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Seems kinda puny in comparison, but it all adds up.
Thanks! Now as long as my wife doesn't figure out how much this bumps up the electric bill.
I've done something I should have done a few months back. If you remember, my GTX 1070 had some issue which caused the 2007 Mac Pro it was residing in to refuse to POST. I took it out and have been limping along with a solitary GTX 1060 doing the brunt of my Folding. Well, I was down in the basement looking at my water heater and saw the GTX 1070 laying there. I though, what the heck, and plugged it into my old Dell Precision T7400 along with the GTX 960 that has been resting doing nothing. (for the record, I have a Zotac GTX 970 with three frozen fans that is also gathering dust and an even older Zotac GTX 750).
Anyway, the only monitor I had laying around was a VGA monitor and the GTX 1070, while having a DVI port, is the DVI-D variant, not the DVI-A which allows the DVI-A to VGA dongle to work. So I had to leave the GTX 960 in the first PCI-e x16 slot and install the GTX 1070 in the second PCI-e x16 slot. That allowed me to see that the system was failing POST with a low system voltage. Makes me wonder if the GTX 1070 is drew too much current from the PCIe 12V connector and took down the Mac Pro. I hit F1 and proceeded to boot, and found that the Ubuntu installation was not liking my NVIDIA graphics environment. So I booted up with the LUbuntu CD-ROM I had burned last year and that brought up the GUI and I could actually get to the desktop (a bit different from the stock Gnome GUI of Ubuntu).
Long story shortened, I wiped out the Ubuntu 14.04 install on the Dell and install the LUbuntu on the disks. I downloaded the 7.5.1 F@H software (I need to stop downloading the FAHViewer!) and went through the fun and games of installing Python2, OpenCL libraries, and FAH. The Installation instructions on the Folding @ Home site have not been updated since the 7.4 client, but changing the version numbers worked. And they fixed the whole GPU Whitelist file bug, so you don't need to go through hoops to get your GPUs set up for Folding.
We'll see if I can catch back up to smasho (a.k.a EatMyVolts) or if I merely keep a fixed distance behind. At least while the furnace is needed and not the AC!
Anyway, the only monitor I had laying around was a VGA monitor and the GTX 1070, while having a DVI port, is the DVI-D variant, not the DVI-A which allows the DVI-A to VGA dongle to work. So I had to leave the GTX 960 in the first PCI-e x16 slot and install the GTX 1070 in the second PCI-e x16 slot. That allowed me to see that the system was failing POST with a low system voltage. Makes me wonder if the GTX 1070 is drew too much current from the PCIe 12V connector and took down the Mac Pro. I hit F1 and proceeded to boot, and found that the Ubuntu installation was not liking my NVIDIA graphics environment. So I booted up with the LUbuntu CD-ROM I had burned last year and that brought up the GUI and I could actually get to the desktop (a bit different from the stock Gnome GUI of Ubuntu).
Long story shortened, I wiped out the Ubuntu 14.04 install on the Dell and install the LUbuntu on the disks. I downloaded the 7.5.1 F@H software (I need to stop downloading the FAHViewer!) and went through the fun and games of installing Python2, OpenCL libraries, and FAH. The Installation instructions on the Folding @ Home site have not been updated since the 7.4 client, but changing the version numbers worked. And they fixed the whole GPU Whitelist file bug, so you don't need to go through hoops to get your GPUs set up for Folding.
We'll see if I can catch back up to smasho (a.k.a EatMyVolts) or if I merely keep a fixed distance behind. At least while the furnace is needed and not the AC!
The Dell T7400 adds about 800K PPD at the moment. We'll see which dies first; the Dell or the GTX 1070. NVIDIA's control panel shows the CPU temperatures are around 80?C, pretty normal as I recall.
Oh, no gauntlet thrown. If I was making a legitimate challenge, the letters Arr-Tee-Ecks would be involved...Did somebody just throw down a gauntlet?
