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Weird Big Adv

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osrk

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I just loaded Big adv and got my passkey yesterday and my first WU is a bigadv unit, a 25k pointer. I thought I was suppose to crunch 10 regular and then move on to the big adv?
 
no you can crunch 10 big adv WU's.. you just wont get bonus points until after you do your first 10 i believe..
 
sirmonkey is correct. Anyone with enough cores can receive and crunch bigadvs. However, you will not get bonus points for them until you complete 10 A2 or A3 WUs. This is why many folks suggest to let it crunch 10 regular SMP A2 or A3 work units against your passkey before adding the -bigadv flag. The normal units run much faster allowing you to become bonus qualified quicker.
 
Tobit said:
sirmonkey is correct. Anyone with enough cores can receive and crunch bigadvs. However, you will not get bonus points for them until you complete 10 A2 or A3 WUs. This is why many folks suggest to let it crunch 10 regular SMP A2 or A3 work units against your passkey before adding the -bigadv flag. The normal units run much faster allowing you to become bonus qualified quicker.
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what happens if it grabs A1 units though?
 
osrk said:
what happens if it grabs A1 units though?
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If you are running on Linux, it is very unlikely, but possible, that you will get an A1 unit. However, so long as you have the -advmethods flag set, and are running Linux, chances are very high that you will get an A2 or A3 unit. There is plenty of work so unless there is a server problem at Stanford, your biggest risk, you shouldn't get an A1 on a Linux client but yes, it is possible to. However, I haven't seen an A1 on a Linux client in a long time.
 
Tobit said:
If you are running on Linux, it is very unlikely, but possible, that you will get an A1 unit. However, so long as you have the -advmethods flag set, and are running Linux, chances are very high that you will get an A2 or A3 unit. There is plenty of work so unless there is a server problem at Stanford, your biggest risk, you shouldn't get an A1 on a Linux client but yes, it is possible to. However, I haven't seen an A1 on a Linux client in a long time.
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I've been getting A1 projects on two of my notfreds with -advmethods flag on. :|

I think I'll just switch over my remaining clients to the evga vmware image and try to get 10 WU's in quickly. Thanks!
 
Switching to the eVGA VM isn't going to reduce your chances of getting A1 units. If you happen to get a lot of them then you're just a bit unlucky. Fold them and hope that the next batch are A2 or A3 units.
 
Zero82z said:
Switching to the eVGA VM isn't going to reduce your chances of getting A1 units. If you happen to get a lot of them then you're just a bit unlucky. Fold them and hope that the next batch are A2 or A3 units.
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i'm going to have to switch to it eventually and might as well fold bigadv i get 10k ppd without bonus, whereas with two notfreds folding A2 i get 8-9k ppd.
 
A1 WUs are the luck of the draw whether in Windows or Linux. The only difference between the two is in Linux you may receive an occasional A2 WU whereas Windows is limited to only A1 or A3 WUs.
 
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