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[manofthem]

@manofthem Same thing happened to me. The client kept saying downloaded files were corrupt. I was using Nvidia driver 364.72. I upgraded to 376.53 and have had no further issues. (I'm using windows 10 with a GTX 970)

Thanks few the insight as well. I think driver update is the next order of business.

I've had zero time to mess with anything so this evening I remoted in and reinstalled the client, but I didn't reinstall the driver; that'll be the next step but tbh I don't remember which driver is installed. It seemed to start OK, but I'll keep an eye on it shortly and see what happens.


Edit: checked in on it tonight and it errored out again. Looks like I'll have to give the driver (and the client again) a reinstall. Hope to get it working tomorrow as I'm beat for now.

 

[manofthem]

I've had errors and no folding for a while now. Just did a driver uninstall and update reinstall with a CCleaner clean in between. I also wiped the F@h client and data, followed by reinstall and signing back in. It's folding again so I'll check it in the morning and see how it fairs, but I won't be surprised if more errors pop up. I'll report back when I know something.

 

[thebluebumblebee]

Crap. Forgot to post about tonight's NOVA episode. The subject is "How the art of origami, or paper folding, is influencing scientific advances, drug development and future NASA space missions." I don't know for sure, but the preview seemed to be mentioning F@H.

 

[thebluebumblebee]

Update: They did not mention F@H and Stanford, but they did mention protein folding, crowdsourcing (DC), the Foldit app/game, and Rosetta@home. Was very interesting.

 

[xvi]

Greetings all! We now have our own Distributed Computing channel in TPU's Discord server labeled #wcg-fah!

Currently, this is shared between the World Community Grid and Folding@Home teams. If it becomes popular, we can split it into two groups. If not, we can burn it down!

To join, please read the rules in Toothless's Discord post here.

 

[thebluebumblebee]

MSI GTX 1080 DUKE Edition $560 2 days only

 

[thebluebumblebee]

A couple of days ago, I finally ran the updates on my Linux systems. Is it just coincidence what has happened with F@H? I was averaging 350K PPD for each GTX 980. Now I'm seeing better than 400K per????

 

[mstenholm]

@thebluebumblebee Your average have gone up from around 700k to 750K in the last few days so you might be right. Not bad.

 

[infrared]

Nice numbers! Makes my ~260k per card look pretty slow.. gtx980's ftw!

 

[agent00skid]

A bit of a different datapoint. An unlocked RX460, though no aux power, so it's hitting power limit. The other one's a R9 280X.

 

[thebluebumblebee]

924,469 yesterday. I must have gotten into a bunch of high PPD WU's.

 

[mstenholm]

Wow

 

[thebluebumblebee]

Caught it:

 

[thebluebumblebee]

I hope my 800K+ PPD average is because of a new WU, and not my failure to run the update.

Edit: And the bad thing about 800K PPD? I can smell 1M PPD.

 

[manofthem]

I hope my 800K+ PPD average is because of a new WU, and not my failure to run the update.

Edit: And the bad thing about 800K PPD? I can smell 1M PPD.

Doesn't the 980 average around 400k ppd? Just looked above and saw your card was averaging around 350k, so that's a nice boost.


Checked last night and my folding rig was also crunching 100% all 8 threads, so there was likely some slow down on one of the sides. Now back to 7 threads so maybe it'll help even out my numbers on that rig?

 

[thebluebumblebee]

I don't know why, but I thought the 980 was a 350K PPD GPU, so I was happy as a clam to get just that. I know that chart exists, but I didn't expect to get close to those values with my stock clocked GPU's.

 

[Killerdroid]

I don't know why, but I thought the 980 was a 350K PPD GPU, so I was happy as a clam to get just that. I know that chart exists, but I didn't expect to get close to those values with my stock clocked GPU's.

Damn power hungry low performing monsters. Windows 10 rig, both running @100%

 

[thebluebumblebee]

MSI GTX 1080 DUKE Edition $560 2 days only

Now it's $470! That cooler should be great for F@H.
Also, my mistake of not updating cost me somewhere around 12 million points!

 

[thebluebumblebee]

Latter today, or when I reach 150M, I will stop F@H. Don't know when I'll be back.

 

[mstenholm]

Latter today, or when I reach 150M, I will stop F@H. Don't know when I'll be back.

You made a good run this time. See you when the snow hits Portland. I will reduce soon as well, at least one 970 will be taken down since that rig crashes daily and re-starts in Linux (dual boot).

 

[manofthem]

Latter today, or when I reach 150M, I will stop F@H. Don't know when I'll be back.

Is it because of summer?

I stopped the other day too. I didn't want to but I needed the extra threads for the WCG Challenge.

As soon as it ends, I'll be back to folding; can't let that 980 go to waste

You made a good run this time. See you when the snow hits Portland. I will reduce soon as well, at least one 970 will be taken down since that rig crashes daily and re-starts in Linux (dual boot).

Same question as bbb, do you reduce because of summer and hot months?

 

[mstenholm]

Is it because of summer?

I stopped the other day too. I didn't want to but I needed the extra threads for the WCG Challenge.

As soon as it ends, I'll be back to folding; can't let that 980 go to waste



Same question as bbb, do you reduce because of summer and hot months?

Yes. I pay around $ 0.3/kWh which is OK during winter where it substitute other heat sources. As I said last year I will match or surpass the previous year monthly production so even during peak summer I will be doing 10M/mouth. I'm planing to replace my i7 920/GTX 970 with either a Linux based 1700 or a Windows based 7700k before next winter with a nice 1080 (Ti)

 

[thebluebumblebee]

Is it because of summer?

The deal I have with my wife is that I can run these DC boxes when we need the heat. We've had the windows open too much lately. I also want the threads for the challenge and the 2 kind of came together.
I do love what these 980's have done and continue to do. I got them for a song and am torn between keeping them or getting rid of them while I can most likely sell them for more then what I paid for them.

 

[infrared]

BBB, Nice one, 150M points is very impressive! Thanks for doing the milestones/pie too.

Is it because of summer?

I stopped the other day too. I didn't want to but I needed the extra threads for the WCG Challenge.

As soon as it ends, I'll be back to folding; can't let that 980 go to waste

I've done the same, stopped folding for this week. I want to retire the Kepler titans from folding at some point, they're just too damn power hungry for the PPD they produce. Hopefully I'll get them going again after the WCG challenge until I get a 1080 or vega.
Without them heating my wc loop I can really push the 6700k hard too, it's been crunching at 4.7ghz 1.46v for a while now and 60c across all cores!

 

[thebluebumblebee]

Here's what I've been seeing a lot lately, about 840K.