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...for the last 3 days. The all-time total, however, is being updated.

After checking at https://apps.foldingathome.org/GPUs.txt I was surprised at the wide range of "Species 7", which includes 10xx 20xx and even 3050s and lower-class 3060s. I don't mind donating 1080 and 1070 time to 18251, though the Z600 and Z800 boxes and their GPUs are less energy effici...

I have finally invented a protocol for keeping 18251 jobs from wasting the time of my 2060s. Part of it is balanced by allocating Z803 and its RTX 1080 to prefer Alzheimer's Disease projects, since the RTX 1080 in Z803 folds 18251s at its normal rate (4 min TPF, about 1.5M PPD) whereas the 2060s run...

However, any time a work unit for core 0x24 is attempted, it fails. Since the majority of these failed Work Units seem to be from the Alzheimer's project, I tried switching to just Cancer research only, but I still get work units from the Alzheimer's project. Now that the main problem is solved, yo...

Further to the above, just now when doing my rounds I found four of the five devices running this weekend to be dealing with 18251's, and the fifth (Z805/GTX 1080) is protected from them by deliberate shortage of RAM. After an invigorating climb to the attic I found Z803/GTX1080 repeating its 1.5M P...

This lead looked promising, so I had a quick look at Geekbench 6 Processor numbers and OpenCL numbers. The 5600G as a 6 Core CPU gets 1936 single core and 7709 multicore on GB6. [You don't give an actual Fah PPD figure for 18251 with this processor, which would be useful. LAR has a result for RX 560...

Well, it seems that my reward for hauling 100Kg of workstations up two flights of stairs and 3.3 meters of ladder to their new home in the attic over the last few days has been to just make them even more attractive to 18251. Z803/RTX1080 had picked up an 18251 and dealt with it in about 6 hours at ...

Well I did suggest an alternative: It would be so much simpler if ..... or 18251 processing had "not TU106" preference. If (as BobWilliams757 noted earlier, it is possible to keep 18251 away from the largest GPUs because "it didn't scale well" then it must be possible to exclude ...

I should have clarified that I still had the preference set to Cancer, so it looks like there's simply not enough work of that kind around to avoid 18251s. [It would be so much simpler if Fah offered a "not-18251" preference or 18251 processing had "not TU106" preference.] Today ...

WARNING: Just when I thought it might be safe to get back into the general folding pool instead of preferring Cancer, the (TU106) RTX 2060s in Z441, Z442 and Z443 were ALL attacked by a pack of lurking Project 18251 jobs and wasted their time plodding along at 1/3 PPD rates for a total of 36 hours t...

Ideally if you have the money for a used GTX 1600 series, RTX 2000 series, or equivalent Turing based workstation cards would be better. There is a good article on the used GPU market (US) at https://www.techspot.com/bestof/used-gpu-24/ . I followed previous versions of these GPU pricing articles f...

It is of course a bad idea to invest in super old hardware specifically for folding. Indeed, in some ways it is a bad idea to invest in any hardware specifically for folding, especially if like me your idea of a good game is Freecell and you are happy with the gaming performance of the Firepro V3700...

https://foldingforum.org/viewtopic.php?t=42381 Above is a thread requesting whitelisting of the A400 (4GB presumably). So presumably it is OK to fold, though I can find no A400 data (or for that matter RTX 2050 data) on Lar systems. At https://www.techpowerup.com/gpu-specs/rtx-a400.c4212 its relati...

My theory of the case is that this 1,000,000 business is a placeholder while the database is rejigged for 8.4.x web control. simply because it would be a million-to one chance that there were exactly 1 million active users and that the 30-300 new users each day stopped joining at that point. But jus...

Has Fah Donor Stats really lost 2 million donors? Yes I figure this should be a new topic but I can't find a new topic button to click, so I have done it here. On my own stats I keep track of the donors, and yesterday there were 3,012,048 and today it is a suspiciously round figure of 1,000,000. Do...