0x11 core projects question

[Breach]

Hi,

I have a (pretty old by now) GTX 295 video card so I'm using the 0x11 GPU core. SInce I've joined FAH a few weeks ago I've noticed that I exclusively receive WUs for projects 5766, 5771 et al which all relate to 'development and testing of novel methods'. I'm just curious - is that because there's no other GPU based project core 11 project I can crunch, or is it just pure luck or...?

Thanks

[bruce]

Take a look at http://fah-web.stanford.edu/psummary.html. Search through it for GROGPU2. That will point you to all of the projects that might still be active -- although some might still be listed have run out of work.

FahCore_11 is definitely in decline although there's no announced date for it to be officially deprecated. Most new projects started in the last couple of years use the next generation cores (aka GROGPU3) FahCore_15 and _16. In fact a newer generation core, FahCore_17, is currently being beta tested and whenever it's ready for production work, I expect that new projects will start using it.

As a general rule, projects that are started on a particular core are rarely migrated to a new core -- and the old core keeps running until those projects are completed, but it pretty likely that there will be no new projects planned for it once better methods are available.

[Breach]

OK, thanks. So as far I understand my hardware can only run FahCore_11 which may at some point run out of work...? Is this correct? If so, is there some sort of matrix which explains which core supports what hardware? Thanks.

Update: I found this:
http://folding.stanford.edu/English/FAQ-GPU3common

According to which my video card is supported by the GPU3 core but I've never (at least so far) received WUs for GPU3 core...?

[Joe_H]

According to which my video card is supported by the GPU3 core but I've never (at least so far) received WUs for GPU3 core...?

Some of the older nVidia cards that run the Core 11 projects should also be able to run Core 15. But recently when PG adjusted the assignment servers to give Core 15 work to them, many persons reported that WU's failed to start with memory test failures on cards that worked fine on Core 11 projects. Dr. Pande did post that they would look into the cause, but I have not seen any recent updates to that topic. So assignments for these older cards were moved back to the Core 11 projects. Some folders' cards worked okay during that change, but it was not clear which models would handle the switch.

[Breach]

Thanks, that helps!