Folding@Home: 24 hour stats - July 17, 2007

[Assimilator1]

Thanks Gleem for the detailed answer

I understand your answer ,but their is 1 point I disagree with.

Then everybody with only CPUs would complain or quit because it would seem so unfair

I don't think that would be the case ,it's like saying that people with much older CPUs would quit because other people get much more ppd with new faster multicore rigs.That generally doesn't happen ,if people have only 1 rig & they like their DC project they will usually carry on crunching whatever the speed of their machine is.

The GPU and PS3 can only do some types of calculations that F@H needs for their science. The CPU clients still do the majority of needed calculation types.

Interesting point ,but it still seems like the GPU client is under valued ,though reading between the lines from what you say F@H themselves aren't too certain about the ppd for the clients either

 

[Insidious]

F@H has never had a grip on points, their worth to participants, how to define "fair" or the collective will to really consider if their (The Pande group) ideas are truly beyond reproach as they assert.

I know from years of exposure that "every body would quit" is the fall back position taken anytime their logic seems to be in question (pronounced: any idea from outside the Pande group about benchmarking, scoring, etc...)

GleeM is accurately reflecting the info. they give us (Thanks GleeM!) so none of this criticism is directed at him an any way.

Scoring squabbles are just a part of DC (at least every project I'm aware of)

-Sid

ymmv isgust;

 

[Assimilator1]

I'm not aware of any in SETI

But i see F@H scoring is a contentious issue!

or the collective will to really consider if their (The Pande group) ideas are truly beyond reproach as they assert.

Their ideas on scoring?

 

[Insidious]

I think it was something to do with optimized clients, and some other rather blatent vulnerabilities to cheating in SETI that I am remembering.

and yeah, about scoring..

Anyway, much ado about very little IMHO. It used to drive me nuts, but now I just crunch..

-Sid

 

[Assimilator1]

Yes that's true ,SETI classic was vunerable to cheating.

Well I think I will run the GPU client ,though I'd like to hear more about GPU temps.
Then I gotta figure out how to sign up