457 points = 1408 WU !!!!!!

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457 points = 1408 WU !!!!!!

Post by CharlieChan » Sat Dec 20, 2003 5:04 am

I was just having a look at the points some of these MAC guys are producing and one guy's score really puzzles me - NoahJ. On 12/17/2003 this guy summited 1408 WU for a total of 457 points, that averages 0.33 points per WU - weird. Today (12/19/2003) at 09:00PM he summited 34 WU for 41 :shock: . What is going on :roll: .

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Post by dukla2000 » Sat Dec 20, 2003 6:01 am

Pretty sure those are Genome. Don't know where the Stanford pages are, but Weatherman has a page that shows some WU worth a whopping 0.3 points!

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Post by Zyzzyx » Sat Dec 20, 2003 7:54 am

I think the newer cores also give credit for an aborted WU. If the machine is nowhere near being stable, it will never get very far into a WU, exit, and pick up another one. Seem to remember the overclocking guys talking about that problem.

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Post by mormakil » Sat Dec 20, 2003 10:07 am

Yes it happened to me once Zyzzyx. I don't understand why some people could be folding with instability and only getting points for aborted WU and keep doing it. Maybe point-wise it's better but you're not helping the project.

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Post by ColdFlame » Sat Dec 20, 2003 12:37 pm

Yes with certain clients (4.0 Beta Pre2) on certain boxes my cores would abort randomly and I'd get partial credit calculated by the formula:

( (completed steps) / (total steps) ) * (protein point value)

which is fair regarding my CPU time, but yes it does not help the product :) On the other hand, it is the incentive for me to test the Beta product.

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Post by tragus » Sun Dec 21, 2003 7:03 pm

Well, somewhere I guess I received a whole spate of Tinkers. In the past 12 hours, according to EOC stats, I put in 23, 82.4, 70.9, and 108.6 points worth (gasp!) 334, 346, 353, and 102 work units respectively.

I'm still at a reasonably steady point-level, but my WU's are growing by leaps and bounds. Hmmmm. I now have the most WU on the SPCR team (almost 10% of total). Dubious distinction, eh Dave?

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Post by haysdb » Sun Dec 21, 2003 9:59 pm

tragus wrote:I now have the most WU on the SPCR team (almost 10% of total). Dubious distinction, eh Dave?
It would be if you were ranked like 20th or something. Still, yeah, most WU's on the team, but only 6th most points, that's at least a bit weird if not downright dubious. It's not like TOTALLY dubious.

David

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Post by haysdb » Sun Dec 21, 2003 10:11 pm

I take it back. tragus, you have the distinction, not just of having the most WU's, but it's NOT EVEN CLOSE. You have over FIVE THOUSAND WU's. That's more WU's than the top 73 have in POINTS. You have THREE TIMES more WU's than Zhentar, but 10K fewer points. You have 5.6 times more WU's than CharlieChan, who's in 7th place behind you.

What is the secret to your success? If someone wanted to break your record, how might they go about it?

David

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