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QMD's Suspended

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http://forum.folding-community.org/viewtopic.php?t=12753&sid=1252c0bbbf784c97e961208075146457

Originally Posted by Vijay Pande
There have been some questions about the use of flags and FAH's stability and I wanted to make an announcement to try to clear things up.

There are two flags in particular which are to be used with caution. The big WU flag gets big WUs, but these big WUs may be poorly suited for older machines. The bigWU flag combined with advanced methods brings big WUs that are more advanced (QMD"s right now).

Gromacs was originally released as an advanced only WU until we could work things out to make it more stable. By having a flag, one would have to opt in and the default (Tinker in that case) would be stable.

We've kept that philosophy throughout FAH. Right now, Gromacs is stable, but QMD is much less so. QMD is also a big WU, so one has to choose both QMD and advanced methods to get it. BigWU + adv gets highly experimental QMD WUs and they may not work well for all. We suggest that one only use both flags if you're absolutely sure this is what you want (if you're not sure what you want, I would suggest that you don't want QMD's).

We should have been more clear about this, but hopefully this post will help. Due to this confusion, I'm going to suspend QMD's until we can be sure that a significant number of people have gotten the word on this.

So, as a summary, advanced methods is just that -- something which may bring more points, but also more trouble. Please consider this tradeoff when you choose settings.


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Professor Vijay S. Pande, PhD
Director, Folding@Home Distributed Computing Project, and
Assistant Professor of Chemistry and of Structural Biology, Stanford University
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Well that will teach us all huh.
 
Stupid links... Geez, I just setup two boxen for QMD's today just for kicks (bored at work). Its freaky, the same box on normal/gig does 90-245 PPD. On QMD's do 335+ PPD. Not enough RAM to go around.
 
You would think a guy with all that education and a title:

Professor Vijay S. Pande, PhD

would be a bit quicker on the uptake. However, better late then never :D ;)

 
I have been receiving QMD 1912 on my HT for the last 2 months straight. No other units except that. I have had no problems with them. Somebody else has a problem and complains and now they go away.
The needs of the many out weigh the needs of the few.
 
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