Core count increase required for SMP ??

[Markfw]

My 16 thread box went to A4 cores in the last couple of days, will not get a bigadv anymore. Did they change the requirement to 20 or 24 cores ?

 

[Markfw]

Well, I looked around. and yes, as of May 1st, its 24 core count minimum, and bigadv will stop on Jan 15 2015. So I have spent over $10k on 24 core boxes, and now they are stopping the program ??????

 

[petrusbroder]

It is so sad that they are stopping that incentive ... It makes F@H less attractive.
I was also considering of building a folder with Xeons, but I will reconsider ...

 

[GLeeM]

What is sad is that they don't stop the non-productive experiments much sooner than they do.

There was the special Pentium 4 high point WUs that went nowhere.

How long did they run the first ATI GPU WUs without any good results? All they proved was that they could not do it.

 

[Assimilator1]

I just don't understand why they would want to stop using such high HP rigs on those WUs

 

[Markfw]

I just don't understand why they would want to stop using such high HP rigs on those WUs

Those WU's are going away

 

[Assimilator1]

Oh yea, overlooked that! :$
How much more points did the bigadv give?

Btw, with the mega-rigs you have you'd still be contributing a lot to F@H, isn't that enough? Or am I missing something?

 

[Markfw]

Oh yea, overlooked that! :$
How much more points did the bigadv give?

Btw, with the mega-rigs you have you'd still be contributing a lot to F@H, isn't that enough? Or am I missing something?

Not sure, but it may loose me 500k ppd......and over $10k in mostly (to me) useless hardware.

 

[Assimilator1]

That is a big drop in ppd , but your rigs would still be crunching some serious amounts of F@H! .
So not useless :thumbsup:

 

[GLeeM]

Were you folding for points or to help find a cure for cancer?

If the bigadv WUs are not producing the results they expected, why would you want them to continue? If they are not helping to find a cure for cancer you should be happy they are stopping!

If the project admins finally decided that your hardware would be more productive for finding a cure for cancer by running different WUs you should be happy. If I were you I would be angry that they didn't stop them sooner!

Besides, everyone else is in the same boat, so you will keep the same position you have now

 

[Assimilator1]

I guess it depends why they'll be stopping the bigadv WU, have they said why?

 

[Markfw]

Were you folding for points or to help find a cure for cancer?

If the bigadv WUs are not producing the results they expected, why would you want them to continue? If they are not helping to find a cure for cancer you should be happy they are stopping!

If the project admins finally decided that your hardware would be more productive for finding a cure for cancer by running different WUs you should be happy. If I were you I would be angry that they didn't stop them sooner!

Besides, everyone else is in the same boat, so you will keep the same position you have now

I did it to cure cancer, but aligned my buying with that which would produce the most results. Now I have to start all over in realigning resources, and buy that which makes sense. But I am not a millionaire.....

 

[Assimilator1]

I would of thought your current gear gives near best results?.....