Anandtech vs Tom's Hardware Folding@Home Coronavirus Race thread

[Endgame124]

sudo nvidia-xconfig -a --cool-bits=28

Reboot and then open Nvidia X server settings (menu/administration on linux mint) or by command line using 'nvidia-settings' then go to thermal settings and click on enable fan control and then use the slider to adjust fan speed.

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I ended up going this route. Not quite as nice as setting a fan curve or a target temperature, however if I get consistent work units, it won't really matter. I set the fan to 65% which is keeping the 1080ti at 79C, which isn't too bad of a compromise between temp and noise in my office.

 

[mopardude87]

Yay, my new case is going to be here today 🙂So excited. Gonna miss running the Antec 900 but its been in and out of builds going back to 2006, like a old friend its been great but time for something new and improved! Will update with pictures when i get everything installed. 🙂

At least the Antec 900 will have a new home, gonna house my friends 2500k build as she is getting my 7700k as well. 🙂 Her m-atx Emachines case will not handle my ATX sized Z270 anyways.

 

[biodoc]

I ended up going this route. Not quite as nice as setting a fan curve or a target temperature, however if I get consistent work units, it won't really matter. I set the fan to 65% which is keeping the 1080ti at 79C, which isn't too bad of a compromise between temp and noise in my office.

You can also set the power limit on your 1080Ti to lower temps and save electricity. I run my 1080Ti's at a power limit of 180 watts.

sudo nvidia-smi -pl 180

 

[StefanR5R]

with the current WU issues, it might be helpful to obtain work units early:
https://foldingathome.org/support/faq/installation-guides/configuration-guide/#next-unit-percentage
Default is to wait until 99% done, but I would suggest setting it to 5%.

According to the documentation, it shall not be set lower than 90. The FAHControl UI actively enforces this. I haven't investigated whether manual edit of the config file enables lower values than 90. (I am using 95 myself currently.)

 

[StefanR5R]

Day 16: Friday, April 3
14:00 UTC stats
(10 AM EDT, 7 AM PDT)
links: official race stats, TeAm AnandTech at EOC, Tom's Hardware at EOC

Daily production


Our advantage


Not as good as the day before, but still one of our best days. :-)

(On average, all users had some decline in productivity during the last 24 hours, not just we and Tom's. Several work servers continue to run low on work, including the lately added two Azure cloud servers.)

 

[mopardude87]

I ended up going this route. Not quite as nice as setting a fan curve or a target temperature, however if I get consistent work units, it won't really matter. I set the fan to 65% which is keeping the 1080ti at 79C, which isn't too bad of a compromise between temp and noise in my office.

Not bad honestly i had to ramp the ones on the Zotac Mini 1080ti to 75% to keep me closer to 76-79cel but that's for full load. You can hear it but the second i put on my headphones, even all the noise of the Antec 900 not a issue for me. The new 120mm ones on the way do 41dba each, but gonna be worth. I may finally overclock for the first time on this thing! I hope so if i am gonna deal with all the noise of 2 120mm fans fans at 2,500rpm and 76cfm.

What model you running out of curiosity?

 

[TennesseeTony]

My 2080Ti for the past 18 hours is estimating lower ppd, more like normal, instead of the inflated values seen previously. If everyone else is experiencing this, that certainly could account for the decline in points. No lack of work though, that I have seen.

 

[StefanR5R]

Just from looking at my logs, not from deeper analysis, it seems my hosts are struggling a bit more than yesterday to fetch new work. (I don't have client-type:special-sauce configured currently.) Estimated PPD of the running jobs are a mixed bag as usual. They are still higher than months before (the FahCore_22 vs. _21 effect presumably), and I can't tell whether or not they went down compared to yesterday, from eyeballing the logs.

 

[Endgame124]

Not bad honestly i had to ramp the ones on the Zotac Mini 1080ti to 75% to keep me closer to 76-79cel but that's for full load. You can hear it but the second i put on my headphones, even all the noise of the Antec 900 not a issue for me. The new 120mm ones on the way do 41dba each, but gonna be worth. I may finally overclock for the first time on this thing! I hope so if i am gonna deal with all the noise of 2 120mm fans fans at 2,500rpm and 76cfm.

What model you running out of curiosity?

I’m running a 1080ti founders edition, purchased the first day of 1080ti availability. The blower fan is fantastic for getting and keeping the hot air out of the case, so there is no reason to take the side panel off to keep temps down.

in this PC, the CPU is cooled by a Corsair h150i with 6 gentle typhoon 2150rpm fans - they double as the air intake for the case. The Case is Corsair carbide 275r with the glass side panel - it looks pretty awesome with the 1080 logo, Asus logo, and Corsair pump all lit up.

 

[mopardude87]

I’m running a 1080ti founders edition, purchased the first day of 1080ti availability. The blower fan is fantastic for getting and keeping the hot air out of the case, so there is no reason to take the side panel off to keep temps down.

Certainly hope you can use that in a sealed case 🙂 Not a fan of reference blowers. Had some years ago, never again. Some are so bad, i often wonder given how few pcs use more then a video card in a slot why no 3 slot reference exist? Maybe they do as a exotic? Then i see a very incredible blower. Thicker card would allow more heatink/pipes and well it would be nothing but win. Not sure why the industry is still locked into a 2 slot mentality.

The board i wanna get and my current both have all the space in the world for even a 4 slot card and the AE-5 soundblaster.

 

[NesuD]

xz

 

[StefanR5R]

Something is screwed up good 2/3rds of the WUs My 2 clients have done in the past 12 hrs aren't being counted or generating points. Hate to to be burning KWH for nothing.

It is quite likely that points were generated and counted, but that just the stats export is having a clog for a while. That happened to several of us recently, and at different times from user to user. The "hidden" points should show up eventually when the clog unseats just by itself.

 

[blckgrffn]

I had something like 3M points all come at once in the stats. That's like a full day or more of points for me.

 

[mopardude87]

Something is screwed up good 2/3rds of the WUs My 2 clients have done in the past 12 hrs aren't being counted or generating points. Hate to to be burning KWH for nothing.

If the wu are being delivered, not even a waste. Not even about the points at this point, well it shouldn't be. No such thing as waste when it comes to this project. Gonna come down to what anyone can offer and put on the table for the team.

 

[NesuD]

xz

 

[StefanR5R]

https://stats.foldingathome.org/donor/275860 is showing to me:

Donor: NesuD
[...]
Team: Team AnandTech
[...]
Date of last work unit: 2020-04-03 20:55:12​

Not sure if this is my local time (UTC+2) or UTC. If the latter, then the latest result exported into the web frontend before I checked this page was from 15 minutes ago.

Edit,
a successful upload of a result should leave something like this in FAHClient's log.txt:

21:19:00:WU00:FS00:Upload 98.28%
21:19:09:WU00:FS00:Upload 98.91%
21:19:15:WU00:FS00:Upload 99.53%
21:19:31:WU00:FS00:Upload complete
21:19:31:WU00:FS00:Server responded WORK_ACK (400)
21:19:31:WU00:FS00:Final credit estimate, 116419.00 points
21:19:31:WU00:FS00:Cleaning up

 

[Howdy]

@StefanR5R ...........shouldn't you be sleeping??

 

[StefanR5R]

My country switched from standard time to abnormal time last weekend; I haven't followed this switch yet. :-)

 

[Sukhoi]

Any guess why my Quadro P5000 won't run at more than 31% load (per Win 10 Task Manager)? Any extra slot options I should implement? The client is set to Full not Medium or Light.

Ah, never mind. Reddit has similar question which got me to check GPU-Z, and it's running at 90%+. So, everything is good. Now I need a WU for the second P5000. 😀

 

[sswingle]

That's just it what I was seeing in the logs looked like something was going wrong. didn't look like a successful upload that has a points estimate when it is finished. I'm no expert at reading these logs but the WUs don't look right when they upload, No estimated points are indicated and there is never any indication in stats the work was ever done. I have no problem doing this. In fact I am damn happy to but It's one thing if my client sits idle doing nothing for lack of work but this is work being done and then apparently vanishing. It is not the odd WU this is very nearly all the work that my clients did today. And This isn't about Stats for me. Please don't think that. Stats are just a way for me to gauge my contribution and see if I can coax a little extra. This is more about where is the work? The stats and the odd logs are telling me Something is wrong and I am just trying to understand where the problem is si I can correct it if it is on my side. That doesn't appear to be the case however. Maybe they will show up at some point but based on similar missing work in the past two weeks since i started back up I am not confidant.

My stats are all screwed up right now and I'm seeing in the logs what I should be seeing. Only time will tell I guess but I'm not concerned right now. Just look at the team stats and all the 3 hour blocks with supposedly 0 work submitted. Definately something not working right on the stats end.

 

[mopardude87]

Got the new case and the build in it, loving the case especially after removing the filters and rear honey comb rear over fan and swapping out that god awful 140mm for a 110cfm one. Figured i would just put the other 110cfm 140mm on the card itself. So far with 70% power limit i am boosting to 1633 and staying under 80 cel. Not even needing the room fan any more, not that it would do me good the motor decided to seize this morning. Does toast to 90 cel fully unleash so i am gonna blame folding+ heatsink over the 110cfm at this point. Not hitting these temps gaming.

Will prob swap out the 140mm on the 1080ti later when i get the dual 120 mm fans shipped to me.

 

[Ken g6]

That's just it what I was seeing in the logs looked like something was going wrong. didn't look like a successful upload that has a points estimate when it is finished. I'm no expert at reading these logs but the WUs don't look right when they upload, No estimated points are indicated and there is never any indication in stats the work was ever done. I have no problem doing this. In fact I am damn happy to but It's one thing if my client sits idle doing nothing for lack of work but this is work being done and then apparently vanishing. It is not the odd WU this is very nearly all the work that my clients did today. And This isn't about Stats for me. Please don't think that. Stats are just a way for me to gauge my contribution and see if I can coax a little extra. This is more about where is the work? The stats and the odd logs are telling me Something is wrong and I am just trying to understand where the problem is si I can correct it if it is on my side. That doesn't appear to be the case however. Maybe they will show up at some point but based on similar missing work in the past two weeks since i started back up I am not confidant.

If it says something about the work being "dumped", something went wrong. If you're overclocking a video card, maybe don't.

So far with 70% power limit i am boosting to 1633 and staying under 80 cel.

I set power limits to keep my cards under 70C. But that's in a cold basement, so maybe they're as hot as yours internally.

 

[Assimilator1]

Well, for some reason the forum has stopped telling me about updates for this thread! 😕

Wth is indica & Hubby? lol

Sukhoi
Good to see ya mate 🙂

Not sure if you are already aware of this, but client-type: advanced might help you:
https://foldingathome.org/support/faq/installation-guides/configuration-guide/#advanced-methods

also, with the current WU issues, it might be helpful to obtain work units early:
https://foldingathome.org/support/faq/installation-guides/configuration-guide/#next-unit-percentage
Default is to wait until 99% done, but I would suggest setting it to 5%.

How did you manage that? I went to set mine to 50% & it said it wouldn't allow less than 90%.

 

[StefanR5R]

Day 17: Saturday, April 4
14:00 UTC stats
(10 AM EDT, 7 AM PDT)
links: official race stats, TeAm AnandTech at EOC, Tom's Hardware at EOC

Daily production


Our advantage


Oops, production went down like a rock. :-/
Maybe we'll get busier again next workweek.

Edit: I looked at the top teams at EOC, and "last 24hr" went down for all of them compared to their "24hr Avg", with the exception of team VMware.

 

[StefanR5R]

A posting from yesterday at the F@h news section:
Capturing the COVID-19 Demogorgon (aka Spike) in Action

The spike of the SARS-CoV-2 virus (shown below) is one particularly appealing target for designing therapeutics to combat the COVID-19 disease. It is actually comprised of three identical proteins arranged in a circle. Many copies of the spike protrude from the surface of the virus, where they wait to encounter a protein on the surface of many human cells, called ACE2. Binding of a spike to ACE2 initiates a series of events that ultimately allow the virus to enter the human cell. Therefore, therapeutics that bind the spike in a manner that blocks its interaction with ACE2 could provide a valuable means to prevent infection. [...]

More at the link.