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Certain WUs use more resources on your computer and so are worth more points.
They might be larger download and upload, and/or use more memory, and/or use more of the CPU. (You might have to lower an overclock to run these)
Currently BigWUs come from servers with addresses ending in these numbers:
.156 - (600 points / p114*)
.154 - (254-343 points / p13**)
.134 - (364 points / p147*)
.113 - (125 & 450 points / p19** QMD)
To get any of these, you must configure the client to "Allow receipt of work assignments and return of work results greater than 5MB in size" - answer "yes".
To reconfigure the console version: make a shortcut to FAH502-Console.exe by right clicking on it and then click Create Shortcut. Rename the new shortcut to "Configure". Now right click it and select "Properties" so we can add the flags. In the Target textbox, at the end of what is in there add a space, a dash, and configonly. It should look something like this:
C:\DC\fah2\FAH502-Console.exe -local -configonly
This will not run if F@H is already running. It will enter config and quit when done.
There are more flags, -advmethods directs the client to get WUs that are advanced beta WUs that might not be as stable as regular WUs; -forceasm will force the client to always use optimized code on a restart (even if the WU crashed the computer); -local tells the client to not use info in the registry (if you ever installed the GUI); -verbosity 9 fills up the FAHlog.txt file faster with info but that info helps to troubleshoot if something goes wrong. The Target textbox of my start up shortcut looks like this:
C:\DC\fah2\FAH502-Console.exe -local -forceasm -verbosity 9 -advmethods
To add flags to a service install look here.
You need the -advmethods flag to get some BigWUs.
The PROGRAM column on the server status web page shows if a flag is needed. Cross check which server a WU is from on the Currently Running Projects page.
You need almost 500 MB ram and P4/Xeon CPUs to get QMD BigWUs - [.113 - (125 & 450 points / p19**)]
On my PIII 1Ghz Dell laptop:
regular WU =.......... ~50-60 points per day (ppd)
600 point BigWU =.. ~105-112 ppd
p1478 BigWU =...... ~140 ppd
On a P4 3.0@3.3
QMD BigWU alone = ............ 456 ppd
600 point BigWU alone = ..... 253 ppd
IIRC 600 BigWU x 2 on HT = 180 x 2 = 360 ppd
The QMD WU uses up all or almost all of the memory bandwidth and so running two on HT can lose ppd!! It does with the 600 point BigWU anyway
You can see that the QMD really helps the ppd!
PS: a screensaver running really slows down the WU and will get less ppd. I set the monitor to power off to save electricity.
They might be larger download and upload, and/or use more memory, and/or use more of the CPU. (You might have to lower an overclock to run these)
Currently BigWUs come from servers with addresses ending in these numbers:
.156 - (600 points / p114*)
.154 - (254-343 points / p13**)
.134 - (364 points / p147*)
.113 - (125 & 450 points / p19** QMD)
To get any of these, you must configure the client to "Allow receipt of work assignments and return of work results greater than 5MB in size" - answer "yes".
To reconfigure the console version: make a shortcut to FAH502-Console.exe by right clicking on it and then click Create Shortcut. Rename the new shortcut to "Configure". Now right click it and select "Properties" so we can add the flags. In the Target textbox, at the end of what is in there add a space, a dash, and configonly. It should look something like this:
C:\DC\fah2\FAH502-Console.exe -local -configonly
This will not run if F@H is already running. It will enter config and quit when done.
There are more flags, -advmethods directs the client to get WUs that are advanced beta WUs that might not be as stable as regular WUs; -forceasm will force the client to always use optimized code on a restart (even if the WU crashed the computer); -local tells the client to not use info in the registry (if you ever installed the GUI); -verbosity 9 fills up the FAHlog.txt file faster with info but that info helps to troubleshoot if something goes wrong. The Target textbox of my start up shortcut looks like this:
C:\DC\fah2\FAH502-Console.exe -local -forceasm -verbosity 9 -advmethods
To add flags to a service install look here.
You need the -advmethods flag to get some BigWUs.
The PROGRAM column on the server status web page shows if a flag is needed. Cross check which server a WU is from on the Currently Running Projects page.
You need almost 500 MB ram and P4/Xeon CPUs to get QMD BigWUs - [.113 - (125 & 450 points / p19**)]
On my PIII 1Ghz Dell laptop:
regular WU =.......... ~50-60 points per day (ppd)
600 point BigWU =.. ~105-112 ppd
p1478 BigWU =...... ~140 ppd
On a P4 3.0@3.3
QMD BigWU alone = ............ 456 ppd
600 point BigWU alone = ..... 253 ppd
IIRC 600 BigWU x 2 on HT = 180 x 2 = 360 ppd
The QMD WU uses up all or almost all of the memory bandwidth and so running two on HT can lose ppd!! It does with the 600 point BigWU anyway
You can see that the QMD really helps the ppd!
PS: a screensaver running really slows down the WU and will get less ppd. I set the monitor to power off to save electricity.
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