The problem here is a need to constantly redefine the reference machine. According to Wikipedia, BOINC was first released in April 2002. The Pentium 4 2.4 GHz parts were brand new. There were lots of P3's and earlier around (and still are).
Have you tried to build a new Pentium 4 lately? It's hard to do. Martin wrote: > [email protected] wrote: >> I was trying to state something similar. There are computers doing useful >> work for projects and increasing the burden of time spent on benchmarks >> will reduce the availability of those resources to the project. > > There's no burden of benchmarks when the live work itself is in effect > it's own benchmark as referenced back to the performance of a known > piece of hardware. > > You can then waste as much benchmarking time as you like to characterise > your reference machine. Meanwhile, the rest of world of Boinc continues > with useful work undisturbed. > > > Regards, > Martin > _______________________________________________ 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.
