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Message 1531990 - Posted: 25 Jun 2014, 20:35:00 UTC

I know this is a SETI board and not Bitcoin, but I am curious how some people can get 15000 credits for a work of a few minutes. I tried to go to the message board of Bitcoin, but it seems to not exist, also the computers of those earning 30 million points a day seem to have hidden computers. Like I said, just curious about this.
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Message 1531993 - Posted: 25 Jun 2014, 20:43:22 UTC
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I would imagine those people have dedicated SHA-256 hardware devices. Which are much more efficient than standard PC hardware at running the type of processing they are doing. Those devices are pretty rubbish at doing much else.
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Message 1531999 - Posted: 25 Jun 2014, 20:56:56 UTC - in response to Message 1531993.  

This seems to be that super fast machine: 10,719,991.85 125,555,000 7.2.42 AuthenticAMD
AMD FX(tm)-6100 Six-Core Processor [Family 21 Model 1 Stepping 2]
(6 processors) NVIDIA GeForce GTX 570 (1280MB) driver: 337.88 OpenCL: 1.1 Microsoft Windows 8.1
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Message 1532003 - Posted: 25 Jun 2014, 21:01:23 UTC

Credits are some small way of recognizing the contribution to the science community.{although, there is some commercial interest involved with some projects}

Bitcoin is just a way of helping directly to make money for other people.
That is , why they give high credits.

Science or money, your choice, where you put your computing power.
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Message 1532026 - Posted: 25 Jun 2014, 21:19:31 UTC - in response to Message 1531999.  
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This seems to be that super fast machine: 10,719,991.85 125,555,000 7.2.42 AuthenticAMD
AMD FX(tm)-6100 Six-Core Processor [Family 21 Model 1 Stepping 2]
(6 processors) NVIDIA GeForce GTX 570 (1280MB) driver: 337.88 OpenCL: 1.1 Microsoft Windows 8.1
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If you look at the projects Top Hosts you can see the task types for the top hosts.
Where the users are running ASIC hardware and the project is using a huge credit multiplier.
152.63 0.80 20,000.00 cgminer (Campaign #1) (only for FPGA and ASIC machines-multitasks) v0.04
The computer itself is rather unimportant as most of those ASICs connect USB & currently BOINC doesn't show this kind of hardware as a coprocessor. So you will have to look at the host tasks to see what it is using.
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Message 1532031 - Posted: 25 Jun 2014, 21:37:20 UTC - in response to Message 1532026.  

Name wu_lineA-cgminer-4.2.3_20140623-030103_50_1ABqPbN1gqzSvemknY8Db1kVvFj8Y7NH9v_multipool.us_0
Workunit 1970785
Created 23 Jun 2014, 3:01:17 UTC
Sent 25 Jun 2014, 21:35:22 UTC
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Server state In progress
Outcome ---
Client state New
Exit status 0 (0x0)
Computer ID 2988
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Message 1532033 - Posted: 25 Jun 2014, 21:38:54 UTC - in response to Message 1532026.  

name wu_lineA-cgminer-4.2.3_20140623-030103_35_1ABqPbN1gqzSvemknY8Db1kVvFj8Y7NH9v_multipool.us
application cgminer (Campaign #1) (only for FPGA and ASIC machines)
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