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#1762625
Ah crot, I need to buy a beefier psu to get the 2080Ti running. Reverted back to the NVIDIA 670.

Installed the folding@home client, but it’s not seen my GPU, so running CPU.

Core i7, 6 physical cores, 12 threads isn’t exactly a slouch- but I’d prefer if this was offloaded GPU then CPU....but the Folding app doesn’t seem to see my GPU...
#1762631
stevelup wrote:Have you got the actual nVidia driver installed? The automatically installed OS driver doesn't include OpenCL support which you need for this.


I had - and it seems I am not the only nVidia user to suffer. I followed this forum suggestion, and it seems to have done the trick. GPU is now seen by the client, but it is waiting on workload.

https://foldingforum.org/viewtopic.php?f=80&t=34521

The worrying part for me is though - I am/was a techie geek. I knew to look in the logs/config to see if my GPU was there - cos it is exactly the specialist bit of kit I want doing the heavy lifting.

How many will bother to check . Probably the geeks like me - but even then....

I know - I can use WMI for windows machines, report back to the devs and auto-generate JIRA tickets when a sufficient number of hardware profiles are running suspiciously only on CPU...
#1762633
johnm wrote:I don't get this, it was technique in use a few years back with some limited success but the advent of large scale cloud computing from AWS, Azure, Google et al effectively made it redundant. You can run up a zillion instances on AWS for pennies to run these sort of simulation models, so what am I missing???

Some arithmetic (for continuous use)?

Cloud computing isn't "cheap". It is cost effective in certain use cases, in the same way renting a car for a short period is relative to buying a car.

Sustained usage, like the use case for large scale distributed computing gets expensive. It would cost somewhere between 2-5k a year to rent the equivalent of a home spec PC in the cloud. Compare that with something close to zero for a distributed computing project, and the approach makes perfect sense.

For example, this equates to approx £25bn of computing resource for the cost of running the SETI@Home project.

By the way, many projects (like Vodafone's DreamLab) exist to exploit unused compute resource on your phone.
#1762634
masterofnone wrote:By the way, many projects (like Vodafone's DreamLab) exist to exploit unused compute resource on your phone.


I installed this at the same time... but you have to remember to open the app before putting your phone down and so far I haven't done so! Doh!
#1762699
CloudHound wrote:Left mine running for 24 hours now with no problems.

Got up at 03.30 this morning to deal with an hydraulic pressure buildup :oops: to hear my iMac start to run which was both nice and unusual..


Hydraulic pressure buildup is perfectly normal, Shirley it depends on how far you were chucking it down the runway?

...and I will not enquire if that runway was home base, or away.....
#1762822
About 24 hours in with my iMac (i5, 4 cores, 3.3 GHz) and have earned the team 5483 points. Seems happily countering away in the background. Very interesting experiments that its working on.