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JohnChodera wrote:We've restarted plfah1-1.mskcc.org (140.163.4.231) after it was having some file locking issues. The logs seem to be happier now, so please let us know if there are still issues!
Thanks for bearing with us!

Yep, seems to have worked, my WU was successfully uploaded - thank you!

If you really think that stopping doing any of the other valuable work that people are maxed out on at the moment and sorting out this one group of features that impact a relatively small part of the community would actually enable more people to fold than all the other work that is going on then y...

I could say that 99% of software used by content creators and multimedia producers regularity run software that uses 100% of their system resources... it's very subject and a slippery slope ;) As long as a CPU and GPU is running within the technical specifications that it was designed to operate in...

The PLEASE_WAIT issue is a known problem. FAHClient should retry the upload again If, after a few tries, it still has not been accepted, please add that information below. it has been retry over 15 times in these two days. Not sure how many times "a few times" are, but I'm up to 7 attempt...

I'd add that the vast majority of laptops are not designed for prolonged heavy workloads like FAH, and will likely run at their designed thermal limits which may have some impact on overall hardware life span, but will at least most likely cause fans to run at 100% which is often somewhat annoying. ...

The very high boost clocks should be managed down by the laptop configuration if the load is sustained so there should be no need for a particular software package to have to adapt - sometimes manufacturers set boosts to the point that the cooling system can't respond quickly enough as they assume ...

Also worth noting is that with manually throttling the CPU frequency it's generating 30-40k PPD with 10 threads @ 70C and fans at very pleasant 40-45%, as opposed to 40-50k with unbearable noise, or 10k on 1-2 threads and unbearable noise fluctuations. That is a really nice way of adapting how FAH ...

There are already a number of approaches that can mitigate some of the impact of running FAH on a laptop (or in fact any kit) and these may meet the needs of some people … Whilst it would be possible (I guess) to design a FAH core that ran significantly less intensely than the current cores this wo...

Yeah, that was some good background info. The most striking takeaway for me, until now confirming my suspicion: they seem to get back about 80K work units per hour, and "theoretically" assign 120-140lk. This is not just because of faulty clients and clients never returning, that rate is m...

...There are solutions, like limiting windows maximum processor state, but it's not very user friendly and should ideally be built into the A7 core with an option in the client. I am aware of ThrottleStop: https://www.techpowerup.com/download/te ... ottlestop/ Where you can have the ability to &quo...

Tried just now with one thread; boost flip-flopped between 3.6 and 3.95GHz, temperature dropped and increased in spikes between 70-90C, and likewise fans ramped up and down between 70-95%. I'm guessing it's because it seems to shift the load between the cores, at least that what it appeared like in ...

Try a CPU setting of 6. That should allocate about half of your CPU to FAH plus whatever else you happen to run. Reducing 11 to 10 because FAH cannot use 11 and the software always reduces it to 10. I think there's a misunderstanding here; the problem of the thread is not that FAH blocks resources ...

So I gather the hardware specs and availability are not a limitation at this point at all? And if a "simple" 8x12TB RAIDZ2 with some ARC2 seems to be sufficient, there seems to be no need to optimize any serial data storage, access patterns etc. - where I would have some decent expertise....

I would say that there's no general issue with loading the CPU to 100% 24/7, most modern CPUs, including your 2700X has thermal throttling and will downclock to ensure that it stays within its thermal limits, and in worst case fully shut down in the case of overheating. That said, I would personally...

This is indeed awesome! And yes, I would say x86 is what most would compare as this is a more universal metric, more in the FAQ: https://foldingathome.org/support/faq/flops/