Anyone want to take a stab at...

stacy3stacy3 NY
edited October 2004 in Folding@Home
...explaining gromacs, tinkers and now I am working on an "AMBER" core. Do you get more points for tinkers? why?

while it's not imperative that I know, I'm just curious... :confused: so if you feel like "trying" to explain to me - at your leisure - or point me in the right direction...

thanks!

stacy

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  • witenoizwitenoiz 19,356 miles East of Kansas City, MO Member
    edited October 2004
    I have not heard of Amber Cores - A URL you should maybe bookmark will give you point values for current projects..... http://vspx27.stanford.edu/psummary.html .. Jack
  • muddocktormuddocktor
    edited October 2004
    Stacy, the different cores are different processes used to process the work units. The Tinker core was the first used and doesn't use any SSE or SSE2 or 3DNow! optimizations and usually scores very well with AMD processors, which have a very good native FPU unit. The Gromacs core was the second core that Stanford deployed and it uses SSE and some work untis use SSE2 optimizations. The Gromacs core does a lot more work in the time it takes to process a wu than the Tinker core and has help Stanford tremendously in their studies. The Amber core is something brand new and I think that someone at Stanford goofed up with the assignment server as it's only supposed to beta tested for now. I hope it doesn't give you any problems. :wtf:

    The work units are specific to the type core used and for some simulations, a certain core needs to be used because the other processes cannot give Stanford the information they need. I hope this is clear enough for you.
  • stacy3stacy3 NY
    edited October 2004
    Jack - thanks for the link - very helpful.

    Muddocktor - thanks for your explanation - at least some of it makes sense to me!!! ;) but I will keep reading it...

    what kind of problems could I be in for with this Amber core? :eek2: anything I should watch for?

    stacy
  • muddocktormuddocktor
    edited October 2004
    Nothing that would mess up your machine, it just might not work quite right with wu's crashing or stalling or something. As long as you aren't having a problem, don't worry about it I guess. Myself and csimon have let Stanford know that there is some problem with the assignment server and they are checking out the problem with the assignment server sending this new work out to non-beta testers. :)

    The main problem with these Amber core wu's is just not enough testing has been done yet to check it out, that is all as far as I know.
  • stacy3stacy3 NY
    edited October 2004
    thanks!!! :)
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