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Tech Report Folding Team Status Update Report Mid-November 2018

(This report is based on the changes for the first half of November)

Top 20 folders (in average points per day for this update)
1 Blaylock 1279757
2 Fuzzhead 811483
3 etkaiser 649083
4 Topinio 592784
5 Geatian 584946
6 [SDG]Mantis 527419
7 Tarx 522877
8 erotomania 473072
9 szabo02 248937
10 JoJoBoy 197314
11 Lockheed_Tvr 195313
12 farmpuma 172472
13 nc_rocks 145036
14 mastershake227 135040
15 Porkbelly 73804
16 flybywire 65891
17 Bigbloke2001 59983
18 djontz 46647
19 maguaz 33558
20 TRFrankenbot 29131

Changes in rank based on points gained for this update:
Blaylock jumps up by 21 into 1st from 22nd! Fuzzhead jumps up by 20 into 2nd from 22nd! etkaiser jumps up by 19 into 3rd from 22nd! Topinio leaps up by 18 into 4th from 22nd! Geatian jumps up by 17 into 5th from 22nd! [SDG]Mantis jumps up by 16 into 6th from 22nd! Tarx jumps up by 15 into 7th from 22nd! erotomania leaps up by 14 into 8th from 22nd! szabo02 leaps up by 13 into 9th from 22nd! JoJoBoy jumps up by 12 into 10th from 22nd! Lockheed_Tvr drops to 11th. farmpuma leaps up by 10 into 12th from 22nd!

Other active folders for this update: Gask, Sebastacat, boosthacker, CFroese, Boxster-S, Highlandr,Frankie_Paterson, Zenith251, Zenith.

Moving up in the top 50 in Team rank for this update:
szabo02 moves up into 25th! Geatian leaps up by 4 into 31st! erotomania jumps up by 2 into 39th! Topinio leaps up by 5 into 40th!

Moving up in the Worldwide Ranks this update:
Blaylock is now in the top 728 after moving up by 5 into 629th!
etkaiser is now in the top 1068 after moving up by 8 into 969th!
[SDG]Mantis is now in the top 1,553 after moving up by 7 into 1054th!
mastershake227 is now in the top 3,975 after moving up by 14 into 2976th!
szabo02 is now in the top 5,495 after moving up by 80 into 4496th!
New in the top 7500: farmpuma, Geatian, djontz
New in the top 10,000: erotomania, Topinio

Next update in early December.

Nice post; awesome content!

Take all your clothes off, and fold yourself 12 times.

Thanks MOSFET!

What's the deal with folding these days? CPU's, GPU's?

What sort of PPD would an R7 2700 get, or RX 570?

What's the deal with folding these days? CPU's, GPU's?

What sort of PPD would an R7 2700 get, or RX 570?

I had a RX 570 folding last month and it was getting well over 200K PPD. It was an MSI card that ran quietly. I hope that the new owner will run folding on it as well!

For the 2700, no idea. I recall some projects did very well in PPD if there was tons of threads (not sure if 16 threads is enough for that...?).

p.s. I use on idle/high setting - so it only folds when I'm not on the computer plus with quiet fans ... quite nice for me!

Cool. I'll get my 2700 folding on linux tonight for you guys for the winter. Name will be turtlepwr302

Cool! Let us know how it goes.

For threads you can set maximum. Can do it manually in the config file. Also can use predefined setting such as if set to low power it uses half the threads. I took a quick look via google and it seemed to vary significantly by project, some low as 40k and other projects more than twice that.
Note If use GPU folding, that needs its own thread.

Haven't folded in nearly 5 years. Curious about this new V7 client and the web viewer. We shall see! The interwebz agrees with your 40k-80kppd estimates.

Gonna go CPU only. Mine is silent under full load, and my RX570 needs a complete tear-down and dusting before i throw that kind of workload at it.

Yikes!

Running my R7 2700 (non-X) at stock speeds/voltages in Linux Mint with the 4.19 kernel and getting the following performance on CPU-folding only:

A4 cores are 80-95kppd
A7 cores are 105-125kppd

Wow! I imagined the sixteen thread Ryzens would do well with SMP work units, but those are Very impressive numbers. My A64 4000 X2 does 750 to 800 ppd on an a4 core depending on how many browser tabs I have open. Yep, not even one k ppd. I really Must find the time to sneakernet a 64bit distro for the GTX 550Ti idling in the PCIe slot.

And yes, the biggest ppd on the table are the GPU work units. All one needs are an Open CL capable video card, a 64bit OS, the current folding client, and an Open CL enabling video driver. Neither of the driver disks that came in the box with my GTX 550Ti or my GTX 650Ti enabled Open CL.

I imagine you are using the latest 7.5.1 client, but just in case here is a link to the most popular OS clients including Mint. - https://foldingathome.org/alternative-downloads/

Back in the 7.4.4 client days I read a post on foldingforum.org that said the GPU slot didn't like the CPU slot configured for an odd number of cores, even though the client defaults to a config of -1 for GPU use. It may have been resolved with a later version, but it wouldn't hurt to test with a -2 or even a -4 config for maximum overall ppd.

Congrats on jumping into the top twenty ppd team 2630 members list! - https://folding.extremeoverclocking.com ... ?s=&t=2630