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Former Member
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anyway what's the problem if they say you have a 600mhz instead of a 1.7 ghz ...well the calculation won't be slower does it ? so all no problem to me :-)
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Former Member
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anyway what's the problem if they say you have a 600mhz instead of a 1.7 ghz ...well the calculation won't be slower does it ? so all no problem to me :-) Correct, but the processor score is used in calculating points, so you may earn fewer than you deserve. My processor score changed to a 135 after submitting my last result, so here's my theory: the diagnostic software that assesses processor speed runs infrequently, perhaps only when a new task commences. If you happen to be running something else on your computer at that instant, you will be stuck with an artificially low processor score until the software runs again, even if 100% of your processor capability becomes available to the wcg agent shortly after the diagnostic is complete. Another theory: software does run frequently and calculates a fair processor score, but wcg only displays 1st measurement taken during current task. |
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mike garrison
Cruncher Joined: Nov 22, 2004 Post Count: 4 Status: Offline |
Your theory might be spot on. After completing a work unit, my Processor score made a quantum leap from 1 (yes 1) to 197. Go figure.
anyway what's the problem if they say you have a 600mhz instead of a 1.7 ghz ...well the calculation won't be slower does it ? so all no problem to me :-) Correct, but the processor score is used in calculating points, so you may earn fewer than you deserve. My processor score changed to a 135 after submitting my last result, so here's my theory: the diagnostic software that assesses processor speed runs infrequently, perhaps only when a new task commences. If you happen to be running something else on your computer at that instant, you will be stuck with an artificially low processor score until the software runs again, even if 100% of your processor capability becomes available to the wcg agent shortly after the diagnostic is complete. Another theory: software does run frequently and calculates a fair processor score, but wcg only displays 1st measurement taken during current task. |
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mike garrison
Cruncher Joined: Nov 22, 2004 Post Count: 4 Status: Offline |
Your theory might be spot on. After completing a work unit, my Processor score made a quantum leap from 1 (yes 1) to 197. Go figure.
anyway what's the problem if they say you have a 600mhz instead of a 1.7 ghz ...well the calculation won't be slower does it ? so all no problem to me :-) Correct, but the processor score is used in calculating points, so you may earn fewer than you deserve. My processor score changed to a 135 after submitting my last result, so here's my theory: the diagnostic software that assesses processor speed runs infrequently, perhaps only when a new task commences. If you happen to be running something else on your computer at that instant, you will be stuck with an artificially low processor score until the software runs again, even if 100% of your processor capability becomes available to the wcg agent shortly after the diagnostic is complete. Another theory: software does run frequently and calculates a fair processor score, but wcg only displays 1st measurement taken during current task. |
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Alther
Former World Community Grid Tech United States of America Joined: Sep 30, 2004 Post Count: 414 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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As explained on the Points System page, the CPU score is determined by a performance diagnostic, not by the type of CPU or speed of the CPU. The score represents processing power available to the Agent, not raw CPU power.
----------------------------------------This means it runs a small performance test. So, if you happen to be doing some processing at the time of the diagnostic, e.g. playing a game, compiling, photo processing, etc., the diagnostic will report a lower score than if the computer was doing nothing at the time. It's random, so it's a little hit or miss, but over time it should give you the proper score over the lifetime of the machine for the processing power available to the agent. e.g. take a P4 3.0GHz Xeon that is an active server and is utilized 50% of the time for actual server stuff. Only 50% of the total processing power is available to the agent. Thus you'll see a score of, e.g. 100 instead of 190.
Rick Alther
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Former Member
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Sounds like a confirmation of my first theory (infrequent performance diagnostic... although I wrote "processor speed" when I meant "processing power"). Thanks, Rick.
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David Autumns
Ace Cruncher UK Joined: Nov 16, 2004 Post Count: 11062 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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Just a tip
----------------------------------------Beware of rogue tasks that maybe hogging your CPU so that the Rosetta Process does not get fed. I once download Realplayer and a task was generated called Realsched.exe a task to check wether there was a software upgrade available for Realplayer. Unfortunately this process hogged 99% of the processor leaving only scraps for all the other processes. When you are not involved in the grid you may not even notice the effects of this however as the WCG agent benchmarks your PC at the end of every WU and your points score and WCG progress depends on it such tasks are easily identified. btw I think realplayer and realmedia is an excellent product I only use this by way of a real life example. Subsequent software upgrades did not show this issue. My solution was to find the .exe and rename it Realsched1.exe a reboot later 99/98%'s back on the grid agent. Regards Dave  |
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joatmon
Senior Cruncher Joined: Nov 17, 2004 Post Count: 185 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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running on my dell laptop, shows in the agent as a Intel Pentium 3, 1.7 GHz, compared to Intel Pentium 4 1.5 GHz. Last work unit, processor sub score was 124, this work unit it is up to 175. This workunit also seems to be taking a while, so I'm glad it happened to jump up for the long one - should be a good w/u for points then.
----------------------------------------EDIT - the next workunit it gave me a processor score of 104. [Edit 1 times, last edit by joatmon at Dec 10, 2004 2:44:16 AM] |
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EiF
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This means it runs a small performance test. So, if you happen to be doing some processing at the time of the diagnostic, e.g. playing a game, compiling, photo processing, etc., the diagnostic will report a lower score than if the computer was doing nothing at the time. It's random, so it's a little hit or miss, but over time it should give you the proper score over the lifetime of the machine for the processing power available to the agent. Well, I would dare to disagree. My processor performance had been stable at 140 for a long time (approx. 20 work units). Then it dropped suddenly to 119. After next WU finished it came back to correct 140. It had been stable at 140 for next 10 WUs and now dropped suddenly to 119 again. This doesn't look like averaging processor performace over time. I think the client should perform short test more often and average the results over time to get proper results. |
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Former Member
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 My Processor Performance is down to 2, looks like the last measurement was while AntiVirus was running ... |
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