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I don't think ChasR has had any machines folding on a regular basis for over a year now......probably more like a year and a half.
Not the same here without him.....
guessing the days of BA on my i7 920 are long gone.
November 14, 2011
Planned changes to "Big Advanced" (BA) projects, effective January 16, 2012
Big Advanced (BA) is an experimental type of Folding@home WUs intended for the most powerful machines in FAH. However, as time goes on, technology advances, and the characteristics associated with the most powerful machines changes. Due to these advances in hardware capabilities, we will need to periodically change the BA minimum requirements. Thus, we are shortening the deadlines of the BA projects. As a result, assignments will have a 16 core minimum. To give donors some advance warning, we are announcing this now, but the change will take place in 2 months: no earlier than on Monday January 16, 2012.
We understand that any changes to how FAH works is a disruption for donors, and we have been trying to minimize such changes. For that reason, we are not changing the points system at this time.
However, we want to emphasize that the BA program is experimental and that donors should expect changes in the future, potentially without a lot of notice (although we will try our best to give as much notice as we can). In particular, as hardware evolves, it is expected that we will need to change the nature of the BA WUs again in the future.
Things change quickly as the hardware pushes forward. ChasR was king of the quads, then came the BA units and now the GPUs are coming to the front of the line. Who knows what will be next...your iPhone maybe....
As a result, assignments will have a 16 core minimum.
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However, we want to emphasize that the BA program is experimental and that donors should expect changes in the future, potentially without a lot of notice (although we will try our best to give as much notice as we can). In particular, as hardware evolves, it is expected that we will need to change the nature of the BA WUs again in the future. [/URL]
you get great deals on the GPUs, you might be on the new cutting edge as -bigadv era phases out.
"the nature of the BA WU" <-- turned out to be NO WUs at all...a bit more than was implied by the quote.
And that will likely change again by the time the announced deadline arrives.....
I wasn't meaning to open that can here, just letting Methal know how long ago things changed in regards to his 920.......