Looks like the Days of SMP Points are numbered

Post by **dicecca112** » Mon May 26, 2008 6:46 pm

http://foldingforum.org/viewtopic.php?f ... 655#p23963

A point re-balance project wide is in our future

martini161 · Post by **martini161** » Mon May 26, 2008 11:04 pm

this is stupid. a quad does a lot more for science than a single so why not give them more points?

Post by **Apoptosis** » Tue May 27, 2008 1:08 pm

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.

Post by **dicecca112** » Tue May 27, 2008 1:09 pm

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.

vicaphit · Post by **vicaphit** » Fri May 30, 2008 9:38 am

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.

sbinh · Post by **sbinh** » Sun Jun 01, 2008 1:58 pm

If you run 2 SMP clients on Quad, you might get higher score?

Post by **dicecca112** » Sun Jun 01, 2008 2:06 pm

not possible you need to run it with a VM and one regular

sbinh · Post by **sbinh** » Sun Jun 01, 2008 2:31 pm

It is possible ... that's what I am running now.

With AffinityChanger, you can do that with no problem.

Post by **dicecca112** » Sun Jun 01, 2008 2:45 pm

oh right the new version of Fah allows you to specify # of cores. I totally forgot

sbinh · Post by **sbinh** » Sun Jun 01, 2008 2:57 pm

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)

martini161 · Post by **martini161** » Sun Jun 01, 2008 3:15 pm

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

werewolfdaddy · Post by **werewolfdaddy** » Tue Jun 03, 2008 1:55 am

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?

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