folding-and-boinc

[ornate ginkgo]

This is EXACTLY what the project wanted. They never wanted people to be like me and buy hardware for the fold. They just wanted everyone to run in the background on hardware that is already running. The most energy efficient approach when you think about it

[fossil jacinth]

dead

[rich depot]

Should I?

[hushed bobcat]

Kinda looks like you already are

Id like to see the system that has 8 GPUs

[ornate ginkgo]

I mean this gives you all the info you need, they are SXM GPUs. Pretty easy to know what it looks like

[hushed bobcat]

well seeing as how i dont know what SXM means off the top of my head, no i dont know what it looks like

[ornate ginkgo]

Hahaha, Google is free!

(I also wrongly presumed everyone knew what SXM is)

[ornate ginkgo]

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/SXM_(socket)

[hushed bobcat]

Yea I'll definitely Google it, I just don't know what it is off the top of my head

I think I've seen Wendell from level 1 techs mess with something like that

Basically whenever I see a system like that I totally disregard it

[ornate ginkgo]

I don't, because I know eventually, it will end up on AliExpress or eBay

[hushed bobcat]

If you want to know my thought process

I believe those systems come with 4-5 digit price tags

So I determined by the time they became old enough to be "affordable" by me

It would make more financial and power efficiency sense to buy a mid-high end RTX GPU of the latest generation

[ornate ginkgo]

My server original cost 10-14k when it was launched, cost me like 600 now a few years down the line

admittedly, GPGPUs don't hold as well as CPUs

But if you're interested in more than folding, having NVLink and that much pooled vRAM could be worth it for certain things

[hushed bobcat]

What do you search for on eBay

[ornate ginkgo]

Depends what you are looking for, obviously.

But it's a good idea to research exactly what you are looking for first and just search the model number

[hushed bobcat]

i mean, im kinda proving my point

i just searched for supermicro v100 servers

9-18k

searched for much older P100 servers, 3-6k

none of them are the SXM servers though, i dont even know where to begin to search for those specifically

[ornate ginkgo]

Well yeah they are "expensive", but if you have a workload that needs 50-100+GB vRAM, getting an old server with NVLink is the most cost effective option... Excluding power costs, obviously

[hushed bobcat]

howd you get one of these for $600

[ornate ginkgo]

I didn't say you could

My server runs consumer GPUs because I don't need pooled vRAM

Also remember I'm British, so 600GBP is like 750USD

[hushed bobcat]

the v100 sxm2 modules themselves arent too bad really price wise

[ornate ginkgo]

I wonder if any enterprising Chinese companies have made SXM to PCIe adapter boards...

[hushed bobcat]

https://www.ebay.com/itm/296897962927?_skw=tesla+v100+sxm2&itmmeta=01JJ4KM06QG1E2P8HEH05X1NNC&hash=item45207f63af:g:pQ0AAOSwAUZnW6Hh&itmprp=enc%3AAQAJAAAA8HoV3kP08IDx%2BKZ9MfhVJKkCmtgP6diFFeFZHL3YmYD9FdbWWZaxilERpaEzSnrMuYY9v7eir%2BrNwVAWNSFKKP8MXdMAH%2FY9xTuZ2%2FKXyyHgr9NJmVAk4FFmLXH1WIkp9Y3Db2EgoHXfj1awY6xeTVuz3L6zbp85U6gnSeCV%2Fc2clvM5EqjS5jk26tf7XLnu95xdFbf8DQ%2BmYe36uoXQJUVpN%2FrDi%2B%2BWPbCfiELcHvgVD3dOmn3sUjQlA%2Bm9LgSaUedkyt2nUogis6SH5Ee0%2FY6ueKbIbFViUuAQSNQPhInSNQENERIJQQm2kYOGXDYJIQ%3D%3D|tkp%3ABFBMyIPQk5Fl

[ornate ginkgo]

Seems like the kind of thing they'd do

[ornate ginkgo]

Thought so

[hushed bobcat]

I found a SuperServer 4029GP-TVRT for $1000, just chassis no CPUs GPUs or RAM

uses 2nd gen Intel Scalable

capable of 8 V100 GPUs

[ornate ginkgo]

That's not terrible, once again, if you need pooled vRAM

[hushed bobcat]

can you put more modern SXM GPUs in it?

[ornate ginkgo]

No, Nvidia change it every gen so you have to buy new servers

[hushed bobcat]

ahh

[ornate ginkgo]

There is OAM, that's starting to get some traction in the industry

I did my degree in networking and systems architecture (HPC, data-centres and super computers) so I like to keep tabs on the industry haha

[hushed bobcat]

i just dont see any way this makes sense for folding

even trying to find an empty 8 GPU supermicro server is over $1000

and those generally have Intel 2667 V3's or V4's

i think it would make more sense to buy an empty 3U server for $250, put a first gen epyc and mobo in, and fill it with 4 3060Ti's (which according to folding lar systems is the PPD equivalent of a V100 SXM2)

[ornate ginkgo]

It doesn't make sense for folding, I always said, repeatedly, that it only makes sense if you need pooled vRAM, which folding does not

[rich depot]

The DGX-1 system I use is 149k each brand new.

This is considered to be "outdated" for compute standards. Workplace has both A100's and H100's and we're now working with Nvidia to get GH200 cluster up

I can do that because I work for the admin.

[dim dust]

This isn't as easy as you think either. you'd be better off just buying a Rome or Milan EPYC setup, throwing it on a mining rack/frame using pcie extensions for your GPUs. The ASRock boards can accommodate 7 GPUs without anything too fancy, but you can fit more using bifurcation boards to split the 16x slots into two 8x slots for even more GPUs on the system.

The biggest problem with those sxm2 to pcie adapters are cooling them. they only make passive heatsinks for those GPUs so you'll have to rig up fans mounted to them to cool them and you'll need some decently powerful (loud) fans to get it done. Or find some water blocks for them for a more quieter and compact solution.

[ornate ginkgo]

The one he linked literally had a blower cooler in it

[dim dust]

Yeah, do not. I repeat. Do NOT buy that.

The card will over heat and you won't be able to fully use it.

Unless you chop that shitty fan off and throw a better fan on it.

[ornate ginkgo]

You do know we aren't talking about doing this for folding right...

[dim dust]

Folding isn't the only work load that will warm a GPU up.

[ornate ginkgo]

We, it at least me, are talking about workloads that need pooled memory, and I didn't say to buy that one...

In theory, you could probably buy and find a way to mount either a Titan RTX cooler, or a Morpheus cooler...

But none of this makes sense for finding because there are significantly better options... But, if you cannot live without pooled vRAM, then that is probably the cheapest way to do it.

[dim dust]

If you need pool vRAM then one can assume you'll need compute power to work the data in that pooled RAM. that setup will overheat.

You'd be better off buying the sxm2 adapters that don't have the fans built in. Then buying the sxm2 passive heatsinks and mounting your own fans to that.

[ornate ginkgo]

I don't think you are understanding me...

I'm not saying to buy those adapters, I didn't link it, I didn't look into it. I just said "I wonder if this exists"

I'm saying to cool it, you just use a different heatsink, my ideas were just thoughts. Seeing as I don't know the die in that card Vs in consumer cards. I'm (quite obviously, may I add) "spitballing", although I've never quite understood why we call it that

[dim dust]

Then I guess I'm not talking to you then am I?

These are the adapters to buy.

[cunning kettle]

so on folding@home i had the gpu working before, but for some reason its now showing the gpu as unsupported on linux. any idea why?;

[ornate ginkgo]

Try killing the process and restarting, there's a weird issue where folding starts before the GPU driver on Linux.

[gray copper]

who even remembers that this use to be a thing

[hushed bobcat]

Folding on my fat PS3 was the first bit of folding I ever did

Didn't do it for very long though because boy could that console pump out the HEAT

[gray copper]

understandably this app dont work no more

so no lmg folding on on ps3
for now

[hushed bobcat]

https://foldingathome.org/faqs/high-performance/folding-sony-playstation-3-ps3/

[gray copper]

at peek iirc it was in pflops of compute power

[ornate ginkgo]

It was very good for it's time... Even the US airforced bought a bunch of PS3s for a cluster running custom linux.

But, by now, it is woeful and would struggle with most of the WUs out in the wild today

[gray copper]

ik i got a condor node atm lol

[trail nova]

im still using mine to this day!

[prime bronze]

https://youtu.be/P_fHJIYENdI folding vid 🔥

do anyone know any place where i can donate my computing powah for this

[ornate ginkgo]

You want to fold? Just download the software and follow the set up guide

[prime bronze]

huh, i can do that without a team or whatever?

[ornate ginkgo]

You are better off asking on the forum for help, I'm(I run the folding team) and the rest of the team are most active there

You can, just won't benefit from earning points and helping the team out

[prime bronze]

ooh, do you have the guide link?

[ornate ginkgo]

https://linustechtips.com/topic/1328180-official-ltt-fh-foldinghome-faq-guide-team-223518/

[prime bronze]

also that lmg.gg/folding link says team registration is closed

[ornate ginkgo]

It's a little on the older side, V8 client is different, but the basics apply, the official guide for the new client is this link https://foldingathome.org/guides/v8-3-client-guide/

[ornate ginkgo]

@hearty rampart Can you fix this?

[prime bronze]

what exactly does folding use, cpu or gpu?

oh nvm its cpu, its 100% lmfao

[ornate ginkgo]

Both on windows and linux with x86 chips, only CPU on Mac and ARM based systems in general

[prime bronze]

woah it managed to extract 94 peak wattage out of my poor i5 11400

[hearty rampart]

I can inquire about it. Where do you think it should point, that guide you posted or just the subforum?

[prime bronze]

also yea, i need a registration page

better be in a team from start

[ornate ginkgo]

Probably the community board tbh, that or the guide, but that guide does need updating

[ornate ginkgo]

You just type in the team number into the client, 223518

[prime bronze]

done

is 110k ppd good

[ornate ginkgo]

Welcome to the team, if you have any questions post here https://linustechtips.com/topic/902973-folding-community-board/

One of the folding devs is a frequent flyer

[prime bronze]

alrighty

[ornate ginkgo]

No, but you need to submit 20WUs to get the bonus points, so it will be very low until then

[prime bronze]

thanks

[prime bronze]

oh alright

is it like 20 completed tasks, whats wu

[ornate ginkgo]

Yes, a WU(Work Unit) is the name for each chunk you complete, each task or whatever wording you prefer

[prime bronze]

sick sick

my gpu isnt being utilized rn, im on a windows 11 desktop
i didnt see you mention how it is on x64, is it supposed to use?

[ornate ginkgo]

You need to turn on GPU support generally, I'm not sure how to do it in V8 clients, as I'm a dinosaur and have yet to make the jump...

Perfect time to ask on the thread I linked haha

[prime bronze]

lol alright

[hearty rampart]

It's been updated

[prime bronze]

i think i should stop utilizing my cpu 😭 its so inefficent

[ornate ginkgo]

But your CPU can do work that the GPU can't, and unfortunatly lots of people only run GPUs. There are over 1.2 million CPU WUs in the queue, only around 200k GPU WUs

[ornate ginkgo]

yeahhh

In in the UK, so can't afford to run my hardware 24/7 these days, especially since I'm back in school now

But I have like 200-230 CPU cores, something like that

[prime bronze]

is there no way of getting some money to atleast cover the bill of running?

[prime bronze]

geez

[ornate ginkgo]

Not really, there are some cryptos that award on the points, but you need to be in their teams and it's so little I would rather support LTT

[prime bronze]

what happens when we're in ltt team?

[ornate ginkgo]

Uhhh... We have events and prizes multiple times a year. I run the events, being the team leader

[prime bronze]

no no i meant the technical side of it, not the user facing

[ornate ginkgo]

The points get awarded to the team, and the team does very well

When I took over the team we weren't even in the top 15, now we are in second place

[prime bronze]

sheeesh

are there any competitions or sum between teams too

[ornate ginkgo]

https://folding.extremeoverclocking.com/team_list.php?s= (Default is any points produced without a team, and we don't count them in rankings)

[prime bronze]

and who dares to pass us?!

wth is banano.cc

o crypto

[ornate ginkgo]

Not between teams for folding, although I'd like to set that up when I have some free time at some point.

I need to relearn making databases, did in university... 12 years ago, and then ended up being a social worker

[prime bronze]

dang

is there any games or sumthin rn? i heard in the veritasium's video that there was at some point

[ornate ginkgo]

Games?

[prime bronze]

yeah, like folding related

idfk tbh, i just heard it from the vid

[ornate ginkgo]

Ohhh... Not for the FaH project, but there are other folding projects beside FaH, so maybe there is further afield

He covered computational dynamic molecular protein simulation, basically the technology in general, not this specific project

[prime bronze]

gotcha

[ornate ginkgo]

My knowledge is mostly limited to FaH on the project side, but I know a great deal about the technology generally

[prime bronze]

i see i see

is it expected for gpu progress to be % wise slower than cpu?

[ornate ginkgo]

It all depends on the WU, some take only a little time, others can take multiple hours to even multiple days

[prime bronze]

oh so each WU isnt same?

interesting

[ornate ginkgo]

https://linustechtips.com/topic/1596649-boinc-sprint-2025/

BTW, the BOINC team, which is similar to folding at home but covers more fields of science, are having their first event next week.

Could be worth getting involved

[prime bronze]

https://media.discordapp.net/stickers/1224472267820372088.png?size=160&name=eyebrow+raised+necoarc

[ornate ginkgo]

WUs come in pairs(to make sure the results are correct, if they come back different, they get re-issued), and no pair is the same

[prime bronze]

considering the new ai model have found over 200 million protein, and like veritasium said, it being almost all of the proteins ever
what exactly are we rendering rn? is it synthetic proteins?

[ornate ginkgo]

So the AI finds proteins, but you need to model how it functions, how it works, how drugs interact with it, that's what we are doing

[prime bronze]

ooo sick

i was worried the amount of works will run out or smth lol

[ornate ginkgo]

Not at all, every new drug, every new virus, every variable needs to tested

[prime bronze]

so single addition of test subject basically restarts the count? 😂

or is it even bigger of a thing like adding another multiplier
so it becomes... 1x1x1x1x1 and then you add another x1 with a new protein or so

[ornate ginkgo]

Let's say you are a researcher and you believe a certain condition, let's day, free serotonin in the brain causes X protein to fold incorrectly and cause a health issue...

How do you test that, seeing as you probably shouldn't be cutting into peoples brain... You run sims

We do a mix of supporting work, to validate others findings, such as helping with teh development of the Oxford/Astrazenica Vaccine for COVID, or we do moonshots, where someone things they may have the nect piece in the puzzle for things like cancer, neurological conditions or anything else

[prime bronze]

oh so we dont just run a bunch of tests randomly, someone has to suggest it

[ornate ginkgo]

Yeah, they have to be suggested, then modeled, then they are reviewed for urgency, there are people who wait multiple years to get their project computed

[prime bronze]

man istg, we need to get more people to help with this, this is so bright

did ltt do a video about folding already?

[ornate ginkgo]

But you have to have a MD or PDh, or studying for one to even submit a project

[ornate ginkgo]

They've done a few, they always flop

[prime bronze]

🥺

this is the single most important thing ive heard that can be supported so easily

[prime bronze]

so all of this queue, it rarely gets completely done?

[ornate ginkgo]

So... During very large folding events, like the covid ones, we did exhaust the WU queue(the assignment servers ran out of caches WUs), but never the project queue

Right I've got an assignment due on wednesday, so need to get on with it.

Any other questions, the forum board is the best place to ask. But you can post them here, or DM me and I will get back to you if no one does when I'm free

[prime bronze]

alright awesome, tyvm

[prime bronze]

me when the proteins are waiting for me 😋

(these are gpu and cpu stats)

[hushed bobcat]

the COVID folding rush was wild

[celest saddle]

What exactly is this?

[prime bronze]

simulating protein interactions with other proteins and material

#folding-and-boinc message

#folding-and-boinc message
this vid explains it very well as well
also shows its bright future on some of world's biggest problems

including easier treatment for many diseases, or even any sort of treatment for those that dont exist yet

[celest saddle]

Big boi biology

[prime bronze]

yes but its simple in theory

[fickle needle]

Maaan, our HVAC system is on the fritz so I have to stop all my folding

I wonder what it would take to ruggedize a folding PC so I could run it outdoors

[ornate ginkgo]

I mean... https://www.amazon.co.uk/CHRISTOW-Waterproof-Container-Furniture-Lockable/dp/B07V38PZ9R?source=ps-sl-shoppingads-lpcontext&ref_=fplfs&psc=1&smid=A1NDSWQ31JJ62G&gQT=1

Add some fan holes with the usual vent covers to stop rain getting in and dust filters and off you go

[fickle needle]

That’s it, going on the project list

[ornate ginkgo]

Hahaha. Happy I could help! This folding team leader is here to assist all folding needs

Unless it's clothes... Then I will ask "Do I look like your mother?"

[ornate ginkgo]

See if you get black orchid inline duct fans in your region. They are great and last forever. Could replace the air in that box every 10-20 secs for quite cheap

[hushed bobcat]

possible to watercool it and send the tubes outside the box?

[ornate ginkgo]

You would need fans for the rad rating for all weather... And obviously both situations need to consider freezing if that's something that happens in your region. But, in theory, no reason why you couldnt

[wanton acorn]

whats a average PPD for a 7900xtx?

[hushed bobcat]

https://folding.lar.systems/gpu_ppd/brands/amd/folding_profile/navi_31_radeon_rx_7900xtxtxgre

Looks like 6-6.5 mil

[ornate ginkgo]

To note, AMD HIP development for folding is in the works, this will likely at least double the PPD of modern AMD cards

[hushed bobcat]

Hard to tell looking at the average because the XT and XTX are lumped together

[ornate ginkgo]

Expected late Q2 to early Q4 2025

[hushed bobcat]

Ohh that will be really good

[ornate ginkgo]

Very much so. I would like to stop giving Nvidia my money

[hushed bobcat]

With all the bad stuff going on with Nvidia ive started recommending AMD cards to all my friends

[ornate ginkgo]

I've been doing that since 3000 series

Do you need a XX90... No... Then just go AMD

[hushed bobcat]

I was originally building a system that was supposed to have either a 4080 or 5080, now it's getting a 9070xt

[ornate ginkgo]

Harder sell for FaH and to a lesser degree for BOINC. But getting ROCm support through HIP.

HIP works on Nvidia cards too... But no idea on how it compares to native CUDA. But if it is remotely close, we could see unified WUs for the two biggest players for the first time in a while

[dim dust]

I've been considering replacing my Nvidia farm, most of them, with AMD cards. I need to get my hands on a 9070 XT and see if I can get zluda working so I'm not alienating myself from the cuda only projects.

[ornate ginkgo]

Best of luck to you!

Being relatively financially limited. It is likely I will be running my 3 4070tis for a while. Especially after needing to do an unplanned platform upgrade due to my CPU dying. A first for me, I must admit

[dim dust]

Well my p100s arent doing all that great. I mostly only bought them for the FP64 compute they have for the GPU subproject at Milkyway, but since that project ended they just aren't really worth it to run anymore.

It's either going to be AMD replacements or possibly just going with V100s. The current market for Nvidia gaming cards is just stupid. I'm not giving Nvidia my money for what they've done.

[hushed bobcat]

Pascal, while truly the GOAT, is just too old at this point for continuous work

[ornate ginkgo]

My 1080ti was my gaming GPU until I got the 4070s.

I had 20 series cards, a couple 2060s and a 2070... But I honestly didn't need ray tracing, and getting a card that out performed by 1080ti was too costly. I'm a 1080p person, although I did last year move to a UWFHD display.

I decided to swap my aging fleet of Pascal and Turing cards for just 3 4070 tis, and a remaining P4000 I was using for getting more display outs(I have 5 displays)

[dim dust]

Ah another multiple monitor user I see. I got 6 monitors. lol 3x 1080P monitors and 3x 4k monitors. Granted I have two desktops at my desk and one desktop handles the 3x 4k displays and the other desktop handles the 3x 1080P monitors. 4k setup is my main gaming setup while the 1080P is my monitoring, content watching setup.

[hushed bobcat]

4 monitors here

[ornate ginkgo]

Respectable

[ornate ginkgo]

This is all on one desktop. Unfortunately it gets far too warm in here with two

[hushed bobcat]

2 1920x1200 (one vertical), 1 2560x1440 high refresh rate (Main), 1 4k TV

[ornate ginkgo]

But I also always have my phone and my tablet sits below my monitor for YouTube/music/etc

My layout

[hushed bobcat]

ohh

the vertical monitor is off

for some reason when that one particular monitor turns off it disconnects from the computer

some kind of HDMI deep sleep i think

[dim dust]

Yeah, I thought about using a single desktop for all of them but when I'm in the middle of a game it's not always easy to tab out so I can do something on another monitor. So I just setup a second desktop. My monitors are just 3 wide by 2 tall with the 1080P monitors sitting above the 4k monitors. I have the mouse/keyboard for the second desktop on the right "L" portion of my desk. It works great for what I mostly use it for which is just watching Twitch streams while I'm playing/gaming on the computer and leaving some monitoring software on one of the other screens so I can easily glance to make sure nothing hasn't kicked the bucket. lol

[ornate ginkgo]

My UW does that too

[ornate ginkgo]

Yeah I get that. I can't remember the last time I played a game, so I'm rarely if ever in that situation.

And when when I play games, RuneScape, ftl, prison architect, my most played games, can be run in ways where I don't have to tab out per se

I used to have 2 "desktops" (one was a docked ThinkPad) for that reason when I did play games more frequently

[wanton acorn]

im getting 7.2M currently

[wanton acorn]

i always see nvidia fanboys saying "i dont care about price to performance" but unless youre buying the 90 series card its clearly not true

[ornate ginkgo]

Yep, that was exactly my point. Unless you really need the 90 card, OR you have a workload that needs Nvidia, such as folding as it stands right now. AMD makes the most sense on Price/Perf

I'm not sure how power efficiency stands up these days. I'm out of the loop on modern AMD cards and modern Nvidia cards in perf/watt. Because, I use cards to fold, and Nvidia is 2-4x better PPD/watt so AMD currently makes no sense for me

[wanton acorn]

yeah my 7900xtx is only getting like 1/2 the ppd of a 4080 but im guessing thats down to fah being more designed for cuda

mine is using like 240 watts getting 7.2M PPD

[hushed bobcat]

If I remember correctly I can get 18 mil at about 275-300 watts

On my 4080

[ornate ginkgo]

We are working on AMD HIP support. Which would bring ROCm support to folding for the first time.

It would likely mean a 2-4x in performance while having only a small increase in power.

Beta WUs are hoped to be out sometime between the end of Q2 to the start of Q4...

Timelines on that are obviously not absolute as it is a volunteer development project. Nvidia paid for the development of CUDA support

[wanton acorn]

sounds fancy

[ornate ginkgo]

I get 12.5-13m PPD at around 200-250w on a 4070ti

[ornate ginkgo]

HIP is supposed to be universal. That being, the same code can be complied for either CUDA or ROCm(And I imagine Intel GPUs in future)

[wanton acorn]

arent they working on something that allows CUDA to be ran on AMD?? i remember hearing something about that

[ornate ginkgo]

That has been a thing for awhile, thanks to SCALE, but it isn't as performant. So FaH decided, if they are going to put time and effort into an AMD solution, they may as well do it properly.

This isn't low precision math, it needs to be correct first, and fast second

[hushed bobcat]

so you remember Spectrum i was having issues downloading WU's on my desktop system with FAH V8?

well i just downloaded the latest version (8.4.9) and it still seems to be broken

at this point it clearly cant be the client, there must be some issue with my system setup

but i have no idea what it could be

[ornate ginkgo]

Does V7 work?

What are your specs?

[hushed bobcat]

v7 works perfectly

ASUS ROG STRIX X670E-E GAMING WIFI
AMD 9800 X3D @5.45GHz
32GB G.Skill DDR5 6000 CL30
Gigabyte Gaming OC RTX 4080 @Stock

[ornate ginkgo]

Hmm... Nothing weird there then

[hushed bobcat]

it downloads, says it receives

then does nothing

[ornate ginkgo]

Have you reached out to muz on the forum? He's a FaH beta software tester

[hushed bobcat]

DNS lookup failed for cores2.foldingathome.org
22:46:36:E :Exception: No response

hold on i see someone got it working by connecting to a hotspot, i can usb tether my internet connection from my phone as a test

i just noticed this, it looks like its confusing some config options from v7

you happen to know where the config file is located on windows?

[ornate ginkgo]

one sec, I was in there the other day

[ornate ginkgo]

C:\ProgramData\FAHClient

[hushed bobcat]

that directory is literally in my log

[ornate ginkgo]

hahaha

[hushed bobcat]

so the usb tether didnt help, but i found another thing im trying

well ill be, that was it

[ornate ginkgo]

yayyyyy

[hushed bobcat]

ive been fighting that since before the last month long folding sprint

[ornate ginkgo]

Lmfaooo

[hushed bobcat]

i could have SWORN at one point i did a total nuke of V7 before installing V8

i guess i missed deleting that config file

[ornate ginkgo]

Yeah, it doesn't delete the Program data file when you uninstall

The idea being, when you reinstall, it will just work

[hushed bobcat]

i thought there was a checkbox that said delete preferences

ohh i still have v7 installed actually

[ornate ginkgo]

It's all in the wording...

Delete preferences

[hushed bobcat]

current estimated PPD is 19.3mil and still climbing

hang on im going to try and update my linux machine to 8.4

hmm, looks like it updated but no work is being done

i also cant open NVTOP or nvidia-smi on the system

Failed to initialize NVML: Driver/library version mismatch
NVML library version: 550.144

[hushed bobcat]

fixed

22mil on the 4080 not bad

wait FAHCore24?

[ornate ginkgo]

That notification made me crap my keks. I've hit the chuff and I'm wee bit zonked. Ken?

[hushed bobcat]

last i was here it was 23

[ornate ginkgo]

24 been out in the wild for a little bit now

Iirc core 26 is out now... One sec let me Google

[hushed bobcat]

my 4080 is working on a 23

[ornate ginkgo]

Yeah, some projects and their successor projects will stay on the same core. Potentially spanning multiple years

[hushed bobcat]

well i got everything going atleast, ready for the summer folding sprint

[ornate ginkgo]

There may be something much sooner... Make sure you are following the folding blog on the forum!

https://linustechtips.com/blogs/blog/1382-folding-team-news-events/

We are working on something, nothing is finalised yet though

[ornate ginkgo]

@hearty rampart any chance for a pin on this?

[long gorge]

Hello all.
My BOINC installation seems to have completely borked. I... can't install BOINC, nor can I uninstall it, ironically because of the exact same error both ways.
The feature you are trying to use is on a network resource that is unavailable. Click OK to try again, or enter an alternate path to a folder containing the installation package 'BOINC.msi' in the box below.
Use source: C:\Windows\Downloaded Installations{5ABBFE77-CD7A-4A64-9A53-C47494545F09}\

[ornate ginkgo]

Hmm... You are probably better asking this in tech support. Seems more like a windows issue than a BOINC issue

[long gorge]

Will post it there, thanks.

[ornate ginkgo]

No worries at all... I'm mostly a Linux user these days. So I have no idea how to help you. Sorry about that

[long gorge]

Hey it's the thought that counts, I appreciate the time nevertheless.

[ornate ginkgo]

@solar basin This is our home

[solar basin]

Nice house. I'll be following this topic/thread.

[wanton acorn]

is there a way to make FAH have a low power mode of sorts without having to manually set my power limit?

[ornate ginkgo]

For GPU or CPU?

[wanton acorn]

GPU

[ornate ginkgo]

Short answer: No

Long answer: Yes* (There is no way to do it in the client. But you can use Nvidia smi to do it with a script)

[fickle needle]

It’s weird seeing nvidia-smi with the power cap and process view actually working

[hushed bobcat]

Really? Except for that error earlier it's always worked for me, I just wish my power limit persisted between reboots

[wanton acorn]

ill just manually do it with msi afterburner i guess, i left it running and i woke up to it being hot as linus in here

[ornate ginkgo]

Just use task scheduler or whatever similar program

[fickle marten]

If i have a handful of computers that i would like to fold with what would be the best way to manage them? Im i able to remotely control each system through folding@home from a separate system or would i need to set up something with proxmox so i could assign work to each one?

[ornate ginkgo]

V8 client natively pulls all days from machines on the same land with the same account details

[fickle marten]

So as long as they are each running on my network i can control them?

[ornate ginkgo]

Yes

[fickle needle]

Sadly the nvidia-smi support for Fermi is pretty limited… and Tesla for that matter

[dim dust]

nvidia-smi works fine for my tesla cards

[ornate ginkgo]

lol to the noti for that one

[fickle needle]

Lucky 😦

[solar basin]

Hello LTT Discord crunchers!
The second event in PrimeGrid's 2025 challenge series, "Peter Bergmann's Birthday Challenge" is happening from March 24 01:00 UTC to March 29 01:00 UTC. If you are already running PrimeGrid, make sure you are crunching GFN-18 so you can add to the Team LTT total!
Learn more here: https://www.primegrid.com/forum_thread.php?id=10833

[solar basin]

Great job everyone! We were able to make our way to 12th place and stay there.
Our top three producers during this PrimeGrid challenge were miker07, who came in 29th place overall with a score of 9,680,354.17. GOTSpectrum earned a score of 6,057,176.69 and came in 48th overall. Sirbudrick earned a score of 4,384,647.18 and came in 71st overall.
Big thanks to everyone who helped us crunch our way to 12th!
Check out the final event ranks and event stats here:
Event stats: https://www.primegrid.com/forum_thread.php?id=10833&nowrap=true#180208
Team Ranks: https://www.primegrid.com/challenge/2025_2/top_teams.html
Individual Ranks: https://www.primegrid.com/challenge/2025_2/top_users.html

[solar basin]

April BOINC Blog
https://linustechtips.com/blogs/entry/2311-april-boinc-blog/

[unborn path]

How do I join if I would like to?

[solar basin]

You can join the BOINC team by following our setup tutorial:
https://linustechtips.com/topic/151235-official-ltt-boinc-faq-guide/
If you would like to participate in the events, make sure you have an LTT forum account. Each event will have a signup form on it's thread.

[solar basin]

It's Pentathlon time!!!
Event Starts: May 5 00:00 UTC
Event Ends: May 19 00:00 UTC
Learn more here:
https://linustechtips.com/topic/1608274-pentathlon-2025/

[ornate ginkgo]

@hearty rampart ^^

Also, trying to at mod on mobile is basically impossible

[solar basin]

5 Days Until the Pentathlon!

[regal pulsar]

Is that a game

[solar basin]

In a way, yes. Different tech communities use their combined hardware compute to compete against each other in benefiting science. You can learn more on the thread!

[regal pulsar]

Bruh why I’m in this chat I thought it was gaming lol

Didn’t realise

[kindred stag]

The time is nigh! Pentathlon time! 🙂 Let's kick some tech team bits!

[ornate ginkgo]

Who let you in?

[kindred stag]

I've been here since close to when the discord was created. I just don't pay attention to Discord most of the time. 🙂

[ornate ginkgo]

You're the human equivalent to legacy code basically?

Hope you enjoy this event, were trying to make it more fun

[kindred stag]

Hey now...I resemble that remark!

I'll help you out...I predate ISPs.

[ornate ginkgo]

Was I public with my age this year? I don't remember

[kindred stag]

I know we had the birthday bash. You might've mentioned it then, but my memory is useless for those sorts of specifics these days.

[ornate ginkgo]

No worries haha

[silver wing]

@dim dust Invader!!! 🤣

[iron portal]

Yo, anyone having issues getting WUs for milkyway? none of my machines have any at the moment

[iron portal]

I figured it out, for some reason my boinstats settings are preventing it asking for new cpu tasks, but I can't figure out what boincstats setting is doing it.

[ornate ginkgo]

https://linustechtips.com/blogs/entry/2317-emergency-deployment-orders-please-help-us/

[clever marten]

has f@h run out of work?

been running f@h for years with no issue but a month or 2 ago i stopped getting cpu WUs and even more recently my gpus also stopped getting work...

any help/insights are appreciated

[lime onyx]

I just recently started using F@h and I've been getting work whenever I want

[ornate ginkgo]

Work units are limited to hardware, older HW has less available work, so it is possible for them to run out over the weekend

Though in this case, it seems more likely to be a network issue

[clever marten]

any ideas?

ive read dns could be an issue and i use a pihole for my dns server but nslookup works fine for the assignment domains

and yeah hw speed shouldnt be an issue, my 5800x/3080ti system doesnt get any assignments either

[ornate ginkgo]

Can you ping you the server in CMD/term?

[ornate ginkgo]

Forgot to reply ^^

[clever marten]

yup

[ornate ginkgo]

Hmm... Interesting

Have you tried a nuke and reinstall of the client?

[clever marten]

not yet for my big x86 machines... but i just installed it again fresh on my macbook and it does the same thing

[ornate ginkgo]

Weird...

If you can ping, but the client doesn't have access... That would infer that there is some software issue that is forbidding the client to access the server. It could be a port issue, firewall limitation, or some other system... Can you tether your phone to the macbook to isolate it from your usual network?

[clever marten]

tethered to my quadro client, restarted the fah-client service and... it got an assignment

[ornate ginkgo]

So now we know the issue is 100% something on your network config, I can't help you anymore than that, you'll have to investigate

[clever marten]

yeah ill take a look

thanks tho

have to figure out why the fah assignment server throws the "no appropriate assignment" error answer

[ornate ginkgo]

No worries, I'm the folding team leader btw. If you, or anyone else needs a hand, feel free to tag me 🙂

[clever marten]

alright, cool

will remember that

[solar basin]

June BOINC Blog
https://linustechtips.com/blogs/entry/2331-june-boinc-blog/

[noble hatch]

hi, i dont get any task i boinc tha last 10 days.
I have listed this projects:
BOINC Central
Einsein
LHC
Milkyway
RNA
Rosetta
WCG

Still no work to be downloaded

[solar basin]

Hello,
Have you tried manually updating the projects?

[pseudo abyss]

Aw, I missed the folding sprint 😦

[pseudo abyss]

So, my 9070 XT folds way better than the 5700 xt, but still much worse than Nvidia do.

[ornate ginkgo]

We don't have AND HIP/ROCm support yet for AMD cards

But it's in the alpha state rn

[hushed bobcat]

that will be big

do you have preliminary numbers for the performance?

[frosty osprey]

Finally!

[ornate ginkgo]

I've heard it's "a big improvement but not as big as CUDA"

[edgy acorn]

yooooooooo

wazzupppp

does anyone know how i can get nfs 2012 for free

im broke

😭

[torn kite]

No, and #rules 5

[edgy acorn]

oh my baddddd

i didnt know

ill just pay

200 rupees isnt that bad

[rich depot]

Hi, it feels so good to see a specific channel for BOINC. About 2 weeks ago, I've started contributing to Rosetta@home and World Community Grid, on several old devices and current devices (when they're being charged only) including a 2007 MDG Aptonbook (this might be nostalgic for some of us Millennial Canadians 😂) and it feels rewarding being a digital volunteer and putting old devices to good and humane causes

[regal pulsar]

A thing called internet also rule 5

[spark plank]

Well thats not ideal.

[solar basin]

July BOINC Blog
https://linustechtips.com/blogs/entry/2338-july-boinc-blog/

[ripe bison]

ch

[tribal crest]

hey everyone - cruncher here - and a long time LTT viewer - I do have a ery important question i needed to ask about boinc and folding for what im trying to set up on all my systems - but i cant rember it now as still waking up propelly - so just a hi to everyone and at the LMG / LTT comminity 🙂 - ill ask the boinc stuff soon as i remember it lol

also hopefully this is not considererd self promotion - as i certainlly dont own it i just use it and works for me - but if you crucch its defo worth having a look at Gridcoin too - as you can earn a bit of pocket money back from crunching and folding as well from that - unless your like crypto allergic then ignore that lol - works for me though anyway 🙂

just sharing the love lol so if that is considered to ad like or self promotion or anything - feel free to delete it - but i do feel people should get something back from the crunching and folding anyway so i always tell people about both lol - boinc and gridcoin as they really are one thing now to me lol

ooh i remember my question now too lol - do you know if there is any way to make one project ONLY use the CPU - and a second one ONLY use the GPU and not the cpu? - so i can properlly splt the load up - i noticed even the gpu ones use at least 1 cpu

i dont know if there is a way to have it say 1 gpu and 0 cpus

[fickle needle]

welp, i'm not the super expert, but all projects i've seen want to allocate at least 1 CPU thread for each GPU work unit

it will say like (1 Nvidia GPU + 0.375 CPU core)

i've definately gone to the project website and set it to give me GPU tasks, but not CPU tasks, and that should get you 1 GPU and as close to 0 CPU as is feasible

I just assumed it was to handle the upload/download/preprocessing steps needed to feed the GPU the code it needs to process

[rich depot]

can i run folding at home on a pi 5

[hushed bobcat]

i think they removed ARM support a while ago

[fading hound]

Yes but it's limited returns, about 30k points a day I believe

Compared to my b580/rx6700xt those are producing roughly 2.5million points a day each

[rich depot]

better than nothing, or no not really?

[fading hound]

Better than nothing, I generally run my Pis when a sprint or the yearly event happens on the ltt forums.

[pseudo island]

Can I mention a new f@h crypto here? You need to change folding name to earn it but you can stay on LTT folding team with it

Not much to lose, im not here to ask you to spend a penny on it.

[bright pelican]

Here's my hot-take: attaching a crypto coin to folding/number crunching projects is a smoothbrain idea and should be shamed.

[wide gust]

Didnt grid coin absolutely tank

Anyway, today I did some folding and I was dumb to OC and my GPU crashed so had to hard reset and so my WU finished at 80% and then later I manually stopped a new WU at 50% because I wanted to do smt else, was fun trying F@H on my 5080 tho

[pseudo island]

Agree to disagree

Well anyway i know LTT community is not that friendly to crypto and the amount of scams out there creates a high apathy towards crypto too

I am involved in the project so please just delete this msg and dont ban me if this is too far of a self-promo. I do lurk around here time to time and i do want to keep lurking. Thanks.
I thought i mention it because all you need to do is a new folding name and a metamask wallet and you can keep folding under LTT without spending a single penny on it. Dont have to install anything questionable.
I wont even link it here, if anybody have a slight interest or questions you will find our discord too

Google - DrDoge PulseChain

Sidenote: I have been folding for almost 10 years

[fickle needle]

Here's my ~~hot-~~take: attaching a crypto coin to folding/number crunching projects is a smoothbrain idea and should be shamed.

[bright pelican]

That made my day

[fickle needle]

I'm specifically involved in folding/BOINC over any kind of crypto mining because there is no profit motive, so there's no reason to try to exploit my folding rig to nab a wallet or whatever because there isn't one

the easy counter argument is that someone could still try to turn distributed computing nodes into a botnet

[wide gust]

Here's a fact, crypto is and always will be a pyramid scheme

[solar basin]

August BOINC Blog
https://linustechtips.com/blogs/entry/2340-august-boinc-blog/

[solar basin]

From checking LAR's site, it looks like the 8700G gets about 159,696 points per day. This is very good for a CPU, however, GPUs tend to perform much better with the same amount of electricity. I couldn't find numbers for the other CPUs.

https://folding.lar.systems/cpu_ppd/brands/amd/folding_profile/amd_ryzen_7_8700g_w_radeon_780m_graphics

Ah, I see. Try asking on the folding community board over on the forum.
https://linustechtips.com/topic/902973-folding-community-board/

[solar basin]

It is that time once again! Sign up for the September Midweek Madness 2025!
https://linustechtips.com/topic/1620720-september-midweek-madness-2025/

[crude jay]

just getting started 🦾

mainly because my home office was too cold

needed some warmth 🙂

[pseudo abyss]

Passkey and account/points is linked to Username+Email, right? So no way to "change email"?

[grizzled hemlock]

how much does running on an igpu boost ppd?

[serene dagger]

To my knowledge you cannot run F@H on an iGPU

And if you were able to, I doubt it would be much of an increase

[grizzled hemlock]

sorry i meant running my computer on an iGPU so the entirety of the dGPU can be dedicated to F@H

[serene dagger]

oooh
I'm not sure, but that would very likely help

[hushed bobcat]

I do that on my Linux folding system

[solar basin]

BOINC and Folding@Home are distributed computing software that uses your unused processing power to do calculations in the name of science and progress! Through BOINC and Folding you can contribute to projects for medical science, physics, mathematics, and nature. The combined computing power of thousands of users gives scientists a supercomputer to run experiments on!
Join us in supporting science and competing as team LTT! We have an amazing community on the forum that can help you get started. Feel free to ask any questions you may have.
https://linustechtips.com/forum/37-foldinghome-boinc-and-coin-mining/

[solar basin]

September BOINC Blog
https://linustechtips.com/blogs/entry/2342-september-boinc-blog/

[grizzled hemlock]

16 hour work unit

[grizzled hemlock]

i love hardware upgrades

[solar basin]

Signups close in less than a week!
https://linustechtips.com/topic/1620720-september-midweek-madness-2025/

[grizzled hemlock]

I just figured out what passkeys are

[solar basin]

The much anticipated eighth annual FOLDING MONTH is now live!!!!!
https://linustechtips.com/topic/1623709-ltt-official-folding-month-viii-nov-1st-dec-6th/

[hard flume]

Sup all.. just found out about this on the forum. Will be catching up

[wanton acorn]

its 42F outside so folding is basically free heat

my gtx 645 in my server desktop is getting a whopping 30k PPD

[exotic yoke]

yep. When the inverter in our heat pump failed a few weeks ago I just set the temperature way up so that the pump would at least run to spread the remaining heat around in the house and just let folding@home run 24/7 on my 4070Ti for like a week. Free heat baby! Mom even approved of it once I explained that it was going towards science and that I was not just letting my PC run for nothing. It got fixed last week and I've been able to turn off folding without freezing

My 4070Ti gets way over 1m PPD xD

[wanton acorn]

my 7900xtx gets 5.8M currently but i know AMD isnt very efficient on FAH

[exotic yoke]

ooh, nice! I'm not even sure if it's 1m or 10m PPD. There's too many digits without any seperators (' for example)

[wanton acorn]

althought it seems to be creeping up slowly somehow its almost at 6 million

its probably 10 million

AMD is like 1/2 as optimized as nvidia i think i heard someone say a while back on FAH

[exotic yoke]

Then it must've been between 10m and 13m PPD. Unfortunately I can't seem to get it to work on my laptop, it only recognized the iGPU and that can't be folded on, it can only fold on the CPU and it's barely faster than your GTX 645 haha. The 1660Ti in it would be pretty decent

[wanton acorn]

my ryzen 5 3500 is at 53k PPD with 5 cores runnig out of 6 on the other pc

[exotic yoke]

It would be cool to get into the LTT leaderboards but LTT has so many people with more powerful hardware that have run it for so long that I just cannot compete, so I ususally fold for PCWelt's team where I can actually get decently high in the leaderboards haha. A good chunk of my progress was done in 2020 during the lockdown on my loud ass Dell G5 5090 with an RTX 2060 where I actually used to fold on the CPU and GPU

[wanton acorn]

my room temp has gone up like 6 degrees already

[exotic yoke]

Noice! I just started up folding@home again and I can verify that it's in fact 10m ppd

[clever marten]

after like 5 years ive finally reached 5k wus

recently expanded my small fleet with an a2000 and it sped things up quite a bit

[solar basin]

Less than a week until signups for folding month close! Support science and win up to a $100 in LTTstore gift cards, Steam keys and Steam gift cards!
https://linustechtips.com/topic/1623709-ltt-official-folding-month-viii-nov-1st-dec-6th/

[hard flume]

lets gooo. Great guide on the forum and great cause to contribute. Testing successfully on desktop and like the "only when idle" option:

bless

[hard flume]

Is this what our folding is going to specfically for Team LTT? is there significance why this was selected if so?

[hushed bobcat]

better make sure my stuff still works

[hushed bobcat]

so my linux client is working

actually its doing 3.3mil ppd which is more than i remember the old 1080ti being able to do

but my windows client cant seem to DL a WU

i dont get it, im pretty sure i havent changed anything since the last folding sprint

[hushed bobcat]

hmm, i reinstalled (8.4.9) and now it seems to be working

well as long as it works

[hard flume]

Do you see them both on the same passkey panel? I just set mine up today but I see there is a tab for devices

here is where I mean:

[solar basin]

It's your choice which cause your compute should go towards. No matter what cause you select, both you and Team LTT earn points as we work to support science!

[hybrid fog]

First time folding after considering a few times, I'm looking forward to seeing where I get on the LTT ranking by the time folding month is over

[wanton acorn]

whats the PPD of a 1070 if anyone knows?

[solar basin]

Welcome! Glad to have you on the team.

[solar basin]

About 1,680,595 PPD.
https://folding.lar.systems/gpu_ppd/overall_ranks

[wanton acorn]

thanks i didnt know that was a thing

[humble rover]

Nearly forgor to sign up 💀

[jaunty vapor]

Is it actually bad to make your own passkey? I made my own when installing/signing up and started using it. Then I saw in the FAQ a link to generate one, which is different than the one I made

I saw a random post saying it was bad but didn't explain why

things are logging so i'm assuming it's good

[fading hound]

It's not bad, just don't give it to anyone since it's access to your account. And make sure you're getting points for your account/Team LTT.

you can check that quickly here https://folding.extremeoverclocking.com/ or at https://stats.foldingathome.org/

[jaunty vapor]

Yeah looks like those numbers are going up. Thank you!

[vivid wadi]

Didn’t realize how much more ppd you get by running Linux

[hybrid fog]

dang, too bad i'm not ready to switch over yet

[solar basin]

From my experience, a fresh Windows install running only F@H is about the same.

[hushed bobcat]

my best PPD is when i run headless

which is usually in linux

[hybrid fog]

I'm just having fun climbing the LTT leader board and seeing the future estimates of where I'll land after the month is up

[grizzled hemlock]

how will running linux compare to running a decently clean windows install with a gpu overclock?

[humble rover]

Might come out equal but you'd be paying for it in power. Check LAR for numbers for your specific card

[solar basin]

Less than eight hours until signups close for folding month!
https://linustechtips.com/topic/1623709-ltt-official-folding-month-viii-nov-1st-dec-6th/

[hearty rampart]

A challenger approaches https://youtu.be/qw4fDU18RcU

[solar basin]

Our ranks are ready to battle!

Assuming F@H servers can handle it...

[hushed bobcat]

a little late but im folding

[wanton acorn]

my blower 1070 only increases by 10k ppd by going from 70% power limit to 100% and is way louder

[hushed bobcat]

yea i usually derate to 80% power

got my 4080 at 80% and my 1080ti reduced from 250 to 225w limit in linux

[bright pelican]

Oh snap. It's that time again.

[hybrid fog]

i'm just letting my 3060 go as is

[viscid galleon]

I goofed and missed the signup. Was there anything more to it than just joining the LTT Team in the F@H Web Control?
(I'm still gonna participate regardless, but I was curious)

[hybrid fog]

There is a form to fill out in the one forum thread

[solar basin]

That's about it! Just make sure you have a passkey in order to earn more points.

[solar basin]

November BOINC Blog
https://linustechtips.com/blogs/entry/2354-november-boinc-blog/

[hybrid fog]

yay I just barely made the top 50% of folders on day 1

[hushed bobcat]

im not seeing a link to the google doc on the forum post

ahh found it at the top, half of it was cut off on my browser for some reason

[hybrid fog]

not super familar with the forum, but it seems the "solved" post thing only shows a bit of the post and you need to visit that post to see everything

[hybrid fog]

20.69 million points, nice. Just need 400 more million now

[hushed bobcat]

i really like btop

[hushed bobcat]

woo moved up 7 spots

[fading hound]

ummm Did we crash linustechtips.com @solar basin

nvm it's back up

[solar basin]

Yep! I use the solved post to direct people to the latest daily blog post. Otherwise it gets lost in all of the other discussion.

[hushed bobcat]

26mil today

[jaunty vapor]

Is it feasible/worth throwing multiple old GPUs into an old computer to fold with? I just remembered I have two 960s, a 1080 and an old i5 5600 build sitting in the closet basically ready to go lol

I haven't set up multiple graphics cards on a computer before but I'm sure I could make it a weekend project

[hushed bobcat]

setting up multiple GPUs is fun, especially figuring out the PCI Slot and PCI Power setup

the picture i posted on 11/2 is actually my old 1080Ti folding

my only suggestion is with a CPU as old as the i5-5600 you disable CPU folding completely, GPU WU's require 1-2 threads for EACH GPU and that CPU only has 4 total so you are already behind the 8-ball

(btw i actually couldnt find the specs on an i5-5600 did you mean i5-6500?)

[jaunty vapor]

Thanks! I just double checked and it's an i5-6600k

4 cores like you said, so I'll disable folding on the cpu. Now I need to find someplace to put the computer tower in the apartment lol

[hushed bobcat]

i did this for one of the folding sprints

the big card was a 660 Ti

smaller cards were P106-90's

turns out old bitcoin mining cards make pretty good folding cards

and used they are basically worthless

[wanton acorn]

i see 1080 ones for like 40$ on ebay

i turned my 7900xtx off silent mode and it went up like 2.8 million PPD this thing really doesnt like low power settings, its only like 30 more watts

[grizzled hemlock]

hey any idea on how this happens?

[solar basin]

Looks like you got a big WU. It happens from time to time.

[exotic yoke]

How are your room temperatuers looking so far? Mine are pretty out of control if I don't open my windows at least twice per day. I'm excited to see how well I'll end up doing as this is my first folding month. My hope is that I'll make it to the top 50 and it would be awesome if I could get a prize but I assume my hardware isn't good enough for that

[jaunty vapor]

It's been in the mid 40-50s here outside and pretty cold inside. I've turned the heater on a couple times lol. But the two PCs are in a decently large living room/kitchen area. This weekend I'm going to set up a PC in the office and I think that might get me toasty. We'll see

[hybrid fog]

I'm averaging between 2-4F warmer in my PC room than the rest of the house

only pulling 350w total with a 3060 though

[hushed bobcat]

i leave the window next to my PC open 24/7 for this event

just adjust how much

[exotic yoke]

That's very convenient! My PC just blows towards the wall, the window is a good two meters away from my PC, so I just open the window for 10 minutes every 6h or so. I also turned my thermostat all the way down but the PC still overpowers the amount of heat I lose at a normal temp

[hybrid fog]

Dang looks like I'll just be dropping on the monthly ranking the whole month. At least my rank on the LTT team and overall ranking is going up at a good pace

[exotic yoke]

I'm just continuously climbing a couple ranks at a time. I missed day 1 but now I'm 100th

[jaunty vapor]

i made it to 81 :D. peaked at 79 a on day 3

[hushed bobcat]

shooting for top 40

[jaunty vapor]

I'm going to shoot for 75. I'd be stoked if I can hit 50 though. We'll see after I set up the second PC this weekend.

[jaunty vapor]

back to 79. top 75 here i come

[green marten]

What is folding and boinc

[solar basin]

BOINC and Folding@Home are distributed computing software that uses your unused processing power to do calculations in the name of science and progress! Through BOINC and Folding you can contribute to projects for medical science, physics, mathematics, and nature. The combined computing power of thousands of users gives scientists a supercomputer to run experiments on!
Join us in supporting science and competing as team LTT! We have an amazing community on the forum that can help you get started. Feel free to ask any questions you may have.
https://linustechtips.com/forum/37-foldinghome-boinc-and-coin-mining/

[green marten]

Ok

[jaunty vapor]

lol so i finally got my extra computer up and running with ubuntu server.. spent the last 40min running in circles trying to figure out why the fah client wasn't connecting to my existing account/wasn't running... then finally noticed i brainfarted my config file and wrote <config/> instead of </config>

[hushed bobcat]

oh man thats the worst

i remember having a hard time with my config file when i set up my fah on ubuntu server

[jaunty vapor]

now i'm seeing my GPUs aren't supported :( is that just drivers missing or really not supported?
21:54:49:I3:gpus = {
21:54:49:I3: "gpu:01:00:00": {"vendor": 4318, "device": 7298, "type": "nvidia", "supported": false, "description": "GP107 [GeForce GTX 1050 Ti] 2138"},
21:54:49:I3: "gpu:02:00:00": {"vendor": 4318, "device": 5121, "type": "nvidia", "supported": false, "description": "GM206 [GeForce GTX 960] 2308"}

[hushed bobcat]

but my issue was i couldnt figure out my problems until i realized i was using 7.4x config options on a 8.4x client

[jaunty vapor]

i fell down that path of following instructions for a 7.4x config file too lol

[hushed bobcat]

im running a 1080 Ti right now

[jaunty vapor]

hmm

[hushed bobcat]

what drivers do you have installed

[jaunty vapor]

no idea. whatever defaulted with a fresh ubuntu install

[hushed bobcat]

this is the headless ubuntu server correct?

[jaunty vapor]

yeah

[hushed bobcat]

it has nothing for nvidia

install nvidia-driver-580-server
install nvidia-opencl-dev

and reboot

yes you HAVE to reboot....

this should also come with nvidia-smi, a very useful tool

old 1080 Ti does about 3mil ppd on avg, not bad

if you want i can also give a really nice looking monitoring tool

its been awhile since i set it up but im pretty sure thats all you need
i only have 2 lines in my entire config.xml and it works perfectly

account-token
machine-name

[jaunty vapor]

hmm seems like the installs worked but getting this

i'm going to reboot again..

seems like it might be related to secureboot..

bingo

hmm well almost. still says unsupported

[hushed bobcat]

where is the log that says unsupported?

i want to see what mine says

[jaunty vapor]

i was just basing it on that

[hushed bobcat]

huh

ohh

hit the i symbol, what does that say

[hushed bobcat]

your nvidia drivers arent on

the smi you linked seems fine though

journalctl -b | grep -iE 'nvidia|nouveau'

what does this output?

[jaunty vapor]

ooo got it

[hushed bobcat]

nice, what was it

[jaunty vapor]

those 3 "not upgraded"

did an apt full-upgrade and then rebooted again

[hushed bobcat]

very nice

yea i kinda assumed the first thing you did was do a full apt update and apt-dist upgrade

also apt-get is depreciated you should probably get out of the habit of using it

[jaunty vapor]

ah good to know. i never really knew the difference between apt-get and apt, i usually switch back and forth using one or the other

[hushed bobcat]

btw the tool i told you about is nvtop

works with Intel too

[hushed bobcat]

looks cool doesnt it

[jaunty vapor]

yeah that's nice. thanks for the recommendation. i feel like i had seen people talk about this but never installed it before

i don't use linux a ton. i dabble randomly with it. my main server is runing it as a VM on proxmox, but really it's just used to host all my docker stuff

[hushed bobcat]

btop is good for everything else

i think it looks better than htop

[jaunty vapor]

thank you so much for your help by the way. i really appreciate it.

[hushed bobcat]

np 👍

[vital swan]

Who of you is using vast.ai for some extra boost during the folding month?

[hybrid fog]

I'm curious what the most PPD someone is getting on a single PC

[jaunty vapor]

i think i was getting ~9/day on my 3080Ti and that's with me pausing it for several hours a day to game

that was the first few days. i've added a couple more PCs since then

[hushed bobcat]

my main gaming PC does around 21mil ppd

RTX 4080

[hybrid fog]

I only get 2.8 mil PPD on my 3060, there seems to be a huge jump in what higher end or newer gpus can do

[hushed bobcat]

to be fair i get 3 mil on my 1080 Ti, but it also pulls 250w while the 3060 Ti is around 150w

[exotic yoke]

MY 4070Ti is about 13m PPD, didn't expect a 4080 to be almost twice as fast

[exotic yoke]

the LTT forum is down :(

[fading hound]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JwZwkk7q25I

The system is down

[fading juniper]

Quite a long down-time

[fading hound]

Stobin going too hard for folding month 🤣

[weak flume]

Rip forum

[azure garnet]

Okay, who was trying to fold with the LTT webservers? 🤣 Is that Stobin's really secret?

[regal quail]

lol lany guy switches again!!!!!! also trying to fix why ssd is over heating on a tr pc.....

[fading hound]

Geeze, still down. @solar basin at this rate you won't have to blog today

[elfin haven]

🖥️

[azure garnet]

Wow, going on 12 hours now that the site's been down. Maybe they need to post to the tech support channel here, lol

[elfin haven]

Sad part is, I've been keeping up with forum posts each afternoon post-work. Got home last night, didn't check because I was exhausted, and then I look this morning and I see "6 new posts", click it, and... poof. Leaving things unread, when I'm actively interested/invested, gives me anxiety. x_x

[fading hound]

I can give a quick update at to whats happened lately for folding month

the TL is that, HoldSquat is still Holding Squat 🫡

Really hopefully it'll be up soon, worse comes to worse we'll be able to post today's results here @elfin haven

[reef oak]

@fading hound Why you always tinkering i thought i told you only use the GPU on the server it cant take the CPU Folding...

[fading hound]

I do what I want

[azure garnet]

It's back up now

[azure garnet]

Oh hell, trying to reply to RetroTechie and the forums stopped loading…

[fading hound]

same, I found the exact problem I think he's having

[azure garnet]

I guess you did say you wouldn't promise not to break it again 🤣

[ripe musk]

His 5070 is pooping all over the place?

[fading hound]

It's an impressive 450+GB poop in his logs

[azure garnet]

From what I found online, sounds like could just be he needs to reseat the GPU and blow out the PCIe slot. Dust or something in it

[ripe musk]

A correction message per detected error, can easily run that, yup.

[fading hound]

yea I found this for Ubuntu https://itsfoss.com/pcie-bus-error-severity-corrected/

[ripe musk]

Thought it might be that and/or riser cable and/or lower the PCIe gen

[azure garnet]

dozens of errors every 1/10000th of a second… oof. Surprised the system could even write errors that fast.

[fading hound]

Luckily linux is quick to reinstall if that's not the issue

[solar basin]

Uh oh... I was about to post the blog...

[azure garnet]

Common causes include:

1. PCIe power-saving link states (ASPM) causing instability.
2. A flaky PCIe connection (dusty slot, slightly unseated card).
3. A device that is negotiating a marginal link (PCIe Gen3/Gen4 downtraining).
4. Motherboard firmware/BIOS AER bug.

[fading hound]

@reef oak look what you did

[azure garnet]

We all know it was you

[fading hound]

no one can confirm or deny that

[azure garnet]

I bet we see an uptick in his folding on the next 3hr update lol

Hopefully Retrotechie finds his way to this Discord server if the forums aren't back up soon. Hate that the forums went down right when trying to figure out what is wrong with his system.

[fading hound]

I should have put out a PACE plan before it went down again 📻

[azure garnet]

hindsight 20/20 and all that…

[ripe musk]

Aaannd it's up

[solar basin]

Daily stats are live. I've added the blog to the sheet too. Just in case! 🙂
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1DqHP-Y_tFULjUfsTTYH1AfvT3GjHVSBo-qKu9Y98m1Y/edit?usp=sharing

[elfin haven]

Ngl, not sure the old PowerEdge T320 is worth it on this one. x_x

[fading hound]

That's the power of about 3 Raspberry Pi 5s

[regal quail]

power of 2 treadrippers 2990wx,1950x, ryzen 6 core. 2 2080s,2070,1650, if i cannot get the rx440,50 and 60(amd ) to work with folding. i will then let to crunch on ltt prime grid team~

[elfin haven]

I'm sure those Pis are much more energy efficient. I really want to find a cheap local-only solution (HA integrated way) to monitor power draw from different devices.

[fading hound]

You and I both 🤣 it's one of those things I keep forgetting to look up

[hushed bobcat]

EmonPi?

[fading hound]

never heard of it, I think I'd just need some zigbee wall plugs

[azure garnet]

I've got some smart plugs that monitor power consumption and I flashed them with Tasmota. After calibrating them with a multimeter and clamp meter, they seem pretty accurate. Tasmota then feeds the stats to HA over MQTT.

[hushed bobcat]

https://docs.openenergymonitor.org/emonpi/technical.html

[hushed bobcat]

sorted by 24h avg points

[hybrid fog]

yay I gained another spot on the event ranking. Wonder if I can crawl back to the top 50%, need to move up 12 more spots.

[hushed bobcat]

i was at 31

kinda hope i can hold top 30

but i dont think i can unless someone above drops out

[elfin haven]

What plugs are you using? I have some Sylvania smart plugs that I flashed with esphome, but they don't support measuring power consumption (they do act as remote relay switches, however).

I'm still aiming for 69th overall at the end of the event.

[azure garnet]

I have some of these Wyze ones for outside. Can be flashed with Tasmota, but its a pain and you gotta solder the pins to the board during flashing. https://a.co/d/iLSVLpt

These Sonoff ones are great for indoor use and easier to flash. https://a.co/d/fOgbq4k

https://digiblur.com/2021/03/27/how-to-flash-the-wyze-outdoor-plug-esphome-or-tasmota-local-control/

https://digiblur.com/wiki/devices/plugs/sonoff_s31

Regardless of which you use, have to calibrate it after flashing for power metering to be accurate.

https://tasmota.github.io/docs/Power-Monitoring-Calibration/#calibration-procedure

[elfin haven]

... I may have ordered some (Sonoff).

[elfin haven]

Behold this unholy thing. Nvidia... AMD... All in one snug little docker container.

[fading hound]

heads up! Server down again

@reef oak fault this time

[fading hound]

nvm back up, he isn't as good at sabotage

[weak flume]

Cloudflare is having issues

[quick bluff]

Is there a local address to control folding at home on mac as remote is down due to cloud flare

[fading hound]

offff No idea honestly, could check lars, one moment

....which is also down

[quick bluff]

Yep

[regal quail]

i see languy busy un pluging lan cables!

[elfin haven]

This is the problem with Cloudflare being everywhere. Everything is so... centralized.

[fading hound]

still blaming cbigfoot :p

[regal quail]

a bit to.

[fading hound]

now I wish I was back on V7 lol

[quick bluff]

for anyone with a mac. that cant control your F@h instance - just foud this and was able to pause mine - https://github.com/lukemmtt/FAHMenuBar?tab=readme-ov-file

[fading hound]

Thanks for that, looks like it's back up

[quick bluff]

Of course it would haha, well atleast its there for next time

[fading hound]

right??? Good thing to keep in your pocket

[elfin haven]

If you have node/npm installed, you can also run the web-client locally: https://github.com/FoldingAtHome/fah-web-client-bastet

[quick bluff]

That would have been helpful 2 hours ago hahaha

[elfin haven]

Eh, it'll happen again eventually, and then we'll all know. I scoured Github for a v8 local web client, only to not find anything but the official client itself. Found some older v7 projects. Really wish there was a simply "+Add Device" type interface, as this only connect to localhost. Might tinker with it.

[elfin haven]

In case anyone wants to poke around with said tinkering.

https://github.com/bmlzootown/folding-control

[regal quail]

Folding with limited Hotspot data due to internet down . Fun for second time

[solar basin]

Uh oh...

@fading hound !!!!

[regal quail]

we all know it was you

[solar basin]

Nuh uh!

[silver wing]

Damn cleaner unplugged the forum again

[regal quail]

Could be lead confused him

[reef oak]

@fading hound apparently started folding with the servers CPU again. 😏

[serene dagger]

DAng it @fading hound

[hardy fox]

👀

[shut moon]

[fading hound]

Ok who set off my UPS in retaliation? @reef oak was it you?

[reef oak]

How else am I supposed to pass you I slipped your ups mfg $1.

[fading hound]

It's a shame no 5070Ti showed up at my door...just saying

[regal quail]

i see no one thinking big... be a shame if i change user name and pass word setting on sobin folding beast to my name and password.

[serene dagger]

Okay wait, it's still not back up??

[regal quail]

Nope. Total cut to fiber line so bad it on day 3 atm

[serene dagger]

Anyway it appears holdsquat's invasion has been halted (hold and squatted)

[exotic yoke]

It's been back for a bit now yay

[regal quail]

Good on hold thing!

[fading hound]

https://tenor.com/view/willow-ill-be-back-before-you-know-it-ill-be-back-i-wont-be-long-i-will-be-back-gif-27501222

[reef oak]

So I may have broke LTT Forum posting a meme....

https://tenor.com/view/mondays-office-space-gif-5711568

and its back

[fading hound]

hacker

[regal quail]

Cbig and languy. I see you trying to cut my cables!!!

[vivid wadi]

When you have folding and BOINC running at the same time

[exotic yoke]

I don't run folding on my CPU, it's way too inefficient. Draws 200W for like 100k PPD

lol all the P-cores are essentially not doing anything while the E-cores are really hard at work

[regal quail]

What cpu you got

[exotic yoke]

It's right in the screenshot lol. It's a 12700K with a lifted 4.8 all-core over the stock 4.7

[reef oak]

Intel cpus suck for folding as the ecores suck at folding. My fathers 14700k on gets 200k

[exotic yoke]

I can't remember the true PPD, I've rarely ever folded on that CPU

Lemme test it rq, I'm gonna start one WU

The first percent is always really slow, my estimated ppd is 22k haha. It'll surely go up however

It's drawing 170W rn. Together with my GPU my rig is now pulling 420W, the GPU is pretty erratic though drawing anywhere between 230 and 280W, averaging 250W

[exotic yoke]

It's at 809k PPD at the moment while my 4070Ti is at 11m

[little sage]

finally got my folding set up again, joined the LTT team too

[exotic yoke]

Nice, nice!

[hybrid fog]

1 more week and I'll break 100mil and top 4,000 on the LTT team

[solar basin]

Nice job on 180th!

[jaunty vapor]

i've had an ethernet cord stretched across my office and my cat finally found it and started chewing it

[solar basin]

__ December BOINC Blog__
https://linustechtips.com/blogs/entry/2386-december-boinc-blog/

[hybrid fog]

I've enjoyed this folding month, but I'm looking forward to giving my PC a good dusting for the first time in too long, swapping the mostly likely almost dead UPS batteries out, and rearranging my room some.

[exotic yoke]

Yep. My dust filters have certainly done their job, they're pretty full now. I'm gonna give my GPU a well-deserved break when it's over, then I'm gonna send it again with my new 1440p screen haha

[hybrid fog]

My Fractal Pop air does a pretty good job of keeping dust out considering it has a perforated front panel

hmm the end time at the link to convert to your timezone doesn't seem correct. It says Dec 6 5:59 EST

oh well I'll wait for the blog post

[fading hound]

Roughly 30mins till done

[hybrid fog]

ok that's what my other research showed

[fading hound]

Oh but it'll also be awhile for the blog @hybrid fog , last blog usually takes longer so I wouldn't expect it tonight

[hybrid fog]

ah ok, thanks

[fading hound]

https://tenor.com/view/done-im-done-finish-family-guy-peter-griffin-gif-15564927

[hybrid fog]

dang I had some long ass work units going, 5.5h and 10.5 hours ago. So a weak finish it looks like, depending on how the extreme overclocking stats line up with the competition stats

[regal quail]

Pball. Same for me last few days of even 1 day cpu wu and 8 hour gpu ones.

[solar basin]

Final Blog and Stats are LIVE!!!
https://linustechtips.com/blogs/entry/2391-folding-month-viii-awards-ceremony/

[hushed bobcat]

I'm curious, you mentioned I don't disclose my setup for folding.
But I've posted my exact setup several times in here.
Is there somewhere I'm supposed to put it on the forum?

[fading hound]

you could toss it in a build log maybe? I know I just keep mine in my signature block

[solar basin]

Sorry I missed it!

[hushed bobcat]

Well I mean it's usually in response to someone asking something related

So not structured

[fickle needle]

man, this sucks, it's December and i'm having to pause folding because I don't want to sleep when it's 26+ in my room

[fickle needle]

Is it really any surprise I got into protein folding as a hobby?

[solar basin]

Shoutout on WAN!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EfQyfM0oQnk&t=8747s

[regal quail]

cool i was mention!

[solar basin]

2025 Conclusion / January BOINC Blog
https://linustechtips.com/blogs/entry/2393-2025-conclusion-january-boinc-blog/

[solar basin]

I wrote a little end of the year blog for the folding team!
https://linustechtips.com/blogs/entry/2394-2025-summary-and-plans-for-2026/

Also the next F@H event is live! It's going to be a seven day WU extravaganza! I've be working with @fading hound who will be taking the lead for this event. Make sure to sign up for I ❤️ WU by February 6th!
https://linustechtips.com/topic/1629997-i-love-wu-2026/

[livid furnace]

do people still use folding@home? jesus

[solar basin]

Yep! LTT has the biggest Folding@Home team.

[brisk pulsar]

New to folding, is CPU folding worth the electricity these days?

Have a Ryzen 7700 drawing 105W for 550k PPD (5.24k PPD/W),
and a 3080Ti drawing 325W for 9.5M PPD . (29k PPD/W)

Are the CPU WU specifically workloads that GPU could not do efficiently, or is it interchangeable?

[hushed bobcat]

First question: generally no you get orders of magnitude more ppd/w with GPUs, especially nvidia GPUs as you stated in your Ryzen 7700 vs 3080 Ti.
Eventually though if you have a super old or weak GPU a CPU will surpass it.
Second Question: Yes their are CPU specific WU's that GPU's cannont complete.
Generally if you can afford a few CPU cores its good practice to just let them run.
I've heard there are WAY more CPU WU's in the queue waiting to be completed because almost nobody runs CPUs

[brisk pulsar]

I've heard the are WAY more CPU WU's in the queue

I guess the question then is whether those are CPU specific or WU that could be better run on GPU

[hushed bobcat]

no they are CPU specific

all CPU WU are CPU specific, all GPU WU are GPU Specific

[brisk pulsar]

Oh I mean like, could said projects be better coded to run on a GPU than a CPU

[hushed bobcat]

yea i dont know how that part actually works

but i would assume its more it can't run on a GPU

[brisk pulsar]

I'd hope so

[fading hound]

I know Ill be running both CPU and GPU for the event just to crank out more WUs. Generally my PPD goes down when I do that but my WU count goes higher

[spring oyster]

hey guys. anyone else having problems getting jobs?

[solar basin]

For Folding@Home or a BOINC project?

[spring oyster]

F@H

[spring oyster]

all i see is this for the last few days

[weary gale]

I haven't had any issues

[fading hound]

Haven't had issues, what your logs say?

[fading hound]

that's surprising because your 1060 should be getting stuff, you using windows or linux?

[spring oyster]

windows

[fading hound]

I gotta run but if you get time check the advance guide it helps

https://linustechtips.com/topic/1625359-foldinghome-v8-–-machineadvance-settings-guide/

[spring oyster]

thanks

[zealous forge]

I assume you are also into origami and untangling wires.

[fickle needle]

Never got the origami bug, but yep

[solar basin]

Sign ups close midnight tomorrow!
https://linustechtips.com/topic/1629997-i-love-wu-2026/

[solar basin]

February BOINC Blog
https://linustechtips.com/blogs/entry/2395-februrary-boinc-blog/

[solar basin]

Ok, who tried folding WUs on the forum this time?

[fading hound]

@reef oak did!

[solar basin]

BOINC Crunchathon 2026 (March 9th - 30th)
https://linustechtips.com/topic/1631930-boinc-crunchathon-2026-march-9th-30th/

[fiery anvil]

whats a boinc

[torn kite]

https://boinc.berkeley.edu/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berkeley_Open_Infrastructure_for_Network_Computing

[weary gale]

[charred gorge]

If you were actually a pro you would have a proper URL

[zealous forge]

https://tenor.com/view/protein-structure-levels-gif-14527200

[solar basin]

__ March BOINC Blog__
https://linustechtips.com/blogs/entry/2405-march-boinc-blog/

[fickle needle]

First world problems, my home broadband went out, which means folding stopped, which means I had to find another way to heat the house

[fiery anvil]

cool

[warped ore]

crazy how ltt team is being beaten by a feeless and instant crypto

[weary gale]

I embrace the competition. All the more reason to crank out more WUs!

[solar basin]

We passed Curecoin about a year ago. One more crypto team left!

[tropic lance]

🌒 🌕 🌘

[solar basin]

Join us for the BOINC Pentathlon 2026!
https://linustechtips.com/topic/1634802-boinc-pentathlon-2026/

[solar basin]

April BOINC Blog
https://linustechtips.com/blogs/entry/2429-april-boinc-blog/

[fickle needle]

LTT really talking about the highest PC, like you guys haven't been seeing my folding rigs for years

[solar basin]

Three days until sign-ups close! Join the LTT BOINC team in the BOINC Pentathlon!
In this event, we go up against other tech communities by contributing computing power through BOINC to support scientific research and progress.
Learn more here: https://linustechtips.com/topic/1634802-boinc-pentathlon-2026

[solar basin]

**__ May BOINC Blog
__**https://linustechtips.com/blogs/entry/2432-may-boinc-blog/

[solar basin]

Last chance to signup for the BOINC Pentathlon! Sign-ups close today!

[neon oriole]

I think I’m signed up
Have got milky and prime going. Is there a way to verify it is working correctly?

[fading hound]

Hey! We mostly communicate on the Forum, @solar basin should be putting something out tonight concerning users crunching for the right team and such. If you have your forum name I can check right now quickly though

[neon oriole]

natewin

Thanks

[fading hound]

I see ya! Just make sure in your milky and prime settings that you're on LinusTechTips_Team, free-dc is showing you crunching for SETI,USA

could just be delayed if you recently swapped to LinusTechTips_Team fysa

[neon oriole]

Need to figure out where to change that one. For the individual projects I am on Linus

[fading hound]

sometimes it takes a day or two for stuff to carry over

should be good to go then, IDK how Free-DC figured out I was on LTT, I mostly work on F@H 😂

[neon oriole]

Yeah must have very old data for prime and isn’t even showing milky yet.

Both seem working. Thanks

[solar basin]

Hello again BOINC team! Due to the forum outage we will assemble here for the time being.

The forum is back online again! Great!

[solar basin]

The 17th annual BOINC Pentathlon hosted by SETI Germany is now complete! It's time to celebrate!!! 🎉🎉 LTT won silver overall!
https://linustechtips.com/blogs/entry/2447-day-14-finale-and-celebration/

[earnest light]

We folded all the proteins
And now the boinc is for whatever the researchers need right now, right?

[fickle needle]

Have no fear! There are plenty more amino acid chains to bend!

It'd be bigger news if F@H wrapped up surely

[solar basin]

Not yet! Still plenty more proteins to fold. This was simply the end of a competition LTT participated in.

[unique sigil]

The Folding Channel

[gray stratus]

oh hello

[rich depot]

YES! caps

[long torrent]

YES!

[rich depot]

@proven marlin @potent oar

[potent oar]

Yaaaaaaas

Thanks @unique sigil

[stuck bramble]

Oh yas

[potent oar]

@rich turtle

[long torrent]

what's this channel?

[potent oar]

now we just need to have it above regular

[rich turtle]

Yes, I see.

[white pivot]

yeet

is this relevant to the folding competition thingy?

[rich depot]

Not really

[potent oar]

its for folding

[white pivot]

oh.....

[rich depot]

this is just a place for us folding to come talk folding and such

[white pivot]

k

[rich turtle]

2 days away from LTT Team #8 spot.

[dusty geode]

Noice

[proven marlin]

Oh,hell yeah

[rich turtle]

Thanks @unique sigil

[dusty geode]

I wonder how much heat and noise I can produce folding

[long torrent]

🤔

[stuck bramble]

For me Noize alot

Heat alot

[rich depot]

@proven marlin You got till 00:00GMT tomorrow to sign up to the folding month btw if you can make it

[dusty geode]

Time to install Debian on a server to test it 😄

[stuck bramble]

😂

[proven marlin]

@rich depot, :c. Still no internet

[dusty geode]

one thing about Debian tho

[rich depot]

If you sign up you only need 15days of folding over the month, sign up just in case maybe?

[dusty geode]

No network card support

So it couldn't connect to the servers xd

[young sedge]

how does signing up work again precisely?

just start folding right?

[dusty geode]

Make a name, get a key, join a team, start folding

[young sedge]

yeah okay diddly did that

[proven marlin]

@rich depot, ok. Hopefully it get back up. Or, find some wacky way to just endure hotspoting off the phone

[rich depot]

No worries

https://linustechtips.com/main/topic/978596-ltt-official-folding-month-2018/

sign up to folding month here, this is not the giveaway!

[junior thunder]

What is this for?

Chat for talking about Folders?

or Origami?

[proven marlin]

For F@H, though, is BOINC talk be alright as well?

[young sedge]

wait

ben

you can check if my names on it right?

[rich depot]

Yeah

[young sedge]

its like my name here

exactly the same

idk if it has been doing anything tho lmao

[rich depot]

You are not currently signed up

[young sedge]

ok ehhh

i did join the ltt team so idk what im doing wrong

[rich depot]

@unique sigil Please add BOINC to the channel name!!!

No, you have to fill out the google form on the thread I posted

[young sedge]

oh

im an idiot

im sorry

[rich depot]

you are folding for the team, just not in the event itself

[young sedge]

😂

im an idiot

[rich depot]

haha

[young sedge]

ok i think i did it right now

[stuck bramble]

@rich depot 👀 https://bluecrazii.nl/Images/JrWQJWRuH.png

[rich depot]

@young sedge You are now signed up

[dusty geode]

I wonder....would Google Cloud get mad at me for using their hardware at 100% for a month

[young sedge]

yeah i'm only using my cpu right now because i hate the fact that my fans go apeshit

[rich depot]

@dusty geode I was thinking the same thing...

[young sedge]

it's REALLY loud when i'm using my gpus

both

[rich depot]

current OC

[stuck bramble]

👀

[rich depot]

you like?

[proven marlin]

Hmm, how much is that Google cloud?

xD. I be mad nutter to see if they get mad

[rich depot]

Tomerrs is producing 7.6million PPD....

[proven marlin]

:c. I would be up there in ppd. Darn stinking hurricane

[young sedge]

https://i.joeysa.nl/FloralwhiteEssentialAustrianpinscher.jpg help it broke

what is it doing

[rich depot]

It does that sometimes

check the advanced client

just type in fahcontrol in your start menu

[young sedge]

yeah i right clicked on the logo in the bar

[rich depot]

is it working there?

[young sedge]

yeah its doing something

i also started my gpu things for now but i'm not gonna do that all the time lmao

[rich depot]

Im running 4 GPUs and 3 CPUs

[young sedge]

https://i.joeysa.nl/TimelySolidOpossum.jpg eh

[rich depot]

Im brute forcing my way to the top baby! Fuck efficiency!

[proven marlin]

xD

[rich depot]

hmm...

[young sedge]

i'm really straining my 960, since i'm also running a game on it at the same time

[rich depot]

Joey I stream and fold at the same time...

[proven marlin]

Darn, hotspoting may not work well....since most land line internet is out. Everyone using their phones. Talk about a slow cell network down here

[long torrent]

use this for folding

[stuck bramble]

ERm

[dusty geode]

If you have two physical CPUs, do you use 2 slots?

[young sedge]

well yeah but this poor 960 is already 4-5 years old and has seen daily battering from me so i feel sad for it

😂

[proven marlin]

Hmm, been a long time since I seen a 2P setup running F@H. So can't remember how F@H shows two cpus

[rich depot]

@young sedge One of my cards is a HD 7950......

[proven marlin]

Depending on the gtx960, those are hardy cards. The one I have been folding for years since it was bought

[dusty geode]

https://linusdrop.tips/GsiBovy.png

Making the USB to install

[rich depot]

#folding-and-boinc @proven marlin

[dusty geode]

Time to fold

[rich depot]

there you go, its official

[proven marlin]

:D

Happy day

Now, be better day if I can get some folding managed and darn rental company to put that tarp on the roof

@dusty geode, wonder what the ppd output will be

[dusty geode]

Same

[rich depot]

On Gcloud?

[dusty geode]

It's gonna be loud af tho

No

My server at home

[proven marlin]

Ah

What CPUs?

[rich depot]

ahhh

[stuck bramble]

Fuck

[dusty geode]

Shitty X5355s xddd

[stuck bramble]

My clients wont connect to each other

...

[proven marlin]

Hmm, old x5355s. Not sure how well those still do at F@H

[dusty geode]

I might launch an instance for gcloud tho

¯_(ツ)_/¯

[rich depot]

Do it!

[dusty geode]

Time to kill the electricity bill!
@rich depot @stuck bramble

[stuck bramble]

Wait

My 1080ti only does 8 work unit's more then my Geforce GT 640

[long torrent]

time to make mom and dad angry

[stuck bramble]

😂

👀 https://bluecrazii.nl/Images/pkOtRQ8xT.png

[compact otter]

What's this channel for

[stuck bramble]

Folding and boinc

[long torrent]

folding