How can I stop getting 13420 WUs on my GPU?

[themartymonster]

These take days to run on a RTX 2070 GPU.
How can I force F@H to get other WUs instead of Covid WUs?

Seems that other WU also now take an extra long time to run on GPU.
NOTE: This appears to only have started since I upgraded my PC from 32GB Ram to 64GB of Ram.

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[Knish]

days??? I have a gtx950 and that takes 13 hrs for those WU. I've never seen your issue before so i can only suggest a complete FAH reinstall including the checkbox for removing data.

[gunnarre]

I don't think you can force it, but you can set your preference for another disease in the Cause Preference under the Advanced pane. If Covid-19 is the only work that is available, then that's what you'll get, but if you've set e.g. Cancer or Alzheimer you will get that first if any work for those are available.

That said, it sounds weird that the RTX 2070 would be that slow. I usually get between 1.3M and 2M PPD on the 13420/13421 work units on the RTX 2070 (non-super). Perhaps you could try pausing your CPU slot and see if that helps the PPD? It almost sounds like it's trying to run your work unit on the CPU or something.

[gunnarre]

PS:

NOTE: This appears to only have started since I upgraded my PC from 32GB Ram to 64GB of Ram.

Have you checked your memory timings? Are the RAM sticks of the exact same timings and speed, and inserted in the correct slots? Try to turn off XMP (D.O.C.P.) The XMP profiles that come with memory kits are matched to the number of sticks which are in the kit. If you put two kits together, then you might need to run the memory a bit slower than you used to.

[ChristianVirtual]

Can you please also share the slot setup ? Wonder if you CPU might be overallocated and don’t have a CPU thread for the GPU always around ? Not sure if still possible these days

[marknd59]

Some strange is going on with 13420 WUs. I've have a range of PPD with them that goes from 600K up to 1.5M with different WUs.

[gunnarre]

The researchers are are aware of the variability, and are doing some testing on it. They're also working on distributing WUs to better matched GPUs/systems, and that might involve the FAH client running short benchmark on the system, or at least changing the assigments a bit.

In the mean time, they've increased the baseline points for 13420 and 13421 WUs, to try to compensate for the variability.

[bruce]

NOTE: This appears to only have started since I upgraded my PC from 32GB Ram to 64GB of Ram.

While it's possible the change in RAM is related, I think it's very unlikely. I suspect it's simply a temporary change in the priority of p13420 compared to changes to other COVID19 project.

[HaloJones]

I'm having no issues with 13420 on my Maxwell and Pascal GPU. In fact quite the opposite at the moment with even my worst performing 1070 getting over 1m ppd.

[themartymonster]

Thanks for all of the replies.
All 4 Memory cards are the same brand, type etc.
4 x 16GB = 64GB
CPU AMD 3900X
GPU ASUS 2070

CPU usage was less than 70%

I stopped running everything this morning and did ANOTHER reset and also set the priority to Alzheimers and now it is running
Work Unit (PRCG) 16918 (12, 49, 16) Work Unit (ETA) 2 hours 58 mins 183291 Estimated Points
1401446 Points per day

Will see how it goes.

[themartymonster]

Okay, found the problem.
GPU is stuck at 300MHz.
Turn on the PC and the GPU fans spin up for a few seconds and then stop spinning.
The the GPU will throttle its speed at 300MHz.
Now to see if it is the power supply or GPU which is causing it.

And yes, I took out the extra 2 RAM cards and it did not make any difference.

[uyaem]

If the temperatures on the GPU are within the normal range, and it is throttling that much, it would seem likely that it's GPU or driver related.
Have you updated your drivers recently?
You could also try and re-install/repair those, Windows updates have the habit to sometimes break the part of it that is needed for FAH.

[themartymonster]

You could also try and re-install/repair those, Windows updates have the habit to sometimes break the part of it that is needed for FAH.

I took it out and put it in another spare PC which has an AMD GPU.
Took out AMD GPU, put this NVIDIA GPU in and powered it on.
Ran a GPU bench with Hwinfo64 and it worked just like it should.
Put it back in the original PC but used a different PCIE power cable, by that, the power supply has a few different PCIE power cables, some hardwired and the others a plug in to power supply.
I used one that was hardwired instead of the plug in cable.
Ran the benchmark and it is working as it should.
Problem fixed.

Power Supply is a Corsair HX1000 which I have had for a few years.

[Neil-B]

Really glad you finally got it sorted

[gunnarre]

Hooray. Remember to set your cause preference back to "Any".