You've implied that a shortage of A5 WUs is equivalent to a shortage of projects for 64-cpu systems. That's not true.WhitehawkEQ wrote:Is A5 WU's a thing of the past now? Or are we going to see more? I have 2 quad socket servers with 4 Opteron 6276 16 core, for a total core count of 64 for each server. I don't need to have these sitting doing nothing like the others have said.
So "if" A5's are gone, is there anything coming down the pipeline that I can use my servers for?
I'm using V7.4.4
Two questions with two different answers:
1) Many projects which can run on systems with high CPU counts have been inappropriately restricted to smaller systems. FAH has corrected that error (and may be making additional corrections, further expanding the availability of WUs for systems like yours).
2) Core_a5 was built using a rather old version of GROMACS. Core_a4 was built using a later version which provides additional scientific options. In spite of the core numbering, releasing new projects to use A4 instead of A5 is an upgrade and as such, FAH will continue to improve their scientific capabilities.
I do not know if any of the projects originally released using Core_a5 will be coming back, but likely not.