46 Million Points and 0.8%

"Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo" (rustyvandura) 04/17/2020 at 07:21 • Filed to: None

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j miner holds the lead, but now Eury is advancing. Deltazx1 held the lead briefly yesterday, which Chris Uthe noted in !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! , but Delta is now in third. Keep your eye on Trampz, who is climbing, and has a high points to WU ratio. We’re also still gaini ng active CPUs daily. Remember that we’ve only been at this about six days; we only started Easter Sunday. We are in the top 0.075% of all folding teams.  

WAY TO FOLD, OPPO ! !

Snuze: Needs another Swede > Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo 04/17/2020 at 07:31

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Okay, you got me, I joined the team. I’ll put my new Core i7-9750 and RTX 2060 to work for the cause. Now I’m just waiting on them to issue me a work unit. 

facw > Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo 04/17/2020 at 07:44

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I’ve gotten two GPU work units in a row on my 1070 this morning. ~ 150k points on the first one, while the second one estimated to be ~ 100k. Pretty big boost for my points.

Bandit > Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo 04/17/2020 at 07:50

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I joined with my Ryzen 3600 and 5700XT

Snuze: Needs another Swede > facw 04/17/2020 at 07:51

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I’m trying to figure out how to get my client to use my GPU as well. Is there some setup trick I need to do?

Junkrat aka Rick Sanchez: Fury Road Edition > Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo 04/17/2020 at 07:57

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https://arstechnica.com/science/2020/04/how-the-pandemic-revived-a-distributed-computing-project-and-made-history/?utm_source=facebook&utm_social-type=owned&utm_brand=ars&utm_medium=social

facw > Snuze: Needs another Swede 04/17/2020 at 07:57

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The default setup should configure a GPU slot for you (I can’t imagine the 2060 isn’t supported).

To add one manually, open the FAHControl client (probably there’s a way to do it in the web client as well), click configure and go the slots tab. There you can add a GPU slot if you don’t have one. It set my 1070 up like this:

If you have a GPU slot already, but it’s stuck on download, it may just mean that there’s no work available at the moment. The downside of being the world’s most powerful super computer is that it’s apparently tricky to keep fed.

Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo > Snuze: Needs another Swede 04/17/2020 at 08:03

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Snuze: Needs another Swede > facw 04/17/2020 at 08:05

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I already poked around a bit and this is what I see:

So I tried “Add” and added a GPU, it showed up below my CPU as “-1 gpu” , I hit save, and then when I go back into configuration it doesn’t show up anymore. I tried it again just now, and added the “extra slot options” you show above, and that didn’t do anything either.

One thought I had was maybe my drivers are out of date, so I just updated those. Despite no GPU, t his thing is ripping on my computer, even at the medium speed setting.  So I’ll let it finish it’s first WU (in 34 minutes) and then restart and see if it picks up my GPU with the updated drivers. 

Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo > Snuze: Needs another Swede 04/17/2020 at 08:07

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Restarting seems to help sometimes. Welcome aboard, Chief!

Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo > Bandit 04/17/2020 at 08:09

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I’ve begun plotting our scoring data and I think it will be interesting to plot our score growth over time. Thanks for chipping in. And the Trans Am. That car was a fascination to my brother and me who were young teenagers when it was new. I’d love a chance to drive a 6.6L / 4sp.

Snuze: Needs another Swede > Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo 04/17/2020 at 08:12

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Thanks, though sadly am not a Chief. I only ever made Petty Officer 2nd Class. 

Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo > Junkrat aka Rick Sanchez: Fury Road Edition 04/17/2020 at 08:18

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This is a great story. Why don’t you initiate a fresh post about it? I don’t know whether people would pay more attention to me because I’ve been trying to lead our effort, or whether they’d rather hear it from someone else.

Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo > Snuze: Needs another Swede 04/17/2020 at 08:20

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I’ve given you a promotion.

Snuze: Needs another Swede > Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo 04/17/2020 at 08:24

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Are you congress? 

Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo > Snuze: Needs another Swede 04/17/2020 at 08:25

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No, I’m pro gress.

Snuze: Needs another Swede > Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo 04/17/2020 at 08:29

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That one never gets old!

But seriously, another promotion would be nice, though I shouldn’t be greedy because I recently received one. Though I think I’m doing a bit better than an E-7 at this point. 

Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo > Snuze: Needs another Swede 04/17/2020 at 08:32

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My favorite US military insignia are all Navy. I love the senior and master chief insignia with their added stars. I also love the fish. A former friend once pointed out that only the Navy has a mission that never, ever ceases. I have a lot of respect for our sailors. I hope that me ascribing that rank to you is not an affront nor an embarrassment.

76DatsunZz > Bandit 04/17/2020 at 08:46

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How do ya like that combination? I’ve been cont emplating that build for a little while. Any issues with drivers on the 5700xt yet? 

UserNotFound > Junkrat aka Rick Sanchez: Fury Road Edition 04/17/2020 at 09:09

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Wow. A little more computing power and we can finally find out what the ultimate question is!

Snuze: Needs another Swede > facw 04/17/2020 at 09:38

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I got it working! Oddly, the GPU seems slower than the CPU, or maybe I just don’t understand what I’m looking at. Regardless, it all seems to be at least doing something now. 

Snuze: Needs another Swede > Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo 04/17/2020 at 09:41

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No, not at all. Thank you.

I don’t know if I’ve ever told you this before, but I remember all my C hiefs being crusty old bastards. Now I’m 35, and worth with a lot of sailors of all ranks, and now I realize that I’m as old, or older than most of the Chiefs I encounter. The military really does age a person. 

jminer > Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo 04/17/2020 at 10:05

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Eury overtook me!  This is awesome!

Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo > Snuze: Needs another Swede 04/17/2020 at 10:25

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I think point of view shifts as well. When I was 20 or 21 I looked at the senior enlisted as something close to deity. Now, at 55, with those guys all either dead or retired and potential nobodies, I see them differently. And I think of myself now, with my experience as a teacher, as someone who could be a good leader and mentor to those youngsters. And telling a few old officers to kiss my ass. The smart officers value their senior enlisteds.

Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo > jminer 04/17/2020 at 10:26

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We’re still picking up speed. I’m recording some data points and I’ll reach out to one of the number heads on the team and ask them to make us a graphic or two.

Bandit > 76DatsunZz 04/17/2020 at 10:58

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I know there were driver issues at launch but I haven’t run into anything bad since I did my build in January ... though this folding app wont recognize it for some reason. I’d suggest staying away from the reference cards with the blower fans, apparently they’re loud compared to the more usual cards like I’ve got.

Snuze: Needs another Swede > Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo 04/17/2020 at 12:45

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I think you’re right, although I wouldn’t call a retired senior enlisted a nobody, unless they choose to be. And while I can’t speak for the the broad spectrum of service people, I can understand why a lot of submariners would want that. It’s a very stressful job. As you say, it’s an eternal mission, but it’s also an eternally dangerous one. Even in peace time, you are essentially surrounded and behind enemy lines and the nearest reinforcements are days away. Constantly, 24/7, as long as you’re underway. That’s a lot of stress to live with.

I’ m reminded of my neighbor, “The Masterchie f”. He was in probably his late 70s and lived next door to my shipmates’s house that I was renting a room in. This guy served on the Halibut, the first SSBN equipped with Regulus cruise missiles, and the early Polaris boats, and had a bunch of crazy sea stories. But he was very low key, kept to himself, and every day around lunch time he came outside with a lawn chair and a cooler full of beers and sat under a big willow tree in his backyard and drank beers. And that was it. The guy had worked hard and given a lot in service and that’s all he wanted in return was some peace and quiet and to sit around and drink beer.

Regarding smart officers listening to their senior enlisted , I’m trying to impress that upon the young lady I used to coach who is in Naval ROTC and my neighbor’s son who is in Air F orce ROTC.

Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo > Snuze: Needs another Swede 04/17/2020 at 13:06

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I didn’t mean to imply that the retirees were nobody, but, as you say, unless they don’t have or don’t want to have anything else to do. I have a good friend at church whose dad retired as an E8 or E9 from the Air Force and never amounted to anything else in life. I think of an E8 first sergeant who made sergeant major who I cannot imagine ever doing anything else. The guy was sociopathic.

The smart LT or JG wins the confidence of their chief if they want to succeed. The senior enlisted is an important trainer of junior officers and smart officers of every grade recognize that fact. If the troops love their chief, and the chief follows the officer, then you have a healthy system. But officers get insecure.

Snuze: Needs another Swede > Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo 04/17/2020 at 13:31

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I work with a retired E-8 Sonar Tech who just eats, sleeps, lives, and breaths this stuff. In fact he’s pinch hitting on a report for me right now after the other author got sidelined at home due to Corona. I’m both excited and nervous - I’m happy he’s on the team but I am hoping I live up to his expectations, even though I’m the report lead!  

The interesting thing, though, is at this job I think he’s very happy and content being an analyst and not having to “lead”, which often times equates to babysitting. I think he had enough of that on active duty - he retired as the Chief sonarman for my sub squadron, and left just before I arrived.

The world takes all types though, and I work with quite a few vets, both officer and enlisted types, but also a lot of brilliant civilians. I’m really fortunate in that regard.  

Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo > Snuze: Needs another Swede 04/17/2020 at 13:45

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It’s good. Working with 8th graders would help me greatly in working with junior enlisted. When I was an E-5, young and inexperienced, I whined a lot, but I also worked really hard and the guys always saw me doing something and staying busy and they kind of realized that I already did whatever I might be asking them to do. I was an E-5 (buck sergeant) for one year before I got out and it was definitely my best year. But in all that time, and I was promoted out of the ranks and supervised the guys I’d already been working with, I only ever once had to pull my rank on one of them, Melvin Anderson, a good friend, and he came back later and apologized for being stubborn. I was like, “No worries! Love you, Bro!”

There’s a TV show Missus and I watched recently that I need to tell you about, if I haven’t already. Gotta find it first.

Snuze: Needs another Swede > Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo 04/17/2020 at 13:59

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My first Chief on the boat, his name was Roger, he was this redneck guy from Arkansas or something. He was crazy, but a hell of a hard worker. But he had made Chief on the boat and they didn’t have a billet for him, and the previous Chief was up to rotate out, so he just stayed. That is very, very uncommon in the Navy, for someone to make E-7 and stay at a command more than maybe a month or two while they look for new orders, let alone stay on as replacement for the previous E-7. And it’s for the reason you mentioned, it’s hard to lead your friends.

Well I’d been there about a year, and we got a new COB (Chief of the Boat, E-9 type). It REALLY burned him up that Roger stayed on the boat - it broke tradition, E-div was a mess, our morale was terrible, blah blah blah. We loved Roger and as far as I know none of us ever put him in the position that he had to pull his rank. (In my case he’d made Chief before I got to the boat so I didn’t know him as an E-6). Anyways, the new COB moved heaven and earth to get Roger orders to another boat. So our COB thinks he’s done this great thing when lo and behold, his replacement shows up. I’d prefer not to speak ill, so let’s just say this guy was not well liked or respected, he lacked as a leader of men and as a technical expert - a good Chief in the Navy needs to be both. One of our guys had sailed on this guy’s previous ship and swore up and down they must have promoted him specifically to get him off that ship.

During one particular grueling underway period, when the COB and this new Chief were at each others throats, it was with much glee that word was passed from another junior E-div’er what he’d witnessed in the smoke pit in the wee morning hours of the watch... the COB pacing back and forth, chain smoking, and muttering to himself “God damn this guy... I wish I could get Roger back...”

It was a small victory for us in E-div that day.