Posts by Penguin

1) Message boards : Number crunching : FreeDC stats (Message 3057)
Posted 27 Feb 2021 by Penguin
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Lol, never mind the above. was looking at team stats which are half my credit since team was formed later. Oops.
2) Message boards : Number crunching : FreeDC stats (Message 3056)
Posted 27 Feb 2021 by Penguin
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My account page here and various BOINC Managers on different hosts report the right credit for my account, however, on FreeDC it's only show about half of that amount. I have it selected to export stats. Is this an issue with the data stored here and not being picked up by FreeDC or maybe FreeDC not picking up updated stats?
3) Message boards : Number crunching : First 6,000 credits, now 60 credits? (Message 2396)
Posted 8 Apr 2019 by Penguin
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I found this BOINC discussion and info on what CreditNew is...

https://boinc.berkeley.edu/forum_thread.php?id=10953
4) Message boards : Number crunching : First 6,000 credits, now 60 credits? (Message 2395)
Posted 8 Apr 2019 by Penguin
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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.


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.... :(
5) Message boards : Number crunching : First 6,000 credits, now 60 credits? (Message 2389)
Posted 8 Apr 2019 by Penguin
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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.





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