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One of my rigs caught one of these...it's an a2 core, but it's 2,000,000 that is 2 MILLION steps, not the usual 250,000 steps. This WU is 8X the size, and takes 8X as long to fold as the standard a2 core WU, but is valued at 1920 points?

[19:32:16] Project: 2662 (Run 2, Clone 308, Gen 11)
[19:32:16]
[19:32:18] Assembly optimizations on if available.
[19:32:18] Entering M.D.
[19:53:56] Completed 20000 out of 2000000 steps (1%)
[20:15:19] Completed 40000 out of 2000000 steps (2%)
[20:36:40] Completed 60000 out of 2000000 steps (3%)
[20:58:00] Completed 80000 out of 2000000 steps (4%)
[21:19:20] Completed 100000 out of 2000000 steps (5%)
[21:40:41] Completed 120000 out of 2000000 steps (6%)
[22:02:00] Completed 140000 out of 2000000 steps (7%)
[22:23:22] Completed 160000 out of 2000000 steps (8%)
[22:44:44] Completed 180000 out of 2000000 steps (9%)
[23:06:11] Completed 200000 out of 2000000 steps (10%)
[23:27:39] Completed 220000 out of 2000000 steps (11%)
[23:49:06] Completed 240000 out of 2000000 steps (12%)
[00:10:36] Completed 260000 out of 2000000 steps (13%)
[00:32:09] Completed 280000 out of 2000000 steps (14%)

Welcome to the forums.

WUs can have any number of steps, it's the time per frame that matters. At 21 minutes per frame/percentage point, I make that as getting 1316PPD on your machine. I don't know what your hardware is but the benchmark is 1760PPD so I think that is probably about right... We could extrapolate more if you could give us some system specifications though.

The rig is a Dual Xeon 5440-stock 2.83GHz/8GB DDR2-800/Sabayon 3.4f/Supermicro 6015TW-TB, with all 8 cores dedicated to folding one client (./fah6 -smp 8)

This is a "normal" 250,000 (as compared to a 2,000,000) step 2662 WU:

[02:19:18] Project: 2662 (Run 1, Clone 239, Gen 3)
[02:19:18]
[02:19:21] Assembly optimizations on if available.
[02:19:21] Entering M.D.
250000 steps, 500.0 ps.
[02:22:18] Completed 2500 out of 250000 steps (1%)
[02:25:04] Completed 5000 out of 250000 steps (2%)
[02:27:50] Completed 7500 out of 250000 steps (3%)
[02:30:36] Completed 10000 out of 250000 steps (4%)
[02:33:22] Completed 12500 out of 250000 steps (5%)
[02:36:08] Completed 15000 out of 250000 steps (6%)
[02:38:54] Completed 17500 out of 250000 steps (7%)
[02:41:40] Completed 20000 out of 250000 steps (8%)
[02:44:26] Completed 22500 out of 250000 steps (9%)
[02:47:12] Completed 25000 out of 250000 steps (10%)
[02:49:58] Completed 27500 out of 250000 steps (11%)
[02:52:44] Completed 30000 out of 250000 steps (12%)
[02:55:30] Completed 32500 out of 250000 steps (13%)
[02:58:16] Completed 35000 out of 250000 steps (14%)

This is the WU in question:

[19:32:16] Project: 2662 (Run 2, Clone 308, Gen 11)
[19:32:16]
[19:32:18] Assembly optimizations on if available.
[19:32:18] Entering M.D.
2000000 steps, 4000.0 ps.
[19:53:56] Completed 20000 out of 2000000 steps (1%)
[20:15:19] Completed 40000 out of 2000000 steps (2%)
[20:36:40] Completed 60000 out of 2000000 steps (3%)
[20:58:00] Completed 80000 out of 2000000 steps (4%)
[21:19:20] Completed 100000 out of 2000000 steps (5%)
[21:40:41] Completed 120000 out of 2000000 steps (6%)
[22:02:00] Completed 140000 out of 2000000 steps (7%)
[22:23:22] Completed 160000 out of 2000000 steps (8%)
[22:44:44] Completed 180000 out of 2000000 steps (9%)
[23:06:11] Completed 200000 out of 2000000 steps (10%)
[23:27:39] Completed 220000 out of 2000000 steps (11%)
[23:49:06] Completed 240000 out of 2000000 steps (12%)
[00:10:36] Completed 260000 out of 2000000 steps (13%)
[00:32:09] Completed 280000 out of 2000000 steps (14%)

I moved the WU to another identical rig, and it folded at the same rate as well. Does this help?

Oh... I thought all p2662s had 2 million steps (I don't use the SMP client as you can tell lol) :S

Send a PM to "kasson" about this... this isn't the first WU in this project series that has had the wrong number of steps and kasson owns the project so he will be able to help you.

Yes--that's a bad WU (there's a thread elsewhere on the forum about a few of these floating around for 2662). I've been trying to stamp them out. Someone made the heroic effort to complete this one, so if you just delete your WU it should be ok and the server will move on. If that doesn't happen, let me know. Normally I do some work server-side to kill these when we find them.

Days taken to complete WU: 2.99 ... he was lucky, deadline was close