EXTREMEHW First Annual 96 Hour Folding Challenge, March 17th-20th 00:00 UTC

[StrunkenCap]

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Edited March 21, 2023 by StrunkenCap
https://extremehw.net/topic/2662-extremehw-first-annual-96-hour-folding-challenge-march-17th-20th-0000-utc/?do=findComment&comment=35859

[ENTERPRISE]

  On 15/03/2023 at 13:26, 80-watt Hamster said:

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  On 15/03/2023 at 15:39, StrunkenCap said:

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Welcome to EHW, thanks for swinging by our community and pitching in

[1freedude]

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[neurotix]

  On 15/03/2023 at 20:44, 1freedude said:

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Welcome to EHW. Thanks for joining our competition!

[1freedude]

  On 15/03/2023 at 20:50, neurotix said:

 

Welcome to EHW. Thanks for joining our competition!

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Sure thing, but you'll have to blame damric for inviting the riff-raff!

[Avacado]

  On 15/03/2023 at 21:37, 1freedude said:

Sure thing, but you'll have to blame damric for inviting the riff-raff!

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[1freedude]

  On 15/03/2023 at 21:38, Avacado said:

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But my hair is more curly, and more of it.  I put up a pic in the lounge general nonsense at tpu.  I'll see if I can find it.

 

Edit, here it is, but ya gotta sign in

https://www.techpowerup.com/forums/threads/general-nonsense.232862/post-4911210

Edited March 15, 2023 by 1freedude
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[Broseph]

  On 15/03/2023 at 12:56, Alex said:

Putting that 7950X3D to work

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Whoa, 3.4M PPD.  What's the PPD from the 7950X3D and the 1080Ti individually?  I'd almost also wanna experiment with dedicating 31 threads to one F@H core vs. 8, 12, or 16, but I don't know what gives the maximum PPD.

I'm deciding between 7950X or 7950X3D.

Edited March 15, 2023 by Broseph

[Broseph]

  On 15/03/2023 at 08:55, ENTERPRISE said:

 

Cheers Worth the investment bud. While I tried to get a 10Gbe card to work in it (Should I get above 1Gb Internet one day), it would not have it and after a lot of effort, decided it was easier to go with the I350-T4. I am sure you could get it to work once you tied down the right model and go through the effort, but the Speeds I get from my ISP (1GB) is more than enough anyway. You can pick up the HP Thin Clients on Ebay for dirt cheap, the I350-T4 is also really cheap but fantastic, I mainly got it as most of the Intel NIC's have acceleration on them which is important for things like network inspection etc (Suricata). otherwise you can end up with a bottleneck.  

 

I went with as much RAM as I did as I was not sure how many services I would be putting through it and the overhead. I run Suricata, pfBlockerNG. Squid Proxy Server with a large amount of host lists etc and I only hit 13% usage lol. So yeah, 8GB would see you more than comfortable. You would also get away with 4GB likely.

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Yeah, getting a 4-port 10Gbe card would be ideal, but I don't think the T730 cooling or power delivery can handle it, so I may just go with plain ol' Gigabit.

I overspent like $700 on my first pfSense build in 2013:  Xeon CPU, 2x8 GB of DDR3 ECC RAM, Supermicro motherboard for 4-port Intel i210 Gigabit NICs, 2U Rosewill rackmount chassis.  It was rock solid but a lightning storm in 2019 destroyed it (the surge entered the house through coax cable then traveled through the cable modem and fried everything attached to Ethernet.)

While my ultimate goal is to someday build a solid 1U Supermicro pfSense router that has plenty of 10Gbe, SFP+, and 25-Gig (SFP28) connectivity, something like that would be over $1000, and I'm currently renting and we're on 200/20 Mbps cable Internet and the house is not wired for Ethernet yet, so the HP Thin client idea seems cheap enough for current needs.

I mainly used pfBlocker with lots of malware filtering rules, no Snort/Suricata yet (learning curve and fine-tuning!), and 24/7 OpenVPN gateways with policy-based routing for all my WAN traffic, and FreeRADIUS for WPA2-Enterprise EAP-TLS WiFi (certificates everywhere and mutual auth).  I can't wait to have pfSense running again so I can switch from WPA3-PSK to WPA3-Enterprise

I should be good with the 8 GB RAM in a thin client build and in the future I can re-purposes the machine as a small Proxmox device or something.  I've been putting off my pfSense rebuild for almost 4 years now.

 

But I digress.  Fold on! 

[damric]

  On 15/03/2023 at 21:48, Broseph said:

Whoa, 3.4M PPD.  What's the PPD from the 7950X3D and the 1080Ti individually?  I'd almost also wanna experiment with dedicating 31 threads to one F@H core vs. 8, 12, or 16, but I don't know what gives the maximum PPD.

I'm deciding between 7950X or 7950X3D.

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I set a 5950X to run 28 of 32 threads. I had to set LLC to high and disable PBO, otherwise it would keep crashing. Even ECO mode did not agree with f@h on my 5950X. Also running a 6900XT on that rig.

[damric]

  On 15/03/2023 at 21:37, 1freedude said:

Sure thing, but you'll have to blame damric for inviting the riff-raff!

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We're a riff-raff haven here. Apparently some forums thought we were too greasy and dirty and deleted my invitation posts for the event. W1zzard at TPU was quite helpful though. That guy knows what's up.

 

Shoutout to LTT, Guru3D, EVGA forum, f@h forum, HWBOT, and anyone else that didn't delete my spam!

Edited March 15, 2023 by damric

[Monsterkater]

  On 15/03/2023 at 21:48, Broseph said:

What's the PPD from the 7950X3D and the 1080Ti individually?

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Judging from the screenshot, I'd guess about 1M for the 7950X3D, which leaves 2.4M for the 1080Ti

[AnotherReader]

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[Rogue Leader]

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[damric]

  On 16/03/2023 at 14:58, Rogue Leader said:

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Glad to have you representing Tom's Hardware!

 

Just over 8 hours to go until challenge starts, so hopefully everyone is lighting off the crunch machines to work out any last minute kinks.

 

I see that a new beta client for folding@home has been released. I'll test it out after the competition ends. 

V8 Client Guide – Folding@home

FOLDINGATHOME.ORG

 

[CoolGTX]

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[Sir Beregond]

Hope to join you guys in a future comp when I have a space I can run rigs for this.

 

Knock it out of the park everyone!  

[Another Crafter]

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gl everyone!

[CharliesTheMan]

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[Torell]

  On 16/03/2023 at 15:29, CoolGTX said:

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Woot! 

[damric]

  On 16/03/2023 at 16:53, Torell said:

Woot! 

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How many here from EVGA forum?

[ENTERPRISE]

  On 16/03/2023 at 16:01, Another Crafter said:

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gl everyone!

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Welcome

[Torell]

  On 16/03/2023 at 17:27, damric said:

How many here from EVGA forum?

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Just Cool and myself, not sure of others.  

[neurotix]

 

5 hours guys!

Edited March 16, 2023 by neurotix

[neurotix]

Welcome to everyone joining. Competition starts in 3 hours guys!