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Number crunching :
just curious
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Miklos M. Send message Joined: 5 May 99 Posts: 955 Credit: 136,115,648 RAC: 73 |
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. |
HAL9000 Send message Joined: 11 Sep 99 Posts: 6534 Credit: 196,805,888 RAC: 57 |
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. SETI@home classic workunits: 93,865 CPU time: 863,447 hours Join the [url=http://tinyurl.com/8y46zvu]BP6/VP6 User Group[ |
Miklos M. Send message Joined: 5 May 99 Posts: 955 Credit: 136,115,648 RAC: 73 |
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 Professional with Media Center x64 Edition, (06.03.9600.00) 25 Jun 2014, 20:55:35 UTC |
Rasputin42 Send message Joined: 25 Jul 08 Posts: 412 Credit: 5,834,661 RAC: 0 |
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. |
HAL9000 Send message Joined: 11 Sep 99 Posts: 6534 Credit: 196,805,888 RAC: 57 |
This seems to be that super fast machine: 10,719,991.85 125,555,000 7.2.42 AuthenticAMD 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. SETI@home classic workunits: 93,865 CPU time: 863,447 hours Join the [url=http://tinyurl.com/8y46zvu]BP6/VP6 User Group[ |
Miklos M. Send message Joined: 5 May 99 Posts: 955 Credit: 136,115,648 RAC: 73 |
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 Report deadline 29 Jun 2014, 21:35:22 UTC Received --- Server state In progress Outcome --- Client state New Exit status 0 (0x0) Computer ID 2988 Run time CPU time Validate state Initial Credit 0.00 Application version cgminer (Campaign #1) (only for FPGA and ASIC machines) v0.04 (nci) |
Miklos M. Send message Joined: 5 May 99 Posts: 955 Credit: 136,115,648 RAC: 73 |
name wu_lineA-cgminer-4.2.3_20140623-030103_35_1ABqPbN1gqzSvemknY8Db1kVvFj8Y7NH9v_multipool.us application cgminer (Campaign #1) (only for FPGA and ASIC machines) created 23 Jun 2014, 3:01:10 UTC canonical result 2531587 granted credit 15,000.00 minimum quorum 1 initial replication 1 max # of error/total/success tasks 1, 1, 1 |
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