... and for me RC5-72 on DNETC is by far the most meanigless project in the BOINC world. DNETC is a wrapper between BOINC and distributed.net. Presently DNETC is working on RC5, which was launched years ago by RSA lab, which is a EMC² company. The subject of RC5 is to crack a certain code using the brute force method (which is the most stupid method for decryption). RSA withdrew from this project, so there is nobody left who is interested in the results of this DNETC project - but is still running and running and running ....

The cross project comparison is only a lesson in futility. I have seen a computer with a fast quad core (it is a fast CPU) that is credited with 45X the daily credits that my AMD Phenom 3 core is earning. If that computer were on WCG it would be earning no more than 3X my credits.

You just cannot try to compare. My rank in WCG has improved by about 50 places over the last 5 months but has worsened by 1100 places in BOINC over the same time.

If only there are gpu apps here preferably for ati (I only have 1 PC with nvidia), I will gladly switch them over to WCG. Its been a while since gpu computing was made available to other projects but the scientists and admins here seems to have no interest or just cant find time developing gpu apps. Seriously, technology is constantly moving why are we still stuck with only 32 bit cpu apps. There are a lot of WCG crunchers with high end gpus that are only used doing solitaire or pinball. Even the new onboard gpus from nvidia and ati are way faster than any single core cpu.

MilkyWay as mentioned above need double precision cards so It is only run on my 4850 and 3850, while the single precision cards, the 5670 and 4650, are running Collatz.

Now I dont mind that I have been running WCG for almost 4 years now with only 897K BOINC credits and will continue to run WCG as long as I am able. I don't care even though WCG have a very low payout in terms of BOINC credits. My WCG credits is the cake while the credits from other projects is the icing. Still 2 days short for bronze badge in beta testing. :(

I've tried the cpu app of Collatz and it is also very highly optimized but still take more than 16 hrs to finish a task on my athlon x4 620 (OC to 3.2ghz) on 32-bit. On the other hand, using 64-bit app shaves about 3-4 hrs off from the 32-bit time. Doing that on an ati 760-790 onboard gpu only takes about 5-6 hrs. (Note: cpu and gpu wus in Collatz and MW are the same thats why you can also see wus done by gpus validated against wus done by cpus or vice versa)

But still, even within WCG projects, performance is still biased in favor of Intel machines. For comparison sake, my athlon x4 620 @ stock (2.8ghz quad) gets about 1100 something boinc rac while my celeron e3300 @ stock (2.5ghz dual) gets almost 900 rac.

An 8500gt bought 3 yrs ago I think.

Yes, Intel is better but I prefer AMD procs because of the onboard gpus of the AMD based motherboards. AMD IGPs perform on par sometimes even better than the cheapest/low-end nvidia discrete card. While using the IGP as primary display and use a discrete card for crunching, I can watch movies or play games when bored without problems. Can be done with nvidia IGPs too but I can only pair an nvidia discrete card with it (If paired with an ATI card, I get BSODs when the card is crunching and I do other things on the IGP, heck even GPU-Z triggers a BSOD).

It would really be great when WCG have gpu apps, I can discard the power hungry cpus and get ion atoms and pair it with fast discrete cards. We can save a lot on the hardware and also save a lot on power consumption. And of course WCG can attract some of the crunchers with tens of PCs with 3-4 GPUs per system that only crunch for credit race, more science done in a short time.

Distributed computing has come a long way. Before, people participate because they are interested on the project. Now, its become a hobby to most of rich people out there. Well, its better to spend to race with boinc credits than spending thousands of dollars on cars or motorcycles and get into accidents. :)

I stopped buying nvidia since they started renaming their cards and was disappointed at Fermi when it came out. Now that nvidia cannot manufacture boards for new Intel cpus, the future of nvidia is not good IMO.

Yeah, ATI support would sure attract lots of people considering there are only 3 projects offering them. MW (which I consider meaningful of the 3 projects) and Collatz ati apps are stable and fast while DNETC is a bit problematic especially for people with mixed gpu models. Right now, the only thing that will attract more people to WCG is to increase the BOINC credit per WCG credit.

I've been looking for health science boinc projects that support gpus but with no luck. Lattice seems good but I think its cuda app is still in development because I didnt get any work when I attached to the project.

I wish the WCG admins and the project scientists can collaborate with other projects that already have gpu apps. Cluster Physik (responsible for the ati gpu apps of MW and Collatz) seems nice and approachable but I think he's still busy looking for a post doc position and some projects at his university.