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fromderinside said:
If you haven't already set up your GPUs in Folding@Home you should do so with great benefit. If you have then you should be getting similar output to mine. You're close but not quite there is why I suggest you check that out.
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Are there extra steps to take? I'm looking at the FAHControl. There seems to be no control of usage other than the slider that says "Folding Power."
 
Since the university is now tracking us reliably again I suggest you look at the configure category for FAHControl. Slots are what I was talking about. You can program these but, as the text indicates they will be automatically programmed to either give you GPU or CPU slots or both.

There are rules if you want to do this yourself such as reserving enough memory for support ot this or that option.

You've probably done enough, but you can access how your computer was configured for you. You can see how this goes if you click on add after you've clicked on slots. Be sure to take down the default your host chose for you before you go about making changes.

I really recommend you just look what is possible as shown in the included text for add and let it be. Doing such programming requires a bit of learning which you would need to access from folding@home.

I've set my folding power at 50% and my computer has been running almost continuously for over two years since I do lettle graphics work or statistical work any more. Also I don't use my computer much for video or gaming , there's that probably a being 78 thing.
 
George S said:
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 3GB
AMD Radeon RX 560
AMD Radeon R5
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Quick update on your configurations. I looked at your GPUs on PassMark benchmark performance ratings for high end products.


My GTX 1070 ranks at a Passmark G3D of 11384 and I have 16 gig memory. The former yields about 630,000 points a day while the latter yields about 30,000 points a day.

Your GTX 1060 3GB mark is 9095

Your Radeon RX 560 rank is 4352

So your performance seems appropriate for you GPUs presuming three D suggests a ratio scale in point output relative to G3D ranking.

Your memory is, I presume, between 12 and 20 gigabytes for the two computers that have the above video - I excluded the R5 card computer- cards which could give you about 50,000 point per day folding while your about 400,000 folding point average seems appropriate given the ranking of your Graphic cards vis a vis mine.

From my reading since only NVIDIA is CUDA certified your AMD Radeon cards may not be included. You should probably ignore you R5 card since it is kind of a bargain basement product. You can check out AMD cards in the literature if you are really interested in getting maximum performance folding.

Of course my calculations are based on some presumptions which you might use to adjust your estimates for what you should be getting at 50% usage level.
 
So, in spite of the following warning I recently saw in my Chrome client:
End of life notice
The NaCl client will shutdown permanently on June 21st, 2019.

This decision is due to a combination of Google's decision to deprecate NaCl and upcoming Folding@home infrastructure upgrades which would require extra effort to support continue to support the NaCl folding client.

We appreciate your contribution to Folding@home. To continue folding, please install our desktop client.
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...mine seems to have kept on chugging away all weekend, rewarding me with points for my effort. Kind of weird. I'm just waiting to see what happens with it.
 
OK, I may have jinxed myself because when I came in this morning, the Chrome client was trying to find a workserver to download a new WU. Back to using just the desktop client, I guess.
 
So I got caught up in the update core problem then power went down from Bandon to State border for much of the morning. Fixed the first with an driver update and the second by restarting computer three times after successive outages. Hopefully back on track with a nice well cleaned computer as a bonus.

Odd feeling looking up at someone, George, outpointing me. Hope he doesn't get too comfortable.
 
Well, maybe getting rid of the Chrome client was a good thing. My numbers have shot up pretty significantly since I took it off this machine. It also doesn't hurt that I got logged back in to the secondary work machine again, and no one has since logged me out there.
 
fromderinside said:
Fromderinside has finished his contribution to TFT participation on Folding@Home. A nice run. We started at about three fifty on the list, fell to about 500 then powered forward to 158.

Yes.

A good run.

What comes now is up to George S and the rest.
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:(
 
So I got my fans going right again. Going just until I achieve one billion more points than any other godless one contributor. Any day now.

It''s like when I was bragging about catching bilby by May 2016. I had to put up or shut up. Otherwise the exercise is pointless.
 
Well, since I was let go from my employer yesterday, I'll have 2 fewer processors doing any folding for me for the foreseeable future. Actually, there's a small chance that the one may continue for a little while yet. Though once they log me off, or restart that machine, I'll be done on it. It'll just be my home machine then. We'll see if my son takes his PS4 to college on Monday or not, otherwise I might be able to install the client on there and get it running.
 
I don't immediately scrap computers that become too restricted for paid work. They are allowed to remain folding until they totally give up. Not a huge number of points, but "every little helps".

My problem now is that some computers have latched on to a work server that for days have refused to supply work, despite being "online", and at Status: Download. Others are more lucky: Still totalling some 48 kPoints per week.

And yes, I've tried to shut down and re-start, but they're still stuck on that 171.67.108.158 server.

Ideas are soooo welcome.
 
Increase folding to 100% on FAH control, use only GPU for folding. Two adjustments I made that worked.

Not to complain but: BTW my single computer had been crunching out about 655k points a day for nearly three years. It's not an old computer. I had to stop with another of my computers about a year and a half ago because folding at 24 hour since 2015 schedule began to compromise fans. Since I was doing taxes on that machine it was better to take it off full time duty, finally, retire it, in early 2018.

My son was contributing big time. First he provided two Nvidia 970s sacrificing his gaming, he's 53, in September 2016. Then he really cranked it up in November 2016 with those and a Nvidia 1070 which fried after three months. We've done what we can. So for two months we were cranking out about 1.7 million points a day. Since then we've been at about 1.2 million until his last 970 gave up last winter and we have run at 650 k points a day since. Add George and we were carrying the bulk of this teams approximate 1.2 meg daily output this year.
 
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fromderinside said:
Increase folding to 100% on FAH control, use only GPU for folding. Two adjustments I made that worked.
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Update: Following numerous exits and re-boots, now one computer pretends to be downloading but nothing happens, one got back to working, two highlight Updating but don't move and their greyed out Control displays have forgotten my name and team. According to some Folding tab, the software looks for the optimal setup - I have no idea of how to look for GPUs (and they probably won't be very efficient in those computers). When accessible, all of them work(ed) at 100%. Thanks anyway.
 
It was just a thought. Worked when I moved from 25% folding while my fans began acting up. There are several GPU supported by the folding team which you can access in their literature. As for setting them up with your FAH Control app you just designate it when selecting which elements of RAM (compute or graphics) device to use for folding.

Another thought would be to download folding at home software again. That worked for me a half dozen times. When one does that the system 'chooses' the best devices on each computer to employ. Finally you could check if your processors were still supported by Folding at Home.
 
Interesting thoughts, fromderinside. I'll first try installing the software again. I think that I still have the appropriate installs, including for the two Win XP machines.
 
This is several years old so it might have been posted already, but here's an explanation of folding if anyone's curious..

[YOUTUBE]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zm-3kovWpNQ[/YOUTUBE]
 
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