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All Hail Voyager6 who has found his way from the Delta Quadrant into the Beta Quadrant!!! The first SatelliteGuys Team Member and Folder Extraordinaire to break past 2,000,000,000 Points!!!
WAY TO FOLD!!!!!!
WAY TO FOLD!!!!!!
Thank you. The "mission" is proceeding well.All Hail Voyager6 who has found his way from the Delta Quadrant into the Beta Quadrant!!! The first SatelliteGuys Team Member and Folder Extraordinaire to break past 2,000,000,000 Points!!!
WAY TO FOLD!!!!!!
Please note that there are two others hot on my heels who will soon breech the 2B barrier. 
Also helping the Team are dave90000 and Brandon_Ryan who have reached 3,000,000 and 2,000,000 Points, respectively! Thanks for your contribution to finding an answer to COVID-19 and other diseases!
Unfortunately, in less than a week our Team will be toppled from our Top 50 Teams. We have been losing members (down three in the last week) and the shortage of Work Units has meant many of us have idle Folding Farms.
Unfortunately, in less than a week our Team will be toppled from our Top 50 Teams. We have been losing members (down three in the last week) and the shortage of Work Units has meant many of us have idle Folding Farms.
I've added some cores. Using FAH to do burn-in on a new server until such time as the customer is allowed to spend money on GPUs again. Would be better with the 8x Titan RTXs that will be going into it, but then they will want to use those for machine learning software development. In the mean time, we get to use 72x 3.1Ghz threads.
Please make sure your management is on board with your use of IT Assets. It's a pretty big part of the IT Usage agreement at where I work and is also baked into the Folding at Home Usage Agreement.
If I were mining bitcoin, they would have a problem. Using FAH to burn in a new server, not so much.
I saw that, is it time to try a shutdown and reboot? I’ve had to do that from time to time on my Ubuntu Linux boxes. Don’t know what happened recently but lately my Folders are getting a steady diet of Work Units.Lots of idle time here too.
Well, FAH isn't running much on that new server. Not sure if it got assigned an incompatible job or what. Just lots of these messages in the log.
Edit: I had to drastically reduce the number of cores to get this to run. 9 did it, but now I need to remember to put it back when this job is done.
Edit: I had to drastically reduce the number of cores to get this to run. 9 did it, but now I need to remember to put it back when this job is done.
Interestingly, even when it was using all 72 threads, it wasn't being very efficient about it. Lot of system time suggests CPU was busy doing things other than folding.
System time is time spent running kernel code. The FAHClient runs as a regular user. As far as I can tell, the system time while the load was high was just managing all the threads.
System time includes anything that has to go through the kernel like memory allocations and I/O. I'm imagining that the OpenCL functions are kernel level rather than user library level.
Hmm..perhaps OpenCL behaves differently than CUDA. We don't see lots of system time on any of our Machine Learning or HPC GPU servers, but they are all using CUDA, not OpenCL. Is FAH using OpenCL libs in the code that runs on CPU?
If you've been over to the Folding Forum, I believe there was a rule about having an optimal number of cores assigned to a CPU Folding slot based on avoiding certain numbers. Of course, the larger the number of cores, the more "efficient" the Slot should be, but you also run the risk of certain Projects needing to be designed to handle the various number of CPU cores. There are probably more Projects that would be available for 6-core than for 24-core CPU slots, for example.
Seems to be getting regular work with 34 cores per slot, so I have 2 slots configured currently. Technically, this leaves 4 threads unused, so I guess I could add a third slot with a small number of cores. Not sure it is worth it given how Intel hyperthreading works with FPU execution.
OpenCL covers all parallel processor situations (CPUs, GPUs and DSPs). I don't know to what extent FAH employs it but I did have to upgrade the driver for my ancient Quadro card because the latest FAH client couldn't locate a OpenCL DLL.
Also helping the Team are dave90000 and Brandon_Ryan who have reached 3,000,000 and 2,000,000 Points, respectively! Thanks for your contribution to finding an answer to COVID-19 and other diseases!
Unfortunately, in less than a week our Team will be toppled from our Top 50 Teams. We have been losing members (down three in the last week) and the shortage of Work Units has meant many of us have idle Folding Farms.
Looks like we dropped from 49 to 50, which I guess is still top 50, but for how long?
Just now looking at the numbers, it is forecast to be 8am tomorrow that we fall to GamersNexus. By Thursday we'll fall another two notches.
