What WE can do // Corona COVID-19 Folding @ Home

It's time to serve the World.

Our GPU's can do a lot of stupid stuff, play games and entertain us but they can do something else too, compute to find proteins to fight COVID-19.

It has struck my town, people I know, it's getting closer every day.

If you can share your CPU/GPU, join Folding@Home and dedicate some of your rig's abnormal power to serve us, yourself, your grand parents, everyone.

Follow this Guide: https://www.guru3d.com/news-story/foldinghome-put-your-cpu-and-gpu-in-use-against-the-corona-covid-19-virus.html

You will get your work automatically, you cannot choose. COVID-19 is put on the highest possible rank so all power they get will serve that cause first.

I am all in, 225Watt 24/7

Bit

thanks. will look into it. Can you set it to just run for say 2 hours a day or something? or do you get assigned a task, and it runs until its finished?

Is there a card limit? I've got an older card that I could possibly run 24/7

Have you seen any detail on what it actually achieves?

You can set it to LIGHT, MEDIUM or FULL power to reduce wattage and heat if you like but you cannot set a timer or such, it does not feature such an option.

It will not compute 24/7, there will be pauses of minutes and hours in between workloads that you have finished, depending on the grid's usage and what the master servers have to do. I have done Corona and a few other computes and in between it always idled for some time.

With enough compute power the grid's brain can make sure that there are always enough GPUs doing the primary work. Only when those slots are full you will get assigned to other projects.

The Guru3d site has work# listed that are COVID-19 related, so you can check what you are doing at that moment in time.

Since my GPU is watercooled it stays relatively cool, 35°C with 2012MHz and 225watts. If you have an air cooled card, you may wanna switch to the medium setting to keep heat under control.

Any contribution counts

yeah i am aircooled, and its not super cool where I am. but will look into it thanks. Shame no-one else seems interested.

yeah i am aircooled, and its not super cool where I am. but will look into it thanks. Shame no-one else seems interested.

Could be that people are doing it, w/o posting it here.

I'm in,

It's not doing corona tho.

It's says

Project 13821

This project simulates several myosins found in the human body.

You would think all power would go to corona?

The way I understood is, that they need certain amounts of GPU power, once that has been reached, the other GPUs get diverted to other projects. It's important to have more than they need so there are always enough fast GPUs to fill the Corona slots first.

I am doing half-half, Corona-others. It's full auto.

my wife is nueroscientist doing Alzheimers, so I'll go in on that after corona

Hey BitMaster! I just joined! I'm on a medium cycle for now, but after I reinstall the OS, I'll do more.

Speaking of; can you give me some guidance on this? I got a 10TB back-up drive, and some software that looks up license keys. Can you give me any other advice for doing this as smoothly and effectively as possible?

Oh yeah; I also got some backup software called AOMEI that's supposed to make this as painless and fool-proof as possible, but I trust you more.

Hey Elcuco68,

Actually, I have AOMEI installed as well, so far Iam pleased with how it works but I use it for a completely different task, I needed it to clone a CF-Card that runs a 30x10feet CNC Autogen Steelcutter in heavy industry. The software my collegue used, who passed away 2 years ago, is FAR to complicated and overdone for doing the same simple job, make an exact replica of the CF-Card. For what I used it, AOMEI was pretty straight forward.

For any other Backup needs I personally have and those of my business customers I have always exclusively used Acronis Professional products, usually Server based stuff and I have to say it never let me down when that one day of disaster came. It does have it's quirks sometimes but utmost important, RESTORE always worked.

I highly recommend to invest 50-100€ in a Desktop version of Acronis, set it up ONCE and let it run. Do not alter the jobs once created, rather delete them and make them new. That's my honest advice: Acronis !

Have a drive minimum 3x the size of what you need to back up, set rules to delete after 3 months.

Contact me via PM if you need more info.

* Make a sheet, take note of all your license keys, PRINT IT OUT !!! Saves you a§§ if disaster strikes your IT. For some things, you cant beat paper. Also, encrypt that file if you like, upload it to more than one cloud service...just in case you cant find the paper.

That's how I do it. Apple Google and MS cloud, tripple save.

I'm so sorry to hear about your colleague! How long did you know him?

Which of the Acronis apps do you recommend? Thank you!

I'm so sorry to hear about your colleague! How long did you know him?

 

Which of the Acronis apps do you recommend? Thank you!

Acronis TrueImage works quite well. It's saved me too many times to count.

I don't use the CyberBAckup, or continual backup. I have schedule Full BackUps that delete old ones. Also, if you go the Acronis route, go to the Advanced setting and in the Pre/Post backup section, enable the "check the backup after job" (or something like it). Why not spend a little time to validate the backup immediately after creating it!

I use Acronis Server Software license on my machine that has a Universal license attached for SQL, Exchange, Active Directory with deduplication etc etc.. I havent used the Desktop versions in years tbh but they use the same core and look very alike.

To keep it simple, follow what hansangb said. I personally have a full backup + 6-day incremental and then delete it all after creating the next full backup on day 7.

For servers I prefer a Grandpa-Father-Son scheme, much more complicated but allows to go much further back over months. You need serious amounts of space unless you use dedup, which is not available for desktops afaik ( also requires a SQL install and lots of dependencies.

Keep it simple, that's the best advice....and check them as hansangb said. Nothing worse than a corrupted backup !

I knew my colleague for about ten years, he worked for a client of mine, who are also personal friends of mine.

He was a true genius but never shared his wisdom, something that the client still struggles with. Hard to replace if the knowledge died as well. Things happen.

Dont mess with created jobs, Acronis' weak spot imho.

I use Acronis Server Software license on my machine that has a Universal license attached for SQL, Exchange, Active Directory with deduplication etc etc.. I havent used the Desktop versions in years tbh but they use the same core and look very alike.

 

To keep it simple, follow what hansangb said. I personally have a full backup + 6-day incremental and then delete it all after creating the next full backup on day 7.

 

For servers I prefer a Grandpa-Father-Son scheme, much more complicated but allows to go much further back over months. You need serious amounts of space unless you use dedup, which is not available for desktops afaik ( also requires a SQL install and lots of dependencies.

 

Keep it simple, that's the best advice....and check them as hansangb said. Nothing worse than a corrupted backup !

 

I knew my colleague for about ten years, he worked for a client of mine, who are also personal friends of mine.

He was a true genius but never shared his wisdom, something that the client still struggles with. Hard to replace if the knowledge died as well. Things happen.

 

Dont mess with created jobs, Acronis' weak spot imho.

Yeah, it's odd that they won't let you scan a directory and "relink" the backup jobs. But I have a dedicated drive so I can keep the filessets in place.

Can you explain this a little further:"I highly recommend to invest 50-100€ in a Desktop version of Acronis, set it up ONCE and let it run. Do not alter the jobs once created, rather delete them and make them new. "

Also, I have a 10Tb Fantom drives USB 3.1 drive to use for backing everything up. What I want to do is get all of my irreplacable stuff, like pictures, music, documents etc onto this drive, and do fresh installs of programs, apps, and of course Windows, so does it make sense for me to delete games,(many of which have been acting buggy lately), DCS, programs, etc BEFORE I do a back-up to the drive (using True Image), or just back-up as-is now, then pick through it after formatting all drives when I do the Windows install?

Also, I thought I read somewhere that it's a good idea to get a current list of all drivers (MOBO, GPU, etc) and download the latest drivers onto a DVD or CD before reinstalling windows? What software would you recommend that could give me a list of all the drivers in my system?

Any other advice for this newbie would be greatly appreciated!

"Dont mess with created jobs, Acronis' weak spot imho."

What is this, please?

If you rename the file, move the directory, etc. Acronis freaks out. IIRC, it won't let you do a "browse/scan" to look for the backup set.

https://www.tomshardware.com/news/folding-at-home-worlds-top-supercomputers-coronavirus-covid-19?region-switch=1584847592

"Propelled by average enthusiasts in their shared quest to defeat COVID-19, the Folding@Home network is now pushing out 470 PetaFLOPS of raw compute power. To put that in perspective, that's twice as fast as Summit, the world's fastest supercomputer, making the network faster than any known supercomputer. It's also faster than the top seven supercomputers in the world, combined."

"Folding@Home reports that it has seen a 1,200% increase in contributors, with Bitcoin miners also joining the fight, and over 400,000 new volunteers have joined over the last two weeks."

And here's a visualization of the spike protein of the virus particle.

United we stand, alone we fall.

THIS is good news Sn8ke_iis !

I am still going full bore 24/7. Sometimes it's CPU and GPU all together for hours. Luckily my big rad takes this heat with ease ;)

Let US fold

Folding! Lets kill the bugs!!

We reached "EXAFLOP" territory, that's TEN by the power of EIGHTEEN !!!!!!!!:gun_rifle:

btw...that's FASTER than over 100 of the world's fastest SuperComputer Arrays combined !!!!! A M A Z I N G

Bump

does DCS community have a team number?

does DCS community have a team number?

Not that I am aware of but we could start one if enough are with this idea. It wont make sense to have a 3-men Team.

For now, my GPU is with Guru3D team on F@H and my CPU runs for BOINC with no team membership.

FYI dial back your OC before starting, it crushed my PC just when I got 14 cores and GPU working at the same time