So I have decided to double the credits. This will get it closer to the PrimeGrid credits and I think this will make most people happier. If necessary I can always put it back later.

Has the change in credits been implemented now?

Yes the credit change has been implemented

I Agree too...

I seem to have a much higher number for numberfields than other BOINC projects,or Science United projects[/img]

I seem to have a much higher number for numberfields than other BOINC projects,or Science United projects[/img]

I don't see that you've completed any tasks recently. Are you talking about an account under a different username?

Either way, credits may be higher than some projects, but should be less than PrimeGrid. That's the happy medium I tried to find.

" Either way, credits may be higher than some projects, but should be less than PrimeGrid. That's the happy medium I tried to find."

Still comfortably less than PrimeGrid Eric e.g. for an nvidia gtx1660ti on Linux ...
... PrimeGrid pps-sieve around 1.3M credits per day
... NumberFields GetDecic around 46.5K credits per day

That is 28 times higher and, rightly or wrongly, that REALLY does matter to a great many people when they are deciding which project to run.

PS: I would be happy to provide you with timings to back up these figures

" Either way, credits may be higher than some projects, but should be less than PrimeGrid. That's the happy medium I tried to find."

Still comfortably less than PrimeGrid Eric e.g. for an nvidia gtx1660ti on Linux ...
... PrimeGrid pps-sieve around 1.3M credits per day
... NumberFields GetDecic around 46.5K credits per day

That is 28 times higher and, rightly or wrongly, that REALLY does matter to a great many people when they are deciding which project to run.

PS: I would be happy to provide you with timings to back up these figures

I was referring to the CPU. As you point out, you can't even compare the GPU credits.

The Numberfields GPU app is about 10x faster than the CPU app (depending on your CPU/GPU combo). A highly efficient GPU app could probably raise that to about 100x faster. That would get us much closer to the PrimeGrid GPU credits. I don't want to artificially increase the credits for the GPU just to compensate for an inefficient app - it feels like cheating. I will attempt to make the app more efficient when I find some time.

Thanks Eric, I look forward to that new GPU app as I really did enjoy running NumberFields again during the Pentathlon. Yours has always been a very well-managed project in my experience

I finally hit 25M at Universe and switched back to NumberFields. After running NumberFields the last two days, I can attest the credits should be higher here if you want more long-term crunchers. That may or may not matter to the administrators here, but even running three decent Nvidia GPUs along with my 3 CPUs, I'm not getting close to what Universe alone was granting per day, and that was on CPU only.

You should add redirect from https://numberfields.asu.edu/ to https://numberfields.asu.edu/NumberFields
https://numberfields.asu.edu/ only displays "It Works"

It is interesting, when we back to Search 3?
Only two searches remained there.

It is interesting, when we back to Search 3?
Only two searches remained there.

The plan is to close out column 10 in the sf7 search first. I updated this page to reflect this:
https://numberfields.asu.edu/NumberFields/batch_status_2dim.html

The final search for sf3 has a prohibitively large number of WUs (estimated to be ~20 million). I was trying to put this search off as long as possible to give me time to improve the GPU app. As it turns out, I have been working on this in my spare time over the last week. It is slow going - so far I only have about a 5% speed improvement.

5% are better than nothing :)

5% are better than nothing :)

My thoughts exactly, great work Eric. I will be back to help as soon as I have reached a goal that requires all of my CPUs, will be late 2020 early 2021 :)

5% are better than nothing :)

My thoughts exactly, great work Eric. I will be back to help as soon as I have reached a goal that requires all of my CPUs, will be late 2020 early 2021 :)

I estimate it will take almost a year to complete sf3 at the current rate. To get a meaningful speedup I need much more than 5%.

Is it possible to make the code public available?
In other projects there were some user who made optimized apps for specific cpus which are significant faster

For example Rakesearch:
https://rake.boincfast.ru/rakesearch/forum_thread.php?id=39

Maybe some of them could help here too

Is it possible to make the code public available?
In other projects there were some user who made optimized apps for specific cpus which are significant faster

For example Rakesearch:
https://rake.boincfast.ru/rakesearch/forum_thread.php?id=39

Maybe some of them could help here too

So a fellow cruncher named Khalim helped me by uploading the code to github, but it is currently private. The plan was to make this public at some point. Once I finish my latest "improvements" and the code is in a better state, I will make it public. Khalim also helped with some testing scripts that will allow users to fine tune parameters for their specific GPU, and then these parameters can be put in a lookup table to benefit users with the same GPU.

Is it possible to make the code public available?
In other projects there were some user who made optimized apps for specific cpus which are significant faster

For example Rakesearch:
https://rake.boincfast.ru/rakesearch/forum_thread.php?id=39

Maybe some of them could help here too

So a fellow cruncher named Khalim helped me by uploading the code to github, but it is currently private. The plan was to make this public at some point. Once I finish my latest "improvements" and the code is in a better state, I will make it public. Khalim also helped with some testing scripts that will allow users to fine tune parameters for their specific GPU, and then these parameters can be put in a lookup table to benefit users with the same GPU.

Oh thats a very good news :)