15th Annual Folding@Home Holiday Season Race: Mark's Marauders win!

[Pokey]

There's a python 3 version of FAHControl in testing that I've been using but you can't install it as a package. Go to this link and click on the green code icon and choose Download Zip. Extract the zip file into your home directory.

cd fah-control-Python3_Testing-Linux
./FAHControl

Thanks @biodoc, I have it working now. There are a few idiosyncrasies but it does work and I have figured out how to do what I want.
So, baby steps. I hope this gets sorted out soon so that it installs normally.

 

[blckgrffn]

Going to be slowing a bit as I reshuffle hardware. Also strongly considering selling off a GTX 970 while it's valuable. Nervous I'll have an issue and won't have a good card spare, but I recently picked up a couple 10xx series cards so it's time, I think.

Locally it could be worth $120+! I paid $60 ~4 months ago :/

 

[Icecold]

Going to be slowing a bit as I reshuffle hardware. Also strongly considering selling off a GTX 970 while it's valuable. Nervous I'll have an issue and won't have a good card spare, but I recently picked up a couple 10xx series cards so it's time, I think.

Locally it could be worth $120+! I paid $60 ~4 months ago :/

As a member of the Moonshot Gang I fully support your decision to lower your output

All joking aside, I know what you mean about the card prices. I have a 980ti I keep thinking about selling.. they're still going for ~$175 some places. That's probably more than I paid for it used 2-3 years ago. I thought used 1080ti's and 2070's would be closer to $175 at this point than a 980ti would have been.

 

[Endgame124]

As a member of the Moonshot Gang I fully support your decision to lower your output

All joking aside, I know what you mean about the card prices. I have a 980ti I keep thinking about selling.. they're still going for ~$175 some places. That's probably more than I paid for it used 2-3 years ago. I thought used 1080ti's and 2070's would be closer to $175 at this point than a 980ti would have been.

I wouldn’t expect the 1080ti to be $175 for quite some time. It’s not THAT far off of the $400+ 3060ti, and the 1660 super msrp is over $200.

if I were sitting on any 900 series cards, I would sell them as quickly as possible at a premium, as you won’t see nearly as much value from them in spring.

 

[blckgrffn]

I wouldn’t expect the 1080ti to be $175 for quite some time. It’s not THAT far off of the $400+ 3060ti, and the 1660 super msrp is over $200.

if I were sitting on any 900 series cards, I would sell them as quickly as possible at a premium, as you won’t see nearly as much value from them in spring.

Thanks for the extra push you two GTX 970 is listed to CL. I always wanted to own one (there was a time when I basically cycled through video cards just to have a taste, haha adulting with kids has zapped that "hobby") and I've had one now Even played a few hours of Borderlands 3 on it, ran that really well @ 1080p actually.

@Icecold I challenge you to also list your 980 Ti (an awesome card, really)

I expect there to be 1070's in the ~$150 range by mid next year, finally. That's if there is any downward push on 1660's and 2060's by replacement SKUs at all.

I also want to own a 2060S at some point. For reasons

I feel pretty lucky to have found 2x 1060 3GBs and a 1070 FE (beautiful!) for really reasonable prices, they are all my PPD right now.

 

[Markfw]

My PPD has been down for a few days. I have been in the hospital, and just got back. It was a kidney infection, and pretty serious. I had a box that went down, and was there to see it or correct it. Should be back up by now.

 

[Assimilator1]

I hope the kidney infection is sorted.
No worries on the ppd.

 

[VirtualLarry]

Sorry to hear that, Mark. Best wishes!

 

[TennesseeTony]

Yeah, thanks doc, Pokey, I am now able to see that I am folding on Linux with my 2080Ti. Good news is that it has been folding the whole time, carried over my name/team/passkey.

Still showing only 3.8M ppd, vs 4M+ on Windows, so I enabled client-type: advanced to see if I get the newer CUDA tasks on the next communication cycle.

 

[Endgame124]

What is the preferred way to upgrade the F@H client? Just install the new rpm on top of the old, or should you really rpm -e the old installation first?

 

[biodoc]

What is the preferred way to upgrade the F@H client? Just install the new rpm on top of the old, or should you really rpm -e the old installation first?

I would uninstall first but my experience with Fedora is ancient.

December 15th Stats:

 

[biodoc]

I decided to put together a graph but the race is too close to be that useful.

 

[Endgame124]

Nice to see that half way through the month, we’ve already passed 2019, and just the race points have passed 2018.

 

[biodoc]

December 16th Stats:

 

[TennesseeTony]

After a 2-3 day experiment moving my 2080Ti to Linux, I am back on Windows, oddly enough. I could not figure out why I was losing 100k ppd on Linux, when it should have been a significant uptick in ppd. Thanks to all who have assisted me, but I need to concentrate on other things for the next few weeks.

VERY MUCH THANKS for the daily stats!!!!

PS: Should the post office decide to ever deliver, I will have a 'new' 1080Ti at my disposal (F@H's disposal) soon. (on an old i5 iMac, external box) I am quite curious to see what Mac OS does compared to Windows and Linux....

 

[StefanR5R]

It does not look like as if there was a driver for Pascal cards on OS X.

(edit: typo)

 

[biodoc]

December 17th Stats:

 

[Endgame124]

At the rate we are going, each team may individually be able to beat the Dec 2018 total, and the total points may beat 2018 and 2019 combined.

go team!

 

[petrusbroder]

Today was the only day I did not work from home - and of course we had an 3 hour power outage. My output will be low ...

 

[Pokey]

Well, the wheels are spinning in the basement but it looks like the Marauders are inching away. At least for now.
Tony, I appreciate you going back to Windows.................
The "race" is actually pretty close. So crunch on everybody. Mask and all................and stay safe.

 

[biodoc]

December 18th stats:

 

[Assimilator1]

My Gerbils keep spinning their wheel, does that count for any ppd?

Petrus
Lol, the power company spotted that you were out and didn't think you'd notice

 

[blckgrffn]

Ha, GTX 970 sold for $100 locally. Guy is building out a gaming rig for his 9 yo (I too have 9 yo) so I liberated some 2GB DDR3 sticks from a recently deceased motherboard to bring him to 10GB total and will be surprising him with them as he mentioned he was on the hunt for more ram as well.

I've only got the two, sadly. Pretty sure that it will run OK until he gets his sixth 2GB stick though, right? I mean, the memory controllers on those were pretty stout if I am recalling correctly. In any case, hope that sweetens the pot a little.

 

[biodoc]

December 19th stats:

 

[petrusbroder]

Thanks for the stas, biodoc!