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Earlier in this topic MTU size was mentioned. They found some servers were having issues when client networks were using jumbo frames, MTU settings above 1500. Does that apply to your systems?

Some of the CPU projects have been limited to 3 or more CPU threads due to an assignment problem with v8 clients. That may be why you are seeing no WUs at times. In theory if you are getting work on the Pi 4s using 7.6.21 you should continue to get it with 8.4.9. I believe the minimum listed on the ...

The regular download page - https://foldingathome.org/start-folding/ - for the current client attempts to run a script and detect which OS you are running. When it works properly, it leads off with the link for your OS and then shows the links for the other three OS downloads. Currently that is macO...

The person who had maintained the support pages passed away about the same time F@h was in transition from being lead by Dr. Pande, and the servers being moved off from computers at Stanford. There was no formal replacement as to who would update the support pages, and parts of the site were moved i...

And I hope it stays that way. Someone, I won't be naming them here, pushed hard to eliminate 2 CPU thread assignments without actually having an idea how many there were or what problems there were with them. There are projects that will work well on 2 CPU threads as long as you aren't using old or...

For AMD the product name is determined farther into the PCI ID fields returned than for Nvidia. That info was posted internally by someone connected with AMD at least a couple years ago.

And I hope it stays that way. Someone, I won't be naming them here, pushed hard to eliminate 2 CPU thread assignments without actually having an idea how many there were or what problems there were with them. There are projects that will work well on 2 CPU threads as long as you aren't using old or ...

I don't know how far they will go into specific vendors for example, but possibly go into more of the fields that ID a GPU. Nvidia uses the first two PCI ID fields to pretty much ID a card to the main model info, but AMD puts that farther in. So for example, the GPUs.txt entry for this is: 0x1002:0x...

Use Configure in FAHControl, select Slots, Add a CPU slot, you can set the number of CPU threads there to 3. It has been a while since I ran 7.6.21, and I only did on a Mac. I do recall mention by some running on Windows that depending on the scheme used the radio buttons for CPU vs GPU on the left ...

Something like that. But it has been running over 20 years, spread out from the original research group, and has groups at over half a dozen locations. One problem they have is that most grant funding available in the US doesn't allow for hiring software developers and similar support staff. They di...

I don't recall the conditions, it is something that came up months ago elsewhere and I would have to go digging to find the details. Partly as I recall it has something to do with how the v8 client returns WUs as compared to v7. As for the API it has been changing as needs changed for the client and...

Actually no, I believe that is a bug with the server and stats code. Under some conditions dumped WUs are listed against the "0,0,0" WU of a project instead of the actual Run, Clone and Gen.

That is for a feature to toggle use of HIP on or off, needed for internal testing just as they also toggle CUDA on or off to use OpenCL instead. It is not needed to use a core with HIP available. For it to make any difference, first they have to have HIP implemented in a working core, that has not y...

I would have to check, but I don't recall any current projects released to public or beta to test Core_26 before today. One project has moved to Beta using that core just today, the announcement is in that group. There was a brief test of Core_26 released to all a few weeks ago by the researcher to ...

The v8.4 Web Control when set up with an account can access clients on any network as long as not otherwise blocked by a firewall. It is not limited to the local network.