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by kreuzerkrieg
Fri Feb 20, 2015 12:29 pm
Forum: New Donors start here
Topic: Idle state and servers
Replies: 7
Views: 1363

Re: How do I setup automatic usage when GPU is idle

oh, I was hoping the phpBB died a decade ago. Someone can enlighten me how did my post migrated to GPU usage thread?
by kreuzerkrieg
Fri Feb 20, 2015 12:15 pm
Forum: New Donors start here
Topic: Idle state and servers
Replies: 7
Views: 1363

Re: Idle state and servers.

The CPU scheduler works well for CPU folding.. Well, it is not, apparently. In fact, since most servers have slots that will support GPUs and they'd be idle most of the time, that's a good way to process FAH, even without using the idle setting. GPU on server??? what GPU supposed to be on 1U server...
by kreuzerkrieg
Thu Feb 19, 2015 5:59 pm
Forum: New Donors start here
Topic: Idle state and servers
Replies: 7
Views: 1363

Re: Idle state and servers.

ok, first things first
all of these are Win machines
the workload is unpredictable, since these are CI machines, so the workload may begin any time, or it can be days without any workload

as mentioned by Joe_H, I will check if the scheduler does the trick, if it does the issue is closed.
by kreuzerkrieg
Thu Feb 19, 2015 7:02 am
Forum: New Donors start here
Topic: Idle state and servers
Replies: 7
Views: 1363

Idle state and servers

Hi, I have some little 24thread monstrosities here and there idling for most of the time. initially I thought it would be a good idea to use it for folding, however after looking into how the "on idle" works made me realize it wouldn't work, since the fah wouldn't stop when real workload k...