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First 6,000 credits, now 60 credits?
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Send message Joined: 1 Apr 19 Posts: 5 Credit: 10,996,829 RAC: 2,423 |
Was averaging 6000 credits per wu, now 60???? 100 times less? That's a drastic cut.... If it's based on cobblestones (amount of work done calculation wise) this is ok, if it's based on run-time you are encouraging people to use slow hardware. Still, it's a hugely drastic cut that happened on April 7th about mid day. I really can't see using my GPU for this anymore when I'm getting approx 200 credits for an hours worth of work. It's just not worth it. I haven't tried CPU yet to compare and I did read the threads about excessive credits for GPU and now CPU being 10 x faster... I'm just not sure I understand the 100 times cut in credit... that's huge. |
Send message Joined: 26 Jun 13 Posts: 11 Credit: 8,735,592 RAC: 0 |
Go and check the news on algorithm updates. GPU app is still in beta and credits given to GPU tasks aren't even finalized. |
Send message Joined: 8 Jul 11 Posts: 1318 Credit: 404,041,418 RAC: 290,412 |
The big drop in GPU credits is due to implementing CreditNew. Once the GPU app has been properly optimized, I would hope that CreditNew will start handing out better credits. |
Send message Joined: 1 Apr 19 Posts: 5 Credit: 10,996,829 RAC: 2,423 |
The big drop in GPU credits is due to implementing CreditNew. Yes someone else mentioned CreditNew.... I'm not familar with it. Thank you for the replies. It was just such a severe drop. I ran some CPU wu's too, and yes, those are nice and quick now too. About 3x slower than the GPU. I did find running 2 GPU tasks uses the high end GPUs better. Was gettting only 85% usage with one task, now 100% with 2 simultaneously. Sorry people supposedly abused the GPU credit scheme at one point.... :( |
Send message Joined: 1 Apr 19 Posts: 5 Credit: 10,996,829 RAC: 2,423 |
I found this BOINC discussion and info on what CreditNew is... https://boinc.berkeley.edu/forum_thread.php?id=10953 |
Send message Joined: 28 Oct 11 Posts: 179 Credit: 220,520,842 RAC: 129,275 |
As I posted in the first reply to that thread, The equivalent reference document hosted locally is http://boinc.berkeley.edu/trac/wiki/CreditNew. Because that's held as a Wiki, you can look back through the history, timeline, and (sole) authorship of how it evolved.I suggest you include reading the original document, whenever discussing the follow-up implications. |