Where are all the folders?

Good to see you around again, Rich! Glad that things are working out.

I'm disappointed that there's mostly no 'art' to Folding any more. It used to be about overclocking your CPU and memory, tweaking your OS, fiddling about with processes, trying to get the right WUs... now you get a mediocre rig and stuff a GPU or two in it, and outproduce all but the best CPU systems. When there aren't any problems or ways of eking more speed out, there's nowt to talk about! This happened when BOINC came out too. Everything was so simple and so automated that it just got forgotten about.

-bigadv WUs are pretty interesting. But SMP already needs too much commitment for a lot of people, and -bigadv is just insane. 8 cores and 4GB+ RAM usage only appeals to the people who build dedicated foldy rigs. It's a matter for the big guns rather than a community effort. The old uniprocessor client is essentially worthless now, so the days when you could just borg anything are gone :(
 
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heh.. Mattus the folding snob :p

I don't know about you but getting it all working together optimally is pretty hard work still, just look at the threads on new joiners getting going.

Seti wasn't exactly hard in the old days either, it was more about getting as many machines as possible crunching at once that was the dark art in those days.

Now its more about trying to get as much performance out of a single rig, there are plenty of guys here trying to squeeze as much performance out of a single i7 and a couple of GPU's. Then there are the people trying to eke as much ppd with as little power useage as possible. Thats a pretty fun thing to do.

Having done nearly every type of distributed computing under the sun and being one of the oldest of the old on this board, I still get enjoyment out of it.
 
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