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Former Member
Cruncher Joined: May 22, 2018 Post Count: 0 Status: Offline |
I have 10 PCs on the grid right now - some getting used for other things from time to time ...just seeing how the work units and points progress. Most things make sense - but two do not. Since the points are awkwardly calculated not by the number of mathematical operations, but by time as related to an arbitrary comparison PC, this comparison metric is critical. I understand the philosophy of the project is to help humanity, but there is a lot of computational effort put into benchmarking and ranking, so I want to understand it. I did see a link to the approxinamte overall calculation of "Your Device". But how is the processor benchmarking done?
One of my systems is a 1.33GHz celeron laptop (over 3 years old) ...and the device is rated a 138 compared with the 1.5GHz P4 comparison device. Is that even possible? A celeron with a slower than a pentium 4 and rated higher? Another laptop I have is a mobile pentium 4 running at 3.2GHz (hyperthreading off in BIOS) ...and it is rated a 123 ...yet my desktop pentium 4 3.2GHz (with half as much cache) is rated 195? A 3.2GHz P4 w/ 1MB cache rated less than a 1.33GHz Celeron? Both sit idle other than the WCG client (I have verified 99-98% utilization in task manager). Any thoughts? |
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Online Gamer
Cruncher Joined: Sep 18, 2005 Post Count: 14 Status: Offline |
Hi Pat
----------------------------------------Check out this forum link. hopefully it will help. Also there is a website that runs through some of the why's and hows of processor scoring. http://www.worldcommunitygrid.org/forums/wcg/viewthread?thread=1505 http://www.unofficialworldcommunitygrid.com/index.shtml Hope this helps. If you need any more info just search the forums under processor scoring and you'll find lots of answers on this one. Best regards Online Gamer |
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Former Member
Cruncher Joined: May 22, 2018 Post Count: 0 Status: Offline |
FYI - to others that may be suffering from CPU ratings that make no sense. I was consistently getting scores 3x better on my 1.33GHz Celeron than on my 3.2GHz P4.
Disgusted, I ran Performance test V6 on both machines to convince myself how much faster the P4 was. It wasn't. I found that by changing my video from 32bit to 16bit mage a huge difference. Then, even more (esp in 2D performance), I went to the advanced settings in control panel and adjusted for best performance ...that really locked the deal. probably a 5x improvement in overall performance ...and the CPU fan is off for the first time since I owned the laptop. Yet, through all of this, the WCG agent was listed as using all of the CPU cycles. Now, for the true test, to actually process some units! |
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