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One person who folds on cloud similar to this reports that turning off automatic GPU detection, by setting "gpu" to "false" in the config helps. So the opposite of what I suggested at first.

The PCI ID of the GPU likely changes between instances, so you should perhaps over-write the config.xml file with a fresh one that re-discovers the GPU and adds it as a slot with the correct OpenCL IDs, provided that this happens before WU is dumped. If doing it that way dumps the WU, you might have...

If you want to run a system outside, it sounds like you either need to run them fully passive, or to put some very good filters on them, or run them in their own little micro-climate that has a heat exchanger to the outside. I've heard of some people doing that by having big radiators (possibly repu...

Are you backing up the /var/lib/fahclient/cores directory and /var/lib/fahclient/GPUs.txt too?

This thread is about work servers - the machines which you download and upload work units from. Are you asking about cloud folding on Amazon EC2?

Unless the GPUs.txt change was made in error, it was correctly detected as a card which shouldn't fold. I suggest you delete your GPUs.txt file and have the client re-download it. "Hacking" the GPUs.txt file yourself isn't allowed - that is left to the developers to mess with.

I quit folding when it gave me cancer and alzheimer's units Please, no - due to the "relay race" nature of folding, doing that slows down the science computing and causes unnecessary delays and wasted energy. If you want to exclusively contribute to Covid-19 research, consider the World C...

I wonder if you have the same ISP? Can you share your IP numbers with the server operators without posting them publicly, so that they can check the logs?

There have been reports from some users who can't upload to those servers, but the servers work well for most other people. I wonder if we need to start finding out which ISPs the affected users are from or if there's some common denominator in the software running on the machine.

Edit: The number of simultaenous connections to the web server has been reduced, to help those who actually do connect complete the download.

Download is now finally starting for me at about 160 KB/s, so it'll be downloaded in about 15 minutes - hopefully.

Confirmed, happens for me too, except it doesn't find even 1% - it just fails immediately. Is the server overloaded?

You should aim for high stability and PPD. In other words, the main goal is to not crash the WU, return it within timeout, and third get the highest PPD you can get on your gear. Folding@Home rewards quick returns of work units because it works like a relay race: The work servers are waiting for you...

We can treat it like Field Day in amateur radio: It's technically not a contest, but an emergency preparedness exercise and recruitment event, but everyone still wants to win the highest number of points for bragging rights.

Oh, so Xe used to be enabled, but it's disabled due to instability?