Recent content by Zagen30

The new v7 client primarily benefits Kepler on the Nvidia side and 7000 series and newer cards on the AMD side. This is not really due to the improvements in the client (the client itself doesn't do any calculations) but because the new GPU core (core 17) that came out about a year ago only...

From the description you must be running a core 17 WU right now, as there's no way you could be getting 200k PPD if the GPU was processing a core 15 WU. The usage drops you're seeing are probably the core doing its checkpointing, and that's normal behavior. The one flag that would be...

Patriot, do the E7s work in the same socket as the SB E5s?

No, I don't remember that. I may have been folding since 2007, but I wasn't actively involved with the forums until mid-2008, and I probably wasn't paying much attention to GPU issues until mid-2009, when I finally bought a GPU that could actually fold a WU to completion. I didn't join a major...

What are these four episodes? In the discussions over the BA changes/eventual cancellation, several people have mentioned something to the effect of "they do this over and over," but I haven't actually seen these events enumerated. I've been with the project since 2007, and here's the...

There is no point bonus for folding beta WUs, be they CPU or GPU. Never has been, and I doubt there ever will be. Usually it's the opposite, where projects just entering beta have been poorly benchmarked and earn low PPD until enough beta testers say that it's low compared to what they're used...

One question about having mods be eligible for recall: what would be the quorum for the vote to count? If you set a 75% approval threshold, but only 12 people bothered to vote and 9 said yes, is that really enough to remove someone? There's around 9700 registered members on FF, but I don't...

BA may be time-sensitive and cutting-edge, but I have to think that a large part of their decision to end BA in a year is that it doesn't make up a large percentage of the total work they do, and the drama it caused was disproportionate to the usefulness of the results. There's only been...

I think they ended it because of the amount of drama it caused vs. the amount of their research it actually made up. It seems like 90% of the major griping over the past few years has related to BA when at any given time only a few hundred contributors were actually running it, and in total...

A major announcement:

You're not the first one to suggest this, and I like the concept. I'm not sure how closely it aligns with PG's plans, but it would eliminate the massive point drop that comes with being booted out of bigadv. I would guess that most people folding bigadv aren't particularly interested in the...

For me, at least, pausing and restarting the slots resets the retry timer. I didn't need to reboot the whole machine. I think the increase of time between requests is in large part to not overload work servers that have just come back online. At first, a lack of response could be a...

There's over 200,000 SMP WUs waiting to be assigned according to the server status page, and that's just the current gens. There's got to be tens of millions of WUs to get to the end of the all those runs. Even with a very coordinated effort, I don't think the folding community is going to run...

This is very true. On the couple of occasions that my Intel 4P has picked up a regular SMP WU, it's done around 200k PPD. You can now do better than that with a 780 Ti or 290X, and those are far cheaper than an Intel 4P.

They are almost equal. I have v7 running on my 4P 4650, and I get just about the same frame times as others with the same setup on v6. I have the Kraken and a ramdisk set up; I think the only optimization missing is you guys' kernel.