@ crooks_uk and anyone else interested:

knreed posted re GPU crunching:
We are still assessing the impact of the acceleration on the end date of the HCC1 project. Our rough estimate with 'known' work based on this acceleration is about 100-130 days until end of project. BUT my use of the word 'known' simply means the number of batches we are aware to run. What we are are is not equal to what the researchers want to run so we are discussing this further with them at this time. However, we do not yet have any research project beyond HCC1 that we know can run on a GPU. While this has definitely shown the power of GPU working well, for an application that clearly fits the profile of being suitable for GPU, the researchers are still the ones that provide the code and they will have to determine if GPU would work for their project and then make the modifications. It is important to us to have GPU capable projects, but we cannot promise them. Even then, we could find ourselves with a project that was written for CUDA and not be able to run on AMD graphics cards (or written for AMD but not CUDA). As a result, we ask that people not make purchasing decision without understand these caveats.

Another outstanding day's crunching!

	RunTime	 	
	Date        	RunTime	
	15/10/2012	0:333:19:38:24	
	24/09/2012	0:321:20:54:42	
	16/10/2012	0:313:18:10:25	 
			
	Points	 	
	Date        	Points	
	16/10/2012	1,572,033 	 
	15/10/2012	1,560,328 	
	13/10/2012	1,542,531 	
	Results	 	
	Date        	Results	
	13/10/2012	4,000 	
	16/10/2012	3,627 	 
	14/10/2012	3,448 	

The question now is "Can we sustain it?"

I fear not :-\ Part of that is the following; my results from yesterday:
0:048:14:35:44 days
241,859 points
463 results

Given that that's nearly 20 days RT more than I can produce in the long term.....

It's a perfect storm of gpu crunching and the huge lag in my HPF2 WUs: I stopped receiving them 4 days ago and they're starting to validate en masse it seems! Still, gave me my third consecutive 'best day ever' and 7th place on the UK stats :-) I don't think that's going to be repeated any time soon

What we need is another couple of team members to push us into 'One year RT per CD' territory!

EDIT: Ha! We were typing at the same time it seems. I can't believe that this tsunami of validating HFP2 WUs will continue, though I /do/ still have 24 days worth to go, so you never know!

Threats to the UK team's Ranking:

	       Team        	Gap	   	        Net		Days to close		
	RunTime            		   	        Crunch		Current	Sep-30	
	KAUST              	 59,242 					  871 	
	localwurst         	161,326 		      184 	876 	1,620 	
	My Little Pony     	195,218 		      483 	405 	  346 	
	Points             							
	TeAm AnandTech     	 41,385,254 		   45,006 	920 	  454 	
	localwurst         	126,425,351 		  624,482 	202 	  172 	
	My Little Pony     	296,835,554 		2,765,231 	107 	  135 	
	Results            							
	International Team 	576,543 						
	My Little Pony     	843,156 		    4,765 	177 	  339 	

Only My Little Pony in Points and Results have made positive progress closing the gap to the UK team in the last 16 days.

My new HD 6570 has been installed and I am just waiting for the project to be resumed to try out my 1st GPU work unit (fingers crossed).