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What's your lowest DCF (Duration Correction Factor)?
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archae86 Send message Joined: 31 Aug 99 Posts: 909 Credit: 1,582,816 RAC: 0 |
My Dell laptop with a 1.4 GHz Banias running WinXP pro currently shows my lowest SETI DCF at 0.408788. However, I only recently resumed running SETI, and more recently adopted Simon's science ap, with a 10% resource share on most hosts, so suspect the DCF has not reached equilibrium at current conditions. Running Akosf's S4 Einstein Science ap, my Einstein DCF's got below 0.2 on most of my machines. I think I saw as low about 0.15 for real. With S5, those days are long gone, and my Einstein DCF's range from about .45 to about .7 at the moment. Those may not be at equilibrium either. |
Rene Send message Joined: 22 Mar 04 Posts: 53 Credit: 323,591 RAC: 0 |
using chickens opt client on both Your AMD is running at 2.2GHz p/core and the Intel at 3Ghz p/(virtual)core, so not that strange, the rest depends on L1, L2, mem, hd speed etc.. ;-) |
Odysseus Send message Joined: 26 Jul 99 Posts: 1808 Credit: 6,701,347 RAC: 6 |
DCF figures seem to ‘jitter’ a bit, so I won’t report many decimal places, but on my three Macs (G4s at 400 or 733 MHz) running the Alex Kan / Team MacNN app ( ;p ) they tend to centre around 0.30 or a little less. |
Domestos Send message Joined: 31 Dec 00 Posts: 79 Credit: 7,422,705 RAC: 0 |
1/ P4 3.2Ghz / 1M cache / 800 fsb / 1 GB Corsair Extreme Dual [ 0.428704 ] ( a week since cpu changed from 3.0Ghz) 2/ Athlon 3000 xp BArton / 1GB pc 3200. [ 0.990893 ] 3/ Athlon 2800 xp Barton / 512 MB pc 3200 [ 1.063175 ] 4/ Athlon 2000 xp / 512 MB mem. [ 1.333057 ] Using your optimised ap |
Fivestar Crashtest Send message Joined: 10 Dec 99 Posts: 226 Credit: 5,377,978 RAC: 0 |
Pentium D 920 clocked at 3.22 GHz, 1 Gig ddr2 800, Asus P5ld2-vm Using KWSN optimized Linux app DCF is 0.164117 at the moment. Pentium M 2.0 GHz laptop, 512 Mb, Using KWSN Windows app DCF is 0.710428 I've been doing some other projects more with the Pentium M than with the Pentium D, does sharing with other projects affect DCF? |
RePhLeX Send message Joined: 3 Dec 05 Posts: 76 Credit: 128,962 RAC: 0 |
using chickens opt client on both UPDATE. They are now amd 4200 x2, 0.468 intel 3GHz HT, 0.415 |
_heinz Send message Joined: 25 Feb 05 Posts: 744 Credit: 5,539,270 RAC: 0 |
P4 2,66MHz WinXp, chickens opt client Average CPU efficiency 0.959019 Result duration correction factor 1 ------------------------------------- No correction :-) D5400XS V8-Xeon |
W-K 666 Send message Joined: 18 May 99 Posts: 19400 Credit: 40,757,560 RAC: 67 |
Pentium D 920 clocked at 3.22 GHz, 1 Gig ddr2 800, Asus P5ld2-vm Pam, The DCF is not affected by sharing with other projects, you have separate DCF's for each project. My pent M is still dropping, now at 0.39nn and I don't think has reached min yet as predicted times to crunch are still longer than actual crunch times. Andy |
hiamps Send message Joined: 23 May 99 Posts: 4292 Credit: 72,971,319 RAC: 0 |
My Opteron 175 has Result duration correction factor 0.455042 [/quote] It has now changed to 0.620798...Is higher better or lower? Official Abuser of Boinc Buttons... And no good credit hound! |
W-K 666 Send message Joined: 18 May 99 Posts: 19400 Credit: 40,757,560 RAC: 67 |
It has now changed to 0.620798...Is higher better or lower? [/quote] Lower is better. |
hiamps Send message Joined: 23 May 99 Posts: 4292 Credit: 72,971,319 RAC: 0 |
Lower is better.[/quote] Hm...It is now .64 seems to be getting higher. My RAC is still going up also. Expected credit is almost always right. Official Abuser of Boinc Buttons... And no good credit hound! |
W-K 666 Send message Joined: 18 May 99 Posts: 19400 Credit: 40,757,560 RAC: 67 |
Just looked at 1st page of results for that computer, the times to crunch are similar to my pent M. Except for the two units that took over 10k sec, these seem to be a lot slower, similar angle_range units on my computer are done in about 8k sec. Over on Beta there have been several discussions about the different performance of AMD/Intel cpu's at various AR's this might be just one of those differences. My Pent M seems to be worse than predicted at VLAR's but a lot better at VHAR's. These differences will cause the DCF to vary, and unfortunately the go up quickly and down slowly, but it has to be so. Andy |
hiamps Send message Joined: 23 May 99 Posts: 4292 Credit: 72,971,319 RAC: 0 |
Would that explain why my RAC bounces so much? Official Abuser of Boinc Buttons... And no good credit hound! |
W-K 666 Send message Joined: 18 May 99 Posts: 19400 Credit: 40,757,560 RAC: 67 |
My RAC, which I am now beggining to disregard, bounces because of pending credit. In the last 2 weeks the daily amount of BOINC credit I have received has varied from 150 to over a 1200. But yes if you get a run of the good or bad units for your particular setup the RAC will swing considerably. I find having no cache of units for a project and relying on crunching for 4 projects to ensure cpu's are busy stops most batch downloads of similar units. Andy |
John McLeod VII Send message Joined: 15 Jul 99 Posts: 24806 Credit: 790,712 RAC: 0 |
DCF figures seem to ‘jitter’ a bit, so I won’t report many decimal places, but on my three Macs (G4s at 400 or 733 MHz) running the Alex Kan / Team MacNN app ( ;p ) they tend to centre around 0.30 or a little less. DCF will jitter (possibly a great deal) as the exact computing time is unknown before the result is complete. BOINC WIKI |
Bart Barenbrug Send message Joined: 7 Jul 04 Posts: 52 Credit: 337,401 RAC: 0 |
Now I want a DCF graph in the statistics tab of boinc, so I can keep an eye on it... ;) |
littlegreenmanfrommars Send message Joined: 28 Jan 06 Posts: 1410 Credit: 934,158 RAC: 0 |
2.8 Gig Celeron, with 1 Gig DDRAM, Win XP Pro SP2. Running BOINC 5.2.13 with Simon's optimised app DCF is 0.437652 By the way, although this thread isn't about cred races, my RAC dropped to 85 after enhanced began, from a high of 132 before enhanced. Since installing the optimised app, my RAC is now over 200 and continuing upwards. Unlike many, I'm not trying to gain bragging rights, but the thought that I'm now crunching more science with my humble home PC does give me that warm fuzzy feeling :) |
Benher Send message Joined: 25 Jul 99 Posts: 517 Credit: 465,152 RAC: 0 |
Saw some good formats that supply all requested info for chicken's request. Joker3 Opteron 270 @ 2.36GHz [K8N-DL v1.03] XP x64 0.926109 ... 5.4.9 Boinc install, 5.5.0 client and 5.15 SSE2 kwsn optimized app on both PCs. DCF CPU Mhz Core L2 size Client App 0.990893 Athlon 3000 xp 2Ghz BArton 576K 0.399591 Pentium 4 HT 3.3Ghz Prescott 1024K chicken's P4-SSE3 0.235826 MacMini G4 Alex Kan's 0.361601 Pentium-D 805 3.85Ghz chicken's P4-SSE3 |
SETI User Send message Joined: 29 Jun 02 Posts: 369 Credit: 0 RAC: 0 |
Hello! AMD K8 3200+ (Socket 754) @ 2212MHz (normal 2200MHz) Running only BOINC/ S@H, 24/7 Trux Boinc V5.3.12.tx36 Windows optimized S@H Enhanced application by Crunch3r Version info: Windows SSE2 V5.12 by Crunch3r Result duration correction factor 0.475487 to 0.615021 Greetings! BTW. Average CPU efficiency 0.99883 to 0.999666 Which means that? |
SETI User Send message Joined: 29 Jun 02 Posts: 369 Credit: 0 RAC: 0 |
Hello! I don´t know... I had cruched on this PC 20- 30 WUs...? AMD K7 600 @ 604 MHz Not running only BOINC/ S@H Trux Boinc V5.3.12.tx36 Windows optimized S@H Enhanced application by Crunch3r Version info: Windows MMX V5.12 by Crunch3r Result duration correction factor 1.168498 to 1.29566 Greetings! |
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