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Looks like the Days of SMP Points are numbered
Posted: Mon May 26, 2008 6:46 pm
by dicecca112
Re: Looks like the Days of SMP Points are numbered
Posted: Mon May 26, 2008 11:04 pm
by martini161
this is stupid. a quad does a lot more for science than a single so why not give them more points?
Re: Looks like the Days of SMP Points are numbered
Posted: Tue May 27, 2008 1:08 pm
by Apoptosis
Because GPU folding on NVIDIA graphics cards is going to pretty slick... I've seen the client run in person and the performance on the upcoming NVIDIA cards looks good... I can't wait to see what the points will be for them.
Re: Looks like the Days of SMP Points are numbered
Posted: Tue May 27, 2008 1:09 pm
by dicecca112
martini161 wrote:this is stupid. a quad does a lot more for science than a single so why not give them more points?
Each client does the same amount of work, its just have fast does it do it. Right now GPU does it the fastest, but its limited in the projects it can run. That being said, I agree, but this has been a long time coming. I'd say this time next year, the points will be rebalanced.
Re: Looks like the Days of SMP Points are numbered
Posted: Fri May 30, 2008 9:38 am
by vicaphit
Folding with a quad will still net you more points because you can get each WU done faster, and therefore, you can start working on the next while a single core is still working on the first.
Re: Looks like the Days of SMP Points are numbered
Posted: Sun Jun 01, 2008 1:58 pm
by sbinh
If you run 2 SMP clients on Quad, you might get higher score?
Re: Looks like the Days of SMP Points are numbered
Posted: Sun Jun 01, 2008 2:06 pm
by dicecca112
not possible you need to run it with a VM and one regular
Re: Looks like the Days of SMP Points are numbered
Posted: Sun Jun 01, 2008 2:31 pm
by sbinh
It is possible ... that's what I am running now.
With AffinityChanger, you can do that with no problem.
Re: Looks like the Days of SMP Points are numbered
Posted: Sun Jun 01, 2008 2:45 pm
by dicecca112
oh right the new version of Fah allows you to specify # of cores. I totally forgot
Re: Looks like the Days of SMP Points are numbered
Posted: Sun Jun 01, 2008 2:57 pm
by sbinh
I am running 5.9.1 ... which is pretty much new version (newest 5.9.2 beta).
I don't see any option to specify # of cores....
This application : FAH SMP Affinity Changer ( _http://code.google.com/p/fah-smp-affinity-changer/ ) would help to run 2 SMP clients on 1 machine (Quad)
Re: Looks like the Days of SMP Points are numbered
Posted: Sun Jun 01, 2008 3:15 pm
by martini161
this is the same setup i run. used to give me 3k aday, but now that im only running at 2.4ghz its only 2.5 or so
Re: Looks like the Days of SMP Points are numbered
Posted: Tue Jun 03, 2008 1:55 am
by werewolfdaddy
Apoptosis wrote:Because GPU folding on NVIDIA graphics cards is going to pretty slick... I've seen the client run in person and the performance on the upcoming NVIDIA cards looks good... I can't wait to see what the points will be for them.
I have an 8800 gtx chomping at the bit to get at a few WU's. Still no ETA, right?