Update Extremeoverclocking --> Regarding all the Zeros
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https://folding.extremeoverclocking.com/ 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!