Folding Forum

Can we add here more suggestions for the final release? https://github.com/FoldingAtHome/fah-client-bastet Not here. Dev does not read this forum. And also, whatever you suggest here, might have already been suggested. You can't expect us to be middle men to the dev, when there is a direct way of c...

I can confirm that only 18261 work units cause this, and do so every time: ERROR:std::exception: bad allocation ERROR:WU00:FS00:std::exception: bad allocation Project: 18261 (Run 155, Clone 2, Gen 22) is currently running and creating 31.7MB viewerFrame.json files, and using 11GB of RAM. I've also ...

And then you need to convince Joseph to pursue this...

thanks

I emailed researcher about this

Oh, this is v7 client. I think more and more you will start seeing random things stop behaving like normal, since the client is no longer actively developed and supported. Infrastructure is being fine tuned for v8 client, and if things work on v7, they work, but if they don't there will not going to...

Thanks
These failing projects are from the same researcher

Thanks

I see the bad allocation messages frequently, but only on jobs for project 18261. Which may or may not be related. To be sure I double checked my SSD health, and it is 100% fine. 18261 requires 10GB of free RAM to get a request for it. Once received, if free RAM dips below required, you might get i...

Thanks for the report

Besides, what are potential performance returns? Couple of opencl powered AMD GPUs? We already have orders of magnitude of such device from windows/Linux users, and they are not even scratching the surface of Nvidia user numbers. So Apple AMD users wouldn't even scratch the surface of x86 AMD user n...

calxalot wrote: ↑Wed Dec 17, 2025 10:51 pm It has never been tried on Apple silicon, which is not any of those things.

You have a chance to try
Have you?

I think by now we established that GPUs on gromacs is not gonna happen in FAH
CUDA is unstable as hell
Opencl is supported only on 10+ year old AMD GPUs
HIP requires sycl, and that is still experimental and... yeah nah

there IS work for the unit... as when i restart it....even if it just polled the server 30 seconds ago... it downloads work and starts......well either way what you are saying is it seems to need manual intervention every time...and that doesn't seem right It does not need manual intervention. If i...

there IS work for the unit... as when i restart it....even if it just polled the server 30 seconds ago... it downloads work and starts......well either way what you are saying is it seems to need manual intervention every time...and that doesn't seem right It does not need manual intervention. If i...