I am getting a RAC of 400 with my intel pentium 4 PCX for the past month. Isee others with the same computer getting a RAC of over 6000. What??? I am allowed by seti server only 2 work kunits at a time. Others are showing over 25 work units being worked on. Is this an example of someone rich using 15 PC's at a time and getting credit for one intel pentium 4? Otherwise, he has found a way for the seti-server giving him many many work kunjits to crunch on 1 pc. Anyone have a clue? Bluegrass in Hawaii

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I am getting a RAC of 400 with my intel pentium 4 PCX for the past month. Isee others with the same computer getting a RAC of over 6000. What??? I am allowed by seti server only 2 work kunits at a time. Others are showing over 25 work units being worked on. Is this an example of someone rich using 15 PC's at a time and getting credit for one intel pentium 4? Otherwise, he has found a way for the seti-server giving him many many work kunjits to crunch on 1 pc. Anyone have a clue? Bluegrass in Hawaii

Well first off, keep in mind there are many flavors of P4's out there with widely different capabilities, so you can't always just go by what gets reported by BOINC.

Secondly, if you take the time and trouble to overclock the processor, you can greatly improve performance over running it stock.

Finally, you can get a bigger cache of work for your host by merely increasing the "Connect to Network" setting in your General Prefs.

<edit> Regarding your comment on "clustering" a bunch of PC's, it's theoretically possible to do but BOINC doesn't really support it, therefore someone would have to taka extraordinary measures to impliment it on their own. This is not to say no one is doing it, just that it's unlikely to be the reason for the high scoring hosts you mentioned.

HTH,

Alinator

http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/top_hosts.php

Take a look at the top host and I think you will know what he's talking about.

Jim Vennes has some creative scripting at work to attach/detach hosts and seemingly also to combine their output - end result, to BOINC it looks like one measly 1.5 GHz P4 is pulling 7K+ RAC.

Not recommended practice, not for the faint-hearted...but happening.

Regards,
Simon.

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LOL... Oh yeah, the "Prang the System" effect!

That's the main reason why I'm of the opinion that RAC is virtually useless as any kind of individual host metric for competition purposes.

;-)

Alinator

<edit> IIRC, there was a guy from Italy doing this well over a year ago, who had a ~1 GHz PIII showing Conroe type numbers for months.

Of course, based on what I've heard about Jim, he could have it in an LN2 bath! :-)

ok Thanks for your comments Alinator and all. I think I see the big picture a bit better. I suspected as much.; But, the comment to

you can get a bigger cache of work for your host by merely increasing the "Connect to Network" setting in your General Prefs.


I cannot find any preferences anywhere near this title. Where might I find this??
:-)

BG

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ok Thanks for your comments Alinator and all. I think I see the big picture a bit better. I suspected as much.; But, the comment to

you can get a bigger cache of work for your host by merely increasing the "Connect to Network" setting in your General Prefs.


I cannot find any preferences anywhere near this title. Where might I find this??
:-)

BG

Visit the General Preferences page, under Network Usage section you will find Connect to network about every

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