acruxksa
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 Posted: Fri, 09 Oct 2009 14:44:55 Post Subject: |
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| thegrub wrote: | | acruxksa wrote: | Just can't give up without a fight, Got a dual Xeon LGA 1366 board, a pair of xeon E5520 quad core cpu's and 12gb of DDR3 on the way. Can you say -bigadv work units?  |
But how fast will it turn over those large jobs? Let us know. or maybe it will be self evident  . |
New dual processor system with a pair of Xeon e5520's is chugging along at a respectable pace. It seemed to get off to a rather slow start with the first 3 or 4 percentage points taking about 45minutes each, but has been cruising along at just over 29minutes a percent for the last 8 or 9 with an overall average of just under 35minutes per. This should easily get me in under the 3day limit and qualify for bonus points. It seems that i920's oc'd to above 3.5Ghz should have no trouble making the bonus deadline either, so anyone out there with an i920 running over 3.5Ghz (aren't they all running at like 3.6Ghz - 4+Ghz?) might want to look into the -bigadv units. It does require a full linux install, but you can still run the GPU core's via Wine. Here's a little how to I found http://www.evga.com/FORUMS/tm.asp?m=100935188 for anyone interested in giving it a shot. I skipped the gpu part and went down to setting up -bigadv on my ubuntu-9.10-server-amd64 installation and it works fine. You do need to visit http://folding.stanford.edu/English/FAQ-passkey and get your passkey, which apparently can be used with all your folding systems.
The bigadv work units are about 25,000 pts per and if you complete them in less than 3 days you qualify for bonus points which are on a sliding scale based on how fast you turn them in, but in my case should be enough to give me about a 20,000ppd average.
**Should also add that I need to complete 10 bigadv work units before I start receiving bonus's, so that won't be happening for about 4 weeks***
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