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>> Can you run GPU-Z to ensure that you can properly detect the 3 GPUs and that it shows CUDA and OpenCL support? For simplicity, I've pulled 2 of the GPUs. It still fails, so I'd like to debug that configuration before putting the other GPUs back. Using the latest version of GPU-Z I compare the det...

For completeness, I shut the system down and swapped the remaining GPU with an identical model in another working system. (I litterally paused it in the middle of folding 4 jobs and shut it down). WHen I rebooted both system, the other one happily picked up where it left off on the 4 jobs, and the p...

Rest of that log... 07:56:28:WU01:FS01:0x22:*********************** Log Started 2020-09-16T07:56:27Z *********************** 07:56:28:WU01:FS01:0x22:*************************** Core22 Folding@home Core *************************** 07:56:28:WU01:FS01:0x22: Core: Core22 07:56:28:WU01:FS01:0x22: Type: 0...

I have not tried removing GPUs since it started failing. It was working with multiple GPUs before and my 3 other workstations all have multiple GPUs of the same or similar type. But it could be a HW issue. It's easy enough to try. (If nothing else, it will make the logs smaller :-) I powered down an...

>> Please note that without the logs (that contain the system information), it's very difficult to troubleshoot Um, I posted a log for one of the GPU slots above. (timestamp: Mon Sep 14, 2020 11:49 pm) Do you want me to grab it without filtering the slots? That will make it too large to post to the ...

Still failing with the latest drivers. I also noticed that one of the jobs that failed had the same "PRCG" numer as a job which was running fine on the identical card in one of my other workstations.... So weird. The only difference I can see is the working system has a single E5-2650 v2 X...

I am running the Nvidia Game Read Driver Version 451.67 on the 3 working machines. I was also running it on the machine that is failing.

I will now try upgrading the driver to 452.06 on the one failing machine, and hope I get lucky....

The (almost) complete log for my first GPU slot is: Note: I had to chop one retry cycle out of the middle because of the 60k character limit. *********************** Log Started 2020-09-15T07:22:51Z *********************** 07:23:15:WU01:FS01:Connecting to assign1.foldingathome.org:80 07:23:15:WU01:F...

CPU slot is working, but all my real action is from the GPUs. I tried uninstalling FAH, including deleting all data, and then reinstalling, but it still does it. I have 3 other workstations running the same windows, drivers and GPUs and they work. Only one of my workstations is messed up. It happens...

The way to address this would be to ask the university users to put a Fair Market Value on the compute power delivered. They already have a point system in place that properly values both the GFLOPs and the speed with which the results are returned. Now all they need is for some university economist...

It sounds like each machine gets it's own ID number from the mother ship. The question is where do they keep it? If it's in the registry, you might be okay, since that doesn't get zipped. If it's in the install directory you could be duplicating work. (If you clone the whole system disk with True Im...

I appreciate the education. It's also clear that GPUs have improved at a faster rate than CPUs in the last 10 years or so. So they have a much wider dynamic range of HW on the GPU side. It has convinced me to spring for a new graphics card for my old HP home PC. Say is there a way to deliberately co...

>> Now we see that the number of threads is 6 again at the end of the line. Thanks for the tutorial. I (sort of) understand.... (but you gave me something cool to Google and read :-) I was just going by all 8 CPU graphs being fairly full, but I guess the 6 threads hop around between the cores to cre...

>>> If your WU passes Timeout, the Work Server reissues the WU to the next folder. Good to know. If it is going to duplicate the work anyway, it sounds like I should dump the job as soon as I see it is going to run long. (hopefully that will get the job assigned to faster GPU quicker too) So I'll go...

>> Is it worth folding with a very slow GPU: I'd say no. That's a straw man argument. I am not convinced the GPU is that slow. (certainly there are faster ones, but I'm comparing the CPU and GPU in their ability to earn points. Assuming the points are a fair measure of the computational value of the...