Nicolás Alvarez wrote:
> El Sáb 03 Oct 2009 13:41:44 Lynn W. Taylor escribió:
>> My point was that this little bit of crummy code that would always fit
>> in the cache
> 
> So does the current benchmark, and that is *not a good thing*, because then 
> it's not measuring memory speed, which matters a lot for many real BOINC 
> apps.

Exactly so!

And that will become ever more evident painfully soon as GPU-crunching 
gains popularity to overtake the CPU-only crunching...

It would be good to fix the credits /before/ we suffer meltdown due to 
the variedness of projects and hardware exercising aspects that the 
credits don't even credit for.

There's an awful lot more to Computer Science other than just FLOPS.

Regards,
Martin

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