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Goblin2099
Dec 28, 2003, 10:44 AM
Core 1.53 was the supercore sent to speed up all macs by insane proportions

Core 1.54 was to fix things up to work with the new client.

Core 1.55 had "no visible change in it, but an improvement on the science side, with support added for an exciting method which trades some accuracy for a large increase in speed (this won't be noticeable from work unit times, though, as the simulation time covered by a single work unit will be longer in projects using this method). No need to manually delete your current core; whenever the first project assigning units utlizing that method begins, that server will force an update. In relation to units not utilizing that method, the core is unchanged from 1.54. -Guha"

[04:59:26] *------------------------------*
[04:59:26] Folding@home Gromacs Core
[04:59:26] Version 1.56 (December 23, 2003)

Anybody know what's new? I'm going about 1 minute faster per step (3% speedup), but that might be because of my comp and not a performance update


(on a sidenote: We're Twenty-One! We're Twenty-One!)



MrMacMan
Dec 29, 2003, 12:34 AM
I'm happy a the We're 21 thing first.

I've been using this 'new' core for a few days.

I haven't heard about it yet either...

Ah well, they will release some core notes.

bousozoku
Dec 29, 2003, 05:35 PM
I didn't notice anything on the Stanford forums about it specifically.

#20 is coming--31,000+ points to go. :)

MacBandit
Dec 29, 2003, 06:20 PM
Originally posted by bousozoku
I didn't notice anything on the Stanford forums about it specifically.

#20 is coming--31,000+ points to go. :)

Less then 2 days work at our current rate.

I looked back through my logs and the same time I got the 1.56 core I got a couple tinker units. Guess that explains my drop in performance for a couple days.

Vlade
Dec 29, 2003, 06:45 PM
It actually slowed down my current unit from about 12:20 per % to about 12:30... odd

bousozoku
Dec 29, 2003, 09:03 PM
Originally posted by Vlade
It actually slowed down my current unit from about 12:20 per % to about 12:30... odd

You may want to adjust the checkpoint times. The default is 15 minutes, but with client version 3.25, the core was only checkpointing on the whole percent.

The checkpoint interval can be found in the advanced options of the console client.

Vlade
Dec 29, 2003, 09:24 PM
Originally posted by bousozoku
You may want to adjust the checkpoint times. The default is 15 minutes, but with client version 3.25, the core was only checkpointing on the whole percent.

The checkpoint interval can be found in the advanced options of the console client.

I have the 4.00 beta, and kept the same checkpoint. I am pretty sure that the program reports being done with frames every 1%, but only writes to files every ABC minutes.