First of all, you should define "best" (cpu) more precisely. What you progably really want is the one with the highest credit per hour.
Second, if what you really want is credit per hour, then consider putting your money in high end video cards. All the cpu does is keep the video cards satisfied. If you know any programming, there is a relatively easy way to take a snapshot of the most productive computers. Here it is in pseudocode: 1. Parse the first 10 to 20 entries on the "Top Participants," or even better, the Top Computers" list. 2. For each entry, acccess the user's host page, e.g., http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/hosts_user.php?userid=3338287. 3. For each computer there, capture the cpus and GPUs present. 4. For each computer, go to the host's valid tasks, e.g., http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/results.php?hostid=5257951&offset=0&show_name s=0&state=4&appid= 5. For each valid task, capture the application (GPU or CPU, and AP v. S@H), the run time, and the credit. Accumulate credit per hour and number of obseravations by gpu, cpu, and application type (AP v. S@H). 6. Oupuut the average results to a file or data base by cpu type, gpu type, app (AP or S@H). In Java, this is relatively trivial, since you can use the built-in URL class to access the web pages, and regular expressions to parse them; since you know exactly the info you want, there is no need to parse the whole page. Charles Elliott > -----Original Message----- > From: boinc_dev [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf > Of David Anderson > Sent: Monday, May 5, 2014 4:18 AM > To: [email protected]; BOINC Developers Mailing List > Subject: Re: [boinc_dev] [boinc_projects] top host CPU only search > possible? > > A "fastest CPUs" list would be a nice feature. > Unfortunately I can't see how to generate it efficiently > from the info in the database; > we don't track credit separately for CPUs and GPUs. > Any ideas? > -- David > > On 03-May-2014 9:53 PM, Jarod McClintock wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > The way I understand the top host website search to work now is that > the > > host with the most credit goes to the top. If I have the wrong end of > the > > stick on how this works please correct me. Is it possible to have the > option > > of been able to search the top host list by CPU? I am asking this > because if > > such a feature is/able to be available it would make my decision on > > selecting a CPU a lot easier. Example I would be able to tell what > CPU > > performs better at Seti, Rosetta or whatever project I decided to > pick. I am > > going to build a new computer at the end of this year. > > > > Thank you for taking the time to read this. > > > > Cheers > > Jarod > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > boinc_projects mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://lists.ssl.berkeley.edu/mailman/listinfo/boinc_projects > > 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. _______________________________________________ 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.
