Vijay Pande博士已在上個月公開呼籲不要以force_fermi參數讓Fermi-only WU在非Fermi卡上運算:
http://foldingforum.org/viewtopic.p...=16011&start=30
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Re: Fermi only vs non Fermi work units
by VijayPande » Fri Sep 17, 2010 7:33 pm
Thanks for asking about this. Here's the situation.
Using -forcegpu like this really screws up a lot of what we do.
In particular, it can both invalidate the science from others (by throwing in some strange results) and make it really
hard to track down bugs since we can't tell which GPU is which. This also slows down other progress (more wild goose
chases).
If this flag gets abused (i.e. used to mislead the AS to increase points), we'll have no choice but to remove it.
This would be a shame since it would simply make it harder for those using the flag legitimately, but we'll have to
balance the pros and cons as always.
From the posts above, it's clear that people are not trying to be malicious and just wanted to know if it was ok.
Thanks for asking.
Prof. Vijay Pande, PhD
Departments of Chemistry, Structural Biology, and Computer Science
Chair, Biophysics
Director, Folding@home Distributed Computing Project
Stanford University