16th Annual Folding@Home Holiday Season Race: The race is over and the Moonshots win!

[Assimilator1]

Thanks for the stats biodoc

It is, I think, as long as it's not driving a GPU that's also Folding. I am using half the logical cores on a 3700X to fold while it is also feeding a folding GPU, and even using just half slightly impacts the ppd of the GPU. Going with the stock Fahcontrol configuration of all cores minus one is a disaster for modern GPUs, imo.

Curious, but I'm not sure if my GPU counts as modern anymore, lol, it's an RX 580 which is a slightly higher clocked RX 480 (although I've underclocked it to 480 levels to cut power usage), wiki says it was released in June 2016!
Anyway, atm I'm running WCG on 10 threads, so 1 physical core for F@H GPU, I think that's enough for it?

What ppd is 1/4(?) of your 3700X giving?

I’m folding with 28 CPU on my 5950 and 12 CPU on my 2700x. The 5950 is repeatedly crashing with WHEA errors - I may need to RMA it

What ppd is the 2700X giving?

It will produce another 200K to 300K once I shut chrome and HWinfo64 down.

Wow! Is that the ppd difference on CPU+GPU folding? Have you seen what shutting down just HWinfo64 does? (I run that btw, an excellent monitoring program ). Perhaps it's the GPU polling that's causing that drop??

 

[Orange Kid]

Thanks for the stats.

Have a very Merry Christmas all. 🎅

 

[voodoo5_6k]

Thank you for the stats update today, @biodoc

The Moonshot Gang overtook us But yeah, no surprise and just a matter of time given their current advantage in production... But now they are the hunted... A role they didn't have for long time... Let's see how they'll get along with that! We'll lurk in the shadows, waiting for the right moment to strike back... The previously mentioned Return of the Cheering Gerbils From now on, they'll have to constantly look in their rear view mirror and can't afford any mistake... A war of nerves... The "Jaws" theme has started playing... There's something in the deep... coming closer... closer...

 

[crashtech]

What ppd is 1/4(?) of your 3700X giving?

It varies, but 8 threads (1/2) on a 3700X gives around 150,000 ppd.

 

[Endgame124]

What ppd is the 2700X giving?

Ballpark 200k / day, but it varies so much per WU it’s hard to say with confidence.

 

[Assimilator1]

Well, worth switching over I guess! Seeing as it'll make no real difference to power consumption.
Hmm, I turned the tap off for WCG earlier this afternoon, but I still have WUs to crunch, but switching sooner would be better!....

Oh and happy xmas/hols all

 

[biodoc]

Day 23.5 stats:

 

[Skillz]

2018 = ~1B points. 1 = technically not a prime number, since it has to be greater than one.
2019 = ~2B points. 2 = prime number
2020 = ~3B points. 3 = prime number

This year approaching ~5B points. 5 is also a... prime number.

 

[Ken g6]

2018 = ~1B points. 1 = technically not a prime number, since it has to be greater than one.
2019 = ~2B points. 2 = prime number
2020 = ~3B points. 3 = prime number

This year approaching ~5B points. 5 is also a... prime number.

Assuming 2017 was like 2018, this could also be a Fibonacci sequence. We'll have to see next year if we get ~7B or ~8B.

 

[Assimilator1]

Just remembered I had this in my notes, from the beginning of this year.

Main rig
RX 580 ~400k ppd
Ryzen 5 3600 ~90-144k ppd, mostly 100-110k ppd (total power draw ~225w, GPU 1266 MHz)

2nd rig (600w OCZ PSU)
HD 7870 XT ~ 160-200k ppd (total power draw ~253w, CPU idle)
i7 4930k @4.1 GHz ~55-104k pdd, mostly 55-60k ppd (total power draw ~335w)

 

[biodoc]

Day 24 stats:

 

[voodoo5_6k]

Thank you for the X-Mas stats, @biodoc

Wow, the Moonshot Gang definitely enjoy their role as the hunted, just as I thought Most of us will be distracted by the Christmas preparations and celebrations, so there's not much we can do to stop them... Also, we must allow our beloved cheering gerbils a little X-Mas break, so they can catch their breath and have a good time before they'll put a smile on our faces again, when they'll announce: We'll be back! (with a slight Austrian accent of course )

Enjoy the holidays everybody

 

[biodoc]

Day 24.5 stats:

 

[crashtech]

I'm doing all I can do! Even added a 7970 HD, which is better at being a space heater than a F@H cruncher these days!

 

[cellarnoise]

When is Biodoc going to lock the teams again? It's getting cold here and I want to fire up more junk?

When is the new year?

 

[Markfw]

When is Biodoc going to lock the teams again? It's getting cold here and I want to fire up more junk?

When is the new year?

He said teams are locked. Fire everything up, we will loose at this rate.

 

[Kiska]

Hrm... 1.7m points in 3 days for the Radeon VII, I think its making me start the 10 WU thing again

 

[Markfw]

Hrm... 1.7m points in 3 days for the Radeon VII, I think its making me start the 10 WU thing again

Did you make sure the passkey matches yours on the new config ? Username and team Identical ? Including uppercase.lowercase ? I once entered my name and had on letter in the wrong case. ruiuned everything.

 

[biodoc]

Hrm... 1.7m points in 3 days for the Radeon VII, I think its making me start the 10 WU thing again

Switch to Alzheimers as a disease preference. The 18201 tasks produce 2.6 M PPD on my Radeon VII.

 

[StefanR5R]

@Kiska turned the tables...
With the current EOC update, the Marauders are a tiny bit faster again than the Moonshots.

 

[voodoo5_6k]

I'm doing all I can do! Even added a 7970 HD, which is better at being a space heater than a F@H cruncher these days!

I've given up on sanity and moved the remaining CPU threads to another CPU slot for folding

 

[biodoc]

Day 25 stats:

 

[Ken g6]

Thanks for the stats, @biodoc!

I wonder if @QuietDad would like to join us again? I just noticed him quietly crunching down on page 3 of the Extreme Overclocking stats.

 

[Markfw]

So I added another 63 core CPU rig(2990wx). Only 388k !. My 5950x smokes it at 644k with half the threads, and half the memory channels, and probably half the power !

5950x rocks !

 

[voodoo5_6k]

Thanks once more, @biodoc, for your work with the stats, even on the holidays

The Moonshot Gang are still marching on! But it seems we might have hit the equilibrium during the latter half of the day... We'll see tomorrow whether this lasts or if it was just a coincidence. Still five more days and almost 21 million points to catch up... Maybe we can do it. With @Kiska's optimized VII in the race, @Markfw throwing 1,000s of cores at the race and our beloved cheering gerbils returning from their holiday break... Everything is possible