Folding Forum

muziqaz: As I said, not gonna waste time running the openMM benchmarks, cause even with a pro model chatbot, I cannot make this work, even with terminal commands, should be child's play and an easy user experience, but it's not. So until OpenMM becomes much easier to run, I'm not gonna waste my time...

Just tried FAH in WSL2. Quite a bit of fan noise, and only 60% utilization of my 18 cpu cores, so my PPD is not relevant when utilization is not 100%.

When will this native client utilize 100% of an 18 core CPU?

Muziqaz, comparing a 450W desktop 5090 to a 65W mobile SoC misses the point of efficiency. ​My native ARM64 benchmarks show that when software is optimized, this hardware delivers 100 FPS at 1600p, proving that x86 emulation is the only bottleneck. ​If the community can spend 2.5 years on HIP, it is...

The porting of the client and the GROMACS based CPU folding core to ARM was done with development assistance from Neocortix. I suggest you reread what I wrote, I made no demand for special exceptions, just stated that is what you appear to be wanting. Essentially you have only proven stability on a...

Dev team :D You mean one Dev who is looking after server software, client development and gromacs cores? You were told many many many times in your many spammy posts, that FAH is volunteer driven project and there is only one paid dev. FAH can only support hardware which brings biggest return of ti...

OpenMM is mainly written in C++ with Python wrappers, not just a "Python-based OpenMM suite". It makes advanced OpenCL calls that I doubt your test using PrimeGrid comes close to emulating. Is PrimeGrid even doing floating point? Most algorithms I am aware of use integer arithmetic. Nvidi...

No, running OpenMM will show everyone: If SD GPUs can run opencl/openmm code. How it compares with normal GPUs performance wise If Qualcomm drivers are capable of stable operations under OpenMM workloads. You see, we, as in FAH, absolutely do not care if hardware is capable of some random workload ...

Please demonstrate the stability of the software and hardware on openmm. It has it's own benchmarking suite, which can be used to compare performance wise to other hardware as well as test the computational stability. Other distributed computing projects' stability is irrelevant to FAH The focus on...

GROMACS on GPUs sucks :roll: It's still too dependent on the CPU. :? And it will already run on ARM CPUs (although big.LITTLE shit is always a pain). Update: Breakthrough in Adreno GPU Compute Stability Since my last post, I have moved from theoretical feasibility to verified results. I have succes...

Qualcomm is now reviewing the technical feasibility of bringing the necessary compute stack to the Snapdragon X2 for FAH.

They are aware of the GROMACS requirements and are looking at how to implement the precision needed for molecular dynamics.

Thanks for the reality check on the engine specs. You're right, I should keep the distinction between OpenMM for GPU and GROMACS for CPU clear. My bad on the crossover, I'm just following the tech updates closely. Joe, I agree the Neural Engine's INT8/FP8 isn't the fix. My point with the M5 projecti...

One more quick point on the efficiency of this platform going forward. Based on the M5 architecture specs we’re seeing for 2026, the potential for a green folding lab is huge. The base M5 already delivers over 4x the peak GPU compute performance for AI compared to the M4, and a lot of that comes fro...

So far all of the Intel processors with iGPUs still have a detectable PCI ID. Same exists for the AMD processors. When or if that will ever change we will find out, but the client detection code still works for them for now. Don't underestimate stability either. F@h has a fairly small group of soft...

Your computer is doing fine because windows on arm scheduler is so messed up, that it sets priority wrong. In normal windows if you set FAHCore to anything other than normal, things just start to go to hell ;) Thanks for the info. But since we cannot expect Microsoft to improve things anytime soon,...

I've now finished testing FAH PPD with this fix. Before I got 35.000 PPD, now I peaked at 111.720 PPD. That's a performance increase of more than 300%! Also, below are some performance increase estimates for other Snapdragon chips: X1 Elite (84-100) up from 55.000 to 165.000 PPD And then the upcomin...