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

[3.0charlie]

Originally Posted by Rison

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.

I second and tested to the same results.

[Arinoth]

Hmm I may have to look into it more as I may be on the verge of getting myself a 970, though I need it to run on windows (aka virtualization linux) as I can't run two OSes at the exact same time as its going to be my gaming and folding rig.

[chrisk]

You could just run bigadv then inside Windows. If you get the 970 to 4.0ghz you should still be good for ~55k.

[Arinoth]

I was hoping to benefit from the bigbeta but if you are 100% stuck to linux I guess i'd have to go with bigadv instead. Kinda disappointing but what can you do?

[LCB001]

Stanford has adjusted the deadlines for - p6903,

Posted by Kasson;

We are shortening deadline values on 6903:
final deadline now 12 days, preferred deadline 7.2 days, k-factor 38.05.
Further adjustments may follow.

There is also a bigger badder -bigbeta WU in testing - p6904

From a thread posted by may i be worthy (MIBW) over on [H] New bigadv project 6904 - [H]ard|Forum;

by kasson » Mon Jun 20, 2011 3:03 pm

This is very similar to 6903 but will run a little slower.
Base points 39426
Final deadline: 23 days
Preferred: 13.8 days
k-factor 27.58
Requirements: 12+ cores, for now 64-bit Linux only.

Thanks for testing!

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Any bets on this one getting adjusted once it goes live...

[lowfat]

Does the shorter deadline affect how many bonus points you get?

[LCB001]

Originally Posted by lowfat

Does the shorter deadline affect how many bonus points you get?

Looks liked they bumped the k-factor from 26.86 upto 38.05 which should increase the bonus points.

This just came out so there's not much posted on it yet...

[3.0charlie]

Similar adjustment was made on the 6904s:

We're adjusting deadline values:
6904 is now 17 days final deadline, 10.2 days preferred deadline, k-factor 37.31.

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[Rison]

yeah, too bad my systems aren't picking up 6903's.. it's all good and fine, but they be scarce!.

[lowfat]

Anyone remember how to disable the update popup box?