Good Morning Guys

Here is an interesting observation

Rig #1
AMD Athlon 64 3400+
1.5 Gig of Ram
2 Meg ADSL Connection
10 Gig HD Space Allocated
Overall Score 220
BOINC started computing a WU with an estimated completion time of 8 hours
In actual fact the time to completion was 4 hours
Completed in 50% of the time stated
This has been the average since I installed BOINC on this machine

Rig #2
AMD Athlon 2000+
1.25 Gig of Ram
2 Meg ADSL Connection
10 Gig HD Space Alocation
Overall Score 170
BOINC started computing a WU with an estimated completion time of 8 hours
In actual fact the time to completion was 6.0 hours
Completed in 75% of the time stated
This has been the average since I installed BOINC on this machine

Rig #3
Intel 1.8
512 Meg of ram
1 Meg ADSL Connection
10 Gig Hd Space Allocation
Overall Score 105
BOINC started computing a WU
BOINC started computing a WU with an estimated completion time of 8 hours
In actual fact the time to completion was 7.7 hours
Completed in 98% of the time stated
This has been the average since I installed BOINC on this machine

Results for Rig #1
Points on UD Manager = 320 points 1 WU Returned
Points on BOINC Manager = 640 points 2 WU's returned

Conclusion
If an 8 hour WU can be completed twice as fast on Rig #1 using BOINC Manager, than it would take to complete it on UD Manager, then it is only fair that you should be awarded twice as many points, as you have done twice as much work in the same 8 hours

Let's say:
You go out and purchase a Mini at a cost of £10,000 and it's maximum speed is 100 mph
Or
You go out and purchase a Jaguar at a cost of £30,000 and it's maximum speed is 150 mph

Someone then puts a speed govenor on the Jaguar limiting its speed to 100 mph
What is the point of spending £30,000 an a Jaguar to only have someone limit it's performance

BOINC rewards your full performance, UD only rewards your partial performance
This is a level playing field Gentlemen
You have the choice, to enable you to overcome the limitations of performance capping
In my humble opinion everyone should switch over to BOINC for 2 reasons
1. Members using power house PC's will get higher rewards for their contribution to this effort
2. In a high degree of cases throughput of results will be increased substancially, allowing us to move onto another worthy project a lot sooner
I rest my case

Hope you dont mind me popping in here,

I have to agree with you there. I found a healthy increase in my results and points when i installed BOINC. (Athlon XP 3200 @2.36Ghz, 1GB RAM) I would not use the UD Agent again on this pc.

As Ady said earlier, 'time moves on, and we have to move with it.'

Hi V_R

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Another steady days crunching Guys
For those of you who have installed BOINC
We should see a marked improvement in points and results as soon as some of your BOINC Work Units start getting validated

Movers Of The Day
keithhenry ^6 - growbot ^4 - spikey_richie ^2 - hookah ^2

Onward and upward chaps, we need to pull out all the stops!

All BOINC'ed up at this end I was making 3,900 points a day or thereabouts

No hardware added or changed so no more crunching going on apart from about an extra 30 Mins a day in total across all 6 machines as UD did it's uploading downloading thing so there should be about 1/3 of 1% improvement in my score

Let's see how accurate this conversion factor is

The problem is David - this will not be an accurate assesment.

As has been explained many times now, you are not comparing like with like - just because you get more points with boinc than UD on your particular spec machine doesn't mean everyone will.
Some folks will get less and some the same, and some more depending on their machine specs- hence it is an average that is taken of them all that works out the conversion factor.

The problem is that the UD agent benchmarking system is now outdated and fails to properly credit higher performing CPUs which were probably never envisaged when it was created - the reference machine used is a 1.5Ghz Pentium 4 with 384MB RAM and 5 GB HDD!! - it in effect penalises users of CPU's once they go past the maximum benchmark.

All Boinc does is properly credit the higher performing CPU's, which is quite correct in my opinion.

What needs to happen is either the UD Agent gets updated to allow higher benchmarking, or scrap it and everyone go over to Boinc.

Ady