F@H: New 1000 series work units

[r0tt3n1]

Recently, Stanford has put some new WU's into the mix. The 1000 series WU's all use the Gromac's core. Some of these, the 1001-1009 series , are a new form of "superhelix" protein being studied by the F@H project.
Even tho the 1000 series have a high atom count, my main rig is crunching a 1011 WU with frame times of only 5:08! The bad thing is my old Duron 850mhz nabbed one and had frame times of 67:07, over an hour!(the stats junkie in me comes shining thru...)
I never saw any notice of the new series, just checked my logs and there it was..........
There has been some tremendous growth in the F@H project lately also. The CPU count probably pales compared to SETI, but over 120,000 CPU's crunching for F@H is an awesome accomplishment!

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[RustyNale]

Wow! Thanks for the heads up

 

[soni]

How are the client when installed as a service?

Do they change/update the client often?

 

[ProviaFan]

Originally posted by: soni
How are the client when installed as a service?

Do they change/update the client often?

Two of my (three) systems run F@H as a NT Service, and it almost never needs attention (the only reason I have to mess with my clients on rare occasion is because they get "stuck" units when my dialup connection doesn't autodial properly; note that this wouldn't be a problem with broadband, because the client will keep trying to send in a "stuck" unit every 6 hours until it gets through).

The client isn't updated very frequently, but it does seem to get new minor versions faster than SETI sometimes.

 

[r0tt3n1]

Originally posted by: soni
How are the client when installed as a service?

Do they change/update the client often?

Stanford has a new client in BETA for a while before issuing it to the general public. They get input and feedback from thier forums, people send in requests, possible problems etc...
As far as I can remember (that could speel trouble..), there have been 2 client releases this year.
Due to the exacting nature of the results needed from the client, Stanford doesnt put a lot of frills into the client, and the clients are quite stable. As jliechty points out, an ongoing issue with the client is that it is more optimized for a broadband connection. Since some 70% of inernet users are still using dial-up, seems they would address more of those issues......
Since the current iteration of F@H started a couple of yrs ago, the clients have been good and stable, albiet a bit spartan on features.

Anyone else have frame times for the 1000 series WU's yet??

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