The Tom's Hardware F@H Team Thread (Team 40051)

[Mousemonkey]

I'm in. I have about 40 cores worth of hardware sitting around. Plus twin GTX960's in my main rig.

Welcome aboard, it's a pleasure to have your company.

 

[ahnilated]

Well I will throw my 980Ti and 680 in the mix once the fun starts.

 

[EXT64]

englandr753: you have to fix that by manually copying the file in. https://foldingforum.org/viewtopic.php?f=96&t=29201

Also, what driver version do you have? The most recent nvidia drivers break folding (nvidia messed something up), so you need to use an older release.

 

[Deleted member 362816]

Two Fury X's will certainly still help the cause. And help you keep warm this winter.

Yes they will. Almost as well as my 780ti classified. Love the card, but it sure is power hungry. :lol:

Unless I am reading things wrong the Fury X seems to do more PPD then the 780ti

 

[TechyInAZ]

How do you enable GPU folding? I can't seem to figure it out.

If you open up the advanced control panel, click configure -> slots -> add. Then tick the circle for a GPU slot. This is also where you can remove folding slots or change them, eg. to use fewer CPU cores or drop CPU folding entirely.

Since a GPU folding slot will also require some CPU time, it's usually best to reduce the number of CPU cores you fold on. I've heard keeping one core open per folding GPU works well.

Still not working. i get this in the logs:

10001: Server responded: HTTP_MOVED_PERMANENTLY
01:38:26:ERROR:WU01:FS01:Exception: Could not get an assignment

 

[Mousemonkey]

How do you enable GPU folding? I can't seem to figure it out.

If you open up the advanced control panel, click configure -> slots -> add. Then tick the circle for a GPU slot. This is also where you can remove folding slots or change them, eg. to use fewer CPU cores or drop CPU folding entirely.

Since a GPU folding slot will also require some CPU time, it's usually best to reduce the number of CPU cores you fold on. I've heard keeping one core open per folding GPU works well.

Still not working. i get this in the logs:

10001: Server responded: HTTP_MOVED_PERMANENTLY
01:38:26:ERROR:WU01:FS01:Exception: Could not get an assignment

When you start F@H does it open the web page as well?

 

[TechyInAZ]

Yes I get the web control panel when I start it up.

Are 10 series cards not supported? If you look at this, it seems nvidia GPUs have almost no contribution save for older Fermi cards: http://fah-web.stanford.edu/cgi-bin/main.py?qtype=osstats2

 

[Mousemonkey]

Yes I get the web control panel when I start it up.

Are 10 series cards not supported? If you look at this, it seems nvidia GPUs have almost no contribution save for older Fermi cards: http://fah-web.stanford.edu/cgi-bin/main.py?qtype=osstats2

And that also doesn't connect? There are several guys running 10 series cards so they are supported but your issues may be driver related.

 

[TechyInAZ]

Should I revert to the last driver that CUDA supports? Right now I'm running the CUDA 8.0 dev toolkit with the latest nvidia drivers which aren't 100% supported with CUDA from what I've heard.

 

[Unolocogringo]

Yes I get the web control panel when I start it up.

Are 10 series cards not supported? If you look at this, it seems nvidia GPUs have almost no contribution save for older Fermi cards: http://fah-web.stanford.edu/cgi-bin/main.py?qtype=osstats2

I'm running a 1070.
But you have to run 372 or 373 drivers. the newer 375+ drivers break folding.

 

[Mousemonkey]

Should I revert to the last driver that CUDA supports? Right now I'm running the CUDA 8.0 dev toolkit with the latest nvidia drivers which aren't 100% supported with CUDA from what I've heard.

If I were you I would revert back to the first driver that supports the 1060 and delete/un install any toolkits and or GF Experience stuff if you have not already done so.

 

[TechyInAZ]

Already uninstalled them, installing old driver.

But I thought you needed the CUDA toolkit to run F@H?

 

[Unolocogringo]

Already uninstalled them, installing old driver.

But I thought you needed the CUDA toolkit to run F@H?

You do need the CUDA driver. Which is 8000 according to F@H. It will install along with the graphics card driver.
I install graphics driver, CUDA driver and sound driver from Nvidia. all of the other stuff is optional.

 

[BadActor]

Just checked Extreme Overclocking stats page. We've doubled our active users already, that's amazing.

http://folding.extremeoverclocking.com/team_summary.php?s=&t=40051

 

[TechyInAZ]

Wow this is weird. So even after getting on the old drivers, reinstalling FAH, and turrning off all firewalls it still won't work:

16:03:34:WU00:FS00ownload complete
16:03:34:WU00:FS00:Received Unit: id:00 stateOWNLOAD error:NO_ERROR project:11920 run:374 clone:0 gen:164 core:0xa7 unit:0x000000d4ab40412957bff6c50e084c89
16:03:34:WARNING:WU00:FS00:Slot ID 0 no longer exists and there are no other matching slots, dumping
16:03:34:WU00:FS00:Sending unit results: id:00 state:SEND errorUMPED project:11920 run:374 clone:0 gen:164 core:0xa7 unit:0x000000d4ab40412957bff6c50e084c89
16:03:34:WU00:FS00:Connecting to 171.64.65.41:8080
16:03:34:WU00:FS00:Server responded WORK_ACK (400)
16:03:34:WU00:FS00:Cleaning up
16:03:44:WU01:FS01:Connecting to 171.67.108.45:80
16:03:44:WARNING:WU01:FS01:Failed to get assignment from '171.67.108.45:80': 10001: Server responded: HTTP_MOVED_PERMANENTLY
16:03:44:WU01:FS01:Connecting to 171.64.65.35:80
16:03:44:WARNING:WU01:FS01:Failed to get assignment from '171.64.65.35:80': 10001: Server responded: HTTP_MOVED_PERMANENTLY

 

[TechyInAZ]

Already uninstalled them, installing old driver.

But I thought you needed the CUDA toolkit to run F@H?

You do need the CUDA driver. Which is 8000 according to F@H. It will install along with the graphics card driver.
I install graphics driver, CUDA driver and sound driver from Nvidia. all of the other stuff is optional.

oh ok well no wonder then.

 

[Mousemonkey]

Personally I only install the base driver and the PhysX updates, I don't need or want the sound driver as all my monitors are speakerless.

 

[TechyInAZ]

So with the toolkit, I just need that right? I don't need to install visual studio?

 

[Mousemonkey]

So with the toolkit, I just need that right? I don't need to install visual studio?

I don't think you even need the toolkit, ATM I'm running driver 361.75 and PhysX 9.15.04.28 and that's it.

 

[TechyInAZ]

Well then...I'm out of ideas. CPU folding is working perfectly. But I'm still getting that same connection issue with GPU folding. Sigh...

 

[logainofhades]

Two Fury X's will certainly still help the cause. And help you keep warm this winter.

Yes they will. Almost as well as my 780ti classified. Love the card, but it sure is power hungry. :lol:

Unless I am reading things wrong the Fury X seems to do more PPD then the 780ti

I was talking specifically about the heat output.

 

[Mousemonkey]

Well then...I'm out of ideas. CPU folding is working perfectly. But I'm still getting that same connection issue with GPU folding. Sigh...

Have you tried deleting the GPU slot and then waiting until the CPU has finished it's WU, then deleting the CPU slot, then deleting the config file from the F@H folder, reverting back to a clean install of the first available driver for the 1060, then restarting the F@H client and only reinstalling the GPU slot?

 

[TechyInAZ]

Well then...I'm out of ideas. CPU folding is working perfectly. But I'm still getting that same connection issue with GPU folding. Sigh...

Have you tried deleting the GPU slot and then waiting until the CPU has finished it's WU, then deleting the CPU slot, then deleting the config file from the F@H folder, reverting back to a clean install of the first available driver for the 1060, then restarting the F@H client and only reinstalling the GPU slot?

Nope. I did a complete reinstallation of FAH twice now without allowing the CPU to get a WU.

Should I try that?

EDIT: I think I'm going to wait on this. I just don't have the time to do it right now.

 

[MusenMouse]

Is folding more effective with CPU or GPU? I am curious because I have an old HP Z400 with a W3565 with an old quadro card that I used for my first gaming PC in the closet. Does it make sense to take out of retirement or does folding very heavily favor GPU's like cryptocurrency mining?

Thanks

 

[Unolocogringo]

Both work.
Newer GPUs are a lot more efficient than CPUs.
But they both get the job done.
I run both CPU and GPU.
Your processor would range 30-50 thousand points per day.
The Quadro would highly depend on model.