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Former Member
Cruncher Joined: May 22, 2018 Post Count: 0 Status: Offline |
Hello,
Many of us offering our CPU cycles are proud of our boinc stats. Unfortunately WCG assigns very low boinc credits compared to other projects. For example In average I have calculated that WCG assigns roughly 1/5 of the credits that Milkyway boinc project assigns per cpu cycle. Is there a way you can fix the credits assigned? It could sound silly, but I'm sure that many more people would donate their CPU time to WCG if you could fix this issue. Thank you Francesco |
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Former Member
Cruncher Joined: May 22, 2018 Post Count: 0 Status: Offline |
MW is no reference.. 5 miles off. The reference is SETI, and that's also a mixed bag of CPU & GPU credit. At any rate, the new BOINC server 700 credit system has only been in operation for 2 months and it's weaknesses are being identified (WCG being one of the early adopters of v 700). For the moment, broadly, 20-22% more credit is granted than before with server v 601.
----------------------------------------Credits are like quatloos. You cant bank them, but cures we find, something humanity can touch and feel through new meds and vaccines and a cleaner environment (a clean environment makes no people sick), is what has priority. Those are bankable through big savings on future healthcare (or a less exponential growth if you will). This noon we passed the 600,000 Runtime years contributed at 952 million results returned by our volunteers. --//-- [Edit 1 times, last edit by Former Member at May 9, 2012 3:34:41 PM] |
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Former Member
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Yeah Milky way is well known for cheating and offering bloated credits to attract crunchers
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KerSamson
Master Cruncher Switzerland Joined: Jan 29, 2007 Post Count: 1673 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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Without any consideration on MilkyWay, I noticed a significant credit drop - around 20% - at WCG since April 20th. It concerns both Linux Ubuntu 64x as well as Windows XP Pro SP4.
----------------------------------------On WinXP side, the lost is around 15%, on Linux side over 20%. For example, C4CW brings around 10% less credit than during 2011'Q4. Host usage and availability did not change. Cheers, Yves |
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Former Member
Cruncher Joined: May 22, 2018 Post Count: 0 Status: Offline |
One of the objectives, as described in an introductory post by knreed about the new credit system is, to normalize the credit given across the different platforms. One of the major weaknesses, as you may know, is the Linux Integer benchmark (Dhrystone) is double / triple of the Windows test, yet the bulk of our computing is in FPOPS. The credit calculation by the client is simply a sum of the Whetstone+Dhrystone test and divided by 480 to come to the hourly/per second computed "claim", without considering the IOPS/FPOPS fractions of the actual calculations. The server 700 system now ignores the benchmarks and calculates it's own per-device performance rating.
----------------------------------------In a nut shell. The full functionality is described in this linked document http://boinc.berkeley.edu/trac/wiki/CreditNew that one member posted a few days ago and accompanied that with a comment of it being greek, which is where my part in this thread ends FTM. --//-- edit: added and removed some ending 's'es [Edit 1 times, last edit by Former Member at May 10, 2012 6:21:19 PM] |
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yoro42
Ace Cruncher United States Joined: Feb 19, 2011 Post Count: 8979 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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It's not the pay, it's the work.
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Former Member
Cruncher Joined: May 22, 2018 Post Count: 0 Status: Offline |
Hello,
Thank you everyone for your kind replies. I see your points, and thanks for taking the time to reply. |
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