Folding@home Beyond3D_Team - Summer 2023 Call for NVidia RTX users

[DmitryKo]

This May marked the 20th year anniversary of @pascal starting Beyond3D_Team (ID 32377), one time a Top 100 performer in the Folding@home project (see the original tread). Many of you probably weren't around when these single-threaded Intel Pentium 4 processors would literaly take days to complete a CPU work unit, only to be credited by measly several hundred points...

The 2020 COVID-19 pandemic brought a 20-fold increase of active Folding@home users and a 10-fold increase in completed work, enabled by GPU compute with OpenCL and CUDA which raised processing output by nearly 5 orders of magnitute comparing to these early days of CPU folding. Beyond3D_Team also expanded, climbing up 250 positions and doubling its score to a total of 1 billion points.


Today Beyond3D_Team is at #790 with 1.85 billion points and averaging 18 million PPD (points per day) as a Top 80 daily producer (#72). Though we're slowly climbing up, it would take 3.5 months to gain 1.8 billion points required to reach the Top 500 at the current daily rate.

Fortunately enough, recent NVidia cards carry some incredible amounts of computing power - witness our member @Father_Murphy single-handedly make another 600 million points this Winter!


So, I believe now is the perfect opportunity to call the Summer 2023 challenge for NVidia RTX users!

 

[DmitryKo]

I will ask fellow Beyond3D forum members with an NVidia GeForce RTX or the recent AMD Radeon RX discrete graphics, please join Beyond3D_Team and help us get into Folding@home Top 500 before Fall 2023 by raising our daily contrubution to 50 million PPD.

NVidia GeForce RTX 4000/3000/2000 series and Radeon RX 7000/6000/5700/Vega series GPUs are much preferred since they make more than one million PPD (points per day) using Windows client:

• NVidia GeForce RTX
  https://folding.lar.systems/gpu_ppd/brands/nvidia/
  • 4090 (21m PPD)
  • 4080 (16m PPD)
  • 4070 Ti / 3090 Ti (12m PPD)
  • 3090 (10m PPD)
  • 4070 / 3080 Ti (9m PPD)
  • 3080 (8m PPD)
  • 4060 Ti / 3070 Ti (6m PPD)
  • 4060 / 3070 / 2080 Ti (4m PPD)
  • 3060 Ti / 2080 (3m PPD)
  • 3060 / 2070 (2.5m PPD)
  • 2060 (2m PPD)
• AMD Radeon RX
  https://folding.lar.systems/gpu_ppd/brands/amd/
  • 7900 / 6950 / 6900 (5m PPD)
  • 7800 / 7700 / 6800 (3.5m PPD)
  • 6750 / 6700 (2m PPD)
  • 7600 / 6650 / VII (1.5m PPD)
  • 6600 / 5700 / Vega (1m PPD)

Realtime Folding@Home GPU/CPU PPD Database & Tools

folding.lar.systems

NB: Radeon RX cards would get a 50% boost with OpenMM 8.1 - and with the official release of HIP SDK for Windows, there could be a further 50% boost (comparison sheet) if AMD cares enough to resolve some SDK packaging issues...

 

[DmitryKo]

To participate, you will need to install the current V7 client 7.6.21 from https://foldingathome.org/start-folding (or beta V8 client 8.3.x from https://foldingathome.org/beta).

Please register or retrieve your passkey to receive extra Quick Return Bonus (QRB) points for each completed work unit:

Passkey – Folding@home

foldingathome.org

Points – Folding@home

foldingathome.org

Stats, teams and usernames – Folding@home

foldingathome.org

Start the Folding@home client, then either right-click the tray icon to open Advanced Control application, or start FAHControl. Select Configure - Identity to enter your passkey, team number 32377, and your Member name on this forum, Configure - Slots to remove the 'cpu' folding slot.

Configuration guide – Folding@home

foldingathome.org

You will need to submit at least 10 work units and complete at least 80% of assigned work to activate bonus points.

You can check your bonus status by entering your Folding@home user name and/or passkey at
https://apps.foldingathome.org/bonus

To see whether your recent work units got bonus points, enter your username at
https://apps.foldingathome.org/cpu


Team stats:

Folding@home | Statistics

Folding@home Statistics

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Beyond3D_Team Team Summary - Folding@Home Stats

F@H stats team summary for Beyond3D_Team. Help Folding at Home fight Coronavirus, further medical research, and prevent diseases with distributed computing!

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Beyond3D_Team Members List Rankings - Folding@Home Stats

F@H stats team members rankings for Beyond3D_Team. Help Folding at Home fight Coronavirus, further medical research, and prevent diseases with distributed computing!

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https://folding.lar.systems/league/team?id=323777

 

[Father_Murphy]

We're mere days from overtaking the lads at Playstation.com Forums Team. No amount of fixed function secret sauce will save them from us!

 

[Malo]

It's been a long time since I did any folding but my 5700X+3090 is now folding away for B3D, at least for some time.

 

[iroboto]

whoa, shit is warming up my PC. I will do this overnight!

 

[DmitryKo]

It's cold rainy Summer here, so folding keeps my room warm at night! My RX 7600 only draws 165 W though, even at full load.

You may want to remove CPU slots in Advanced Control - Config - Slots, since performance/watt ratio is not worth the additional heat and noise...

 

[iroboto]

It's cold rainy Summer here, so folding keeps my room warm at night! My RX 7600 only draws 165 W though even at full load.

You may want to remove CPU slots in Advanced Control - Config - Slots, since performance/watt ratio is not worth additional heat and noise...

yea the CPU is not bad, but it's not nearly as efficient.

 

[Father_Murphy]

If anyone has a 4000 series GPU, I highly recommend creating a custom volt/clock curve for folding, as Ada's efficiency really scales up at lower voltages without sacrificing much performance. I have my 4090 running at .875 mV and 2400MHz drawing between 150-165W, and the temp stays in the low 40s on default fan speed. I use MSI Afterburner.

 

[orangpelupa]

hmm cant get it to work. it says disabled, and on the top right keeps "loading..." whichever "i support" option i selected

EDIT: managed to get it start to download the core by manually downloading this https://apps.foldingathome.org/GPUs.txt into programdata, following this instruction https://foldingforum.org/viewtopic.php?p=360500&sid=7dc13cf97b8cebe8094fb7c9536a9446#p360500

now complaining to my ISP because the FAH core download only at 2mbps....

EDIT:
yay my ISP fixed the download speed and now im running F@H

 

[Malo]

Think I'll be setting my 3090 power target at 50% for this. Was generating way too much heat in my basement.

 

[orangpelupa]

Think I'll be setting my 3090 power target at 50% for this. Was generating way too much heat in my basement.

at stock power, could become a torture test the pwoer connector

btw looking at the GPU usage, F@H only use CUDA. sooo... does this mean i should be able to play games while doing FAH?

 

[iroboto]

at stock power, could become a torture test the pwoer connector

btw looking at the GPU usage, F@H only use CUDA. sooo... does this mean i should be able to play games while doing FAH?

no, uses the same hardware.

 

[DmitryKo]

Just a reminder to get your personal passkey in order to earn extra Quick Return Bonus (QRB) points, which could be 3x-4x the base credit on fast GPUs. You will only receive base credit points for your work until you enter the passkey as detailed above then submit 10 more work units!

 

[Father_Murphy]

Join in the fun, one and all, and marvel as we race past unworthy adversaries while unlocking the secrets of modern medicine! Just in the past couple days, we've rocketed past Asus Republic of Gamers team and the nerds at Folding@Mensa!

 

[Father_Murphy]

We've passed into the Top 750 teams. I take particular pleasure in announcing that we are now ahead of those low-lifes at Auburn University (I am a University of Georgia graduate, and our college football teams have the oldest rivalry in the southern USA for those not in the know). Shout out to @eastmen @Malo @DmitryKo @orangpelupa @see colon and @iroboto for jumping on the wagon.

https://folding.extremeoverclocking.com/team_overtake.php?s=&t=32377

Keep up the good work, folks. We're doing a good thing and drowning in fake internet points for it!

 

[DmitryKo]

We've passed 2 billion points today, with a daily contribution of 38 million, a Top 40 result!

https://folding.extremeoverclocking.com/team_list.php?s=&srt=3#32377
https://folding.extremeoverclocking.com/team_summary.php?s=&t=32377

These points are real though, higher scores mean more computing work performed or faster hardware handling intensive workloads in reasonable time. So keep it up and running!

 

[Clukos]

I started it on the 4090 with a UV profile

 

[DmitryKo]

Great, we've made 43 million points today and climbed to #732 - if we continue at this rate, Beyound3D_Team will enter Top 500 by the end of August!

Watch out, computer technology websites - we are merely 112 billion points away from overtaking GamersNexus in only... 58 years! So please join the folding team and help us double our daily output to 80m points, so we could make it in just... 4 years!

Rank Project​	Team Name​	Points 24hr Avg	Points Total​	Points Diff​	Gain Daily​	Date Overtake​
31​	GamersNexus	37,196,439​	114,853,566,209​	-112,804,399,125​	5,373,791​	57.8 Years​
55​	Ars Technica Team Egg Roll	25,066,760​	57,793,107,838​	-55,747,786,937​	18,352,521​	8.3 Years​
57​	Reddit	23,159,668​	56,021,139,446​	-53,975,818,545​	20,259,613​	7.4 Years​
72​	Redline @ OC3D.net	20,915,776​	36,450,655,938​	-34,405,335,037​	22,503,505​	4.2 Years​
85​	guru3d	7,452,794​	29,816,153,282​	-27,770,832,381​	35,966,487​	2.1 Years​
119​	Bjorn3D.Com	83,173​	21,753,044,300​	-19,703,877,216​	43,336,108​	1.5 Years​
198​	Wccftech	2,537,290​	11,416,221,893​	-9,367,054,809​	40,880,991​	3.8 Months​

 

[DmitryKo]

Yay, #701 with 2.17 billion points and exactly one month before we overtake team #500!

Rank Project	Team Name	Points 24hr Avg	Points Total	Points Diff	Gain Daily	Date Overtake
500​	electronicarts	777,387​	3,286,002,033​	-1,117,133,208​	36,340,782​	09.02.23, 11am / 1 Month​
701​	Beyond3D_Team	37,118,169​	2,168,868,825​	0​	0​	--​