Where Did All the Folders Go?
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trawetSluaP
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Thought as much, however, this doesn't look right:
Only 40 odd thousand for 9 WU?
Only 40 odd thousand for 9 WU?
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and most decent items are 
@ the in stock prices.
Merry Christmas! No new hardware here, but did get a new drone. There’s nothing out there that is really making me want to upgrade. Maybe a 5000 series CPU...I really think I’m skipping this GPU generation which I haven’t done in probably 15 years. We’ll see though.
trawetSluaP
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Have been trying to upgrade to a 5900X and 3080 since release with no luck.
SOA_RRU
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SOA_RRU
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I know the cost of electricity will be the main reason for some (UK folders) but i'm sticking with it.
Another would be...If they can't actually see any results from their folding efforts (actual medical breakthroughs) other than daily pts updates then most will be MEH why bother? Which seems to be the case if you look how many team members we have in TOTAL.
Anyway, On a more positive note i finally got around to fixing my other rig, Turns out it was the cpu which had taken a dump (bad memory controller 3700x)
Another would be...If they can't actually see any results from their folding efforts (actual medical breakthroughs) other than daily pts updates then most will be MEH why bother? Which seems to be the case if you look how many team members we have in TOTAL.
Anyway, On a more positive note i finally got around to fixing my other rig, Turns out it was the cpu which had taken a dump (bad memory controller 3700x)
trawetSluaP
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I do a bit of Folding still, here and there. The main reason I'm not 24/7 anymore is it would more than double my electricity bill!
SOA_RRU
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Every bit helps mate
Power wise, Do you run your card at 100%? I’ve found limiting the power down to 65% helps with the bills + less stress on the card and has minimal loss on PPD.
trawetSluaP
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I've decided to do a full send this week and see what the machine can pump out.
I run it with a 75% Power Limit I believe, this is the minimum AB would allow, and run a customer undervolt curve, however, the card can still draw 350 in some WU.
I run it with a 75% Power Limit I believe, this is the minimum AB would allow, and run a customer undervolt curve, however, the card can still draw 350 in some WU.
muziqaz
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Hi,
any suggestions on how FAH could implement such a feature?
FAH simulation model is based on many small project pieces being folded by massive amount of people, and once complete those pieces are joined and researchers have a short "movie/sequence" of something happening with specific protein. Those small pieces (WUs) are unbelievably tiny fraction of the whole sequence. I gave an example the other day in another forum:
Body folds proteins in real time. Fastest GPUs (depending on the project) can do 150-300ns/day of simulation. Which means 4090 does 300ns per day, while body does 24h per day, which is 1440minutes per day, which is 86400seconds a day, which is 8.64e+13 nano seconds per day, which is 86,400,000,000,000 ns/day.
So GPU = 300ns/day
Your body = 86,400,000,000,000 ns/day
This is how tiny each work unit we fold is.
So in turn it would be extremely difficult to show this tiny progress to each folder
We are obviously open for suggestions
On the other hand, FAH twitter and their website science section does list all the papers and achievements, and news
Hi,
any suggestions on how FAH could implement such a feature?
FAH simulation model is based on many small project pieces being folded by massive amount of people, and once complete those pieces are joined and researchers have a short "movie/sequence" of something happening with specific protein. Those small pieces (WUs) are unbelievably tiny fraction of the whole sequence. I gave an example the other day in another forum:
Body folds proteins in real time. Fastest GPUs (depending on the project) can do 150-300ns/day of simulation. Which means 4090 does 300ns per day, while body does 24h per day, which is 1440minutes per day, which is 86400seconds a day, which is 8.64e+13 nano seconds per day, which is 86,400,000,000,000 ns/day.
So GPU = 300ns/day
Your body = 86,400,000,000,000 ns/day
This is how tiny each work unit we fold is.
So in turn it would be extremely difficult to show this tiny progress to each folder
We are obviously open for suggestions
On the other hand, FAH twitter and their website science section does list all the papers and achievements, and news
Great explanation, puts things into perspective. I think the bigger problem is everyone wants instant results. Everything is short form now and we've trained people to have short attention spans. I've been folding since 2007 and at times I feel like the time, effort, and cost have been for nothing. I just keep reminding myself that I can't do this type of research myself so I might as well contribute where I can.
I try to get on FAH twitter now and then, but admittedly I forget about it. Months go by and I don't give it a second thought. My GPU keeps folding away though.
