Can a 200mhz and 333mhz machine meet deadlines or is it a lost cause? tinkers or grom

[billstuck]

gromatics?

I read that these machines actually do better at tinkers. Is this true? Should I leave the -advmethods and -forceasm flags out?

Or should I not even fold on these machines?

I have 8 200mhz CPUs and 14 333mhz CPUs sitting idle right now, and am not sure if they are worth using. I'd hate to have them fold and miss a deadline.

[McTimson]

Yes, have them fold tinkers for the best results. If you leave them on 24/7, then they will definitely make the deadlines. I think the deadlines set are for a 200mhz PII running...I'm not sure how long, but I don't think it's 24/7. But they will make the deadlines.

And if they all get those 70 point tinkers, it'd be pretty cool to get like 1500 points in one day....of course, you'd have to wait another month to get more points, but every little bit counts.

[billstuck]

Originally posted by McTimson
Yes, have them fold tinkers for the best results. If you leave them on 24/7, then they will definitely make the deadlines. I think the deadlines set are for a 200mhz PII running...I'm not sure how long, but I don't think it's 24/7. But they will make the deadlines.

And if they all get those 70 point tinkers, it'd be pretty cool to get like 1500 points in one day....of course, you'd have to wait another month to get more points, but every little bit counts.

Those tinkers are slow aren't they? It takes my 3ghz P4 machine with HT just over 50 hours to fold them. The gromacs take like 3/4 of one day.

[Rav]

Are those 200's Pentium MMX's? If so forget it. If they do make the deadlines it will be barely. The points will hardly be worth the electricity to run them (unless this is an office). Are those 333's PII's? If they are the old Celerons, they will fold very poorly. I think the 333's are the cacheless ones. Don't bother with Gromacs, none of those CPU's have any assembly optimizations that would be useful. If anything, you might want to run genome WU's, which do not have deadlines, atleast on the 200's.

-Rav

[billstuck]

Originally posted by Rav
Are those 200's Pentium MMX's? If so forget it. If they do make the deadlines it will be barely. The points will hardly be worth the electricity to run them (unless this is an office). Are those 333's PII's? If they are the old Celerons, they will fold very poorly. I think the 333's are the cacheless ones. Don't bother with Gromacs, none of those CPU's have any assembly optimizations that would be useful. If anything, you might want to run genome WU's, which do not have deadlines, atleast on the 200's.

-Rav

No both are Pentium II's thus not celerons. Not sure about MMX.

[mjmnam]

Originally posted by McTimson
Yes, have them fold tinkers for the best results. If you leave them on 24/7, then they will definitely make the deadlines. I think the deadlines set are for a 200mhz PII running...I'm not sure how long, but I don't think it's 24/7. But they will make the deadlines.

And if they all get those 70 point tinkers, it'd be pretty cool to get like 1500 points in one day....of course, you'd have to wait another month to get more points, but every little bit counts.

it's a Celeron 500 folding 10 hours a day. not sure about exact time, i think i'm within 2 hours of it

[Fast420A]

Yes, the Baseline is a 500 Mhz Cele running 8 hours a day. I have a P1 200MMX borged that turns in 1 WU every 10 - 12 days or so, it runs 24/7.

[David]

I would say try and fold tinkers on those machines. If it doesnt work well, do genomes, but for team 32.

Every little helps :)

[Melhisedek]

What is difference between genomes and folding ? Do both go to same point count or ?

Thank you for your time !

[RoadWarrior]

bang the FSB up to 83 on both of them, then you can worry about whether 250Mhz and 415Mhz systems will meet deadlines :D