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Thread: Why isn't WCG being crunched by the top BOINC participants ? |
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Former Member
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In my very limited time at collatz with my modest GPUs I was able to achieve a great amount of points compared to my all-time CPU BOINC credit (see my sig). This is many years of multiple CPUs vs. several days on 2 laptop GPUs.
And yes, sadly there are people that are only interested in points and not in what they crunch. |
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Former Member
Cruncher Joined: May 22, 2018 Post Count: 0 Status: Offline |
1. I know from reading posts here and at other projects that some will not crunch for a project based in the states.
1a. IBM's name is on it. 2. Also the fact that you can't join from a stats site like boincstats is holding people from joining. 3. Misinformation is also a problem too. From a PG forum. quote: I have never [considered] WCG to be trully [a] BOINC project (different client, forum etc.). 4. No GPU project. All somewhat trivial, but that's what I have read in the 13 years of crunching. |
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Former Member
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Right:
----------------------------------------SN2S - Based in Brazil CFCW - Co Based in China/Australia/ Switzerland? HCMD2 - Based in France DSFL - Based in Colombia HFCC - Based in Japan Informed decision makers. Edit: HCC - Based in Canada (and drawing in databases from across the world). [Edit 1 times, last edit by Former Member at Sep 9, 2012 7:16:02 PM] |
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rilian
Veteran Cruncher Ukraine - we rule! Joined: Jun 17, 2007 Post Count: 1453 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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yes, if WCG gave more points per hour all the world resources would be here :D
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Bearcat
Master Cruncher USA Joined: Jan 6, 2007 Post Count: 2803 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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Hopefully more projects from WCG go gpu. Looking at how many projects are using gpu, think it would be more cost effective to build cheap quad core systems that can use 2 or more GPU's per system. Seems the 7000 series AMD GPU's are more energy efficient than the older ones. Don't know about nvidia since I never use them.
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Former Member
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Right: SN2S - Based in Brazil CFCW - Co Based in China/Australia/ Switzerland? HCMD2 - Based in France DSFL - Based in Colombia HFCC - Based in Japan Informed decision makers. Edit: HCC - Based in Canada (and drawing in databases from across the world). Your preaching to the choir Rob... |
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Former Member
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rilian, you'd think so? The people that *know* think it'd make little difference. The system 700 - SETI credit rules were implemented [with some legacy], and what did happen to that element? [A fried system not capable to handle variable run times] 6+ months on and the difference is still miles away some other projects dole out. Don't think WCG will ever play with loaded dice on [more credit]... that's near guarantee. Right now there is no balance at all. The mood of the minute by what is logged in my WCGDAWS tool.
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kateiacy
Veteran Cruncher USA Joined: Jan 23, 2010 Post Count: 1027 Status: Offline Project Badges:
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Right: SN2S - Based in Brazil CFCW - Co Based in China/Australia/ Switzerland? HCMD2 - Based in France DSFL - Based in Colombia HFCC - Based in Japan Informed decision makers. Edit: HCC - Based in Canada (and drawing in databases from across the world). That's one of my favorite things about WCG -- it's a "world community" with respect to both the sciences and the volunteers. I too hope that WCG will be able to get HCC for GPUs off the ground soon, and that that sets the stage for more GPU-based WCG sciences. For applications that are suitable for GPU implementation, the GPUs can just get so much more computing done in less time than CPUs -- so as to make the benefits of the science available sooner.  |
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Richard Mitnick
Veteran Cruncher USA Joined: Feb 28, 2007 Post Count: 583 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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How would one figure GFLOPS?
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Ingleside
Veteran Cruncher Norway Joined: Nov 19, 2005 Post Count: 974 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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yes, if WCG gave more points per hour all the world resources would be here :D No, even DiRT is having the highest RAC, less than 0.8 % of active BOINC-users crunches this project. While some users only goes after the credit, the majority of users goes after the project they're interested in, and only joins other projects as backup-projects. A few projects has little or no work most of the time so the backup-projects gets the majority of crunching-time. BTW, even projects like Collatz and probably DiRT and a few of the other GPU-projects can be done with very little cpu-usage, meaning users can get very high total BOINC-credit but still put 99% of cpu-power to their CPU-only project of choise, few users takes advantage of this and instead runs only the CPU-project.  "I make so many mistakes. But then just think of all the mistakes I don't make, although I might." |
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