Giant WUs?

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Please could someone point me to the requirements for picking up the 25k point WUs? I may be about to build something suitable....
 
I believe it is a command line switch, from some poking around:

Code: 
./fah6 -bigadv -smp 7

With VMWare Player folding and bigadv apparantly it is only stable on 7 cores. But does leave one core free for GPU clients.
 
The announcement and FAQs

Summary:

  • i7 processor (or two) or dual socket 775
  • minimum 0.5GB ram per thread = 4GB min (6GB reccomended, 8GB is more than enough)
  • specify the -bigadv flag (this replaces the -advmethods flag, will misbehave if both are present)
  • 25k per unit + time bonus
  • you may still get normal smp units filtering through aswell
  • the bonus system is linked to the client 'passkey', so if it is a new client you'll have to complete 10 WUs (normal or bigadv) before you'll recieve the bonus points. If it is an previosly used client, then replacing the binary will not reset the counter so you will benifit on your first returned WU
 
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From that announcement it looks like any i7 attempting bigadv would have to be an almost dedicated folder if you want to cash in on the bonus points.

A shame really as I don't fancy spending £1k+ on a new i7 machine and not be able to use it :p
 
I think the reason is if your running a 920 at stock (2.66GHz) then the 4/6 day time limit may be tight depending on usage. However running at 4GHz+ it should more than capable of returning the units much faster than the 'prefered' deadline
 
It is a massive RAM requirement too though. Minimum 0.5GB per core, recommended 0.75GB :eek: On a 6GB machine that doesn't leave you a lot left to use :p

Still, if I ever win the lottery I will buy everyone an octuple-gpu GTX700 rig. That's right, 700. Thinking waaaay in the future here with a win :D
 
If running an i7 at 4.0Ghz it'll breeze the deadlines, JonJ was doing one every 2/3 days :)
 
Thanks, folks. It looks like I have to run the dreaded penguin so I'm downloading 9.10 right now. Haven't decided yet whether to run it native or see if one of the virtual options will handle enough cores. Final question for now - do I make up a passkey or are they issued by Stanford?
 
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