ETF Lounge

[BWG]

Yep! Discuss whatever you want here that complies with TOS. It's a mini folder's lounge, but it's also our prestigious 24/7 event folders. General chit chat related to the event. 

 

 

 

 

[Bastiaan_NL]

Good evening
Or afternoon for everyone from the other side of the ocean.

[BWG]

Since we're still in the stats dev stage, 1st official month will be July.

[Bastiaan_NL]

So that means we can win June too?

Before everyone gets serious..

[BWG]

Looks very likely. It's quite a fake run! I've only been on the winning TC Team 1x lol when I was with Explosm. I'm surprised everyone hasn't raided eBay for GTX 960's yet.

[zodac]

19 hours ago, BWG said:

Since we're still in the stats dev stage, 1st official month will be July.

More time for me to break stuff!

[BWG]

I'm going to start writing the event kick-off posts etc. for July over the weekend.

[Avacado]

1 minute ago, BWG said:

I'm going to start writing the event kick-off posts etc. for July over the weekend.

Good, stay away from the calendar, no one was doing it and I called dibs. 

[BWG]

1 minute ago, Avacado said:

Good, stay away from the calendar, no one was doing it and I called dibs. 

 I just went onto the calendar and added an event for you to fold your m40 again in ETF.  

[Avacado]

Just now, BWG said:

 I just went onto the calendar and added an event for you to fold your m40 again in ETF.  

Since you have so much time on your hands, fly down here and come get it running for me. 

[BWG]

Just now, Avacado said:

Since you have so much time on your hands, fly down here and come get it running for me. 

 

I'm eating lunch. I can teleport. Let me give you my coordinates. 

[Bastiaan_NL]

3 hours ago, Avacado said:

Since you have so much time on your hands, fly down here and come get it running for me. 

I would love to drop my tools and take the next flight, but I bet my boss will have a few things to say about that

[Avacado]

4 minutes ago, Bastiaan_NL said:

I would love to drop my tools and take the next flight, but I bet my boss will have a few things to say about that

Tell him you are helping to fight COVID-19. 

[Bastiaan_NL]

We as a company are not really affected by Covid, we are busy as ever and short of hands (and though we've been working every day, not a single one of us got sick). So I'm pretty sure he would not see that as a valid reason to leave for a few weeks though I still have about 40 days vacation credit.

 

But I like the idea

[firedfly]

What's the status of the ETF teams?  Anyone needing a new team member?  Any new teams in the works?

[Avacado]

10 hours ago, firedfly said:

What's the status of the ETF teams?  Anyone needing a new team member?  Any new teams in the works?

Where were you 2 months ago???

[firedfly]

1 hour ago, Avacado said:

Where were you 2 months ago???

I didn't have any hardware I could commit to being up for a full month.  I have some quadro cards available now.  As long as they qualify... They are running in Linux, but the Lars database only has stats for Windows.  @BWG would these cards qualify?  p620 and p400 in Linux

[Avacado]

23 minutes ago, firedfly said:

I didn't have any hardware I could commit to being up for a full month.  I have some quadro cards available now.  As long as they qualify... They are running in Linux, but the Lars database only has stats for Windows.  @BWG would these cards qualify?  p620 and p400 in Linux

They absolutely count. Would use the "All OS" averages, even though they mirror windows stats. Though I would be REALLY curious to see if your linux stats populated on the database. Have you folded any units with them yet?

 

Worst case scenario, compile a few WU's, wait for the database to see it and then base stats on your STOCK freqs for linux. 

Edited June 2, 2021 by Avacado

[firedfly]

58 minutes ago, Avacado said:

They absolutely count. Would use the "All OS" averages, even though they mirror windows stats. Though I would be REALLY curious to see if your linux stats populated on the database. Have you folded any units with them yet?

 

Worst case scenario, compile a few WU's, wait for the database to see it and then base stats on your STOCK freqs for linux. 

 

From my understanding, you have to run the Folding in the Dark Chrome extension to upload stats to lars.  As far as I can tell, this will only work on the local computer--not remote computers.  The linux system with the quadro cards is headless with command line only, so I wouldn't be able to run the Chrome extension.

 

I guess, if I need to force some stats for Linux into lars so I can use one of these cards, I might be able to do some dns shenanigans to map https://client.foldingathome.org/ to the linux box.  Though, that sounds like too much effort  

 

If you know any different, let me know.

[Avacado]

8 minutes ago, firedfly said:

 

From my understanding, you have to run the Folding in the Dark Chrome extension to upload stats to lars.  As far as I can tell, this will only work on the local computer--not remote computers.  The linux system with the quadro cards is headless with command line only, so I wouldn't be able to run the Chrome extension.

 

I guess, if I need to force some stats for Linux into lars so I can use one of these cards, I might be able to do some dns shenanigans to map https://client.foldingathome.org/ to the linux box.  Though, that sounds like too much effort  

 

If you know any different, let me know.

Nope thats about right. Dang, sorry. Still, I would be ok with you running them with all OS point calibration. Guess we will have to ask the boss @zodac, not that other guy. 

[BWG]

inb4 zodac says he is not the boss. Although, he's a way better boss than I have ever been. 

 

  

1 hour ago, firedfly said:

I didn't have any hardware I could commit to being up for a full month.  I have some quadro cards available now.  As long as they qualify... They are running in Linux, but the Lars database only has stats for Windows.  @BWG would these cards qualify?  p620 and p400 in Linux

 

It's one of those situations where I'd be taking it to the team captains to decide on whether we would just use LARS all os, windows, test fold stock and track, or if even 1 captain opposes it, disallow. 

 

@tictoc @Supercrumpet what do you guys think about allowing it? I'm not opposed, and I would want 7 solid days of stock folding to derive the average myself.

Edited June 2, 2021 by BWG

[damric]

 

[Bastiaan_NL]

6 hours ago, BWG said:

inb4 zodac says he is not the boss. Although, he's a way better boss than I have ever been. 

 

  

 

It's one of those situations where I'd be taking it to the team captains to decide on whether we would just use LARS all os, windows, test fold stock and track, or if even 1 captain opposes it, disallow. 

 

@tictoc @Supercrumpet what do you guys think about allowing it? I'm not opposed, and I would want 7 solid days of stock folding to derive the average myself.

Though I'm not a captain, I think this is pretty fair. I'm sure running 7 days at stock clocks and no beta flag is a better baseline than the LARS database. 

 

1 hour ago, damric said:

 

I like the way that system looks/works, reminds me of all the crazy stuff I used to do for a few suicide runs

 

 

The 2080ti system runs pretty good, maxed out at 22.5°C over ambient which was 30°C today. Still holding 2055mhz and over 5.7mil ppd on the 13448 units, can't complain about that. That unit runs a little low on power consumption though, so with a unit that manages to pull 330w it'll run a bit warmer (though I will cap the power at that point).

[tictoc]

I would be fine with using the All OS average, and then doing a week long test, just to make sure that everything is in line.

 

The only real issue is that if there aren't any recent results then the average on LARS is probably going to include a bunch of pre-CUDA tasks. On average the old OpenCL NVIDIA tasks were at least 25-30% less PPD, compared to the current CUDA tasks. I'm not 100% sure on the above, since I have no idea how long the LARS database has been up and running.

Edited June 2, 2021 by tictoc

[damric]

2 hours ago, Bastiaan_NL said:

 

I like the way that system looks/works, reminds me of all the crazy stuff I used to do for a few suicide runs

 

I'd really like to change out that B450 board with a Threadripper board if I can ever find one around $200. I should have bought that one I saw on ebay a couple weeks ago.