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jedi95
I had some time this week so I decided to put some spare GPUs to work!

 
And even more power...
 

We've had a very unexpected, and a super amazing, major increase in power last night due to a cloud computing company donating a major amount of GPUs -- some of you might still be seeing the Core22 test project instead of the CoV ones, I apologize, with the current demand the servers are rather slow in making the extra copies of the CoV projects, but this should be resolved by tomorrow (well, except if we get another unexpected major donation.. :) ).

https://foldingforum.org/viewtopic.php?f=24&t=32287#p312159

Yeah he and I are talking about how cool that is right now.  But they need more assignment horsepower now for putting out Covid research.  They are being taken faster than they can issue them.

scott@bjorn3d
Check this out, Core 22 is being spit our fast.
 
https://apps.foldingathome.org/serverstats

Looking at the Server Stats I noticed that Rafal has been busy bringing a second WorkServer online (140.163.4.231) with new Core22 projects P11747-52 (the current WS with Coronavirus projects P11741-46 is 140.163.4.241).

Yeah I am not getting work units right now, one trying for over 2 hours with nothing.
 
Not getting any units from .231   Any way to fix that?
 
Ok just set mine to get at 90% also will see if it helps

I downloaded from a different server paused by changing clinet to "advanced" downloaded a Wu and then paused it deleted the WU changed back to beta and unpaused it and I got a unit.
 

DrSchmidt
I don't have any workaround for the .231 server issue from our end; it would probably have to be addressed by FAH admin.  Looks like they restarted 231 and 241 at 12:30 and 2:15 AM CST...maybe that will help.
 
It looks like there is a lot of increased activity on the Default team right now; hopefully its a sustained effort.
 

I think all teams are going up if they can get work units, look at the server stats there are not many core 21's out there all core 22 but the servers can't keep up.  https://apps.foldingathome.org/serverstats
 
 

Might have to spend some money.

Suntop
I downloaded from a different server paused by changing clinet to "advanced" downloaded a Wu and then paused it deleted the WU changed back to beta and unpaused it and I got a unit.
 

Please do not do that sort of thing .... it is against the rules & will get you in trouble with the F @ Home group
 
Once you have downloaded a WU you should feel compelled to finish it ... as long as you can beat the due date

I see on the stats that Anonymous has increased production by several factors.
 
https://folding.extremeov...ry.php?s=&u=811139
 
edit: and Default are now the highest producing team
 
https://folding.extremeov...summary.php?s=&t=0

Got 263 EVGA bucks, getting close and I may have to add another 2070 so we can fight this thing!

Pande Group really was not prepared for the influx of folders...    EVGA's daily average halved from a little over 400M to just 200M a day. 

Suntop
Okay I did not know that. I wish there was a way to guarantee 22 cores. I do not think I will make 30 million at this rate. no matter the settings I do for my GPU I cannot keep it above a million. I do not know what optimized settings I need to do in order to get it to stay there.. I am still new to folding. I will be happy with what I got and allow it to finish. It looks like many people are joining the fight against COVID-19 so that is a factor as to why I am not getting the ones that give me the best output. I will stick to the rules and I will see what I get this month.

There isn't much you can do at this point, just leave your rig running and hope they get it sorted.

kougar
Pande Group really was not prepared for the influx of folders...    EVGA's daily average halved from a little over 400M to just 200M a day. 

It's not Pande Group any more - they handed off FAH control to a group out of George Washington University in St. Louis months back.
I suspect Dr. Pande wanted to be able to retire fairly soon without shutting down the project.
 
I also suspect that NOBODY expected the influx of new folders to be so extreme - my guess is that the number of active folders has multiplied by a factor of AT LEAST 10, more likely 100, and I would not be shocked if we have close to 1000 TIMES as many people working on folding (with a somewhat smaller increase in RIG count) than we had 2 weeks ago.
 
Team Curecoin was down a lot from our previous performance yesterday as well - just under 300 Million PPD vs the normal a little over 500 Million 2+ weeks ago - due to lack of works units, and I personally note that I only had *ONE GPU* actively folding when I checked first thing this morning, out of a double digit number of them.
Having the client decide to wait for HOURS due to repeated "can't get a work unit" issues (I saw one at just under 4 hours "before next try" yesterday) has always been a bad design decision, but it's causing major issues right now in lost productivity.
 
Hopefully the folks that create the work units will get seriously ramped up soon - they seem to be getting a handle on the overloaded servers issue, but don't have enough work to issue TO those servers....

Cool GTX
They also need more bandwidth ... they cant handle the traffic
 
The "Folding at Home Group" are mostly research volunteers ... not a hard core Internet company ... their hardware is just plain lacking for the scale of volunteers they have attracted.
 
The Fix is simple:


1) Let FAH make their WU / projects & have the research
 
2) Let the Pro companies run the Server side .. they have both the Capacity in servers & the ISP bandwidth
 
Google, Microsoft, Amazon  ..... any major player --> All they have to do Is Ask for the Help with th CV-19 work ... I bet they would Jump @ the opportunity

+1 They should do this. 

Also from the folding forum...this is from Dr. Bowman's Twitter

As promised, here is our first glimpse of the #COVID19 spike protein (aka the demogorgon) in action, courtesy of @foldingathome. More to come!

https://twitter.com/drGregBowman/status/1239629911310192640