Folding@Home, Team 239902

[ENTERPRISE]

13 hours ago, Mistio said:

Holy Mother of God!
I don't think they make them like this anymore *hahah*. 

My Xeon machine is amazing!

Running 4.6 GHz @ 1.43V with my RTX 2070 at 1950 MHz and hitting 2.2M PPD sometimes. 

The GPU does not exceed 60 centigrade with fans at 42%. 

Added some points for this awesome forum :). 

 

 

Nice bud, good little powerhouse you have there ! 

[Bastiaan_NL]

Nice Mistio! Don't underestimate that 2070!

[Mistio]

3 hours ago, Bastiaan_NL said:

Nice Mistio! Don't underestimate that 2070!

 

I am amazed every day what a good sport it is. It oscillates between 1.9 and 2.2M PPD. Some WUs are quite weird. I had one with 600K. I guess my shutdown timer was not calculated properly and it must have killed the machine during folding and this led to some weird stuff happening. 

I originally had a KFA 2080 card. 
Sadly my x58 refused to boot with it. 
So i read online that x58 has a bigger chance of working with a 2070. 

So I went back to the shop and replaced it. 

You will laugh at me but 6 months after I owned the card I realized this is actually a Galaxy card!!
I used to have Galaxy products when I was younger :). 

Yummy! Galaxy GTX 580 graphics

 

PS: i have some plans for next spring. 

Maybe prices drop in 6-7 months on 2070s and I will add a second one in this old rig. 

The new one will have a very strong GPU for gaming and i might get a second one for back-up which will act as a folder. 

Now if this forum grows bigger I will gladly push  4-5 GPUs for 8-10 M PPD. 

We will see if this will be an AMD rig or Alder Lake. 

Until then, easy does it

 

Edited November 9, 2020 by Mistio

[Bastiaan_NL]

22 hours ago, Mistio said:

I am amazed every day what a good sport it is. It oscillates between 1.9 and 2.2M PPD. Some WUs are quite weird. I had one with 600K. I guess my shutdown timer was not calculated properly and it must have killed the machine during folding and this led to some weird stuff happening. 

Killing the power before a unit finishes will hurt the unit. If you are lucky it'll save most of the work and continue as soon as you start folding again.

But all the time the system is down will lower the QRB by a lot. The faster you return a unit, the more points you'll get. That's why the high power hardware is so good, finishing the big units in less than 2 hours.
I like your plans, and all the help is welcome!

 

On another note, my rma'd 2080s was fried so they sent me an other one. They didn't have the Gigabyte card available that I returned, so they offered me the MSI 2080s gaming x trio.
No problem, I like that one even more but couldn't find (a used) one as close to my hometown as the Gigabyte one. Now the best part, they sent it to someone else by mistake...
I hope it'll be back in time for the comp, but just to be sure I added something else to the fleet of GPU's

Edited November 10, 2020 by Bastiaan_NL

[Supercrumpet]

23 minutes ago, Bastiaan_NL said:

Killing the power before a unit finishes will hurt the unit. If you are lucky it'll save most of the work and continue as soon as you start folding again.

But all the time the system is down will lower the QRB by a lot. The faster you return a unit, the more points you'll get. That's why the high power hardware is so good, finishing the big units in less than 2 hours.
I like your plans, and all the help is welcome!

 

On another note, my rma'd 2080s was fried so they sent me an other one. They didn't have the Gigabyte card available that I returned, so they offered me the MSI 2080s gaming x trio.
No problem, I like that one even more but couldn't find one as close to my hometown as the Gigabyte one. Now the best part, they sent it to someone else by mistake...
I hope it'll be back in time for the comp, but just to be sure I added something else to the fleet of GPU's

 

Wow, what a nice mess of a situation they've put you in. I also hope that gets sorted soon, never great when your stuff is in shipping limbo.

Edited November 10, 2020 by Supercrumpet

[Bastiaan_NL]

I can live with it, the fact that I'll get the card that I wanted in the first place makes it acceptable.
One thing that I forgot to say, it was a used card. That's why I said that I couldn't find one close to my hometown. 
They already updated me that the person who received the card will send it back asap, fingers crossed

[Diffident]

4 hours ago, Bastiaan_NL said:

But all the time the system is down will lower the QRB by a lot. The faster you return a unit, the more points you'll get. That's why the high power hardware is so good, finishing the big units in less than 2 hours.
I like your plans, and all the help is welcome!

That's the one thing I don't like about folding.  If i want to play a game or something, I can't just pause it, I have to wait till its finished.  That's what's nicer about boinc projects.  It doesn't matter how long it takes, you still get the same amount of points.

[Bastiaan_NL]

Fair point, but pausing it for 2 or 3 hours isn't that big of a deal. I like to plan my game time, if I'm in the mood, so the system can finish whatever it's working on.

[Bastiaan_NL]

@SamsTechStuff Where are you? We need your help!

[SamsTechStuff]

On 11/13/2020 at 10:40 AM, Bastiaan_NL said:

@SamsTechStuff Where are you? We need your help!

Looks like that rig went offline

[Bastiaan_NL]

1 hour ago, SamsTechStuff said:

Looks like that rig went offline

Sorry to hear that.. any idea why?

 

[SamsTechStuff]

15 hours ago, Bastiaan_NL said:

Sorry to hear that.. any idea why?

 

Im guessing since I found it powered off it that maybe I exceeded the PSU... but when I powered on there was a suspicious Windows update that was applying. This rig is a ThreadRipper 1920x with one 1070ti and one 2080 8gb. I did turn up the power limits a day ago as well, this is all being powered by a Seasonic if 850w. I turned it all back on and am running the GPUs at 100% for now. This arraignment is temporary, my long term plan is to put the TR in a 4u server case and x3 GPUs to fold on. I'll be running 3 copies of Ubuntu as VMs because this will serve as another ESXi host in my lab. I figure if I give the folding VMs two threads each they should be happy and I will have enough left over for other VMs. This will be powered by a 1kw evga PSU though

 

 

Edited November 15, 2020 by SamsTechStuff

[Bastiaan_NL]

No way, I had the exact same thing happen. System was down, and I had no idea why. So I started the system and it was finishing a windows update. 
And all the update sh.. was turned off..

2 threads should be enough per gpu

Edited November 15, 2020 by Bastiaan_NL

[ENTERPRISE]

2 hours ago, Bastiaan_NL said:

No way, I had the exact same thing happen. System was down, and I had no idea why. So I started the system and it was finishing a windows update. 
And all the update sh.. was turned off..

2 threads should be enough per gpu

Good thing with dedicated folding rigs is you switch all updates off and walk away lol.

[Bastiaan_NL]

19 hours ago, ENTERPRISE said:

Good thing with dedicated folding rigs is you switch all updates off and walk away lol.

It was turned off.. But Microsoft does not care about what you prefer, installing Edge is more important!

[axipher]

11 minutes ago, Bastiaan_NL said:

It was turned off.. But Microsoft does not care about what you prefer, installing Edge is more important!

 

Since Folding@Home uses hardcoded IP's for all the work servers, could we technically just give the machine running F@H a bad DNS server and prevent the majority of application updates and non F@H requests?

 

Could even maybe modify the windows firewall to block the IP's we know belong to Windows Updates and Microsoft...

[ENTERPRISE]

21 minutes ago, axipher said:

 

Since Folding@Home uses hardcoded IP's for all the work servers, could we technically just give the machine running F@H a bad DNS server and prevent the majority of application updates and non F@H requests?

 

Could even maybe modify the windows firewall to block the IP's we know belong to Windows Updates and Microsoft...

 

You certainly could. Or perhaps use edit the Hosts file to block Windows Update related requests.

[Diffident]

Well the best thing would be to not use windows for a dedicated folding machine.

[Supercrumpet]

Unfortunately I can't watch live since I'll be at work, but this looks interesting. Hopefully the VOD will be available after.

 

https://twitter.com/foldingathome/status/1328466930446036992

 

Edited November 17, 2020 by Supercrumpet

[Bastiaan_NL]

18 hours ago, Diffident said:

Well the best thing would be to not use windows for a dedicated folding machine.

It only happened on my main system, but all of them are windows. 
Maybe one day I'll switch the second system to an other OS

[SamsTechStuff]

Sadly, I think I'll be down for a little while. Reconfiguring the layout of the office, rewiring the area and the rack, and hopefully configuring 4u box for the GPUs to live in until they melt.

[Bastiaan_NL]

Sounds like a lot of work. Are you sure you won't be joining the competition that starts in a few hours with one of the systems?

[Mistio]

Hmm .. finished a unit 2 hours ago and never got my credit for it. 

 

[Supercrumpet]

Tried to rebuild one of my PCs today and I'm not getting any video output. Still waiting on a couple cables in the mail to get the rest of my fans running anyways, so regardless that's probably one 2080 Ti down for a few days.

[Bastiaan_NL]

On 11/21/2020 at 3:34 PM, Mistio said:

Hmm .. finished a unit 2 hours ago and never got my credit for it. 

 

There is always a little delay before you see the points on the EOC website, plus if you miss the update "deadline" you'll see it 3 hours later. The Stanford website is a bit faster, but I don't have any exact numbers.
Did it show up the next update?

 

14 hours ago, Supercrumpet said:

Tried to rebuild one of my PCs today and I'm not getting any video output. Still waiting on a couple cables in the mail to get the rest of my fans running anyways, so regardless that's probably one 2080 Ti down for a few days.

Sorry to hear that, is it still fixable?