I did get a passcode so we are good there. I'll make sure and get the control installed on my desktop also. Hopefully I'll get to work on some of this tomorrow but may be a couple of days.
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I did get a passcode so we are good there. I'll make sure and get the control installed on my desktop also. Hopefully I'll get to work on some of this tomorrow but may be a couple of days.
I have a 980 in one of mine. Is there anything special I need to do to really take advantage of it?
When you install the FAH Client it should recognize the GPU card as long as you have recent NVIDIA drivers installed. If you're running Windows 10 I hear there is some concern about Windows replacing the Manufacturer's drivers with Windows 10 drivers which can break Folding.
Folding on NVIDIA GPUs uses the CUDA libraries. There is also a GPU.txt file that contains all of the "whitelisted" graphics cards that are qualified to work with Folding at Home. If you have the NVIDIA drivers installed and run the FAH Client installer, it should create a GPU Slot in the Client for your GTX 980. If it doesn't, then troubleshooting the problem is best done by starting at the Folding Forum.
Woo-hoo, Amazon Sunday Delivery! My GTX 970 just arrived! I have set the current WU to Finish and when it's done in 80 minutes I can open up The Beast and replace the Quadro FX 570 with the 970. 80 minutes will give the card a chance to come up to temperature from the long ride in the truck.
(I wish I could justify spending $1300 on a pair of 980 Ti cards, but like was mentioned, Black Friday, Pascal, etc. are coming to drive prices down...)
(I wish I could justify spending $1300 on a pair of 980 Ti cards, but like was mentioned, Black Friday, Pascal, etc. are coming to drive prices down...)
I am down in my Folding Lair and I tried something I should have done ages ago: I moved the GTX 750 Ti bus-powered GPU into my Mac Pro. It works better there than in the HP xw8200!
As you can see, I left some breathing room between the cards. With the current WUs, FAH Control is showing 288K PPD just for my Mac Pro!
Without a valid GPU in it, the HP is showing under 1K PPD and as soon as this WU is complete, I'm officially retiring the xw8200 from service.
I'm still trying to figure out the DIMM situation on the new Dell. I've installed the new GTX 970 AMP! Omega card (fit like a dream, lots of room for an additional GPU!) but even though I moved the DIMMs into different slots, POST says DIMMs 3 or 4 have single-bit error detected. If it's like the PowerEdge servers at work, I need to run Dell diagnostics to clear it out. After over an hour of the built-in Pre-boot Memory tests, no errors have occurred.
Here are some pics of The Beast:
And here's the Foxbat Folding Liar:
Edit: Update after it's been running for a couple of hours: I think I can now give Scorpion.sting a run for #1. Let's give it a week and we'll see. FAH Control shows >450K PPD for all my Folders.
As you can see, I left some breathing room between the cards. With the current WUs, FAH Control is showing 288K PPD just for my Mac Pro!
Without a valid GPU in it, the HP is showing under 1K PPD and as soon as this WU is complete, I'm officially retiring the xw8200 from service.
I'm still trying to figure out the DIMM situation on the new Dell. I've installed the new GTX 970 AMP! Omega card (fit like a dream, lots of room for an additional GPU!) but even though I moved the DIMMs into different slots, POST says DIMMs 3 or 4 have single-bit error detected. If it's like the PowerEdge servers at work, I need to run Dell diagnostics to clear it out. After over an hour of the built-in Pre-boot Memory tests, no errors have occurred.
Here are some pics of The Beast:
And here's the Foxbat Folding Liar:
Edit: Update after it's been running for a couple of hours: I think I can now give Scorpion.sting a run for #1. Let's give it a week and we'll see. FAH Control shows >450K PPD for all my Folders.
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SatGuys has a chance to move up three more spots this week. After briefly holding the #97 spot, the BadBirdies flew past us and we are back to #98. However, just two days to pass Free Republic, six days to cruise by Shippensburg, and about a week til slipping by Team Engadget.
My HP xw8200 has Folded its last WU. Meanwhile, my Mac Pro with which I started Folding for the SatelliteGuys Team is approaching the start of its ninth year of continuous Folding (well, in another month...)
The PCs keep dropping off (HP Evo w/AMD CPU, Dell 4700, now the HP xw8200) while the Macintosh keeps on truckin'. And that's why I like Apple; it's over-engineered. I hope this Dell Precision T7400 can keep going for a long time, too. It, too, is built like a tank, with room for four 3.5" disk drives, room for at least 3 optical drives, space for a 3.5" floppy (remember those?
) and ample space for graphics cards and other expansion cards. And tons of fans to keep the air moving through the case.
I also discovered by plugging in my Dell Tag# into the Dell site that it has been re-chipped. It came from the factory with a pair of 2.3 GHz Xeon CPUs, but now has 3.0 GHz E5450 Xeons. It also has 16 GB of Fully-Buffered DIMMs instead of the 8 GB, and a pair of 500 GB SATA drives instead of an 80 GB and a 250 GB drive. I'm not complaining by any stretch of the imagination; it makes me wonder if they maybe shipped the wrong system to me? Either that, or they used the "as-Shipped" specs in the description and to determine the price.
We may not catch "Bad Birdies" this week, but maybe Joshua's "little friends" can kick it up a notch and we'll slingshot past them.
The PCs keep dropping off (HP Evo w/AMD CPU, Dell 4700, now the HP xw8200) while the Macintosh keeps on truckin'. And that's why I like Apple; it's over-engineered. I hope this Dell Precision T7400 can keep going for a long time, too. It, too, is built like a tank, with room for four 3.5" disk drives, room for at least 3 optical drives, space for a 3.5" floppy (remember those?
) and ample space for graphics cards and other expansion cards. And tons of fans to keep the air moving through the case.I also discovered by plugging in my Dell Tag# into the Dell site that it has been re-chipped. It came from the factory with a pair of 2.3 GHz Xeon CPUs, but now has 3.0 GHz E5450 Xeons. It also has 16 GB of Fully-Buffered DIMMs instead of the 8 GB, and a pair of 500 GB SATA drives instead of an 80 GB and a 250 GB drive. I'm not complaining by any stretch of the imagination; it makes me wonder if they maybe shipped the wrong system to me? Either that, or they used the "as-Shipped" specs in the description and to determine the price.
We may not catch "Bad Birdies" this week, but maybe Joshua's "little friends" can kick it up a notch and we'll slingshot past them.
My HP xw8200 has Folded its last WU. Meanwhile, my Mac Pro with which I started Folding for the SatelliteGuys Team is approaching the start of its ninth year of continuous Folding (well, in another month...)
The PCs keep dropping off (HP Evo w/AMD CPU, Dell 4700, now the HP xw8200) while the Macintosh keeps on truckin'. And that's why I like Apple; it's over-engineered. I hope this Dell Precision T7400 can keep going for a long time, too. It, too, is built like a tank, with room for four 3.5" disk drives, room for at least 3 optical drives, space for a 3.5" floppy (remember those?
I also discovered by plugging in my Dell Tag# into the Dell site that it has been re-chipped. It came from the factory with a pair of 2.3 GHz Xeon CPUs, but now has 3.0 GHz E5450 Xeons. It also has 16 GB of Fully-Buffered DIMMs instead of the 8 GB, and a pair of 500 GB SATA drives instead of an 80 GB and a 250 GB drive. I'm not complaining by any stretch of the imagination; it makes me wonder if they maybe shipped the wrong system to me? Either that, or they used the "as-Shipped" specs in the description and to determine the price.
We may not catch "Bad Birdies" this week, but maybe Joshua's "little friends" can kick it up a notch and we'll slingshot past them.
I got one setup today. It is getting around 42,000 PPD, being new to this I didn't quite know what to expect but I thought it would be higher. Even so, if I setup all 14 that would be 588,000PPD
Just using the CPU's the PPD will be much lower than a high-end GPU. However, as you have stated running 14 of them, 500K+ is not bad. 
Now also note that this number will go up and down a little depending on what work unit is assigned each period.
Now also note that this number will go up and down a little depending on what work unit is assigned each period.
Just using the CPU's the PPD will be much lower than a high-end GPU. However, as you have stated running 14 of them, 500K+ is not bad.
Now also note that this number will go up and down a little depending on what work unit is assigned each period.
Yeah I noticed it bounced around, at one point it was in the 65000 range. Unfortunately being blade servers a GPU is not an option.
Wish I could get a string of these 0x21 Work Units on the 960.
well I kind of gave up trying to configure my main computer for this but I have another cranking away. But I don't seem to be getting any WU for the GPUs in this machine.
But I don't seem to be getting any WU for the GPUs in this machine.
Yep, the #### GT/GTX/GTS cards have been replaced by the GTX ### cards. I had a 9800 GTS+ in my HP xw8200 when I first bought it and it was a capable machine for its time. But as the GPUs have gotten more powerful, the Projects have upped the ante as far as # of atoms and reducing the timing from microseconds to nanoseconds to picoseconds. The lessor GPUs have removed from the Whitelist so only the cards capable of meeting the time constraints of the current Projects are supported.
Eventually, even the mighty GTX 980 Ti will no longer be supported.
When I tried installing the current NVIDIA drivers they said "not-so-fast there" to my Quadra FX 570. When I looked at it, sure enough, it was only a 256 MB graphics card. Not very impressive at all. But in its day, it was considered a Graphics Card worthy of including in a Workstation!Edit: I wonder what's going on ether at Stanford or EOC? This is the fourth day that the 3pm and 6pm runs have shown zero points for both the individual Folders and the Team.
