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Why are credit rewards so low compared to other projects?
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Send message Joined: 20 Jan 23 Posts: 2 Credit: 158,629 RAC: 308 |
As title. Why are credit rewards so low compared to other projects? |
Send message Joined: 6 Aug 23 Posts: 1 Credit: 14,515 RAC: 0 |
Why is there no answer to this interesting question here? |
Send message Joined: 1 May 23 Posts: 5 Credit: 1,996,875 RAC: 4,184 |
There are a number of projects that give even less points. I'm more curious why the points awarded are so random, most work units take roughly the same time but the points awarded vary wildly, this makes it impossible to tune your system for maximum performance or efficiency. |
Send message Joined: 16 Oct 21 Posts: 1 Credit: 6,022,937 RAC: 42 |
Some people don't run CPU benchmarks, you'll see them with an even 1 billion ops like these PCs: Measured floating point speed 1 billion ops/sec Measured integer speed 1 billion ops/sec https://rnma.xyz/boinc/show_host_detail.php?hostid=16049 https://rnma.xyz/boinc/show_host_detail.php?hostid=16326 https://rnma.xyz/boinc/show_host_detail.php?hostid=16129 https://rnma.xyz/boinc/show_host_detail.php?hostid=16396 When they are your wingman you'll get much lower credit (like 1/4 normal credit) causing the highly variable amounts. Credit is still low for CreditScrew projects though. |
Send message Joined: 24 Mar 22 Posts: 7 Credit: 1,196,458 RAC: 9 |
Some people don't run CPU benchmarks, you'll see them with an even 1 billion ops like these PCs: Ah, that explains a lot!! I always wondered why whenever I set a new host, the credits were so low for each task, then after some time it gets normal. When I set a host, I eventually run the CPU benchmark, but I've never connected the dots. Thanks. |
Send message Joined: 1 Oct 24 Posts: 2 Credit: 142 RAC: 0 |
There are threads about credit between projects over on the BOINC fora. In theory the same amount of computing power used should yield similar credit between projects. Some projects give artificially high credit scores. CPDN gives slightly higher credit for some newer apps that can require as much as 8GB RAM/core. Though CPDN is one of the lower scoring projects and also one which often has large gaps in work availability. Bottom line is I crunch for the science not for credits which I see as more of a help to make sure things are working as they should. |
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