Folding @ Home Overhaul

[Joe DeFuria]

Thought this deserved it's own thread...

http://www.stanford.edu/group/pandegroup/folding/news.html

/18/2004 New reference machine for FAH points determination (UPDATED 5pm Pacific Time)
We have rolled out our new points determination system. The advantages are:

There will be much more standardization for points and deadlines.

The points and deadlines will be determined on a more modern machine (2.8GHz P4), although they will be scaled to match current Gromacs projects.
What is the upshot of all of this? Put simply, Tinker WU points are about to go way up, Gromacs will be mostly the same, and there will be less fluctuation between projects. All currently running projects will be re-evaluated and all new WUs received will benefit from this change.

It's about time.

Now even Simon should be able to fold!

 

[Gollum]

So basically that's supposed to mean that all default client installations should manage to fold equally effective, and using flags to recieve special types of units won't make that much of a difference anymore, correct?

 

[Joe DeFuria]

So basically that's supposed to mean that all default client installations should manage to fold equally effective, and using flags to recieve special types of units won't make that much of a difference anymore, correct?

I believe (don't quote me on this), there is one exception:

There's a noew type of unit: "double Gromac" (DGromac)....and I think this type of unit will fold faster on an SSE2 enabled machine than not. In other words, it doesn't matter if you're folding "Gromacs vs. Tinkers vs. DGromac" units...you get a similar amount of credit per time........UNLESS you have a SSE2 capabale machine. In that case, you get more bang out of folding DGromacs, compared to either Tinkers or Gromacs