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We've made each WU in this project a bit longer than the others in the tau series to cater to higher end GPUs who were churning through these WUs especially quick.

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Wow! Certain runs of these wu's are literally killing my ppd on my 5060ti ... has a TPF just over 8mins with a poor 3mill ppd. Now for context my 4060ti is also running one (137,0,50) & TPF is just over 6mins with around 4.7mill ppd. On my oc/uv 5080, 18263 has a TPF of ~1:50, giving ~28Mio ppd...

Just for input - Myself and a couple others have found that lowering the memory clocks is actually more efficient. I haven't seen any testing on newere hardware, ... https://linustechtips.com/topic/1433841-howto-profiling-folding-gpus/ I have some testing done with my 5080 but can say only for &quo...

It seems that currently, there are no WUs available for your card. But it is mentioned that new WUs can be expected in the future for Polaris cards: https://foldingforum.org/viewtopic.php?p=372033&hilit=480#p372033 Also, LAR systems state that they haven't recorded any WU for RX4xx to RX5xx at l...

Regarding vast.ai and using MPS. According to official support: Vast docker are non privileged containers, meaning some permissions/access are not available to root users. VMs should be tried instead for such tasks. It is recommended to use following template (Ubuntu VM): https://cloud.vast.ai?ref_i...

No, You are asking us to debug (for you, remotely) two items which are not included in the OP's post. This thread assumes you own the hardware, and it is at your house, you are not using docker or some other form of environment. So you're suggesting that if I open a new thread asking the same quest...

Sorry guys, even considered that you're most helpful here on the board, you're answers are not really useful in this case because that they don't give any actionable information. Useful answeres would be: - no reply at all, if there is no meaningful information to add. - "In my experience, dock...

Parallel computing shouldn't be considered "exotic" on a cloud computing marketplace that rents out GPU and compute resources for AI workloads, machine learning training, rendering, and other high-performance computing tasks

I tried using MPS on a 5090 I've rented on vast.ai. Unfortunately, I can't get Compute Mode running... nvidia-smi -c EXCLUSIVE_PROCESS Unable to set the compute mode for GPU 00000000:03:00.0: Insufficient Permissions Terminating early due to previous errors. I assume that the "Linux Desktop Con...

Nicolas_orleans wrote: ↑Fri Nov 07, 2025 7:54 am Yes, in Europe we do see those intermittent problems, notably with highlands servers. A VPN with exit point on the East coast of the US helps...

Yeah, never understood my mainly Highland servers cause problems.
Will try a VPN as workaround, thanks

Gaming and folding at the same time is a no go, at least for me. I care about both PPD and WU. That's why I'm asking those questions and wonder why it is done like it is done. And how I can contribute best. And: Lower PPD mean also fewer WU/day. To a lesser extend but anyway... When folding in Linux...

It's like that: After work, if I have time, I use the PC for gaming and therefore no CPU folding possible. Due to lower energy costs, the night is reserved for MPS GPU folding as it has the highest power consumption. Parallel CPU folding drops PPD a lot / too much. During day time I fold some CPU WU...

I understand what your're saying. I don't have issues regarding deadlines. Deadlines can be met in any case. HW is powerful enough. But maybe you can give some practical advice, because this is really what I don't understand properly. What is better for FAH: - starting calculating a WU for ~3hrs, th...

I understand the reason behind requiring fully completed WUs before upload - e.g. to reduce network load. And I fully accept that partial uploads shouldn't receive any credit. However, discarding valid partial results is inefficient and wastful - both in terms of energy and computing time. Because t...

Hi all, As I have stopped folding and just recently started over... What happens when I intentionally "dump" a WU? As I understand, a dump report is uploaded and no points are credited. Sometimes I need my computer for other tasks and as long as the WU is small enough, I can wait till it's...