Folding Forum

Thanks for the knowledge, fellas.

I thought I read, somewhere, that running Folding@home on Linux can earn the user up to 20% more PPD. Is there any truth to this? There are many people that fold w/ significantly more GPU power than my 3 GPUs I have running 24/7, since 9/2016. If there's any truth about what I read, what Linux OS ca...

Greetings, has Folding@Home stopped sending points updates every 3 hours, like it usually does, for maintenance purposes? I've not had any of the 3 hour incremental updates since late Thur, early Friday. I normally don't sweat this type of thing b/c I usually see the other folders' 'PPD Averages' on...

You're lucky, then. I have a 970, 1080, and 2080 super. I should be getting ~2.7M PPD. Only getting 1.2-2.2M

I still have trouble getting W/U's in a timely manner. So, my usual PPD has not returned to what it was prior to March 13th.

I would usually see a PPD avg of ~2.75M. I did remove my 970 b/c it was installed in the highest slot, and my 1080 in the next slot b/c it wouldn't fit where the 970 goes. In my main PC, I run a 2080 Super. I would notice that if only one of the cards was getting a W/U, it would likely go to the les...

Pausing will reduce your bonus because it will take you longer to complete the WU but I'm pretty confident that is unrelated to whether an individual upload attempt will succeed or fail. The time to complete the WU is measured from the initiation of the download to the acceptance of the upload, so ...

Thanks for the guidance, fellas.

davidcoton wrote:I've not tested that, but I think (as with download attempts) it will reset the retry timer. Whether that makes the upload happen any quicker is anyone's guess, and you will lose some points on the active WU.

We're close to the same individual rank.

I notice that sometimes a W/U will complete, but fail to upload as my credit slowly dwindles. I've seen this periodically for years. Would pausing folding, then un-pausing help speed up the upload process.

I know why all of our folding is shit. We can either suck it up or cry into our Cheerios. I'm doing a little of both. But I'm not getting credit for many of the W/U's I am getting. I'm talking several hundred thousands of points. When I 1st started folding 3.5 year's ago, I learned there was a way t...

Oh, so this isn't to do w/ any GPU's. Do you bother to have your CPU folding? I don't, b/c I don't get much credit(points) for having my CPU cores involved in folding, which is disappointing considering they're no slouch in the processing dept. I run a 6th gen i5 on my main PC, and don't get much po...

Joe_H wrote:About the only thing to add is if the wait between work requests gets too long, 3-4 hours, you can pause the folding slot for a minute or two, and that resets the timer. Please do not overuse.

Thanks, Joe. What checkpoint frequency do you use? The default, or fewer to increase performance?

UPDATE: I don't believe my 2080 was getting a single W/U. At least not while I was sitting in front of my screen - that's more than 8 hours per day. Numerous times I had removed the 2080 from its slot, then reinstalled. I saw no difference. Tonight, I uninstalled the folding client, including the DA...

Can one tap directly int one of these servers via advanced settings: 140.163.4.231 / plfah1-1.mskcc.org or 140.163.4.241 / plfah2-1.mskcc.org. I know it's hard to get W/U's, now, but I'm seeing people who I was on track to overtake in a very short while starting to pull away, and the time to overtak...