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I think you can be forgiven for not remembering the minutae from an instruction set that came out like 20+ years ago

There's no way a docker host would instantiate Exclusive Mode for the hardware GPU; that completely breaks the concept (and base reasoning) for using a container ecosystem to begin with. Containerized workloads were designed and built as a very lightweight means to run multiple workloads on the same...

I thought x86 AVX was 128, AVX2 bumped it to 256 That was Intel SSE with the 128-bit registers; MMX was 64-bit and AVX introduced 256-bit registers. AVX is also when x86 picked up dedicated FMA instructions. As for the original question, keep in mind you'll lose a measurable chunk of performance du...

Thought i'd come back and give some thoughts on the tuning thread linked above. First, HFM (Harlam's Folding Monitor) doesn't support the v8 client, which means there's no good way to ascertain "points per frame". It looks like Harlam has abandoned the project somewhere around the beginnin...

That thread is a gold mine, thank you for posting it Bob! I know what I'm gonna be doing this weekend :) Overheating your GPU? :D :D :D I mean, in theory, the result should be even less power draw than the roughly ~1500W (GPU-only) I currently dedicate to the fold. My office and "wiring closet...

is it wrong that I want to upvote your post?

Thank you for the work you and the team do.

That thread is a gold mine, thank you for posting it Bob! I know what I'm gonna be doing this weekend

So, as it turns out, I'm MiataOwner over on Reddit. He and that other guy loved downvoting my replies, because neither of them wanted to hear about how overheating hardware is a hardware problem. And now he's here on the F@H forums, being told literally the same thing that he was downvoting me for. ...

It looks like somewhere between the 560 and 580 drivers the nvidia-smi -q -d VOLTAGE got broken somehow. I haven't looked at it in a while, but it absolutely used to work... For whatever its worth, my own benchmarking strongly suggested Windows and Linux operating systems performed almost identicall...

Despite the focus being on overheating and controlling the heat, it's also necessary to point out: if the system overheated so badly as to actually lock up, to the point of needing to be hard-powered-down? That's a builder problem, full stop. There should never be a situation where the physical syst...

Since your prior WU's were not fully loading your card, it's not difficult to picture how MPS would allow more work to fill up the GPU, thus burning through more power. Ultimately that was Arisu's design goal with this post: on really wide GPUs like any of the last two or three generations of the to...

Since the question is about how to undervolt + overclock, I'm going to answer the question rather than opine on the merits. This is gonna be long, I assume you're OK with reading. If you're accustomed to a Windows-esque undervolt + overclock experience, you're in for a hard time. Getting a proper un...

I wish I had the Linux knowledge to set this up. Which Linux distro are you running / are you planning to run? What about power draw in MPS "mode"? The answer is "it depends" but you should expect a few more watts... Your CPU will have additional core(s) in a spinlock state, ser...

Last week I upgraded my 14 year-old i7-3930k Fedora 42 folding rig to a far more modern Ryzen 5 5500. The CPU isn't folding, instead I'm leaving the protein mangling to a 4070 Super (power limited to 200W) and a 4090 (PL=350W.) Both of these cards mildly underperformed compared to LAR Systems data, ...

Just some napkin math: each lane of PCIe 3.0 is a touch shy of a gigabyte per second of bidirectional throughput (eg it can be transmit, or receive, or both at the same time at the full ~985MB/s.) Meaning, at least in theory, a PCIe 3.0 x4 slot would be able to manage, with some to spare, the throug...