CougTek
Hairy Aussie
I'm not sure, but it looks like Mark has upgraded something in his setup. His production for the day so far is unusually high.
Folding@Home
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CougTek
Hairy Aussie
We will lose a lot of positions until the end of the year unless we get some help. Even Colby Mules might re-overtake us since one of their main producers (nscc) has resumed his contribution after a one week hiatus that allowed us to overtake them. We're not even 200K points in front of them so it's like we have no lead at all.
I know I won't be able to increase my contribution at all before Christmas. I will also probably have a severe disruption in my daily output at least once in the upcoming weeks as I'll move from Montréal to Québec city.
I know I won't be able to increase my contribution at all before Christmas. I will also probably have a severe disruption in my daily output at least once in the upcoming weeks as I'll move from Montréal to Québec city.
ddrueding
Fixture
All my systems are down at the moment, lost Work1 and Work2 is unstable even at stock everything.
You have Titans? Nvidia is having stability issues for 7xx series drivers. Specifically, the Windows drivers reboot at least every 36 hours. Supposedly they now have a fix and it will be incorporated in the next driver release.
ddrueding
Fixture
Awesome. Thanks!
CougTek
Hairy Aussie
Well I sure hope that the new driver will help Dave to restart his contribution. Otherwise, if things don't change, we'll lose 6 positions before the end of October.
On another subject, with the new Ivy Bridge-EP processors arriving on September 9th or 10th, I wonder if a dual-socket 12-core per CPU system would be able to break the million points per day barrier, with the Big Units? We're talking about 24 Ivy Bridge cores clocked at 2.7GHz minimum. Of course, that's also a 10K$ machine, but since I'll have a few to play with and that at least one or two will be for backups and at idle most of the time, maybe I'll be able to install the FAH client initially on it just to make some burn-in stability test...
On another subject, with the new Ivy Bridge-EP processors arriving on September 9th or 10th, I wonder if a dual-socket 12-core per CPU system would be able to break the million points per day barrier, with the Big Units? We're talking about 24 Ivy Bridge cores clocked at 2.7GHz minimum. Of course, that's also a 10K$ machine, but since I'll have a few to play with and that at least one or two will be for backups and at idle most of the time, maybe I'll be able to install the FAH client initially on it just to make some burn-in stability test...
ddrueding
Fixture
Downloading now.
CougTek
Hairy Aussie
There's obviously been an outage at my home. Only two of my five systems are still contributing. The situation won't be back to normal before tomorrow's evening. My contribution will also be greatly reduced next Monday and early Tuesday since I'll be moving.
timwhit
Hairy Aussie
What? Ridiculous.
I know!
CougTek
Hairy Aussie
I'm back!
Only three of my five systems though. I don't know where to put the other two since I only have one desk cleared for the moment. It might take some time before I return to my usual rythm.
BTW, The single 919 points unit I produced yesterday...I don't know where it came from. All my computers were down at that time. None were even plugged.
Only three of my five systems though. I don't know where to put the other two since I only have one desk cleared for the moment. It might take some time before I return to my usual rythm.
BTW, The single 919 points unit I produced yesterday...I don't know where it came from. All my computers were down at that time. None were even plugged.
I rebuilt my home desktop last night and I've been trying to get the F@H client working again. The CPU will function fine but I can't get the GPU to work. I think it crunched one work unit but now it's not connecting.
The log file says this:
19:01:37:WU02:FS00:News: Welcome to Folding@Home
19:01:37:WARNING:WU02:FS00:Failed to get assignment from 'assign-GPU.stanford.edu:80': Empty work server assignment
19:01:37:WU02:FS00:Connecting to assign-GPU.stanford.edu:8080
Also, I didn't know GROMACS stood for "Working on GRowing Old MAkes el Chrono Sweat"
The log file says this:
19:01:37:WU02:FS00:News: Welcome to Folding@Home
19:01:37:WARNING:WU02:FS00:Failed to get assignment from 'assign-GPU.stanford.edu:80': Empty work server assignment
19:01:37:WU02:FS00:Connecting to assign-GPU.stanford.edu:8080
Also, I didn't know GROMACS stood for "Working on GRowing Old MAkes el Chrono Sweat"
CougTek
Hairy Aussie
I did rebuild my main computer too yesterday and also did have some trouble getting my first GPU WU. I simply paused, exited and restarted the client and I've had no troble since then. One of the assignment server must be down or partially functional. Despite what their monitoring says, it wouldn't be the first time.
What GPU?
I don't know what GPU you are running but for older GPU's the server that handles them went down on Aug. 26 and hasn't yet come back on line. PG knows of the problem and has said it is working on a fix. That being said, I suspect that it isn't a high priority since they have also said that Core_11 is EOL.
The developers for GROMACS have used a variety of mnemonics. See: http://foldingforum.org/viewtopic.php?f=16&t=12922&hilit=Russians#p126397
I don't know what GPU you are running but for older GPU's the server that handles them went down on Aug. 26 and hasn't yet come back on line. PG knows of the problem and has said it is working on a fix. That being said, I suspect that it isn't a high priority since they have also said that Core_11 is EOL.
The developers for GROMACS have used a variety of mnemonics. See: http://foldingforum.org/viewtopic.php?f=16&t=12922&hilit=Russians#p126397
CougTek
Hairy Aussie
In my case, the GPU is a GT440. Yes, it is old and no, it doesn't help much (less than 3000 ppd on the current WU - Project 8018).
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Thanks for the info. I think it must have resumed overnight because I could hear the typical whine noise from the GPU when it's crunching but I didn't check.
I'm using a Nvidia GTX 560 Ti 448 core (GF110 [Fermi]). Is that part of their old GPU support?
Both of your video cards (GT440, GTX 560 Ti) should work fine. Neither is considered old and on the EOL list (Pre-fermi). So I need to see your logs, including the system and config portions to diagnose your problem and optimize the config.
CougTek
Hairy Aussie
Honestly Mark, this is the least of my concerns. If it was one of the GTX 580 or either of the Radeon cards, I would care. However, the GT 440 doesn't even add 5K ppd. And it's working now. If the problem reoccurs, then I'll ask for help if I have time to spend on this. Right now, I have other priorities.
Thanks for your help and offer.
Thanks for your help and offer.
CougTek
Hairy Aussie
So finally, as of 5 minutes ago, all my systems are finally back at running the client. I could have done it before, but I guess I've been lazy (and quite busy).
I hope that now with AMDs Hawaii announced that in the next several months or so we get to see what it's truly capable of. I hope that it breaks through as a good price/performance card and maybe become a good performing FAH option. As a byproduct I hope the 780GTX drops in price to be competitive.
CougTek
Hairy Aussie
I have a lot of trouble with my second most powerful right now. With a Radeon HD 7870, it only produces ~5500ppd with the GPU core on a project 11293 unit. Before I reinstalled the graphic driver yesterday, it often showed the unit to be 99% completed while it wasn't the case. That lasted for several days. Prior to that, the system froze every few days. It runs under Windows Server 2012 R2 Preview. Maybe that's the problem. I'll reinstall the OS later this evening. I'll put the RTM version this time.
I wanted to be within 9 millions points of Mark when he'll pass the 100 million milestone. I guess it won't happen thank s to this system.
I wanted to be within 9 millions points of Mark when he'll pass the 100 million milestone. I guess it won't happen thank s to this system.
The PPD for non-Core_17 WU's on AMD video cards just outright suck. I do not know if you are running client-type=beta but beta doesn't seem to have many Core_17 right now and client-type=advanced seems to do better. Undoubtedly, that will change with no warning however.
The 99% problem seems to be an issue with OC'ing rather than drivers or the OS. You can, pause and unpause and that will allow the WU to progress from the last checkpoint but it will likely happen again on the same WU. In general, I find a reboot helps more.
The 99% problem seems to be an issue with OC'ing rather than drivers or the OS. You can, pause and unpause and that will allow the WU to progress from the last checkpoint but it will likely happen again on the same WU. In general, I find a reboot helps more.
CougTek
Hairy Aussie
That system is not overclocked and it's also over-ventilated, if something. It cannot overheat.
I didn't use any flag, but I'll add the client-type advanced flag to the GPU unit.
CougTek
Hairy Aussie
Congratulations for the 100 million milestone. I won't be there myself before mid-November.
fb
Storage is cool
I'll run a 4670 without extra graphics over the weekend or so.
fb
Storage is cool
I meant a Haswell, sorry. 
CougTek
Hairy Aussie
It's been a while since you've contributed, so maybe you forgot (or it simply didn't existed back then), but please take the time to get a passkey. It will take ten units before the bonus kicks in, but once it does, each unit you complete will reward you with much more points.
fb
Storage is cool
Passkey didn't exist back then, but it's taken care of now.
CougTek
Hairy Aussie
No, I don't. At least at home. Using RAID on my disk won't increase my FAH production. Why ask this in this thread?
Well that post was a screwup. Somebody please delete it.