not getting bigadv WU's?

[mikellini]

So I'm not really sure what's up here, I've folded much more than the 10 required WU's, everything is set up properly and I'm running with -smp -bigadv, but I get either around 5000 or 13000 points for my WU's, not getting any big guys. I read somewhere that there's a shortage, but not one over the past 6 days? advmethods is no, everything should be good to go...

[4DoorGTZ]

Depends on your setup, but there are changes in the future..... Bigadv will require more threads and have tighter deadlines, OC'd single sockets wont be capable.

Link: Folding@home

edit: Link changed to original article - SJ

[boggtrotter59]

Originally Posted by mikellini

So I'm not really sure what's up here, I've folded much more than the 10 required WU's, everything is set up properly and I'm running with -smp -bigadv, but I get either around 5000 or 13000 points for my WU's, not getting any big guys. I read somewhere that there's a shortage, but not one over the past 6 days? advmethods is no, everything should be good to go...

Do you have the "Big" setting configured in the client?

[mikellini]

Yes, WU's are set to big. I have 12 threads @ 4.2 GHz so... any other ideas?

[mikellini]

ah, I see that soon we'll need 16 threads? bummer... I could try upgrading to v7 and see if that helps

[boggtrotter59]

Hyperthreading turned on in the bios?

[mikellini]

yep, and all 12 threads are being utilized

[krazyups]

I haven't gotten a bigadv unit in a few days, there might be a shortage.

[MARSTG]

is a bit confusing : this change is for the big beta? or simply regular bigadv units?, mm, seems like the regular bigadv. Bummer, right when I was upgrading to 12 cores. But that also means that all the donors with high powered single socket systems are in the same whole : all i7s and even the Bulldozer, leaving indeed only really powerful machines to do those jobs. I guess too many people trying to cut corners under Linux with those Thubans@4GHz and i5 2500k, because I have seen Zodac as being part of the DAB. And while creating a workaround for that would not be an issue it would be interesting to see what would be the minimum required for a 16 core machine to finish in time. I guess on the upside, we can still hope that Linux will net more PPD than Windows.

[Keywork]

Originally Posted by krazyups

I haven't gotten a bigadv unit in a few days, there might be a shortage.

Same here. It's been several days at this point and my PPD output is showing it lol.