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I think you guys broke Folding@Home...04.03.20, 7:47pm CDT


It looks like the F@H servers have been getting hit pretty hard these past couple days. When things get overloaded, the stats feed become the low priority on the update list (hence, all the 0 updates). Rest assured, any WUs you send back to the servers are safe and will get processed eventually, just please be patient! The F@H team has been diligently bringing more servers online, but I think there are so many idle clients out there it still far exceeds all the new capacity.


In case you missed the news the other day, the F@H project has broken the (x86) exaFLOP barrier! With over a million devices currently online (79,498 AMD GPUs / 356,065 Nvidia GPUs / 593,983 CPUs), you guys are setting new records left & right!


There is some exciting new progress on COVID-19 that the F@H team has posted here on twitter, or a more detailed blog post here at folding@home.
There was also this blog post from earlier this week about a new batch of small molecule screening simulations related to COVID-19. One important bit of info is these can only run on CPUs, so make sure you have your CPUs enabled in your clients!


I've been juggling several things at once, fixing little bugs, working with a fellow folder to bring some new features online for you guys, braving venturing out of the house to run some essential errands. We are working on querying the F@H server stats to log and try to better understand what's going on and hopefully translate that into some nice graphs with trends & tables for you guys.


The video I posted below went online last Sunday, so to try and keep things interesting I'm going to try and post another (different) video this coming Sunday. People have been posting suggestions in the YouTube comments, so if you have something you would like to see be sure to post it there, or send me an email directly. I still need to load into the DB some archived data I have to see exactly what it contains, maybe I can do that tomorrow if nothing major comes up.


Here's a funny throwback pic I found the other day while looking for something else. It's one of my old folding rigs from January 2003! Back in the days of single-core CPUs (dual-core was still a couple years away), and WAY before GPU processing. I'm pretty sure those are AthlonXP CPUs, probably on cheap Biostar boards. I remember making custom Y power cables so I could use one PSU for two boards. LOL, those were the days. They were booting over the network to my main linux machine that held a common image, so at least I didn't have to worry about a bunch of hard drives and independent operating systems to maintain.


Stay safe everyone!

Watching what's happening to the Stats servers through my hourly attempts at downloads is rather telling - The day before yesterday (Thurs, the 2nd of April) I got 19 out of 24 hourly updates.  Yesterday (Friday the 3rd of April), I got 3.  So far, today? I have 1. 

*laughs* It's just interesting how you can judge a situation based on the side effects, isn't it?
 
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Really hoping Pande Group can eventually get this sorted, having my GPU running other things rather than letting it idle all day with F@H open. But I'd much rather be folding!

My first machine that ever die a Wu, was an Athlon XP 2600+.
I spent a week keeping that program alive.
Now I run processor cores that are more than twice as fast, and run more than 20-40x the cores.
Not to mention GPUs that are 100x faster than that.

Jayrock
There we go. Points updated!

Same here, just got a big points bump.

I got my backlog at 6AM and 2 successful updates since then.

To beta or not to beta, that is the question.

Sprinklers just create shorts.
I think you need a Halon upgrade?
/s

CPU projects are still important. It's only in points awarded that they lack. I generally prefer to contribute my cpu to World Community Grid but have switched some over to fah.

Oh wow, completely did not hear about that. So Pande Group handed off to Dr. Greg Bowman, whom was a former student of his in 2019. 
 
Still having a few hour gaps between GPU projects but it's at least stabilized.