I'm thinking about joining the folding effort with the new system I built, to test out its stability and stuff.
I read about this flag that is to be enabled on 8- and higher thread machines which gives extra point bonuses for completing work faster... My understanding is that even with an overclocked 2500K I've only got 4 threads so I won't be able to get these bonus points. Would I have half the ppd compared to if I got a 2600K?
Edit: I did some more reading... bigadv is probably out of my reach since I actually want to use the computer. But I'm supposed to be able to pull somewheres in the neighborhood of 20K ppd with the 2500K.
It seems like the default client only runs on one core, I'm getting 25% CPU utilization. I guess I need to set up the SMP client? Should I uninstall the default client? I am supposed to get more points if I run the SMP client, than if I were to try to run 4 instances of the regular client, yes? I did some back-of-envelope calculations and extrapolating the performance of my single threaded computation I get about 8000 ppd if I were to run 4 instances.
My GTX 260 is not a Fermi, does that mean I can't use GPU3? Looks like I can only expect my 260 to pump out 6-7000 ppd. I might not even bother if that's the case: it's not nearly as much as the CPU and consumes a similar amount of power. GPU's are supposed to have more compute power, even this one that's a few gens old. I guess the complex nature of protein folding simulation makes it difficult to harness all of it.
From the looks of it there's a much better chance of better folding results from the next generation of nvidia GPU's, which should be enough to push me to choose one of them over AMD 7900 series. Unless AMD cuts prices. A lot.