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Former Member
Cruncher Joined: May 22, 2018 Post Count: 0 Status: Offline |
Hi everyone :)
I make only about 350 Points Per Result. Some people I see make 750 Points Per Result. Can I upgrade my PC so I can increase my Points Per Result for FightAIDS@home? Ive noticed my points per day has been increasing but not Points Per Result. My Processor is Pentium 4 3.4 GHZ comparison = 187 My memory is 1280MB comparison = 300 My storage is 9.77 comparison = 196 |
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Sekerob
Ace Cruncher Joined: Jul 24, 2005 Post Count: 20043 Status: Offline |
hi qafdemo,
----------------------------------------can u please go to your Result Status page and find an example where u got 350 (50 BOINC credits) and another where 750 (107 Boinc credits) was given. U can get the detail like below, by clicking on a Workunit name where the Status column shows 'valid'. Only when there are 2 in a quorum of 3 claiming 107 BOINC credits or more, will ALL 3 get that (including yourself). If 2 have 50 or Less BOINC claim, all 3 will get the 50. In the Quorum 3 rule, the lowest and highest claim is dismissed and all 3 get the one in the middle! Please advise with the requested examples. Update.... now i realise u use UD Agent........how can u see scores of others for FAAH on UD Agent? If u are looking at compare member stats, it could very well be that u run UD agent with a throttle of 100% and the others run 50%. Then u process twice as fast, and given that UD Agent pays out in wallclock time, not CPU time, someone else doing twice as long over a FAAH will get double the points with the same device rating. thx Workunit Name Status Sent Time Time Due / Return Time CPU Time (hours) Claimed/ Granted BOINC Credit faah0803_ bdb251_ mx1kjh_ dry_ 00 Valid 09/30/2006 02:15:58 10/01/2006 17:04:39 7.28 53 / 53 faah0803_ bdb251_ mx1kjh_ dry_ 00 Valid 09/30/2006 02:15:53 09/30/2006 10:44:00 5.74 faah0803_ bdb251_ mx1kjh_ dry_ 00 Valid 09/30/2006 02:15:37 10/02/2006 06:27:25 7.70
WCG
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Former Member
Cruncher Joined: May 22, 2018 Post Count: 0 Status: Offline |
Here is an example of what im talking about:
Someone else Avg. Points Per Result 454.38000 My Avg. Points Per Result 311.73077 This can be viewed in the members statistics |
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Sekerob
Ace Cruncher Joined: Jul 24, 2005 Post Count: 20043 Status: Offline |
Can u run the particular comparison, than do a screenprint or copy /past like below, where we can see this 350 versus 750 per result.....
----------------------------------------Statistics qafdemo Sekerob Total Run Time (y:d:h:m:s) (Rank) 0:020:19:52:10 (#120,150) 1:020:21:35:48 (#10,154) Points Generated 16,210 (#112,173) 362,639 (#5,936) Results Returned (Rank) 52 (#115,240) 1,107 (#8,953) Avg. Run Time Per Calendar Day (y:d:h:m:s) 0:000:23:48:12 0:000:20:57:14 Avg. Run Time Per Result (y:d:h:m:s) 0:000:09:36:46 0:000:08:21:59 Avg. Points Per Hour of Run Time 32.42847 39.15513 Avg. Points Per Calendar Day 771.90476 820.45023 Avg. Points Per Result 311.73077 327.58717 Avg. Results Per Calendar Day 2.47619 2.50452 Last Result Returned (UTC) 10/08/2006 10:51:12 [5+ hour(s) ago] 10/08/2006 07:35:23 [9+ hour(s) ago] Device Installations 5 11 Registered Member Since 09/18/2006 07/24/2005 Oh and are u running FAAH only or a mix of Help Defeat Cancer which are much shorter and FAAH.....my numbers to compare are a mix of projects. My UD agent device rating is 181
WCG
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Former Member
Cruncher Joined: May 22, 2018 Post Count: 0 Status: Offline |
Bear in mind that work units are different sizes. In particular, different projects often have significantly different work units and work unit variation.
Over time, these may average out, particularly if you compare members running the same mix of projects. However, some variation occurs because of the way UD awards points. The UD point system has some flaws. Please do not try to exploit them. |
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Sgt.Joe
Ace Cruncher USA Joined: Jul 4, 2006 Post Count: 7849 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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qafdemo,
----------------------------------------I don't pretend to understand the points system. I use the UD agent, which so far has run flawlessly for me. I only have enough memory to be crunching FAAH right now and even though the clock time on the UD agent is supposed to be related to the points I am somewhat baffled by the last three results. It probably has something to do with the system rating, but I am only guessing. Date hr/min/sec pts result 10/08/2006 0:000:23:35:52 589 1 10/07/2006 0:000:23:05:32 327 1 10/05/2006 0:001:00:23:37 615 1 I really don't think it matters as long as the WU's are getting done correctly.  Keep on crunching Joe
Sgt. Joe
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Former Member
Cruncher Joined: May 22, 2018 Post Count: 0 Status: Offline |
Can I upgrade my PC so I can increase my Points Per Result for FightAIDS@home? Points per result doesn't depend on how fast your PC is. Any particular work unit is worth about the same number of points no matter how long it took you to crunch it (ideally; benchmark inconsistencies can mess this up a little, but it should average out). A faster PC will get more points per hour, but not more points per result. It just crunches more results per day. I think your average per result mostly just depends on what projects you work on. Some projects have longer work units than others. 350 poiints is fairly typical for a FAAH unit, but I've recently been doing a lot of HDC which has pretty short work units, and my points per result has gone down to 194. It used to be much higher when I was crunching HPF 1 and/or 2. Someone with 750 points per result has simply been working on projects with longer work units than FAAH. Since FAAH has the longest work units currently being issued, it also means they've been around for a long time so that they drove up their average back when longer units were being issued. [Edit 1 times, last edit by Former Member at Oct 8, 2006 11:07:32 PM] |
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Former Member
Cruncher Joined: May 22, 2018 Post Count: 0 Status: Offline |
No, that's how BOINC works. UD points are awarded differently.
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Former Member
Cruncher Joined: May 22, 2018 Post Count: 0 Status: Offline |
Thanks for your replys everyone. I get it now, different projects issue different points per result.
My memory is 1280MB comparison = 300 If I buy an extra GB of ram will it speed up the workunits .Is it mostly CPU that speeds up the workunit? Have any of you upgraded your ram and notice workunits getting finished faster? Right now its taking my pc 9 hours to finish FAAH workunits. thanks :) |
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Sgt.Joe
Ace Cruncher USA Joined: Jul 4, 2006 Post Count: 7849 Status: Offline Project Badges:
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qafdemo,
----------------------------------------It is my understanding that additional memory will not speed up your processing of WU's, unless you have an awful lot of other things running. Your system does not appear to be memory bound. The speed with which a WU is processed is dependent on the speed of your processor in doing floating point math. Cheers Joe
Sgt. Joe
*Minnesota Crunchers* |
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