Please could you participate at this survey ?

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verlyol
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F@H large scale survey -> please read this post !

Post by verlyol »

Hi guys,

I would like to have your feedback ....

I have a project to improve the hardware stats and to have a better visibility on the hardware used to run F@H.
this project consists of a large-scale online survey to obtain some key information such as:

-> Hardware used (CPU model, GPU model, ...)
-> OS (Windows version, Linux distro or Osx version ...)
-> Your country

All this information will be accessible to all and will be updated regularly !

If you're interested in this project, I'm just asking you to reply to this post ;-)

Thank you for your participation.
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I dedicate my participation to my grandmother died in 1992 because of Parkinson's disease
and to my friend Benoit died of leukemia February 18 2012 ...he was 40 years old.
foldy
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Re: F@H large scale survey -> please read this post !

Post by foldy »

FAH assignment servers should have all this info.
verlyol
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Post by verlyol »

Yes of course ..... but we have no possibility to have access to this informations...

Exactly like the stats .... We have the "official" one and then we have the "others" more detailed
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I dedicate my participation to my grandmother died in 1992 because of Parkinson's disease
and to my friend Benoit died of leukemia February 18 2012 ...he was 40 years old.
Theodore
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Post by Theodore »

I doubt you'll get a lot of info here.
Not more than a handful of people who fold, are active on the forums.
verlyol
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Post by verlyol »

I doubt you'll get a lot of info here.
Not more than a handful of people who fold, are active on the forums.

If they are not on the forum then where are they ?
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I dedicate my participation to my grandmother died in 1992 because of Parkinson's disease
and to my friend Benoit died of leukemia February 18 2012 ...he was 40 years old.
HaloJones
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Re: F@H large scale survey -> please read this post !

Post by HaloJones »

verlyol wrote:If they are not on the forum then where are they ?
On their team forums? Many people will have set their rigs and then not overly bother about what they're doing.
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gordonbb
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Re: F@H large scale survey -> please read this post !

Post by gordonbb »

HaloJones wrote:
verlyol wrote:If they are not on the forum then where are they ?
On their team forums? Many people will have set their rigs and then not overly bother about what they're doing.
Bur there are usually a few people from most of the top teams who participate here, so you could ask them to act as ambassadors for you.

The alternative is to survey the top 20 to 50 teams and find their team URL from the Stanford Team statistics then join the forum for the team and post your requests directly on the team forum. A lot of the Team URLs are, however, out of date and no longer working but with Google you can usually find where they have moved to.

Your challenge will still be as @Halo_Jones said participation. In a recent Folding Month Competition held by my home team we had over 300 participants but of the top 10 long term producers on the Team we likely only had 50% participation likely due to these people just running their rigs and not monitoring the forums.

I would suggest that you look at setting up a Google Form to collect data and a Google Sheet to present the results. That way you could have one URL to send participants to and another for the Results and you wouldn’t have to cut and paste it from each forum.
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Post by HaloJones »

Are you aware of the data collected by Overclock.net?

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/ ... tput=html#
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MeeLee
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Post by MeeLee »

EVGA, overclock.net, Curecoin, Foldingcoin, who are only 4 of the top teams around here, each have their own group's stats.
Some groups have over 1 million usernames/clients, though that doesn't mean a million actual different individuals.
Many use multiple usernames, or fold anonymously (or not), via the native client (nacl).
Every time one clears their browser cache, the servers assign a different machine code, so unless the username is the same, it'll look just like a different client to the system.

At least some of these groups have a good few hundred of pages of data for you to crunch.
These groups are also larger, with more activity than here.
Many on those groups (overclock.net, evga), are people that just want to test their hardware, and fold for a few hours to a few days, to get a number and give up.
But because of the sheer amount of people on those forums, they do get substantial results.
Despite that, I by myself get about the same PPD per month as some of these larger groups, but because I'm folding only recently, my team hasn't come up in the top 200 yet.
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Re: F@H large scale survey -> please read this post !

Post by Nathan_P »

If you are really interested.

Rig 1
Dual E5 2692v2 12 core cpu's
Asus Z9PE-D8WS mobo
16gb Ram (Hynix ECC)
1 KFA 2 1070, 1 Gigabyte 1080 Both factory oc models
Mint 18.2
Coolermaster HAF X case, Corsair AX860i PSU

Rig 2
Xeon E3-1230v3 Quad core
Asus Z87WS
8GB corsair DDR 3
MSI GTX 1070Ti blower edition
GTX 2060 (reference design palit or Zotac)
Mint 18.2
Corsair 200r case, Corsair AX750 PSU

I don't fold on the CPU's at the moment, however when cpu folding gets some love i'll turn something back on
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Re: F@H large scale survey -> please read this post !

Post by B.A.T »

GPU rig 1:
Intel i3 4170
MSI Z97S SLI krait ed.
8GB Kingston DDR3 1600CL10
120GB SSDNow V300
2X KFA2 gtx 1080
W10 Pro 64bit
Folding GPU only

GPU rig 2:
AMD Ryzen 1200
MSi X370 Gaming plus
16GB Corsair DDR4 3000CL15
Micron RealSSD C300 256GB
Palit Geforce GTX 1080 Ti GameRock Premium ed
Inno3d GTX 1070 x3 ichill
W10 Pro 64bit
Folding GPU only

CPU rig 1:
AMD Ryzen 7 1700
MSi X470 Gaming plus
16GB G.Skill DDR4 3200CL14
Samsung 960 EVO 256GB
AMD Radeon HD7450
W10 Pro 64bit
Folding CPU only(SMP)

CPU rig 2:
AMD Ryzen 7 1800X
ASUS Crosshair VI Hero(X370)
16GB G.Skill DDR4 3200CL14
Samsung PM951-NVMe 256GB
AMD Radeon HD7450
W10 Pro 64bit
Folding CPU only(SMP)

CPU rig 3:
AMD Ryzen 7 2700X
MSi X470 Gaming M7 AC
16GB G.Skill DDR4 3600CL16
Samsung 960 EVO 256GB
AMD Radeon HD7450
W10 Pro 64bit
Folding CPU only(SMP)

CPU rig 4:
AMD A8-6600K
Asrock FM2A88M Pro3+
8GB Adata DDR3 2133CL10
HyperX® FURY 120GB
AMD Radeon HD8570D
W10 Pro 64bit
Folding CPU only(SMP)

CPU rig 5:
Intel NUC D54250WYK with Intel i5 4250U
Kingston DDR3L 8GB 1600CL11
Crucial MX100 256 GB
Intel® HD Graphics 5000
W10 Pro 64bit
Folding CPU only(NACL)

I live in Norway.
rwh202
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Re: F@H large scale survey -> please read this post !

Post by rwh202 »

As mentioned earlier, most people running folding@home as intended just have it 'set and forget' on a fairly normal PC and will have no need to come here.
Also, forum participators are probably going to be outliers. Myself as an example:

2 x GTX 1080 (shed)
2 x GTX 1080 Ti (shed)
2 x GTX 1080 (lounge)
2 x GTX 1080 Ti (lounge)
2 x Titan Xp (dining room)
1 x GTX 1080 (kitchen)
2 x RTX 2080 Ti (kitchen)
1 x GTX 1070 Ti (laundry)
2 x GTX 1070 Ti (study)
1 x GTX 1080 (study)
2 x GTX 1080 (bedroom)
1 x GTX 1060 (work)
1 x GTX 1060 (spare room)
2 x GTX 1080 (spare room)
2 x GTX 1080 (spare room)
2 x GTX 1080 Ti (spare room)
1 x GTX 1080 (lounge)
1 x GTX 1070 Ti (lounge)
1 x RTX 2080 (bedroom)

I think that's the lot - 30 GPU.

All but the work 1060 are linux mint 17.3 with various dual core pentium / celerons running GPU only. Work is win 10 pro and quad core xeon but GPU only.

UK based
verlyol
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Re: F@H large scale survey -> please read this post !

Post by verlyol »

Hello guys,

Thx for your answers....

I'm going to start collecting the data ... I think I'm going to create a little app with a form to directly inject the data into a database.

Then, if I have enough information, I will probably think of a way to query the database ....To make it an easy and fun tool :-)

I'll come back as soon as I've progressed on the project
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I dedicate my participation to my grandmother died in 1992 because of Parkinson's disease
and to my friend Benoit died of leukemia February 18 2012 ...he was 40 years old.
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Re: F@H large scale survey -> please read this post !

Post by toTOW »

Theodore wrote:I doubt you'll get a lot of info here.
Not more than a handful of people who fold, are active on the forums.
Unfortunately, I agree ... and that's sad :(
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verlyol
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Post by verlyol »

Unfortunately, I agree ... and that's sad
Bah, nous verrons bien, mais c'est bien triste en effet de voir ce forum déserté de cette manière :-(

En fait j'ai envie de faire un truc qui puisse rendre les gens un peu plus curieux sur le matériel utilisé, les OS, les nombreuses nationalités représentées......Histoire de changer la routine ;-)

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Well, we'll see, but it's sad indeed to see this forum without anyone :-(

In fact I want to do something that can make people a little more curious about the equipment used, the OS, the many nationalities represented ...... ;-)
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I dedicate my participation to my grandmother died in 1992 because of Parkinson's disease
and to my friend Benoit died of leukemia February 18 2012 ...he was 40 years old.
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