But, I've gotten several of the Project 10965-like WUs, and see them perform quite differently on my system. Note that the observations below are a bit like reading tea leaves - just looking at external factors with no idea what's going on inside the black box.
P10965 WUs have a TPF of 00:00:42, and complete in just over an hour. HFM computes 19,048 PPD, vs the P6801 PPD of 14,378.
I was thinking that the design of the P10965 WUs must be making the GPU work harder. I was surprised to see MSI-afterburner and GPU-Z were showing 99% GPU utilization on both P6801 and P10965-like WUs, but my wall plug power draw on the system dropped from a rock-steady 288 watts (P6801 GPU WU plus a -bigadv SMP-7 WU) to 252 watts with P10965.
When it finished the P10965 and picked up the next P6801, now on Generation 13, the wall-plug power went right back up to 288 watts.
Wow!! More PPD, less power.
Just as a matter of curiosity, what are they doing in the P10965-like project designs to make this difference? I see from the project description that this is a beta project for the OpenMM core with the GB model. Whatever their design is seems to be most desirable - especially the electrical power draw!
Project 10965
P10927-10978: Test simulations of Protein-G peptide with gpu openmm-gromacs (Fermi boards)
These beta tests are to evaluate the performance of a new core (openmm-gromacs) on gpu with Generalized Born (GB) model used as implicit solvent. Different force fields and different inner dielectric constants are used for this set of simulations.
Points and deadlines:
project 10927-10978: 925 points, preferred deadline 14 days, final deadline 20 days