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Message 1090571 - Posted: 26 Mar 2011, 8:07:37 UTC

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So, I see questions popping up on other forums I frequent that are "What kind of numbers can I expect from X GPU/CPU on SETI?", Now, it's nice and easy to get these numbers for the more common cards (GTX series, mainly) as there is so many of them around. But finding out numbers for some of the 'budget' cards is somewhat of a nightmare.

I use the BOINCStats.com site, and that's great for CPU breakdowns, but is there a site (or even a way on the SETI site) that will simply let me search for any PC that is running X CPU/GPU? Google searching doesn't seem to work as well as I'd hoped.

For instance, searching "site:setiathome.berkeley.edu HD 5670" brings up a massive.. well, 0 useful results. I'm fairly confident that there is a non-zero number of those cards crunching SETI.

Am I just overlooking this simple function in stat sites? o_O thanks in advance!
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Message 1090650 - Posted: 26 Mar 2011, 17:45:54 UTC
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When you click on the "STATISTICS" link at the top right of the screen you will find a list of 13 stat sites that get the daily stats dump from the servers. Most of them have search good abilities that aren't offered here. IIRC the reason they don't have a lot of fancy search things here was something about lots of random search requests to the db would cause everything to come to a grinding halt.

Also just because a machine is listing as having whatever CPU or GPU doesn't mean it is actually being used. I have a 5750 in my HTPC but I only run on work on the i7. So viewing that machine with an i7-860 & the 5750 the numbers would tend to look low & not give an accurate account of how each part functions. I think on one of the GPU computing sites they have a sort of rough db of how well each card does on each project.
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Message 1090780 - Posted: 27 Mar 2011, 1:43:23 UTC - in response to Message 1090650.  

Thanks for the reply :) I'm mainly just wanting to see any kind of result from X GPU/CPU - I can calculate RAC from that (so even if there was a couple of results, say it took 20,000 seconds on average for an AP unit, and gets ~600credit/WU, calculating daily output shouldn't be too bad)

I forgot about the other stats sites >_< usually I just use BOINCStats, when the BOINCSynergy site didn't update for the longest time.

I'll look into it, thanks for that :)
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