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duanebong
Advanced Cruncher Singapore Joined: Apr 25, 2009 Post Count: 134 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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In the news Japan now has the fastest supercomputer working on Covid19. An article about it appeared on the BBC today - Japanese supercomputer, crowned world's fastest, is fighting coronavirus:
----------------------------------------https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-53147684 Does anyone have an idea how much computing power does WCG have compared to this dedicated supercomputer? I'd be curious to know how a bunch of volunteers like us compare to a dedicated machine run by a national / government level type of organisation.  |
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catsdomain
Advanced Cruncher Canada Joined: Jul 11, 2007 Post Count: 108 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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WCG is apparently 566 Tflops:
----------------------------------------https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Community_Grid Fugaku is at least 400,000 Tflops: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fugaku_(supercomputer)  [Edit 2 times, last edit by catsdomain at Jun 23, 2020 2:39:45 PM] |
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supdood
Senior Cruncher USA Joined: Aug 6, 2015 Post Count: 333 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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542 Tflops now: https://www.boincstats.com/stats/15/project/detail/overview
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pututu
Senior Cruncher United States Joined: Jan 3, 2016 Post Count: 243 Status: Offline Project Badges:
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... and powered by ARM processor: https://www.anandtech.com/show/15869/new-1-su...he-top-with-415-petaflops
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Former Member
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542 seems low to me. I can count almost 100 Tflops just on Team Snurk. Of course, how one determines a Tflop makes a difference
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Former Member
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I'd ignore BOINCstats for 2 reasons: 1) WCG in being GPDR compliant does not export data for people who are 'hidden' which I think is default for new members, 2) the credit system is fried across BOINC world. BOINCStats uses 200,000 credit for 1 Tflop, WCG uses 100,000 for 1 TFlop. For those reasons, starting with the WCG totals of points on the Community page, which includes hidden, my calculation is 1,691 Tflops per yesterday's results. Today we're heading for 1,712 TFlops.
The WCG method is explained here https://www.worldcommunitygrid.org/help/viewSearch.do?searchString=flops |
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supdood
Senior Cruncher USA Joined: Aug 6, 2015 Post Count: 333 Status: Offline Project Badges:
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Has the BOINC credit allocation changes since 2013 when this page was written: https://boinc.berkeley.edu/wiki/Computation_credit. Seems weird that WCG linked to a page in the first paragraph that says 200,000 credit for 1 Tflop and then go on to say 100,000 credit per Tflop in the second paragraph.
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Former Member
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WCG changed it to 200,000 (1,400,000 points) but then realized Credit New, which was supposed to double credit, in fact did hardly anything when implemented at WCG, so it was changed back to 100,000 (700,000 points).
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supdood
Senior Cruncher USA Joined: Aug 6, 2015 Post Count: 333 Status: Offline Project Badges:
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Thanks for the explanation and organizational history! Great to know that we are collectively pumping out 3x the computations as shown on BoincStats.
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Glen David Short
Senior Cruncher Joined: Nov 6, 2008 Post Count: 192 Status: Offline Project Badges:
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my calculation is 1,691 Tflops per yesterday's results. Today we're heading for 1,712 TFlops. That would rank WCG at around #281 in the top 500 according to this list Meanwhile Folding@home is supposedly pumping out 470 PetaFlops - at the time that article was written, more than the top 7 supercomputers combined.  [Edit 1 times, last edit by Glen David Short at Jun 24, 2020 2:54:33 AM] |
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