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I'm not sure but I belief driver team is on our side Crawdaddy79
20.3.1 AMD driver.
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Same Project did less then 1000000 , with the <20.2.3 driver.
Saw same gains with nVidia.

But on my newest rigs I have awakened from spare parts .
A AMD card slot is asking for nVidia to be present.
And had a nVidia slot ask to have OpenGL enabled.
WTF is going on.
 
^ Interesting that after having this card for a year, new drivers have made no difference that I need until 20.3.1 :lol:

DarkFoss said:
The Estimated TPF of Project 14308= 27.00 secs :eek:

I know the Vega is faster than a Fiji but 6 min faster Holy@#?!
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That was actually the Ryzen 2700X posting that TPF. Feel better? :D

Edit: just hit 1.11M PPD with the GPU alone on Proj 11779. For DarkFoss, TPF is 57.0 sec.
 
LOL never mind the WTF is going on, some part was faulty .
I just heard a PUFFFF, I looked to the side.
And the Monitor went black and fans started spinning down slowly :cry:
Press F
 
Feeling the parts on heat,
Seems the power supply couldn't handle the load.

Did last me 5+ years though :) .
 
Crawdaddy79 said:
^ Interesting that after having this card for a year, new drivers have made no difference that I need until 20.3.1 :lol:



That was actually the Ryzen 2700X posting that TPF. Feel better? :D

Edit: just hit 1.11M PPD with the GPU alone on Proj 11779. For DarkFoss, TPF is 57.0 sec.
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Whoops should have looked it up first. :embarrassed:
I tried both the cpu and gpu on the 16th :
Cpu
Project: 14328 (Run 8, Clone 5222, Gen 7) TPF was around 2min 20sec
Gpu
Project: 11750 (Run 0, Clone 7438, Gen 0) TPF was around 1min 40sec

So in an Odd way I do feel slightly better. It also explains why when I looked at your results MC Hammer's Can't touch this popped into my head. :lol:
 
konjini said:
LOL never mind the WTF is going on, some part was faulty .
I just heard a PUFFFF, I looked to the side.
And the Monitor went black and fans started spinning down slowly :cry:
Press F
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konjini said:
Feeling the parts on heat,
Seems the power supply couldn't handle the load.

Did last me 5+ years though :) .
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Sorry to hear that. :( I hope it didn't take anything else out with it!
 
Ole Gregor has buried me. I'm not sure what's going on - everything produced by my desktop today has not contributed to my score.

Ever since adding a passkey, my Web Control reset to zero, and was not updating with my desktop uploads, but did update with my laptop uploads.

The stats page on ExtremeOverclocking seemed to be updating with laptop uploads (not reset to zero, though). I'm about 500k points less than I should be.

After closing/re-opening the client it auto-logged me in as Anonymous. I fixed that, restarted the client, restarted my PC, made sure my info was saved in the client, and all seems to be well.

You have a shoestring loose, Gregor. I think I can grab it now. Best of luck to your face.
 
Yeah no kidding. Pulling it apparently unleashed your rocket boosters. See you at the middle-top of the ladder, sir.

Edit: For context, here is how we currently stack up:

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DarkFoss said:
Sorry to hear that. :( I hope it didn't take anything else out with it!
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It appeared fine, got a new cheap 650watts B-brand PSU.
Got into windows and 10 minutes furmark.
It did the same after 10-15 minutes run PUUUF,
looks like the system is pulling to much for weak & cheap PSU.
 
Returned to fold. Stupid virus. Holy cow, the points have really gone up. Poor How???. So much work he did in the bad old days.
 
TheEmrys said:
Returned to fold. Stupid virus. Holy cow, the points have really gone up. Poor How???. So much work he did in the bad old days.
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Yep. Using a passkey nets you bonus points after 10 WU to the tune of about 3 - 10x the base points, depending on how quickly you return the results.

I had two PCs folding nonstop for almost two years in 2004-6 and I doubled my points in one day this week. Now that I'm getting bonuses, completing 1 big WU adds more points than I earned over the two years.
 
Is there really a point to folding these days? Don't they have ridiculous power in supercomputers/ASICs dedicated to this research?
 
Globalist, according to the project's FAQ, supercomputers are not enough.

Folding@home FAQ said:
Modern supercomputers are essentially clusters of hundreds of processors linked by fast networking. The speed of these processors is comparable to (and often slower than) those found in PCs! Supercomputers are not only very expensive to operate, but they are often simultaneously shared by many different research groups, and it is a challenge to scale a molecular simulation to all of their processors. Protein folding dynamics is statistical in nature, so a single long simulation from a supercomputer would not be sufficient to fully understand the folding process. Folding@home is one of the most powerful computing systems on the planet, and we use novel methods to utilize its network to statistically analyse the dynamics of protein folding. Hence, the calculations performed on Folding@home would not be possible by any other means! This is possible since PC processors are now very fast and there are hundreds of millions of PCs sitting idle in the world.
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Isn't that FAQ like 10 years old and very much outdated in this regard? I can't imagine scientists are not throwing all the CPU power of their supercomputeters at Covid-19 right now, and are instead relying on GPU enthusiasts?
 
To be honest with you, I do not know how old the information in the FAQ is, nor do I know exactly how supercomputer resources are being allocated right now. However, what I do know is that the Folding@home project is performing important coronavirus/COVID-19 research, and contributing to it is a worthwhile endeavor.
 
Also, the total computing power of the Folding@home network is greater than the top seven supercomputers in the world combined.

The Folding@home network has been working hard to defeat COVID-19 (coronavirus). This battle has caused the network to pass some interesting milestones as result of renewed interest in folding for a cure or vaccine. The Folding@home network now boasts 470 PetaFLOPS of compute power and is more powerful than the world’s top 7 supercomputers. Folding@home is a “distributed computing” project. It was started by Dr. Vijay Pande at Stanford University and is now based at the Washington University in St. Louis School of Medicine. The project relies on the processing power of volunteer personal devices that process “different portions of data” simultaneously. The Folding@home team contends that this approach can “significantly accelerate our research” and it has allowed them to publish over 223 research papers as a result.

At the beginning of March, Folding@home was pushing out about 98.7 PetaFLOPS of compute power. This was an impressive number, but it paled in comparison to supercomputers like the Summit supercomputer at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL). The Folding@home output is now at 470 PetaFLOPS. Folding@home is now not only more powerful than Summit, but is more powerful than the top seven supercomputers combined. Summit boasts 149 PetaFLOPS while the six next fastest supercomputers do not break 100 PetaFLOPS.


Source: HotHardware
 
Hello All!! Great to see people folding again. Just wish I could get consistent projects now. My ppd has taken a huge hit. Great to see everyone getting involved again.
 
Hiya Turbo, I'm sure they are fast tracking projects out of beta as best they can.

Has anyone else noticed a new team member named Fireanimal? His/her numbers are quite impressive. Started folding on St. Pattys day, popped up on my threat list Saturday. He's on everyone's now except for Jima13.

All I can say is Thank you for joining us. :fold:
 
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