Folding Slot count limit

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blizko
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Folding Slot count limit

Post by blizko »

Greetings,

Have been trying to set up Folding at home on a multi-GPU compute node (total of 12 GPUs) and have noticed that FAHClient is not loading more that 10 GPUs simultaneously. For more that a week of observations - last 2 GPUs are always idle
Snippet of the config file:

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  <!-- Folding Slots -->
  <slot id='0' type='GPU'/>
  <slot id='1' type='GPU'/>
  <slot id='2' type='GPU'/>
  <slot id='3' type='GPU'/>
  <slot id='4' type='GPU'/>
  <slot id='5' type='GPU'/>
  <slot id='6' type='GPU'/>
  <slot id='7' type='GPU'/>
  <slot id='8' type='GPU'/>
  <slot id='9' type='GPU'/>
  <slot id='10' type='GPU'/>
  <slot id='11' type='GPU'/>
Snippet about GPU load

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/sys/kernel/debug/dri/0/amdgpu_pm_info:GPU Load: 95 %
/sys/kernel/debug/dri/1/amdgpu_pm_info:GPU Load: 100 %
/sys/kernel/debug/dri/2/amdgpu_pm_info:GPU Load: 21 %
/sys/kernel/debug/dri/3/amdgpu_pm_info:GPU Load: 68 %
/sys/kernel/debug/dri/4/amdgpu_pm_info:GPU Load: 86 %
/sys/kernel/debug/dri/5/amdgpu_pm_info:GPU Load: 0 %
/sys/kernel/debug/dri/6/amdgpu_pm_info:GPU Load: 98 %
/sys/kernel/debug/dri/7/amdgpu_pm_info:GPU Load: 50 %
/sys/kernel/debug/dri/8/amdgpu_pm_info:GPU Load: 80 %
/sys/kernel/debug/dri/9/amdgpu_pm_info:GPU Load: 46 %
/sys/kernel/debug/dri/10/amdgpu_pm_info:GPU Load: 0 %
/sys/kernel/debug/dri/11/amdgpu_pm_info:GPU Load: 0 %
Other applications do utilize all of the available GPUs

Is there any limitation for the maximum possible slot count? Or any specific options necessary for more than 10 slots?
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Re: Folding Slot count limit

Post by Joe_H »

This is a known limitation of the client, there is an existing problem report on GitHub for this. The current maximum is 10, the single digits from 0 to 9.
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