EXTREMEHW Foldathon July 22-23rd 00:00 UTC

[neurotix]

Weather has been unseasonably cool in the Northern Midwest for like a week. Around 75f-80f tops. This is strange for mid to late July, usually we are around 85-95f with high humidity. I bet we'll have a really hot August instead.

Edited July 21, 2023 by neurotix

[keeph8n]

yeah I'm enjoying the weather atm

[tictoc]

A little late on the start, but at least one GPU will be folding for the FaT.

 

--EDIT--

Fired up F@H on the outgoing 2080 Super one last time.

+---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| NVIDIA-SMI 535.86.05              Driver Version: 535.86.05    CUDA Version: 12.2     |
|-----------------------------------------+----------------------+----------------------+
| GPU  Name                 Persistence-M | Bus-Id        Disp.A | Volatile Uncorr. ECC |
| Fan  Temp   Perf          Pwr:Usage/Cap |         Memory-Usage | GPU-Util  Compute M. |
|                                         |                      |               MIG M. |
|=========================================+======================+======================|
|   0  NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 ...    On  | 00000000:09:00.0  On |                  N/A |
|  0%   52C    P2             203W / 292W |    547MiB /  8192MiB |     97%      Default |
|                                         |                      |                  N/A |
+-----------------------------------------+----------------------+----------------------+
                                                                                         
+---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| Processes:                                                                            |
|  GPU   GI   CI        PID   Type   Process name                            GPU Memory |
|        ID   ID                                                             Usage      |
|=======================================================================================|
|    0   N/A  N/A       638      G   /usr/lib/Xorg                                32MiB |
|    0   N/A  N/A       761      C   ...it/22-0.0.20/Core_22.fah/FahCore_22      510MiB |
+---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+

 

I did ease back the clocks a bit for its last hurrah on my bench.

nvidia-settings -c :0 -a '[gpu:0]/GPUGraphicsClockOffset[4]=-120'

 

Edited July 22, 2023 by tictoc

[HaRdLy007]

in Jeff_Petovello

[mx500torid]

Damn it sucks being old thought this was Friday. Gonna fire, key word its hot here, up a comp. Maybe 2 if I can throw it in another room.

[damric]

2 hours ago, mx500torid said:

Damn it sucks being old thought this was Friday. Gonna fire, key word its hot here, up a comp. Maybe 2 if I can throw it in another room.

This is how I'm running the 6900XT during this heat:

Basically I found maximum folding stable clock for 800mV.

[waffl3ninja]

so how does one learn or train to be be one of the folding.  i'm quite curious

[mx500torid]

2 hours ago, damric said:

This is how I'm running the 6900XT during this heat:

Basically I found maximum folding stable clock for 800mV.

No AMD cards will be tortured this weekend. Haha. Started the comp with 2 cards, then 10 minutes later Mother nature came thru very upset. My electricty shut off 4 times in a 30 minutes period luckily they were short and back to business as usual. Fingers crossed.

[bonami2]

1 hour ago, waffl3ninja said:

so how does one learn or train to be be one of the folding.  i'm quite curious

You mean to join as a folder?

 

It pretty easy just have to download the software here : https://foldingathome.org/?lng=en

 

Setup an account save your passkey

 

And add the team : 239902 In the software to fold for the team here.

[Andrew]

WUs I'm getting are pretty inconsistent as far as PPD goes, at least compared to what I'm used to. The last time I folded, I was consistently getting 2.2-2.5M PPD but over the last few days, it's been jumping between 1.2-3.5M PPD.

[damric]

4 hours ago, mx500torid said:

No AMD cards will be tortured this weekend. Haha. Started the comp with 2 cards, then 10 minutes later Mother nature came thru very upset. My electricty shut off 4 times in a 30 minutes period luckily they were short and back to business as usual. Fingers crossed.

Power went out here too but only briefly. Some extreme lightning storm after some extreme heat and humidity today. Internet was out for a bit too.

[damric]

4 hours ago, waffl3ninja said:

so how does one learn or train to be be one of the folding.  i'm quite curious

Yeah pretty much just go here:

 

https://foldingathome.org/start-folding/?lng=en

 

 

Like said above, make a folding name, and enter our team number 239902. Using a pass key will allow you to get huge bonus points for quick return.

 

https://foldingathome.org/support/faq/points/passkey/?lng=en

 

Your hardware in your main rig is very good for folding, but I would tune it for efficiency instead of all-out clocks. Folding eats electricity but you can still crunch units fast while conserving power.

 

[mx500torid]

15 hours ago, damric said:

This is how I'm running the 6900XT during this heat:

Basically I found maximum folding stable clock for 800mV.

Thank you Sir. Never crossed my mind to do that. Weird seeing a 6800 XT humming at 150 watts,  2224 mhz and 3.1 ppd

[axipher]

In!

 

It's late but made it

[damric]

@ENTERPRISE I see the tshirts are removed from the EHW store? I was going to give at least one away but I will have to change that to hat unless you can confirm that's fixed.

[Cerberus]

good run y'all

[damric]

7 minutes ago, Cerberus said:

good run y'all

Indeed. Some humongous amounts of points and work units! 

 

I'll roll the dice for my random winner tomorrow after I confirm with @ENTERPRISE about the t-shirt. @tictoc would you like to draw your winner yourself? If not, @Avacado has a cool wheel of fortune thing he can spin for you.

 

 

[Alex]

Ah dang, just missed 100 WUs and don't think I was catching Fluxmaven fast enough.

[Fluxmaven]

3 minutes ago, Alex said:

Ah dang, just missed 100 WUs and don't think I was catching Fluxmaven fast enough.

Don't you have a 4090? I thought you'd be way ahead since I was mostly just running the 4070ti. I did notice you finally running me down. Fired up the 3x 3090s for the last 4 hours of the comp to stay ahead

[Avacado]

On 22/07/2023 at 13:56, waffl3ninja said:

so how does one learn or train to be be one of the folding.  i'm quite curious

You can start HERE. If you have any questions, most of us are pretty active on discord. I'd be more than happy to help you get it running if you hit me up there.

Edited July 24, 2023 by Avacado

[Andrew]

It's nice that I had good folding weather all weekend. It's a shame I'm a moron and switched my computer off for the first night, not realizing that if I do that, the folding stops. At least I remembered to not switch it off for the other two nights.

[damric]

Alrighty, I pm'd @tictoc to pick his winner for the graphics card.

 

For my donated prize, it looks like the t-shirt is not available at this time so I'm switching that to either a hat, or a mug+coaster. The winner of that is @HaRdLy007 so Jeff pick the design you want from the EHW store and PM me.

 

For next month I'm looking around August 19-20th and I'll announce that around the beginning of the month or so.

 

Thanks everyone for the great work!

[Alex]

14 hours ago, Fluxmaven said:

Don't you have a 4090? I thought you'd be way ahead since I was mostly just running the 4070ti. I did notice you finally running me down. Fired up the 3x 3090s for the last 4 hours of the comp to stay ahead

Totally didn't forget to restart my folding client after playing VR for a bit

[neurotix]

Good foldathon guys.

[damric]

Congrats!