New rules for advanced methods (-adv flag or config setting)

Yeggstry · 24 Apr 2008 at 07:55

In the near future, we will be releasing some new projects which require a very rapid turn-around time. These are peptide fragment simulations which we are interested in simulating for a time-sensitive collaborative project involving protein structure prediction.

These WUs will go directly to the classic clients running with -advmethods. Non-classic clients (eg SMP, GPU, PS3) will not be affected, as all of these calculations will be run via the AMBER core and only the classic client supports the AMBER core. To reward users for participating in this exciting project, we will be giving a x1.5 bonus in the points awarded. What's the catch? These projects will be less rigorously beta tested, so there will be an increased risk of Early_Unit_End errors. We believe the risk of this is minor (there will likely be a higher rate of early unit ends, especially very early in the WU, but we do not expect client machines to become significantly less stable). However, if you do not wish to participate in this project, just remove the -advmethods setting from your client.

This will not last forever and will likely go back to normal -advmethods usage in a few months. With that said, we do plan other uses for -adv in the future.
NOTE: This is the same setting, whether you use the configuration setting in the Console client or you use the command line flag.

Taken from: http://foldingforum.org/viewtopic.php?f=24&t=2241 . Please note the highlighting

Will be interesting to see what these WUs are like, but 1.5x points over the standard points doesn't seem worth it

shadowscotland · 24 Apr 2008 at 09:10

If its 1.5x the standard amber wu points AMD crunchers will be happy

And it's good to see stanford getting a new 'high profile' project, more science = more wu's.

It depends on points but - this might help balance out the 'proffessional folders' all using the smp/gpu clients. Especially now the wu's are changing to larger, lower ppd and shorter deadline ones.

4/5th of my farm are on standard units - and are whitestar's so I'll sure we're post a thread if we see some new juicy wu's

Snapshot · 25 Apr 2008 at 07:24

Yeah, these are probably the 45xx series that can whip through at 30s per frame on a standard E2140, scoring a mighty 4 points.... :rolleyes:

shadowscotland · 25 Apr 2008 at 09:11

be greatful it's not 2.5pts

And one of those WU's was the only credit I got on other day - my lowest scoreing non-zero production