16th Annual Folding@Home Holiday Season Race: The race is over and the Moonshots win!

[StefanR5R]

The challenge ends in 1d 17.5h, to be excessively precise.
Between that and the start of the dayjob, I'll hopefully manage to switch the GPUs from PG to F@H. I'll look into feasible CPU slot configs at some later point.

 

[Pokey]

Well, they say never to let 'em see you sweat. But that is getting hard for your old captain to maintain.

 

[Endgame124]

Well, they say never to let 'em see you sweat. But that is getting hard for your old captain to maintain.

Getting that warm in the house eh?

 

[Markfw]

Getting that warm in the house eh?

Well, I have the front door and 4 windows open, and its just above freezing outside, and 77F inside.

 

[voodoo5_6k]

Thank you for today's stats update, @biodoc

We're in breath-holding suspense with the end of PrimeGrid challenge ever nearing... Will the Moonshot Gang strike back with a bang? Or will our cheering gerbils be enough to fend them off (at least long enough)?

Also, nice new avatar, @Pokey Gets the Holiday spirit up!

 

[Assimilator1]

Lol, well I spooked my boys earlier by creating a moving shadow with my arm, so their cheering from their burrows tonight!

 

[cellarnoise]

Hey, Biodoc, I had an overclocking "issue" and my main puter was out of the race for several hours. Can you add two million or so points to my total tomorrow?

I'm good for it after the race!

Thanks

 

[Markfw]

OK, I just got my electric bill. $752 ! So I will be turning CPUs off, and maybe a few weanie cards.

 

[biodoc]

Day 15 stats:

 

[voodoo5_6k]

Thank you for the stats, @biodoc

We're still caught in breath-holding suspense as the end of the PrimeGrid challenge is imminent... It's a good thing, @Assimilator1 already spooked up our beloved cheering gerbils What can possibly go wrong as long as we have them on our side?

 

[StefanR5R]

OK, I just got my electric bill. $752 !

Incidentally, this is almost exactly the same amount which I am paying now monthly. Mine is a few € more. (I am getting a yearly bill and pay monthly rates which are based on the yearly bill. kWh price is € 0.29, and will be € 0.32 from January on, due to the global rise of energy prices.)

Here is a little story which I told before: Ever since I moved to my current home, I always get a phone call from the electric provider a day or two after they sent the yearly bill. They ask me if everything is alright with my bill. I respond tersely in the affirmative. — Well, maybe I should ask for an industrial tariff instead.

 

[petrusbroder]

Hi Moonshot Gang,
I am sorry to report that my most powerful folder just quit on me. It is a mother board issue and I will try to swap in an other mother board during the week end - if time allows. I assume I will produce approx 1.6 - 1,8 M ppd. :-(

 

[Pokey]

I am sorry to report that my most powerful folder just quit on me. It is a mother board issue and I will try to swap in an other mother board during the week end - if time allows.

Ugh, sorry to hear that. Just do what you can.

 

[Icecold]

Well, they say never to let 'em see you sweat. But that is getting hard for your old captain to maintain.

The Primegrid challenge is over in 6 hours(I've already been slowly transitioning stuff over as Primegrid tasks complete) .

 

[Markfw]

The Primegrid challenge is over in 6 hours(I've already been slowly transitioning stuff over as Primegrid tasks complete) .

I will in 2 1/2 hours.

 

[Markfw]

OK< I am all in. OK team, pedal to the metal @!

 

[Ken g6]

I will in 2 1/2 hours.

I already started. My slow card would have taken about a full day to do a GFN-21!

 

[Markfw]

So, I am at about 60 million ppd. Thats all-in for me.

 

[StefanR5R]

The current limit of threads/slot for the A8 core is 64:
(edit: On Linux, that is. I don't know about Windows.)

0xa8:Calling: mdrun -c frame74.gro -s frame74.tpr -x frame74.xtc -cpt 15 -nt 88 -ntmpi 1
0xa8:Steps: first=37000000 total=37500000
0xa8:ERROR:88 OpenMP threads were requested. Since the non-bonded force buffer reduction is prohibitively slow with more than 64 threads, we do not allow this. Use 64 or less OpenMP threads.

Furthermore, the variation in base credit and PPD for GRO_A8 workunits seems to be much higher than for OPENMM_22 (GPU) workunits.

 

[voodoo5_6k]

Furthermore, the variation in base credit and PPD for GRO_A8 workunits seems to be much higher than for OPENMM_22 (GPU) workunits.

Yeah, I've seen up to 970,000, down to 300,000, and right now 550,000 (PPD), over the past few days since I've added the 64 wide CPU slot to the race.

 

[Pokey]

So, the race starts now...................... if I had a green flag, I'd wave it.

 

[biodoc]

Day 16 stats: The Moonshots outproduced the Marauders by ~10 M points yesterday. We'll see if that lasts.

 

[voodoo5_6k]

Thank you, @biodoc, for today's update

So, after the preliminary skirmishing, the clash of the titans begins... I can already imagine bored-to-death grandchildren, turning away from us, eye-rolling, thinking: Not this 2021-folding-race story all over again...

 

[Orange Kid]

Thanks for the stats, biodoc.
Thanks for the smile you gave me voodoo5_6k.

 

[Assimilator1]

Lol

Thanks biodoc
Voodoo5, tell 'em about my cute gerbils