Use of ECC memory in F@h

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lucas-pl
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Use of ECC memory in F@h

Post by lucas-pl »

Hello and sorry if this question has already been asked - I couldn't find any topics.
Can Folding@home take any advantage of ECC memory installed on my computer? I'm asking this, because I recently got myself an old, used Telsa GPU, which has ECC VRAM, and since ECC is totally unnecessary in my field of work (3D rendering and architectural design) I've simply disabled it (from what I see it can significantly affect render times).
I use the Tesla as a secondary GPU to speed up rendering.
Can I leave ECC disabled or should enable it when I contribute to F@h?
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Re: Use of ECC memory in F@h

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Welcome to Folding@Home!

You can leave it disabled. If you start getting errors, then try it enabled, but I bet you don't.
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Re: Use of ECC memory in F@h

Post by Joe_H »

The calculations and client take into consideration that F@h is being run on consumer grade systems. If errors in reading RAM do occur, in most cases that will result in a crash of the folding core or exit on another error type. The client will restart the WU at the last checkpoint.

ECC RAM may avoid that occasional error and restart, but is otherwise not necessary for F@h.
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