mflanaga
Seeing the same thing as you guys are on my rig also.. I've received 8016 and 8108 wu's so far.
I got a couple of regular SMP wu's once the deadline passed, but these A5's are great! PPD better than -bigadv by a bit.
Never got rid of the -bigadv flag in case you were wondering.

"Never got rid of the -bigadv flag in case you were wondering" Thanks I was going to ask!
So, I wonder what the minimum Core Count you need to run them are?  

bcavnaugh

mflanaga
Seeing the same thing as you guys are on my rig also.. I've received 8016 and 8108 wu's so far.
I got a couple of regular SMP wu's once the deadline passed, but these A5's are great! PPD better than -bigadv by a bit.
Never got rid of the -bigadv flag in case you were wondering.

"Never got rid of the -bigadv flag in case you were wondering" Thanks I was going to ask!
So, I wonder what the minimum Core Count you need to run them are?  

From what I understand, they are currently going out to 24 core minimum machines. 

Punchy
Looks like PG is Pandering to the bigadv folders in hopes of bringing them back.  What a great way to save face - end the bigadv projects as advertised, but replace them with something providing even more points.

+1 Maybe, But The Beta Members They Are.
 

mflanaga

bcavnaugh

mflanaga
Seeing the same thing as you guys are on my rig also.. I've received 8016 and 8108 wu's so far.
I got a couple of regular SMP wu's once the deadline passed, but these A5's are great! PPD better than -bigadv by a bit.
Never got rid of the -bigadv flag in case you were wondering.

"Never got rid of the -bigadv flag in case you were wondering" Thanks I was going to ask!
So, I wonder what the minimum Core Count you need to run them are?  

From what I understand, they are currently going out to 24 core minimum machines. 

Thanks,
I wonder if I should slit my 64 cores into two 32 Cores and give them a go on my 4P.
My 2P now and forever more a Crunching Rig.

Because I am not a Beta Member (I was rejected to become one) I cannot post here;
https://foldingforum.org/viewtopic.php?f=66&t=27322
So I email Kasson to ask about the settings for 8106-8108 as they are marked as Beta for now being in the Beta Area of the Forum.
So they are called Many-Core Projects so the one thing I asked was do keep bigadv or change to many-core or to beta for the client-type.
I cannot seem to get any 8106-8108 on my 4P that has 64 Cores. My client-type is still set to bigadv and max-packet-size to big.
I am NOT Folding on the GPUs.

bcavnaugh
I cannot seem to get any 8106-8108 on my 4P that has 64 Cores. My client-type is still set to bigadv and max-packet-size big.
I am NOT Folding on the GPUs.

I kept my original flags -bigadv -smp which works. I think verbosity was 9 but can't be sure. Doesn't guarantee 8106-8108 every time but enough to keep me happy.

They were 2p 48 thread

bcavnaugh

nathan_P
Depends on your rig, but I have gone from a max of 1.2m PPD to a max of 1.43m PPD

So you are pulling Higher PPD then you were when running BA Task?
How many Cores per task are you running and is this on your 4P Rig or a 2P Rig?

2p 48 thread rig, I was pulling about 90k PPD more per machine ( I have 2) and 53k more on my 32 thread rig, however there were several screw up's in the rush to launch them.  8106-8108 have been pulled whilst they fix the problems.  Going forward points will be lower than at present 

@ nathanP do you mean 2P 32 thread? If not what cpu are you using?  I was getting the 8106-8108[1st-3rd] , the whole day yesterday and today a buttload of 7504's A3 for 10,000 each. TPF of 53 seconds on a 48 core 4P.

Would anyone know are they 8106-8108 to be just 2P or anything over 24 cores?
 
I haven't seen any with "-smp -bigadv" flags.

Per Kasson Yes.
In Re: Core A5 projects: 8106-8108 Under Beta
The High Credit that some did get when you could get them was incorrect and to high.
 
PS. You still can come over to the Crunching Side.

notfordman
@ nathanP do you mean 2P 32 thread? If not what cpu are you using?  I was getting the 8106-8108[1st-3rd] , the whole day yesterday and today a buttload of 7504's A3 for 10,000 each. TPF of 53 seconds on a 48 core 4P.

 nope I have a pair of 8c/16t E5 -2665's in one machine, the 2 24c/48t rigs have E5 2692v2 extra spicy's in them and I'm barely faster than you at a tpf of 52 seconds on 7504

Could someone please shout out, when they see one!

bill1024
Looks like they will cut the K factor to 3.92  the bigadv was 49.00. That is inline with regular SMP
 
 
That PPD looks much more in line with standard SMP. A couple comparisons:

8106 -> 130k PPD
8822 -> 139k PPD
7504 -> 120k PPD
8814 -> 133k PPD

So I would say benchmarking was a success.

Edit: for reference this is a 2P E5-2670.
 
https://foldingforum.org/...p;t=27322&start=15

Not really worth the cost of 24 Hours of Elect Power to complete one Task.

nathan_P
Not worth it at all, you are better off running stock SMP and churning through the WU, same points but more work done

Better yet move over to Crunching and only Fold on AMD and the GTX 9xx Cards only now.

Lucky you man, I know I'm killing the 7504's @ 10k each. Went from 350k to 175k PPD at best. Doubt I will be able to recoup the investment.
 Edit: it is my own fault again....

Anyone see over 230K PPD on SMP on any hardware?