Posts by Jacob Klein

1) Message boards : Number crunching : Coronavirus crunching - Folding@home (Message 54731) Posted 17 May 2020 by Jacob Klein Post: Nice!
2) Message boards : Number crunching : Coronavirus crunching - Folding@home (Message 54516) Posted 1 May 2020 by Jacob Klein Post: You can always close BOINC, then add these lines to your cc_config.xml file, in the <options> section: <exclusive_gpu_app>FahCore_21.exe</exclusive_gpu_app> <exclusive_gpu_app>FahCore_22.exe</exclusive_gpu_app> Full documentation on the options you can set, is here: https://boinc.berkeley.edu/wiki/Client_configuration
3) Message boards : Number crunching : Coronavirus crunching - Folding@home (Message 54512) Posted 1 May 2020 by Jacob Klein Post: Yep, I just had to do the same! :)
4) Message boards : Number crunching : Coronavirus crunching - Folding@home (Message 54487) Posted 28 Apr 2020 by Jacob Klein Post: Idle slots in Folding@Home are quite normal right now. I think they are still swamped, and still routinely see some idle slots. They have their own mechanism to ask for work and keep asking at certain times. You might be able to reset the timers by pausing idle slots, and then unpausing them. https://foldingathome.org/start-folding/ Please be patient if you experience idle time as we face the COVID-19 pandemic together! We are working like mad to start simulations of COVID-19 proteins. The enthusiastic response to our effort has been tremendous and has sometimes emptied our queues. This is a great “problem” to have as there is no end to the valuable science we can do, its just a matter of giving us some time to get more running. https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=2995627323837798&id=136059519794607&substory_index=0 It is for this reason -- slots idle -- that I set Folding@Home CPU to just use 1 CPU thread on each of my PCs, and then have BOINC use my other CPUs/threads. And I have a BOINC GPU "Exclusive Application" set for FahCore_22.exe ... so that if Folding@Home is using the GPU, BOINC won't, but if Folding@Home isn't using the GPU, BOINC will.
5) Message boards : Number crunching : Coronavirus crunching - Folding@home (Message 54328) Posted 14 Apr 2020 by Jacob Klein Post: Would you please consider discussing non-Folding@home stuff in a new thread? Thanks.
6) Message boards : Number crunching : Coronavirus crunching - Folding@home (Message 54288) Posted 10 Apr 2020 by Jacob Klein Post: Good questions! I don't have the answers though, sorry. Regarding getting work in F@H... Whenever it gets stuck and isn't getting work, I have been using FAHControl (the Advanced Control program), to tell the PC or slot(s) to Pause, then tell the PC or slot(s) to Fold. I think this resets backoff timers, and might even allow it to hit different servers when trying to find work. Regarding keeping the GPUs busy when F@H it out of work... I have setup my PCs with a BOINC GPU Exclusion for FahCore_22.exe .... so that, if none of the GPUs in the PC are working on F@H GPU tasks, it will at least allow BOINC to put those GPUs to work on BOINC projects. .. in cc_config.xml .. <exclusive_gpu_app>FahCore_22.exe</exclusive_gpu_app> I'm not an expert, and I don't even know if this is the best approach towards keeping my PC GPUs busy (especially when 2 of my PCs have 3 GPUs in them, and I want all 3 to be crunching!)
7) Message boards : Number crunching : Coronavirus crunching - Folding@home (Message 53973) Posted 22 Mar 2020 by Jacob Klein Post: It looked to me like FAH is accessed via telnet, which might be a pain. Haven't fully researched it all. Also, I'm attached to all 55 projects, with GPU work allowed for about 5 some of which also have CPU work I want, so I'm not interested in suspending projects :)
8) Message boards : Number crunching : Coronavirus crunching - Folding@home (Message 53969) Posted 21 Mar 2020 by Jacob Klein Post: Interesting idea about the Exclusive App! I'm pretty sure I'd want to use the GPU version though. https://boinc.berkeley.edu/wiki/Client_configuration <exclusive_gpu_app>important.exe</exclusive_gpu_app> I'll think about setting this up, but don't know if it'd work the way I want it to, on my PCs that have 3 GPUs.
9) Message boards : Number crunching : Coronavirus crunching - Folding@home (Message 53960) Posted 21 Mar 2020 by Jacob Klein Post: Okay okay .... :) Back to Crunching for Coronavirus! :) Does anybody know of any cool methods to somehow have my GPUs crunch Folding@home if they have a work unit available to them, but if they don't (Since there are server outages there sometimes) automatically switch over to BOINC? I have .bat files that can turn BOINC GPU Computing from GPU Suspended to Use GPU based on preferences ... but I guess I need to do more research into finding a way to detect Folding@Home slot fulfillment for my GPU devices. I guess I'll be starting here: https://github.com/FoldingAtHome/fah-control/wiki/3rd-party-FAHClient-API
10) Message boards : Number crunching : Coronavirus crunching - Folding@home (Message 53924) Posted 15 Mar 2020 by Jacob Klein Post: Excellent !! Also, sorry for being wrong about GPUGrid work supply.
11) Message boards : Number crunching : Coronavirus crunching - Folding@home (Message 53905) Posted 13 Mar 2020 by Jacob Klein Post: Hey community, If you would like to contribute to an immediate need (especially while GPU work is dwindling at GPUGrid)... I recommend installing Folding@home and setting it to work on "Any disease", which will allow your resources to be used for new COVID-19 Coronavirus tasks. They have spun up some GPU projects a few days ago, and even some CPU projects more recently. Links below. The software is a bit clunky, but it is also relatively easy to set up. For the short term, I am allocating all my beefy GPUs resources toward working on Coronavirus, and about half of my CPU resources. Note: I have a lot of passion for GPUGrid, and will definitely come back to it. I'm just recommending a temporary (few weeks/months?) switch, to help an immediate need. https://foldingathome.org/ https://foldingathome.org/2020/03/10/covid19-update/ https://foldingforum.org/viewtopic.php?f=24&t=32287 https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=2953361518064379&id=136059519794607 Thanks, Jacob Klein
12) Message boards : Number crunching : NEW LONGER TASK? (Message 53903) Posted 13 Mar 2020 by Jacob Klein Post: So, you'll need to free up some more disk space for BOINC and the project to work correctly.
13) Message boards : News : All acemd3 apps updated (210) (Message 52885) Posted 21 Oct 2019 by Jacob Klein Post: Thanks :)
14) Message boards : News : All acemd3 apps updated (210) (Message 52883) Posted 21 Oct 2019 by Jacob Klein Post: Thank you. That is suitable, and I plan on implementing that approach shortly for one of my systems that gets suspended/resumed a lot. Did you know I'm responsible for exclude_gpu existing? ;)
15) Message boards : News : All acemd3 apps updated (210) (Message 52881) Posted 21 Oct 2019 by Jacob Klein Post: Are there any plans to allow the app to resume on a different GPU?
16) Message boards : News : All acemd3 apps updated (210) (Message 52877) Posted 20 Oct 2019 by Jacob Klein Post: Could you please answer these 2 questions... ... and consider including their answers in the FAQ thread here: http://www.gpugrid.net/forum_thread.php?id=5002 2 questions: 1) Is the new app capable of resuming on a different GPU? I ask, because my main 2 crunching PCs are below, each having 3 different GPU types, and you said "no major known bugs", but I thought I saw some other report saying earlier how resuming on a different GPU type wasn't working yet. 2) Will this app work for my GTX 660 Ti that is in the same PC as newer generation GPUs? I believe mixing Maxwell and Pascal was a problem previously, which is why I'm asking about your new app. Depending on your answers, both of these would be major problems for me, as I'm trying to keep these PCs stable while also working long-running RNA World tasks. Please let me know, Thanks, Jacob Klein PC 1: RTX 2080, GTX 980 Ti, GTX 980 PC 2: GTX 1050 Ti, GTX 970, GTX 660 Ti
17) Message boards : Graphics cards (GPUs) : Advice for GPU placement (Message 51453) Posted 8 Feb 2019 by Jacob Klein Post: After I changed my cache settings, from 10.0d and 0.5d, to 2.0d and 0.5d .... The message went away, and I started getting GPUGrid work for the first time on this PC since getting the RTX 2080. http://www.gpugrid.net/results.php?hostid=326413 Thanks.
18) Message boards : Graphics cards (GPUs) : Advice for GPU placement (Message 51447) Posted 8 Feb 2019 by Jacob Klein Post: However, this message appears to be related, and appears to show whenever a Short/Long task is available but not given to me. I'll have to think about what it means, and if I have something misconfigured. Edit: My cache settings are for 10 days buffer, plus 0.5 additional. Since I believe BOINC interprets that as "may be disconnected for 10 days", it may be limiting my ability to get work based on a calculation involving that 10 days. Time for me to rethink my cache settings (which I have intentionally set for other valid reasons), and then retest. 2/7/2019 3:36:39 PM \| GPUGRID \| Tasks won't finish in time: BOINC runs 85.2% of the time; computation is enabled 95.1% of that
19) Message boards : Graphics cards (GPUs) : Advice for GPU placement (Message 51446) Posted 8 Feb 2019 by Jacob Klein Post: Yes, I have that set correctly. 2/7/2019 12:12:35 PM \| \| Starting BOINC client version 7.14.2 for windows_x86_64 2/7/2019 12:12:35 PM \| \| log flags: file_xfer, sched_ops, task, scrsave_debug, unparsed_xml 2/7/2019 12:12:35 PM \| \| Libraries: libcurl/7.47.1 OpenSSL/1.0.2g zlib/1.2.8 2/7/2019 12:12:35 PM \| \| Data directory: E:\BOINC Data 2/7/2019 12:12:35 PM \| \| Running under account jacob 2/7/2019 12:12:35 PM \| \| CUDA: NVIDIA GPU 0: GeForce RTX 2080 (driver version 418.81, CUDA version 10.1, compute capability 7.5, 4096MB, 3551MB available, 10687 GFLOPS peak) 2/7/2019 12:12:35 PM \| \| CUDA: NVIDIA GPU 1: GeForce GTX 980 Ti (driver version 418.81, CUDA version 10.1, compute capability 5.2, 4096MB, 3959MB available, 6060 GFLOPS peak) 2/7/2019 12:12:35 PM \| \| CUDA: NVIDIA GPU 2: GeForce GTX 980 Ti (driver version 418.81, CUDA version 10.1, compute capability 5.2, 4096MB, 3959MB available, 7271 GFLOPS peak) 2/7/2019 12:12:35 PM \| \| OpenCL: NVIDIA GPU 0: GeForce RTX 2080 (driver version 418.81, device version OpenCL 1.2 CUDA, 8192MB, 3551MB available, 10687 GFLOPS peak) 2/7/2019 12:12:35 PM \| \| OpenCL: NVIDIA GPU 1: GeForce GTX 980 Ti (driver version 418.81, device version OpenCL 1.2 CUDA, 6144MB, 3959MB available, 6060 GFLOPS peak) 2/7/2019 12:12:35 PM \| \| OpenCL: NVIDIA GPU 2: GeForce GTX 980 Ti (driver version 418.81, device version OpenCL 1.2 CUDA, 6144MB, 3959MB available, 7271 GFLOPS peak) 2/7/2019 12:12:35 PM \| \| Host name: Speed 2/7/2019 12:12:35 PM \| \| Processor: 16 GenuineIntel Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-5960X CPU @ 3.00GHz [Family 6 Model 63 Stepping 2] 2/7/2019 12:12:35 PM \| \| Processor features: fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss htt tm pni ssse3 fma cx16 sse4_1 sse4_2 movebe popcnt aes f16c rdrandsyscall nx lm avx avx2 vmx tm2 dca pbe fsgsbase bmi1 smep bmi2 2/7/2019 12:12:35 PM \| \| OS: Microsoft Windows 10: Professional x64 Edition, (10.00.18329.00) 2/7/2019 12:12:35 PM \| \| Memory: 63.89 GB physical, 73.39 GB virtual 2/7/2019 12:12:35 PM \| \| Disk: 80.00 GB total, 59.08 GB free 2/7/2019 12:12:35 PM \| \| Local time is UTC -5 hours 2/7/2019 12:12:35 PM \| \| No WSL found. 2/7/2019 12:12:35 PM \| \| VirtualBox version: 5.2.27 2/7/2019 12:12:35 PM \| GPUGRID \| Found app_config.xml 2/7/2019 12:12:35 PM \| GPUGRID \| Your app_config.xml file refers to an unknown application 'acemdbeta'. Known applications: 'acemdlong', 'acemdshort' 2/7/2019 12:12:35 PM \| GPUGRID \| Config: excluded GPU. Type: all. App: all. Device: 0 2/7/2019 12:12:35 PM \| Einstein@Home \| Config: excluded GPU. Type: all. App: all. Device: 0 2/7/2019 12:12:35 PM \| Albert@Home \| Config: excluded GPU. Type: all. App: all. Device: 0 2/7/2019 12:12:35 PM \| \| Config: event log limit 20000 lines 2/7/2019 12:12:35 PM \| \| Config: use all coprocessors
20) Message boards : Graphics cards (GPUs) : Advice for GPU placement (Message 51442) Posted 7 Feb 2019 by Jacob Klein Post: My machine has 2080, 980 Ti, 980 Ti. And I have a GPU Exclusion setup so GPUGrid work doesn't run work on the 2080. Yet, GPUGrid work fetch never gives any work for my PC. Any idea why?

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