yanz said:
Like the title said. I find out that if i set in the the config: [clienttype] type=2, i'll only deal with tinkers all the way. That means my ppd grow from ~110ppd to ~230ppd (on 2x xp1700 & maybe more..).
I know that client type 2 is for timeless machine. Did i fold unimportant proteins if i set my rigs as timeless machines?
If you were mine, would you set all your rigs to get the most ppd or be fair with it and set half the rigs for normal protein and half others for tinkers (239-241pt)?
I want to help stanford and its urgent project. But i want the points too. been doing this for 2-3 weeks, i tink i will change my rigs as 50-50 (normal vs timeless).
What do you guys think about it?
I'm basically just going to reiterate what THF said. It is okay to run faster machines on TTs to get more points, but I would definitely not recommend that you do so. The thing is, there is a limited supply of the timeless units. When you have fast machines folding them, they will run down much faster and run out. If the servers with TTs on them run out, then the computers set to them will get no wus.
The timeless units were put in place for computers that are too slow to meet the deadlines of normal wus. They are not as vital to the science as the normal wus are, thus allowing Stanford to assign them as having no deadlines. They are still very important for the project, just sometimes starting a wu based off of one protein will require having another protein's wus completed and researched first. The normal wus do not rely on the proteins used in the timeless wus, though they are still important.
If the timeless units run out, the slower machines will have nothing left to fold, as they cannot meet deadlines on other wus. That would result in a slow down of the project overall as those machines are not doing anything, when they could have been doing something if the units had not run out.
I myself have a computer folding TTs, the thing is, it is a Celeron 466 @ 546. It is too slow to meet deadlines on most projects. When/if TTs run out, it will do nothing and I may as well turn it off. I did have a Duron @ 1.9GHz folding TTs as well. That was because it did not have regular net access, so I set it to batch mode to download eight units at a time. It now has constant net access, so it is running normal wus despite my drop in ppd.
It is not cheating, it just may be unfair in the long run to those who have slower machines that actually need the units without deadlines. I would rather people not fold these work units if the computer can meet deadlines on the normal units.
Sorry about the long post, but that is my opinion on it all.
Edit:
ihrsetrdr said:
Hmmm, so type 2 configs requests only "timeless"(Tinkers)...all my config's are type 1, which I guess is just whatever gets handed out at random? Are there other config types as well?
Type 2 configs get the units without deadlines, which are almost always tinkers. I don't remember them ever being anything else. A type 1 config is the normal configuration. A client setup this way gets basically whatever wus are available at the point that it downloads the wu, but the percentage of the wu's deadline remaining and the flags of the client are also factors in what the client gets assigned (the flags being the most obvious). I don't remember if the benchmark that the client does when starting affects what wus the client receives or not. 1 and 2 are the only types of configs.
