"We recently saw Linus getting involved in Folding @ Home with 6 Titan Vs doing 15-16 million points per day, so we decided to turn on two of our Tesla V100 video cards and contribute about 7.6 million points per day. We’re hoping that we can soon follow-up with an extreme overclocking F@H challenge" -GN news article
Anandtech's team was generating 196M points a day, on average, it looks like. Toms generating 157M a day. There was plenty of trouble getting work units too, I think, so it's hard to say what the true potential of any given setup was.
It might not be a single box, but every computer piling in helps!
Congrats to both teams! And no need to stop. The virus is still with us, so let's keep folding.
On a side note, I just have some basic MacBooks, so I didn't have a GPU to contribute. That said, I had a continuous supply of CPU-based working units for the entire time. Lower credit, to be sure, but hopefully it still helps the researchers.
That is one way to measure the contribution to a vital cause. But how many Folding@Home servers is Anandtech hosting to support the flow of protein foldings?
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blaktron - Thursday, April 16, 2020 - link
Gamer's Nexus is doing 7m a day with a single box lol.hehatemeXX - Thursday, April 16, 2020 - link
I'm not here to call you out, but what box is doing 7m a day? My 32/64t server doesn't even get that.drexnx - Thursday, April 16, 2020 - link
two tesla V100s and a 3990x, iirc"We recently saw Linus getting involved in Folding @ Home with 6 Titan Vs doing 15-16 million points per day, so we decided to turn on two of our Tesla V100 video cards and contribute about 7.6 million points per day. We’re hoping that we can soon follow-up with an extreme overclocking F@H challenge" -GN news article
mode_13h - Friday, April 17, 2020 - link
Maybe AT should team up with Toms against Linus. If we'd still be hopelessly outmatched, maybe enlist STH or others.TennesseeTony - Thursday, April 16, 2020 - link
A single RTX2080Ti gets just over 3M ppd under Linux. Likewise an EPYC Rome with 128 threads also gets about 3M ppd.blckgrffn - Thursday, April 16, 2020 - link
Considering how hard it was to get consistent WU's, this was far from a set it and forget it race. Great work everyone :)nandnandnand - Thursday, April 16, 2020 - link
The race isn't over until a vaccine is created and deployed, in around 36 months.Drumsticks - Thursday, April 16, 2020 - link
Anandtech's team was generating 196M points a day, on average, it looks like. Toms generating 157M a day. There was plenty of trouble getting work units too, I think, so it's hard to say what the true potential of any given setup was.It might not be a single box, but every computer piling in helps!
blckgrffn - Thursday, April 16, 2020 - link
Considering how hard it was to get consistent WU's, this was far from a set it and forget it race. Great work everyone :)(repost because I meant this to be a top level comment)
LordanSS - Thursday, April 16, 2020 - link
Indeed... left alone my machines would go hours (sometimes over 12-14hrs!!) without receiving a new WU.I was happy to help AT a bit and will keep churning whenever I can for the next several months.
sandytheguy - Saturday, April 18, 2020 - link
How do you force work units?ballsystemlord - Thursday, April 16, 2020 - link
Hooray! Clap clap clap.Assimilator1 - Thursday, April 16, 2020 - link
Good job by both teams! :)3dgaming - Thursday, April 16, 2020 - link
spelling error - a significant party of society. Please deleteonly1jv - Thursday, April 16, 2020 - link
you got 19+million from me when the call to arms against Tom's Hardware was made.KPOM - Thursday, April 16, 2020 - link
Congrats to both teams! And no need to stop. The virus is still with us, so let's keep folding.On a side note, I just have some basic MacBooks, so I didn't have a GPU to contribute. That said, I had a continuous supply of CPU-based working units for the entire time. Lower credit, to be sure, but hopefully it still helps the researchers.
soresu - Friday, April 17, 2020 - link
Bonus point is everybody wins regardless of who loses the FOLDING pissing content.....mode_13h - Friday, April 17, 2020 - link
Besides compute, you can also donate $$$ to F@H.https://foldingathome.org/about/donate/
mode_13h - Friday, April 17, 2020 - link
I did, and my employer matched it.Niels Grove - Sunday, April 26, 2020 - link
That is one way to measure the contribution to a vital cause. But how many Folding@Home servers is Anandtech hosting to support the flow of protein foldings?