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Coleslaw
Veteran Cruncher USA Joined: Mar 29, 2007 Post Count: 1343 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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Is that a project issue or a lack of information issue? My guess it's mainly the "I-don't-care-about-any-other-project"-issue. Some numbers from "Granted credit comparison" at http://boinc.netsoft-online.com/e107_plugins/boinc/get_cpcs.php shows CPDN at only 3.1% of computers taking part in other project, probably the lowest of any BOINC-projects. SETI@home actively encourages users to join other projects is at 11.6% while WCG is at 11.7%. Also interestingly, despite POEM@home and DiRT is currently the two highest-paying BOINC-projects, there the slight advantage depends on GPU, and POEM@home is another health-related project and should therefore be a good fit for WCG, only 0.33% of WCG-computers runs this project. DiRT not being any health-related at all but still is the highest-paying project for some GPU's is at 0.008%, so clearly most WCG-users isn't lured-away by high-paying GPU-projects.  I'm not saying you are wrong in any way, but one factor you fail to address is that DistRT is favoring nVidia cards. We have seen that WCG favors AMD because it is OpenCL. Poem is OpenCL and the last time I checked AMD cards were better producers there too. So, it only makes since for the point chasers to go to the project that better suits their hardware. Poem being a bio-science just happens to be a more favored reason for crunching in these forums. Just food for thought.     |
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So much depends on individual choices ... The team I'm a proud member of , XtremeSystems it mainly dedicated to bio-science projects, and most heavily WCG and we crunch whatever we have as hard as we can and we even will buy hardware for the specific projects we focus on. We have a dedicated cadre beating the snot out of GPUGrid with NVidia but we have also made a fair number of purchases of AMD over the last few weeks for specifically for HCC ... how else do you think we are now out crunching IBM?
In the end every cruncher matters as we never know if it is the old P4 in the corner that wins the lottery. |
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johncmacalister2010@gmail.com
Veteran Cruncher Canada Joined: Nov 16, 2010 Post Count: 799 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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Then your point is moot. The few people who pay money for dedicated hardware for BOINC DO care about projects that can run on their hardware and therefore DO care about other projects. LOL, guess some of the top SETI@home-crunchers haven't got the memo telling them that "pay money for dedicated hardware" equals "care about other projects". Let's respect everyone who crunches whether they have the resources (or interest) to get a stronger GPU or not. All crunching efforts are valuable to their related projects. +1 one never know which single WU can be a "silver bullet" so ANY effort is valuable .. Agreed. Keep crunching My #3 PC is dedicated to Folding at home 24/7 with occasional contributions to WCG.  crunching, crunching, crunching. AMD Ryzen 5 2600 6-core Processor with Windows 11 64 Pro. AMD Ryzen 7 3700X 8-Core Processor with Windows 11 64 Pro (part time)  [Edit 1 times, last edit by John C MacAlister at Nov 1, 2012 2:55:10 AM] |
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