Protein Folding: Your Chance To Help (and Whup AnandTech) Starting Dec 1

[Ne0Wolf7]

Ill have to figure out what is wrong with my FAH install. CPU folding no longer runs, GPU folding works well but gets my room way too hot (290x lol). I have no problem running my 4790k all night and while im away from the house. Keeps the room at an acceptable temperature during Michigan winter nights.

CPU folding is not really supported for anything less than those 12+ core monster CPU's and even then I think they dropped the bonus PPD they used to get. Much better to stick to GPU folding IMHO.

I have a core 2 duo thats folding along with my 8 thread exeon, which is very simaler to the 4790. It should work

 

[Muchoman]

So all I have to do is put in the team#, 40051, and I'm all set to support Tom's for the competition yeah?

 

[Ne0Wolf7]

Yup.

 

[gio2vanni86]

I want to join. This is ok for Windows users right? Havent used it in awhile but i'll boot both my machines up and get them rolling with the toms team

 

[Mousemonkey]

I want to join. This is ok for Windows users right? Havent used it in awhile but i'll boot both my machines up and get them rolling with the toms team

Welcome aboard and yes it works just fine on Windows.

 

[10esseetony]

If you want to be on the winning team, the team number is 198. In seriousness though, if you have questions/problems that have you stumped, we'll be glad to try to help anyone get the most out of their equipment at the "distributed computing" sub-forum at anandtech, as it is for the greater good.

 

[bit_user]

In seriousness though, if you have questions/problems that have you stumped, we'll be glad to try to help anyone get the most out of their equipment at the "distributed computing" sub-forum at anandtech, as it is for the greater good.

Thanks for the offer.

FWIW, here are links to our Graphics Cards and Networking forums:
http://www.tomshardware.com/forum/forum-33.html
http://www.tomshardware.com/forum/forum-42.html

In case anyone isn't clear on the point of Folding or the benefits of helping out:
http://folding.stanford.edu/home/the-science

 

[gio2vanni86]

I want to join. This is ok for Windows users right? Havent used it in awhile but i'll boot both my machines up and get them rolling with the toms team

Welcome aboard and yes it works just fine on Windows.

As for the team name is it 40051? I'm bit lost on how to join the team exactly.

 

[Ne0Wolf7]

If you already have it up and running, go to change identiy and put that number if for eam. Ifits not up and runnig, get it going and them change the identity. Its easy to do from the web control tab

 

[lilcinw]

So, what's a good source of benchmarks for CPU and GPU folding? The Charts are mostly lacking these, and getting pretty stale.

If people have options to run different HW configurations, it'd be good to know how they compare.

The overclock.net forum has some good data on GPUs. It is mostly OC'ed numbers (who would have guessed?) but gives a good idea of what you can expect.

http://www.overclock.net/t/475163/gpu-projects-ppd-database

 

[gio2vanni86]

Anyone got any idea why two 980's in sli crash constantly when trying to fold. But with only one it seems to work just fine? Been trying for two days now uninstalling and reinstalling the software and that hasnt yielded any success. Tried disabling hardware acceleration on chrome and nothing yet. Any Ideas? I take that back both GPUS crash. I even disabled sli.. Still nothing. Only positive thing is i don't lose my display when it crashes with one.

 

[Mousemonkey]

Anyone got any idea why two 980's in sli crash constantly when trying to fold. But with only one it seems to work just fine? Been trying for two days now uninstalling and reinstalling the software and that hasnt yielded any success. Tried disabling hardware acceleration on chrome and nothing yet. Any Ideas? I take that back both GPUS crash. I even disabled sli.. Still nothing. Only positive thing is i don't lose my display when it crashes with one.

What PSU are you using?

 

[gio2vanni86]

Anyone got any idea why two 980's in sli crash constantly when trying to fold. But with only one it seems to work just fine? Been trying for two days now uninstalling and reinstalling the software and that hasnt yielded any success. Tried disabling hardware acceleration on chrome and nothing yet. Any Ideas? I take that back both GPUS crash. I even disabled sli.. Still nothing. Only positive thing is i don't lose my display when it crashes with one.

What PSU are you using?

Cooler master 1200W Silent pro. I actually downclocked my GPU on my old pc and seems to be working great on my old one with 580 sli stock CPU/GPU. I do have a shit OC on my main PC, the GPUs are stock. You think maybe that could cause my nvidia drivers to crash? A 500MHZ crap OC. I might add it was achieved with AI suite. You may laugh if you wish i honestly been out of game for too long and said screw it, auto OC.

 

[bit_user]

I take that back both GPUS crash. I even disabled sli.. Still nothing. Only positive thing is i don't lose my display when it crashes with one.

I don't quite follow. Are you now saying that it crashes with either GPU A or GPU B, when each is run stand-alone?

I would say run memtest. Memory errors are a common cause of instability, and the fact that you're running an OC makes it more likely that memory errors would occur.

The other thing you could try is to run at stock clocks. For folding, I doubt the CPU clock makes much difference in GPU folding performance.

 

[gio2vanni86]

I take that back both GPUS crash. I even disabled sli.. Still nothing. Only positive thing is i don't lose my display when it crashes with one.

I don't quite follow. Are you now saying that it crashes with either GPU A or GPU B, when each is run stand-alone?

I would say run memtest. Memory errors are a common cause of instability, and the fact that you're running an OC makes it more likely that memory errors would occur.

The other thing you could try is to run at stock clocks. For folding, I doubt the CPU clock makes much difference in GPU folding performance.

Yea it crashes with just one when i disable sli. Going to try to get rid of the OC and try memtest as you stated later today when i get off work. Thanks for all the quick replies, much appreciated. Hope to get it up and running for the event.

 

[Mousemonkey]

Anyone got any idea why two 980's in sli crash constantly when trying to fold. But with only one it seems to work just fine? Been trying for two days now uninstalling and reinstalling the software and that hasnt yielded any success. Tried disabling hardware acceleration on chrome and nothing yet. Any Ideas? I take that back both GPUS crash. I even disabled sli.. Still nothing. Only positive thing is i don't lose my display when it crashes with one.

What PSU are you using?

Cooler master 1200W Silent pro. I actually downclocked my GPU on my old pc and seems to be working great on my old one with 580 sli stock CPU/GPU. I do have a shit OC on my main PC, the GPUs are stock. You think maybe that could cause my nvidia drivers to crash? A 500MHZ crap OC. I might add it was achieved with AI suite. You may laugh if you wish i honestly been out of game for too long and said screw it, auto OC.

Remove the OC and don't use the latest drivers, I'm still using the 365.xx drivers on my 9xx cards.

 

[lilcinw]

@gio2vanni86

There is apparently a problem with the 375.xx drivers. You can read more about it on the folding forum.

https://foldingforum.org/viewtopic.php?f=80&t=29276

F@H even devoted a blog post to it.

https://folding.stanford.edu/home/core-21-openmm-gpu-issues-with-new-windows-nvidia-drivers-375-57-and-375-63/

You should also head over to the team thread. There are lots of experienced folders willing to assist.

http://www.tomshardware.com/forum/id-3229962/tom-hardware-team-thread.html

 

[10esseetony]

Drivers. You need to roll back to driver version 372.?? (and keep the SLI disabled).

 

[borandi]

The main reason I stopped reading AnandTech was that their DailyTech feed had sponsored bloggers, some of whom were blogging about politically sensitive, non-computer related subjects. I felt like they were trading on AnandTech's reputation and leveraging its platform to support a political agenda I disagreed with. I did contact Kubicki and Anand about it. To his credit, they actually replied. This was many years ago, so maybe the situation has changed.

DailyTech is no longer on the AT front page - they were not part of the transition to Purch

 

[jmjohnst]

Whoever is in charge of this page should probably add the team number directly to the faq page. It took me way too long to locate it. I've been working under the wrong team number myself for a few weeks now.

 

[Mousemonkey]

Whoever is in charge of this page should probably add the team number directly to the faq page. It took me way too long to locate it. I've been working under the wrong team number myself for a few weeks now.

Done and thank you for joining the team.

 

[RedJaron]

Well, I guess I can add my X99 review beds to the competition. Just need to turn off my furnace first. Good thing it's supposed to be below freezing the next week.

 

[Titillating]

Well, I guess I can add my X99 review beds to the competition. Just need to turn off my furnace first. Good thing it's supposed to be below freezing the next week.

Just remember, personal rigs only! No usage of company property for this; it'd be unfair

 

[Mousemonkey]

Well, I guess I can add my X99 review beds to the competition. Just need to turn off my furnace first. Good thing it's supposed to be below freezing the next week.

Just remember, personal rigs only! No usage of company property for this; it'd be unfair

Huh? This is about trying to win by any and all means available and so if they're available then they should be pressed into service I reckon.

 

[Defekter_Engel]

Sorry to say... EVGA is stomping the masses. But Toms is spanking AAT

http://folding.extremeoverclocking.com/team_list.php?s=