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Message 31775 - Posted: 30 Sep 2009, 20:59:44 UTC - in response to Message 31773.  

By utilising CPs latest ap, you are getting MORE credit than you were before.

Not with the sse2 app, only ~8-9% faster. Good but doesn't compensate.
Doesn't expecting the unexpected make the unexpected the expected?
If it makes sense, DON'T do it.
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Message 31776 - Posted: 30 Sep 2009, 22:23:21 UTC - in response to Message 31775.  
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By utilising CPs latest ap, you are getting MORE credit than you were before.

Not with the sse2 app, only ~8-9% faster. Good but doesn't compensate.

I agree, I installed opp app on both my machines and watched my rac drop like a rock on these machines. One went from aprox 1200 to 950, the other went from 2800 to 2200, not exactly a plus??These are CPU machines. My rac has gone up but thats because I bought an i7 also CPU on MW. MY GPU's are at collatz where they get a LOT more than they would at MW. Cuda nVidia cards.
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Message 31785 - Posted: 1 Oct 2009, 1:23:41 UTC

Fair enough. I wasn't thinking about cpu's. My bad. But it is still more than what you'd get on SETI with a lunatics opt ap.....
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Message 31792 - Posted: 1 Oct 2009, 2:52:33 UTC - in response to Message 31775.  

By utilising CPs latest ap, you are getting MORE credit than you were before.

Not with the sse2 app, only ~8-9% faster. Good but doesn't compensate.


Agreed...

my Pentium 4

Before the reduction the daily credit amounts were around 950-1150/day... Now it is 700-850/day...


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Message 31926 - Posted: 3 Oct 2009, 19:27:29 UTC - in response to Message 30910.  

After a Google search of "how to determine CPU flop count", some time doing research and testing, this was not a consistent way to judge computer performance. With such a wide variance in calculating FLOPS to award credit for work preformed, a slower computer could get more credit than a faster computer. So the best way would be to make all work units the same size, calculate the flops for the work unit and award credit for this calculation. No matter how fast, or slow, the computation was, credit would be the same. This is the best and most fair solution. I think this is being done by some project already. My two cents worth.

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    Message 31927 - Posted: 3 Oct 2009, 19:50:57 UTC - in response to Message 31926.  

    After a Google search of "how to determine CPU flop count", some time doing research and testing, this was not a consistent way to judge computer performance. With such a wide variance in calculating FLOPS to award credit for work preformed, a slower computer could get more credit than a faster computer. So the best way would be to make all work units the same size, calculate the flops for the work unit and award credit for this calculation. No matter how fast, or slow, the computation was, credit would be the same. This is the best and most fair solution. I think this is being done by some project already. My two cents worth.

    That's exactly what I think too.
    The projects set a standard credit per standard app running time.
    They then calculate the credits per unit length.
    The units carry a standardized credit allotment per unit done. Time in calculation is meaningless. Credit is based on work unit lengths.
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    Message 31929 - Posted: 3 Oct 2009, 20:32:13 UTC
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    For a scholarly discussion of credits for GPU projects and for those who haven't seen it previously:

    http://www.gpugrid.net/forum_thread.php?id=776&nowrap=true#7556

    Makes a lot of sense to me.
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    Message 31932 - Posted: 3 Oct 2009, 23:15:15 UTC

    The hard part is, some projects are not able to make their wu's the same size due to them either finishing early as they've hit a predetermined cut off, or just due to the fact different wu starting parameters give different wu lengths.
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    Message 31933 - Posted: 4 Oct 2009, 0:27:21 UTC - in response to Message 31926.  
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    After a Google search of "how to determine CPU flop count", some time doing research and testing, this was not a consistent way to judge computer performance. With such a wide variance in calculating FLOPS to award credit for work preformed, a slower computer could get more credit than a faster computer. So the best way would be to make all work units the same size, calculate the flops for the work unit and award credit for this calculation. No matter how fast, or slow, the computation was, credit would be the same. This is the best and most fair solution. I think this is being done by some project already. My two cents worth.

    If you would have followed the discussions here in the last months you would know that exactly what you propose is done here at Milkyway. I think you confuse it with the benchmark based approach.

    Actually there are now three projects using the same approach, SETI, GPUGrid and Milkyway. All three projects have counted the amount of necessary operations for a given WU type (determined on server side as it is knows before how much effort is needed to calculate a WU) and this sets the "worth" of a WU. It doesn't matter on which device that WU is calculated, on a fast or a slow CPU or a GPU, it will give the same amount of credit, independently if it needs only a minute on a GPU or two hours on a CPU.

    So you are a bit too late with your two cents ;)
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    Message 31938 - Posted: 4 Oct 2009, 6:27:43 UTC - in response to Message 31933.  

    it will give the same amount of credit, independently if it needs only a minute on a GPU or two hours on a CPU.


    Or nearly two days on my dear old PII 400MHz laptop! :D

    (About 1 day 19 hours for a credit rate of around 1.2 credits per hour!)
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    Message 31952 - Posted: 4 Oct 2009, 11:24:00 UTC

    Perhaps time to upgrade the PII? :)
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    Message 32380 - Posted: 15 Oct 2009, 10:05:37 UTC - in response to Message 31952.  

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    Message 32383 - Posted: 15 Oct 2009, 11:02:17 UTC - in response to Message 32380.  

    Hmmmm...
    Very interesting results.... http://milkyway.cs.rpi.edu/milkyway/results.php?hostid=107881&offset=0&show_names=0&state=3

    You are right. "Very interesting" times for two RV 670...
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    Message 32392 - Posted: 15 Oct 2009, 15:47:48 UTC - in response to Message 32383.  
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    Hmmmm...
    Very interesting results.... http://milkyway.cs.rpi.edu/milkyway/results.php?hostid=107881&offset=0&show_names=0&state=3

    You are right. "Very interesting" times for two RV 670...

    He is running a script that alters the WUs after downloading. He reduces the number of iterations calculated in the WUs resulting in a massive speedup. And I can prove it. I will notify Travis/Anthony of this cheater. In my opinion this guy should be banned.
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    Message 32394 - Posted: 15 Oct 2009, 17:15:28 UTC - in response to Message 32392.  

    He is running a script that alters the WUs after downloading. He reduces the number of iterations calculated in the WUs resulting in a massive speedup. And I can prove it. I will notify Travis/Anthony of this cheater. In my opinion this guy should be banned.

    Maybe there could be a validator check to make sure the number of iterations is correct (320?).
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    Message 32396 - Posted: 15 Oct 2009, 17:39:12 UTC - in response to Message 32392.  
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    Hmmmm...
    Very interesting results.... http://milkyway.cs.rpi.edu/milkyway/results.php?hostid=107881&offset=0&show_names=0&state=3

    You are right. "Very interesting" times for two RV 670...

    He is running a script that alters the WUs after downloading. He reduces the number of iterations calculated in the WUs resulting in a massive speedup. And I can prove it. I will notify Travis/Anthony of this cheater. In my opinion this guy should be banned.


    If it is real cheat, he should not only be banned but also it is necessary to get his all points back
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    Message 32397 - Posted: 15 Oct 2009, 18:01:44 UTC - in response to Message 32394.  

    He is running a script that alters the WUs after downloading. He reduces the number of iterations calculated in the WUs resulting in a massive speedup. And I can prove it. I will notify Travis/Anthony of this cheater. In my opinion this guy should be banned.

    Maybe there could be a validator check to make sure the number of iterations is correct (320?).

    He changed more than this single value. He cuts the computational effort for a WU to about 1/36 of the required one.

    There are several ways to make such cheating harder with the validator of course an important part of it. But I'm not in the position to decide about the measures to take.
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    Message 32398 - Posted: 15 Oct 2009, 18:11:48 UTC - in response to Message 32396.  

    Hmmmm...
    Very interesting results.... http://milkyway.cs.rpi.edu/milkyway/results.php?hostid=107881&offset=0&show_names=0&state=3

    You are right. "Very interesting" times for two RV 670...

    He is running a script that alters the WUs after downloading. He reduces the number of iterations calculated in the WUs resulting in a massive speedup. And I can prove it. I will notify Travis/Anthony of this cheater. In my opinion this guy should be banned.

    If it is real cheat, he should not only be banned but also it is necessary to get his all points back

    I agree. And I think it is proven that he cheats (for a few days already) with full intent and also compromises the results in that course. He "earned" more than 160,000 credits just in the last 6 hours with this cheat. At this rate, he would need about 4 days to arrive at the RAC for the affected machine. That are at least about 2.5 million credits he got through cheating. But in my opinion it wouldn't be enough to remove just the 2.5 million credits. I totally agree with you in that.
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    Message 32399 - Posted: 15 Oct 2009, 18:15:49 UTC - in response to Message 32398.  
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    WTF, i don't know what is going on....

    See this..... :(
    http://milkyway.cs.rpi.edu/milkyway/results.php?hostid=71433&offset=0&show_names=0&state=3

    Maby BOINC is not reporting correct times.... or maby not....
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    Message 32401 - Posted: 15 Oct 2009, 19:13:24 UTC - in response to Message 32399.  

    WTF, i don't know what is going on....

    See this..... :(
    http://milkyway.cs.rpi.edu/milkyway/results.php?hostid=71433&offset=0&show_names=0&state=3

    Maby BOINC is not reporting correct times.... or maby not....

    That are just the CPU times. It's all okay with them.
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