Humor me...I talk to myself

[Vester]

Some things I understand, and others I have to accept. I am running Pop!_OS with Folding@home v7.6.21 installed. I had been running it satisfactorily since Monday evening. I decided to restart my computer to change the boot order in BIOS. After restarting, the two nivida slots were disabled because no cuda or opencl were found.

The Gigabyte Z590 Aorus AX Pro motherboard has onboard Intel HD 630 Graphics available in BIOS with three choices: Auto, Enabled, or Disabled. It was set it to Enabled prior to installing FAH in an attempt to let the Nvidia GPUs fold only. The installation was successful and FAH ran fine until I restarted the computer this morning.

To get it to fold on the Nvidia GPUs again, I set the onboard graphics to Disabled in BIOS. I'm glad to get it running again. Naturally, I had restarted just before I had to leave for a doctor's appointment. I left it crunching on CPU only while I had time to consider what I could do to fix the "problem" with Cuda missing.

 

[Nick Name]

My biggest complaint with Folding was it assumes you want your machine 100% dedicated to folding. It used every CPU thread and GPU available by default. Once you get things running the way you want, a reboot would wipe those settings and you have to start all over again. It sounds like they still haven't gotten that fixed.

 

[Vester]

You can choose the number of CPU threads in v8 beta. I do not consider v8 ready or full-featured.

In version 7, you click on Configure in Control, click on the Slots tab, click on cpu slot, click on Edit, and set the number of CPU threads to use. The default is -1. Click on OK on the Edit window and click on Save on the Configure window.

I am not sure if the settings are persistent. Let me try it.

Edit: I have a hyperthreaded 10 core CPU and two Nvidia GPUs. The default -1 CPU setting used 18 threads. I changed it to 17 knowing that I would not cause the task to be replaced. After a restart, the setting to use 17 threads persisted. I believe you will be happy with version 7.6.21 (Linux).

 

[Nick Name]

Thanks for testing!

 

[Vester]

My computer uses about 175 watts less power (735 vs 910) when running NumberFields instead of Folding@home.

 

[Vester]

Just when everything BOINC on Pop!_OS couldn't be better, BAM! BOINC Manager could not connect to local host although tasks were running. That gave me no control. I'm presently on Windows 11 and wondering why I want to repair Pop!_OS and reinstall a dodgy BOINC Manager. Oh, I remember, my data may still be there after the repair and I can continue tasks in progress. Catch you later!

Edit: In just 14 minutes, I refreshed the Pop!_OS installation, updated about 260 files/programs using the Pop!_Shop, and installed BOINC Manager. It is running properly again without a loss of data!

 

[Vester]

I am taking a break from crunching for a short while. I spent the last four hours trying hardware configurations on my Aorus Z590 Pro AX.

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[Vester]

I reconfigured my computer (in a mining rack) a few minutes ago. I removed the Nvidia Titan X (Pascal) and a 1000 Watt power supply. It now runs a 1250 Watt power supply, an Intel i9-10850K, 32 GB RAM, and one Nvidia RTX 3080. The room is cooler already.

 

[Nick Name]

GPUs are excellent - if inefficient - heaters.

 

[Vester]

World Community Grid has almost deprogrammed me from distributed computing. ARP tasks download as slowly as ever and there are no OPNG tasks. I am swearing off WCG one more last time.

 

[Nick Name]

World Community Grid has almost deprogrammed me from distributed computing. ARP tasks download as slowly as ever and there are no OPNG tasks. I am swearing off WCG one more last time.

I'm attached and I just things run, if there's no WCG work there will be work from another project. It's definitely frustrating though.

 

[Vester]

WCG tweeted today that the OPN project team is focusing on OPNG tasks. I'm running some OPNG tasks now.

 

[Vester]

I know that I am not going to live forever. I turned 80 in February. I had no history of heart issues or stroke/TIA. My wife, Pam, gave me a Kardia device for my birthday and I installed the app on my iPhone. I ran several EKGs which indicated "Normal sinus rythmn." I was unimpressed, but kept it on my desktop.

On Thursday, 27 April, I felt faint. I got to my desk, looked at my FitBit to see that my pulse was 101, and decided to use the Kardia. My pulse was irregular. I called 911 for EMS. Because I had reported a structure fire on the road to our house about 30 minutes earlier, the ambulance, paramedic, two EMTs, and a fireman responded within about five minutes. I was taken to the hospital emergency room. Because I related that I had felt as if I wanted to turn right when I walked about 15 feet to my computer desk when I felt faint, I was given a CatScan. It indicated that I'd had a TIA. An MRI indicated that it was not a current TIA, but one that had happened sometime in the past without any physical indications (motor activity). An echocardiogram showed no abnormalities. My heart was normal when discharged from the hospital, but there were comments about my resting heart rate of 42.

I followed up with my family doctor the next week. I made an appointment with a heart specialist. I want to know what is going on.

COVID shots or age? I don't know how that can be determined. I know that I appreciate my Kardia.

Edit: I have Premature Atrial Contractions (PAC) without discomfort, and my cardiologist was not concerned about it. He is in his mid-50s and has the same condition.

 

[Nick Name]

My dad turned 89 this year, I'm sure you will leave at least that long! It's amazing what technology is doing these days. I wish you the best and hope nothing serious is going on.

 

[Vester]

I am User of the Day at NFS.

 

[Vester]

The Nvidia RTX 3080, Nvidia Titan X Pascal, and the Intel i9-10850K @4.8GHz earned 2,741,341 points yesterday running Einstein@Home.

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[Vester]

Have you ever noticed that you find your crunching computer(s) having problems JUST before you are ready to leave home? I lost lots of time today while I was at church.

 

[Vester]

The Nvidia RTX 3080, Nvidia Titan X Pascal, and the Intel i9-10850K @4.8GHz earned 2,741,341 points yesterday running Einstein@Home.

3,039,049.00 yesterday.

 

[Vester]

Summer has arrived after a cool spring. If I can be practical, I will stop crunching until the heat generated by my computer is not working against the HVAC system. I wonder how long I can keep the "No new tasks" setting?

 

[Vester]

My rural home is two miles from a road with white lines. My ISP has announced that I can now get 2.5 ($120/month) and 10 Gbps (call for pricing) service. I'd be tempted but I've found few downloading servers that can provide over 500 Mbps.