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Thread: Project passes kazillion dog year points on may 15, 2014 |
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Former Member
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Saw the term used be dataman and still there are posts even today that confuse points and credits. It so happens today the lot totals to more than 1,000,000,000,000 a trillion it seems of those points. More than the 100 billionaires in the uk own at this time, if it were money, they probably don't have a single one to their name with all their riches. When the official denomination at this project becomes credit will probably when the sun moves in-between earth and the moon.
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Sgt.Joe
Ace Cruncher USA Joined: Jul 4, 2006 Post Count: 7547 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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I don't think it will show until the evening update. Right now it is at
----------------------------------------999,623,812,755. Just a hair short of a trillion, but it will make it tonight. Edit: Just short tonight: 999,953,328,592 Cheers
Sgt. Joe
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Sgt.Joe
Ace Cruncher USA Joined: Jul 4, 2006 Post Count: 7547 Status: Offline Project Badges:
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WHOOHOO
----------------------------------------Finally made it tonight :1,000,665,582,515 Cheers
Sgt. Joe
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cjslman
Master Cruncher Mexico Joined: Nov 23, 2004 Post Count: 2082 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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Congrats WCG on making it to the one trillion points milestone
---------------------------------------- !!! It took a little less than 10 years... CJSL Crunching for a better world... |
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Former Member
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So, check me out on this, that 13 digit number, roughly translates to 715 petaflops? Or, 0:000:00:02:23 on a 5 petaflop/s device.
 Prosit! pb |
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cjslman
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Interesting... how did you get from points to performance ? Please share the math
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Former Member
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Hi cjslman,
Happily. The formula is stated in the Website Help section. I found the following by searching: (points flops). "How do I calculate my FLOPS (Floating Point Operations Per Second) based off my World Community Grid points? BOINC provides a reference about credit and its relation to FLOPS. However, you should know that seven (7) World Community Grid points are equal to one (1) BOINC credit. Therefore, your total World Community Grid points divided by 1,400 gives you the number of GigaFLOPs and your World Community Grid points divided by 1,400,000 gives you the number of TeraFLOPs." It turns out that the basic unit of measure of the BOINC credit is Jeff Cobb's "Cobblestone", which introduces an underlying factor of 2 to the WCG factor of 7. In other words a factor of 14. Wait, there is more. Those ready made formulae take us only to the Teraflop level. We have to add three more significant digits to the divisor, which brings us to the following equation: total WCG points / point-to-flop factor = petaflop 1,000,665,582,5515 / 1,400,000,000 = 714.7611303678571 petaflop / petaflop|s = clock seconds 715 / 5 = 143 Let me hasten to say that I recognize that this whole statement is replete with huge unreconcilable inequities. The nature and divergence of our input and executables would make it very difficult, to say the least, to mount on a supercomputer, or to do a proper comparison. OK - I'm ready. Unleash the calumny! |
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Former Member
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Here's some on the calumny: If you dig, you'll find that before the last major web refresh it said 700,000 points per Teraflop in the wcg help formula. The factor 2 was unilaterally introduced with credit-new by a gentleman in berkeley. Here the cred-new was implemented, but the credit never doubled, it stuck somewhere at factor 1.2. Another explanation of the wide difference between wcg and other projects. Totally off topic, we were celebrating dog-year points, and dog-pits they are.
How you got the 5 divisor, maybe the clock cycles needed on your cpu for 1 transaction? Am unaware that's part of the standard calculation. Modern processors manage multiple transactions these days in a cycle. |
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