On Tue, Jul 13, 2004 at 01:35:32AM +0000, Bob Crandell wrote:
> 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)

which means uptime, reception and delivery, etc, also come into play.

> 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.

I've had a 266 PII to a XP 2400. Current slowest is 533 K6-II/III (mobile
CPU in a Comaq desktop that came with a Cyrix).  I might hook up the PII
(terca 8000), just to make things more fair ...

> Blaze on, Rocketman.

hehe *cough* *cough*

Seriously though, our team rank is slipping, and only you can help!
(No not you, Bob, nor the other Bob, or well, ya know what I mean.)

http://folding.stanford.edu/download.html

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