Nemesis11
Power Member
Does the FAH GPU client run the same WU’s as the regular FAH client?
No, the GPU will run a set of WU’s specially constructed for Core_10 ’s new functionality. While the Core_10 WU's use the same file format as Gromacs WU's, the scientific code which performs the calculation is different and the WU's for Core_10 will yield incorrect results if run with Gromacs (and vice versa).
How will points be awarded? What kind of impact do we expect this to have on work units and Folding team scores?
We will continue to award points in the same method as we’ve always used in Folding@Home. To award points for a WU, the WU is run on a benchmark machine. The points are currently awarded as 110 points/day as timed on the benchmark machine. We will continue with this method of calibrating points by adding an ATI X1900XT GPU to the new benchmark machine (otherwise, without a GPU, we could not benchmark GPU WU's on the benchmark machine!). Since Core_10 GPU WU's cannot be processed on the CPU alone, we must assign a new set of points for GPU WUs, and we are setting that to 440 points/day to reflect the added resources that GPU donors give to FAH.
Para quem está interessado nos pontos, e se estou a perceber bem a FAQ, só vale a pena correr o cliente Gpu quem não conseguir 4 X a máquina base do Folding (PIV 2.8 sem SSE, se não estou em erro).
Outra coisa é que não se podem comparar WU Cpu com as feitas num Gpu, porque elas só correm ou numa ou noutra.
Client looks like it is using lots of CPU time: Graphics drivers must poll the GPU to see if it is done. This will look like a lot of CPU time being used, but nothing is really being done, so one can run other relatively CPU heavy code at the same time. However, we do not recommend running multiple FAH clients, as this can significantly slow down the GPU client.
Tenho ideia que o uso cpu por parte dos drivers ia ser bastante reduzido com o Dx10.
Alguem já tentou correr o cliente no Vista para ver se há alguma diferença? (Por enquanto duvido, mas quem sabe.....).