Tinker WU's

[mrm1957]

Heads up on tinkers. The servers are totally overloaded at this time. Server 133 has run out of work. Server 120 is trying to accept but has a load of 116 and will probally start rejecting. Might want to switch your machines over to get another project instaed of sitting idle.

[Macaholic]

I would HIGHLY recommend that donors consider all variables when deciding whether or not to run timeless units. If users are only doing it for the AMD Tinker points advantage, clients are going to sit idle unless you closely monitor them and can change preferences accordingly. This is probably going to continue to be a recurring issue unless changes are made. Just a long term "heads up".

[ChasR]

Even if your machines never sit idle, you do less science running timeless WUs than running regular WUs.

[ChasR]

... We are aware of this issue. We urge you to not choose timeless WU's unless you really need them, as we expect shortages from time to time. Only a small fraction of FAH science can be done with timeless WUs.

[mrm1957]

It's probally not going to be a good week team wise if members machines are not checked and sitting idle. Better to run something than nothing.

[leelegend]

i noticed this on friday (england time), and had to switch a couple of old bits of kit over, as they kept getting rejected by the assignment server

lee

[Macaholic]

Even if your machines never sit idle, you do less science running timeless WUs than running regular WUs.

And just to drive the point home, a new post today by Dr. Pande here (http://forum.folding-community.org/viewtopic.php?t=15650);

We will likely continue to have timeless shortages for several weeks to come, as most of our current calculations are not well-suited to timeless WUs. Timeless WUs should only be used by extremely slow machines -- the vast majority of FAH machines should be able to work just fine with the vanillla settings (and there are plenty of regular WU's).
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Director, Folding@Home Distributed Computing Project, and
Associate Professor of Chemistry and of Structural Biology, Stanford University