Supply of bigadv WUs dried up?

Mr Biffa posted the same question over on the folding forum's.

Not had a problem myself but seems supply is low:(
 
Noticed at dinner today when I dropped a bigadv at work the next wu that I picked up was a normal smp unit.

Also, I've not really looked before but the result data that it sent back was 100MB, is that normal for bigadv wu's ?
 
Mars and weebeastie (back from the dead) both are on A3's and have been all day.

Picked up a few A3 wu's on Gemini then a 2684 which might as well be for the PPD you get :( especially compared to some A3's

bigadv 2584 = 80K
bigadv 6900 = 140K
6023/50/60/61/67 = 70K
6701 = 13K
Other A3s= 18K
 
Not that I fold Bigadv but I picked up a P6040 yesterday that seems to be a little more intensive.
Currently running 18 mins a frame on 5.5k ppd.

I'm was running a couple of degrees hotter than normal and then a bit on top of that as I've had to bump up Vcore to a couple of BSODs not lot after picking it up
 
Just noticed the mac doing a 2684 now and my i7 doing a 2685 (66k) since 8pm last night.

43 mins per frame on the i7 (gpu client doing 6kppd too maybe slowing it slightly?)
 
Yes gpu does have a bit of an impact on bigadv processing. Depends on the WU and depends on how beefy the processor is. But basically on a HyperThreading i7 you can count on losing the performance of one thread per GPU. When you get to multiple gpus you start to using apps to set affinity for the cpu and gpu, so you setup the folding client to only use 7 threads and then an affinity manager like winAFC to push the cpu client onto the first 7 cpu threads and limit the gpu client to the 8th cpu thread.

You can also see it the other way around when the gpu's don't have enough cpu allocated to feed them their performance drops as well.
 
I'm not seeing any problems with mixed CPU & GPU folding on my new SB rig. I ran -smp 7 initially and definitely noticed the missing core but the GPU (GTX 460) didn't seem to be using any CPU at all. So I went to -smp and got the CPU speed back but I'm not sure the GPU has slowed at all, maybe up to 100PPD if anything.

Oh, and the i7 860 has picked up a 6900 WU at last.
 
Biffa said:
Yes gpu does have a bit of an impact on bigadv processing. Depends on the WU and depends on how beefy the processor is. But basically on a HyperThreading i7 you can count on losing the performance of one thread per GPU. When you get to multiple gpus you start to using apps to set affinity for the cpu and gpu, so you setup the folding client to only use 7 threads and then an affinity manager like winAFC to push the cpu client onto the first 7 cpu threads and limit the gpu client to the 8th cpu thread.

You can also see it the other way around when the gpu's don't have enough cpu allocated to feed them their performance drops as well.
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Indeed, my solo i7 @ 4GHz does 35k all day long now that the GTX295 has been pulled. That is a good 9-10k more than it did with the GPU in there and energy consumption has been cut by approx 5kWh a day. Sure it is producing less overall but the energy consumption is my main concern with electric costs on the rise.

As for BigAdv units I've actually been getting them very consistently recently, especially on the solo i7, which is a bit odd.
 
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