I'm adding a bit of firepower today. We are closing in on old friends Tekzilla and DSL Reports Team Helix (note the absolute number of work units crunched for those two teams and also the Power Cows compared to the johnny-come-latelys). Hopefully, we'll head back into the top 50 teams.
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I'm likely to be out in terms of F@H production for the indefinite future, not that I've been contributing much lately (office power limits, I can't run more than about 1200W of load without browning things out when the AC starts). |
Welp, with the shortage of work units, I've installed BOINC (first time ever) and semi-randomly chose Einstein for the project based on the AMD support as discussed in the folding forum thread about the lack of work units. I can do a work unit about every two and a half minutes at about 3400 points per work unit. Does math (takes off socks and shoes). That's about 1,800K ppd on the fast box. Slow box gets about 640K ppd. |
I haven't been able to run my GPU as often in the high heat lately, but I have been able to keep the CPU fed under Windows at least. A Ryzen 3700X under an 8-thread load is relatively easy to manage in the office, but ramping up the 1070 Ti means I'm fighting to help keep the office from getting too toasty. If it cools down enough in the evenings, though, I'll let the GPU chew through a few work units before turning it off in the morning. |
Congrats to hutchm for passing Ancient for #1 on the team. |
@Burned - thank you. I never expected that. When I started SuicideBiker was the only team memeber above 1B points, and that seemed out of reach. Now we have six members over that milestone |
@hutchm That's me. I was folding on an old MacBook Pro and not really paying any attention to DC. I had to send it back to the employer it came from. I had built a new desktop that I got a video card for and started folding on it. Then I built a way overkill game rig for my new hobby (Zwift) and won the Newegg lottery to get one of the new AMD cards. Took a recent hiatus to Einstein@Home, but am back full time to folding. |
Team Egg Roll had a good week last week. We passed Brookhaven National Lab and old rivals DSL Reports Team Helix and Tekzilla to climb in to 56th place with almost 38 billion points racked up. We're tracking pretty close to project overall trends. The big covid ramp up in users is slowly falling by the wayside. We're in 52nd place in daily production, so there is still room for us to move up in the ranks over the next two or three years. We're in 26th place in work units completed, a testament to our longevity if nothing else. For comparison, in BOINC we're 48th overall and drifting downwards, and our friends at Team Prime Rib over in the GIMPS project are in 26th place. I don't think there are any other notable active DC platforms. |
Sadly a confluence for factors is taking me offline. I returned to folding because of COVID and never expected to contribute as much as I have, but looks like I will be taking an indefinite pause. |
天气最近很多冷却器,I've been able to get some more overnight folding done on my trusty 1070 Ti (as id4xdmrh, the old randomly generated user name I got a LOOOOOONG time ago). It's good for about 1.3-1.5 million points per day (run for about 1/3 of a day these days) since the switch to CUDA, and once prices for more modern GPUs get back down to somewhat sane levels I'll likely be upgrading it to something at least as fast as a RX 6700 XT or 3060 Ti/3070. |
So I have this M1 Mac Mini in the living room sitting idle 23 hours a day. If I could find my old F@H account information and figure out how to install the client I think I'd give it a shot. Any pointers? |
Find a project that has M1 native binaries, and... I think there are some issues with swapping on the Rosetta tasks if you let all the cores run, otherwise it's a great little compute box. I don't recall if that was an issue with native tasks or x86 translated, but no point in using it to run x86 jobs when you can run ARM native jobs. Pretty sure F@H doesn't have a M1 client yet. |
Einstein@Home has ARM binaries. |
Thanks ... guess I'll go shop around a bit. |