Folding Forum

Depends what your goals are, If you fold occasionally, I think you'll get best bang for the buck with AMD. If you fold continuously, go with Nvidia. But as for the choice of card, I would opt for a 2080 over a 2070. Or, get a 2060. The 2060's performance is close (within 5-10% the same) as the 2070;...

Wikipedia states that in 2006-2011 the fah network was the fastest network in the world,topping even the fastest supercomputers. Every year the record of supercomputers is doubled (we're about to hit the ceiling on that). Also, according to Wikipedia, in 2018, the FAH network reached 138 pFlops, whi...

It just so happens to be, that my server running at ~35Tflops had an average PPD count of 3,5M PPD. Just as I was upgrading it with a new 2080, to ~45Tflops, did I notice the similarities between TFlops and PPD. At least, in my case, 10Tflops roughly equals 1M PPD. Not sure if that is the same on ot...

Well, if you browser around a bit, you'll find PPD ratings in the likes of a GTX1070 ti..
Most certainly not equivalent to their price disparity.

Perhaps, but from what I read online, people running FAH on those cards, have reported very low PPDs.

Sounds like the process has a continuous while loop that doesn't wait, pend, block, or yield so it's allowed to hit 100% on the core. From others investigating this in the past, that is how nVidia has implemented its OpenCL support in the driver. It can b e interrupted by a higher priority process,...

I believe NVidia Quadro had a Volta chipset, But it was reported to be quite slow compared to the much cheaper RTX2060,
Am I wrong about this?
The Tesla V performance was about on par with 2xRTX 2060s.

Given that MacOS now has OpenCL and CUDA support built-in, and given that there are many MacBook Pro laptops with discreet GPU hardware capable of out-performing the CPUs in those laptops, I'd like to propose that we re-open this discussion? If it is Intel IGPs, you're in the same boat as windows P...

Interesting! I can already see certain WUs using only 145Watts of the 180 available watts of my RTX2060, and it's not even a top of the line graphics card. Bruce, you mentioned somewhere on the forum, that in the future larger (molecule) chains will be implemented(for faster cards). Are you now sayi...

Does the client save the state at pause?
Or will some data be lost?

I'm running an Intel Corei5
MSI RTX 2080
ZOTAC RTX 2060
EVGA RTX 2060
and will soon add another 2060.

I'm running Ubuntu 18.04

Using your PC while folding does affect PPDs in a negative way.
This is why most people post their PPD ratings, when the system is idle; it's their 'highest' PPD they post; not averages from power outages or system maintenance, or while using the PC.

If a project is successful or completed, I suspect they would just remove it from the folding library.

There are some articles on some finds (if you click on any of the categories on the left) here:
https://foldingathome.org/news/

To limit a graphics card to the minimum power settings, gets you highest efficiency. In a high performance system, like a mining rig, it is an excellent way to add more graphics cards to your setup(if you can); while still staying within the power limitations of the fuse (12A, 1500W); Or to lower yo...

It would be interesting to see if it would work or not. Not sure if FAH still supports the older Sony client, or if there still are WUs available for that core. Even if, aside from trying to see if it would work, I wouldn't recommend trying to achieve any kind of folding record on a Raspberry pi, si...