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Leadman584
Limp Gawd
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Been runnin a steady diet of Tinkers for couple of weeks on faster machine (still take 35 hours to complete), but today, got a weird one. 100 steps, nearly 15 minutes a step, and it chews up roughly 150MB or RAM. Logfile description is, Gromac Core Ver. 1.67. Protein is P1301_1RYP_AAAA_UM. Out of curiosity went to Folding@Home to see what this monster is. Got the following info on News page, and thought you guys would be interested.
" 8/20/2004 New projects: P130x
We have some new exciting projects just being released. They are unlike any project we've done before and "break" some of the normal FAH rules:
1. They're a lot bigger than the normal FAH WUs in terms of the RAM they take (hundreds of MB) and the net transfer (~5MB). To keep them only in the hands of those who have the resources for them, they require the "big WU" switch in the v5 client, enough RAM, and enough netbandwidth.
2. Since they take more resources, there is are bonus points associated with them (right now, a 50% bonus over the standard benchmark value). This value may increase or change if needed.
3. One other way that these WUs are different is that they are more likely to EARLY_END. Don't be surprised if this happens and don't worry: they are still scientifically important and clients get partial credit for the fraction completed.
This is new ground for FAH, which is scientifically very exciting. I hope to have some important new results to report in January, once these WUs have run for a few months."
By the numbers I'm seeing, If the project completes (see Stanford statement above), one of these honkers should complete in @ 26HRS, on my machine. Obviously AMD's, MACS will take less time. Kinda curious as to how big the 50% bonus is. OK, I see there is a passing mention of the things, can't hurt to have the Stanford statement here. I set the bigpackets option (obviously) and use -local -advmethods and -forceasm flags. Hopefully this will help get more of these things in the hands of [H]orde teammates. Gotta go upgrade my old Rig to 5.02 core, maybe get another of these. Got tons of RAM on both of these machines, both on cable.
" 8/20/2004 New projects: P130x
We have some new exciting projects just being released. They are unlike any project we've done before and "break" some of the normal FAH rules:
1. They're a lot bigger than the normal FAH WUs in terms of the RAM they take (hundreds of MB) and the net transfer (~5MB). To keep them only in the hands of those who have the resources for them, they require the "big WU" switch in the v5 client, enough RAM, and enough netbandwidth.
2. Since they take more resources, there is are bonus points associated with them (right now, a 50% bonus over the standard benchmark value). This value may increase or change if needed.
3. One other way that these WUs are different is that they are more likely to EARLY_END. Don't be surprised if this happens and don't worry: they are still scientifically important and clients get partial credit for the fraction completed.
This is new ground for FAH, which is scientifically very exciting. I hope to have some important new results to report in January, once these WUs have run for a few months."
By the numbers I'm seeing, If the project completes (see Stanford statement above), one of these honkers should complete in @ 26HRS, on my machine. Obviously AMD's, MACS will take less time. Kinda curious as to how big the 50% bonus is. OK, I see there is a passing mention of the things, can't hurt to have the Stanford statement here. I set the bigpackets option (obviously) and use -local -advmethods and -forceasm flags. Hopefully this will help get more of these things in the hands of [H]orde teammates. Gotta go upgrade my old Rig to 5.02 core, maybe get another of these. Got tons of RAM on both of these machines, both on cable.
