So yesterday I got home to all my GPU3 clients hung for the next 24 hours, because Stanford released a new WU without updating the core to support them. Seems that the new core was available a couple hours after release of the WUs (Stanford, this is an example of Piss Poor Planning). Good to see that you are consistent in making poor decisions.......
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These new WUs are:
Project P7620 and P7621.
5187 Points per WU
Results?
HOT as F#$K!!!!! my GTX570s are at 85% fan speed and 85C on stock clocks........
Hungry..... my sig rig is now drawing 1100W from the wall... up from 890W
but more interestingly is how they affect the SMP bigadv WU on the 970.....
settings -smp 10 -bigadv
Frame times down to 25:30 from 27:30
Yes... 2 minutes a frame improvement if you run these new WUs, in fact the frame time of the SMP seems to be independent of the GPU WU, With all GPU clients hung, it was almost the identical frame time as with the 3 GPUs folding the new WUs
Now I don't have time to run experiments as I have to go to work and do other stuff, but anyone with GPU3 hardware could you please test if we can stop gimping our i7s by using -smp 6 and -smp 10 to make room for our GPUs? The PPD increase could be worth it.
Bench marks for the record
17KPPD on a GTX570, about 4:26 a frame (and even my "slow" GTX570 gets the full PPD instead of 2KPPD less than the "fast" one, thank god Stanford, seems you fixed this problem)
8850PPD on a GTX460, these WU Kill 460s.... 8:26 a frame at best with major slowdowns up to 30min a frame.... it might not be worth it to fold on 460s any more based on PPDPW My 460 has yet to complete it's first WU 11 hours later.....
I'm not sure why these numbers work out the way they do, I don't have the time to do extensive research, but maybe we can collectively figgure out the best way to make the most of them.
</SOAPBOX>
These new WUs are:
Project P7620 and P7621.
5187 Points per WU
Results?
HOT as F#$K!!!!! my GTX570s are at 85% fan speed and 85C on stock clocks........
Hungry..... my sig rig is now drawing 1100W from the wall... up from 890W
but more interestingly is how they affect the SMP bigadv WU on the 970.....
settings -smp 10 -bigadv
Frame times down to 25:30 from 27:30
Yes... 2 minutes a frame improvement if you run these new WUs, in fact the frame time of the SMP seems to be independent of the GPU WU, With all GPU clients hung, it was almost the identical frame time as with the 3 GPUs folding the new WUs
Now I don't have time to run experiments as I have to go to work and do other stuff, but anyone with GPU3 hardware could you please test if we can stop gimping our i7s by using -smp 6 and -smp 10 to make room for our GPUs? The PPD increase could be worth it.
Bench marks for the record
17KPPD on a GTX570, about 4:26 a frame (and even my "slow" GTX570 gets the full PPD instead of 2KPPD less than the "fast" one, thank god Stanford, seems you fixed this problem)
8850PPD on a GTX460, these WU Kill 460s.... 8:26 a frame at best with major slowdowns up to 30min a frame.... it might not be worth it to fold on 460s any more based on PPDPW My 460 has yet to complete it's first WU 11 hours later.....
I'm not sure why these numbers work out the way they do, I don't have the time to do extensive research, but maybe we can collectively figgure out the best way to make the most of them.