******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?!!
 
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?)
 
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".
 
verbal said:
.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.
 
WOOT!!!!

OK, so after what feels like forever (well over a month anyway) of solid core A1's I'm back up to speed (stats still updating), so I'll start off by issuing one of these to Sir-Les-MP:

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Which will be followed by one of these

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To Bigstan / Stan_Lite.

I know that Stan is out of the game for a bit.... but I'm sure he's reading this ;)
 
OK - so stats still updating... and it looks like stan is going to be first with a huge drop from four and a half weeks to two and a half... which puts him just in front of Les (although, unless something silly happens in the mean time, it will be A LOT sooner than that for both of them ;))

EDIT: this is only temporary (I have other things to be doing with this kit!), but I need to make up lost ppd etc ;)

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