The more tapes they put in one go, the longer they will last, but then the longer will be the starvation period for APs.

The best, which depends on each computer crunching capabilities, would be that they put as many tapes so that with 200 WUs in cache you can survive the period during which the AP splitters are disabled while MB Wus are still being split.

The more powerful your PC is, the lower number of tapes you would wish to be loaded at any one time if you want to have a continuos supply of AP WUs.

Paradoxically, this present bonanza can mean a long starvation when the AP splitters will stop for medium to high capacity crunchers.

Which may not be in line with your happyness.

Though things are actually generally going much better (I would say very well) since colo transfer.

All the best,
Sleepy

In the past I seem to recall AP work being much more common. With the few AP only crunchers only mentioning running out of work every few months.

- With the introduction of v7 of MB a large difference in credit between MB & AP lead more people to run AP only.
- We now have a Nvidia AP app. So the crunchers that have beefy GPU systems can tear though the AP work faster than ever.
- With people favoring AP work over MB the MB tasks are not getting burned through as quickly as they otherwise would.

- Moving to the colo may also play a part in things. As they move the data for splitting to the servers and back over the network. I'm not sure if that is how it was done before or if they were just plugging drives into the system to dump the data.

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