Posts by Ian Francis

1) Message boards : Cafe MilkyWay : OHIO STATE BUCKEYES UNITE!!! (Message 5187) Posted 5 Sep 2008 by Ian Francis Post: I am calling all crunchers with ties to The Ohio State University (students, faculty, staff, fans, and families) to join the team of the same name in ALL BOINC projects which you participate if you have not already. We are the largest university in the country, and therefore we should be the largest university team. Follow the link below to join the team for Milkyway@Home. The Ohio State University
2) Message boards : Number crunching : WU Credits (Message 4887) Posted 21 Aug 2008 by Ian Francis Post: I do not think everyone will be satisfied for quite some time. On one hand, I think people should get equal credit for equal work, which is (as far as I can tell) what we have now. The issue is that the optimized app is so much faster than the regular app that you have one person with rediculous amounts of credit. In reality, the project is probably giving out too much credit per WU, but it works for the regular app. The ideal situation would be to develop optimized apps for all processors and reduce the credits per WU, but that is not a reasonable request for those running the project. Also, we apparently are not at a stage where this would be helpful to the project. In the end, the log scale is not a perfect solution, but it is the most reasonable at the moment. After reading Travis' posts, I have to agree with him. P.S. If there is anyone out there who is a good coder and can optimize the app, please do and solve this situation. Until then, I say accept the current situation as this project is still in development and will not be perfect. I will continue to crunch for MW, and I hope everyone else does too.
3) Message boards : Number crunching : WU Credits (Message 4861) Posted 20 Aug 2008 by Ian Francis Post: Since Poor Boy's thread has been locked, I thought I would discuss WU credits for Milkyway. It seems that if Crunch3r's application is giving valid credit, all that needs to be done is optimize the standard app and reduce the credits awarded. Credits should really be awarded by CPU cycles, so if the app is optimized (meaning if it takes less CPU cycles to do the same WU, less credits would be awarded per WU) This would be bad for people developing optimized apps, but if the app is already optimized it would only stop people from developing apps that truly cheat and gets credits for work they didn't do. I don't care if the credits per WU go down as long as credits per second stay the same or are at least in-line with other BOINC projects. I am not sure if this is feasible, but it seems that if it were a solution it would be the most fair to everyone.