Folding News 24/11/18

Biffa · 24 Nov 2018 at 15:38

Jumper118 · 25 Nov 2018 at 17:01

wow only 8 years till we catch tech report, cant wait till we stomp them

Biffa · 28 Nov 2018 at 14:13

Who is Add77 on the forum does anyone know? Can't find them listed here, must be using a different handle. Seems they have similar setup to me.

Jumper118 · 3 Dec 2018 at 23:40

not sure tbh. I can believe a billion points doesnt even get you in the top 400. it used to be top 100 not so long ago.

Xplo · 9 Dec 2018 at 21:51

Whats your folding setup Biffa?

Biffa · 11 Dec 2018 at 20:41

Just a couple of 2080Ti's

Xplo · 11 Dec 2018 at 22:21

Biffa said:
Just a couple of 2080Ti's

Cool. Theoretical situation here. Assuming everything remaining equal, how many 2080ti’s would it take to get us in the top 10 within a year!?

Biffa · 12 Dec 2018 at 15:55

More than 60

oceaness · 13 Dec 2018 at 14:00

Any way of getting a notification when one of your machines stops folding?
One of my VMs has been stuck downloading a WU since 26/11 which has wasted 100K points a day.

Incidentally it's nice that they've restored some of the credit for CPU folding, as I have no GPUs I can fold on.

Biffa · 14 Dec 2018 at 19:36

Hmm, is it a Linux VM?

I only ask because I had to write a windows batch file to restart my folding on one of my computers because twice a day it got stuck downloading. So I wrote a batch file to monitor the time stamp of the log and if it didn't change in 3 minutes to kill and restart all the fah processes.

oceaness · 17 Dec 2018 at 12:51

I've got some Windows desktops and a couple of those have got stuck downloading, but it's the 2 Linux VM's that are the big hitters, they average between 100K and 300K PPD each.

I've got FAHControl setup to remotely monitor all of them, but it's not ideal because they all just show 'Online' as a status rather than the actual status of what the Client is currently doing (Running, Downloading, Paused), so I have to click through the whole list and wait for it to poll each one to find out if they're stuck.

The scripts a great idea, I'll knock one up in shell, thanks.

Biffa · 17 Dec 2018 at 13:37

With cpu folding you might want to adjust the watch time a bit longer, maybe 5 minutes.

oceaness · 19 Dec 2018 at 07:15

Yeah, I'd noticed the timestamps in the log file were slightly further apart than for GPU, I'll investigate further when I eventually get time.

Are there any flags I should be running to increase PPD or have they all been discontinued?

Biffa · 19 Dec 2018 at 13:03

for cpu or gpu? not sure about cpu as I only run gpu

oceaness · 20 Dec 2018 at 07:18

CPU, no worries.
I had a read through the docs but it seems to imply that the flags have been discontinued.

Biffa · 20 Dec 2018 at 14:37

Yeah, I just tried one in Virtualbox on my Threadripper got about 180K using 30 threads, just did the client-type advanced

oceaness · 21 Dec 2018 at 07:14

The client-type advanced flag doesn't get you any extra PPD according to the docs, It can reduce it if you get a less stable WU.

This setting has no affect on PPD. PPD for these WUs are benchmarked and set exactly the same as every other work unit. However, due to an occasional instability, the WU might fail, which results in lost points, so overall PPD might decrease.

It used to be bigadv, but it looks like this ended a long time ago.

July 2009 – Experimental BA program introduction, with 8 core minimum

July 2011 – BA points curve adjusted downward, 50% to 20% target

January 2011 – Core minimum raised to 16, deadlines shortened.

May 2014 – Core minimum raised to 24, deadlines shortened.

January 2015 – BA Experiment scheduled to end.

Due to the above I have just left my clients at the default settings.

dekez · 23 Dec 2018 at 14:25

Thanks for doing the news Biffa, sorry for my lack of participation recently, work and life taking up time