Distributed boinc.... am i missing the point here?

i must be missing something here......

i download a workunit, hammer through it at the fastest possible rate, then upload..... then have to wait for X days until little johnnys p75 has processed the same unit.... then i get given the lowest score possible for that work.

so.... because my maching is faster, i get less points. i can understand they may want to 'level out' the playing feild (so people with a p75 can compete against an amdXP2100+) but to be perfectly honest, i cant see the point.

oh, and when i switch to boinc, my current score gets reset back to 0 too

they have a standard unit for 1 credit..... so why all the extra work to compare and gather results, when you can just assign wu credits in the same old fashion.

someone enlighten me, cause this has really annoyed me, and im sure that i must be missing something.


f@h is looking more promising all the time.

 

Let sa a P75 get one WU done in 10 hours and yours get one in 2.5hours, and argument sake each of this four units will get you 20 credits. So by the time the P75 get one unit done (20 credits), you get 4 done (80 credits), so whats wrong with that? You don't need to think about how many days it gets credited to you, its all pending on your account until 2 other PCs return the results for the same unit, eventhough you don't get the credit straight away, it is still there. There wil be days when you don't see credits given to you at all, but on others a torrent of credits will be awarded.......as not everyone upload their results straight away but wait until all their WUs have been completed.

As for BIONC resetting to 0, the server is constantly up and down, and whilst its down, you BIONC will sometimes display 0.

 

true, and i expect things like that to happen, but my beef is that i get the minimum score for it. if my machine scores 10 for it, and someone else scores 2, i lose 8 points. i dont see the point.

its a moot point, ive switched to Folding@home now. ive run seti forever, and figured i'd give Folding@Home a try. it seems much nicer (i.e. for a better cause).

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and before everyone starts screaming about which cause is better or which distributed computing cause is better, i really dont care. its my opinion, and im not interested in people trying to tell me X is a better cause than Y

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just use the good ole seti CLI and you'll get load's of WU done.

 

BOINC is a great idea.

I wouldn't suprise if all you "F@H is for a better cause, blah, blah" people eat your hats/words/children/other, as it would seem probable F@H would move to that kinda of DC program.

 

Indeed, in the future, BIONC will consist of many different distributed projects and it will be up to the user to select the percentage of resources each one will take. For example, on one of my crunchers, apart from BIONC final SETI, it also runs BIONC beta as well within one BIONC client, and each has 50% resources.

If you search through BIONCs board, there is a thread which list current projects available on BIONC (there's about 5 or 6 of them atm), and future projects to join.....so I wouldn't be too surprised if F@H switches over to BIONC in the future.

 

@1337modderman: I just noticed your aviatar; Rimmer rules!