I have mostly not been hearing that live work would be the reference. What I have mostly been hearing is that we should do reference tasks where the result is known, and the FLOP count can be known as well. Running these frequently is what I was objecting to as it wastes large amounts of otherwise useful processor time.
I agree that having a reference machine doing work would eliminate the need for gold plated benchmarks. However, it does not entirely eliminate the need for basic benchmarks as there is a very wide range in computation speeds for the computers that are in use on BOINC projects. We still need the basic benchmarks (the 5 minute variety that we have now) to give us a starting point for the CPU scheduler and work fetch algorithms. jm7 <[email protected]> wrote on 09/28/2009 04:58:05 PM: > Martin <[email protected]> > Sent by: <[email protected]> > > 09/28/2009 04:58 PM > > To > > BOINC Developers Mailing List <[email protected]> > > cc > > Subject > > Re: [boinc_dev] [boinc_alpha] Card Gflops in BOINC 6.10 > > [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 > > -- > -------------------- > Martin Lomas > m_boincdev ml1 co uk.ddSPAM.dd > -------------------- > _______________________________________________ > 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. > _______________________________________________ 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.
