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Work unit availability for AMD Ryzen 7 1800X
Posted: Sun Mar 05, 2017 8:35 pm
by primesuspect
Hello!
I recently built a new system based on an AMD Ryzen 7 1800X CPU. While GPU folding is working just fine, I cannot get any work units for my CPU. Is this CPU recognized/supported by the client yet? Is there a flag I can set to force a WU download?
Thank you!
primesuspect / Team 93
Re: Work unit availability for AMD Ryzen 7 1800X
Posted: Sun Mar 05, 2017 10:29 pm
by JimboPalmer
While the first one hundred lines of your log have a configuration that would improve our guesses immensely, I will guess blind.
The software tends to 'hate' large prime numbers of CPUs (7, 11, 13, 17, etc. and multiples of these primes, 14,21,22,26,etc. very frequently they will refuse to fold if you have that many CPUs. When you have a GPU, your number of CPUs is decremented by one.
So choose a non-prime number of CPUs, say 6, and see if that folds. then you can try other, more ideal numbers of CPUs (my guess is that your configuration shows 14 and 12 will be ideal but I am not well versed in the1800X. a copy of your configuration log will help)
EDIT: Bruce's signature line shows how to post the log.
Re: Work unit availability for AMD Ryzen 7 1800X
Posted: Sun Mar 05, 2017 10:30 pm
by ChristianVirtual
Welcome to the form primesuspect
Can you show us your first 150lines of log file so we can see the config ?
The prime suspect of the issue is the core count. Ryzen has 8 core = 16 threads. You might have one or two GPUs which reduce those threads to 14 or 15 which are multiple of primes not working well. One quick mitigation here would be to install the beta version 7.4.16 as it will align with the assignment server on a matching WU (with lesser thread requirements).
Re: Work unit availability for AMD Ryzen 7 1800X
Posted: Mon Mar 06, 2017 4:05 am
by bruce
Those first 100 lines would also tell us which client version you're running. The public beta version contains a fix that probably resolves your issue. JimboPalmer's statements provide a reasonable way to adjust your settings to achieve a similar result with the released version.
Re: Work unit availability for AMD Ryzen 7 1800X
Posted: Mon Mar 06, 2017 5:55 pm
by foldinghomealone
And please post results how many PPD a 1800X can reach. We're all very interested
Re: Work unit availability for AMD Ryzen 7 1800X
Posted: Thu Apr 13, 2017 1:30 pm
by mr_raider
I'm running a 1700x. With 14 I wasn't getting any WUs. I set it to 12 for now. How o I get the a7 units?
Re: Work unit availability for AMD Ryzen 7 1800X
Posted: Thu Apr 13, 2017 1:37 pm
by JimboPalmer
Mr Raider
You might have noticed that we asked in vain for the OP to show us his system by posting the first 100 lines of his log. As you read your own question, you may notice that once again we would need to know how your system is configured.
Bruce's signature is a link to how to obtain the system portion of the log.
I await you configuration!
Jimbo
Re: Work unit availability for AMD Ryzen 7 1800X
Posted: Thu Apr 13, 2017 3:57 pm
by bruce
The use of 14 CPUs has been disallowed (it produces a high error rate). If you upgrade to the v7.4.16 beta client, it will automatically adjust your setting to one which will get a valid assignments. For 99% of the cases, manually reducing 14 to 12 accomplishes the same thing so what you've done is fine.
One very important part of the system portion of your log tells us which client version you're running. It also tells us other factors that affect assignments such as your OS and the characteristics of your hardware.
Re: Work unit availability for AMD Ryzen 7 1800X
Posted: Fri Apr 14, 2017 1:16 pm
by mr_raider
JimboPalmer wrote:Mr Raider
You might have noticed that we asked in vain for the OP to show us his system by posting the first 100 lines of his log. As you read your own question, you may notice that once again we would need to know how your system is configured.
Bruce's signature is a link to how to obtain the system portion of the log.
I await you configuration!
Jimbo
Bruce doesn't have a signature.
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Re: Work unit availability for AMD Ryzen 7 1800X
Posted: Fri Apr 14, 2017 1:51 pm
by bruce
mr_raider wrote:Bruce doesn't have a signature.
Bruce DOES have a signature ... in his first post on this page. (Our forum software does not repeat signatures on every post on a given page.) See
this post
Re: Work unit availability for AMD Ryzen 7 1800X
Posted: Fri Apr 14, 2017 2:29 pm
by JimboPalmer
You have 16 logical CPUs, and a GPU , which will lower that count by one. 12 is very possibly the 'best' number of CPUs to set in F@H if 15 fails to find Wus.
The x86 SIMD instructions were not so much planned as happened.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Streaming_SIMD_Extensions
The latest version seems to be AVX2, which the Ryzen supports, but at a slow speed.
A7 offers 3 speed ups
1) it runs a newer version of the software, allowing algorithmic improvements.
2) it assumes a newer version of SIMD instructions, (SSE2?) allowing hardware improvements,
3) optionally it allows use of the new AVX2 insrtuctions in Intels since Haswell and AMD since Ryzen. However AMD choose to implement AVX2 in a slow way, and it is possible that F@H finds the SSE2 instructions faster on AMD.
There are no flags to set, if F@H deems your rig acceptable then random WUs are a7. (there can be OS support issues and CPU feature issues, so some rigs won't get a7)
I would assume all new projects will be a7, but that existing projects may take years to finish.
Re: Work unit availability for AMD Ryzen 7 1800X
Posted: Mon Apr 17, 2017 2:31 am
by mr_raider
Looks like I'm getting units with 15 cores set also. How many cores does the GPU client need? 1 thread or one physical core (1 core = 2 threads)?
Re: Work unit availability for AMD Ryzen 7 1800X
Posted: Mon Apr 17, 2017 3:56 am
by ChristianVirtual
1 thread for 1 GPU