-bigadv bonus points adjusted

augiedoggie · Jul 2, 2011

bigadv points changes

by kasson » Fri Jul 01, 2011 8:11 pm
After much discussion, we are adjusting the points bonus for bigadv. Bigadv work units have been given a 50% base points bonus over standard SMP; the rationale for this was to compensate for the increased system load, increased memory requirements, and increased upload/download bandwidth requirements. As judged from the high demand for bigadv work units, this has been very much a success, perhaps a little too much so. We would like to continue to offer a bonus for bigadv to offset the above factors, but we don't want demand for bigadv to overwhelm the rest of the project or imbalance the points system.

We are therefore dropping the bigadv base points bonus from 50% to 20%, effective for all work units issued this time onwards.

We very much appreciate the donors who have volunteered to run bigadv work units; these projects add substantially to our scientific capabilities. We do important science with all classes of work units, however, and we want the points system to reflect that. Based on extensive feedback, we are considering renormalizing other parts of the system but have not finalized decisions in that regard.

Thanks again for folding!

New points values, old points values, and unadjusted base values are given in the table below. Deadlines and k-factors remain unchanged.

"Standard points" is what the project would receive for base points if standard SMP. "Old bigadv" is the old bigadv base points (50% bonus). "New bigadv" is the new bigadv base points (20% bonus).

Project Standard points Old bigadv New bigadv Preferred Final k-factor
2684 8529 12790 10235 4 6 26.4
2685 5970 8955 7164 4 6 26.4
2686 5970 8955 7164 4 6 26.4
2689 5970 8955 7164 4 6 26.4
2692 5970 8955 7164 4 6 26.4
6900 5970 8955 7164 4 6 26.4
6901 5970 8955 7164 4 6 26.4
6903 18923 28385 22708 7.2 12 38.05
6904 26284 39426 31541 10.2 17 37.31
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http://foldingforum.org/viewtopic.php?f=24&t=19059

Feels like a bait and switch to me. The current folders won't switch to plain SMP anytime soon and more folks will be gettin i7's now too which won't help their issue of being short of bigadv units.

noprob · Jul 4, 2011

seems like a slap in the face from my perception. (from a folder's perspective)

thx. for the post augie. :major

augiedoggie · Jul 4, 2011

noprob said: ↑

seems like a slap in the face from my perception. (from a folder's perspective)

thx. for the post augie. :major
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Well, that's the way I felt at first but so be it. The Nvidia team must be licking their chops by now as they do GPU folding with a monetary incentive. No one could compete with that, not even many folks with farms. I hope they get their ATI shit together as those will beat the crap out of nVidia, if PPD went up with cores.

Anyways, I'm seeing a %20 PPD loss ATM. I'll still fold.

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