New bigadv project, called "bigbeta" - now Live with bigadv under Linux

[chrisk]

Originally Posted by Rison

Aaah! adjustment!

The bigbeta's have been adjusted for points. My last one was supposidly 430k points according to HFM, however I got credit for 312k.

The good times have come to an end! er well.. it's still awesome points.. just a little more reasonable now. I wish I had my additonal SR2s for the past two weeks though. :(

Pande said as much over at the folding forums. Too many points!

[3.0charlie]

Link? 'cause the points were adjusted back on June 6th, but since then my rig has been stable at 275k ppd (455k points).

edit: base points are still 28384, with a K factor of 26.

[Rison]

hmm. well - that was my assumption because of the low points yield on my last 6903 upload.
There was no wait time to upload the workunit.. perhaps I got gypped of points. Doh. Better than it freezing up on me I guess.

[lowfat]

I really hope these new WU's make their way to windows sooner than later.

[4DoorGTZ]

Had one wildly varying 6903 today (R6 C0 G6) tpf anywhere between 14-22mins 80% done and still looks like 530k so still about the same when averaged out.

[stoanee]

Originally Posted by lowfat

I really hope these new WU's make their way to windows sooner than later.

Roger that, I simply have no time to switch to Linux.

[chrisk]

Originally Posted by stoanee

Roger that, I simply have no time to switch to Linux.

Agreed. I have two rigs that can fold like teh wind, and I converted my folding box over to Linux just for this project, but the main rig will have to stay Windows (so I am missing out on ~60k)

[lowfat]

Originally Posted by chrisk

Agreed. I have two rigs that can fold like teh wind, and I converted my folding box over to Linux just for this project, but the main rig will have to stay Windows (so I am missing out on ~60k)

Ya this is my problem. I don't want to run more than one box over the summer. So I'll be doing ~ 120k instead of ~250k.

[Arinoth]

Are there any virtualization programs out there that can run linux inside of windows and allow 12+ threads to operate?

[Rison]

Originally Posted by Arinoth

Are there any virtualization programs out there that can run linux inside of windows and allow 12+ threads to operate?

The VMWare Player is up to 8 threads (older version). VirtualBox can do up to 32 'virtual cpus' - but it isn't very optimized for folding. I setup Debian 5 on VirtualBox, but it doesn't have a high speed VMBus type arch like ESXi / VMware has.. so when I tried to fold with it for shits and giggles.. it didn't result in very good performance. I didn't really look much further into it at the time.