Reminder - watch your flags!!

[gnewbury]

Remember to watch your flags and .cfg files.
I've had .cfg files occasionally overwritten
and on occasion the flags change.
And if you are running the later P4's and can run the QMD's I think there is a 50% bonus on them.

Why are some projects given significantly more points than others? Certain projects require substantially more donor computer resources than others, either in terms of more disk space, more network transfer, or more RAM used. By default, these work units are given out to clients which opt in to request them. To reward those donors for donating resources beyond the typical client, we currently give bonus points for these larger work units.



How big are bonus points? Currently the bonus points are a 50% increase over the standard benchmark point determination (described above). Please note that this value is subject to change.



How do I configure my client to get bonus point WUs? Please see our configuration FAQ for these details.



Is there any risk of taking on bonus point work units? These work units are larger and more experimental: for example, they often involve new cores, such as the QMD core. Thus, they are more experimental. Thus, one should not run big work unit clients on non-dedicated machines. The bonus points are a reward for giving more resources to FAH and so one should not be surprised that these work units are very intrusive and take the complete resources of the machine.

 

[Mohonri]

It seems to me that the bonus is significantly more than 50% for me. My AthlonXP 1800 gets about 75ppd on a normal Gromacs, but when I get a 600-pointer (been getting a lot of them lately on that box), it gets almost 150ppd.

That makes it an even bigger incentive to enable those big WUs and advmethods...