******A1 cores!

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Right... this is really starting to hack me off. It seems that for the last three weeks or so, about 70% of the time, all of my boxes are picking up A1 cores (I'm exclusively linux - so these cores are not common).

For anyone who doesn't know, the native linux smp cores (A2) and the new A3 cores are easily twice as efficient as the A1s.... so my production has dropped by two thirds because of this!!

Does anyone know how to ban these abominations from my farm?!!
 
Write a script that detects which core you're running then trash the work folder if it is an A1 :p

Disclaimer: I do not condone this course of action nor do I have any idea how Vijay Pande, and his friends, with their planks of wood with rusty, rusty nails found out who you are and where you live.


:p
 
I feel your pain :(


Edit: Unfortunately, trashing the work folder is unlikely to work if my recent efforts are anything to go by (on Windows though) :rolleyes:
 
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SiriusB said:
Write a script that detects which core you're running then trash the work folder if it is an A1 :p
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Lol - I actually did that on one box, but it sat and cycled A1's constantly for an hour until I gave up (hell, it's better getting 2k ppd than nothing, right?)
 
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Lol - I actually did that on one box, but it sat and cycled A1's constantly for an hour until I gave up (hell, it's better getting 2k ppd than nothing, right?)
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Did you also trash queue.dat? (Or its Linux equivalent)
Else it would keep just redownloading data for the same core :p
 
Hey hang on. No-one is special we all get the same work to do. If you get A1 WUs then that means other people are getting them too. Don't dump WUs it's bad for the science, which is supposed to be the whole point.

Yes they are slower to process and they lower you ppd but when they first came along they were the WUs everyone wanted because they gave you way more ppd. So it's all relative. I couldn't do them until they'd been around for a year because although I had several folding boxes non of them were dual core.

The truth is, that there's a steady trend of more points for less effort on the part of folders and I'm sure they (at Stanford) do it on purpose to keep long term people interested. Every so often you start getting a lot more points for the same investment.

Now we have new A3 WUs it's not that you get less with A1 it's that A3 gives you more. So look on the bright side that we now can get A3 WUs which can boost your ppd. The A1 units need to be done and once the projects involved with them are complete they will stop being sent out. If everyone starts dumping them they'll just last longer.

From Evil Alchemist @ HardOCP:
A1 - Just deal with it
There seems to be a flood of A1 units being assigned to everyone --> Windows & Linux
Yes, it does suck getting the lower PPD, but these need to be completed.
Since it is dropping everyone points per day, we are all in this together.

My best guess is Stanford has raised their priority to get them completed and done with.
No offical word yet from F@H admins but this makes sence.

Please do not delete the WUs in the hope of getting a different one.
It just makes it worse for everyone else.

Fold what you get --> Faster we complete them , the faster they go away forever.
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All that's fair enough, but.. in my case, if I get given an A1 unit, it'll just fail, don't know why. Won't even start trying. It'll redownload it five times, and then it'll go to sleep for 24 hours :mad:
It's not a case of deal with the lower PPD, it's a case of "here, why don't you contribute nothing for 24 hours because one of the cores we're giving you doesn't work properly on your computer" :p
 
Well that's a problem with your computer rather than what work is being sent out. I browse various folding forums and haven't heard of that problem. Are you sure it wasn't just one particular unit that each time you tried to delete it just kept restarting? That's more likely than every A1 unit not working on your PC. Do all other units (non-A1) fold ok?
 
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Well that's a problem with your computer rather than what work is being sent out. I browse various folding forums and haven't heard of that problem. Are you sure it wasn't just one particular unit that each time you tried to delete it just kept restarting? That's more likely than every A1 unit not working on your PC. Do all other units (non-A1) fold ok?
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No, as of yet I'm not entirely sure, but it seems quite likely. What I know is that it failed on an A1 unit, it tried redownloading it several times and kept failing. I deleted the core and work data and got a fresh A1 unit, that also failed. I waited a while, deleted the work data again, got a fresh A1 unit, that failed. I deleted the work data again, got an A3 unit, it worked. There's also only A3 units in the work history of HFM.
 
miniyazz, it sounds like you didn't delete the queue.dat the first two times then you did the third time. This explains the repeating failure, the change to an A3 the third time and the lack of info about A1 WUs in HFM.
 
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miniyazz, it sounds like you didn't delete the queue.dat the first two times then you did the third time. This explains the repeating failure, the change to an A3 the third time and the lack of info about A1 WUs in HFM.
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Hmmm, that's a good point. It's all starting to go hazy now, I can't quite remember the order I did things in, so I'll have to wait until it happens again to figure it out.
 
Heh - seven quad core Xeons, all but one doing A1 cores, each having completed roughly 20-25 of pretty much exclusively A1 cores...

And for all those who say "don't dump a WU unless it's broken"... I do have a few boxes chewing through these ;)

Ah well, I suppose it's just a case of "suck it up and wait".
 
.walls make sure you are running the SMP client version 6.29. Scroll to the top of your Terminal/Dos window to check the version.

Same advice to you Concorde (welcome back :))
 
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.walls make sure you are running the SMP client version 6.29. Scroll to the top of your Terminal/Dos window to check the version.

Same advice to you Concorde (welcome back :))
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Definitely the latest version, downloaded once to one machine and then scp'd to the rest of them and I've seen two of the machines picking up A3 WUs, but the majority of them are A1.
 
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