Cannot switch to "Any disease"

[therium]

I have Windows 10 with FAH 7.5.1. Video card is Nvidia GTX 1060, but that is not being used for some reason as I messed with the settings. That's another issue I can address later. So I'm on CPU only at the moment.

I want to help do research on COVID-19 and to do that I have to switch FAH to "Any disease", but when I go to the web control, switch to "Any disease", then close the web control and go back to it, I'm still stuck on "Alzheimer's". How do I get FAH to save my project to "Any disease"?

Thank you.

FYI here's the bottom part of my log, and it hasn't been updated since yesterday afternoon. Today is about 8am but the last log entries are for around 1pm, which would be yesterday.

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13:01:29:ERROR:WU00:FS01:Exception: Could not get an assignment
13:03:45:15:127.0.0.1:New Web connection
13:03:45:WU01:FS00:0xa7:Completed 255000 out of 500000 steps (51%)
13:04:06:WU00:FS01:Connecting to 65.254.110.245:8080
13:04:06:WARNING:WU00:FS01:Failed to get assignment from '65.254.110.245:8080': No WUs available for this configuration
13:04:06:WU00:FS01:Connecting to 18.218.241.186:80
13:04:06:WARNING:WU00:FS01:Failed to get assignment from '18.218.241.186:80': No WUs available for this configuration
13:04:06:ERROR:WU00:FS01:Exception: Could not get an assignment
13:06:16:WU01:FS00:0xa7:Completed 260000 out of 500000 steps (52%)
13:08:20:WU00:FS01:Connecting to 65.254.110.245:8080
13:08:21:WARNING:WU00:FS01:Failed to get assignment from '65.254.110.245:8080': No WUs available for this configuration
13:08:21:WU00:FS01:Connecting to 18.218.241.186:80
13:08:21:WARNING:WU00:FS01:Failed to get assignment from '18.218.241.186:80': No WUs available for this configuration
13:08:21:ERROR:WU00:FS01:Exception: Could not get an assignment
13:08:46:WU01:FS00:0xa7:Completed 265000 out of 500000 steps (53%)

[foldy]

COVID-19 work units will only run on GPU.

The web control has a bug not switching immidiately.

Can you use Advanced Control instead?

Looks like Firefox has issue but google chrome works good.
https://client.foldingathome.org/

[therium]

Thanks @foldy, I found the "Any disease" option on the advanced control. I will post about my GPU issues next.

[therium]

Ok it's now folding for "Any disease" it just seemed to take 2 hours to actually download a WU. Perhaps the FAH server is busy. I had to leave the FAH tab open and let it run for a while.

[toTOW]

We are quite low on work for almost all configurations ... I think it might be what you saw.

[bruce]

Strictly a guess but did you install the current drivers from nvidia.com (windows) or the propriety drivers (packaged by your Linix supplier)?

[therium]

Strictly a guess but did you install the current drivers from nvidia.com (windows) or the propriety drivers (packaged by your Linix supplier)?

I installed the Studio drivers from Nvidia.com.

[Jonazz]

We are quite low on work for almost all configurations ... I think it might be what you saw.

Is it strange for me to say that this is excellent news? More demand than supply for work units

[bruce]

Yes, but it takes some time to generate new WUs ... and recently we even had to install more servers (which doesn't happen quickly because it takes time for executives to allocate the funds, hardware to be shipped, installed, configured, etc.

More demand is a good thing, but we really try to plan ahead. Donors aren't happy when a fresh WU can't be downloaded immediately. Advanced planning for this corona virus situation wasn't easy to foresee.

[Jonazz]

I really want to say that I respect what the whole FAH team is doing. Even more than normally . I'm going to donate financially. Since you've seen a huge increase in donors, I'm assuming funds are more important than extra donors atm.

[bruce]

We can always use either or both.

See https://foldingathome.org/about/donate/ and
https://foldingathome.org/about/donate/ ... t-funding/
and note the comments on restricted funds.