HOWTO: Use FAH v8 Resource Groups for individual slot-like control

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HOWTO: Use FAH v8 Resource Groups for individual slot-like control

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FAH v8 has 'Resource Groups', that can be setup like FAH v7 'slots' on a local PC to partition your resources.
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In the configuration settings, Resource Groups can be added with a forward slash "/" and name, in the 'Peers' section:
The Resource Group names can only contain: letters, numbers, period ".", underscore "_", or hyphen "-".
Multiple entries can be added as a space separated list like: /RG1 /RG2
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Then, save the configuration settings, and there will be configuration settings for 'per Resource Group' controls that can be adjusted independently.
Each Resource Group will have independent Start or Pause controls:
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For GPU folding, current Work Units can only use (1) CPU + (1) GPU to do a Work Unit. Any additional CPU resources specified will be used for CPU folding.
Future Work Units may be able to use all the resources you specify to do a single Work Unit, which is why Resource Groups are not being used by default for FAH v8.
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Re: HOWTO: Use FAH v8 Resource Groups for individual slot-like control

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Updated instructions for FAH v8.3.1:
'Resource Groups' can be setup like FAH v7 'slots' on a local PC to partition your resources.
In the Settings for the machine:
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Resource Groups can be added with a name:
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Select each Resource Group to edit the settings for it:
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Then, save the configuration settings.
Once setup, there will be an independent Start or Pause button for each Resource Group:
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NOTE: 'GPU only' Folding resource groups should no longer include 1 CPU resource in the settings.
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Re: HOWTO: Use FAH v8 Resource Groups for individual slot-like control

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Thanks for explaining that. To be honest, it looks like something that was useful and basic in V7 (independent management of CPU and GPU folding) is quite complicated in V8.
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I think v8.3.1 resource groups can be named almost anything.
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They are trimmed of leading and trailing white space.
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You can now only specify one group to create in the v8.3 Web Control. At a time.
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I thought that v8 was supposed to get rid of slot concept, but here are the resources groups which are even more complex to understand/use ... :roll:
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If you want to use resource groups with v8.3.4+, you may need to click a small lock icon at lower right of Settings view.
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