Folding@Home work unit size question

[Thump553]

Nearly all the time my workunits take 100 "frames" (whatever they are) to complete. About two weeks back I had one that took 400 frames (and about two days) to complete. I'm now on frame 187 of my current unit.

I'm assuming this is some normal abberation but thought I should ask in case something is wrong with my setup. Anyone know?

 

[Mr N8]

Its normal. They will take 2-4 days depending on the machine, but you get 150+ points for most of them.

 

[GLeeM]

Hi Thump553!

This is normal. It is a WU called a Tinker. They are usually 400 frames, but can be other sizes. You have done many of the 400 frame Tinkers already - p638 is a Tinker and you have done 69 of them! And 17 p639. And 12 p680. And 45 p692, p693, p694 combined. All of these are 400 frame WUs.

They have been sending out a bunch of Tinkers lately. You can find out information about your WU here: http://vspx27.stanford.edu/psummary.html

Thanks for your GREAT contribution to Folding@Home! 🙂

 

[Sanjoelo]

sometimes get a huge workunit

Me too, but the older I get, the faster it seems to go away...














Sorry. Couldn't resist.

 

[ProviaFan]

Sometimes you can get units that take a very long time to complete. These are usually crunched with the Tinker core (as opposed to the Gromacs core, which is newer and until recently seemed to be used with the majority of work units), and some of them reach 250 points or so. Remember that the amount of points a WU gives are relative to the amount of time it takes to complete (approximately), so you're not loosing out on stats points when you get huge WUs. 🙂

 

[OverVolt]

I get huge WU's all the time but i can finish Tinkers in sometimes less than a day.. anyone else get that?

EDIT: NVM i do about 7minutes/frame on the Tinkers which is 46.667 hours.