Hi

I try to measure which of my two machines made more efficient number crunching for SETI.
The idea is to measure on both how many tasks were computed within 24 hours (including fragments computed after start and fragments at the end) and how much power each of the machines used in this time.
But I cannot find out how to determine a task complexity so I can add up all the tasks and fragments of tasks which have been computed within this 24 hours.

boinccmd --get_tasks gives me only CPU time and the fraction of a task done, but the CPU time will be different for each machine.

So my question is: How can I measure the complexity of a task in order to determine how much my machine calculated within a specific time frame ?

Regards,

Dawid

Good luck!

If each machine is drawing from the exact same pool of tasks (eg. Seti at Home) you can get some comparisons by watching the individual machine RAC's, the individual task Gflops# and the daily volume of those tasks. (SOG vs. 8.08(alt)) for instance.

Tom

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Use BoincTasks for the number of tasks per day or per week completed. Use a Kill-A-Watt meter for the cumulative kW/hr used during a 24 hour period.

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Seti@Home classic workunits:20,676 CPU time:74,226 hours

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Keith, i see you made a post on boinctasks forum because you had problems with it? did you get it to show up your tasks?
I am not sure which wine package i am supposed to install, is it "wine-stable" ?

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Yes, install the wine-stable package. My problem was simple user error. Not paying attention to what the program was showing me. I just had to input the proper gui_rpc_auth.cfg password on the BoincTasks "Computers" tab when I did the "Find Computers" search for computers on the network. BoincTasks works well under Wine. Not quite as fast in pulling up the Messages and History tabs under Wine compared to native Windows, but very usable.. You can reduce the amount of lines shown to speed up the refresh.

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Seti@Home classic workunits:20,676 CPU time:74,226 hours

A proud member of the OFA (Old Farts Association)