PPD Declines?

wooglin · Post by **wooglin** » Thu Apr 07, 2005 10:21 am

I was about to ask what was going on with team SPCR and our daily/weekly point decline, but checked the summaries on other teams too. Everybody seems to be slowing down.

I noticed at home that I'm getting a lot more tinkers and less gromacs. Has Stanford changed their point allocations across the board? What's the story behind the overall point declines?

cansan · Post by **cansan** » Thu Apr 07, 2005 10:38 am

Hmm... It seems that we have gone down to 48000ppd, couple of weeks ago it was 56000.

Actually, I was thinking the team was doing well, because for the last couple of weeks, so many people have blown past me (269-270th place) that I could hardly move up despite getting ~40 PPD.

My PPD has not changed recently but then again I only fold tinkers anyway.

Currently in 269th place, probably will go down to 270th tomorrow.

But in this case, my loss is the team's gain.

(Just out of curiosity what kind of PPD are people getting with Athlon64s or P4s, I would like to compare to my 1.3Tbird)

Tibors · Post by **Tibors** » Thu Apr 07, 2005 12:47 pm

There are just less WU's with a bonus availlable. They are probably analysing the data for those projects now, then they tweak them a bit and release them again.

P4 2.8GHz (Northwood) ~110PPD
A64 3000+ (Winchester) ~110PPD
Athlon 850MHz (Thunderbird) ~30PPD
VIA C3 1GHz ~15PPD (But this one is used for other things at the same time.)
(But when the P4 or A64 get WU's with a bonus, the PPD doubles ofcourse.)

StarfishChris · Post by **StarfishChris** » Thu Apr 07, 2005 3:16 pm

There are always a plentiful supply of tinkers, but the number of gromacs available seems to have dropped in comparison (reading from server status page). I've had a couple recently, but then I'm on my 4th tinker - 2 weeks ago I hadn't had one for months. Fortunately the nominal PPD is similar to the other small WUs I had before so it could be worse.

(2 weeks, cansan!

)

unregistered · Post by **unregistered** » Thu Apr 07, 2005 9:12 pm

Those 600 pointers are nice. I have been folding a lot of tinkers and a few of those Amber

WUs. I just downloaded a couple of the BIG WUs

and will be sending them back tomorrow for "evaluation".

Tibors · Post by **Tibors** » Fri Apr 08, 2005 9:53 am

So I can forget overtaking you in little over a month, unregistered

After we have both overtaken Rusty75 and Dukla2000 ofcourse.

nici · Post by **nici** » Sat Apr 09, 2005 10:50 am

After only crunching on Tinkers for two weeks, im now on my second 600pt Gromac. Never calculated my PPD though... Cant see it in FahMon either, but maybe im just blind.

StarfishChris · Post by **StarfishChris** » Sat Apr 09, 2005 11:22 am

Try updating it. It only came about in the last month or so.

unregistered · Post by **unregistered** » Sun Apr 10, 2005 4:40 am

Tibors wrote:

So I can forget overtaking you in little over a month, unregistered

YEP, forget about it

OR

fold a little faster