[geeks] Slow Indy

[Bjorn Ramqvist]

Kurt Huhn wrote:
> 
> These days I'm doing the protein folding thing:
> http://www.distributedfolding.org
> 
> I learned that Seti at home purposefully crippled the executable for fast
> architectures for some reason (so that they didn't run out of units to give
> out or something) - so I decided to switch to protien folding.

Mmm... You don't mean the fact that they had to increase the datablocks
just to get faster architectures to do their work a little longer?
Apparently they had bandwidth problems, too many hits/second, so their
solution was to increase the datablock size.

/Bjorn