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Joe_H wrote: ↑Tue Sep 09, 2025 7:14 pm the last time was when his room was cold for a couple days back in November until I could get someone to fix the furnace.

Incentive is helping science and researchers who are stuck with simulations which cannot be done with GPUs. That's all there is to it. If you need other incentives, FAH will not provide them for you, and it is OK for you to chose not to fold on your CPU :) I completely get that, and agree with you....

I believe most or all CPU WUs cannot be done on GPU. Some definitely can’t. muziqaz’s post might have been confusing on that. Yes, whatever is created for CPUs, cannot be run on GPUs. I didn't mention it, because that wasn't the topic of conversation :D Researcher, with limited grant money and dead...

:biggrin: I imagine points is by no means the main driving factor, but I would certainly not discard the possibility that it is at least and incentive / motivator. It is the only explanation I can find as to why there are WAY more CPU projects in the queue than GPU projects, after all, every single ...

Well noted.

However, I chose to plot the maximums since you originally were asking for a potential bottlenecks, if I understood correctly. Showing the peaks could be of more use.

Anyway, hope it helps.

I am getting much smaller numbers using 2 x 5080. In Ubuntu, using nvidia-smi as below: nvidia-smi dmon -i 0 -s u -d 1 -o DT > gpu0_pcie.log nvidia-smi dmon -i 1 -s u -d 1 -o DT > gpu1_pcie.log Polled every second for over 3 hours while folding. Then I plotted the values in a chart only drawing the ...

I was also very curious, so I did some rough numbers (more like I went down the rabbit hole)... At some point, that user was folding with 37 clients, averaging slightly over 40m PPD per client, therefore likely 37 5090s. Cheapest 16 x 5090 I've found online go for ~$10/hour. 2 clusters = 32 => ~$20/...

Yes, I am familiar with folding.extremeoverclocking.com However, there is one main (understandable due to constrains) limitation: It is only possible to see detailed daily info for the past 1.5 days, detailed weekly info for the past 13 days, and son on. As time goes on, detailed info is not longer ...

I have been thinking of running a script locally on each of my computers folding in order to keep detailed track of my folding contribution as well as performance. Also, running it locally would allow me to keep historical records for as long as I want. I recently learnt about the possibility of vie...

muziqaz wrote: ↑Tue Aug 12, 2025 1:40 pm Where do you get the idea that your question bothered me?

Don't know, got that impression, Glad it didn't.

Thanks again.

Did my question bother you? I am simply trying to understand. I do not know why CPU folding is so unpopular, never really thought about it. Now that you mention it, a viable solution would be to increase the points awarded for CPU projects, that would get people folding on them (assuming those same ...

muziqaz wrote: ↑Tue Aug 12, 2025 12:25 pm Some GPUs are too powerful for those projects.

Can you explain what do you mean by "too powerful"? Science wise it would make more sense to have GPUs doing "light" tasks than to have hundreds (or perhaps thousands) of GPUs idling. Wouldn't it?

4080, 4080 Super, 5080, 5090.

Same here, it has been happening for over a week now. Out of 12 GPUs, 7 have been retrying to download WUs for days with no luck. 23:54:24:I1:OUT4:> POST https://assign1.foldingathome.org/api/assign HTTP/1.1 23:54:24:E :Exception: Failed to prevent sleep: Transport endpoint is not connected 23:54:25...

I have a couple of 5090s that I could try this on. However, I am not running fah-client.service (my setup doesn't allow it), but rather as a command on a (Ubuntu) terminal windows that remains open. Can you please help me figure out a workaround with no service? I'll let it run for a week or so on b...