Folding plans to test for Covid-19

Luke · 18 Mar 2020 at 22:34

It took a couple of hours to get my first GPU WU, and I'm getting some big delays between WU's for both CPU and GPU at times.

ChrisLX200 · 18 Mar 2020 at 22:43

mine has been sat idle for a few hours now (CPU and GPU).

FreeStream · 19 Mar 2020 at 08:36

Things seem to be improving. First time in a while all my slots are going inc. my RX580.

ChrisD. · 19 Mar 2020 at 11:29

Any idea why Folding only shows 32 cores (I think 0-31)?

PDW · 19 Mar 2020 at 14:56

I think the default setting of '-1' for a CPU slot is to assume a maximum of 32 threads less 1 thread for a GPU.
You can change values using FAHControl on the machine, go into Configure and then Slots.
There you can either Edit the existing CPU slot details or add another one to specify exactly how many threads to use.
Adding another slot for 15 threads should work straight away, editing the existing one might need to wait for a new work unit to start or just possibly an FAHControl restart. I only use my GPU so not entirely sure of procedure for CPU stuff.

31 + 15 + 1 for GPU + 1 spare for the system to think about other things !

ChrisD. · 19 Mar 2020 at 15:15

Nice one, I’ll check that out when home.

seanyc5 · 22 Mar 2020 at 22:35

Just installed this again after seeing Linus video. May as well put the 2080ti to use some!

gpuerrilla · 23 Mar 2020 at 00:03

Hopefully for Team 10 and not Linus though!

seanyc5 · 23 Mar 2020 at 10:41

Th0nt said:
Hopefully for Team 10 and not Linus though!

Team 10! Pretty sure the last time I used it was CPU based.

It says in the bottom corner - estimated points per day 318,000 that can't be right. I would soon climb the leader board if it is!

adwol48 · 23 Mar 2020 at 11:20

You would be surpised what modern hardware is like i was amazed at the speed my 2070s get through a WU compared to my old gtx780

fadingfool · 23 Mar 2020 at 11:41

My current hardware is eating through WU's at a pace - I could easier double the total points I had from when I ran this years ago (99 WUs 40,000 points) from the WUs I can do in 2 days (first 2 WUs = 16,000). The dual W5130 Xeon with Nvidia quadro 3500 was pretty good workstation in its day.

kkelly · 23 Mar 2020 at 11:47

I have installed this on my personal machine (Gaming laptop Ryzen 7 3750H), nothing as beefy as you guys, but it sat idle for an hour so far - will I just leave it and hope it gets a 'WU' ?

Thanks

Edit seems to connected, will leave it running while I am working

adwol48 · 23 Mar 2020 at 13:14

WU for me seem to have dried up havent had a cpu WU in nearly 48 hours and this morning came down to an idle gpu also hopefully they can produce enough WU to cope with the massive influx of donors

Glanza · 23 Mar 2020 at 16:16

Linus video yesterday stated they went from 30k monthly users to over 400k , why WU are taking a while to download and submit. Linus is looking at getting a server setup to help with the WU demands.

seanyc5 · 23 Mar 2020 at 16:54

Glanza said:
Linus video yesterday stated they went from 30k monthly users to over 400k, why WU are taking a while to download and submit. Linus is looking at getting a server setup to help with the WU demands.

Yeah it has no doubt had another 50-100k after that video, just looked its had 837k views already. I reckon a good 10% will give it a go at least, even if only for a few days.

schumi84 · 23 Mar 2020 at 21:14

I've just joined again after watching the Linus video as well, seeing as I'm working from home for the forseeable and it's the most use this PC has had in a good few years (Joined Team 10 btw)

colinmcr · 25 Mar 2020 at 15:55

I'm back to, hello me ole crunching buddies! No I'm not crunching for Linus, TEAM 10 FTW

NickK · 25 Mar 2020 at 23:01

Just caught my CPU F@H doing some work for once (after sitting idle leaving BOINC Rosetta@Home time to build 80K of credit!). Project 13851.. Corvid 19

theforce · 26 Mar 2020 at 00:16

Hopefully, a good number of people will continue to donate their idle hardware for fodling@home. I hope they update their client software more regularly. The web client often fails to load any data and the advanced control has some minor issues for years like the project link not working via advanced control. A much more user-friendly interface and a new protein viewer that looks great would be nice, too.

gpuerrilla · 26 Mar 2020 at 18:59

theforce said:
I hope they update their client software more regularly. The web client often fails to load any data and the advanced control has some minor issues for years like the project link not working via advanced control. A much more user-friendly interface and a new protein viewer that looks great would be nice, too.

Open it up on Edge, for some reason it enjoys this browser but hates Brave.