Hello my fellow cruncher,
the reason might be the start of crunching on GPU, Graphic card processors.
All the best
MS

On my stats I see jumps in points at times. My idea is that a lot of WUs get stacked waiting to be validated and when they do get validated I see a jump but not a spike like that.

At it's greatest it is about 6x the normal. Without more stats on waiting WUs my theory is hard to evaluate.

Thank you for the explanation! As someone whose rankings were trashed by 50+ people virtually invisible in the stats passing at warp speed, it provides an explanation but doesn't really make sense, unless there are people with Bitcoin mining rigs whose GPUs suddenly got to crunch WCG WUs instead.

What GPU rig have you got that gets you to over 7K points per hour and over 3 Terraflops? My 45 days crunching per calendar day come from a single home-built Xeon server that I've upgraded to maximum configuration as second-hand processor prices have dropped. The "missing" 3 days crunching per day are the server performing its other duties, but even if you multiply my hourly points rate by 45 it's only just over 6K points per hour for 24 cores / 48 threads and not even 1/18th of what you're achieving.

Boincstats still shows some of these people "expected" to overtake me within a few days, but I expect most won't now.

I'm only running one RTX3060Ti but I've configured it to run 16 WUs at once which maxes out both the CPU and GPU. When WCG was able to supply enough WUs during the stress test I hit 20M points in a day. Now there few available so I'm only averaging 1.1M points per day. With the CPU alone I was only getting 30K per day so the GPU WUs contain much more science and are way more efficient.