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jonnieb-uk
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WU Size Reduction
In August 2012 two of the four currently active projects had their WU size increased, partly to reduce server load ahead of HCC GPU introduction:

FA@H increased by 20% and SN2S by 40%.

Given that:

  • ~7 of the 11 projects running in mid 2012 have since finished (including HCC)
  • Both CfCW and CfSW which had the shortest length WUs of any projects have finished.
  • The forthcoming new Cancer project will not (at least initially) be GPU capable.
  • WCG having previously acknowledged the importance of having a smaller sized WU available for 'casual' crunchers.


Is consideration being given to reversing the increases in WU size confused
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Re: WU Size Reduction
Is this a repost? Pretty sure something pretty close to this OP was posted 1-2 months ago, and no one took the bait... because [Arnold accent], the upsizes were AFAIK, reversed! You can see that on the WCGART chart, so kind of wonder. Only one that started running 20% longer, but in that time manages to cover a 3 times wider search space is the upgraded FA@H AutoDock. With what's coming in alternating engine driven FA@H experiments, there will be work on hand to get it just right.

But, what's coming is sizing to device power, in 2 or 3 classes. Not sure if you then can ops opt for smallest, if the device is rated as power-house, but sure enough, there will be the requests coming through... With that, the competition on returned results can be binned... kind of a handicap race it becomes.

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