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Wilgard
Advanced Cruncher Joined: Dec 15, 2005 Post Count: 83 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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As you can see in my signature, I work only on WCG with the BOINC client. But the thing which question me, is about credit/points. I 've got 72000 points on BOINC client and 555000 on WCG site.
----------------------------------------If I worked on sereval projects I could interstand. But, in this case, I dont understand. It seems to have a reduction factor about 7 or 7.5 (555000 / 7.5 = 74000). Does someone can explain to me this difference between the project points given by BOINC and those given by WCG ? It is also for some characteristics that you can see on website BOINCSTATS. Thanks a lot.  |
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Former Member
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Hi Wilgard,
WCG began with the same UD client used by grid.org in 2004. You can find an explanation of the UD scoring algorithm in Start Here. When we added the BOINC client in 2005, we needed a way to compare the BOINC points with the UD points, even though they were fundamentally different. We compared the scores given for the same work units (in HPF1) and decided that we would multiply the BOINC points by 7 before adding them to a member's WCG score, which might contain points from both UD and BOINC. Because the UD scoring algorithm has a maximum limit built in (matching the CPU speeds of 2002-2003), modern processors score much higher using BOINC, which has no maximum limit. Lawrence |
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Wilgard
Advanced Cruncher Joined: Dec 15, 2005 Post Count: 83 Status: Offline Project Badges:
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OK I understand better now. Thanks Lawrence
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Sekerob
Ace Cruncher Joined: Jul 24, 2005 Post Count: 20043 Status: Offline |
Wilgard,
----------------------------------------If you go to the My Grid > Device Manager > Device Statistics you can see all the devices that ever generated a score. 72k BOINC points does absolutely translate to 504k WCG point, suggesting your earlier crunching was with the WCG agent filling the gap of 50k. cheers
WCG
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