Fixed Credit / WU

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Jon Boy UK - Wales Send message Joined: 17 Nov 07 Posts: 17 Credit: 663,827 RAC: 0	Message 652 - Posted: 27 Nov 2007, 13:11:56 UTC Last modified: 27 Nov 2007, 13:13:47 UTC Hello all, Are we in fixed credit / WU mode so to speak? Reason why i'm asking is that my last x ammount of wu's have been generously awarded "1.00" credit rather than the usual average of say 1.97 for eg. Kind Regards, Happy Crunchin John :0) ID: 652 · Rating: 0 · rate: / Reply Quote

Jon Boy UK - Wales Send message Joined: 17 Nov 07 Posts: 17 Credit: 663,827 RAC: 0	Message 655 - Posted: 27 Nov 2007, 14:12:37 UTC Hello, It does help if one reads.... I have just read the front homepage with regards to the Validator and Credit Update and all has been revealed. Marvelous Happycrunchin' John :0) ID: 655 · Rating: 0 · rate: / Reply Quote

Crystallize Send message Joined: 12 Nov 07 Posts: 31 Credit: 123,621 RAC: 0	Message 658 - Posted: 27 Nov 2007, 14:30:50 UTC Last modified: 27 Nov 2007, 14:38:24 UTC HM, that is quite little per WU, if it earlier was around 2-4 CS per WU. It could have at least been 2CS per WU. Which would make a ratio of 1CS per every 196 SEC of crunching time... now it's 1CS per 392 Sec which is ever worse than the official SETI, who have the lowest CS ratio that I know of out of all projects ! Even if Cosmology@home have a fixed credit, they have 100CS per WU, they of course have a lot longer WUs, but the ratio CS/Crunching time is still around 140-150 sec per CS. I think this project will loose a lot of participants this way... ... but that is really your problem I suppose ! At least I'll put Milkyway@home on hold for now, I'm not crunching for peanuts ! ID: 658 · Rating: -1 · rate: / Reply Quote

Martin P. Send message Joined: 21 Nov 07 Posts: 52 Credit: 1,756,052 RAC: 0	Message 659 - Posted: 27 Nov 2007, 15:02:49 UTC - in response to Message 658. HM, that is quite little per WU, if it earlier was around 2-4 CS per WU. It could have at least been 2CS per WU. Which would make a ratio of 1CS per every 196 SEC of crunching time... now it's 1CS per 392 Sec which is ever worse than the official SETI, who have the lowest CS ratio that I know of out of all projects ! Even if Cosmology@home have a fixed credit, they have 100CS per WU, they of course have a lot longer WUs, but the ratio CS/Crunching time is still around 140-150 sec per CS. I think this project will loose a lot of participants this way... ... but that is really your problem I suppose ! At least I'll put Milkyway@home on hold for now, I'm not crunching for peanuts ! Crystallize, as an alternative you could get a real computer such as a Mac. My 3 years old G5 takes just 172 seconds/work unit, which brings the credit/hour exactly in line with SETI@Home and Einstein@Home. BTW: my Windows XP machine with Dual 3GHz P4 takes appr. 500 seconds/work unit. ID: 659 · Rating: 0 · rate: / Reply Quote

Jon Boy UK - Wales Send message Joined: 17 Nov 07 Posts: 17 Credit: 663,827 RAC: 0	Message 660 - Posted: 27 Nov 2007, 15:12:55 UTC Hello, My compaq evo w6000 dual 2.8Ghz HT xeon workstation is only being awarded :- 1.00 Credit/WU Now that's what i call poor performance... Happycrunchin' John :0) ID: 660 · Rating: 0 · rate: / Reply Quote

Travis Volunteer moderator Project administrator Project developer Project tester Project scientist Send message Joined: 30 Aug 07 Posts: 2046 Credit: 26,480 RAC: 0	Message 676 - Posted: 27 Nov 2007, 20:35:20 UTC - in response to Message 660. Hello, My compaq evo w6000 dual 2.8Ghz HT xeon workstation is only being awarded :- 1.00 Credit/WU Now that's what i call poor performance... Happycrunchin' John :0) I've upped the fixed credit per WU to 2.0, it'll take awhile for this to filter through the current workunits that have already been generated though. ID: 676 · Rating: 0 · rate: / Reply Quote

Merlin Send message Joined: 18 Nov 07 Posts: 3 Credit: 184,025 RAC: 0	Message 705 - Posted: 28 Nov 2007, 15:09:10 UTC Hello, about credit : my Quad on QMC harvested around 66 secs / 1 cr. , fixed credit 2.00 per WU isnÂ´t much, I think. I hope for a better awarding in future :-). ID: 705 · Rating: 0 · rate: / Reply Quote

Crystallize Send message Joined: 12 Nov 07 Posts: 31 Credit: 123,621 RAC: 0	Message 721 - Posted: 28 Nov 2007, 20:19:10 UTC - in response to Message 676. I've upped the fixed credit per WU to 2.0, it'll take awhile for this to filter through the current workunits that have already been generated though. Cool, I'm quite satisfied with 2CS per WU, it puts Milkyway in the middle to high range of projects. PS Martin P. I'm very happy with my Dual core Conroe, that was not the point either DS ID: 721 · Rating: 0 · rate: / Reply Quote