I finally got my Quadro P620 running again. You shouldn't be the only one on the team putting up points now!

I was looking at the O11 Dynamic Evo. It looks like its a few inches shorter than the XL, but similar length and width. I wasn't looking at the mini. The O11 Dynamic Evo should fit well in the space I have. I could probably move to the XL if I needed to (I have more space for a computer than I expected I would when I started this thread).