Jacob Meuser ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
>
> On Tue, Jul 13, 2004 at 01:03:13AM +0000, Bob Crandell wrote:
> > Where did you find that?
>
> On the Team EUGLUG stats page.  Divide points by work units.  You have
> the highest overall score (by far), but you're average score/wu is ~16.15,
> while mine is ~50.81.
>
> http://folding.stanford.edu/cgi-bin/main.py?qtype=teampage&teamnum=668
>
> > Jacob Meuser ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> > >
> > > On Mon, Jun 14, 2004 at 08:31:10AM -0700, perdurabo wrote:
> > >
> > > > While, OpenBSD is relatively slow as molasses, ...
> > >
> > > Sorry to dig up an old thread, but I'd like to point out that
> > > I have the highest average score per work unit in Team EUGLUG's
> > > Folding @ Home effort.  ~98% of these work units were processed
> > > with OpenBSD running the linux console binary.
> > >
> > > --
> > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > > _______________________________________________
I found this in their FAQ:
How do you decide how much credit a work unit is worth?

How do you determine how many points a work unit is worth? Before putting out
any new work unit, we benchmark it on a dedicated 2.8GHz Pentium 4 machine
with SSE2 disabled (more specifically, as reported by /proc/cpuinfo on linux:
vendor_id : GenuineIntel, cpu family : 15, model : 2, model name : Intel(R)
Pentium(R) 4 CPU 2.80GHz, stepping : 9, cpu MHz : 2806.438, cache size : 512
KB). This machine runs linux, so all WUs are benchmarked with the linux core.

We plug the results of this into the following formula:

points = 110 * (daysPerWU)

where daysPerWU is the number of days it took to complete the unit. This
equation was chosen to match the points for previous Gromacs WUs to the
previous point system. The upshot is that Tinker WUs will be worth more than
before we set up the new points (i.e. before April 2004).

Please note that the very concept of a reference machine will mean that some
WU benchmarking will vary from the performance on your machine. Even between
P4s, there are significant differences in architectures over the years.
Moreover, variations between FAH WUs can also lead to differences in
benchmarking points.

Our goal is consistency within a given definition of a reference machine setup
(described above), but beyond that the natural variation from machine to
machine and WU to WU will never alllow any point system to perfectly reflect
what you get on your machine.

I'm glad you pointed this out.  I was wondering where the score cam from.

BTW my pod of CPUs range from about 350 to 2.8 G.

Blaze on, Rocketman.

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