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The PG hasn't changed much, if at all since I started folding in 2008. This is pretty much a rehash of the discussion over instituting a qrb bonus to manipulate human behavior using points. Quick history lesson...the a2 cores ran the choice 1920 point units at that time. You got more pph running 2 u...

This has Oprah written all over it...

Lol! If the name of the team constitutes advertising, then 90% of all teams require renaming. Rallying around a product, platform, OS, hobby, website, magazine, blog, person, or cause is half the reason why people join a team in the first place. Honestly if its not vulgar (and not cheating like FTL)...

10 million steps? is that normal for that series?

This server is a pile. Has been for a long time. Should be re-purposed as a space heater or a door stop. The PG has also historically had issues providing it with enough work. Best advice, is get off this server. Upgrade to v7 for access to other servers if your hardware/OS meets the minimum spec, a...

If you pick apart the mac installer, you can run the console version of v7 right now. Throw all the pieces into a folder anywhere you please, and run it from the command line just like v6. Have to write your config file from scratch tho which sucks...no prompting for all the values like v6 did. Have...

This server has never been known for its reliability. A working OS X v7 client would allow everyone to get off of it, or an updated v6 core at the least would allow for other server options...

HP folded with an entire cloud server farm, many millions of dollars worth of hardware i'd guess, for two months, and didn't claim the top spot. The current top single user is folding on a bonafide supercomputer, and has been doing so for quite some time. A core 2 duo is peanuts these days for point...

Most people think more bits equal more speed. This is simply not true unless you are manipulating more than 2GB of data at a time. Some day the cores will need to be 64 bits, and if FAH runs for many, many, years into the future, 128 bits. Of course the computer on your desktop running the client wi...

The trash can, because it won't do anything anyways.

So we trade points inflation for points deflation. I have to upgrade my hardware to maintain the same points production. An expensive proposition. Or as it is today, I have to upgrade my hardware to keep up with the joneses point production. Also an expensive proposition since you are locked into 4p...

The 76xx series of units are known to have clunkers in the series like this. Your unit will run fine, it will just take forever to do it. The pg has given no explanation as to why a few units exhibit this behavior though.

Love it!

I lost around 10 units from using ms remote desktop from my Mac to my pc. That apparently logs in as a separate user which makes the gpu clients barf instantly until they eue out. Oops.

Seems many of the -bigadv guys use a piece of software called "the kraken" to help improve throughput. I don't know anything about it, or if it helps with only 8 cores, but it's something that you can look into.