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[deleted user 837354]

Anyone with a GPU, clean off the fans/heatsinks and get on folding at home.

Took me near half an hour before my client could be allocated a work unit such is the sudden surge in demand for them. Mental.

 

[Sharpy]

?

 

[deleted user 837354]

Here is my current project.

Folding@home | Statistics

Folding@home Statistics

apps.foldingathome.org

 

[deleted user 837354]

Details for those unfamiliar with the distributed computing effort called 'Folding@home'.

NVIDIA Calls on GPU Miners to Combat Coronavirus

Major global chipmaker Nvidia launched an initiative to reallocate unused GPU power to COVID-19 research

cointelegraph.com

 

[Steevo]

Saw your post about it the other day. Have now signed up.

 

[deleted user 837354]

Just bear in mind it will load your GPU up to maximum. I dont run a CPU client because they are hopeless at parallel processing.

 

[Steevo]

Just bear in mind it will load your GPU up to maximum. I dont run a CPU client because they are hopeless at parallel processing.

According to the web portal - CPU 32%, GPU 5%.

According to Task Manager - F@Hcorea7 - 88%, GPU next to nothing (single digits)

CPU client?

 

[deleted user 837354]

According to the web portal - CPU 32%, GPU 5%.

According to Task Manager - F@Hcorea7 - 88%, GPU next to nothing (single digits)

CPU client?

My GPU is running at 98%.

 

[Steevo]

Looks like CPU and GPU are climbing on the web portal - now CPU 62%, GPU 8.80%

 

[deleted user 837354]

Looks like CPU and GPU are climbing on the web portal - now CPU 62%, GPU 8.80%

I don't know what GPU you have, but the software is designed for parallel processing which is what GPUs excel at- simple tasks but thousands of them at the same time.

A CPU is an all-rounder, the more modern ones might be able to generate results faster than mine, all mine used to do was generate heat....

 

[Steevo]

I don't know what GPU you have, but the software is designed for parallel processing which is what GPUs excel at- simple tasks but thousands of them at the same time.

A CPU is an all-rounder, the more modern ones might be able to generate results faster than mine, all mine used to do was generate heat....

GPU: Nvidea GTX 1660 Super
CPU: Ryzen 5 3600


CPU now 96%
GPU now 12.70%

 

[deleted user 837354]

Steevo you might want to download and run HWmonitor just to make sure nothing is getting too hot whilst this is going on. GPU-Z works well as well.

 

[Steevo]

That's one serious machine you have running there if you can run it on "full" setting and temps no higher than 47'C!

 

[deleted user 837354]

Like I said, the CPU isn't running a folding client so it's not doing anything- Vcore is only 51 degrees. Running Prime95 sorts it all out... lol. Even PCIE-1 is only 52 degrees but that is only the slot on the motherboard.

 

[7610 super q]

WHAT THE f**k IS THIS ALL ABOUT ????

 

[7610 super q]

Why has the swear filter not converted swear words in capitol letters into alternative words in capitol letters ??

 

[Steevo]

Seems to have settled down now - CPU running at 12-15% in TM, GPU 5% ish.

Downloaded HWMonitor as suggested - shows CPU at 10%, GPU at 85%

Running on "Full". Temps seem perfectly happy in my eyes now GPU 65'C, CPU 66'C.

Earlier on it made it up to 80ish somehow....and that seemed to cause a few hiccups all through.

 

[Storeman]

I'll have to get into this again, used to run the seti folding at home project. Not had it on the new graphics card. Be interesting to see what the gtx 1060 does with it.
It made a huge difference to video editing/rendering. I had one edit that took over 3 hours to render, the 1060 done it in 15 minutes.

 

[Sharpy]

WHAT THE fudge IS THIS ALL ABOUT ????

It is as far as I can see a computer capacity sharing "thing" and one of the uses is to crunch numbers regarding the corona virus. I think.....

 

[deleted user 837354]

WHAT THE fudge IS THIS ALL ABOUT ????

It's called distributed computing.

Some computer programs can be used to simulate how proteins fold. This is the key to how their macro-molecular shape is determined. It is the shape of these molecules that can give clues to how they behave, how they interact with cells and also how any drugs might interact with them. It is known that various proteins play important roles in the way diseases are caused and proliferate. There have been hundreds of scientific papers published on the back of these findings which were 'discovered' by computer modelling for everything from influenza to HIV to Alzheimers and cancer.

The problem is that even a single virus particle can be formed from proteins which are thousands of base pairs in size. For Covid-19, a coronavirus, with a spheroidal shape, they are massively complex. This means even the most expensive supercomputer on the planet would take years to model the millions of possible protein shapes and combinations that make up the virus.

So some clever people at Stanford University ditched that idea and use distributed computing instead.

Instead of asking a herculean computer to try do one herculean task, they divide up that single job into thousands of much much smaller 'work units'. They then let millions of computer users worldwide download a special piece of software that contacts the servers at Stanford University to obtain a little work unit each. These millions of computers worldwide then complete their allotted small task and send their results back to the server. A monster machine is then able to collate all the results and give researchers a true look at modelling the protein in question.

Though my own computer- like millions of others worldwide- is only a little desktop enthusiast machine, collectively, all these computers can summon far more raw computing power than any other supercomputer on the planet- something like 3 or 4 times the computing power.

The name folding at home is because the program simulates how proteins might fold and it is all done at home on home PCs.

There are clubs/teams of people who leave their computer running 24/7 doing just this work- whilst turning electricity into heat. You can even buy special radiators that contain a PC which sits folding and heating rooms as a by-product.