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Other question to ask. Can the current SMP client or upcoming one handle scaling to 16 cores? Assuming there is a northbridge that can take that level of a pounding etc...(That's ALOT of data).

I'm 99% sure his mobo is this one: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.a ... 6813151085

Forget 16 cores, that's yesterday's news . I want to know if that mobo can handle the new Istanbuls for some 24-core action In theory you could run 3 of the 25k points WUs at once! Plus factor in the fact that you could throw in a couple GTX295's and you have a ridculously powerful folding rig.

If only I had unlimited money...

so

mobo is the s4985-e from tyan ( native quad core support ) not the first s4985

and yes , but only the linux smp client could run -smp 16

( here you can see what the mobo can do viewtopic.php?f=44&t=10627&p=104738#p104738 )

if i have unlimited money too, i will buy extension board to run 2 times more cpu .... and 4 16x pci express slots will fall in love of 4 nvidia tesla c870 ...

i accept all donation to buy these cards ( only 1500 usd for a c870 )

I'm new to these forums, but I decided that I'd make an account to say that I've got a dual Xeon E5520 box (8 cores/16 threads) that's pretty much sitting idle right now because I haven't had time to get busy and get to recoding the project I bought it run. It's currently running Windows (I think I saw in one thread that someone from Pande Group had said something about wanting to do something with 8-cores only being useful for OSX/Linux) but I don't have any big issues with running Linux on it (I know Linux reasonably well too).
I've been folding for a few years now (October 19th 2004 was when I started, I believe), but I haven't really been involved in the community. I found a thread that pointed here when I was looking into optimal loading of my processors.
Anyways, yeah, I'd like to help test stuff that needs 8 cores, especially if it's for Windows (but like I said, Linux isn't a big issue). Personally, I know my university has a bunch of Dual Xeon 5400 series workstations running Windows, so they are definitely out there...

So uh, basically just for curiousity's sake... what on earth did you guys gain lately?

Your last 24 hours broke 14,000,000 points, with an average of 5.68million.

Basically all of it's coming from this one new username, PDC: http://folding.extremeoverclocking.com/ ... =&u=460688

What's rather unusual is that PDC is averaging over 54,000 points per WU, and each update has the points/WU at basically the same value, meaning all of the WUs they're doing are about 54,000 points. Since there are no 54,000-point WUs publicly available, I imagine they're testing some new project(s).

In any case, I'm also interested in the official explanation, although I'll understand if they can't say more than "We're testing some new projects/cores".

I notice the Pande Group team's stats are skyrocketing lately, and that some of their WU's seem to be worth tens of thousands of points each, if one divides the update points gained by the total number of WU's submitted, according to the data on the folding.extremeoverclocking.com site.

Is there an explanation somewhere which I've missed?

No, not really. Pande Group does testing all the time. They have been know to zero their own points after the testing. Not sure if that will happen again, so take past performance for whatever it's worth.

See also this thread, which may be related: http://foldingforum.org/viewtopic.php?f=16&t=10124
Edit by Mod:
All three threads merged.

See the other thread on the same topic. http://foldingforum.org/viewtopic.php?f=20&t=10683

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Thanks for the assistance. Muchly appreciated.

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Interesting. Thanks for the link. The average points per WU of some are over 30000, but 25403 is close.

v00d00 wrote:Send a PM to Kasson and he'll point you towards the solution.

In any case, Linux SMP does make much better use of 8 cores than Windows can.

AmbroseAthan wrote:So uh, basically just for curiousity's sake... what on earth did you guys gain lately?

Your last 24 hours broke 14,000,000 points, with an average of 5.68million.

Zagen30 wrote:Basically all of it's coming from this one new username, PDC: http://folding.extremeoverclocking.com/ ... =&u=460688

What's rather unusual is that PDC is averaging over 54,000 points per WU, and each update has the points/WU at basically the same value, meaning all of the WUs they're doing are about 54,000 points. Since there are no 54,000-point WUs publicly available, I imagine they're testing some new project(s).

In any case, I'm also interested in the official explanation, although I'll understand if they can't say more than "We're testing some new projects/cores".

Ragnar Dan wrote:I notice the Pande Group team's stats are skyrocketing lately, and that some of their WU's seem to be worth tens of thousands of points each, if one divides the update points gained by the total number of WU's submitted, according to the data on the folding.extremeoverclocking.com site.

Is there an explanation somewhere which I've missed?

Ok, guys, the explanation has been published. See viewtopic.php?t=10697

I'm sure you'll read the entire post, but the answer to "Who is this guy?" is in the last full paragraph starting with "A collaborator has donated ...."