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I run SETI@home to help seti out and to make good use of my computing power while I'm not using it.
Normally, I'm playing Blackhawk Down but when I'm not (i.e. work, sleep), my computer is busy crunching away at seti work units.
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I'm not to sure if I like the new cobblestone credit stuff. Seems like the high-end users are lowering the credits rewarded to average machines.
example 1: machine A chrunches for 20,000 seconds, machine B crunches for 10,000 seconds and machine C crunches for 5,000 seconds. From what I've seen it would award the average or machine B's credits. Which is all well and good, giving more credits to machine C and less to machine A
example 2: machine D crunches for 15,000 seconds and machine E and F do it in 5,000 seconds. This takes the average of the lower 2 machines rewarding all machines with less credits. Even the high-end machines.
When I first read about the new credit system I was under the impression it would be based on flops. Each unit would require x amount of flops to complete. Therefor machine G would do x amount of flops in y amount of time and receive x amount of credit. Machine H would do x amount of flops in z amount of time and recieve x amount of credit. I'm not exactly sure on how SETI runs and all the technical stuff but this makes more sense to me. |
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