Quick question; if I have two machines that are otherwise identical (both i5 760 based machines), but one has 12GB RAM and the other has 4, would I get an overall PPD bump if I moved some RAM so both have 8GB? The 760 is a quad core chip so that would give all cores 2GB RAM each to play with, which I /think/ is the current bigadv rule.
I can't see there being much change. I've found that BIGADV units don't use more than a couple of Gig in total. try checking out the resources being used while you're running the BIGADV's....
On the topic of bigadv units, do I need to switch off advance methods in the config to get them? I never seem to get anything other than A3 units even though my extraparms are -bigadv -smp -verbosity 9
Bigadv [and bigbeta] units require 12 threads [soon to be 16] so you won't get any as the 760 only present 4 threads each
I had another bit of a look around, and I don't know where I got 2GB per core from, but it appears that 0.75GB per core is the recommended amount. Ta all, anyway
I'm sure the requirement for some [but maybe not all] bigadv/bigbeta WUs was upped to 12, hence a lot of people going for 970s and above
At the risk of being pedantic, there are still BigAdv units out there that require 8 threads. The BigBeta units are the ones that require the 12 thread CPU's, and if I recall, they required a Linux OS to "run."
