EXTREMEHW Second Annual 96-Hour Folding Challenge, February 23rd, 24th, 25th, 26th 2024 00:00 UTC

[The Pook]

project 12250 is awful and I got 2 back to back this morning. ~60-70% GPU load, ~1.5 hours, and <500K PPD on a 3080 Ti 

 

 

edit: ok they're not that bad, they just hit a slump halfway through. went back up to slightly less awful ~4M during the last ~30%

Edited February 25 by The Pook

[Avacado]

On 23/02/2024 at 20:27, markfw said:

I could be in first place if I wanted to, as I hold a 155 million ppd on Anandtech, but I didn't want to ruin your competition...

 

That 155 mil is just 7 video cards, 4 4090's, and 2 4080's, and a 3080TI.

 

Contributing to the cause never hurts anyone. We are glad you are participating!

[LabRat]

 

I'm not normally one to ask for special considerations / dispensations, but....

Any chance I might be rewarded for hitting 1mil, by having my name correctly capitalized? I think I'll make it there in time 

Edited February 26 by LabRat

[damric]

2 minutes ago, LabRat said:

 

I'm not normally one to ask for special considerations / dispensations, but....

Any chance I might be rewarded for hitting 1mil, by having my name correctly capitalized? I think I'll make it there in time 

lol mine isn't either. I think it's the folding@home server's fault.

 

But what is awesome is that it looks like you got your problems corrected and are now churning out the work units.

 

Are you using a key to get a bonus?

 

Folding@home Bonus Status

APPS.FOLDINGATHOME.ORG

 

You can check that link to verify your user/key combination is getting the quick return bonus, which is very substantial.

[LabRat]

24 minutes ago, damric said:

lol mine isn't either. I think it's the folding@home server's fault.

 

But what is awesome is that it looks like you got your problems corrected and are now churning out the work units.

 

Are you using a key to get a bonus?

 

Folding@home Bonus Status

APPS.FOLDINGATHOME.ORG

 

You can check that link to verify your user/key combination is getting the quick return bonus, which is very substantial.

How fix?

[cellarnoise]

Tutorial on setting up a passkey.

 

Passkey – Folding@home

FOLDINGATHOME.ORG

 

[LabRat]

49 minutes ago, cellarnoise said:

Tutorial on setting up a passkey.

 

Passkey – Folding@home

FOLDINGATHOME.ORG

 

I already did that, tho. I entered that key in, to check the bonus status.

 

 

Looking up by passkey alone, receives same results

 

 

Edited February 26 by LabRat

[Broseph]

1 hour ago, LabRat said:

I already did that, tho. I entered that key in, to check the bonus status.

 

 

Looking up by passkey alone, receives same results

 

 

Found it.

 

https://foldingathome.org/faqs/points/bonus-points/what-are-the-qualifications-for-the-qrb/

 

Quote

The bonus is applied for users who use a passkey, have successfully returned at least 10 bonus-eligible WUs, have successfully returned 80% or more of assigned WUs, and returned the unit before its Timeout (formerly Preferred Deadline). Bonus points do not apply to partial returns.

 

[damric]

9 hours ago, LabRat said:

How fix?

ok so I had this problem myself as an overclocker new to folding. You need to have 80% completion rate and at leat 10 WU completed to get the quick return bonus. Unfortunately you failed a lot of work units already, but in the grand scope of things 17 is nothing. When you get about 100 complete you should be good to go as long as you don't fail anymore. I'm guessing that would take you until the end of this week at your current progress. The only other thing you could do is use another email address to request a new key. But yeah when I was new to folding I had similar failures when I tried bashing down the door with huge overclocks that I thought were stable, but apparently not folding stable.

[HoldSquat]

@GENiEBEN you and I are so close to each other! What you folding on by chance? I am just using my 6700XT

[LabRat]

3 hours ago, damric said:

ok so I had this problem myself as an overclocker new to folding. You need to have 80% completion rate and at leat 10 WU completed to get the quick return bonus. Unfortunately you failed a lot of work units already, but in the grand scope of things 17 is nothing. When you get about 100 complete you should be good to go as long as you don't fail anymore. I'm guessing that would take you until the end of this week at your current progress. The only other thing you could do is use another email address to request a new key. But yeah when I was new to folding I had similar failures when I tried bashing down the door with huge overclocks that I thought were stable, but apparently not folding stable.

Amusingly, I tried to 'min-max' too hard, the opposite direction. 

 

Next F@H event @ eHW, I'll have at least 3 MI25/WX9100s going, and probably 3x AM4 Ryzens. (Also, how are OG GTX Titans @ folding, these days?)

It was merely 'timing' that I had the Vega 64 in, as I'd just re-TIM'd the card and been testing it (when @pioneerisloud twisted my arm to join )

Edited February 26 by LabRat

[pio]

10 minutes ago, LabRat said:

Amusingly, I tried to 'min-max' too hard, the opposite direction. 

 

Next F@H event @ eHW, I'll have at least 3 MI25/WX9100s going, and probably 3x AM4 Ryzens. (Also, how are OG GTX Titans @ folding, these days?)

It was merely 'timing' that I had the Vega 64 in, as I'd just re-TIM'd the card and been testing it (when @pioneerisloud twisted my arm to join )

Testing stability on a bunch of "useless old cards" anyway.  Why not fold on them?  

[LabRat]

12 minutes ago, pioneerisloud said:

Testing stability on a bunch of "useless old cards" anyway.  Why not fold on them?  

Hardy Har Har HAR 

I shall actually prepare, for the next event. I'm intending on finding 'efficiency-focused' clock profiles (heavily pre-tested w/ F@H, for stability).
A. so I don't have this issue w/ expired WUs.
B. So I have a 'summer' profile for my card(s).

Also, F@H seems to be my next favorite "Real-World Stress Test" after STALKER: Anomaly.
F@H is now part of my 'testing toolbox'.

 

PS: Yes, I realize it'll be awhile for another eHW F@H event. I will likely still be using and maintaining the same hardware. lol

Edited February 26 by LabRat

[GENiEBEN]

3 hours ago, HoldSquat said:

@GENiEBEN you and I are so close to each other! What you folding on by chance? I am just using my 6700XT

3090Ti + 2060 + 2x980Ti. Unfortunately rigs were down today because of a power cut and couldn't resume until just now

[HoldSquat]

1 hour ago, GENiEBEN said:

3090Ti + 2060 + 2x980Ti. Unfortunately rigs were down today because of a power cut and couldn't resume until just now

dang! Hurry up and beat me already

[damric]

Alright Team, we got about 2 hours to go. Make sure you click "FINISH" and complete your last WUs before logging out. We had over 40 people folding, and we have over 30 prizes to give away, plus some special forum signatures for everyone. Remember 1st place gets 1st prize pick, 2nd to 2nd, and 3rd to 3rd. The rest of the prizes will be random draw by @Avacado once I send him the final list of eligible people. Great effort everyone. I hope that you all join our smaller 48-hour monthly foldathons.

[Supercrumpet]

Well, this is what I get for not keeping up with EHW regularly. Only just found this thread, a whopping one hour before the event ends. So uh...

 

In? (CptAsian as always, been folding 24/7 as usual.)

 

Obviously won't be eligible for prizes, but that's honestly a good thing. I already have more tech stuff lying around than I know what to do with currently, and the nice stuff on offer would be more useful to others. Glad to see the strong turnout!

[damric]

2 minutes ago, Supercrumpet said:

Well, this is what I get for not keeping up with EHW regularly. Only just found this thread, a whopping one hour before the event ends. So uh...

 

In? (CptAsian as always, been folding 24/7 as usual.)

 

Obviously won't be eligible for prizes, but that's honestly a good thing. I already have more tech stuff lying around than I know what to do with currently, and the nice stuff on offer would be more useful to others. Glad to see the strong turnout!

lmao you're eligible now.

[Supercrumpet]

9 minutes ago, damric said:

lmao you're eligible now.

 

Ah, I appreciate it lol. May pass it on regardless if luck is in my favor.

[LabRat]

lil late on telling it to finish otherwise, been fun

[neurotix]

Was very close for 7th place for me. cellarnoise2 was right about to pass me and take 7th, but failed. As usual, Flux passed me too, but it was still close.

 

So are we getting postbits for this? What about postbits for last month's 7 day inter forum competition?

[The Pook]

summary:

 

[damric]

Nice work EVERYONE

 

1st Place @miker07

2nd @keeph8n

3rd @elblat

 

Those 3 need to get with us quickly and make your picks so we can move on to the fun random draw.

 

@neurotix yeah some sort of post bit for this will be coming, but I don't know about the one for last month since that wasn't our comp.

[axipher]

1 hour ago, damric said:

Nice work EVERYONE

 

1st Place @miker07

2nd @keeph8n

3rd @elblat

 

Those 3 need to get with us quickly and make your picks so we can move on to the fun random draw.

 

@neurotix yeah some sort of post bit for this will be coming, but I don't know about the one for last month since that wasn't our comp.

 

Congrats to the top 3, great showing and we appreciate all the contributions.

[Opolis]

That was fun.  I had a couple close battles towards the end....tried to minimize pausing for gaming this weekend.