Hi David,
In https://boinc.berkeley.edu/dev/forum_thread.php?id=9569 user
Grandpa reports that he has found a big discrepancy between credit
given out to AMD CPUs versus credit given out to Intel CPUs, at the
Numberfields project.
I'll quote his last post on this:
AMD Opteron(TM)
The BOINC message board thread needs to be read in parallel with the matching
NumberFields threadÂ
http://numberfields.asu.edu/NumberFields/forum_thread.php?id=209
In the project thread, the project administrator confirms that the project is
using 'credit from runtime' (the task lengths are
David,
If it helps, NumberFields grants credit based on runtime (Credit New doesn't
work for us), so the benchmarks are important. Looking at Grandpa's benchmarks:
AMD Host: GFLOPS = 2.08, GIOPS = 9.23
Intel Host: GFLOPS = 3.01, GIOPS = 11.44
(These are for 2 hosts that are doing approximately
Recently we got update from versions 7.00 and 7.02 to version 7.03 for many
plan classes on SETI beta.
Need to say I speak about those plan classes that existed both for old and new
app version.
That is, there was subversion update, just some edge cases fixes.
But this update completely ruined
