For the umpteenth time it is not working the way you think.
WCG is not granting WCG points then dividing them by 7 to convert to BOINC credits, it is granting BOINC credits using the standard (i.e. not inflated) BOINC rules. Thenafter it converts them to fit the legacy WCG points system by multiplying them by 7.

Whatever the computation is, WCG still is one of projects with the lowest payout in terms of boinc credits. It would have been better if we are somewhere in the middle, not at the bottom. I'm not complaining that I receive low credit from here compared to other projects. My cpus have only been crunching WCG for the past 4 years. I'm only stating the fact there are lot of people who have farms with fast systems that left to find greener pastures. Whatever their reasons for crunching, their systems can be a great help to the projects here in WCG. Its not about whos' holier than who. Most of the projects here are about finding cures or disease prevention. The more crunchers then the faster we can find that cure if there is one. When I look at the profiles of some of the top crunchers of other projects, I saw that most of them crunched WCG sometime in the past.

My grandmother died because of cancer and all we were able to do before she died was provide pain killers because the treatments didnt work. I dont want that to happen to a family member anymore. Thats why I want to encourage more people to crunch here whatever their reasons for crunching and not drive them away.

Even though other people crunch for points, they can still help those of us who crunch for a noble cause regardless of points. Its like if somebody needs help, and you know he's a bad guy. You wont help him because you are better guy than him? Or you are about to fall off a precipice or something, you wont grab the hand that was offered because it belongs to an ex-convict? Even though their purpose is less noble, their resources can still help for the greater good.

If we are talking about gpus made more than a half a decade ago or the still crappy current gpus from Intel, then it would be useless. I'm talking about making the project more attractive to people who only crunch for points thus increasing the computing power available for the projects here. Do you think those people who crunch with their top of the line gpus use crappy cpus? We all know that those who compete for the top in boinc stats have crunching farms. Instead they waste their new I7's in "less" meaningful projects that grant higher points.

That is a sad statement about the state of research currently. This is a resource that I would think would be in high demand.

Fredski, GPUs can do more work that CPUs. This is a fact, not a claim. The problem is that they can only do certain types of processing. This is primarily due to restructions on the x86 instruction set; basically Intel dont want to allow NVidia and ATI to use these on GPUs. Running a GPU project may also be more difficult, especially if you already run a CPU project! I am happy that there are a few worthwhile GPU projects out there and that WCG concentrate on CPU work, until the right GPU project comes along.
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