Folding@home and COVID-19 (EJ Tech Update)

[@ej_tech]

Shot using the Google Pixel 3a (video coming soon) Edited using DaVinci Resolve 16

[@DonnyDonnMendoza]

Sick work to get the pc working on something useful!

[@azschalter]

If Folding@Home is running out of work units, rosetta@hone is worth a try. Same good cause(fighting Covid-19) but they’re getting less spotlight at the moment.

[@azschalter]

Samim Ahmed 🤔

[@theanimeotaku2794]

Im just using my alienware m17 laptop since thats the only computer i own but i can't believe the folding@home got overwhelmed by the amount of people that fast

[@vh9network]

You should also promote Rosetta@Home they have a larger base of WUs and they are also fighting COVID-19. The only difference is they are CPU only, instead of CPU/GPU. distributed computing through BOINC.

[@vh9network]

@Samim Ahmed that doesn't matter when F@H is overflooded and won't send your GPU any workloads now does it? With many threads CPUs have today you should not let that amount of potential processing work go to waste. I have my 2990wx Threadripper on R@H right now.

[@vh9network]

@Samim Ahmed I am only interested in the COVID-19 projects, I been at it folding with my 2990WX Threadripper and Crossfire VEGA rig for over a week now with both F@H and R&H. In this time F@ H has ran out of work projects many times due to high resource load they've been getting hit with. People are not aware that Rosetta@Home is doing the same thing for CPU and could easily be setup and used in conjunction on your system if you want to help with COVID-19 research and you're being idled from F@H not sending your CPU any workloads. The projects sent from Rosetta@Home to your PC's CPU are much larger than the ones from F@H. It can take 5-6 hours for me to process them. Where as F@H sent small projects that would take about :30 minutes to an hour to complete for me.

[@TobiasDettinger]

Currently folding with my AMD R7 1800X and my GTX 1070 + my Laptop with the I7 7200U + my Smartphone (APK) but not specific for Covid-19.

[@sonnyboii8143]

nice vid

[@zorro315754442]

Nice, but I thought you are going to upload another video about your tension PC. We are waiting for months! In this video we can see something strange underneath the graphics card. What is it? You were my initial inspiration to buy myself an optiplex (like you did), because normally I only use (and own) one Laptop (again like you I guess). I am planning to make a video about it also and start a youtube channel. Maybe I will find the time in the next few weeks.

[@ej_tech]

Nothing strange is under there. Just a PCI-e card for 2 more SATA ports.

[@zorro315754442]

@@ej_tech Cool! coincidentally an upgrade I also planned. Unfortunately you cannot boot from any mass storage that is connected via the pcie slot, as my initial plan was to build in a NVMe boot drive. Turns out it depends on the ssd, more precisely it depends on one special part most current SSDs don't have anymore. So the decision was between going sata (simple but cheap) and planing to connect all potential boot drives through the onbord sata ports or to buy an overpriced second hand NVMe plus an more expensive pcie NVMe adapter. I picked the save way and went with the sata adapter. As I didn't build everything together so far I wasn't able to do speed tests. So I am still wondering if there are any differences in read and write speeds between the onbord sata connectors and the pcie data adapter. Did you do any tests and could help me answer this question?

[@tijsvanschagen5571]

Nice video!

[@richcollins513]

Linus Tech Tips is LTT

[@nutzeeer]

How come your RX 570 makes about double the points per day, compared to my gtx 1080s 130.000, while consuming the same amount of power? has Nvidia really cut the compute power that much?? i see now. amd has focused more on compute efficiency, while nvidia is focused on gaming efficiency. ah well, it is how it is. edit: a new team gives more points for some reason. and a passkey.

[@zoh2615]

I’ll try this out on my rtx 2060 super i7 9700k

[@LloydLynx]

I have a question: Is Folding@home only GPU intensive, and how will CPU and memory usage be affected? I have a home server that only depends on CPU performance, and can spare about a gig of RAM. I can put in a spare R5 240, will that be good enough?

[@vrockpokey7979]

Nope.

[@ej_tech]

F@H can also do CPU work. Not sure about RAM. Links in the description for better info.

[@MapOfEurasia]

As long you'll have a Pentium 4 or later CPU and/or a "FP64 Double" capable GPU (you can check on TechPowerUp) you're good to go.

[@jkpappas]

One of my folders is a amd 3530 with 1GB r7 260x and it gets 125 ppd on average. Anything helps.

[@LloydLynx]

@@jkpappas How much RAM does the folding process take?