The percentage could always be weighted with regard to the number of  
participants in the project. So a standing at a larger project would  
have more weight than the standing at a smaller project, and that  
should take care of most of the issues.

Michael Tughan
Michael's Programming

On 22-Jul-09, at 8:43 AM, [email protected] wrote:

> Rank is rather hopeless as a metric.  I dedicate 1% of computing  
> power to
> some projects and I am in the top few.  On others I dedicate 33% of
> computing power and I am not in the top thousand.
>
> jm7
>
> On Jul 21, 2009, at 1:19 PM, Lynn W. Taylor wrote:
>> I don't see a way out, short of doing exactly what Eric Korpela's
>> script
>> tries to do -- normalize FLOPS credit to that predicted by the
>> (imperfect) benchmarks.
>
> Solution:  Give up on cross-project credit parity.  It's an impossible
> goal.  QCN anyone?  If cross-project comparison is needed, do it via
> rank.  As long as the credits within each project are stable, that
> works fine.

_______________________________________________
boinc_dev mailing list
[email protected]
http://lists.ssl.berkeley.edu/mailman/listinfo/boinc_dev
To unsubscribe, visit the above URL and
(near bottom of page) enter your email address.

Reply via email to