ifolder wrote:If I understand well this:
https://stats.foldingathome.org/os and conservatively assume that in average a CPU requires 30W of power and a GPU 250W, it looks like CPU folding consumes 25% of total CPU+GPU electricity to provide 1% of total x86 TFlops. This is quite a huge waste of energy!
So shouldn't F@H start thinking about abandonning CPU folding and rather than the "I am one in a million" campaign that aims to increase the number of folders in general, try to target gamers who own GPUs (often hi-end GPUs moreover)?
Energy wasting sure is something to think about. Lets take my setup as example. GPU is burning 220W and CPU is burning 120W so total is 340W when I fold with both and that is just telemetry info, you gotta add VRM loss and PSU loss into that so total is higher. Now if I was folding 24/7/365, I would waste lot of energy. But I fold only when I need to turn on heating anyway, direct electricity heating here.
So folding like that, I don't really waste energy, because I would use that same energy anyway to heat room. Now back to that 24/7/365.. At summer time it get so hot here that I would really like to have AC to cool down this place even without folding, like last summer there was few weeks when inside temp hit 30C and even over that few days. Think about if I was also folding same time, I sure would need AC so that would be double waste of energy because extra stress for AC to dump out that extra heat what folding would cause.
Now that I have upgrade my cumputer, I have MB what have temp sensor connectors, I have already ordered some probes and my plan is to make small script what will turn off and on folding depending what is room temp, what I get with probe. I'm gonna use hwinfo alert feature to feed temp readings to script. I would have liked to use something what doesn't need to be running background all a time, but I haven't found any windows monitoring software what could read sensors from command line and after done simply exit.
Anyway with that setup I get nice automation and my room temp wont go too high.