CPU Folders - Look at BOINC for Covid-19

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Rosetta@Home is now releasing/labelling more WU with "COVID-19".

Currently 50% of my WU in my queue are COVID 19 related.

I've switched all my CPUs across to BOINC with my RX580 still pointing at FAH.
 
I have noticed in the advanced view about 80% of my work units are now COVID-19; it's keeping my 3600 busy which is nice.

My F@H units have completely dried up, though I don't really have a GFX card capable of helping much anyway on that.
 
My BOINC stopped uploading/downloading about 24 hours ago. The remaining active work units completed and trailed off, and I noticed that both uploads and downloads had stalled, with ever-lengthening delays until retry. I spent all today thinking their servers were now overloaded, as with FaH's and just left it running.

By chance, I loaded up my network adblocker (AdGuard Home) just now... and one of my filter lists, Energized Ultimate, added boinc.bakerlab.org (Rosetta's server) to their blacklist yesterday. Idiots! I white-listed the domain and BOINC is back up and running at full tilt again. Shame about the work time / points I lost during the downtime though. I'm now down to 5th place on the OcUK leaderboard. :p

You all might want to add boinc.bakerlab.org to your Pi-Hole/AdGuard/pfblockerNG whitelists!

Just as interesting, imo, is the little dip on 25th March. That was when I followed @ChrisD. advice and undervolted and underclocked my 3960X. The performance/points drop is minimal as you can see, considering it's now pulling so much less electricity (100W now vs 280W before).

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That's very minimal difference, considering the savings in electricity and heat output. I'm up to number 2 on the OcUK list for recent points. :)
 
I'm running both BOINC and Folding, is there a way to set BOINC up so that when I get WU's for Folding that the BOINC tasks pause?
 
Rainmaker said:
By chance, I loaded up my network adblocker (AdGuard Home) just now... and one of my filter lists, Energized Ultimate, added boinc.bakerlab.org (Rosetta's server) to their blacklist yesterday. Idiots! I white-listed the domain and BOINC is back up and running at full tilt again. Shame about the work time / points I lost during the downtime though. I'm now down to 5th place on the OcUK leaderboard. :p

You all might want to add boinc.bakerlab.org to your Pi-Hole/AdGuard/pfblockerNG whitelists!
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Thanks will check Pi-hole and try this in case.
 
ChrisD. said:
I'm running both BOINC and Folding, is there a way to set BOINC up so that when I get WU's for Folding that the BOINC tasks pause?
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View > Advanced view. Then Options > Computing preferences > Supend when non-BOINC CPU usage over X% (25 by default iirc). Or just have BOINC doing CPU and Folding doing GPU. I'm getting fairly consistent work for FaH that way and BOINC is obviously always busy.
 
Rainmaker said:
View > Advanced view. Then Options > Computing preferences > Supend when non-BOINC CPU usage over X% (25 by default iirc). Or just have BOINC doing CPU and Folding doing GPU. I'm getting fairly consistent work for FaH that way and BOINC is obviously always busy.
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Cheers, I'll give that a go.
 
I'm using BOINC for CPU on a 2700x. Are there any tips for doing similar undervolting on this for cheaper running? I'd like to do this long term so if I can reduce my power consumption that would be ideal.
 
Luke said:
I'm using BOINC for CPU on a 2700x. Are there any tips for doing similar undervolting on this for cheaper running? I'd like to do this long term so if I can reduce my power consumption that would be ideal.
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Just set the clock speed to stock and then keep lowering the core voltage until the point it becomes unstable, then slightly add.
 
Yup - been running Rosetta@Home as F@H rarely has work for me.

Running a Mac Mini 3.2GHz 6 core i7 with hyperthreading = 12 workloads.

I have got one minor issue with one task in advanced mode "Waiting for Memory". I have 32GB and nothing else has been running so unless there's a memory leak (I note that accountsd in OSX Catalina is taking 915MB). I may have to reboot after 13 days uptime.. top says 28GB used, 410MB available.

Each task says it's using 6GB virtual in the BOINC manager..

A quick reboot and accountsd is now taking 24MB.. all the tasks are now running and all is hunky-dory. Worth checking on your memory use OSX peeps. Actually F@H has finally just worked up with a new task (the download bug?) too.. so cooking on fire. now using 18GB of memory.
 
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NickK said:
Yup - been running Rosetta@Home as F@H rarely has work for me.

Running a Mac Mini 3.2GHz 6 core i7 with hyperthreading = 12 workloads.

I have got one minor issue with one task in advanced mode "Waiting for Memory". I have 32GB and nothing else has been running so unless there's a memory leak (I note that accountsd in OSX Catalina is taking 915MB). I may have to reboot after 13 days uptime.. top says 28GB used, 410MB available.

Each task says it's using 6GB virtual in the BOINC manager..

A quick reboot and accountsd is now taking 24MB.. all the tasks are now running and all is hunky-dory. Worth checking on your memory use OSX peeps. Actually F@H has finally just worked up with a new task (the download bug?) too.. so cooking on fire. now using 18GB of memory.
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Boinc by default is set to use only 50% memory when in use, you can change it in computing preferences / disk and memory.
 
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