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jebo_4jc

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The house was getting a little cool so I figured it would be a good time to throw a few rigs at F@H again. It won't be much, but probably enough to put me in the top 15 or so PPD wise. So, what have I missed?

Who's this grandma I'm looking up at?!? That's embarrassing.

What's this I hear about good WUs for big CPU rigs? I may need to dust off the old AMD 4P...
 
There is a new core A7 which utilize AVX instructionset boosting performance and PPD if your CPU support. One project at this s time in the wild.

Second you might want to try beta client 7.4.15 which negotiate smaller cpu slot size with assignment server trying to avoid empty slots
 
Peeking back in......

jebo, I am still coming for you.

Been so busy with my school I still have not got my two GTX1080s yet, so make hay while you can.
 
Hi and welcome back

We are currently 12th in terms of PPD and we have a full threat list so anything you can fire up will help
There is the new CPU core and associated WU - they are patchy but someone on overclock.net reported 340k PPD from their AMD 4p.
In GPU land Pascal GPU's rule, a single 1080 gets 800k PPD all day every day for 180watts from the wall, a Pascal based Titan is capable of 1.1-1.4milion PPD .
A new GPU core is also being worked on - not even in testing yet but they are working on it.
The whole F@H website has been redone and there are some changes to the Stanford stats pages as well.
EVGA are still well out in front but Curecoin are rapidly catching up.
The latest NVidia drivers break F@H, you need to use 372 or earlier drivers

I think that's it but i'm probably wrong
 
Sounds good Nathan_P
For linux, 367.44 was the best driver since 346.96, haven't tried 370 or 375
 
A member at OCN has said 372.90 is as good as 346.96 in Linux on Maxwell cards. That driver supports Pascal so its OK to mix cards and not lose production.
 
The house was getting a little cool so I figured it would be a good time to throw a few rigs at F@H again. It won't be much, but probably enough to put me in the top 15 or so PPD wise. So, what have I missed?

Who's this grandma I'm looking up at?!? That's embarrassing.

What's this I hear about good WUs for big CPU rigs? I may need to dust off the old AMD 4P...

Hey old timer! Welcome back!

In case you actually didn't know, Grandma is a tribute to Grandpa's wife, who passed away earlier this year - many of us pointed our machines to that user in her honor.

I don't think I would break out the 4p just yet...for F@H anyway. It still will be outproduced by a $100 video card. Fire it up for some WCG, though - that is what 3/8 of my remaining 4p is doing these days.
 
I agree with musky. Put it on WCG. We have a challenge coming up next month and could use all the help we can get. I see brilong/plext0r is back online. :)
 
Hey guys! I thought the same thing the other night and have been running f@h while I sleep to keep the room warm. I do have a question and I'm wondering if anyone has seen this and has an explanation.

I've been folding on my 980ti and for some reason every few days I wake up and notice that my fans aren't making nearly as much noise as they should be. After opening up Afterburner I can see that while the GPU usage is at 99% the power % is sitting at 28-30. The other night when I started f@h I noticed it wasn't running at full power so I rebooted my machine. Sure enough when I started everything back up it was running at full power again. Is this a diver issue like stated above?

Looks like I'll be hovering around 200k PPD just folding while I sleep assuming I can get this problem worked out. Not bad.
 
Good to see the familiar names as always. Thanks for the warm welcome. I'm really sorry to hear about grandma. Sad I missed the chance to pay tribute.

Cypher- do you have your card over clocked? I've seen this behavior on my GPUs when the over clock goes unstable and the card drops down into lower power mode to save itself.
 
Good to see the familiar names as always. Thanks for the warm welcome. I'm really sorry to hear about grandma. Sad I missed the chance to pay tribute.

Cypher- do you have your card over clocked? I've seen this behavior on my GPUs when the over clock goes unstable and the card drops down into lower power mode to save itself.
It's a 980ti Classified so it's overclocked from the factory. I have not overclocked it anymore.

That being said, my drivers are 372.90 so I guess they fall into the acceptable range. I just went through my logs and found this:

Code:
10:46:13:WU00:FS01:0x21:Completed 2700000 out of 5000000 steps (54%)
10:48:20:WU00:FS01:0x21:Bad State detected... attempting to resume from last good checkpoint. Is your system overclocked?
10:49:26:WU00:FS01:0x21:Completed 2650000 out of 5000000 steps (53%)
10:51:39:WU00:FS01:0x21:Completed 2700000 out of 5000000 steps (54%)
10:53:13:FS01:Finishing
10:53:52:WU00:FS01:0x21:Completed 2750000 out of 5000000 steps (55%)

and this:
Code:
03:56:44:WU00:FS01:0x21:ERROR:exception: Error downloading array energyBuffer: clEnqueueReadBuffer (-5)
03:56:44:WU00:FS01:0x21:Saving result file logfile_01.txt
03:56:44:WU00:FS01:0x21:Saving result file log.txt
03:56:44:WU00:FS01:0x21:Folding@home Core Shutdown: BAD_WORK_UNIT
03:56:47:WARNING:WU00:FS01:FahCore returned: BAD_WORK_UNIT (114 = 0x72)

Thoughts?
 
Cypher-

Can you pls add the PRCG info; can cross check my history; some projects tend to have higher rate of BS

For the first one: 07:17:14:WU01:FS01:0x21: Project: 9176 (Run 12, Clone 7, Gen 98)
For the second one: 02:30:34:WU00:FS01:0x21: Project: 9197 (Run 0, Clone 55, Gen 88)
 
I'm guessing it downclocked to 405 mhz. Check the core clock speed. If so then lower the OC to be FAH stable which is less then game/benchmark stable.
 
For the first one: 07:17:14:WU01:FS01:0x21: Project: 9176 (Run 12, Clone 7, Gen 98)
For the second one: 02:30:34:WU00:FS01:0x21: Project: 9197 (Run 0, Clone 55, Gen 88)
Theory Busted; the few I had from them worked without BS on 980Ti and 1070.
Had two WU with BS on 9179; but at least they finished.
 
I'm guessing it downclocked to 405 mhz. Check the core clock speed. If so then lower the OC to be FAH stable which is less then game/benchmark stable.
You would be correct. I'll lower the OC a bit and see if it helps. Any idea where about it should be?

Edit: I guess that's a silly question since every card will be different. I'll keep lowering it until it stops breaking.
 
It's a 980ti Classified so it's overclocked from the factory. I have not overclocked it anymore.

That being said, my drivers are 372.90 so I guess they fall into the acceptable range. I just went through my logs and found this:

Code:
10:46:13:WU00:FS01:0x21:Completed 2700000 out of 5000000 steps (54%)
10:48:20:WU00:FS01:0x21:Bad State detected... attempting to resume from last good checkpoint. Is your system overclocked?
10:49:26:WU00:FS01:0x21:Completed 2650000 out of 5000000 steps (53%)
10:51:39:WU00:FS01:0x21:Completed 2700000 out of 5000000 steps (54%)
10:53:13:FS01:Finishing
10:53:52:WU00:FS01:0x21:Completed 2750000 out of 5000000 steps (55%)

and this:
Code:
03:56:44:WU00:FS01:0x21:ERROR:exception: Error downloading array energyBuffer: clEnqueueReadBuffer (-5)
03:56:44:WU00:FS01:0x21:Saving result file logfile_01.txt
03:56:44:WU00:FS01:0x21:Saving result file log.txt
03:56:44:WU00:FS01:0x21:Folding@home Core Shutdown: BAD_WORK_UNIT
03:56:47:WARNING:WU00:FS01:FahCore returned: BAD_WORK_UNIT (114 = 0x72)

Thoughts?

For error one I would try pulling back the clocks towards factory default for a reference 980ti and effectively underclock from what evga clocked the card to.

The 2nd error is an indication of bad drivers, Nvidia 375.xx, you need to roll back to 370/372/373 drivers until a fix is found. They are 100% f***ed for F@H and there are reports that some games are crashing as well.

Now whether error 2 is causing error 1 is an unknown but error 1 does not cause error 2. Change drivers 1st and see how you get on.
 
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