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Markfw

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3 2060's and 2 2080TI's out of work here.......
 

blckgrffn

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This race made me tired of folding ... I'll be glad when it's over.

I hear you! Babysitting my 5700 xt through this has been less than enjoyable. I'll leave some hardware at it again now, though. For years I had a couple of nearly forgotten PCs crunching away. I'll be sure to have one or two active going forward now again.

The 1080ti I have running will also be at it for awhile - that thing is stable as a rock. Shout out to @lane42 for being an enabler for me
 

StefanR5R

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Three of my four computers which have GPUs ran dry during the last two hours; but the strange and bothersome thing about this was that their clients became unresponsive on the control port. (FAHControl, telnet, or my script could connect to port 36330, but did not receive responses.) I rebooted these computers, FahClient came back OK, and 3 of the 6 folding slots on these computers even have work again now.

These computers had been working for about a week without a need for me to do anything on them, aside from the occasional pause/fold monkey business.

The computers with CPU slots however had been a handful since I switched them back from boinc to F@H, mostly because of some WUs not fitting with the thread count of the respective slot (which requires either a temporary reduction of the thread count of the slot, or to dump the WU).

On the other hand, the amount of hand-holding was probably still reasonable, considering the number of folding slots which I have active (at least 6 slots in 3 clients, most of the time 9 slots in 4 clients, during the last several days 17 slots in 9 clients).
 

IEC

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3 of 4 GPUs have work now... Linux box still does not, go figure. CPU slot has been 100% all week, just with variable PPD thanks to the occasional project 14378 WU which really decreases the PPD.
 

Endgame124

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Do we know why available work seems to be dropping again? Is it still a flood of new users, or something else?
 
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QuietDad

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In late,but in.Threw it on two CPUs recently retired from years if SETI, Account creation looks "easy"and I have it running on two machines,but i have one question. Do I need a separate passkey for each machine or do I use one key on all the machines?
 

Pokey

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In late,but in.Threw it on two CPUs recently retired from years if SETI, Account creation looks "easy"and I have it running on two machines,but i have one question. Do I need a separate passkey for each machine or do I use one key on all the machines?
Same passkey for all your rigs.
 
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StefanR5R

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Do we know why available work seems to be dropping again? Is it still a flood of new users, or something else?
Team NVIDIA Corp has added clients for >400 M PPD during the last days. At all other top teams and at the default 0 team (edit) last 24 hour points went down. This means that the other teams did not add clients as fast as NVIDIA Corp, or not at all, or removed clients.

Last 24 hour points of all teams aggregated went down, which probably means that the rate at which WUs are sent has declined.

EOC also has global new users and active users stats, but this covers only 7 day averages. (Both went down.)

"Assign rate" at serverstats right now is slightly lower than when I looked at it yesterday.
 
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Assimilator1

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Team NVIDIA Corp has added clients for >400 M PPD during the last days. At all other top teams and at the default 0 team (edit) last 24 hour points went down. This means that the other teams did not add clients as fast as NVIDIA Corp, or not at all, or removed clients.

Last 24 hour points of all teams aggregated went down, which probably means that the rate at which WUs are sent has declined.

EOC also has global new users and active users stats, but this covers only 7 day averages. (Both went down.)

"Assign rate" at serverstats right now is slightly lower than when I looked at it yesterday.
Linustech server gone already? Or was it just renamed to 'Linus1'?
 

sswingle

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Team NVIDIA Corp has added clients for >400 M PPD during the last days. At all other top teams and at the default 0 team (edit) last 24 hour points went down. This means that the other teams did not add clients as fast as NVIDIA Corp, or not at all, or removed clients.

Last 24 hour points of all teams aggregated went down, which probably means that the rate at which WUs are sent has declined.

EOC also has global new users and active users stats, but this covers only 7 day averages. (Both went down.)

"Assign rate" at serverstats right now is slightly lower than when I looked at it yesterday.

Yesterday was terrible, got half my normal points. Today seems to be on track so far.
 

Ionstream

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Three of my four computers which have GPUs ran dry during the last two hours; but the strange and bothersome thing about this was that their clients became unresponsive on the control port. (FAHControl, telnet, or my script could connect to port 36330, but did not receive responses.) I rebooted these computers, FahClient came back OK, and 3 of the 6 folding slots on these computers even have work again now.

These computers had been working for about a week without a need for me to do anything on them, aside from the occasional pause/fold monkey business.

The computers with CPU slots however had been a handful since I switched them back from boinc to F@H, mostly because of some WUs not fitting with the thread count of the respective slot (which requires either a temporary reduction of the thread count of the slot, or to dump the WU).

On the other hand, the amount of hand-holding was probably still reasonable, considering the number of folding slots which I have active (at least 6 slots in 3 clients, most of the time 9 slots in 4 clients, during the last several days 17 slots in 9 clients).

I had a WU stuck at 99%, so I decided to restart the client, which probably crashed my setup. Unfortunately for me that rig's in a lab, and I don't have any physical access to it due to this lockdown shebang :/
 

mopardude87

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Buddy been out of town so been running his 1060 into the ground folding, been quite a chore shuffling between the rigs insuring i get a dang wu. A bit of good news is that my new fans for the 1080ti coming in today, perhaps they will work as advertised and i could push the 1080ti to the brink and see what we do. Kind of a dinky heatsink but till i get my 2080ti well i guess a oced 1080ti the best i could offer and contribute to the team
 

TennesseeTony

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Having trouble getting work again. It might relate to Ars Technica publishing an article about F@H:


Ah HA! So NVIDIA is the reason PCMR exploded in points and whizzed past us so quickly! (according to the article, although personally, I have reservations in believing a corporation would support anything with Master Race in it's name)
 
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Markfw

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At a new low... ALL 5 of my 2080TI cards is out of work ! and 3 others. From 24 mil ppd down to 4 mill now.
 
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