Could he be playing with VMware, virtualizing one machine into 5 (or 35) more, each with a different identity (how?), so that at the end of the day, those five virtual machines report the exact same number of credits (produced by the physical machine), 5 times?

I hope I'm wrong ...

Looks like Mr. P has loads of cash, but that still doesn't explain the identical numbers of credits, which I have never seen for any other user or machine. He also appears to be readily able to customize virtual machines (apparently entirely possible), and he is clearly very good at 'beating the odds' - whatever that may take. Such stuff is way out of my depth, tho, and I recognize when I should let more qualified folks speak on the matter.

Excellent idea - who has a GPUGRID account?

I'm convinced something is amiss - he has different machines, with different specs, all producing the exact same number of credits. For example, he has an i7-3770K, (1 CPU, 8 cores), producing 405,450 credits yesterday, and he has an i7-3930K, (1 CPU, 12 cores) ALSO producing the exact same 405,450 credits. In addition, there are three E5-2620 machines (6 CPUs, 12 cores), producing the same number, 405,450.

You know that there would have to be SOME difference between those values.

Again - I'd much rather be wrong, but this is just too good to be true. In addition to producing 39,000,000+ credits per day for GPUGRID, he's ALSO producing 34,000,000+ credits per day for Distributed Rainbow Table Generator: http://www.gpugrid.net/show_user.php?userid=81276

It's just odd

Well, the project is called GPUgrid for a reason.

Meaning, it doesn't matter if the computer has 1 cores or 12 cores, as long as it's got the same type of GPU.


As for getting same credit on multiple computers, a quick look reveals GPUGRID has multiple-sized tasks, where one group of tasks has the "8-12 hours on fastest card"-designation. Just from this description it should be fairly obvious a single GPU will finish either 2 or 3 tasks within any given 24-hour period. On top of this these tasks gives either 112625 or 135150 points.

So, 405450 just means 3 of the 135150-point tasks was finished, this is trivial to manage if dual-GPU.

So, with 100+ active computers, based on how few tasks per day any given computer can finish and how little variation in crediting between tasks where is for GPUGRID, I would actually be much more surprised if where wasn't any computers getting the same credit per day.

The 'interesting' Mr Postnieks is in Park City Utah, methinks .

" It appears he put most of these use around 01/17/2013 as that is when his numbers went up"

Mr Postnieks had a very busy day on 01/17/2013.

He appears to run an investment company with 'six ' employees and no clients.

And,access to a 2 petaflop supercomputer.